I’m always amazed how many reactors never notice their transition from black and white to color during their 60’s era songs. It was a genius move to signify the change of the times with television and film. I’m sure most of us are so wrapped up in the transitions of the songs that that small detail goes right over our heads. At least for the first couple times you watch. I can’t remember how many of these you have left but I’m pretty sure you haven’t done their Ariana grande medley. Scott and Mitch as superfruit as have some of these as a duet. They have their own Beyoncé medley, the Rihanna Anti medley, Miley Cyrus, lady Gaga, Taylor swift, and the empire medley from the tv show empire. If I’ve forgotten any I’m sure someone will add to this list. Btw there’s nothing of Ptx that I absolutely hate but there’s a couple of songs that aren’t their best and the fandom for the most part seems to be in agreement. More just cringy than bad and those are Their covers of Gangnam style and Cruisin’ for a Bruisin.
@@Weeping-Angel I actually don't mind listening to cruisin. It's the video for me that's clingy. I'm a former dance teacher and I actually taught a tap routine to it once.
I loved your point about the shift in 'culturally significant' music. When I was younger, I lived in a city that had a 'sing-a-long' night for a couple years. We would meet up at this little cafe and they had song books with lyrics and la live guitarist and singer to lead the group. People could request any song from the songbook and we would sing for a couple hours. Most of the songs were from the 50s, 60s and 70s, or even earlier folk songs. One time someone requested a Sarah McLaughlin song for the late 90s and I was one of the only people who knew it! Whereas everyone knew Somewhere Over the Rainbow, or Yesterday, etc. I cherished those 'sing-a-long' nights. And I think we've lost something (maybe we can find it again...I hope) as we've moved away from 'communal' music, where communities or groups sing together. The only place I can think of where we still do this regularly is church. Making music, celebrating music with others who are not professional, who are just enjoying music together, as off key as we may be, is a beautiful thing.
There are some of us who still do things like that. See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filk_music. I'm planning to attend a filk tomorrow, in fact. Old friends (most of us, though we get the occasional newbie) getting together to sing. The pandemic has made it more difficult, so some will attend via Zoom, but even at the height of the pandemic we never stopped meeting entirely. Everyone gets a turn; it's at the discretion of each performer whether she or he is comfortable with others singing along; no one is pressured to perform; and no one is ever criticized for their performance. And we have fun doing it. In our case the songs tend to center around S.F. and fantasy, the space program, and technology and science in general, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover that there are similar communities with an emphasis on other genres of music.
The one thing I find most impressive about their "Evolution" videos is that they are all done in one take. There are no breaks, no zooming in to one person or another, it's all one - just them sitting there singing their faces off. Great reaction!
I've found it interesting that there are two songs back to back in this video that Avi ended up doing himself years later - "Hey Ya!" and "Crazy". The former was done with three of his friends, acoustic in the mountains, and the latter in a stairwell at A Cappella Academy with the members of ReSound, who are friends of his. Here's the link to "Hey Ya!" for those who've never seen it: ua-cam.com/video/whBQCkhFwYg/v-deo.html
And here's the all-too-short, beautiful "Crazy". Watch for 1:35, where he hits a great note with power and clarity. ua-cam.com/video/tRTHL16rj80/v-deo.html
I honestly think back then, it was them doing the best they could, with what they had. You’ll notice things as the Evolutions progress. New mics, better lighting, they even got better with their styling!
I've heard from others that these early videos were around a single mic and often 'one-takes' which I find incredible in the amount of talent that takes. And yes, Mitch does tend to be-bop his head which takes him away from the mic a little so the mix is off?
Loved your analysis. I do agree with you re music being cultural at one time. This was I think their first attempt at an evolution track. One take! Avi & Kevin and their flawless transitions of bass and percussions is amazing. Trio are great too...but my ear is tuned into Avi's bass. This shows his classical training as a Basso Profundo before he joined PTX
Re your comments, they took me back. My family and friends used to sit by the fire when camping and sing songs our Dad taught us from WWI as well as a lot of the folk songs that were popular back then. Good times.
Great reaction!!! I’m so glad you’re reacting to PTX again!!! I think one of the things about all of their “evolution” vids, and a compliment to them, is that they leave you with a “OMG, could they just do that whole song” feeling. In this one “bugle boy” comes to mind…they are so perfectly suited, musically, to do this…as well about a thousand other genres…lol
I love your reaction! I agree with you completely about music is missing that meaning it did way before you were born 😂 I love worship music for this reason and besides the obvious.. the words mean something.
You should react to any of their stuff from when they performed on the sing-off! It was where they got there start and everything is awesome! My absolute favorite is their cover of Dog Days Are Over!
@@TempleMusicAcademy they do have an amazing amount of work and it's all so we'll done!! I've been following them since really shortly after they made this video, it was the first one I ever saw, it's so fun to hear someone who knows music talk about everything they're doing!!
We love you and Jenelle (did I spell it right?)! They are such babies in this one! You didn't piss me off! Still here! Love watching your reactions to PTX! Thank you!
A bit off-topic, but since you're a teacher of music, I thought you might really enjoy watching this (if you haven't seen it already). Back in 2014, Avi Kaplan, along with Ben Bram (longtime PTX producer/arranger) and Rob Dietz (composer/arranger) founded the A Cappella Academy, a 10-day intensive Summer music camp for 12 to 18-year-olds from around the world. After video auditions and acceptance by the founders and staff, the kids had classes at Mount St. Mary's University in the mountains outside LA in vocals, performance, theory, arranging, and specialties like beatboxing and bass singing (which Avi's been known to teach). At the end of the 10 days, they always do a showcase, which is where this happened - the premiere of Avi's original song, "The Seed", co-arranged with Rob Dietz (who's directing this). You can see that performing this song meant a lot to the kids. ua-cam.com/video/XZ89BHmRfws/v-deo.html
Charlotte, thanks very much for posting this! I watch these videos from time to time but hadn’t heard this one. What a great job they did, and a beautiful song by Avi!
I love the seamless transitions in this evolution. I really don't think PTX is capable of letting anything mediocre go out. They are all such perfectionists and highly professional, in the best ways. They are just brilliant.
The origins of Rap was culturally relevant as well, as well as Calypso and Reggae..I'm sure many post WW2 music was very culturally relevant (I interpret as commentes on the times)
Something else not many know about Beethoven - he wrote in a much higher tempo than he is generally played today, at least by full orchestras. Because it's just too fast to coordinate that many instruments at once.
Music has been part of our family life forever and still is, it's just the mode that's changed. I remember holidays at my grandparent's house, and there was always singing! I think they called them "hootenannies" - since this was the late 60's, early 70's, folk music was still really popular. It was fabulous with my mom singing (a music teacher), my dad (a jazz musician) playing stand-up bass, and my three uncles, one playing guitar (another is a drummer, so sometimes he'd have those out). The only thing that beat the music was that grandma always had a bag of marshmallows for fireplace s'mores :-) Grandpa was an Irish tenor, so he'd pitch in with some Bing Crosby songs, or something from Al Jolson (he was from the South, so of course I know "Swanee") Momma loved musicals, so she'd sing something from "South Pacific" or "The King and I" a capella. Daddy taught us all to read music by holding our fingers to the notes in the hymnal each Sunday in church - and taught us to sing or play in front of a crowd by bringing us to gigs when we got older :-) At our house these days, it's more playing each other songs we like on Spotify, but we still connect with each other through music. We all have each other's songs on our own playlists (my 25-year-old has more Louis Prima and Rush on his playlist than I do!) My husband loves karaoke, so now that the boys are older, we've gone out all together a few times, and it's a blast - my youngest, who is autistic, either does something from Green Day or spoken word from Shane Koyczan, lol, and eats up getting positive comments from the crowd. Now if they would just get some Avi Kaplan tracks so my middle son could sing "Change on the Rise" - he sings it around the house and it gives me chills. In my extended family, we sing our grace together at holiday dinners. I keep a class playlist for my room and I've got a ton of songs on my playlist you'd never expect from a 50-something English teacher, lol. My students pretend to complain about the songs I contribute, then request them on workdays. The ability to connect in our communities through music hasn't disappeared, it's just more diversified and takes a little effort to make space for
If you notice in the early videos Kevin and Avi shared a mic whereas in later videos they had a mic each which would help define their individual tracks. The mics for the guys at the back were above their heads if you didn't know.
The closest you're ever going to get to Pentatonix doing something you don't like is if you check out their earliest performances on _The Sing-Off,_ back when they were still getting their feet under them as a cohesive group. A couple of those were a bit awkward, but it didn't last long. There's a SuperFruit video of Mitch and Scott watching some of those early performances and commenting on the dancing they were doing (in performances that didn't really need dancing) and what they'd learned from the experience, which they said is that they aren't good at dancing and should never do it. But the truth is that they were teaching themselves choreography from scratch. You've seen their 12th performance, "The Dog Days Are Over," so you know that by then they were masters of choreography. *They* might think that that wasn't dance, just stage direction, but it most certainly was dance, and that performance would have been much less effective if it hadn't begun with Mitch and Kirstie emulating two trains slowly passing in opposite directions, or if everyone hadn't been exactly on their mark when the time came for Mitch's big solo.
Hey. Just combing UA-cam for reactions to this Pentatonix video and found your channel. I’m 54, so I totally get where you’re coming from with the cultural relatability of music. However, I don’t think it’s as “gone” as you think. One example, just from this video…so far on every reaction video, pretty much EVERYONE does the hand when they do the “Single Ladies” 😂. Also, there have always been some differences between music of different countries and regions. I lived overseas in the 70’s, and some of the great hits we listened to never became all that popular in the U.S. it could also be quite different based on the genre of music people primarily listened to. So although I think there won’t be as many universally (mostly) known music as we go forward, I hope there will always be some music that is known by most people and it will continue to be the bridge that music has always been between all kinds of people.
Have you heard Transiberian Orchestra's "Beethoven's Last Night"? It was released in 2000 and you might enjoy their interpretation of his music. I admit to being a huge fan of theirs.
My only issue with the cultural relevance with music is I still feel like you can tie certain sounds to a decade such as 80s, 90s, 00s music. Like, you can tell the difference of cultural time period with something like Black Hole Sun- Soundgarden and In The End - Linkin Park and Sweet Child of Mine- GNR. Even at some points you can aurally tell transitionary points with certain songs that help feed into the next decades sound
Just so you know, I am really hoping you react to Hoist the Colors by VoicePlay. I know you don't post many of their videos and it's them I watch...but I really enjoyed your reaction to 16 TONS and How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Oogie Boogie song. So I am hoping you will do this one. Just so you know....you are NOT prepared for how incredible it is on ALL levels
This may sound a bit cynical. As a child of the 70's folks actually cared about what was going on in the world and had no problem saying stuff about it through the arts. As time went by that focus turned inward and instead of trying to heal the world with song, it became more of a "what's in it for me" so the music got more interpersonal and folks just respond to the art itself rather than the message. If a song has a great melody and a great hook, it could be the phone book for all we know that are the lyrics. Just my old, curmudgeon opinion LOL
I definitely think it’s an interesting take that you mention, I know I’m like a year late to the party lol. But I think music breaks up after like the 70s and we cat this over crowding where there is just so much being produced that there isn’t the same decade specific feel that we had before but I think songs still have a lot of cultural relevance to smaller sun groups. I have songs that are very significant to me and other black women, and while it’s funny to think about people playing WAP around a campfire 20 years from now, there definitely are songs for the last 10 years that I think will carry “2010s” music
It's funny you talk about breath control and their founder and arranger Ben Bram JUST tweeted last week that he was looking at some of his really old arrangements and said something about how he didn't put in breathing correctly or something.
I think you were right about music tying in to culture. I think that more people knew the same songs up until the 1980's. I think it started to change in the 1990's. I think it was mirrored by what happened in television. Americans now have more choices for our entertainment when it comes to music and television. When that happens we collectively have fewer people watching the same shows or listening to the same songs. While I don't think it is terrible to have choices, it makes it hard to have a national identity when there are so many choices. Does it make us as a society more self centered because we like what we like and don't have time or energy to devote to listening and watching other things? Does it limit our perspective and make it hard for us to understand and have empathy towards one another? Are we less open minded? Does this lack of national cultural identity show up in other aspects of society? We probably had a stronger cultural identity because the country was less diverse than it is now. It was more white. Now that diversity is more common how do we find our way to kindness, tolerance and respect? Hopefully we try and be more like Pentatonix. They are people from different backgrounds, religions, sexuality and skin colors (we are all the human race). I think it shows that they truly love and respect each other and all kinds of music. They are a great example. Hope my rambling made some sense after a long day. Just looking at things and asking questions. I probably need to do better in learning about other cultures. I feel like I am pretty tolerant, but I do need to improve my knowledge about people who do not look like or sing like me.
Don't know if you have reacted to "Beginner's Guide to Pentatonix" or the "Wizard of Ahhs" I do like your break down of the music, you make it simply clear and short. Anyway enjoy your content!! Thank you
The only thing "bad" I've ever heard from any members of Pentatonix was on Mitch and Scott's separate YT channel Superfruit when Kirstin joined them and they sang every song from the Disney movie Frozen. Be warned there was apparently some alcohol consumption before they recorded the video but that just makes it more hilarious. 😂 At the end they did a bloopers reel (as they often do on Superfruit) and the three were deliberately singing badly. Apparently it's a game they played to see who could manage it the longest since it seems it's actually harder for them (as trained singers) to sing off key or badly for a long time. Honestly, even in that they sing better than the majority of people in the world, lol. Just thought you might want to check that video out. Search for "Superfruit Frozen Melody" and you'll find it. 😁
Speaking of music, Nightwish released in April 2020 their newest album "Human :||: Nature" and its first track is "Music". There is only a lyric video for it but I bet you might enjoy that piece regardless. :) PS. While you'll be listening to it, give a thought or two who is the one telling the story. ;)
Great reaction as usual....given your love of Beethoven, I want to recommend something that will knock your socks off (Really!). There is a 20 year old kid from Poland who has become the world's best guitarist...Marcin Petrzelak...check out his one guitar version of Beethoven's 5th...AMAZING !!
It seems like the proliferation of TV and radio are part of what you are talking about. Before either, music was sung by members of a group (community, region, whatever division) in informal settings and by professional musicians in formal settings. With radio, at first there was music and story entertainment, then with TV, most story entertainment left radio, leaving music. Now, music could be heard by any person with access to the radio, at any time.
Your reaction to their first (oldest) theme, you may not have heard their brief rendition of Bruckner's "Christus Factus Est - WAB 11) 1884, leading into their cover of "Aha!": ua-cam.com/video/N04WNhbKnZ8/v-deo.html btw, your background music is Tool, right...Pneuma?
Using "Christus" was Avi's idea, from having performed it with his college chamber choir. It made for a perfect lead-in to "Aha!" and displayed the choir chops of the four of them (Kevin not having had that background). It also allowed Avi to show off a taste of his opera major. When he left, they either didn't do a lead-in or made the mistake of thinking that "Greensleeves" was a good replacement. Um, no. For anyone interested. here's the concert video of that college chamber choir, with Avi in the back row. Can't miss the hair and beard, lol. ua-cam.com/video/BIn-wM5sVM0/v-deo.html
You don't the the shift had anything to do with the more ready availability of music-playing devices of all sorts? People used to have to make their own music. Once everyone had a little device, especially portable ones, you could play pre-recorded tunes any time.
I think the cultural relevance you’re looking for now is evident if you look at the bigger picture. This era is marked by disappearing borders, the proliferation of information, rapidly advancing technology and awareness of different countries’ influences. So if you take a wide view of today’s music, you’ll see the rising popularity of K-POP, J-Rock, and other foreign music, mixing genres, the use of technology in EDM, AI generated music, democratization of the creative process giving rise to unconventional music people make in their own homes. It’s hodgepodge and chaotic and harder for us to comprehend, but I’m sure if we look back on this in the future, it will paint a picture of what the world is today. Hindsight is always clearer after all. 😅
They are very similar. Chord stacks typically come together with a sustained note while arpeggios keep ‘traveling’ and don’t really land together at the end. If you think about the the bell tones PTX does frequently-those are arpeggios. Hopefully that makes sense. I’m sure there’s someone with more musical knowledge that can explain it better-lol.
Hi there DJ. I think you are the best guitar "Reactor" on UA-cam and I have an interesting challenge for you. How would you like to react to a Portuguese "Tuna" Band? A "Tuna" (that's the word in Portuguese, not the fish) is a group or band of musicians from a certain School. It's kind of like the marching bands for US & Canadian universities that go to Football games but a bit more solemn in their repertoire. And they tour on concerts with other "Tunas" from different Universities from different countries, around the world. Historically, Portugal, Spain and the South American Countries have the strongest "Tuna" bands in the world. Maybe it's a Latin thing. But the thing is, it's been around for literally centuries and I am almost sure you haven't ever heard of the genre. Therefore, I would like to acquaint you with it. Below I will post two links that will lead to videos from arguably the best "Tuna" in Portugal. The videos are kinda old but you can get the point from listening. And I am definitely sure you will know the musics being played, given that they are from the famous "4 Staggione" - Vivaldi. I hope you enjoy and react. Thank you in advance and kind regards, Mário Pereira ua-cam.com/video/lV4jF9ny9y0/v-deo.html& ua-cam.com/video/vkGwU4cUOI4/v-deo.html
Your comments about culturally significance of music, in my opinion, was misstated. Its truly sub culturally significance. And it still is. Maybe not for old straight white guys, but get into the LGBTQ+ subculture or certain black subcultures, or emo or goth subcultures, or rave subcultures, or any other number of subcultures and the songs and music are still extremely significant.
I agree. Much of "genre" music is really the importation of styles of subcultural groups into the "mainstream." Whether this is a positive depends on point of view, of course. A member of the mainstream may look at it in a "look at us, we are trying to include everyone" type of way. But members of the subcultural group may see the usage of their music style as cultural appropriation. But another member of that same subcultural group might believe that introducing their music to the mainstream is beneficial to the group, making the world aware of the group's existence. And so on and so on. Just some more food for thought.
I think it is hard to find music thst EVERYONE knows, not necessarily culturally relevant, bc our culture is just one, im talking WORLD culture and idk if any one artist has captured that since Michael jackson and why thriller won't ever fall as the best selling album on the planet ever. Theres an influx of artists now in all genres that are at the touch of fingertips off the internet, and I think society today is more polarized and often you'll find ppl less likely willing to branch out of their comfort zones and listen to something different. I'll watch reaction videos where ppl didn't know who queen was, and the bohemian rhapsody was theirs, they didn't know where sound of silence came from, thru didn't know who half the legends in we are the world were, and I'm thinking my God ppl, live a little branch out and if you profess to like rap or metal or whatever your bag is, then watch who came before bc each was a stepping stone to what you like. Including Mozart and yes beethoven. 😉
Let's not shit on WAP, yes, music still has cultural significance to select groups. The groups are smaller and tighter because more artists are allowed on the stage, people don't have to listen to the same songs anymore because the industry allows diversity. A song expressing free black female sexuality will have no cultural signifcance to you, and it isn't meant to.
I think you are holding a lot of bias toward older styles of music... I'm 23 (born in 1998) - my favourite artists are Carole King, Joni Mitchell and The Beatles because I enjoy the lyrical and melodic choices they made (and their production choices) - but I also ADORE so many artists today, and so many songs (and artists) still mean so much more to people than their 'hits'. Just because they may not hold significance to you in your life, and you haven't felt their importance culturally, doesn't mean they don't exist. There are MAJOR parallels between the music of the Civil Rights Era of the 60s and the music that speaks to the BLM movement today. Heck, there have ALWAYS been popular artists making a cultural statement. Just because they may not speak to you doesn't mean they do not speak to the masses.
I still think music is culturally relevant but globalisation and diversity mean there’s so many cultures being represented in the industry. This is positive in my opinion.
"Microphone placement?" Dude, they recorded this on an iPad! Yes, their early years were very limited in funds.
I’m always amazed how many reactors never notice their transition from black and white to color during their 60’s era songs. It was a genius move to signify the change of the times with television and film. I’m sure most of us are so wrapped up in the transitions of the songs that that small detail goes right over our heads. At least for the first couple times you watch. I can’t remember how many of these you have left but I’m pretty sure you haven’t done their Ariana grande medley. Scott and Mitch as superfruit as have some of these as a duet. They have their own Beyoncé medley, the Rihanna Anti medley, Miley Cyrus, lady Gaga, Taylor swift, and the empire medley from the tv show empire. If I’ve forgotten any I’m sure someone will add to this list. Btw there’s nothing of Ptx that I absolutely hate but there’s a couple of songs that aren’t their best and the fandom for the most part seems to be in agreement. More just cringy than bad and those are Their covers of Gangnam style and Cruisin’ for a Bruisin.
Gangnam style was pretty cringe but I liked cruisin for a bruisin.
@@Weeping-Angel I actually don't mind listening to cruisin. It's the video for me that's clingy. I'm a former dance teacher and I actually taught a tap routine to it once.
Can we just talk about Avi holding it down on every song throughout the entire video??
I mean definitely... but also literally his job 😄
I loved your point about the shift in 'culturally significant' music. When I was younger, I lived in a city that had a 'sing-a-long' night for a couple years. We would meet up at this little cafe and they had song books with lyrics and la live guitarist and singer to lead the group. People could request any song from the songbook and we would sing for a couple hours. Most of the songs were from the 50s, 60s and 70s, or even earlier folk songs. One time someone requested a Sarah McLaughlin song for the late 90s and I was one of the only people who knew it! Whereas everyone knew Somewhere Over the Rainbow, or Yesterday, etc.
I cherished those 'sing-a-long' nights. And I think we've lost something (maybe we can find it again...I hope) as we've moved away from 'communal' music, where communities or groups sing together. The only place I can think of where we still do this regularly is church. Making music, celebrating music with others who are not professional, who are just enjoying music together, as off key as we may be, is a beautiful thing.
There are some of us who still do things like that. See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filk_music. I'm planning to attend a filk tomorrow, in fact. Old friends (most of us, though we get the occasional newbie) getting together to sing. The pandemic has made it more difficult, so some will attend via Zoom, but even at the height of the pandemic we never stopped meeting entirely.
Everyone gets a turn; it's at the discretion of each performer whether she or he is comfortable with others singing along; no one is pressured to perform; and no one is ever criticized for their performance. And we have fun doing it.
In our case the songs tend to center around S.F. and fantasy, the space program, and technology and science in general, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover that there are similar communities with an emphasis on other genres of music.
The one thing I find most impressive about their "Evolution" videos is that they are all done in one take. There are no breaks, no zooming in to one person or another, it's all one - just them sitting there singing their faces off. Great reaction!
I love how it was black and white until they got to the 60s then it became color. Very clever!
Evolution of Music was my very first PTX experience, and I WAS HOOKED!!!!! From Avi's 'Saaalve' to his 'Call me maybeee' I was OBSESSED!
I see that you haven't seen their cover of GOLD yet. Perhaps a Masters Course on timing and Super Tight Harmonies!
One of the best!🙂
he actually has seen it! scroll a little down his channel :D
I've found it interesting that there are two songs back to back in this video that Avi ended up doing himself years later - "Hey Ya!" and "Crazy". The former was done with three of his friends, acoustic in the mountains, and the latter in a stairwell at A Cappella Academy with the members of ReSound, who are friends of his. Here's the link to "Hey Ya!" for those who've never seen it: ua-cam.com/video/whBQCkhFwYg/v-deo.html
And here's the all-too-short, beautiful "Crazy". Watch for 1:35, where he hits a great note with power and clarity. ua-cam.com/video/tRTHL16rj80/v-deo.html
I honestly think back then, it was them doing the best they could, with what they had. You’ll notice things as the Evolutions progress. New mics, better lighting, they even got better with their styling!
I've heard from others that these early videos were around a single mic and often 'one-takes' which I find incredible in the amount of talent that takes. And yes, Mitch does tend to be-bop his head which takes him away from the mic a little so the mix is off?
You should listen to Todrick Hall feat. Pentatonix "The Wizard of Ahhhs".
You meant Todrick I believe. But yeah, hope he does
@@neotheboxer6015 Yes, I suddenly realized my mistake.
Loved your analysis. I do agree with you re music being cultural at one time. This was I think their first attempt at an evolution track. One take! Avi & Kevin and their flawless transitions of bass and percussions is amazing. Trio are great too...but my ear is tuned into Avi's bass. This shows his classical training as a Basso Profundo before he joined PTX
Re your comments, they took me back. My family and friends used to sit by the fire when camping and sing songs our Dad taught us from WWI as well as a lot of the folk songs that were popular back then. Good times.
Great reaction!!! I’m so glad you’re reacting to PTX again!!! I think one of the things about all of their “evolution” vids, and a compliment to them, is that they leave you with a “OMG, could they just do that whole song” feeling. In this one “bugle boy” comes to mind…they are so perfectly suited, musically, to do this…as well about a thousand other genres…lol
And your wish is their command.
There's no video for it, but Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy is on their PTX, Vol. IV: Classics EP Mitch's part is amazing.
not that it matters but because it's my name I'm gonna assume it's spelled Janelle...but I've also seen it spelled Gunell so ya know 🤷🏽♀️
I love your reaction! I agree with you completely about music is missing that meaning it did way before you were born 😂 I love worship music for this reason and besides the obvious.. the words mean something.
You should react to any of their stuff from when they performed on the sing-off! It was where they got there start and everything is awesome! My absolute favorite is their cover of Dog Days Are Over!
What a great idea! This is why I’m happy to be doing a tonix tuesday. There’s so much material haha
@@TempleMusicAcademy they do have an amazing amount of work and it's all so we'll done!! I've been following them since really shortly after they made this video, it was the first one I ever saw, it's so fun to hear someone who knows music talk about everything they're doing!!
I third this suggestion, lol!
That's what I literally commented on the latest PTX video reaction video 😂🤷🏼♀️ hope he'll react to the sing off ❤️
We love you and Jenelle (did I spell it right?)! They are such babies in this one! You didn't piss me off! Still here! Love watching your reactions to PTX! Thank you!
They do a full version of “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” on the album Pentatonix VOL IV
True very true. The 60's was my decade and the music was so "hit you in the gut and heart."
Mary on Richard's phone from Florida where it just won't stop raining. Thank you for highlighting this for it is my favorite of the Avie era.
A bit off-topic, but since you're a teacher of music, I thought you might really enjoy watching this (if you haven't seen it already). Back in 2014, Avi Kaplan, along with Ben Bram (longtime PTX producer/arranger) and Rob Dietz (composer/arranger) founded the A Cappella Academy, a 10-day intensive Summer music camp for 12 to 18-year-olds from around the world. After video auditions and acceptance by the founders and staff, the kids had classes at Mount St. Mary's University in the mountains outside LA in vocals, performance, theory, arranging, and specialties like beatboxing and bass singing (which Avi's been known to teach). At the end of the 10 days, they always do a showcase, which is where this happened - the premiere of Avi's original song, "The Seed", co-arranged with Rob Dietz (who's directing this). You can see that performing this song meant a lot to the kids. ua-cam.com/video/XZ89BHmRfws/v-deo.html
Charlotte, thanks very much for posting this! I watch these videos from time to time but hadn’t heard this one. What a great job they did, and a beautiful song by Avi!
Alright, you got me... As a Penta-Holic, Imma subscribe, sending ya love and support. Thanks for what you do. Lovin' your excitement and insight.
Hola, no se que decir pero tenia que ser la primera haha mas ptx!! gracias!
Great reaction. Thank you.
I love the seamless transitions in this evolution. I really don't think PTX is capable of letting anything mediocre go out. They are all such perfectionists and highly professional, in the best ways. They are just brilliant.
They did a full version of boogie boogie bugle boy. It's really good.
The origins of Rap was culturally relevant as well, as well as Calypso and Reggae..I'm sure many post WW2 music was very culturally relevant (I interpret as commentes on the times)
Something else not many know about Beethoven - he wrote in a much higher tempo than he is generally played today, at least by full orchestras. Because it's just too fast to coordinate that many instruments at once.
Music has been part of our family life forever and still is, it's just the mode that's changed. I remember holidays at my grandparent's house, and there was always singing! I think they called them "hootenannies" - since this was the late 60's, early 70's, folk music was still really popular. It was fabulous with my mom singing (a music teacher), my dad (a jazz musician) playing stand-up bass, and my three uncles, one playing guitar (another is a drummer, so sometimes he'd have those out). The only thing that beat the music was that grandma always had a bag of marshmallows for fireplace s'mores :-) Grandpa was an Irish tenor, so he'd pitch in with some Bing Crosby songs, or something from Al Jolson (he was from the South, so of course I know "Swanee") Momma loved musicals, so she'd sing something from "South Pacific" or "The King and I" a capella. Daddy taught us all to read music by holding our fingers to the notes in the hymnal each Sunday in church - and taught us to sing or play in front of a crowd by bringing us to gigs when we got older :-)
At our house these days, it's more playing each other songs we like on Spotify, but we still connect with each other through music. We all have each other's songs on our own playlists (my 25-year-old has more Louis Prima and Rush on his playlist than I do!) My husband loves karaoke, so now that the boys are older, we've gone out all together a few times, and it's a blast - my youngest, who is autistic, either does something from Green Day or spoken word from Shane Koyczan, lol, and eats up getting positive comments from the crowd. Now if they would just get some Avi Kaplan tracks so my middle son could sing "Change on the Rise" - he sings it around the house and it gives me chills. In my extended family, we sing our grace together at holiday dinners. I keep a class playlist for my room and I've got a ton of songs on my playlist you'd never expect from a 50-something English teacher, lol. My students pretend to complain about the songs I contribute, then request them on workdays.
The ability to connect in our communities through music hasn't disappeared, it's just more diversified and takes a little effort to make space for
Need to react to Voiceplay "Hoist the Colours".
If you notice in the early videos Kevin and Avi shared a mic whereas in later videos they had a mic each which would help define their individual tracks. The mics for the guys at the back were above their heads if you didn't know.
That was so fun!!!!!
The closest you're ever going to get to Pentatonix doing something you don't like is if you check out their earliest performances on _The Sing-Off,_ back when they were still getting their feet under them as a cohesive group. A couple of those were a bit awkward, but it didn't last long.
There's a SuperFruit video of Mitch and Scott watching some of those early performances and commenting on the dancing they were doing (in performances that didn't really need dancing) and what they'd learned from the experience, which they said is that they aren't good at dancing and should never do it. But the truth is that they were teaching themselves choreography from scratch. You've seen their 12th performance, "The Dog Days Are Over," so you know that by then they were masters of choreography. *They* might think that that wasn't dance, just stage direction, but it most certainly was dance, and that performance would have been much less effective if it hadn't begun with Mitch and Kirstie emulating two trains slowly passing in opposite directions, or if everyone hadn't been exactly on their mark when the time came for Mitch's big solo.
Please react to pentatonix dance to the sugar plum fairy. They win a grammy for the song is just amazing
Yes! I love the fact that a band without instruments recorded a song without words and won a Grammy for it. So much epic right there. 😍
Hey. Just combing UA-cam for reactions to this Pentatonix video and found your channel. I’m 54, so I totally get where you’re coming from with the cultural relatability of music. However, I don’t think it’s as “gone” as you think. One example, just from this video…so far on every reaction video, pretty much EVERYONE does the hand when they do the “Single Ladies” 😂. Also, there have always been some differences between music of different countries and regions. I lived overseas in the 70’s, and some of the great hits we listened to never became all that popular in the U.S. it could also be quite different based on the genre of music people primarily listened to. So although I think there won’t be as many universally (mostly) known music as we go forward, I hope there will always be some music that is known by most people and it will continue to be the bridge that music has always been between all kinds of people.
Check out PTX's cover of "Gold" by Kiiara. It's just amazing.
Have you heard Transiberian Orchestra's "Beethoven's Last Night"? It was released in 2000 and you might enjoy their interpretation of his music. I admit to being a huge fan of theirs.
I’m a little sad you didn’t take notice of the invention of the color tv when they went from black n white into color during the 60s
On the other hand the switch from the regional cultural music to "modern" was time when it switched to sub culture things at least on some level.
Please react to their performance on AGT the other day of The Prayer!
Your video and audio is off slightly. Having said that, your reactions are great
My only issue with the cultural relevance with music is I still feel like you can tie certain sounds to a decade such as 80s, 90s, 00s music. Like, you can tell the difference of cultural time period with something like Black Hole Sun- Soundgarden and In The End - Linkin Park and Sweet Child of Mine- GNR. Even at some points you can aurally tell transitionary points with certain songs that help feed into the next decades sound
Just so you know, I am really hoping you react to Hoist the Colors by VoicePlay. I know you don't post many of their videos and it's them I watch...but I really enjoyed your reaction to 16 TONS and How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Oogie Boogie song. So I am hoping you will do this one.
Just so you know....you are NOT prepared for how incredible it is on ALL levels
Oh it’s coming! I’m just working on fixing an error
@@TempleMusicAcademy :D you mean rebooting your brain? LOL j/k but not really....I will look for your video soon
have a great day
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Enough said.
There's a full version of Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy on their classics album that is phenominal. It's audio only but so worth a listen.
This may sound a bit cynical. As a child of the 70's folks actually cared about what was going on in the world and had no problem saying stuff about it through the arts. As time went by that focus turned inward and instead of trying to heal the world with song, it became more of a "what's in it for me" so the music got more interpersonal and folks just respond to the art itself rather than the message. If a song has a great melody and a great hook, it could be the phone book for all we know that are the lyrics. Just my old, curmudgeon opinion LOL
I definitely think it’s an interesting take that you mention, I know I’m like a year late to the party lol. But I think music breaks up after like the 70s and we cat this over crowding where there is just so much being produced that there isn’t the same decade specific feel that we had before but I think songs still have a lot of cultural relevance to smaller sun groups. I have songs that are very significant to me and other black women, and while it’s funny to think about people playing WAP around a campfire 20 years from now, there definitely are songs for the last 10 years that I think will carry “2010s” music
It's funny you talk about breath control and their founder and arranger Ben Bram JUST tweeted last week that he was looking at some of his really old arrangements and said something about how he didn't put in breathing correctly or something.
I think you were right about music tying in to culture. I think that more people knew the same songs up until the 1980's. I think it started to change in the 1990's. I think it was mirrored by what happened in television. Americans now have more choices for our entertainment when it comes to music and television. When that happens we collectively have fewer people watching the same shows or listening to the same songs. While I don't think it is terrible to have choices, it makes it hard to have a national identity when there are so many choices. Does it make us as a society more self centered because we like what we like and don't have time or energy to devote to listening and watching other things? Does it limit our perspective and make it hard for us to understand and have empathy towards one another? Are we less open minded? Does this lack of national cultural identity show up in other aspects of society?
We probably had a stronger cultural identity because the country was less diverse than it is now. It was more white. Now that diversity is more common how do we find our way to kindness, tolerance and respect?
Hopefully we try and be more like Pentatonix. They are people from different backgrounds, religions, sexuality and skin colors (we are all the human race). I think it shows that they truly love and respect each other and all kinds of music. They are a great example.
Hope my rambling made some sense after a long day. Just looking at things and asking questions. I probably need to do better in learning about other cultures. I feel like I am pretty tolerant, but I do need to improve my knowledge about people who do not look like or sing like me.
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Lights and microphones were all about money. They just couldn’t afford them at first
Please consider checking out VoicePlay's Hoist the Colours - it's spectacular! One of the best things they've ever done, in my opinion.
I would love it if you reacted to Todric Hall and Pentatonix video "The Wizard of ahhs"
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Don't know if you have reacted to "Beginner's Guide to Pentatonix" or the "Wizard of Ahhs" I do like your break down of the music, you make it simply clear and short. Anyway enjoy your content!! Thank you
I recommend Come Along
The only thing "bad" I've ever heard from any members of Pentatonix was on Mitch and Scott's separate YT channel Superfruit when Kirstin joined them and they sang every song from the Disney movie Frozen. Be warned there was apparently some alcohol consumption before they recorded the video but that just makes it more hilarious. 😂 At the end they did a bloopers reel (as they often do on Superfruit) and the three were deliberately singing badly. Apparently it's a game they played to see who could manage it the longest since it seems it's actually harder for them (as trained singers) to sing off key or badly for a long time. Honestly, even in that they sing better than the majority of people in the world, lol. Just thought you might want to check that video out. Search for "Superfruit Frozen Melody" and you'll find it. 😁
Speaking of music, Nightwish released in April 2020 their newest album "Human :||: Nature" and its first track is "Music". There is only a lyric video for it but I bet you might enjoy that piece regardless. :)
PS. While you'll be listening to it, give a thought or two who is the one telling the story. ;)
Damn I'm also called Janelle.
Have you seen “Aha, live from Singapore “ you will like it.
You should look into their really early stuff. I'm talking like on The Sing Off early.
Great reaction as usual....given your love of Beethoven, I want to recommend something that will knock your socks off (Really!). There is a 20 year old kid from Poland who has become the world's best guitarist...Marcin Petrzelak...check out his one guitar version of Beethoven's 5th...AMAZING !!
hoist the colours by voiceplay is a must see
It seems like the proliferation of TV and radio are part of what you are talking about. Before either, music was sung by members of a group (community, region, whatever division) in informal settings and by professional musicians in formal settings. With radio, at first there was music and story entertainment, then with TV, most story entertainment left radio, leaving music. Now, music could be heard by any person with access to the radio, at any time.
Evolution of Ariana Grande would be the last one. Cheers for more Pentatonix reactions!
Your reaction to their first (oldest) theme, you may not have heard their brief rendition of Bruckner's "Christus Factus Est - WAB 11) 1884, leading into their cover of "Aha!": ua-cam.com/video/N04WNhbKnZ8/v-deo.html btw, your background music is Tool, right...Pneuma?
Using "Christus" was Avi's idea, from having performed it with his college chamber choir. It made for a perfect lead-in to "Aha!" and displayed the choir chops of the four of them (Kevin not having had that background). It also allowed Avi to show off a taste of his opera major. When he left, they either didn't do a lead-in or made the mistake of thinking that "Greensleeves" was a good replacement. Um, no. For anyone interested. here's the concert video of that college chamber choir, with Avi in the back row. Can't miss the hair and beard, lol. ua-cam.com/video/BIn-wM5sVM0/v-deo.html
You don't the the shift had anything to do with the more ready availability of music-playing devices of all sorts? People used to have to make their own music. Once everyone had a little device, especially portable ones, you could play pre-recorded tunes any time.
I think the cultural relevance you’re looking for now is evident if you look at the bigger picture. This era is marked by disappearing borders, the proliferation of information, rapidly advancing technology and awareness of different countries’ influences. So if you take a wide view of today’s music, you’ll see the rising popularity of K-POP, J-Rock, and other foreign music, mixing genres, the use of technology in EDM, AI generated music, democratization of the creative process giving rise to unconventional music people make in their own homes. It’s hodgepodge and chaotic and harder for us to comprehend, but I’m sure if we look back on this in the future, it will paint a picture of what the world is today. Hindsight is always clearer after all. 😅
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Hey, is a "chord stack" the same as an arpeggio?
They are very similar. Chord stacks typically come together with a sustained note while arpeggios keep ‘traveling’ and don’t really land together at the end. If you think about the the bell tones PTX does frequently-those are arpeggios. Hopefully that makes sense. I’m sure there’s someone with more musical knowledge that can explain it better-lol.
Hi there DJ.
I think you are the best guitar "Reactor" on UA-cam and I have an interesting challenge for you.
How would you like to react to a Portuguese "Tuna" Band?
A "Tuna" (that's the word in Portuguese, not the fish) is a group or band of musicians from a certain School. It's kind of like the marching bands for US & Canadian universities that go to Football games but a bit more solemn in their repertoire. And they tour on concerts with other "Tunas" from different Universities from different countries, around the world.
Historically, Portugal, Spain and the South American Countries have the strongest "Tuna" bands in the world. Maybe it's a Latin thing. But the thing is, it's been around for literally centuries and I am almost sure you haven't ever heard of the genre. Therefore, I would like to acquaint you with it. Below I will post two links that will lead to videos from arguably the best "Tuna" in Portugal. The videos are kinda old but you can get the point from listening. And I am definitely sure you will know the musics being played, given that they are from the famous "4 Staggione" - Vivaldi.
I hope you enjoy and react.
Thank you in advance and kind regards,
Mário Pereira
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Your comments about culturally significance of music, in my opinion, was misstated. Its truly sub culturally significance. And it still is. Maybe not for old straight white guys, but get into the LGBTQ+ subculture or certain black subcultures, or emo or goth subcultures, or rave subcultures, or any other number of subcultures and the songs and music are still extremely significant.
I agree. Much of "genre" music is really the importation of styles of subcultural groups into the "mainstream." Whether this is a positive depends on point of view, of course. A member of the mainstream may look at it in a "look at us, we are trying to include everyone" type of way. But members of the subcultural group may see the usage of their music style as cultural appropriation. But another member of that same subcultural group might believe that introducing their music to the mainstream is beneficial to the group, making the world aware of the group's existence. And so on and so on. Just some more food for thought.
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I think it is hard to find music thst EVERYONE knows, not necessarily culturally relevant, bc our culture is just one, im talking WORLD culture and idk if any one artist has captured that since Michael jackson and why thriller won't ever fall as the best selling album on the planet ever. Theres an influx of artists now in all genres that are at the touch of fingertips off the internet, and I think society today is more polarized and often you'll find ppl less likely willing to branch out of their comfort zones and listen to something different. I'll watch reaction videos where ppl didn't know who queen was, and the bohemian rhapsody was theirs, they didn't know where sound of silence came from, thru didn't know who half the legends in we are the world were, and I'm thinking my God ppl, live a little branch out and if you profess to like rap or metal or whatever your bag is, then watch who came before bc each was a stepping stone to what you like. Including Mozart and yes beethoven. 😉
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Let's not shit on WAP, yes, music still has cultural significance to select groups. The groups are smaller and tighter because more artists are allowed on the stage, people don't have to listen to the same songs anymore because the industry allows diversity. A song expressing free black female sexuality will have no cultural signifcance to you, and it isn't meant to.
wap is just bad it doesn't express ant female sexuality at all
I think you are holding a lot of bias toward older styles of music... I'm 23 (born in 1998) - my favourite artists are Carole King, Joni Mitchell and The Beatles because I enjoy the lyrical and melodic choices they made (and their production choices) - but I also ADORE so many artists today, and so many songs (and artists) still mean so much more to people than their 'hits'. Just because they may not hold significance to you in your life, and you haven't felt their importance culturally, doesn't mean they don't exist.
There are MAJOR parallels between the music of the Civil Rights Era of the 60s and the music that speaks to the BLM movement today. Heck, there have ALWAYS been popular artists making a cultural statement. Just because they may not speak to you doesn't mean they do not speak to the masses.
to paraphrase you "right about when punk came out we lost cultural relevance". huh? what...
PTX be bad so I can feel better about my limitations??????? You're kidding, right?
I still think music is culturally relevant but globalisation and diversity mean there’s so many cultures being represented in the industry. This is positive in my opinion.