What a delightful reaction! Thanks. The beatboxer (vocal percussionist) is Layne Stein--Layne also arranged this for Voice Play. Ely is actually pronounced "Ellie" (like Ellie Mae from the Beverly Hillbillies).

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

So much talent in this group!

It is so much fun to watch you watching and listening to them. Trust me, no one catches everything the first time. Geoff and Layne split the arrangements just about 50 / 50. Whichever of them does the arrangement also does the story board, the production, all his vision. Eli does the lights and most of the special effects. Even when a piece starts simply, it will go off the charts. I know you haven't started on Geoff's solo work (he started that during the pandemic). He has three Halloween pieces, The Headless Horseman, Monster Mash, and this year's Ghost Riders in the Sky. I am following you on this journey!

Thanks for sticking with it and coming back to do another VoicePlay song. Eli is pronounced El-ee (short for Eliezer). Layne arranged this one - from what I recall, he's done all of the Halloween songs, while Geoff does the Christmas songs. There was a real crunch on this one, he flew to Nashville to film Lauren before Hurricane Ian hit. He lost power and it slowed down the editing... but... amazing. I still like his first one this year best (In the Hall of the Mountain King) but I really love this one too. It's hard to have favorites when they're all so good!

@janetdw

Жыл бұрын

And he had just finished his crazy Mountain King! Unusual for them to do two in a row, but a Patron in a higher tier said that they had another in the works but the vocalist couldn’t make it so Layne swooped on with this.

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow! That was a close call to get this one done! Yikes! 😲😲 We LOVED In the Hall of the Mountain King! I laughed and laughed and I’ve watching it over and over again. Lol!!

Lauren is also known as The Stairwell Siren as she goes into her apartment building's stairwell and sings some creepy songs that all her neighbors can hear. She did a solo of this song (orig. Korean) which went viral on TikTok. VoicePlay contacted her to see if she would be interested in doing it again but with 4 other guys this time. Aurora below me covers getting it filmed. Cesar, the guy in the crystal ball is a very animated singer and had to sit still to keep his head inside the ball! The beatboxer is Layne, Geoff is the bass, Cesar a bari-tenor, and Eli is high tenor but can sing bass if he needs to.

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

BJ thank you for all of that awesome info! I can tell you are a huge fan! We really appreciate learning more about them. And I would LOVE to have Lauren sing in my stairwell! lol!

@Badger77722

Жыл бұрын

@@SuttonStops Be careful what you wish for! The very beginning of this video, with the slower tempo and heavy reverb on Lauren's voice sounds a lot like what she sings in the stairwell - and it's pretty creepy! VoicePlay's minis channel has a video of them "accompanying" her in her KZread video for about a verse, and it's yet another different version of the song.

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

@@Badger77722 hahaha, I have to explore this more now!

The members of Voiceplay are insanely talented and have incredible ranges. Geoff actually has a 5 octave range which you'll hear some of in Oogie Boogie's Song. Layne Stein (the beatboxer) co-owns a studio called PattyCake Productions with Tony Wakim a former Voiceplay member. Voiceplay often films there, which is why they're sets are so detailed. Eli (pronounced Ellie) often helps with the lighting design and Layne and Geoff trade off doing the arrangements.

@janetdw

Жыл бұрын

Tony Wakim (darn autocorrect 😄 it fixed my version to wakening🤷🏼‍♀️) Tony was their baritone from about 2009 to 2016 and was featured In their Phantom of the Opera and is in one of my faves: Grim Grinning Ghosts👻.

@nerdywordyprincess8499

Жыл бұрын

@@janetdw Wow. My autocorrect screwed up too. I started to type the right last name and it messed me up. Good catch! I'll go back and fix it. Thanks for the extra info!

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

Such a crazy talented bunch of people and they bring us so much joy!

@laundrygoddess4

Жыл бұрын

Geoff, Layne and Eli all have confirmed five octave ranges. Cesar likely does but he doesn't want to know his range as he feels it's too limiting.

"Superstition" is in my top five Voiceplay videos and it's a great Halloween video. By the way, Omar Cardona who's featured in "Superstition" is on this season of The Voice. Eli's name is Eliezer, so his name is pronounced like Ellie. Thanks for your reaction. ... Guy

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

We need to watch the “Superstition” one for sure!!!

Thanks for your reaction! I knew you would enjoy this one! So many great spooky ones from Voice Play for Halloween. Check out their cover of "Once Upon A Dream".

This isn't an original song it is an old Japanese song that in of itself is very haunting and Lauren Paley, the feature in this video, is nicknamed the Stairwell Siren because she blew up on TikTok because she would go into the stairwell of her apartment building and sing it as she heard people enter below to try to scare them

@catwhowalksbyhimself

Жыл бұрын

It's only ten years old, and it's Korean, not Japanese. It's a KZread original using a Vocaloid to do the singing. Three years later a channel who makes English versions of Vocaloid songs covered it, and that is the version that other have covered in English since. The original animated video tells the story of a little girl possessed by a malevolent spirit forcing a boy to play a sadistic game of hide and seek as it taunts and toys with him. tricking him into thinking that it's looking in the closet, when it really knows he's hiding behind the desk instead. The now possessed boy then goes looking for the next victim, the shredded remains of the previous host showing his future fate.

@janetdw

Жыл бұрын

@@catwhowalksbyhimself I have listened to both and the Korean version is creeper to me because I focused more on the terrifying animation. I understand from another viewer that the story is based on an old Japanese cautionary tale. Those old fairy tales are a far cry from the Disney versions and were often dark, so it wouldn’t surprise me if that were the case.

@catwhowalksbyhimself

Жыл бұрын

@@janetdw The "cautionary tale" is actually a creepypasta, and also relatively new. It also doesn't really fit the song or story at all. There's some resemblance, but I don't believe they are directly connected. That's just a theory. The oldest record of One Man Hide and Seek is 2008, so older than the song, but it's definitely under 20 years old, and likely 15. Not an old story at all, and not a "cautionary tale."

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

I would’ve loved to have had Lauren singing in my stairwell and freaking me out. Lol!! 😄 I would’ve gone to look for who was making those eerie sounds!

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

Eek! Spooky!!!

Was waiting for you guys to get to this one. Great reaction

I am really enjoying your reactions. May I suggest Voiceplay’s version of Superstition? I think you would love it.

@janetdw

Жыл бұрын

And the guest artist in that one is Omar Cardona who is currently competing on The Voice and is on John Legend’s team.

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

Good idea! We should check that out! Thank you!

they are all multi talented enjoy! ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Great reaction. Voiceplay are known as both The Theater Kids and Halloween Kings. Lauren made this song famous on tiktok singing it in her apartment building stairwell. Voiceplay saw it and asked her if she wanted to collaborate with and for Halloween. This is the result. She is known as the Stairwell Siren on too because she sings various songs. It has an awesome echo there. She started doing that to scare her neighbors. I fell down the Voiceplay/Geoff Castellucci rabbit hole very hard in April and never looked back. Geoff has his own channel where he sings solo. His new Halloween video is... Ghost Riders In The Sky. He has a bunch of other videos as well. No matter what you choose from Voiceplay or Geoff you can't go wrong. Everything they sing is awesome. And they're not afraid to go out of the box.

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree with you!! It’s all been amazing so far and I love knowing there is so much more!!

She hit an e6.

The balance of sound during the video was heavily balanced to the right on my headphones.

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

Not really sure what else we can do about that, but we are trying. It’s a big learning curve with the editing software. 😊 👍🏻 Thank you for the feedback! ❤️

I love you and your reactions! There is also a portrait of Master Gracey above the fireplace. As a fellow Disney lover and lifelong HM fan, I love that Voiceplay loves it as well. Many of them have worked at Disney world and Universal in entertainment. So many watch their Haunted Mansion vids and everything goes over their heads if they are not familiar with the attraction and it's characters. I look forward to watching you more.

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for being here to watch and for your lovely comment! 💜💜 We went back and watched it several times and kept catching more of those little hidden HM details!! I kept giggling and getting so excited every time we caught something new!!

I love that you guys continue to improve. You've EARNED my subscription! I get tired of folks that just beg for subs without doing anything for their subscribers. Keep it up. Great, great stuff!

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for that! We are trying, and we definitely want to continue to improve. We appreciate you hanging in there with us and helping us to get better. ❤️❤️ The more we learn, the better we can get!

Can't miss with these guy's songs! Btw, congrats on your new journey I saw you starting on Instagram!

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

I’m becoming obsessed with their work! 🎵 Aww, thank you so much, Ann!!

I’ve been waiting for you to do this! Knowing how you like the ride, I knew you would appreciate it. Lauren did a phenomenal job. Her full version is slow like the beginning- very creepy. She has several TikTok duets, one is on VoicePlay’s mini channel where they provide the background vocals. Another really creepy one is with Bobby Bass. This is the same set that is used in the PattyCake Productions piece Villains at the Haunted Mansion. (Well worth viewing, as are their Hocus Pocus themed videos and original series Villains Lair based on Disney villains trying to regain power.) Lot of tiny details: Lauren: her demented eyes turn red just before the banshee. She is semitransparent- you can see embers through her -Layne’s crazy makeup! A LOT of people had he and Geoff mixed up. Lots of black food color in some sort of gel for his teeth. When he laughs, the inside of his mouth is black. Rick Underwood usually does their makeup on these. He is a genius. Layne did NOT like the airbrushing (tickles😂) -Grim Grinning Ghost busts appear in the bookshelf behind Geoff (who had to crouch the whole time) -Eli is unstable Alexander NITROkoff on a keg of TNT/nitroglycerin (BOOM!) (“stretching” portrait behind him) -Cesar is the medium Madam Leota at the seance table. Was he singing in his head voice?😂 -Elizabeth Zharoff (Charismatic Voice) provided background eerie tones. This is the list of their sp👀my season videos: -Geoff (bass) Ghost Riders in the Sky He also has done Monster Mash and the Headless Horseman. -VoicePlay covered four songs from Nightmare before Christmas (Oogie Boogie, Kidnap the Sandy Claws, This is Halloween and What’s This), Superstition by Stevie Wonder, I’ve Got Friends on the Other Side from Disney’s Princess and the Frog, Once Upon a Dream and Grim Grinning Ghosts from the ride at Disney World (and this year‘s Hide and Seek ). Although not Halloween songs, their Hall of the Mountain King is pretty spooky as is Hoist the Colours from Pirates of the Caribbean 3!

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

Janet, your comments have been my favorite to read!! I chuckled a lot reading this! 😁 Loved it! Thank you for all of your amazing information and insight! 😍😍 You are awesome! And the kind of people we love to get to know and have here on our adventures with us! Thank you for joining in!

@janetdw

Жыл бұрын

@@SuttonStops Thanks! I always worry that my overly wordy comments are either irritating or skipped, but there is so much to appreciate about these guys that I don’t seem to be able to help myself!😂📝 I am also a patron for Peter bBarber who is among other things an opera singer and does reactions. He is also a member of the Bass Gang which is four (or more) really low basses singing together. They just notified us that they also did a version of DingDong with Lauren. I believe it comes out to patrons on the 21st and to everyone else the 24th or 25th. I’ve heard some of their other songs I think it will be more on the spooky side. You might listen to Yellow Flicker Beat for just a sample of what they do.

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

@@janetdw thank you so much for all of your helpful info! I love that you enjoy the music so much. 🥰

Definitely recommend grim grinning ghosts if you have not checked it out yet.

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

Done and and we LOVED it!!! 😍😍😍

Note was Eb6 :)

Great job loved it I rec Geoff castelluchi the bass deep cover headless horseman Geoff shows off alittle

Lauren Paley is known on TicTok as the Stairwell Siren. VoicePlay heard her and asked if she would like to do a collaboration and she said she'd love to. So Layne flew to N. Carolina to film her part and just made it back to Orlando before the hurricane hit and they still got the out to us for Halloween. Eli pronounced ( Ellie ) rhymes with Jelly.

Love your reactons. It is fun watching someone who truly enjoys the talent and the surprises. Anything VP does you will probably like, there are some great suggestions already made. You might also like to check out PattyCake Productions - it's Layne's (the alien percussion master) and Tony's (former VP) production studio, everything is original. Their latest is "That's All", which has Malificent and the the Evil Queen throwing shade at each other. (Edited to add: the Charismatic Voice is also in Ding Dong - she did the operatic ghosts!)

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

Ooooooh! Thank you for the suggestion! We will absolutely go check out PattyCake Productions! 😍😍🎵 Sounds like a fun one!

Actually, Eli's name is pronounced ELL-EEE. 😁

Have you seen the Geoff solo for Halloween Ghost Riders in the Sky? It's good too! By the way, Geoff's range (lowest growl A0 or Aflat0, lowest subharmonic B0 Halo has 2 of these he hits, lowest chest is either G1 or F#1, highest note is A5. The man is amazing.

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

WOW!! He’s a crazy freak of talent! Love it!! We haven’t heard his Ghost Riders song, but we will definitely have to check that out!

Awesome reaction. What part of Texas are you in?

You guys are awesome and you should definitely check out their rendition of "we don't talk about Bruno" and any of their Halloween videos because they have a ton and also you should checkout Geoff's page because he has alot of videos he's done himself!! I'd suggest his covers/renditions of "Headless Horseman" and "Monster Mash"!!!

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

Oooh!! Sounds like we definitely need to check out his channel as well!! We have such a huge list of their videos we want to watch. They are absolutely our new faves!

@Jaybullz34

Жыл бұрын

Yes definitely check out Geoff's channel he has many videos he's done himself too!

Eli is short for Eliezar, said Eh-lee (corrected).

Lauren hit an Eb6

I can give you More To React from Them they have a Medley queen,Little mermaid disney Heroes and villians Frozen 2 and Moana Or phantom of the opera

if you haven't already, you should react to oogie boogies song cover from voiceplay

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

That’s up next! 🥰

@nathann1955

Жыл бұрын

Your in for a good one then

Eli is pronounced elee like jelly. Short for Eliezer.

Eli is pronounced "Ellie"

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for letting us know! 🥰 We really love his voice!!

I thank you for another great reaction to Voice Play. May I suggest that you not talk so loud during the video. You will miss something in the vocals. ♥️ I do love you guys & appreciate your taking the time to do this. Please don't be mad at me for suggesting this.♥️

@SuttonStops

Жыл бұрын

Not mad at all! 🥰 We appreciate the help and suggestions! We are new at reaction videos so we are learning as we go. Feedback, especially kind feedback like yours, is very helpful and welcome.

@janetdw

Жыл бұрын

Since you are linking to your TV, it probably isn’t possible, but a lot of reactors will pause for the comments and then rewind a few seconds and resume.

@marshayoung9387

Жыл бұрын

@@SuttonStops ♥️

Eli is pronounced as "Ellie"....short for Elliot....js!