Introducing IvyGate’s “Worst A Cappella Group Of The Ivy League” Tournament 2007!!
Hal, Jacob and Maureen are making me post something to keep my cushy "Contributing Editor" title, so (a) fuck them and (b) let's have a tournament requiring MANY posts!
[RANT ALERT: Skip the next paragraph to get to tournament details, if you so please].
We have voiced our (my) dislike for a cappella groups on this site before, but allow us to explain further. If you go to an Ivy League university, you're more than aware of these mostly talentless schmucks, because you probably have lived with at last one -- I know I did. Each school has like 75 billion of them, and they all have wretchedly unpunny names like "The Penny Loafers" (Penn) or, of course, "The Bear Necessities" (Brown). About once a semester, your friends in a cappella groups force you to see their pathetic little concerts during time that you could spend better by doing, I don't know, anything else. Some bizarre video -- usually made on iMovie by a chimpanzee -- always introduces each troupe. Then comes the opening song, which almost always is by Journey, Bon Jovi or Queen (for lady groups, Sarah McLachlan or Alanis Morisette). The "best" groups have two people that can sing, the other members just go "BUM BUM BUM BUM" in the background. 'Cause, you know, "BUM BUM BUM BUM" is definitely an improvement on an original song's use of instruments. Then they have an after party where they continue to sing, to sing, to sing...
Only mockery in tournament form can properly destroy them. So by this Friday, submit nominations (YouTube videos) to ivygate@gmail.com. We will wade through the submitted videos over the weekend and select (probably) the eight worst, so there will (probably) be one for each school. Then all of next week we will hold head-to-head matches to determine the winner based on your votes. SUBMIT NOMINATIONS NOW YOU LOVELY PEOPLE!
Let's make them stop singing -- together.
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October 23rd, 2007 at 9:07 pm
I think a better option would be to just never mention the existence of such torture ever again.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Hal, Jacob and Maureen are making me post something to keep my cushy “Contributing Editor” title, so (a) fuck them and (b) let’s have a tournament requiring MANY posts!
To think that when this blog began, no one was willing to take credit for it… Now there are seven fucking names on the masthead!
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
“The Penny Loafers” is much, much worse than the Bear Necessities, or any other pun I’ve ever heard in my life for that matter.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:48 pm
my idea for yale- red hot and blue v mixed company
dunno bout the videos, but the singing is enough to shatter eardrums and induce suicide.
sorry guys– we kid because we hate
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Did someone say Journey?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8fjqo7NMHO0
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:41 pm
this “britney medley” from columbia has some of the cheesiest dance moves i’ve seen (and a capella dance can get pretty bad)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xj4nrOpek8s
October 24th, 2007 at 10:38 am
This isn’t actually a real a cappella group, but it is a hilarious sketch about the reunion of the 1972 Harvard Glee Club.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkC4WOP98lQ
October 24th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I am so glad I’m not the only one who is vehemently anti-a capella. GET OVER YOURSELVES. My lord. And I say this as a singer (no, I did not audition and get rejected; I more efficiently busied myself with the opera company :P)!
October 24th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Note that the video about the Harvard Glee Club has nothing to do with the ACTUAL Harvard Glee Club, which is a 60-person male chorus, not a pop-song covering A Cappella group.
October 25th, 2007 at 12:55 am
True, but there’s Glee Club Lite, which is an associated a capella group. And that group has nothing to do with the group in the video either.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I know a guy who actually had a nervous breakdown from the stresses of singing a capella. A nervous breakdown! From A capella! What is this,the time of Charlemagne?
I remember during freshman year when all these kids in my dorm were crying and moaning that they didn’t make it into the Cockadillos or the Dins or any of that shit. I didn’t understand then and I have to say, had I known what was what, I would have been crying and moaning myself, but for rather different reasons.
http://newyorkrunning.blogspot.com
October 27th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
not cool.
-a penny loafer