I ALMOST CRIED!! | Halo Theme - Voiceplay | Acapella Reaction and Analysis
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2021
- Wow! What a truly incredible cover that sent me right back to my personal best nostalgic area. That opening bit took an exceedingly long time to edit, so if you understood the reference, let me know in the comments so I know my work is appreciated!
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The Red Vs Blue inspired intro skit was on point.
RvB was hilarious.
THANK YOU!! I spent way too much time on it, so I’m glad it was appreciated by some
@@officialmortius I loved the way the ties coordinated with the armor color of Grif and Simmons, nice touch
@@officialmortius Sarge: Okay, well let me tell you about my other plan. Using parts from the Warthog-
Grif: (to Tex) I'm hoping you've got a better idea.
Sarge: (under Grif's line) We build what I like to call "the Grif Cannon."
Grif: Hoh man... (Grif starts walking away slowly)
Sarge: Utilizing the power of the Grif Cannon, we make a Grif-sized hole in the outer wall. ...Or we paint it a very disgusting color.
My favorite bit out of the whole series, though it's a very hard job just picking one out. It's SO GOOD
RVB actually reminded me, a lot, of my time in the military!!
Best line in season 1 IMO "Didn't I tell you to stop making up animals?!"
The fact that the original composer saw this and had his jaw dropped is just expanding the legend of Voice Play and Geoff. Eli hits an A5 too in this one, it's definitely a rare piece of music - one of those that will be talked about and analyzed by vocalists / teachers and others alike.
The fact that this cover was dedicated to a former member who had passed away, is absolutely beautiful.
Ikr
He wasn’t a VoicePlay member, he was a friend and frequent collaborator from the production side, but yeah, heartbreakingly beautiful.
Who was it?
Geoff hits a B0 and Eli hits a G5. Doesn't get better than this. Of course, that's what I said when they did Hoist the Colours too. LOL Scott was the original beatboxer with VoicePlay so the red team/blue team was going to happen in there somewhere.
Just for those that happened to not understand the intro and don't wanna read through all of the comments, the bit at the beginning was the original opening to red vs blue, an ancient web series by rooster teeth. It... was... the absolute best opening for this reaction!
I do believe this song may have broken Mortius. Great reaction sir!
It most certainly did!
Voiceplay breaks most reactors! 😂🤣😂
Having never played Halo, I'm perfectly fine with the dubstep section. I actually cried. So freaking amazing.
Martin O'Donnell himself commented on the guys' video that he loved it, so I guess if the original composer wasn't bothered by the dubstep section... 🤷🏻♀️
Oh no way!! That’s so cool, I’ll have to find that. And I wasn’t *bothered* by it, per se, it just felt a little tonally dissonant from what I had been experiencing before it. But I still loved it :)
@@officialmortius He actually did a breakdown with The Charismatic Voice on her RUclips channel.
@@biljay8489 Was looking for this comment, as that was a good reaction
@@officialmortius I'm sorry to be a year late to the party, but it was so good that the official RUclips channel for Halo commented on it saying it was amazing.
Loved your reaction. The Voiceplay outro will get an emotional response and ties it all together.
Such a fantastic tribute to a lost friend.
It's a shame he didn't let it play out & react to it.
Love to point out that they actually added a blue light source to shine onto Scott during recording of the plasma grenade bit.
This is clearly the best and most emotional and heart-touching reaction to this video that may ever exist on this platform.
I was with you all along with the excitement and the heart-overfilling nostalgia. Thank you for this!
OH MY GOSH!! Take me back to secondary school with that bit. I love it! I now want to go back and rewatch all of Red vs. Blue...
Glad you noticed the tribute and are going to watch it.
Loved your reaction to this! As someone with no connection or experience with Halo, it was so lovely to watch your excitement and joy.
Love it because I played on my PC, and it's a wonderful tribute to their friend. You need to see Geoff's The Monster Mash.
Nobody does a cover song better than Voice Play does. Thank you for another great reaction to Voice Play.
So much joy from vocals without lyrics, amazing.
Loved your reaction! Geoff hitting the B0 and Ceaser doing overtones was AMAZING! I don't play Halo, but I loved this and their tribute to their fallen brother. Love your reaction as always! It was fun seeing you lost for words haha!
Video very reminiscent of the dance of the sugar plum fairy by ptx, back in the day
BTW -- the first subharmonic is an E1, followed by a B0!
14:52 that, right there, is the face of a man who has seen God
I love this video very much and I’m never been a gamer so I don’t know the music from the game. I can say that Scott was perfect to record this video! He’s so talented! There was a lot going on in the video that it takes a couple or a few views to catch it all. Mortius, I really enjoyed seeing how much you loved this and how excited you got when you were watching! I share your enthusiasm for the talent of these five men who astound us all! I really do hope you watch the end of the video because there’s a story behind why they decided to do it. I remember Scott being in Voice Play’s cover collaboration of “Just Sing”.
Your reaction almost made me wish I had been into video games “back I the day”. I loved this version, and thank you for some of the point outs that I would have missed.
Honestly... I'm just enjoying the living daylights out of how blown away by it you are. It's one of the reasons that I enjoy watching your reactions - your joy in the music. The dedication at the end choked my wife and me up so hard when we watched it in the car with our girls. It was just... brutal for us to hear that story.
Thank you, that was a beautiful reaction. Voice Play does the best version ever of Halo.
Please listen to the rest of the video. The tribute is amazing
This one is one of their most vocally impressive arrangements… just stellar talent.
And the video editing… 🤯🤯🤯
Was drinking tea while you commented they kill you, so I struggled on my side 😂
We survived 👍🏻
top 10 things that make you spaz and go "eeeeeeee"
Ha! How am I only just now seeing this video of yours? Those tie colors matching the RvB characters of Grif and Simmons was excellent! I'm sorry to say that I nerded out and still to this day know the Blood Gulch Chronicles verbatim. 🤐 You and about 2 or 3 others that do reactions are my favorite go-tos, I'm glad to finally see (2 years later) your Halo reaction.
As for the visualization of memory that's associated with specific music, I am there too! Specific songs and stuff that I listened to as a kid are in immediate recall when I hear those songs.
This one is super nostalgic for me too. Not as a gamer (I literally only played this game once, and I died in less than five minutes. My brother threw an X-Box controller at me and expected a Gameboy Color player to know what to do with it.), but because the tv and game console was right outside my bedroom, so I fell asleep hearing this theme most nights all through middle school and high school as my brother and dad played this almost nightly. I used to be able to identify which game in the series and their kills (Elite, grunt, etc) by sound alone.
Your enthusiasm was very silly. But it was also adorable and relatable.
Absolutely loved how it seemed to transport you back to your childhood! So happy it brought back good memories for you! ♥
when you were talking about getting visual replacement from the audio cues; i get that. sometimes, when i'm at work i can listen to my ipod, and a song will come on and i'll be counting stuff out at work but somehow not be doing that consciously, because my eyes are no longer being seen with my conscious brain, but i still have a number after the song ends and i come back into the room at work and if i double-check my counting i somehow have the correct number. it's nuts. but, yeah, anyway, songs take me places too (also smells, but only for, like, a couple seconds).
also, never be ashamed of showing how into something you are, it's awesome. i'm not into halo, i've never played it, or even seen a playthrough of it i don't think. i don't actually know what it's about. but, i love this song just as much as songs they've done which i liked even before their version. and seeing how into it you are is inspiring and cool, like you even brought your ties into it, that's amazing!
you're making me smile so hard rn
I love how they kept to the original at the end but the middle dubstep bit reminds me of Reach and ODST's combat fills paying homage to the whole series not just the Original three games
The RvB skit at the beginning was gold! Excuse me while I lose the next week and a half rewatching the entire series.
I absolutely understand about music transporting you to a different time and place. I barely listened to the beginning of their If I Were a Rich Man before I was transported to a theater in Atlanta, listening to Leonard Nimoy sing that song as Tevye. I could tell that Halo meant a lot to you and loved your reaction. (I wish you would also share your reaction to the outro.)
I admit I hadn't had my morning cup of coffee so everything was blurry. I first read you were transported to the Star Trek Enterprise! (omg how embarrassing).
You got to see Leonard Nimoy as Tevye? So jealous! Did you know he fluffed his first audition and after actually learning what Fiddler on the Roof was about, he earned a second audition and landed the role after he told the casting director how it was just like his family's story?
@@maskedmallard537 I hadn’t heard that. Before the show I couldn’t see how a skinny Tevye would work. And I was so used to seeing Nimoy as Spock, I was afraid that was all I could see. But from the second he took the stage, he WAS Tevya
Your channel brings me joy. Thank you.
I love how they start out "pure" for these gamer/pop culture songs, then take us on a whole new adventure with these beloved "characters", then they bring us back full circle to the "pure" original songs.
The harmonies here remind me of some pieces performed by Benedictine Monks. It then descends through the ages back into the Bronze age and prior to when it these vocals would have been connecting us to the stories of our ancestors. Love it and I love your reaction, the joy and energy coming from you is palpable. :)
Your enthusiasm was so infectious I was freaking out right along with you even though I've never played Halo
That is such a wildly flattering comment, thank you 💙
I so love your reaction to this, it’s the best I’ve seen!
My first video of yours that I have watched. I love your enthusiasm and your ability to completely nerd-out, without reservation. Please keep doing what you're doing! It's great!
music can take you to incredible places! i remember playing a concert on the norfolk broads (uk) just as the sun was setting, and the MD asked for "the day thou gave'st, lord is ended" hymn tune. every time i hear that i am instantly transported back there. visually, emotionally, and almost physically. music is such a powerful thing, and those that create it in this way deserve huge respect.
10:45 Mortius starts losing his mind. I'm tempted to say it didn't stop til the end... it definitely picked back up again at 12:31. He also nearly choked to death on what is apparently the awesomeness of the editing at 13:40. I appreciate the honesty in the reaction. I saw this and immediately I too went to my "I'm 16, sitting on the couch with my friends, not a care in the world, playing HALO" place. It was glorious. I weighed half what I do now, and I didn't have any bills to pay. Best time.
It's great you watched. However, you missed the commentary for which I think you would have enjoyed knowing you were among other Halo fans (VoicePlay).
It's such a great tribute to one of their own (Rek Dunn). It also shows pictures of him with Scott & Voiceplay on tour. It explains why they did it & were very familiar with the theme. Possibly add an edit once you listen to the commentary?
Scott is one of the founding members. Yes he was the original beat boxer which showed in the 'red team/blue team' section, that was him & Layne. In fact. Layne had to learn to cover his spot.
His main focus now is acting. He was in Friday Night Lights, The Good Wife, Hart of Dixie, Scorpion & Lucifer along with movies, episodic TV (Law & Order among others) as well having done voiceovers for multiple video games.
I’ve listened to 4/5 reactions of that track by now and I’ve enjoyed yours the most. I was never a Halo player but your enthusiasm and love for it was just so genuine that it made your reaction video absolutely fantastic. Thanks for a lovely moment.
Oh my gosh, I've never seen you so excited before! 🤣🤣🤣. They did such a fantastic job, as always!! 🤯
But it's not fair that you didn't listen to the outro here. They have it there for a reason, it's a main part of their video, and it feels like you just chopped it out 😢
Ready for Halloween? Please check Geoff's latest solo, the Monster Mash, it's a real graveyard smash! 🙏🔥👻😍
This has to be hands down the best reaction to this video. You made me laugh throughout the whole thing. I love ur tie knots tutorial plz. Well u have a subscriber for life here.... keep up the great work
Don't feel bad about freaking out and vibing. Trust me, we all had nerdgasms when listening to this cover.😂
Yeah, I get ya on songs almost literally taking you back. When I hear Journey’s Open Arms it takes me back to 18 years of age and an ice rink I used to skate at. I can literally smell the ice. It had a unique smell. 😊
Not a Halo player, but loved watching one react with such glee to this beautifully done video.
Best reaction ive seen so far, props to you good sir
I think this is hands down my favorite reaction video of anything ever 😂 truly joyful
"Red team, go!" . . . Aannndd, Mortius loses his shit! I love it! That was the moment in your reaction that I was waiting for. I was never a Halo player, but I love what VoicePlay and Geoff do with any and all songs they get their hands on.
I so enjoy your reaction videos, keep up the good work, you have such good energy. I also enjoy your analysis and breakdown, it's quite informative and easy to understand for the layperson. I'm looking forward to your post about the outro, maybe a good thing to have them separate.
I can't wait to see your reaction to Geoff's Monster Mash, and the next thing VoicePlay is sending out soon (It's Awesome)! Best to you and yours!
I just got a set of headphones - not great but much better than the ear buds. I know you are familiar with Elizabeth of The Charismatic Voice. She did a reaction/analysis of this and her guest is Marty O'Donnell the composer of Halo. They covered a lot of territory and I thought you might be interested!
I've been eagerly awaiting this reaction since I saw you in the chat at the premiere :)
You are such a great person to watch. I just love your personality and your reactions and knowledge much love from the netherlands ♥
I legit cried because of how genuinely happy you were. Your happiness made me so emotional
Geoffs E1-B0s are insane 🤯
Your video's always make me smile, such pure joy in your reaction. I think this really brought us all back to younger years watching red vs. blue and it's insane how much of an impact a game can have in the social fabric of a generation. The only thing I was disappointed by though was you seemed to miss Caesars overtone singing at 1:10 (time marker is refering to original VoicePlay video), it's layered just before that amazing high note from Ely but only one reactor that I've seen so far has commented on it. Don't get me wrong, I fangirl over Geoff every time (that B0 was INSANE) and Ely has been doing some amazing things on the high end but, Caesar I think really outdid him self here and I love that the group now has both subharmonics and overtone. I can see them doing some really unique stuff and they have definitely stepped things up to another level in the last couple of months.
Hehe red vs blue dialog, nice
This video is just EPIC and so beautiful. I can see you love it to...Oh dear, breathe, remember to breathe!
At least ya caught the outro. ive seen many other reactors ignore it or not know its there. Thats a disservice. I wish you'd included it for those who have not seen it.
Would love to see this side of yours more often. I can feel, days between and miles away from us that this means a lot to you. I bow to thee, sir.
One of your most entertaining reactions ever.
I've never played Halo, but knew the music well enough that a lot of this was familiar. It's a good cover.
There's always something about your first video game that just stays with you forever (mine was Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy 12).
Sound is one of those things that can help with recall better than other sense, so it makes sense that when you're hearing certain music, it immediately takes you back.
Watch the charismatic voice of this with the person who actually wrote this. Very illuminating.
Subbed instantly for the RvB reference, stayed for the awesome reaction
I love watching your reaction videos. Thank you.
I love your new tie knot! That’s awesome! Are you going to do a tutorial on tie knots sometime?
I think I will! There are lots of tutorials out there for most knots I’ve used, so I need to figure out a way to make mine unique and not just copycats of other videos. But once I figure out how to do that, I definitely think that would be a fun addition to my content :)
@@officialmortius I'd definitely like to see how you made that knot.
My best friend used to play Halo after school when we were in 6th grade.
That song hits right into nostalgia.
I love your reaction, felt the same :)
It’s so fun when you love a bit in a song! LOL. So I’m guessing the outro made you cry (it did me)?
And dude, the tie! Great knot. I’m going to find a really tricky one and double-dog-dare you to do it. 😉
I believe Bungie and Microsoft needs to include this in their packages.....holy shitballs this is sooooo damn cool.
Your nerd really came out on this one -- I love it!!
Too bad you didn't play the last section which gives so much info about the group and an outstading bit concerning their loss of Rek at such an early age. I suggest that anyone wanting to see that, go to VoicePlays' actual video and watch the whole thing. It's well worth the time! 😎
This is a tribute and not meant to be an exact copy of halo. This is a tribute to a fallen friend and is amazing. But I love your reaction to this.
Love the intro! 😁
Omfg that was insanely good
That was fun. Thanks for your reaction ;
Oh my goodness! Red vs. Blue! My brother used to make us girl watch those videos!
12:34 "I don't know what to do with my hands!" :P
Hit play it pays homage to halo and former member to voice play who passed away not long ago
I think that, when he is in an emotional state to do so, he could comment on his own personal experience with Halo. Just because it seems to be so close to the heart of some viewers.
Thanks for being you.
i know what you mean about being "transported" to a different time and place. i was fortunate enough to play a gig (brass band) on the norfolk broads, and just as the sun was setting, the conductor called for "the day thou gavest lord is ended". i can never hear that piece again without "seeing" the norfolk broads at sunset.
That sounds like an amazing experience. I just listened to this song while googling a few images to have a weak imitation what you experienced back then.
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Loved the red Vs blue skit. Started rewatching it recently on Rooster Teeth.
B0...... Lowest note ever made by Geoff... And the lowest note I've ever heard in my life
Sees the intro
Church: Wait, that's illegal
The Halo knot is awesome!
I do have to say, that is quite the impressive Tie knot you have there. ^u^
Just gonna say, the original composer gushed over this arrangement.
Love your tie knot.
I just don't know why people don't watch and react till the end... 😭😭😭
The reaction to the outro would have been gold!! Especially from a big Halo fan like yourself!!
7:10 FELT THAT
Sensory overload!!!
Loved your reaction. ❤️❤️ Have you seen them do the chicken song or Roadtrip? They're fun!
Happy New Year 🥳🥂
PS I would like to see you see the outro. It's a huge part of the song.
I did road trip recently on the channel! Chicken song is still on the list for the future though :)
I believe Eli is hitting an A5
11:00 Mortius loses his mind…
I think you enjoyed this. :) Do watch the remainder as it explains their reasons for making it. Oh, I love your tie know too. :)