{"id":8486,"date":"2013-02-19T13:53:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/?p=8486"},"modified":"2013-02-19T14:56:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T19:56:34","slug":"live-show-review-a-capella-innovators-pentatonix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/02\/live-show-review-a-capella-innovators-pentatonix.html","title":{"rendered":"Live Show Review &#8211; A Capella Innovators Pentatonix"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe title=\"We Are Young - Pentatonix (Fun Cover)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mn3Zkq9PP_Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been following music at Beliefnet for awhile then you know that I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Entertainment\/Music\/Faith-Innovation-and-Cello-Beat-Boxing-An-Interview-with-Kevin-Olusola-of-Pentatonix.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">think an awful lot<\/a> of a capella pop group Pentatonix. Since winning NBC&#8217;s The Sing-Off with their impressive take on a capella pop the group has gone on to prove that they have what it takes to bring a capella to the mainstream. They have racked up fans by the truckload with two great EPs and numerous YouTube covers of popular songs. Last night I was finally able to experience the group live in Silver Spring, MD and man do I have a lot to say about it.<\/p>\n<p>PTX has made its mark by applying vocal acrobatics and intense arrangements to otherwise simple pop songs, and these arrangements shined live. &#8220;Starships&#8221; and &#8220;Thrift Shop&#8221; were the best of the lot with bassist Avi Kaplan shining on the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis hit. While the covers were great fun and a staple of any a capella performance, the show really hit its best notes when the band veered away from that comfort zone. Those highlights included a five-part a capella song that beat boxer Kevin Olusola and bassist Avi created by splitting the audience into three sections. It was a really cool experience, but not quite as cool as Kevin beat-boxing and playing cello at the same time. He was discovered for this talent and it was great fun to see it incorporated into the set.<\/p>\n<p>For this fan though, the most exciting part of the night were the original songs. If Pentatonix wants to transition from a great a capella group to a great group period, they are going to have to put out more killer original songs. Well, they are well on their way. If audience reaction is telling, they won&#8217;t have any problem getting people on board either. &#8220;The Baddest Girl&#8221; from their first EP got one of the biggest reactions of the night with Avi&#8217;s new track &#8220;The Peaceful War&#8221; being one of the songs I heard people discussing on my way out. Release that song guys, people love it!<\/p>\n<p>All in all this current iteration of the Pentatonix show is an amazing hour and a half of entertainment. It&#8217;s good clean fun, and you will see some of the craziest vocal acrobatics you will see. The surprisingly diverse audience had a great time from start to finish. The most exciting \u00a0though, is that the best is definitely to come for this group. They are incredibly talented, great showmen\/women, and genuine people to boot. Pentatonix is easy to cheer for, and I&#8217;m planning to do just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following music at Beliefnet for awhile then you know that I think an awful lot of a capella pop group Pentatonix. Since winning NBC&#8217;s The Sing-Off with their impressive take on a capella pop the group has gone on to prove that they have what it takes to bring a capella to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2084,2086,2085],"class_list":["post-8486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-pentatonix","tag-pentatonix-tour","tag-show-review"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Live Show Review - A Capella Innovators Pentatonix<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/02\/live-show-review-a-capella-innovators-pentatonix.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Live Show Review - A Capella Innovators Pentatonix\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you&#8217;ve been following music at Beliefnet for awhile then you know that I think an awful lot of a capella pop group Pentatonix. Since winning NBC&#8217;s The Sing-Off with their impressive take on a capella pop the group has gone on to prove that they have what it takes to bring a capella to&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/02\/live-show-review-a-capella-innovators-pentatonix.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Idol Chatter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-02-19T18:53:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-02-19T19:56:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S. Russ\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Live Show Review - A Capella Innovators Pentatonix","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/02\/live-show-review-a-capella-innovators-pentatonix.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Live Show Review - A Capella Innovators Pentatonix","og_description":"If you&#8217;ve been following music at Beliefnet for awhile then you know that I think an awful lot of a capella pop group Pentatonix. Since winning NBC&#8217;s The Sing-Off with their impressive take on a capella pop the group has gone on to prove that they have what it takes to bring a capella to&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/02\/live-show-review-a-capella-innovators-pentatonix.html","og_site_name":"Idol Chatter","article_published_time":"2013-02-19T18:53:09+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-02-19T19:56:34+00:00","author":"S. Russ","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/02\/live-show-review-a-capella-innovators-pentatonix.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/02\/live-show-review-a-capella-innovators-pentatonix.html","name":"Live Show Review - A Capella Innovators Pentatonix","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-02-19T18:53:09+00:00","dateModified":"2013-02-19T19:56:34+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/9ae3136bb7166037d224b3905084add7"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/02\/live-show-review-a-capella-innovators-pentatonix.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/02\/live-show-review-a-capella-innovators-pentatonix.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/02\/live-show-review-a-capella-innovators-pentatonix.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Live Show Review &#8211; A Capella Innovators Pentatonix"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/","name":"Idol Chatter","description":"Beliefnet Entertainment blog, TV blog, Movie blog, Religion in entertainment blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/9ae3136bb7166037d224b3905084add7","name":"S. Russ","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/82f\/82f17439777fc092d6cd38b25afaac0dx96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/82f\/82f17439777fc092d6cd38b25afaac0dx96.jpg","caption":"S. Russ"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/author\/sruss"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8490,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions\/8490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}