You're right to wonder if they are ghosts... that one verse Cesar sings... "some have died, some are alive, and others sail the sea." Sounds pretty living-dead to me.... and also explains Cesar's state. Also, according to the story, the goddess Calypso ruled the sea - Davy Jones fell in love with her and was given the task of collecting sailors souls when they died. In return, she agreed to meet with him once every 10 years for some hanky panky - but she never showed up. (The seas are fickle, right?) Eventually he got mad and hatched a plot to "bind her in her bones" ie, to bind her in human form, so she couldn't return to her goddess power. With her out of the way, he and the pirates that plotted with him could run wild, doing what they wanted and never dying. Of course, .... it didn't end well, but double-crossing goddesses is always a tricky and dangerous thing to do.
In this arrangement everyone showed off, Layne, Geoff's great, great range, the strength in César's voice (his characterization is scary), Eli, obviously, his high notes wow! (love Eli´s voice) and the stage presence of José. I believed that what César is holding are ancient prisoner handcuffs (and yes, it seems that he "pierces" us with that eye). As always, I am excited together with you, I really enjoy your reactions!
I had no idea Cesar could bring it the way he did in this video. I'm sorry I'm not describing it better, but he was nearly on par with Eli in terms of intensity. I didn't know he had that in him, and it was so exciting to see it!
Thanks for watching as always! I think I was most blown away by Cesar too, since we haven’t seen very much of him. So excited to see him grow with VoicePlay! 😄
@@CynicalTesuji I was impressed by him as well. Watching, it seemed that he was out of his comfort zone, this is not the type of music he normally sings. But he breathed deep and belted it out!
What amazes me about Eli, he can do HIGH, HIGH tenor stuff or switch it up and be a smooth baritone. His range is as impressive as Geoff's; just in a different way.
Peaks and valley's for days (I think that's the term used). The tenors and baritone really set the tone for this one, and the bass darkened the song when it needed to be, with the percussion accompanying it.The harmonies really stood out to me. Voiceplay excels in storytelling musically.
❤I haven’t said how much how much I appreciate your resistance to talking over the song and printing the comments under the video.😊 you’re comments are valuable and insightful
Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well. TBH though we definitely struggled, but for a college choir I think we did decently! Good thing we didn’t have video recordings for us to cringe over 🤣
You two were some of the first reactors I thought of when this came out. The whole arrangement just screamed something that you two would love. And Geoff's voice change when he starts he second lead is different than throughout in the rest of the song. It's more headless horseman vibe. But if you go back and listen to the words to his lead and the guess when they come it was supposed to be creepy and sinister. And it worked. I also can't compare this to "my mother told me". The reason is because that song drastically changed about half way through. Totally lost the feel from the beginning. Whereas this one changed, but never lost the feel from the beginning. It just built to those typical big Voiceplay ending.
Wow, I loved the original Swingle Singers, back in the 60’s and had their albums. I’m pleasantly surprised that you know of them, and loved them too. This performance is a masterpiece.
Wow, you’re an OG! I discovered their songs on music sharing apps from the early 2000s and only found out they were Swingle Singers recordings years later! 😄
With the Halloween season coming up, Geoff’s Headless Horseman is great for it! In addition he will have a new Halloween themed song coming up! 👻 VoicePlay also has great Halloween songs, I hope you’ll check their Halloween themed collection as well 😁 I’m always looking forward to new reactions from you!
I was so looking forward to seeing how you two received this song, and I was not disappointed! This was an epic piece of vocal work, and it has been slaying reactors left and right- you guys hung right in there though, and had some great observations, as always. By the time they hit the end, they sound nearly orchestral- how do five voices create such a wall of sound? These guys just keep getting better, somehow. But this has to be Geoff's finest arrangement to date. Simply spectacular!
@@ZhenYaoYin I think it is his 'tone', notes, and his duration, lung capacity, and sonic vibrations that 'slay' them, it scrambles their brains for a while....lol
First - loved your reaction! I always look forward to you reviewing VoicePlay. Second - you took me on a tour of memory lane - big time! You mentioned Sicut Cervus. My college choir did that piece and I’ve always loved it. So after your video ended I followed your link to hear it again. And it was by John Rutter’s choir! I was lucky enough to attend a master class with him in New York City. I was in a choir that shared billing with his for a concert at Carnegie Hall. They did the Faure Requiem, then we did the Mozart Requiem. We had the director from the Radio Television Orchestra of Moscow and soloists from the Bolshoi. Then his choir joined ours for the Coronation Scene from Boris Gudinov. (For us it was the beginning of a tour that included concerts in Moscow and Leningrad. ) Sorry for the long comment, but you just opened the gates of my memory and it all came spilling out.
Thanks for sharing your experience! I sang Sicut Cervus with my college choir too! Man, a masterclass with John Rutter? That must’ve been mind blowing! And concerts in Russia? Wowwww 🤯
@@ZhenYaoYin yes, it was an amazing experience. I was so lucky to have been invited on the tour, especially since the only singing I was doing then was with a local chorus and a small madrigal group.
OMG... I just found you, and love you guys! I'm a life-long choir and Chorale geek (going on 50+ years), and sang acapella and Swingle Singers in college. Just subbed for more! (Oh, and Sicut Cervus is one of my favorite choir pieces! )
Great reaction #ZHERRIE!!!fantastic song and video!! VoicePlay never disappoints. By the way your family is so beautiful and I’m glad you’re doing reactions so happy 😁
@@ZhenYaoYin Yeah; it's a not-so-secret technique you can use to recognize basses and bass-baritones in the wild. Of course, the individual still needs the androgen receptor density and high testosterone for the vocal folds to actually become thick enough but it's still a good heuristic when looking for bass singing potential 😉
Subscribing just due to this. You only paused where absolutely necessary, with your notes adding a lot of textural background. I think I have listened to this 50 times and was never sure about Layne holding off on the beatboxing until you verified it. I just keep getting swept up in the production. Just the right level of comments and understandable to us non-choir geeks!
It's as though "My Mother Told Me" had a sequel and it's called "Hoist the Colors" 🤔
Right!
These pirates here are definitely the descendants of thove vikings in their My Mother Told Me vid 😆
should be a double feature. Like 'My mother told me to hoist the colors'.
@@christianschmid1440 LOL
They did, in fact, end up buying a galley, like their mothers told them, and they straight away turned it into a pirate ship!
You're right to wonder if they are ghosts... that one verse Cesar sings... "some have died, some are alive, and others sail the sea." Sounds pretty living-dead to me.... and also explains Cesar's state. Also, according to the story, the goddess Calypso ruled the sea - Davy Jones fell in love with her and was given the task of collecting sailors souls when they died. In return, she agreed to meet with him once every 10 years for some hanky panky - but she never showed up. (The seas are fickle, right?) Eventually he got mad and hatched a plot to "bind her in her bones" ie, to bind her in human form, so she couldn't return to her goddess power. With her out of the way, he and the pirates that plotted with him could run wild, doing what they wanted and never dying. Of course, .... it didn't end well, but double-crossing goddesses is always a tricky and dangerous thing to do.
Thanks for your comment! Until I saw this I totally forgot that the movies had so many undead pirates everywhere 🤣
In this arrangement everyone showed off, Layne, Geoff's great, great range, the strength in César's voice (his characterization is scary), Eli, obviously, his high notes wow! (love Eli´s voice) and the stage presence of José.
I believed that what César is holding are ancient prisoner handcuffs (and yes, it seems that he "pierces" us with that eye).
As always, I am excited together with you, I really enjoy your reactions!
I had no idea Cesar could bring it the way he did in this video. I'm sorry I'm not describing it better, but he was nearly on par with Eli in terms of intensity. I didn't know he had that in him, and it was so exciting to see it!
Thanks for watching as always! I think I was most blown away by Cesar too, since we haven’t seen very much of him. So excited to see him grow with VoicePlay! 😄
@@CynicalTesuji I was impressed by him as well. Watching, it seemed that he was out of his comfort zone, this is not the type of music he normally sings. But he breathed deep and belted it out!
What amazes me about Eli, he can do HIGH, HIGH tenor stuff or switch it up and be a smooth baritone. His range is as impressive as Geoff's; just in a different way.
You lasted better than most reactors, well done!! You have a beautiful voice Zen.
Aww, thank you! ☺️
Peaks and valley's for days (I think that's the term used). The tenors and baritone really set the tone for this one, and the bass darkened the song when it needed to be, with the percussion accompanying it.The harmonies really stood out to me. Voiceplay excels in storytelling musically.
You hit the nail on the head; they’re amazing musical storytellers! 👏
That’s Geoff’s arranging style for ya. Absolutely love it.
❤I haven’t said how much how much I appreciate your resistance to talking over the song and printing the comments under the video.😊 you’re comments are valuable and insightful
Did you just hear Geoff?
How can anyone NOT hear Geoff?
fun fact: someone recreated the sheet music to this song and posted it on youtube. not sure if it's 100% accurate, but it sounded quite close to it!
I haven't thought of the Swingle Singers in years. I need to dig out the music!
Sicut servus from Palestrina ? It is not an easy piece to start singing in a choir.
Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well. TBH though we definitely struggled, but for a college choir I think we did decently! Good thing we didn’t have video recordings for us to cringe over 🤣
You two were some of the first reactors I thought of when this came out. The whole arrangement just screamed something that you two would love. And Geoff's voice change when he starts he second lead is different than throughout in the rest of the song. It's more headless horseman vibe. But if you go back and listen to the words to his lead and the guess when they come it was supposed to be creepy and sinister. And it worked. I also can't compare this to "my mother told me". The reason is because that song drastically changed about half way through. Totally lost the feel from the beginning. Whereas this one changed, but never lost the feel from the beginning. It just built to those typical big Voiceplay ending.
Ooh, we haven’t seen Headless Horseman yet! (Jots down into ever-expanding to-do list) 🤩
@@ZhenYaoYin Headless Horseman is a grand one to fir the whole Halloween thing! (I don't do it but it feels like everyone else does so hey why not)
i think you guys are the best reactors to this kind of music. you enjoy it and comment and joke around without it seeming fake, overdone or annoying
Wow, I loved the original Swingle Singers, back in the 60’s and had their albums. I’m pleasantly surprised that you know of them, and loved them too. This performance is a masterpiece.
Wow, you’re an OG! I discovered their songs on music sharing apps from the early 2000s and only found out they were Swingle Singers recordings years later! 😄
With the Halloween season coming up, Geoff’s Headless Horseman is great for it! In addition he will have a new Halloween themed song coming up! 👻 VoicePlay also has great Halloween songs, I hope you’ll check their Halloween themed collection as well 😁 I’m always looking forward to new reactions from you!
Geoff's Monster Mash is too fun to miss.
layne used to be a bass too
I was so looking forward to seeing how you two received this song, and I was not disappointed! This was an epic piece of vocal work, and it has been slaying reactors left and right- you guys hung right in there though, and had some great observations, as always. By the time they hit the end, they sound nearly orchestral- how do five voices create such a wall of sound? These guys just keep getting better, somehow. But this has to be Geoff's finest arrangement to date. Simply spectacular!
Geoff Castellucci: Slayer of Reactors 🤣🤣
@@ZhenYaoYin I think it is his 'tone', notes, and his duration, lung capacity, and sonic vibrations that 'slay' them, it scrambles their brains for a while....lol
I love watching your reactions and comments. ... Guy
Thanks Guy! 🥰
When Geoff starts swaying you know what's coming.
"lay to Fiddler's Green "
Lay a course (steer)
Fiddler's Green: an afterlife place for sailers of more than 50 years continuous fiddling and dancing
I absolutely love how much you guys enjoy mysic 😍 its makes me happy and clappy with you!
Geoff goes so low sometimes, it's hell's basement. The devil is afraid to look down there in the dark...
First - loved your reaction! I always look forward to you reviewing VoicePlay.
Second - you took me on a tour of memory lane - big time! You mentioned Sicut Cervus. My college choir did that piece and I’ve always loved it. So after your video ended I followed your link to hear it again.
And it was by John Rutter’s choir! I was lucky enough to attend a master class with him in New York City. I was in a choir that shared billing with his for a concert at Carnegie Hall. They did the Faure Requiem, then we did the Mozart Requiem. We had the director from the Radio Television Orchestra of Moscow and soloists from the Bolshoi. Then his choir joined ours for the Coronation Scene from Boris Gudinov. (For us it was the beginning of a tour that included concerts in Moscow and Leningrad. )
Sorry for the long comment, but you just opened the gates of my memory and it all came spilling out.
Thanks for sharing your experience! I sang Sicut Cervus with my college choir too! Man, a masterclass with John Rutter? That must’ve been mind blowing! And concerts in Russia? Wowwww 🤯
@@ZhenYaoYin yes, it was an amazing experience. I was so lucky to have been invited on the tour, especially since the only singing I was doing then was with a local chorus and a small madrigal group.
How many layers of goosebumps did you get?
Like an onion! 🧅 😂
Like one big bag of them.. :-))
I love your reaction format, adding in commentary on the side while you listen to is a very nice touch. Hope to see more from your channel.
OMG... I just found you, and love you guys! I'm a life-long choir and Chorale geek (going on 50+ years), and sang acapella and Swingle Singers in college. Just subbed for more! (Oh, and Sicut Cervus is one of my favorite choir pieces! )
Yay, thanks for subscribing! I’m glad that my mention of “Sicut Cervus” and brought so many choir peeps into our comments section! 😄
That is definitely a ghost ship crew!! lol
Great reaction #ZHERRIE!!!fantastic song and video!! VoicePlay never disappoints. By the way your family is so beautiful and I’m glad you’re doing reactions so happy 😁
Yay, thanks so much! We’re doing very well 😁
Man, you've got a long neck and a prominent, low larynx. Of course you can hit a C2 in chest voice 😄
LOL I've never thought about it that way! 😆
@@ZhenYaoYin Yeah; it's a not-so-secret technique you can use to recognize basses and bass-baritones in the wild.
Of course, the individual still needs the androgen receptor density and high testosterone for the vocal folds to actually become thick enough but it's still a good heuristic when looking for bass singing potential 😉
Sheet music has been posted by someone on TH-cam.
It’s nice to experience this with you! Great reaction as always!
Loved your commentary and joy listening to this. New subscriber here! 🙂 You both are adorable
"Sheet music!" is the first thing I thought of when I watched this performance.
Hahaha don’t we all want to see it! 🎶
@@ZhenYaoYin i wonder if Geoff does the same as Mozart in the movie Amadeus, on his deathbed, Mozart dictates whole pieces of music to Solieri.
This was a fantastic reaction to a brilliant video.
Thank you for watching! 😍
Eek,
In good way
Love your reactions! I subscribed!
Splendid reactions dears ♥
Subscribing just due to this. You only paused where absolutely necessary, with your notes adding a lot of textural background. I think I have listened to this 50 times and was never sure about Layne holding off on the beatboxing until you verified it. I just keep getting swept up in the production. Just the right level of comments and understandable to us non-choir geeks!
Amazing 😊
It sure is! 🤩
Wow you have a low C. Are you a bass too?
Thanks! But actually I’m just a baritone that can sometimes hit low notes 😅
@@ZhenYaoYin That's cool I'm a tenor that can hit C#2 but try as much as I want I can't hit that C2.