Fun-fact : Lauren is the one who created this crazy choreo. Even though she's acting scared and not into it, she's actually loving watching her creation come to life on stage xD
“It’d be funny if this town just existed in multiple dimensions for different villains to have their turn with” Me (professor hidgens voice): you’re not far off *boops nose*
I don’t consider it a spoiler so I will clarify something, each musical takes place in a different dimension. As for the villain part, the black and white dimension exists outside of these alternate universes, so anytime you see wiggly from Black Friday, it’s the same wiggly. And you’re correct that he’s not the only one who inhabits the black and white. After watching the first episode of Nightmare Time you did get a taste of that with watcher world. Blinky is watching.
robert manion is also australian, not american, so hes putting on an accent for the whole show. singing, voice switching, accent, acting, and high energy dancing, its a lot ToT
This song grew on me a lot, not just because it’s good but because it’s completely insane lol Having Emma and Ted as a captive audience was just so funny. Ted getting into it and Emma just looking incredulously at him and Hidgens the whole time was hilarious
I always figured Greg and Stew were the professors real friends from college, like he wrote the musical working boys about how much he misses the people he went to college with. I also assumed the line “that’s not Greg” was meant in the same way the professor said it wasn’t charlotte it’s the creature they used to call charlotte, the aliens had taken over Greg so it wasn’t Greg anymore. But just like the aliens used Sam to get to charlotte they chose the professors friends to get to him. Also the line “last week feels like ages ago” always gets me.
I’d really recommend you to watch Trail To Oregon (another Starkid show) at some point. Its got Jeff Blim as the main character and he dances the entire show 😍 (plus its my favourite Starkid show) ❤
Wow, so many elements from this stretch between "Not Your Seed" and "Show Stopping Number" get referenced later: First of all, the short film "Working Boys" based on Hidgen's musical of the same name. Then there are two McNamera lines that get referenced in Black Friday: "I'm authorizing you to use my firearm" and "Wear a watch!". Now you've seen the origin of those lines that got such a big reaction from the Black Friday audience. 😁
Another fun fact: Rob's jetes were TOO good. He actually had to tone it down when Jeff and Corey joined in. And this man had just been wearing a suitcoat and sweater underneath ANOTHER costume, hence the sweaty. But, as said on a livestream, Rob basically lives at the gym
Same with Cup of Roasted Coffee/Posioned Coffee there will be a song called Let Him Come which is quite literally 30 seconds so you'll want to put it together with the next song "Let It Out." It will be after the next song you listen to. You probably would figure that out on your own, but I just wanted to let you know!
Oh no yeah Joey is absolutely hilarious in this number, he's so into it's great I always end up watching him in the background instead of professor hidgens hahaha
your point about the show making people lose their minds again and again. there are so many twists! honestly more people should watch this because it's just a grest example of good writing. also, congrats of getting through one of the most iconic songs in starkid's history! it's such an earworm i keep hearing it even after it's done. it's really saying something how this is such a strong performance, but somehow the next one still manages to be a really strong one also. music-wise this musical just doesn't miss.
I always assumed that Professor Hidgens based Working Boys off of his real life, and the guys that come in are the real college friends he had that he based the characters in his musical on
That is correct. Pokey, likely, reanimated his friends' corpses and that's who showed up to "convert" Hidgens. Since, by that point, they had revealed that Pokey has to kill someone before he can convert them, I just assumed he could take an already dead person and reanimate them.
Something I haven’t seen others mention, though maybe I just missed it, is that Robert Manion has an Australian accent naturally so these character voices/character singing is even more impressive!
@@singwithAshley it's very close between Let It Out and Inevitable, but I think I like Let It Out just a tad bit more, because of how worth the wait it was
let it out is also my favourite song and the one im most eagerly awaiting! i don't want to hype it too much, it is definitely the one that i find myself singing in the shower the most often though
When I did my first show in college the upperclassman scheduled times for us to run on the track while singing our group songs because the numbers were kind of intense and they wanted us to build up stamina for when we put everything together.
haha bc of timezones its 5pm when im watching this, 5 o clock :P, also I love John Mcnamera, hes such a fun character and I hope he shows up in more hatchetfield stuff in future
also on the topic of character voices, ive found my range seems to increase a stupid amount esp on high notes but also switching fast to low when im doing a pinkie pie from my little pony impression of all things, its mortifying but am doing my best to try and take that and apply that range to my more natural voice
@@unicornclutter let me know how it goes! Just make sure to not over work those high notes! Stay relaxed while in your character voice and magical things will happen k promise !
@@singwithAshley hehe thanks, and dw as someone whos voice broke much deeper during puberty (thanks pcos) im very gentle with myself in high registers both to keep it from sounding too sharp and bc i don't want to hurt myself
i can´t wait for you to get through nightmare time and get to nerdy prudes must die. for a long time tgwdlm was my fav starkid show but npmd took that place really easily.
@singwithashley I’m going to be honest I too stared with Black Friday and this is the number where I realised that Ethan/kris Kringle and The professor were the same person
About workin' boys, while it does show some parts of what the show would be, it's more about the production and first performance of the show, I absolutely adore it, but notable is that Jeff Blim plays the proffessor there where Robert Manion plays the original professor, Jeff Blim plays him because Robert Manion got removed from team Starkid
@@singwithAshley as someone who paid for the Halloween party npmd aftershow ticket to see workin' boys early and thought it was well worth it, I think you'll love Jeff's performance and how lovely the short film as a while is, I personally adore it
I liked the first fantastic beasts movie, but once it came out that JKR wants me and my siblings pretty much dead, it kinda lost its sparkle for me lol I still love an expansive universe though.
I don't know anything about her stances and I don't know if I would want to. I don't want it to ruin my favorite world. I agree. I love an expansive magical world. I love the marvel universe too! I think there is a respect to be had for someone who can still use their medium to portray stories without forcing their own ideals on others. I don't have to love the person to love their art piece. So Glad you are here singing with me! 🤍
You should probably know first of all that a lot of Starkid fans vehemently despise Rowling’s current stances, to the point that many of us tend to regard AVPM as the “real” HP. The thing about some of her current stances is that she tries to relate them to what she wrote decades ago in HP. And mostly, this seems to show a bizarre lack of understanding of her own writing because so much of it really doesn’t fit, but there’s enough of it that kinda does to sometimes make me think, "Did she genuinely think back then that this was what she thought she was writing about?"
Not to go too political here, but JKR has never (to my knowledge) said she wants anyone dead. She has a very unwavering definition for the words male and female, and is outspoken and unapologetic about it, and a lot of people find that to be non inclusive... which is fair play... but 99% of the stories people come up with about her being anti-lgbtq are based only off that one very specific opinion.
@@dannykent6190 CW suicide . . . . . . The gist of this view is that a lot of trans people (including my own sibling) attempt/succeed at suicide because of the prejudice of people like JKR and the lack of knowledge they have about themselves as a result. Thus it can be said that her advocacy against children being educated about the nuances of gender identity results in kids killing themselves, and she simply doesn't care (or she'd stop). This is why people say JKR "wants trans people dead."
She stands with people making threats and supports policies that get us killed. What am I supposed to take from that. She claims she wants us "safe and happy" but only if we stop being trans. Otherwise she just wants us to disappear somehow. And I hate to tell you this, but people don't just stop existing because you don't like them, they have to go somewhere.
In my books, this is one of the two greatest songs in Starkid's catalog (the other being "Kick It Up a Notch" from 2011's Starship). I'm actually planning on auditioning for Hidgens in an upcoming school production, so I'm extra seated for this one.
The next song coming is another favourite of mine from this show. I’m trying REALLY hard to not spoil a single thing when I say this so I hope it makes sense: Certain elements of next song don’t come across as well in the live version as in the soundtrack- for a vocal teacher’s perspective you may want to give the next song a listen on the soundtrack as well so you can hear certain things a lot better. It is a dark and beautiful song
Hey lovely. I was wondering if you could maybe react to a band called Steam Powered Giraffe. They have beautiful vocals and a cool style and I would love to hear your thoughts on their songs because they dip into all kinds of things.
@@Angelicwings1 as soon as I am able to add a miscellaneous video into my schedule, I will surely have to react to Steam Powered Giraffe! You’ve intrigued me! Thank you for singing with me! 🥰
@@singwithAshley I recommend their songs “Brass Goggles” and “Honey Bee” to start and then go on to “animatronic electronics”. Then just go nuts! Their stuff is epic. If you loved Jane Doe in cyclone you just aren’t ready for this commitment…
Fun-fact : Lauren is the one who created this crazy choreo. Even though she's acting scared and not into it, she's actually loving watching her creation come to life on stage xD
@@Btm10000 that’s so fun!
Lauren's delivery of "Oh...god, no" is absolute genius. And then Joey "...and Chad!"
@@hanonondricek411 for real though!!!
“It’d be funny if this town just existed in multiple dimensions for different villains to have their turn with”
Me (professor hidgens voice): you’re not far off *boops nose*
I don’t consider it a spoiler so I will clarify something, each musical takes place in a different dimension. As for the villain part, the black and white dimension exists outside of these alternate universes, so anytime you see wiggly from Black Friday, it’s the same wiggly. And you’re correct that he’s not the only one who inhabits the black and white. After watching the first episode of Nightmare Time you did get a taste of that with watcher world.
Blinky is watching.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I FELT THAT!
@@singwithAshleyI’ll be honest I’m unsure if you felt the nose boop, if you felt the lore, or if you felt Blinky watching lmao
So... *which* Professor Hidgens voice?
@@roughfoxy101 I felt the nose boop 😂😂
robert manion is also australian, not american, so hes putting on an accent for the whole show. singing, voice switching, accent, acting, and high energy dancing, its a lot ToT
Alice doesnt actually go to hang out with her friend, she goes to hang out with her girlfriend
@@GhostPal. thanks!
Ah yes, Show Stopping Number. The song Starkid’s were so obsessed with that they wrote a whole show based on it 😂😂
This song is crazy in the best way
LOVE IT. HERE FOR IT. RELISHING IN IT.
@@hollytobin6036 which is weird because the scene was conceptualized as "what's the worst, most boring premise for a show?"
This song grew on me a lot, not just because it’s good but because it’s completely insane lol
Having Emma and Ted as a captive audience was just so funny. Ted getting into it and Emma just looking incredulously at him and Hidgens the whole time was hilarious
@@rowangoodwin9273 so so funny! I can see why it could take a second for this insane song to grow on you. It’s insane!
Ah yes, Alice's "good friend" Deb.
@@Shaphi95 😅🤣
They’d probably have been future roommates!
@@consequenceoferror4727 oh my god they were gonna be roommates
as much as i dislike robert manion, he really is an incredible performer
relatable
The john voice is true. Shows that there's many realities and how each has small changes.
@@brandontsosie4514 I love the attention to detail here!
I always figured Greg and Stew were the professors real friends from college, like he wrote the musical working boys about how much he misses the people he went to college with. I also assumed the line “that’s not Greg” was meant in the same way the professor said it wasn’t charlotte it’s the creature they used to call charlotte, the aliens had taken over Greg so it wasn’t Greg anymore. But just like the aliens used Sam to get to charlotte they chose the professors friends to get to him.
Also the line “last week feels like ages ago” always gets me.
I like this theory a ton and also believe his story was pulled from his own reality, as most stories do
So now you know why in Black Friday why the people react as they do when "i'l authorizing you to use my firearm" and "wear a watch " are said
@@alexisbidule5555 I do! I can’t wait to go back and rewatch h
I’d really recommend you to watch Trail To Oregon (another Starkid show) at some point. Its got Jeff Blim as the main character and he dances the entire show 😍 (plus its my favourite Starkid show) ❤
seconding this! another big plus is watching joey richter play like 20 characters at once.
i'm exaggerating but only slightly.
@@trashraccoon2635 YESS!! He’s absolutely brilliant (he plays almost every single side character in the show himself 😅)
@@AlexanderElijahTheNerd yeah!!! if ashley really enjoys character voices she'll have a field day with joey's range in trail to oregon.
I third this please I love trail to oregon
Wow, so many elements from this stretch between "Not Your Seed" and "Show Stopping Number" get referenced later:
First of all, the short film "Working Boys" based on Hidgen's musical of the same name.
Then there are two McNamera lines that get referenced in Black Friday: "I'm authorizing you to use my firearm" and "Wear a watch!". Now you've seen the origin of those lines that got such a big reaction from the Black Friday audience. 😁
@@masterswordwielder I am!!!!
Another fun fact: Rob's jetes were TOO good. He actually had to tone it down when Jeff and Corey joined in. And this man had just been wearing a suitcoat and sweater underneath ANOTHER costume, hence the sweaty.
But, as said on a livestream, Rob basically lives at the gym
@@QuikVidGuy dude it shows!! Insane!
Look, I love Corey, but my guy was fighting for his life in the choreography in this song. 😅
@@kiraalldredge48 hahahah they really held on tight didn’t they?
@kiraalldredge
Which is hilarious because this is Corey's Song now. And he kills it every time.
Same with Cup of Roasted Coffee/Posioned Coffee there will be a song called Let Him Come which is quite literally 30 seconds so you'll want to put it together with the next song "Let It Out." It will be after the next song you listen to. You probably would figure that out on your own, but I just wanted to let you know!
@@maskedsinger8337 always love a heads up!!
Oh no yeah Joey is absolutely hilarious in this number, he's so into it's great
I always end up watching him in the background instead of professor hidgens hahaha
Meanwhile Lauren is just dissociating most of it lmao
your point about the show making people lose their minds again and again. there are so many twists! honestly more people should watch this because it's just a grest example of good writing.
also, congrats of getting through one of the most iconic songs in starkid's history! it's such an earworm i keep hearing it even after it's done. it's really saying something how this is such a strong performance, but somehow the next one still manages to be a really strong one also. music-wise this musical just doesn't miss.
@@trashraccoon2635 you’re so correct it does not! And thanks! 🤣 sing with you soon!
The funny thing is your theory about its all being different realms in hatchetfeild is absolutely correct ! 😂❤
29:53 nice correction to "his *talent* is awesome"
@@twist_ending7545 😅😅😅
I always assumed that Professor Hidgens based Working Boys off of his real life, and the guys that come in are the real college friends he had that he based the characters in his musical on
That is correct. Pokey, likely, reanimated his friends' corpses and that's who showed up to "convert" Hidgens. Since, by that point, they had revealed that Pokey has to kill someone before he can convert them, I just assumed he could take an already dead person and reanimate them.
21:01 it's not a series, it's a short film and I recommend, it's fucking transcendent 😉
MUST WATCH!
Is it more transcendent than the BBQ Monologues though?
@@masterswordwielder good question 🤔
Watching your "voice analysis" brain get taken over as you suddenly process what you just watched cracked me up gfhjdk
absolutely magical to witness
@@begaydocrime5719 🤣 my brain hurts
I love Jeff's sucking on the cigarette, his masterful use of the prop just makes him seem more . . . I don't know . . . insane.
We are all a little insane since we all failed to think about the implication hahah
Something I haven’t seen others mention, though maybe I just missed it, is that Robert Manion has an Australian accent naturally so these character voices/character singing is even more impressive!
I didn't know that! But that also explains the difference in natural diction as well!
This song is a massive fan favorite, so I couldn't wait for you to watch it!
@@BuckerydogSchmuckeryDog hope you had as much fun as I did! My head is still reeling and words are hard lol
They did record Workin Boys!! You have to watch it after Nerdy Prudes Must Die, I think you’ll enjoy it.
@@consequenceoferror4727 I must I think!
This song is a lot of peoples' favorite, my fav is still upcoming
@@kilian-one-l ooooo which one?!
@@singwithAshley it's very close between Let It Out and Inevitable, but I think I like Let It Out just a tad bit more, because of how worth the wait it was
@@kilian-one-l ooooo excited!
let it out is also my favourite song and the one im most eagerly awaiting! i don't want to hype it too much, it is definitely the one that i find myself singing in the shower the most often though
Deb was Alice's girlfriend, not just her friend
@@kilian-one-l thanks!
I'm pretty sure Robert is ballet trained so that explains the dancing skills and the precision
makes sense!
If you watched Workin' Boys you'd know the professor wasnt acting when the aliens came ;)
@@oliveparmesan3725 wait…. Was that a spoiler?! Ahhh! 😱
@@singwithAshley 🤫🤫🤫
Five o clock is here!!!!
@@acatonasofa5276 I should’ve released this at 5pm lol
@@acatonasofa5276 oh well it’s 5 o’clock somewhere right?! Lol
@@singwithAshley well it was surprisingly enough actually 5 o clock in my time zone when I wrote the comment, lets just say that was planed
@@acatonasofa5276 perfection! 🤣
When I did my first show in college the upperclassman scheduled times for us to run on the track while singing our group songs because the numbers were kind of intense and they wanted us to build up stamina for when we put everything together.
that was smart! How did that go for you?
@@singwithAshley it was rough, I’m not much of a runner but the show went well in the end
@@jydakota95 okay yay!!!
If no one has mentioned it yet, in the Working boys short film, Jeff Blim plays Hidgens
Omg, Olive in 25APCSB makes me cry every time
@@abbyphay the I love you song hits hard
I demand an ashley as olive slime tutorial
BAHHAHHAHH sadly, I think that footage has been lost:(((((
haha bc of timezones its 5pm when im watching this, 5 o clock :P, also I love John Mcnamera, hes such a fun character and I hope he shows up in more hatchetfield stuff in future
also on the topic of character voices, ive found my range seems to increase a stupid amount esp on high notes but also switching fast to low when im doing a pinkie pie from my little pony impression of all things, its mortifying but am doing my best to try and take that and apply that range to my more natural voice
@@unicornclutter I did it just for you!!!! lol!
@@unicornclutter let me know how it goes! Just make sure to not over work those high notes! Stay relaxed while in your character voice and magical things will happen k promise !
@@singwithAshley hehe thanks, and dw as someone whos voice broke much deeper during puberty (thanks pcos) im very gentle with myself in high registers both to keep it from sounding too sharp and bc i don't want to hurt myself
@@unicornclutter very good! Good luck in all singing endeavors my peep!
0:50 Deb was Alice's girlfriend, actually :)
20:50 Workin' Boys is more like a short film, really good!
i can´t wait for you to get through nightmare time and get to nerdy prudes must die. for a long time tgwdlm was my fav starkid show but npmd took that place really easily.
woohoo! I can't wait either!
@singwithashley
I’m going to be honest I too stared with Black Friday and this is the number where I realised that Ethan/kris Kringle and The professor were the same person
BAHAHAHAHAAHA I LOVE IT
About workin' boys, while it does show some parts of what the show would be, it's more about the production and first performance of the show, I absolutely adore it, but notable is that Jeff Blim plays the proffessor there where Robert Manion plays the original professor, Jeff Blim plays him because Robert Manion got removed from team Starkid
Can't wait to see Jeffs version of the professor. Watching Nicks version in NMT was so precious
@@singwithAshley as someone who paid for the Halloween party npmd aftershow ticket to see workin' boys early and thought it was well worth it, I think you'll love Jeff's performance and how lovely the short film as a while is, I personally adore it
@@permafrost7875 CANT WAIT!
Excited for the next one, it's my favorite of the show!
me too! i still get chills every time
Same!
aaah i missed the stream 🤕 i’ll be there for your reaction to nightmare time though!!
anyways 5 o clock can’t come soon enough!!
@@sstxrkid woohoo! Bring all the boys hahah don’t forget chad
I liked the first fantastic beasts movie, but once it came out that JKR wants me and my siblings pretty much dead, it kinda lost its sparkle for me lol
I still love an expansive universe though.
I don't know anything about her stances and I don't know if I would want to. I don't want it to ruin my favorite world. I agree. I love an expansive magical world. I love the marvel universe too! I think there is a respect to be had for someone who can still use their medium to portray stories without forcing their own ideals on others. I don't have to love the person to love their art piece. So Glad you are here singing with me! 🤍
You should probably know first of all that a lot of Starkid fans vehemently despise Rowling’s current stances, to the point that many of us tend to regard AVPM as the “real” HP.
The thing about some of her current stances is that she tries to relate them to what she wrote decades ago in HP. And mostly, this seems to show a bizarre lack of understanding of her own writing because so much of it really doesn’t fit, but there’s enough of it that kinda does to sometimes make me think, "Did she genuinely think back then that this was what she thought she was writing about?"
Not to go too political here, but JKR has never (to my knowledge) said she wants anyone dead. She has a very unwavering definition for the words male and female, and is outspoken and unapologetic about it, and a lot of people find that to be non inclusive... which is fair play... but 99% of the stories people come up with about her being anti-lgbtq are based only off that one very specific opinion.
@@dannykent6190 CW suicide
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The gist of this view is that a lot of trans people (including my own sibling) attempt/succeed at suicide because of the prejudice of people like JKR and the lack of knowledge they have about themselves as a result. Thus it can be said that her advocacy against children being educated about the nuances of gender identity results in kids killing themselves, and she simply doesn't care (or she'd stop). This is why people say JKR "wants trans people dead."
She stands with people making threats and supports policies that get us killed. What am I supposed to take from that. She claims she wants us "safe and happy" but only if we stop being trans. Otherwise she just wants us to disappear somehow. And I hate to tell you this, but people don't just stop existing because you don't like them, they have to go somewhere.
Future Me, How many times was Ashley Flabbergasted?
Was it as much as my first time watching it?
@@CryingCocaCola 🤣 you are not alone my friend
In my books, this is one of the two greatest songs in Starkid's catalog (the other being "Kick It Up a Notch" from 2011's Starship). I'm actually planning on auditioning for Hidgens in an upcoming school production, so I'm extra seated for this one.
oh break a leg in your audition! Make sure to tell me how it goes!
The next song coming is another favourite of mine from this show. I’m trying REALLY hard to not spoil a single thing when I say this so I hope it makes sense:
Certain elements of next song don’t come across as well in the live version as in the soundtrack- for a vocal teacher’s perspective you may want to give the next song a listen on the soundtrack as well so you can hear certain things a lot better. It is a dark and beautiful song
ITS EDITED AND PREPOSTED! Its coming out tomorrow and after reading this I can't wait to see what you'll think about my reaction
@@singwithAshley excited!! I love this series. It’s my favourite
@@hollytobin6036 hope you’re having as much fun as I am!
Hey lovely. I was wondering if you could maybe react to a band called Steam Powered Giraffe. They have beautiful vocals and a cool style and I would love to hear your thoughts on their songs because they dip into all kinds of things.
@@Angelicwings1 as soon as I am able to add a miscellaneous video into my schedule, I will surely have to react to Steam Powered Giraffe! You’ve intrigued me! Thank you for singing with me! 🥰
@@singwithAshley I recommend their songs “Brass Goggles” and “Honey Bee” to start and then go on to “animatronic electronics”. Then just go nuts! Their stuff is epic.
If you loved Jane Doe in cyclone you just aren’t ready for this commitment…
@@Angelicwings1 oh intrigue!!
@@singwithAshley I ADORE SPG, they're so much fun
@@kilian-one-l oooo a second vote! intrigue!
Hips, hips, hooray!
YES YES YES YES