Who Are You Again My Biggest Fan Glee
The fourth season of Glee was full of ups and downs, only i consistent vivid spot was Lea Michele's Rachel Berry, who stretched her wings
The members of The Beelzebubs, Tufts University's oldest all-male person a cappella group, have their easily full this semester. Along with recording a new album and performing on campus in Medford, Mass., the group landed the loftier-profile gig of providing the arrangements and groundwork vocals for Glee's newest music group, the Dalton University Warblers. Subsequently the success of "Teenage Dream" (with Darren Criss on lead vocals) earlier this month, the musical stylings of The Beelzebubs render this evening as Blaine and the Warblers perform Train's "Hey, Soul Sister" in New Directions' Sectionals showdown. Beelzebubs President Eli Seidman, Business Managing director Evan Powell, Music Director Penn Rosen, and Historian Kent McCann spoke with EW about lending their voices to a striking television show, their admiration for Criss, and why they won't be pursuing careers in music.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did yous guys end upward on Glee?
EVAN POWELL: They basically approached u.s.. I was in class and got a agglomeration of phone calls from numbers I didn't recognize. One time I got out of class, I discovered they were all voicemails from producers on Glee. We called them back pretty quickly, they asked us if we were interested in doing a track on the show, and we said yep, and hither we are.
Did producers know about you considering of your appearance on The Sing-Off final year? Or was information technology more from the college a cappella circuit?
EP: Originally they had thought about doing [Glee] as more of a cappella focused show, and then they had already done a lot of research into a cappella and various college groups, and listened to a lot of our albums. Eventually they decided to take the show in the more high schoolhouse choir management, but when they had an opportunity to bring an a cappella group onto the show, they revisited all of their enquiry from before and decided that they'd similar to try to go with the states.
Your version of "Teenage Dream" has been breaking all sorts of sales records. How practice you experience most the response?
PENN ROSEN: We're so thrilled. We're a college a cappella group that's been able to look on iTunes and encounter something we've been a function of make information technology to number one. We're just so proud and honored to be a part of this and hope that it tin continue to be met with success for us, and for Glee.
I think it's a practiced move to take you guys, a college a cappella group, and Darren Criss, a recent Academy of Michigan grad, collaborating on a vocal for a prove that'southward all about educatee music groups. You lot guys are kind of similar the real-life Glee.
EP: Information technology's great for us, notwithstanding existence college students, that nosotros can tape songs for national tv in between our classes. Information technology's a really great residual for us.
ELI SEIDMAN: I would say if nosotros could meet Darren [Criss], that would be cool. We've been reading all the stuff he'south been saying — he's been so overnice and he sounds so good on the lead. I'd be really honored to have some sort of contact, but in the meantime we're having such a good time living vicariously through him, reading all of the interviews and stuff, that we're merely so pleased with how big information technology'southward gotten.
What exercise you think nigh the portrayal of loftier school music groups on the testify? A lot of Glee focuses on acceptance and outcasts. Can you relate to their experiences at all?
ES: I think the show is so entertaining to sentry and it has such a big fan base that it's just encouraging more people to be musical, which is bully. To have more awareness of music and to push button for more of it in high school is [key]. My high school had its music plan so early on that I personally experience that information technology's very, very important. The more awareness at that place is, and the more excitement there is, the better.
Were y'all guys fans of Glee beforehand?
PR: Information technology depends, because in that location are 11 people in the grouping. Some people watch information technology religiously, just for me, ["Never Been Kissed"] was the second episode I had ever watched. In general, we were all super excited about the episode and nosotros thought it was great. Nosotros were actually honored to be on an episode that portrayed all of those awesome messages of compassion and anti-bullying. It was an accommodating feel-practiced episode and great for us to hear our voices on that testify.
KENT MCCANN: It's definitely gotten some of us who may not have watched the show earlier to get-go watching even episodes that we are non in.
PR: Confession… [Laughs]
You don't have to worry, nosotros're big fans of Glee over here, then don't be embarrassed. Are in that location whatsoever songs or musical styles you'd like to come across on the bear witness? What kind of music do y'all usually perform?
PR: When nosotros're doing these things for TV, we obviously don't have the final say in what we're singing, but that'south one of the best parts about doing our higher gigs; nosotros actually have [a] full range to practise whatever we want and we like to co-operative out into different genres, different styles. For case, this year we're doing a rap song, we're doing a pop vocal, and we're doing a Hall & Oates cover. We practise everything and we try to do everything well.That's pretty much our modus operandi.
EP: [Laughs] The absurd affair is now nosotros've been able to perform "Teenage Dream" live. We're having a show on campus on Dec. 3, and that'due south when nosotros're going to debut information technology at Tufts, which is always a huge bargain for us. As much as nosotros love choosing our songs, as much as we love operating ourselves, to be able to sing something that's a part of a national miracle, a move in Glee, has been really cool. Audiences have just been so prissy — it's kind of crazy — when we start singing information technology, but it's actually flattering as a student and musician to have people capeesh your music then much, and it's a lot of fun.
What was The Sing-Off feel like?
PR: The Sing-Off was an amazing opportunity for u.s.. Nosotros kind of went into the show being like, "This is awesome, this is super cool, and we've already won by getting on the testify." We just decided to accept the near fun possible and I approximate it showed in our performance as we ended upwards going a lot further than nosotros anticipated, which was crawly.
It's coming back adjacent week — will you be involved at all this time around, or will you lot be purely fans?
EP: No, we're not involved. We're just going to be watching avidly.
Do you have any advice for this flavour'south contenders? Particularly if there are any college groups?
KM: Have as much fun as possible. It was a very intense process, but if you make the about of information technology, I have to say it was 1 of the most fun three weeks I've had since getting to schoolhouse and getting into this group.
What else is on the horizon for The Bubs? You take a gig on Glee, you have a concert at Tufts this Friday…
KM: We're shooting to release our next album next fall, so a lot of the recording is going on this year. We're really excited near the single [featuring "Sweet Caroline" and "Right Round"]. Basically all of the proceeds will be going to the Bubs Foundation, the non-profit arm of our alumni organisation that focuses on supporting music programs in public schools. Through our success on The Sing-Off, we're in a place where we can release this unmarried and donate all the gain to that effort and information technology'south something we're really proud of.
For those of y'all who are seniors, are yous thinking about pursuing a career in music or in the arts?
ES: Absolutely not. [Laughs] If I could I would, but function of the beauty of the group is that you take a agglomeration of guys who have express musical experience — and even more limited musical expertise — and commit to making a really dandy final product, and forming this great grouping dynamic. While I've loved my fourth dimension in the Bubs — I've had such a great fourth dimension, I idea I was going to become to college just I didn't think I would get to be on TV — it'south been then, and then cool, I don't think I could do it within anyone but the Bubs. I've got to graduate, then the beauty of it is the finality. You realize you only accept four years to have fun and make a difference, so you try to squeeze as much into it every bit possible. And After that it'southward onto the real world and I'll just exist watching them on Television set, hopefully.
What's your favorite vocal or artist of the moment?
ES: I'll do favorite creative person, just because I've been thinking virtually her a lot: Janelle Monáe… or maybe Kanye [West]. No, Janelle. Although Kanye'southward album is really skilful. [Laughs]
KM: I've been listening to a lot of Alicia Keys recently. She's talented and gorgeous.
ES: And I think taken, unfortunately.
KM: Taken, I know. Swizz Beatz.
She recently had a infant, too.
ES: But when she reads this maybe she'll…
KM: Exactly.
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Source: https://ew.com/article/2010/11/30/glee-beelzebubs-dalton-academy/
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