[0:00]Today on Beta Squad, we are playing Guess the Singer, and we have a very special guest. I can't believe I'm about to say this. It's Ed Sheeran! Woo! Welcome brother. Sheeran. I've made many videos in my time over the course of my 10-year career, and none has gotten me more excited than this one. Ed Sheeran is my goat. My first ever video, you see a poster of Ed Sheeran in the back. Ever since I was a young kid, I knew that there would one day be a group on YouTube that I would aspire to sit on a panel with. I'm just glad that my dream is finally been realized. How does it feel being in a Beta Squad video, man? It feels good. Yeah, I've seen quite a lot of your stuff so I feel like I'm I'm I'm involved. In terms of accomplishments, what are we talking about? First, second, third, maybe? Oh, yeah, definitely first this year. Definitely. Really? Dream come true? I would say so, yeah. Ed Sheeran sent about 14,000 emails to the Beta Squad begging to be on this channel, and after a few years, we finally said yes, giving a young upcoming artist his opportunity. Bless the Beta Squad, man. We are just so humbly grateful. Here are six people, and they all claiming to be singers. However, only one of them is telling the truth, and it's our job to find out who the real singer is. Round by round, we'll vote out one person at a time, and if we guess correct, we win. However, if we guess wrong, the liar wins a cash prize. This is False Identity. But just as a question, Ed, what makes you an expert when it comes to the singing world? I guess because I do it professionally. I guess. Okay, fair enough. But I've done it. I've sung since I was a kid so I feel like I think singers know singers. Amazing. Let's bring in the singers. What? Oh wow. Why has he got a mask on? Alright, so the contestants are walking out and um, a guy with a tiger mask, might be someone famous. It might be someone we know personally, who knows? Here we go, another bunch of freaks. We have a freaking furry this time. We have another dude who looks like generally Jason. They just taken off the mask. And uh, a dude who looks like he was on Route 66 and then took the wrong route and he ended up in uh, Beta Squad film studio. Let's just address the tiger in the room. It's not about elephants because what is he wearing on his head? Now it's time for our first round. It's the introductions. So who should we start with? Who do you think, Ed? You want to? I think yeah, we start in order. Yeah, I don't know how you singers do this stuff so. They're human beings by the way. I can't tell you my name, Ed, because I've met you before. Oh. Huh? So yeah, I'm a singer, and I recently, over the last probably two years really picked up on TikTok, like blown up. If there's one thing I like, I like a little bit of mystery, and number one being a masked singer is really adding to the mystery vibe right here. I have no idea who he might be. Um, I'm hoping it's not like one of those awkward things where he takes it off and I don't know who he is, but he's like we know each other and yeah, I hope it's not one of them. Alright, well, number two. My name is Hex. Yeah, I'm 23. I'm a SoundCloud artist, and I get 1.3 million views monthly. Did you know that? Clearly not. Brother, why you angry for? No, I'm not angry. I'm happy. Yeah, say no more, Hex, and I don't use Spotify as well, by the way. So you don't want to get paid then? I genuinely believe one of our guests just couldn't make it today. There was like a train cancellation or something, and since we're in North West London, we just grabbed the first guy we saw on the street. I'll be honest, Hex has got anger issues. I think he's a recovering weirdo because he is furious for no reason. We didn't say anything to him. How do you? My name's Jeff. I've been singing since I was 16. One of my tracks gets put on a playlist on Spotify every 23 minutes. Woah. Woah. Is that even possible? I have no idea. It doesn't sound likely.
[3:37]You'd be surprised. What's your name? Jeff. That's your, that's your, that's your stage name, Jeff? Stage name, I go by Boredom Boy. So it's Burna Boy's cousin. Why did that sound like you just made that up right there on the spot? This guy looks 72 and he's trying to go by Border Boy. Come on, man. We already have Burna Boy. Yeah, we don't need Border Boy. I'm Boredom Boy. I do have to say, the first three do sound like someone has given them a card before and gone, say this, so just just my observation. Ah, man, look at Hex, he's about to scrap you. Look at Hex, relax, bro. He's a very good special guest. Number four. Hi, my name is Drew. I'm 20. I basically started TikTok, and then from there after COVID, I blew up. First person of the bunch I'm actually believing. Okay, number four is the first believable one because Ed said so, and I It's Ed Sheeran. I mean, if Ed says I'll be honest, I'm glazing today. Number five. I love what's going on with the eyes there. Oh, thanks. My name is Fabio. I'm Italian. I'm part of a rock band called the Kanz. We have about 250K, I think, monthly listeners on Spotify. Something like that. I get it. I get it. Yeah. I get it. Yeah. I like him. Fabio does look like an absolute rockstar. He's come prepared. He's come dressed like one, but I don't know, it's still early to tell based from looks so. I don't think I've ever heard a rockstar called Fabio. You expect like Johnny Lightning or something. Bro, if I heard, ladies and gentlemen, tonight, Derek the Flame, bro, I'm there. Rockstar, I'm there. I'm going to hear Nelia. Hi, my name's Mnelia. I'm 26. I won a MOBO last month. Wait, we just going to skip past that? Wait. You won a MOBO last month. What for? Video of the Year. So you make YouTube videos then, you're not a musician. No, it's a music video. He's being silly. He's being silly. Where was the MOBOs held? Newcastle. It was. Yeah, it was. Yeah, number six, when she knew instantly where the MOBOs was held, she like, she definitely went. She definitely went. Um, so she's at least involved in the music industry. Number six must be lying because she said she's got a MOBO for Best Video of the Year, and clearly that's wrong. It was on the Beta Squad channel. It was the Solitary Confinement video. And the Squid Games. Okay, yeah, I think all six of them could be singers. Maybe not. Nah, I think I think three of them could be. So who's your three? Four, five, six. Last three. Who knows that could be Justin Bieber, number one or something? You never know. With a British accent. Yeah. We thinking that. I think it could still be anyone, to be honest. If you're thinking what I'm thinking. Shall we say it at the same time? Yeah. Three, two, one, the next round. Yeah. Number six. Didn't really say it at the same time, did you? That was horrible. We were thinking the same thing. Yeah, of course it's next round. It's time for Round two, the performance round. Each contestant is going to stand up and give us a performance. Ed, what are we going to be looking for in this? I honestly think it's really difficult for professional singers to sing out of tune. I've tried so many times to sing. As usually if I've had a couple of drinks then it slips. And also you're going to be able to tell who is faking, trying to be bad at singing. Oh, you can tell if someone's you know, you're bringing real insight here. Yeah. I was not expecting that. Yeah, usually we just troll, but he's actually. Good. Yeah. But without further ado, number one, uh, I called you tiger face, can you uh, take it away? What are they going to sing? We've got some licensed songs. Oh, flip. Have I licensed my songs for this? No, we couldn't, we couldn't afford that, Ed. We couldn't. We'd be bankrupt. Beta Squad tried to license a Ed Sheeran song. We all had to put our money together and we still couldn't afford just one performance. We are broke. We might start a Patreon right now. Maybe even OnlyFans if it gets to that point, guys. That's the reason why we took a break, couldn't even afford the cameras. The stuff that Chunkz and Niko had to do. Anyway, take it away. And I give up forever to touch you. Woah. Know that you feel me somehow. You are the closest to heaven that I'll ever be. And I don't want to go home right now, and I don't want the world to see me because I don't think they'd understand when everything's made to be broken. Oh, I just want you to know. Just stop, please. Simon Cowell. Thank you. He's the singer. It's him. Wait. It's him. Wait. What? Number one is one of the most incredible singers I've heard in my life. He is the real deal. Oh my God, that was a pleasant surprise. I did not, I thought he was coming here to troll, but I can't lie, he's got some vocals. He's got pipes. Very distinctive voice. But there was one bit where you went from singing low to singing high and it wasn't in the same key. But a professional singer could do that just to throw someone off, but I'm just saying, naturally you would go octave. Yes. I said he's gone high. But very in tune, great tone, singing well, so could be. Good start. Strong start. Yeah, what Ed Sheeran was saying about the Octavio, um, I completely agree. Like I just think number one, he didn't really have it. If anything, Ed Sheeran actually should have given us a bit more insight, but uh, I don't think he had the knowledge. Stupid guy. Can you explain? Yeah, so basically he was Octavio singing, and so it was like he was he was, can you shut the hell up and ask the next question, please? Yeah, number one, they, you know, they were singing Goo Goo Dolls Iris, which obviously jumps up an octave when it gets to the chorus, and he didn't jump up an octave. He sung in a different key. Hex. Alright, so Hex. Here we go. I walked across an empty land. I knew the pathway like the back of my hand. Hey. I felt the earth beneath my feet. Sat by the river and it made me complete. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[9:38]Oh, simple thing. Where have you gone? Where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need someone to rely on. I'll tell you in a minute. So tell me now. Thank you, bro. Appreciate it, man. Thank you very much. Round of applause, guys, please. That was very good. Yeah. I love that song, though. He has never heard that Keane song. No, I've heard it. What's the what's the title of the song? Somewhere Only We Know. Oh. You know, yeah, he was searching in his brain, every corner. No, no, I'm being serious. Somewhere Only We Know. Yeah, no, you're right. You're right. Oh, that was an octave. No, that was horrible, man. It wasn't enough octave to octave. I think that's too much octave, actually, thinking about it. I'll be honest, I've never had that song being sung like that in my life. Hex, you might be a TikTok comedian or something because if he's the artist, anyone can make it. He came here for absolute vibes there. You know why is he even here? I know who I'm voting for. Number two, Boredom Boy. Boredom Boy, come on, man. Here we go. Amarillo by morning, up from San Antone. Everything that I got, I'm wearing on my own.
[11:07]And it's gone again. I'm sorry. It's okay. It's okay, man. Nerves sometimes get the better of you. Yeah, happens. How many years did you say you were doing this? Uh, it's around about 47 years in total. I think if you're 47 years in, you don't get nerves like that. At all. At all. There you go. That's what I was thinking. We really waited 47 years for that. Yeah. Yeah, number three, uh, if he had been a singer for 47 years, this would be like his bread and butter, and for him to be like he's nervous, I don't know, I didn't, I didn't buy that. Now we're entering the the region where you really believe. Those are the ones I was like, these could actually be professional singers. So please, Drew, no offense Hex. No offense, Hex. I'm a professional. You got this, Drew. So she knows how to adjust the mic. Oh, no. That's what she was doing. No. Let's be real. Look. She's trying it. No, she rocked up and started like that. Nah, she rocked up and started like that. I'm 5'2. Number four is doing too much. See, she's adjusting the mic when she doesn't have to, just to show that she can do it. She's really trying to prove a point. Or maybe she just needed to adjust the mic. Doesn't make sense because she moved it higher when the person before her was taller than her. Some things don't make sense. I mean, AJ's head shape is one of them. Maybe sometimes. We got it wrong but it's alright.
[12:48]The more things seem to change, the more they stay the same.
[12:57]Don't you hesitate. Girl, put your records on. Tell me your favorite song. You go ahead, let your hair down. You go ahead, let your hair down.
