GEN Z Reacts to the CARPENTERS ‘Rainy Days & Mondays’

Karen Carpenter- the drummer who sang and the most beautiful voice ever. Never duplicated, she's a one-of-a-kind.

Karen Carpenter had one of the most perfect voices in music.

Karen Carpenter always said she was a Drummer first and a Singer second.

Kaysee here ... one of the best female singers of all time. She had the voice of an angel. I grew up listening to the Carpenters and her voice still amazes me all these years later. She was gone too soon, passing away in 1983 at the young age of 32. RIP Karen, you left us with an amazing collection of songs that I still listen to, to this day. I recommend "Yesterday Once More"... my favourite Carpenters song.

Sweetheart, today it is called depression, and she has an eating disorder. Angelic voice and tragic death. Love the Carpenters. Great reaction!

Richard and Karen Carpenter. A brother/sister duo😊

Karen was a world class drummer with a hauntingly beautiful voice, her brother Richard was a musical genius who was an excellent pianist that selected and arranged all of their songs. Richard wrote some of their songs, so everything you hear musically was because of him, and he knew to arrange everything to highlight Karen's vocals.

Let's share guys and help this younger man out. Love, truth and light 🙏

Thanks for the reaction. Karen Carpenter was the Siren of Sadness but in the best way possible. In my opinion she had the greatest female pop voice ever.

Karen's story is so sad. She was such an incredible person, talent and voice were gifts to us all. Gone way too soon.

Her singing always gives me chills !!

Karen Carpenter was the greatest female singer in popular music history. And Richard was a brilliant producer, arranger, songwriter, and piano player. Brother and sister. I first heard We've Only Just Began in 1970 when I was 11, and have loved them ever since. So many great songs, and they all stand up 50 years later. And she didn't write any of the songs, so the lyrics weren't hers. But she could interpret the emotions in a song better than anyone. By the way, sad and morbid aren't the same thing. Morbid means preoccupied with death. They have their share of sad songs but also many happy ones. Try Only Yesterday, I Won't Last a Day Without You, Sing, A Song for You, Hurting Each Other, For All We Know, Close to You, or many others.

She much preferred drumming to singing. She was incredible at both. Gone too soon from anorexia. RIP, as you sing and drum for the angels. 💙

Her voice was like melted chocolate and just as addicting.

My favorite Carpenters song, always brings a tear ora sigh -- soft, sweet, sad, lonely, hopeful, a haunting harmonica punctuating each verse -- somehow we find a way to make it through... A carpenters classic.

They are brother and sister !!!

The Carpenters are Richard and Karen Carpenter -- Brother and Sister. Richard plays the piano, produces, arranges, sings and Karen plays drums and is lead singer!

Karen Carpenter, Linda Ronstadt, and Olivia Newton John were the 3 big American "sweethearts" of the 1970s. I wouldn't say that she had a morbid view of reality and this isn't a morbid song. Sad songs were very popular and were often #1 hits. Everyone could relate to them because it's normal and they often helped people get through tough times. Sad songs taught us that feeling sad, alone, hurt, or hopeless, feeling the sting of being dumped or someone not loving you, is normal and everyone feels those things sometimes. Sad songs were sung by both men and women, and by rock bands, disco groups, and pop groups, which helped both boys and girls deal with those feelings. Lots of men, rock band men, even sang about crying! How many guys today today sing about crying? Sad songs are a good thing and we don't hear much of those anymore, which may explain some of today's problems among young people. It's OK to not be OK sometimes. Music videos per se didn't really start until MTV in 1981. Before MTV most "music videos" of the 60s, 70s, and early 80s were taped live performances, especially from concerts or shows like The Midnight Special which were always live. This video uses a live performance with some still pics, which was popular in the 70s and wasn't expensive. Some TV variety show clips are lip synced.

Oh that takes me back to my childhood days.. Mum loved listening to these.. Her voice is so angelic and brings joy and sadness to my soul.. Think she was a troubled soul and it's such a. Shame 😔

That IS Karen's brother Richard...known as a vocal duo. Her voice....ethereal, her drumming sublime. Pure...a distinctive three-octave contralto range. Sad story, Karen's. Her struggle with anorexia was lifelong and rough, at a time when so little was known about it for help.