Some people pay hundreds of dollars to see talented musicians play their favorite songs. Others just hop on Omegle or OmeTV.
That’s because they might run into Marcus Veltri on the online video chatting sites. Veltri’s got a piano and perfect pitch—the ability to identify and/or produce a musical note without any reference point. And, posting his interactions on those sites onto his eponymous YouTube channel, he uses that gift to brighten strangers’ days.
When users of the sites meet him, he’ll usually ask them to give him a song they’d like to hear. Moments later (sometimes after briefly listening to the song if he’s unfamiliar with it), those same users will hear Veltri play the song on piano. If they’re lucky, he’ll help the song’s rhythm by beatboxing while he plays, too. If they’re really lucky, other musicians will join in behind Veltri, too, adding to the music with violin, trumpet or piano.
Veltri (and some fellow musicians who occasionally join him) use their skills to bring smiles to the faces of strangers. Most interactions on the channel typically end with the viewer happier than when he met them and grateful for getting to see Veltri’s talent in action.
In a couple of videos, Veltri plays the theme music for a popular pornographic website to see if people recognize it. In another video, he (and the female friend he’s swapped himself out with for the episode) encounter various men on the video chat site looking to engage in masturbation and making comments on his friend’s appearance. While we never see any critical areas, Veltri doesn’t censor hand movements. To that end, we hear references to masturbation as well as a joke about prostitution.
We hear the f-word and s-word, and while they’re usually censored, we caught a couple instances in which the f-word came through. “A–,” “b–ch,” “d–n” and “h—” were likewise uncensored, and misuses of God’s name, including “g-dd–n,” were also heard.
As for other issues, Veltri comes across the occasional person drinking, vaping or smoking. Some people claim they’re high or act intoxicated. A handful of Veltri’s videos include him and another friend playing music while wearing costumes of fictional horror villains such as Michael Myers, Pennywise or Jason Voorhees.
And, as a sidenote, we would caution users who may be interested in trying out Omegle or OmeTV, as it always connects them with strangers, some of whom use the site to find sexual gratification.
It can be fun to watch Veltri play music he’s never heard before for strangers who are shocked to see his talent. His skillful playing is spectacular, and anyone who has played an instrument will notice just how impressive it is that he can play back songs after only a moment of preparation.
However, despite how nice gifted he is as a musician, parents won’t be as happy allowing their kids to hear the crude language or see the inappropriate sexual content in some videos on the channel. While not all of this is Veltri’s fault, as he cannot control what the strangers he meets online do, those occasional content concerns definitely hit a sour note for families.
Kennedy Unthank studied journalism at the University of Missouri. He knew he wanted to write for a living when he won a contest for “best fantasy story” while in the 4th grade. What he didn’t know at the time, however, was that he was the only person to submit a story. Regardless, the seed was planted. Kennedy collects and plays board games in his free time, and he loves to talk about biblical apologetics. He thinks the ending of Lost “wasn’t that bad.”
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