YMMV / Jonathan Young

• Awesome Moments: Young has garnered quite the selection of these:
  • Getting Jason Paige, the guy who sang the theme song for the first season of Pokémon: The Original Series, to sing with him in his cover of the very same song.
  • The music video for Best Band In The Universe depicts the titular band apparently attempting to pose for as many album covers as possible. Probably best highlighted when Jonathan's character fires himself out of the ship to steal the centre of a black hole, which then seemingly restarts the universe and turns him into a god. For a little while.
  • The video for Storm The Castle plays like a feature film in just three and a half minutes, climaxing with the titular attack on the corrupt king, and a final fight worthy of any battle anime.
    • The whole song sings like one hell of a battle cry.
    Rise! Now! Stand and fight!
    Take your freedom! Claim your right!
    Rise! Now! Stand and sing!
    Storm the castle! Kill the king!
  • Getting Three Days Grace to join him for "Children of Night", bringing two of the greatest heavy metal voices together for one amazing song.
• Awesome Music:
  • His epic cover of "Be Prepared". Someone even synced it with the original scene.
  • His first original album, "Starship Velociraptor", from start to finish.
  • His cover of "Ultimate Battle" is so good some actually consider it superior to the one heard in the English dub.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: During his cover of "Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town", midway through the second verse, the camera cuts to Jonathan dancing in front of a green screen, with the song itself suddenly fading into the background. Jonathan then says "I forgot the lyrics, but we're gonna keep going!" before Smash Cutting right back into the song.
• Covered Up: His first Cover Version of "Gaston" garnered about ~500,000 views. His second version of the 2017 version got almost 3 times that many.
• Funny Moments:
  • Everything about his cover of I'll Make a Man Out of You. From excessive Testosterone Poisoning all throughout the song, to the surprise Eagleland and Batman insert.
  • He tried to cover Avenged Sevenfold's "Bat Country", but in a Major scale instead. His description to the end result was that it was written by "a very confused cowboy". He then hammers the point home with the video itself.
  • This comment on his cover of Strike Back (made better by the fact that he responds):
    Comment: Dammit last time he made a full anime cover I had to go to the hospital because my erection lasted more than 4 hours.
    Young: Jonathan Young is not responsible for any uncontrollable erections
  • He also covered the infamous song "Hello Kitty" with all the lyrics intact
  • The video for his cover of "Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town" is mostly just him messing around in front of a green screen. And it's glorious. Every JoJo meme proceeded to ensue in the comments section. Also, this:
    Young: (1:35 into the video, as he's shown in front of the green-screen) I forgot the lyrics, but we're gonna keep going!
  • As awesome as the metal cover of the original opening for Pokémon: The Series was, there's one funny bit in the bridge: Jason Paige in a Pikachu onesie.
  • The video of his cover of Justin Bieber's "baby" is 80 percent Jonathan bouncing up and down in front of the microphone, glaring at the camera, gradually getting more shaky and distorted all the while.
    Video Description: It's not a cover, it's a cry for help.^NOTE This description was also used in his Metal Cover for Eiffel 65's "Blue"
  • Young's cover of "It's Gonna Be Me" went the full Memetic Mutation route and became a Product Placement for the month of May. The video for the said cover proved to be quite the spectacle that it even elicited a Big "OMG!" from Amanda Lee.
  • Jonathan Young singing "Barbie Girl".
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The intro scene to the cover of "Zero to Hero" has Darth Vader of all people opening the narration in his trademark voice, with what looks like copies of Pocahontas, Mulan and Hercules on the side table, way back in 2014. Jonathan and Savannah point out that it's supposed to be a Disney movie, not a Star Wars movie. Fast forward a year later, with Disney acquiring Lucasfilm, and later on proceeding to release The Force Awakens.
  • Amanda Lee's Big "OMG!" comment in "It's Gonna be May" in 2017, considering that Jon would join her more than 3 years later in her cover of "Clattanoia."
  • His cover of Aqua's "Barbie Girl" in 2010 ends with the infamous quote from the Baghavad Gita: "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds", as popularized in the interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer. Fast forward to 2023, Barbie and Oppenheimer would be released on the same day.
• Narm Charm: A space faring metal band proudly boasting "we're super cool" just reeks of trying too hard, but Jon's vocals make it sound like a simple fact rather than a boast. It's difficult to argue.
• Nightmare Fuel: His metal version of Hellfire captures Frollo's growing insanity even more than the original version. As the song progresses he's going more and more unhinged and psychotic, a darkened silhouette of Esmeralda constantly flashes in his visions, the Guard sequence was replaced by him growing more desperate, frantically praying and screaming for Maria to give him sanctuary, a flash of his head burning appears before he vows to burn down Paris, and by the final sequence it's like Frollo himself turned into a demonic, extremely anguished lunatic burning in Hell, then he screams in complete mental breakdown, and ending with a nightmarish shriek of "GIVE ME SANCTUARY!" as he cries.
• Tear Jerker:
  • His acoustic cover of "Breaking the Habit" following Chester Bennington's suicide.
  • "Bait", an original song where he goes in depths about his frustrations with dealing with YouTube and their increasingly annoying algorithms, and how hard it is to create content for himself anymore.
  • After an entire album full of fun Space Pirate shenanigans, "Final Frontier" off Starship Velociraptor reveals that the reason they're all pirates in space is because humanity failed to address climate change before it was too late and they had to evacuate Earth. What follows is a heartrending ballad questioning whether humanity even deserves a second chance after what they've done.
  • "Land of Broken Dreams" is one long rant about how greed and ignorance has killed the "American Dream".

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