Harmonizer Caption Contest round 9
Posted by Lorin May | Posted in Chorus, Contests & Judging, Harmonizer, Just for Fun | Posted on September 16, 2011, 8:38 AM
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See round 1 for the rules.
Today’s picture: Great Northern Union.
Background: It’s been 22 years since anybody beat the Masters of Harmony in International competition, but nobody’s made a more spectacular second-place showing than GNU. In a nod to the over-the-top medleys, staging and costume changes that have become the gold medal par in recent years, with tongue firmly in cheek, GNU topped them all. “A Song That Never Ends” (arr. Greg Volk) included snips from more than THIRTY different songs, and as tag built upon tag and climax built upon climax, the chorus threw in three tear-aways in the space of less than 10 seconds. (The sequence is above.) When they were finished, they were greeted with the Standing O that never ends. Never before had a parody been so jaw-dropping!
Top that. (PLEASE!)
I thought there supposed to be seven veils that came off.
Having disagreed with his A&R at a previous contest, the Great Northern Union decided that Presentation judge Marty Lovick was color-blind. In an attempt to put this hypothesis to the test, the GNU changed costume 1,476 times within a single medley at the 2011 International that Marty was judging.
Sure enough, Marty wrote down in his notes “I’ve never seen such subtlety in using lighting to achieve an incredible palette of shades of gray …” and, well, you get the idea.
[It's OK, Marty, still respect you ... it was just a joke ... Marty?]
Watch 98 overweight men shed 30 lbs. each in just 560 seconds!
Oh crap … is this the ripple move!?!? … I hope this is the ripple move … I’m Purple!? Every body’s Green … O crap …
Black, how can I be black, everyone’s purple … OH CRAP
4.5 minutes in the mind of Greg Volk, enough said.
GNU misinterprets the lyrics of “The song has ended but the melody lingers on.” as “The first song ended but the medley lingers on and on and on and on……”