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Checking out Pentatonix singing Daft Punk for the first time.
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Just watched your Imagine and Bohemian Rhapsody videos – they were great! I listened to you explain how they impact you and that some artists affect you more deeply. I would suggest the cover of Rise (Katy Perry), by Superfruit (Scott and Mitch of PTX) and 3 other incredible singers – it's a powerful song, sung for an incredibly sad reason. I would highly recommend you react to it.
To many reactors post mostly PTX all at once. Eventually you run out of videos and move on to another artists. That's when you lose your PTX fans. Spreading out the music is better for your channel and for us.
The song you really need to listen to and enjoy is their Carol of the Bells. It will blow you away!!
i at first wondered if they had someone that made them skip in the middle, but no they do it all, as far as who does the work of the cameras i am not sure… here they are live … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw4YCsHXKgI wow just learned something new, Ben Bram …
I think you may really enjoy this version of the song. They were asked to ad-lib it backstage in an empty room. Them just standing there and being themselves with this song: https://youtu.be/tw4YCsHXKgI Not suggesting you review this version, just watch and enjoy it.
They made this video in Avi and Kevin's apartment and it cost them $400.00. They won a grammy for it.
No worries, your channel, your rules. I’m just happy to be along for the ride. I love to watch new folks discover what I consider to be five of the most talented and engaging musicians around today. You may want to check out Recording Evergreen, a mini-doc of the process of making last year’s Christmas album. It’s a lot of behind-the-scenes arranging, developing and perfecting activities that you may find interesting. Love your reactions, well done! Peace from Ohio …
I see another candidate for the PTX rabbit hole. Welcome, sit back and be amazed by pure talent.
Cracked is one of my favorites and it is an original – the Pop Spring 2016 is a great live version ( it also has 2 more originals and an evolution song), another fun song is their original Sing
To get more insight into PTX check out the Recording of Evergreen, their 2021 Christmas album.
This cost $400 and filmed in Avi and Kevin’s closet. There first of 3 Grammy’s. The award committee had to create a new category. They just got a Hollywood walk of fame star. I Love PTX.
Mary Did You Know by Pentatonix
Also The Prayer and Amazing Grace
Oh and Bohemian Rapsody
Live your reactions. I am a pentatonic but enjoy other music as well. You might want to react to Kevin O (the beatboxer) DOWN. he is amazing.
Wonderful video/reaction man. Looking forward to your reactions from all else in this rabbit hole
Mostly Avi and Kevin who set it all up the sound at least, i dont know who does the videos.
Go check out their "video killed the radio star" performance on "the sing off". You'll see where they are coming from.
This video was filmed in one of their closets. True Story!
Keep in mind – the louder fans (a small proportion of all the fans) of Pentatonix will be very demanding and single minded about how popular you will and won't be based on your channel saturation and adulation of Pentatonix – a good proportion of these same very demanding fans will become very annoyed (a slight understatement) if you should give any hint of enjoyment of any other group, or genre of music – just saying.
The ebb and flow of your channel in regards to the Pentaholics will rely on the above.
Loved your reaction, observations and your questions are great.
Hey, don’t take it too hard. Pentaholics are hard core. Just keep including them when appropriate and read the other comments and you will get answers to most of your questions. Great reaction.
Your channel, your choice! Those people are just being rude. Enjoy the ride on your terms! Can't wait for you to do Christmas!
For your research: there are plenty of online interviews and articles with Ben Bram (as others have said, he is heavily involved in arrangement and production on many songs) and Ed Boyer (mixer, engineer who focuses heavily on acapella.) Both are great at conveying how they work. The group's process is very diverse – sometimes the members just sit around and start with a beat, or one has an idea, or Ben has a concept. All are smart enough musically to add ideas and play off each other. From the beginning they have never been afraid to try new things, and that is what separates them (IMO) from other acapella groups.
Not bad for $400+and cheap contacts form the corner store. Filmed (kictchen) and recorded(closet) in Avi's and Kevin apartment and first edit done on a mac laptop by Avi and then sent in for final editting………and they get a Grammy. Why dose it take a millon dollars to do a 4 minute vid anymore for other artist . genius just pure genius they are
A true Pentaholic will not sub then un-sub because you didn't react soon enough. Pretty much every reactor out there is diverse, so we do understand. Just for the fact that you went through that, you've got my sub. Sorry I can't do more than that right now, but I'm really enjoying your reactions.
Sometimes I feel like reactors only react because they know they are supposed to and it seems forced or acted out. Your reaction to the middle of this was great. Seemed legit blown away. Love it.
Love the emotional honesty of your reactions! 🤓 This is the 1st PTX song I heard so it has a special place in my heart & I've listened to it probably 2 dozen times since. I can truthfully say I'm still learning about & appreciating new things about it—it's incredibly lush & complex. 💜💜💜
This was their first Grammy Award winning song.
They only spent $400.00 on this video.
🎵❤🎶
Another one that is light hearted is their cover of McLemore and Ryan Lewis 'Can't Hold Us' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OglS3Q0Zxik And the group does flesh out a lot of their arrangements. Ben is their 'composition/technician/extraordinaire and arrangement' guru. His hands, and mind, are all over everything they do. He knew Scott from Scott's Freshman year at UCLA and is who encouraged Scott to get Kirstie, and Mitch to try out for The Sing off after seeing some of the videos they three of them put up on YouTube while in high school. Scott was going for a Pop Music Major. Kirstie was a Freshman at OU at the same time and working on a Music Theater degree. Mitch was a Senior in High School. The three of them were best friends and self described as Choir Nerds. The first time the three of them were in the same room with Avi and Kevin was the day before their audition for the show. (Mitch even missed his high school graduation ceremony because he was flying out to LA that Saturday night for the audition!) And as the common phrase goes, the rest is history!!!!! Ben worked with them on the show, The Sing Off, and has been part of the team ever since. Sometimes he does the whole arrangement, other times he fine tunes things. But either way, his hands, and mind, are all over everything PTX does. FYI, Avi, the bass, has a music degree and studied Opera. Kevin, the beatboxer, has a pre-med degree and I believe his minor was in Eastern Asian Studies. He spent 18 months in China and speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese. Kirstie has said she takes classes, maybe online, that it's important for her to finish her college degree. Though with a new baby and PTX, I have no idea how she's going to do it. But she's a smart and talented young lady. Mitch is too gifted for college. Except maybe to teach the professors how to do 'counter tenor'!!🤪 And you best buckle up, if you do 1 song per week, you've got at least 11 years worth of music to do!! That might be a little bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. And they do have quite a few originals they have written.
Your required to do the prayer by them I’ll sub then
I love your reactions and am so happy you’ve joined the PTX fan club! We are very rambunctious crowd and love watching people get mind-blown by their awesomeness!
Not to flip genres or anything, but I’d love to see how you’d like Rammstein “zeit”
https://youtu.be/EbHGS_bVkXY
Zeit is German for time! It’s a poem about unstoppable time and how we are all slaves to it! Cheers!
You’re doing a great job. There’s some full on fans out there. I’m here for Aurora and Kalandra, but checking out other stuff because you’re obviously very authentic and real. Which I dig. Keep it up. ❤
For the question about arranging – the shortest answer is – no one knows if they're human or alien…. Lol But for closer to an actual answer, you might enjoy this compilation that's a combination of a few serious composition sessions and a lot of impromptu and silly stuff that shows how a lot of it truly comes from how well they mesh as very talented humans who gifted the world when they came together as a group!
https://youtu.be/GjhdU1rktpg
I looked through your playlist and don’t see any Evanescence/Amy Lee songs. How in the world have you not done a reaction video for them/her? Mind blown. You MUST do one asap please. Might I recommend “My Immortal” official music video.
https://youtu.be/5anLPw0Efmo
Thank you for reacting to this fun Pentatonix video. There are several videos on YouTube showing them arranging songs. The way they do it depends on the song and its use. Most of the time the 5 band members choose a song then they circle jam and decide who sings what parts and work out a rough copy and make a demo of how they want it to sound. They then send it to Ben Bram, their co-arranger, who fine tunes it and puts it on sheet music. They further work on the song until they have it exactly as they want to perform the song, making changes as needed. Watch the Behind The Scenes video for "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" since part of it shows them working out the arrangement in a backstage dressing room while on tour. For an older one watch "The PTXperience Episode 5 Time To Arrange". The arranging starts at 3 minutes 25 seconds. For special events Ben and the band work together on the arrangements from the start. For this one, Scott and Mitch were Daft Punk fans in their early years.
I would recommend their version of "Bohemian Rhapsody". Epic. You want another song that will make you cry? "Mary Did You Know" will do it.