WHAT A PERFECT COVER!!!!!!!!!! Blind reaction to Pentatonix - Imagine
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The signs showed what each of them shared with the next person as well as their diversity.
Imagine is not by the Beatles. But by John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band, a year after the Beatles broke up.
This is one of my favorite “wall of sound” moments! Although they all have extraordinary ranges, when asked who has the highest note, they will tell you, “Kevin.” 😊 You really need to see the VEVO studio live version of their “Kiss From A Rose” (Seal) cover.
Definitely! Or more Pentatonix, in general 🙏🏻
@@judithL3100 Mary Did You Know and Amazing Grace both also feature Kevin in angel mode.
An interviewer once asked them who could sing the highest note, and looked between Kirstie and Mitch... but all of them immediately pointed at Kevin.
Remember, PTX doesn't do covers... They do upgrades!!!
2:29 🤣 When someone asks Mitch and Kirstin which of them has the higher voice, they look at each other, shrug, and say, "Maybe Kevin?"
Among pentaholics, Kevin is known for the beauty of his falsetto. Even when he IS beatboxing, a lot of the high bell tones Pentatonix uses are actually coming from Kevin. You can find Kevin's personal channel here: youtube.com/@kolusola I particularly recommend his KOver of "Down." Also, check him out in "Kiss From A Rose" (preferably the live Vevo performance), from PTX's latest album, "Greatest Christmas Hits."
Thank you so much for the reaction. One thing that I love about this video is not only do they identify themselves through the labels, they pass the labels when the labels match both people.
It frequently makes me cry.
every...single...time... for me...not bawling like the first time i saw it but literal tears in my eyes
This makes me tear up every time I hear it! The "wall of sound " moment, them showing that we can all be doing different things but that it all comes together in one beautiful harmony, is simply genius! Every time I see a reaction and watch the reactors realize what the signs are doing makes me cry?
I love the way you expressed that very central theme to the song
Yup! DJ picked up on it early. I've seen plenty not realize what's up until Kirstin's two signs - LATINA and WOMAN - which, within the group, are unique to her. And then people go "Ohhhh!"
I'm a Beatles purist/fanatic and I don't like when other artists do their songs but Pentatonix has done the impossible again. First there was their fantastic Bohemian Rhapsody and now this incredible cover that brought tears to my eyes.
"I'm a Beatles purist/fanatic" who doesn't know this is not a Beatles song?
Their "wall of sound" in this one gets me every time!
This is an emotionally moving version.
Scott was particulaly nervous because this was his first public declaration that he was gay.
Welcome to the PTX Wall of Sound.
It was also the day they filmed this video that he first met Mark at a friend’s birthday party that he stopped in at after filming was finished. They officially started dating about 4 months later. Quite a memorable day for him!
@@slhoog8164Really? I didn't know that. Thanks!
I did not know that. Nor the other comment that this was the day he met mark. Thank you very much for the information
@@margretrosenberg420 Yes, Scott has talked about it in several interviews, the one that I recall off the top of my head was with Andrew Stillman shortly after the Parallel EP was released last year. That interview is available on YT.
@@slhoog8164 I'll look for it, and thanks again.
It is showing how they want to be identified.
Avi is strongly proud to be Jewish though he had been horribly ridiculed for it.
What a wonderful version of this song. I enjoyed those big notes that PTX are so so good at. This was such a vibe...!
Thank you Katie for this wonderful choice!
Thank you DJ for another great reaction #HerdLove
Imagine by Pentatonix may be one of the most important videos of this century. This group took a classic, timeless song of tolerance and peace and modernized it as only they can. They are a perfect example of what respect and love can be like. Five people with differences in race, religion, gender, and sexuality can do beautiful things when they work together. I cried when I saw and heard this the first time. I still usually tear up when they go into Wall of Sound mode.
I love when a reactor actually gets the meaning of the song, and the message that Pentatonix elevated. Makes me happy to be a subscriber.
100% agree
This is proof positive that they do upgrades. It's better than the original
Broke out the kleenex as usual.
Thanks for the reaction. Please react to their newest videos
Kiss from a Rose
Oh Holy Night, 2023 Version
Pure Imagination/Christmas Time us Here
We like to say that #Pentatonix doesn't do covers, they do upgrades, and for the most part it's true. But how do you upgrade a song that's already perfect? Well, if you're Pentatonix you look for a way to make that song more itself. In the case of "Imagine" Pentatonix treats the song and the song's writer with the utmost respect, and engages in a dialogue.
John Lennon saw that things like religion and nationality divide us, so he suggested that we get rid of those things. But Pentatonix sees that it isn't possible to get rid of religions and nations, so they propose another solution. You see, the real problem is something much deeper than religion, or nationality, or even money. The real problem is the human tendency to reject people who are different. So Pentatonix looks for ways around that problem, and then they show us how a healthy community deals with differences.
First Pentatonix looks for and finds the things they share with each other, the ways they're alike. And in the process they also find the things that make them individuals. And because they've already found the things that draw them together they can not only accept their differences but celebrate them. Doing that, looking at differences clearly and with love, gives them greater insight. It makes them a stronger, wiser, more compassionate community, and they all benefit from their diversity. Instead of dividing them diversity draws them together, until they can look at everyone and see the one thing that we all share - we're all human. And this means that when they meet someone who is very different indeed, in ways that otherwise might seem bizarre or dangerous, they can still see that fundamental truth, that we're all human, and we're all in this together.
Unlike everyone in Pentatonix, I'm old enough to have heard John sing "Imagine" live. And that means I'm old enough to have the evening news from December 8th, 1980 seared on my memory: John Lennon, dead. Killed by an assassin who ambushed him when he was coming home after an evening out with his wife, Yoko. For those of us who remember that night, the grief and shock remain as strong now as they were over 43 years ago.
John had only 40 years on this planet. We have no way to know what else he would have given us if he'd been able to live out his full life; all we know is what he DID give us, his perfect anthem, "Imagine." I wish he'd been able to see this video. It would have made him so proud.
I have reread your comment and pour it over for about 15 minutes and I am still Blown Away. The way that you approached dissecting the video reads like a dissertation and I mean that in the best possible way. You examined the song and the video from every single perspective . I'm a fairly well-spoken educated individual but have problems putting how I feel about this song into words and I no longer have to because you did it for me. Your comment about Pentatonix making the song More itself is how you perfect a perfect song is sheer brilliance. Absolute brilliance. My friends don't understand why I watch reaction videos but it is for comments like yours.
@@lesaahrenstein6360 I couldnt agree more with you...i feel the exact same
@@lesaahrenstein6360 I was late to the Pentatonix party; I first discovered them in September of 2022, about 7 months after my husband killed himself. They've helped me make it through some really tough times.
Also, I've loved "Imagine" ever since I first heard John sing it. In fact, in my church we sing it as a hymn. So when I first saw Pentatonix's version, and realized that it IS, in fact, an upgrade, without in any way dissing John, I was highly motivated to figure out how it could be both respectful and an upgrade. And the answer to that question is both immensely simple and pure genius on the part of Pentatonix.
And it does my old heart good to see this kind of wisdom coming from young people. Given the release date for "Imagine," Mitch must have been 24, and I believe Kirstin and Scott were 25. Even Kevin, the oldest member of PTX, was only 28. It gives me hope for the future whenever I see young people leading the way with love and kindness.
If you want a truly amazing version of this song, have a listen to Chris Kläfford's version... I promise you it'll blow your mind...
Imagine wasn't by the Beatles. It was by John Lennon.
This is one of my favorites by Pentatonix, especially the video. This group is a perfect example of what can be accomplished when people embrace diversity and acceptance rather than clinging to bigotry and hate. The world is a better place because these five different, unique people came together to create their art. Imagine what we could do, create, accomplish, if only we could all accept each other and work together ...
The cards show what each of them have in common ☺️
Loved your reaction. We may all feel different but we are all human with the same feelings, love and emotions.
Thanks DJ 😊
Who needs Phil Spectors wall of sound from the 60s, PTX😊 IS 🔥
Just to clarify, Imagine is not a Beatles song. This is a song by John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band. Still, great job by Pentatonix! Amazing!
Aaand that's another of my top three PTX! Thank you Katie! Great sound, great video, great message - what more could you ask for?
This was the first video to pop up on my screen and I was so excited. Your analogy to the signs being the boxes that we check I found very interesting and appropriate I had not thought of that before. But at that point I don't think you had realized they were each talking about the boxes they would check themselves, that they were holding up boxes randomly. But when you pause the next time I heard you say that you did in fact realize it was what they were saying about themselves. I really thought that the harmony section would break you and I choked when you stopped it. But you went back and I truly appreciate that. I love that you said each one of them deserved a fan for their portion in the wall of sound. Hands down this is my favorite Pentatonix video of them all. As someone mentions in a comment further down how do you upgrade a song that's already perfect? You make the song more itself and I love how she expresses that sentiment. Pentatonix takes a song that was written 53 years ago and updates the message and delivers it in a manner appropriate to the times. That being in this day and age we have very short attention spans so briefly flashing something on a card is the best way to communicate. What saddens me about the entire thing is that I believe in another 53 years the song will still be just as appropriate as is now and as it was 53 years ago.
Now more than ever the world needs to see this video!!! It doesnt matter the color of your skin, your background, or anything we all are HUMAN and put on this earth to accept and love everyone
You just got hit with the Pentatonix wall of sound :)
It’s testimony to our times that such a diverse group has come together to bless this world with their music without us knowing they are so diverse. I certainly didn’t pick up on it when I first heard them a few years back and they remain on my song list.
I imagine a world where we all understand it’s our differences that bring us together, not our likeness. How bored I would be if I only lived in the cocoon of like me. We are all the same at the end of the day whether we are gay, straight, curly, white, black or blue, (just threw that one in, had I been asked I would have picked blue). We don’t get asked who we want to be, we just are!
Please be kind people
I wish they didn't make it cover it due to copyright. I love the video REN did thanking all reactors for playing his videos out there and helping him spread his music. Saying that I saw this about a hundred times and cried every time. Now I even though it i partially covered just hearing them singing this is already making me tear up and I will probably cry.
A lot of times the art of Pentatonix videos is how simple they make them. This stage was pretty empty so it would keep the focus on the singers. They always dress amazing, and they have very few props. They sung Lennon’s words with modern slanted videography.
They did an interrview a few yrs ago while on tour in Europe and were asked who could sing the highest. They all looked at each other and the interviewer was expecting Mitch or Kirstie, EVERYONE pointed to Kevin...
The Wall of Sound blows you away, doesn’t it???
Whatever is on the sign when it's passed to a new person is something that is true about both the person passing the sign and the person receiving the sign. They are defining both the ways they're the same and the ways they differ from one another.
That sign is the reason I never recommend live performances of "Imagine." The live performances are just as good musically, but there's no way to include the sign live; the writing on it has to have been done in post-production.
Post-production? I just assumed they switched signs off camera before flipping them to show a new word.
@@DennisKovacich I had to go back and watch the original again to be sure, but I think you're right. There's a strategic cut every place that it's necessary for that technique to work, and we already know that Pentatonix is fond of low-tech special effects (think the flashlights in "Bohemian Rhapsody," or them learning to mouth words backwards so the petals can fall upwards in "Run To You"). Thanks for pointing that out.
@@margretrosenberg420, you’re welcome. As a programmer, I try not to overthink things. What’s the simplest way to get something done? Imagine trying to draw those words on each frame so the letters are in the right places while being flipped.
@@DennisKovacich I'm also a programmer, but it's been some time since I did so professionally. My thought wasn't that someone wrote a program specifically to do this, but that the program already exists, something used by cartoonists, say, or the folks who do title sequences for movies. I've played around a little with ray-tracing in the past; it seems like it could be adapted fairly easily for something like this. (Cool stuff, but probably not the best place to geek out over it.)
@@margretrosenberg420, yeah, my professional programming was the entire ‘80s in AppleSoft BASIC. I’d barely even heard of ray tracing, let alone trying to do it.
That wall of sound they create is so emotional in this song. Thanks. You should do their version of " My Heart With You".
They sang different notes at different times during the wall of sound, but as they showed they are all human, they sang in unison.
I never quite noticed that. I knew that it was in harmony but I like it so much more the way you said it. Thank you
Thank you so much for this. We Pentaholics appreciate you. Greetings from South Africa
Listen to Defying Gravity
If you want to hear Kevin's best highs, listen to Amazing Grace (My chains are gone)!!!!!!!
they are sharing how they identify and what they have in common.... :)
Pretty sure they could sing Jingle Bells, The Monster Mash or Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer & could make a tear come to your eye.
FYI “Imagine” was a solo project from John Lennon.
Recommend their live performance video of Kiss From A Rose.
"Taking any one of those things away would take part of what it means to be human." SO WELL SAID! Thank you for that. On a lighter note, Scott loves his jackets! He has an amazing selection of them.
I love them. Can't get enough. I am sad though that you said something about each individual as they were singing except for Kirsty. My girl gets so little love, so little personal call outs and her voice has such clarity and is so beautiful. Glad you like them.
You stopped the music at the most inappropriate time. You should have let their crescendo finish at the end, before stopping. Ruined it for us afficionados who live for that moment.
Imagine is John Lennon, not the Beatles.
I have seen this a hundred times and always tear up on the last sign.
Geoff Castellucci is releasing his new video today, May 10th at noon est.. It is a fantastic oldie but goodie very updated with him and his clones.
You Don't Mess Around With Jim.
This rendition is absolutely stunning and the message of the song is emphasised by the video #loveit
…and speaking of vocal flippedidoodahs (or whatever you said 😂) check out this version: Chris Kläfford - Imagine - Original AGT audition. There’s some unexpected moments in that
John Lennon wrote Imagine after the Beatles broke up. It fits appeared on a solo album.
Judaism is my religion and my ethnicity is Jewish. It is possible to be a Jewish atheist. Yes Avi Kaplan is Jewish. Avi is the diminutive of Avraham. People with the last name of Cohen and Kaplan are descendants of the Temple priests.
This is one of my favorite PTX songs. The lyrics are just spot on (thank you, John Lennon) and the signs the group members held up cemented them. I think this is better than John's original.
Avi started to teach Kevin but when they started he handed it over to Mitch as he is better up there. I have herd them say Kevin has highest note but Mitch is better at words in that range.
Love this version but can you react to home free from here to the moon and back it's a beautiful song
This is a complete masterpiece. I’ve heard it so many times, and I get full body chills every single time during their “wall of sound”. Beautiful reaction 😊. Kiss From a Rose (live Vevo version) next.
Considering the world today, this performance is more important than ever. 🫶🏻
PTX's live at Vevo studio session featuring 'Seal's 'Kiss From A Rose' and their beautiful mash up of 'Christmas Time Is Here'/ Pure Imagination will blow you away !
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS he has to do "Kiss from a Rose"!!!!
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This is my favorite of their videos. Not my favorite of their SONGS, but my favorite of their videos. Just...what they did with it with the signs...it's moving and emotional and perfect.
Actually, "Imagine" is a John Lennon song, not a Beatles song. It's easy to get confused because John was such an integral part of The Beatles, but John wrote this after they split up.
Each sign tied into each person, Scott and Mitch's queer identity, Avi's Jewish Heritage, Kevin's Christian background, what brings them together and separates them. And ties into the final scene of the video.
They couldn't have done this any more perfectly, in my opinion. Still gets me everytime.
EVERY TIME I see this u tear up at the end. I love when Kevin sings, he is so talented in every possible aspect of music
It doesn’t matter how many times I listen to the “wall of sound “ I get full body chills every time ❤❤
I just don't understand how people can stop right in the middle of the climax. You're obviously not really listening.