Pentatonix Sing Off 3rd Performance Reaction (Janis Joplin - Piece Of My Heart)

[@mariethemagnificent2000]

Ben Folds is a musical genius who also is a sometimes a professor and I think he approached his “job” to mentor and give constructive criticism.

[@jayc9345]

Ah, baby-tonix. Nobody ever realizes that the trio is only 19 during this competition until Sara says something in a later critique. Meat'n'Taters were I think 21 or 22.

[@musicfanatic6558]

And this is where they really took Ben's opinion to heart; "I like those groups who bust their ass and take risks'. "Sometimes you miss, but it's real interesting when you nail it".

[@kayecastleman6353]

Ben Folds is a musical savant. His helpful hints to the group are genius, and the comment he made here, about pausing, they take on board and it serves them SO well in future performances. Just wait.... ;-)

[@thechomiji]

Agreed. He gave them some great advice that has served them well over time.

[@quip1765]

10 and 12 are amazing, but 7 always floors me. Can't wait to see your reaction to it.

[@kayecastleman6353]

Me, too! 7 is my guilty pleasure. ;-)

[@amanda13b12]

Thank you for pointing out Mitch doing the drums as well, I've never noticed before! Great reaction

[@kayecastleman6353]

Me, too. Good call.

[@heidifruchtl354]

PTX has an agreement, no egos. They accepted each other for all strengths and help with any weaknesses. The producers told them to choose front man. Scott was the one who pulled the group together, and had the most confidence, having won a competition before and had a record contract previously. Kevin had no singing before he joined the group. He and Avi became roommates after they won and started teaching him how to sing. They discovered that Kevin was a tenor and Mitch took over the lessons. Avi was days away from signing with an opera house when Scott approached him about the sing off with PTX. Scott, Kirstie and Mitch were known as the trio in high school. Ben Folds really did give constructive criticism about the performances and the group took that and just kept improving.

[@gailseatonhumbert9199]

Where did the story about Mitch come from? Please source that because it is not my understanding.

[@deaconbraydon1999]

i know it's pretty randomly asking but do anybody know of a good site to stream newly released series online?

[@declankenzo8730]

@Deacon Braydon I watch on Flixzone. Just search on google for it :)

[@collinabdullah3145]

@Deacon Braydon I would suggest Flixzone. Just search on google for it :)

[@irajonah3108]

@Deacon Braydon i would suggest Flixzone. Just google for it =)

[@larrywt656]

Each week, there was a certain theme that each group had to follow. This was 60s week. This was 2011, so HD still was not available everywhere, thus the 480p. And yes, Scott is 6'4", so he towers over the rest of the group. Scott was never really considered the "lead singer" by the group members, but the producers of the show wanted each group to have a "leader", so Scott got the gig. As the show continued, each member got the chance to take leads in songs. They actually kept Mitch "hidden" until performance 10, then REALLY in 12, at which point he was finally allowed to shine. A fluegelhorn is basically a deeper trumpet. You play it the same way as a trumpet (same fingering for the notes). Ben was the hardest on them during the competition, but at a certain point (you'll know it when you see it) he knew what was happening and no longer had anything negative to say. I won't give any spoilers other than to say it was around performance 5 where the other groups really started to worry...

[@anitav.3295]

while Ben seems the hardest one of the judges, he is never mean. He actually is giving constructive criticism - a thing that is really rare. He tells them what he thinks would have benefitted (the taking it slower) and encourages them to keep taking risks. While it is good to find a thing that is nice to say and praise, to really get better it is necessary to hear what could be improved and that is what Ben provides here and PTX run with it and use it. They really had a steep learning curve just while doing that show. And I never realized that Mitch was doing beatboxing here.

[@beccaHbell]

Mitch seems to have an amazing mimicking ability

[@mmg8823]

Scott is the leader of the band in the sense that he is the workaholic who is always looking for the next thing to do, like recording an EP while in quarantine in 5 different places. He has apparently been driven all of his life. He has said that, when he was 6, he told his parents he was going to sing in places all over the world and, after that, everything he did was focused on making that happen.

[@gailseatonhumbert9199]

Now he is not back then. Then it was Avi as Scott and the rest of them admitted in this interview. Interview who plays Mom & Dad kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6eZgH9-jLqiqZY

[@angiepeterson1282]

@@gailseatonhumbert9199 I know they said Avi was like the Dad of the group, but Scott has always been driven . Watch the interview of the Penta- parents at Pentacon. Scott is the one that wanted to compete in this competition and had to reach out to Kirstie at college and Mitch still in high school and then find Avi and Kevin to put this group together. So , basically, he had this right.

[@gailseatonhumbert9199]

@@angiepeterson1282 no point in arguing with you. Avi was the driving, organizing force in the beginning. There are many interviews where Scott admits that. Kevin and Scott have both said that it was annoying and a touch scary how focused he was first on winning the Sing-Off and later with getting started. That doesn't take anything away from Scott and his major contribution to Pentatonix it just keeps it real.

[@mmg8823]

@@gailseatonhumbert9199 "In the beginning" the only people there were Scott and Ben Bram. But, as you say, there is no point in arguing with you. And I have promised my fellow Pentatholics that I would not so I shall move on.

[@gailseatonhumbert9199]

@@mmg8823 let's see Ben Bram was at the school that Scott had entered as a freshman and he suggested that Scott try out but he had to have a bass and a beatboxer and the bass he knew, Avi Kaplan who had all of those wins at singing competitions under his belt going into the Sing-Off. If you want everyone to believe everything was just Scott okay but it is not reality. Avi and Kevin were needed including their competition expertise it was a team effort and Avi and Kevin were the experienced competitors at that point. In 2008 Avi joined Fermata Nowhere, a group that became the first community college a cappella entrants to win the ICCA. Avi won an award for “Best Rhythm Section.” which the ICCA had changed to allow them to award it to a vocal bass. Avi later joined Singcopation, a jazz ensemble that won the Monterey Jazz Festival Competition in his first year. He had performed at venues worldwide, prior to Pentatonix including New York City's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. was a member of Mt. SAC’s Singcopation champions which won best jazz distinction at the 2010 Monterey Jazz Festival and eight Downbeat best collegiate jazz vocal group awards; Fermata Nowhere’s winning the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella in 2009; and the Chamber Singers and Singcopation’s clean sweep and Grand Prix Award at the American International Choral Festival in 2011. AND KEVIN Kevin Olusola, Pentatonix’s beatboxer, is a Yale graduate (pre-med). He speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, loves classical music, and plays piano, cello, and saxophone. He had performed at Carnegie Hall twice as soloist on the cello and saxophone and has appeared on NPR’s “From The Top.” In 2009, he won second place in an international cello competition hosted by Yo-Yo Ma. In 2011, his “Julie-O” KZbin video was featured by CBS, AOL, Huffington Post and the Washington Post, among others. He was named one of 100 “History Makers in the Making” by TheGrio and was chosen by Quincy Jones to represent him in concert at the 2012 Montreux Jazz Festival alongside Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea.

[@shellyt3946]

From now on Kevin and Avi will be ‘Meat and Potatoes’ to me! Thanks for the laugh and new moniker!

[@jayc9345]

Shawn (one of the judges) actually called them that in a later performance critique; it just became a way we ID them distinctly from the trio

[@heatherhuard]

Yes each performance had its own "theme" and songs had to be picked from a list.

[@luinrina]

I enjoyed your reaction! And yes, the other people in the intro film were the other groups. The Sing-Off had theme weeks. Their second week containing performances 2 and 3 was Current Hits and 1960s favorites. Performance 4 is Guilty Pleasures. I believe they could choose their own songs (not sure though), only performance 12 in the last week before the final show it was Judge's Choice, so the judges assigned them which song they had to do. The Sing-Off required a member to be the leader so to speak. Since Scott at that point had the most confidence, both Mitch and Kirsty still being shy and insecure, Scott was their frontman and sang the most leads, but every member is equal. Apart from that, yes, Scott has the perfect voice for this kind of song. It's perfect again for performance 10. All of them know a little bit about beatboxing. Back at high school when it was still only the Trio both Kirsty and Mitch would do some beatboxing in their arrangements.

[@ashleymiyares6078]

Yeah: the opening 'package' featured all the groups competing that night (half of the groups currently on the show: season 3 started with 2 brackets that merged in the 5th episode; which will be the next video you see in this series, PTX's 4th performance. Yes, the numbers are all very confusing). And yeah, you can see the size of the groups that PTX was up against: by the end of the night, the obly other 5 person group was eliminated, leaving PTX as the smallest remaining group for the rest of the season. Not that it ever held them back, for sure!

[@ashleymiyares6078]

And yes, each performance had it' 'challenge' (sometimes here would be two in one night, like this one). So this episode was the 'Big Hits' challenge, and the '60's' challengr, for example. And the opening package is on this video because PTX went first in this set. I believe this chanel actually uploaded all of the performances from all the groups, but dince sometimes ona two-song night, instead of each group making two intro videos, there'd be one video with everyone at the start of the set, they put it on the video of the first group, if that makes sense.

[@Sate12]

So in light of recent PTX projects a fun fact about next week: They wanted to do Believe (Cher) but couldn't pull it together.

[@arwynOG]

Great reaction! I am really enjoying your PTX stuff. You're catching things that other reactors don't and it's fun to watch. I want to take you up on what you said in the beginning about watching your rap reactions. I do like rap but I don't know very many. My favorites are Snoop Dogg, Logic, Yelawolf (does he count?) and Chali 2na.

[@marcgarrett4401]

The other judge you were thinking of was simon cowell.

[@ashleymiyares6078]

Yeah, but I wouldn't compare Ben to him, necessarily. He'd make technical comments, for sure, but he wasn' overly mean like some judges on other shows would be 'for the drama'.

[@larrywt656]

@@ashleymiyares6078 Agreed. Ben was the hardest judge on them, but he always gave constructive criticism instead of just harsh criticism. The members of Pentatonix all said they were very appreciative of the things he told them and give him a lot of credit for helping them improve throughout the competition.

[@WhatTheBlastt]

"Charlie sheen" I'm an idiot 😂😂😂

[@kayecastleman6353]

Love following you on the Sing-Off journey! Subbed.

[@debhouckscraftycottage9288]

My first favorite from the Sing Off is Episode 7, and then yeah, 10 or 11, etc. Can't wait for you to get to those. Thanks for reacting. I'd help with the rap, but I don't listen to rap. Sorry.

[@milissaleatherwood6837]

Scott is very tall. My ex husband was 6'4" and everyone was so short next to him. Scott is 6'5".

[@janetranslates]

So I was screaming at you for cutting out the introductory stuff--for one thing, you missed some good PTX moments. BUT then you made me SO happy by noticing that Mitch took over the rhythm section when Kevin was playing his flugelhorn solo! Hardly anyone ever talks about that! All of them (except Kirstin, unless she has learned recently) can do some beatboxing but Mitch is generally recognized as being the second-best beatboxer in the band.

[@perfectkismet]

There's actually one video of the Trio in high school where Kirstin is doing the beatboxing.

[@bradclifton5248]

Scott has the most versile voice. Kirsten is close second.

[@thechomiji]

Height: Scott topped out at 6 ft 3, but I'm not sure he was at his max height yet during the show. He may have kept growing a bit after that.

[@bradclifton5248]

Yeah. Over all i found the sound pretty basic for that show but, perhaps, unlike x factor, they want it all to be about the voice.

[@brutalfashion]

I’d watch reactions to rap but I’m a fan of Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, etc. Current R&B/soul artists. Lil Dicky is hilarious too. My husband is into Sprouse. Don’t know much about him.

[@jessegirlb]

I totally disagree that 2nd was the worst.