The gentleman with Earl at the beginning and end of the video is his husband Nick. (I keep forgetting his last name. Sorry.) The story told is Earl on his deathbed with Anubis (J. None) the Egyptian god measuring his heart against a feather. When Earl notices the pendant around his neck he's reminded of his beloved and fights to come back to the land of the living. If you notice, when he passes through the curtain and wakes up to Nick's embrace he's no longer wearing the pendant; I guess is was payment to Baron for his life. VoicePlay also did a video called Boy Bands in 5 Minutes showing different boy bands stinging in different styles. There's a brief appearance by not only Earl's husband but the other guys' wives/girlfriends
Voiceplay is just so, so creative! They were going to do this, but then Earl, the guy in the bed, had a health scare. Appendicitis I think. So they tied the storyline for the video to sickness and death. The arrangement was done by Layne (beatboxer) and Eli (bald tenor). The video concept, production, edit, everything is done by whoever does the arrangement. They bring in makeup and steadicam when needed, but it's mostly just them. Earl was a founding member in 1997 with Geoff, Layne, and Mykal Kilgore. Earl left the group in 2020 for personal reasons. Mykal left just a couple of years after formation for a successful career on Broadway. He came back to do Be Prepared with them in September and will be in the one they release this month. The new one is wonderful; they are all just captivating!
Thanks for another reaction to VoicePlay. I would suggest VoicePlay's September release, "Be Prepared" next. I also recommend the three songs associated with Tolkien's Middle Earth on Geoff's solo channel in release order, "Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold," "I See Fire," and finally "Song of Durin." They are wonderful. In all three, Geoff is costumed as dwarves from The Hobbit - Thorin, Fili, Kili, and Bofur - and adding a fifth dwarf, Gimli, to the ghosts of the first four as that song is from LOTR books, in his latest one released in September. You will hear much more of Geoff's five octave range there and all of the layered vocals are his, as is all of the instrumentation there as Geoff's solo work isn't acappella.
In Egyptian mythology Anubis would weigh the heart of a deceased person against the feather of the goddess Ma'at to determine the person's fate in the afterlife. If the heart was heavier than the feather, the heart was consumed by Ammit, the "Devourer", and the soul was cast into darkness. If the scale was balanced the deceased passed the test and was welcomed into the afterlife by Osiris.
Nice to see you back with VoicePlay again. I’ll echo some of the other comments that you’ll probably enjoy their September song “Be Prepared” from the Lion King. Geoff made a positively leonine Scar with the others performing as his hench-hyenas (albeit still in human ‘gang’ like scruffy)
I concur that it is a brilliant medley. But the problem with medleys is that they have to pay royalties for each song used, no matter how small the snippet. So they've commented that they don't think they'll ever actually see any revenue from this video. So I can't see them making a sequel to it unfortunately.
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So many, many layers to this!!! Fantastic arrangement - They do arrangements and videos themselves. Thanks for the reaction! ⚘️🕊
The gentleman with Earl at the beginning and end of the video is his husband Nick. (I keep forgetting his last name. Sorry.) The story told is Earl on his deathbed with Anubis (J. None) the Egyptian god measuring his heart against a feather. When Earl notices the pendant around his neck he's reminded of his beloved and fights to come back to the land of the living. If you notice, when he passes through the curtain and wakes up to Nick's embrace he's no longer wearing the pendant; I guess is was payment to Baron for his life. VoicePlay also did a video called Boy Bands in 5 Minutes showing different boy bands stinging in different styles. There's a brief appearance by not only Earl's husband but the other guys' wives/girlfriends
Voiceplay is just so, so creative! They were going to do this, but then Earl, the guy in the bed, had a health scare. Appendicitis I think. So they tied the storyline for the video to sickness and death. The arrangement was done by Layne (beatboxer) and Eli (bald tenor). The video concept, production, edit, everything is done by whoever does the arrangement. They bring in makeup and steadicam when needed, but it's mostly just them.
Earl was a founding member in 1997 with Geoff, Layne, and Mykal Kilgore. Earl left the group in 2020 for personal reasons. Mykal left just a couple of years after formation for a successful career on Broadway. He came back to do Be Prepared with them in September and will be in the one they release this month. The new one is wonderful; they are all just captivating!
Thanks for another reaction to VoicePlay. I would suggest VoicePlay's September release, "Be Prepared" next.
I also recommend the three songs associated with Tolkien's Middle Earth on Geoff's solo channel in release order, "Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold," "I See Fire," and finally "Song of Durin." They are wonderful. In all three, Geoff is costumed as dwarves from The Hobbit - Thorin, Fili, Kili, and Bofur - and adding a fifth dwarf, Gimli, to the ghosts of the first four as that song is from LOTR books, in his latest one released in September. You will hear much more of Geoff's five octave range there and all of the layered vocals are his, as is all of the instrumentation there as Geoff's solo work isn't acappella.
In Egyptian mythology Anubis would weigh the heart of a deceased person against the feather of the goddess Ma'at to determine the person's fate in the afterlife.
If the heart was heavier than the feather, the heart was consumed by Ammit, the "Devourer", and the soul was cast into darkness.
If the scale was balanced the deceased passed the test and was welcomed into the afterlife by Osiris.
Try another of his medley's - Boy Bands in 5 Minutes with the same crew!
Nice to see you back with VoicePlay again. I’ll echo some of the other comments that you’ll probably enjoy their September song “Be Prepared” from the Lion King. Geoff made a positively leonine Scar with the others performing as his hench-hyenas (albeit still in human ‘gang’ like scruffy)
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I concur that it is a brilliant medley. But the problem with medleys is that they have to pay royalties for each song used, no matter how small the snippet. So they've commented that they don't think they'll ever actually see any revenue from this video. So I can't see them making a sequel to it unfortunately.
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