You’d never really guess it, but some of the most popular videos on YouTube music playlists. People love to just leave it on in the background while they go on with their day.

But we did a deep-dive on this trend and  discovered a playlist gem: classical music that makes you feel like a villain. Odd, right? But there’s a bunch of them with thousands of views, and since “feeling” is a Philadelphia Cream Cheese thing, we wanted to have fun with it.

We decided to make our own playlist called  “songs for when you feel like a 19th century villain eating a bagel with Philadelphia cream cheese.” Using public domain music, we compiled a bunch of our favorite classical  (Tchaikovsky, Mozart, etc.) and created a villainous 51-minute playlist video. 

And since the hallmark of a villain playlist is a  renaissance painting cover photo, we made our own villain painting and added some Philadelphia touches. Only a madman would add cream cheese to the outside of a bagel while reading a trapezoid-shaped book.