Blitz is right about YouTube, I’ll give him that. And my favorite a capella group is living proof.
Straight No Chaser first started performing at Indiana University as a men’s a capella group. They mostly did little performances here and there and then broke up to get… you know, real jobs.
Fast-forward 10 years. The group posts a video of their hysterical, not-your-mama’s version of 12 days of Christmas from 1998. (A new-ish performance of the song is embedded below for your viewing pleasure.) 8 million people saw the video, but one was their ticket to success. CEO of Atlantic Records Craig Kallman saw the group and brought them all back together 10 years after they started performing.
For all of the shiteous music we listen to, where artists’ voices sound no different from one to the next, or is synthesized so much you can’t recognize them, SNC offers nothing but pure, amazing vocals.
And now, they’re Christmas CD is the #1 album on iTunes.
Suck on THAT Tufts Beelzebubs.
-- Ace
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