--- title: Watch The Decemberists Sing YouTube Comments on Jimmy Kimmel description: Who knew the comment section could provide musical inspiration? canonical: https://time.com/3680149/the-decemberists-youtube-comments-jimmy-kimmel/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-23T16:05:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:12.050Z og:title: Watch The Decemberists Sing YouTube Comments on 'Jimmy Kimmel' og:description: Who knew the comment section could provide musical inspiration? og:url: https://time.com/3680149/the-decemberists-youtube-comments-jimmy-kimmel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch The Decemberists Sing YouTube Comments on 'Jimmy Kimmel' twitter:description: Who knew the comment section could provide musical inspiration? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch The Decemberists Sing YouTube Comments on _Jimmy Kimmel_ by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 23, 2015 4:05 PM CUT by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 23, 2015 4:05 PM CUT The Decemberists released a new album, _What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World,_ this week and to mark the occasion, they made an appearance on _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ Instead of performing one of the songs off of their new album, though, the band took a page out of Kimmel’s playbook and turned to the Internet for inspiration, composing original songs based on YouTube comments. The result was something like Kimmel’s [Celebrities Read Mean Tweets](http://time.com/108903/celebrities-read-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/ "undefined") series, but set to a catchy tune. Topics for the songs ranged from deep thoughts on the 2015 State of the Union address to deeper thoughts on Justin Bieber. Comments from “Kim Kardashian’s Plastic Surgery Transformation,” cute pandas wrestling, some hungry kittens waiting for dinner and a 2005 MIT commencement address providing additional musical inspiration. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3680149/the-decemberists-youtube-comments-jimmy-kimmel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3680149/the-decemberists-youtube-comments-jimmy-kimmel/"},"headline":"Watch The Decemberists Sing YouTube Comments on Jimmy Kimmel","datePublished":"2015-01-23T16:05:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:12.050Z","description":"Who knew the comment section could provide musical inspiration?","url":"https://time.com/3680149/the-decemberists-youtube-comments-jimmy-kimmel/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Music","Jimmy Kimmel","jimmy kimmel live"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3680149/the-decemberists-youtube-comments-jimmy-kimmel/","name":"Watch The Decemberists Sing YouTube Comments on Jimmy Kimmel"}}]}] ```