@@ScreamShatter I'm just some guy from Boston that checks in on DCI every decade or so, and loved hearing the Crusaders making 2nd... but their performance didn't hit as hard, and even as a layman I could see 3-ish blatant drops by the CG
@@Boppsta712 Agreed. Crowns performance on Finals was at minimum #2 and was nudging up against BD, IMO. Boston was amazing though. Super proud of them.
It will be a show that will be seen in many ways as ahead of its time, even with today’s standards. Just watch what happens in the activity in 23’ and beyond
We will see. I'm just worried they will adapt the corps ahead of them style in attempt to win. I love Crown for who they are, along with them representing the Carolinas which is my ancestors are from.
@@jerrysink424 I'll take you through, step by step, the reasoning behind why Carolina Crown's show placed fourth, despite incredible talent. You'll learn something about design, and you'll likely take down your post saying the show is "ahead of it's (sic) time." 1) If a show has no depth of subject matter, or no thematic argument, it can't progress throughout the season. A production without thematic purpose is difficult for designers to heighten, even professional designers. The lack of substance squashes any possibility for development. This show had no reference points to any field of knowledge-- literature, music, history, psychology, cabbages or kings. There was rumor of a reference to Ram Dass sort of spiritualism, but that subject was left completely undeveloped in the show. The subject and theme of a show impact the scoresheet categories of Musical and Visual analysis, namely "depth of concept." 2) A "live in the moment" theme attached to the nonsense phrase "Right here, right now", is simply not weighty enough to expand to a ten minute production. The phrase was repeated more than 20 times, to the point of satire. The replacement phrase "Now just own it" was laughably simplistic and uncontextualized. Own what? Own what, right here, right now? Please tell us. Another example, the show began with "I want to swing from the chandelier", but why? Please tell us what the catalyst is for your happiness so that we can be happy too. Without justification, we can't tell why you're smiling, other than to cheerlead, nonsensically. 3) The sculpture was a mystery to the audience. It was completely without context or reference. As the season progressed, color guard members learned how to climb it, and did various gymnastics while hanging from it, but any meaning or purpose of the sculpture was largely missing. No professional production would approve the use of an unexplained stage prop like this. If the point of the show is meaninglessness, how do you heighten that to a complete and satisfying ending? In professional circles, any show about "tuning out" is an example of a negative premise. 4) The notion of audience interaction via cell phone is a good start. The phones reacted to pre-recorded prompts in the show by flashing and vibrating. That's fun and innovative. But what's the purpose? What's the larger meaning? Performers connecting with the audience. Great. And? What about it? What makes the show deeper than an outdoor concert at a food festival? "Let me hear you!" In order for the phone interaction to have substance and depth, there should have been some audience-inspired true improvisational element impacting the show content. That's a true give and take with substance. The truth is that, behind the scenes, this show designers focused on avoiding meaning. No professional production would ever do this. Even Burning Man has features and exhibits that have some artistic thought behind them, high-stakes and emotional. A ten minute show centered around smiling lighthearted cheerleading-type interaction with the crowd predictably paled as the season wore on. Right Here Right Now couldn't compete with shows of substance like BD's timeline of blue pigment in art, Boston's version of Milton's Paradise Lost, or a transformative hallucination in the desert.
@@jesuspectre9883 I’ll keep it simple. The show connected with the audience. It was professional. It was passionate and you could feel the young people emote it and performed it at a high level. You appear to be the extreme opposite of the drum corps dinos. I guess everything has to be spoon fed to you so you get it. Crown staff spoke all year about what this show was about. Both directly and on social media. If you can’t see the connection between the content provided through the staff and what these young people did, then that’s on you. My original comment will stay right where it is. You could have saved yourself a lot of time and said you didn’t like it. Save the writing for a failed novel. I have not the time nor the energy to engage you further. He convinced of his own will is of the same opinion still
The sheer amount of times I have rewatched this is crazy, and I was there for the performance but still want to keep rewatching it lol. Thanks a ton for the upload
This show should have won hands down they had the crowd in it and this has been the best show I’ve seen in along time since phantom regiment, Spartacus show
I would like to defend this show to anyone who argues that this show has no meaning. If anything, this show throws its meaning at you countless times. It says “right here, right now” over and over, and that’s not for no reason. It’s about the present, current moment that the show creates. The audience engagement part is meant to pulls the audience into every moment of the show. It make the audience a participant in the moment. It wants the audience to sit back and bask in the greatness that is the Carolina crown hornline. If you watch the video with the designer of the show, he talks a lot about how they are always moving during the show, and how the prop used throughout the show is meant to be an infinity sign. Essentially what this means, is that the message of the show is “we are amazing right now and we always will be into the future”. This is not dissimilar to blue devils 2017 show which basically said “we have always been amazing as we still are” except this time they are looking to the future. Metamorph was also initially met with dislike from much of the dci community, but it is now seen as one of the better shows on the decade, and I would not be surprised if the same happens with this show.
Excellent show , however Paradise Lost was such an amazing show which is why I feel Boston won the silver and not Crown. Didn’t help Crown that Boston beat Crown with Crown’s old design team and Color guard staff.
I feel like they should do a fan favorite winner. I don’t think they will because I hear it’s politically. Some years the winner has been the best on scoring and not the most enjoyable.
The most damning thing about this show is that after it's finished, you can see Crown's guard stops smiling. It was all an act. Cheerleading at its most meaningless.
@@bdfan4ever Blue Devils' show Tempus Blue was a sprawling production. It attempted to cover the history and migration of the color blue, but ended up being a designer's excuse to string together series random array of tunes, like a jukebox. Peppered throughout the alleged "timeline" (more like a fifth grade book report of the history of the world), are a series of brilliantly played and staged musical numbers, sparkling with the classic BD technique. The designers rightly position themselves on the timeline of important blue themed art, but a few of the signposts they illustrate along the way are frivolous or unexplained, creating an uneven and confusing chronology. Bluecoats' brilliant and cutting edge show Riffs and Revelations brings Brad Mehldau's jazz piece “Taming the Dragon” to life. The wild imagined road rage incident in the desert ends with the realization that even hallucinations can have meaning, real and profound. The unlikely tongue in cheek story has meaning, because we say so, same as our unlikely summer music activity in an empty stadium in the blazing summer has meaning-- because we say so. Boston's version of The Garden of Eden boldly rivals Milton's Paradise Lost. Milton took broad license to adapt the bible myth, so why can't Boston? Luckily, the saccharine version of "What a Wonderful World" was tamed during the season with an added far-off dissonance, and Can't Take My Eyes Off of You too, was darkened considerably. It takes guts to revise the bible-- and guts to stage scenes without a clear explanation, a playful nod to the unexplained nature of the bible itself. A smart and sassy production in need of an editor's pen.
Engaged with fans so well that you can barely hear the horn line at the end. And with the Crowns Brass thats not easy. Good Job Crown.
Their 4th place ranking kills me. I’ve never felt the judges were so wrong before. IMO, this was a contender for first.
@@ScreamShatter I'm just some guy from Boston that checks in on DCI every decade or so, and loved hearing the Crusaders making 2nd... but their performance didn't hit as hard, and even as a layman I could see 3-ish blatant drops by the CG
@@Boppsta712 Agreed. Crowns performance on Finals was at minimum #2 and was nudging up against BD, IMO. Boston was amazing though. Super proud of them.
@@Boppsta712 Drops mean nothing, recovery is everything
@@ScreamShatter What was the show about? Start there.
It will be a show that will be seen in many ways as ahead of its time, even with today’s standards. Just watch what happens in the activity in 23’ and beyond
We will see. I'm just worried they will adapt the corps ahead of them style in attempt to win. I love Crown for who they are, along with them representing the Carolinas which is my ancestors are from.
You don't even know how to spell the word "its." This show was more shallow than a Looney Tunes swimming pool.
@@jesuspectre9883 A simple grammatical error doesn’t make your comments any more true. Let’s compare I.Q.’s….
Dullard
@@jerrysink424 I'll take you through, step by step, the reasoning behind why Carolina Crown's show placed fourth, despite incredible talent. You'll learn something about design, and you'll likely take down your post saying the show is "ahead of it's (sic) time."
1) If a show has no depth of subject matter, or no thematic argument, it can't progress throughout the season. A production without thematic purpose is difficult for designers to heighten, even professional designers. The lack of substance squashes any possibility for development. This show had no reference points to any field of knowledge-- literature, music, history, psychology, cabbages or kings. There was rumor of a reference to Ram Dass sort of spiritualism, but that subject was left completely undeveloped in the show. The subject and theme of a show impact the scoresheet categories of Musical and Visual analysis, namely "depth of concept."
2) A "live in the moment" theme attached to the nonsense phrase "Right here, right now", is simply not weighty enough to expand to a ten minute production. The phrase was repeated more than 20 times, to the point of satire. The replacement phrase "Now just own it" was laughably simplistic and uncontextualized. Own what? Own what, right here, right now? Please tell us. Another example, the show began with "I want to swing from the chandelier", but why? Please tell us what the catalyst is for your happiness so that we can be happy too. Without justification, we can't tell why you're smiling, other than to cheerlead, nonsensically.
3) The sculpture was a mystery to the audience. It was completely without context or reference. As the season progressed, color guard members learned how to climb it, and did various gymnastics while hanging from it, but any meaning or purpose of the sculpture was largely missing. No professional production would approve the use of an unexplained stage prop like this. If the point of the show is meaninglessness, how do you heighten that to a complete and satisfying ending? In professional circles, any show about "tuning out" is an example of a negative premise.
4) The notion of audience interaction via cell phone is a good start. The phones reacted to pre-recorded prompts in the show by flashing and vibrating. That's fun and innovative. But what's the purpose? What's the larger meaning? Performers connecting with the audience. Great. And? What about it? What makes the show deeper than an outdoor concert at a food festival? "Let me hear you!" In order for the phone interaction to have substance and depth, there should have been some audience-inspired true improvisational element impacting the show content. That's a true give and take with substance.
The truth is that, behind the scenes, this show designers focused on avoiding meaning. No professional production would ever do this. Even Burning Man has features and exhibits that have some artistic thought behind them, high-stakes and emotional. A ten minute show centered around smiling lighthearted cheerleading-type interaction with the crowd predictably paled as the season wore on. Right Here Right Now couldn't compete with shows of substance like BD's timeline of blue pigment in art, Boston's version of Milton's Paradise Lost, or a transformative hallucination in the desert.
@@jesuspectre9883
I’ll keep it simple. The show connected with the audience. It was professional. It was passionate and you could feel the young people emote it and performed it at a high level. You appear to be the extreme opposite of the drum corps dinos. I guess everything has to be spoon fed to you so you get it. Crown staff spoke all year about what this show was about. Both directly and on social media. If you can’t see the connection between the content provided through the staff and what these young people did, then that’s on you. My original comment will stay right where it is. You could have saved yourself a lot of time and said you didn’t like it. Save the writing for a failed novel. I have not the time nor the energy to engage you further. He convinced of his own will is of the same opinion still
The sheer amount of times I have rewatched this is crazy, and I was there for the performance but still want to keep rewatching it lol. Thanks a ton for the upload
One of the marching techs at my high school is a contra for Carolina crown and goes to A&M Commerce
Amazing show! By far my favorite in 2022.
neat to see the crowd reaction
Yal have the best 4th place show year after year.
Oh my goodness where did this come from? Beautiful marching, visuals, music, and overall performance.
This is best show of 2022 imo, unfortunate that when I saw them they hadn't put on the closer yet :/
1:05 that chord saved my life
This show should have won hands down they had the crowd in it and this has been the best show I’ve seen in along time since phantom regiment, Spartacus show
I would like to defend this show to anyone who argues that this show has no meaning. If anything, this show throws its meaning at you countless times. It says “right here, right now” over and over, and that’s not for no reason. It’s about the present, current moment that the show creates. The audience engagement part is meant to pulls the audience into every moment of the show. It make the audience a participant in the moment. It wants the audience to sit back and bask in the greatness that is the Carolina crown hornline.
If you watch the video with the designer of the show, he talks a lot about how they are always moving during the show, and how the prop used throughout the show is meant to be an infinity sign. Essentially what this means, is that the message of the show is “we are amazing right now and we always will be into the future”. This is not dissimilar to blue devils 2017 show which basically said “we have always been amazing as we still are” except this time they are looking to the future. Metamorph was also initially met with dislike from much of the dci community, but it is now seen as one of the better shows on the decade, and I would not be surprised if the same happens with this show.
this is like the worst thesis i've ever read regarding a show but go off
Ok
props to the man at 7:18 for his commitment to the live audiophile experience
Good work on the colour grading, it looks so good!
Geeze, I'm hitting replay over and over for the ballad!
Beautiful show!
This is the least crown show ever but now that I see the crowd reaction I love it
Phantom, crown, and blue stars i feel like are the only corps with super difficult drill somewhere in their shows
cadets
Yeah they are the run and gun corps. Yes you must include the Cadets as well.
@@jjh2456 this was before I watched the cadets show and yeah their drill is uhh
does anyone know what they added onto their sabers? the things that look like ribbons?
They were just little strips of fabric taped onto the ends
@@HPOfficeJetProAll-In-One oh okay thank u!! I thoufht it might have had a special name but I guess not thank u sm
Excellent show , however Paradise Lost was such an amazing show which is why I feel Boston won the silver and not Crown. Didn’t help Crown that Boston beat Crown with Crown’s old design team and Color guard staff.
does anybody know the music selections?
preferably the song at 6:17
@@phoenixacidd6206 Benedictus by Karl Jenkins
@@ryangreen9378thank you🥰
what are those things on the guys ears?
i have a crown trupet :)
lucky
What happened to uniforms man....... so sad
I feel like they should do a fan favorite winner. I don’t think they will because I hear it’s politically. Some years the winner has been the best on scoring and not the most enjoyable.
The most damning thing about this show is that after it's finished, you can see Crown's guard stops smiling. It was all an act. Cheerleading at its most meaningless.
Can I get your thoughts on the top three? I love your insight and the way you write!
Bro shut up
@@bdfan4ever Blue Devils' show Tempus Blue was a sprawling production. It attempted to cover the history and migration of the color blue, but ended up being a designer's excuse to string together series random array of tunes, like a jukebox. Peppered throughout the alleged "timeline" (more like a fifth grade book report of the history of the world), are a series of brilliantly played and staged musical numbers, sparkling with the classic BD technique. The designers rightly position themselves on the timeline of important blue themed art, but a few of the signposts they illustrate along the way are frivolous or unexplained, creating an uneven and confusing chronology.
Bluecoats' brilliant and cutting edge show Riffs and Revelations brings Brad Mehldau's jazz piece “Taming the Dragon” to life. The wild imagined road rage incident in the desert ends with the realization that even hallucinations can have meaning, real and profound. The unlikely tongue in cheek story has meaning, because we say so, same as our unlikely summer music activity in an empty stadium in the blazing summer has meaning-- because we say so.
Boston's version of The Garden of Eden boldly rivals Milton's Paradise Lost. Milton took broad license to adapt the bible myth, so why can't Boston? Luckily, the saccharine version of "What a Wonderful World" was tamed during the season with an added far-off dissonance, and Can't Take My Eyes Off of You too, was darkened considerably. It takes guts to revise the bible-- and guts to stage scenes without a clear explanation, a playful nod to the unexplained nature of the bible itself. A smart and sassy production in need of an editor's pen.
@@jesuspectre9883 dude!!! Thank you! You’re the best!
@@jesuspectre9883 you just explained the shows better than the corps did and that's amazing