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this medly led to them being commissioned by gamer company called Ubisoft for Chance (the guy that started this video) to write an original song for their new pirate game called "Skull & Bones".....it's awewsome

Ben Folds, a judge for Home Free's season of The Sing-Off, is the one who initially called the guys "Home Fries" during that TV competition. After that it morphed into the name for Home Free's fan base 🏡🍟 The HF guys show their creativity once again in this video: they used the TikTok format to manage their separation during quarantine ❣️🎼🥰🎶❤️ Tim staying so still to keep from falling out of the boat he's standing in--makes me laugh because every time I see him in this I think of the animated pirate dolls in Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean. 😆 And those castanets!! Adam Rupp's percussion and sound effects are second to none!! 🥰

Sea shanties actually were sailors working songs, and came to it's peak much much later after all pirate things were already over. All "pirate" thing was inspired by Hollywood using sea shanties in scenes associtaed with pirates😁. Great Home Free performance as always, and a great your guys reaction as always!

Thanks for your reaction! How good are these guys? The fun & energy in this is infectious. This was done during quarantine so none of the guys were even together. The editing of this was great & was done in the Tik Tok style. Love all the guys parts, with Tim's rumbling bass underlying it all. And Adam's beatboxing is phenomenal as always including sea swells & castanets. Amazing how he increased the tempo from one song to another.

That was a fun one. This was done during "those times" when we all were in our homes, but Home Free was still entertaining us dropping videos left and right. The first singer here Chance, wrote a song they performed for a new Ubisoft game called "Skull and Bones" You should check it out too if you haven't already.

This was done during Covid so they weren’t together. Yeah some out dressed the others. Adam (beatboxer) was crazy good. Did you hear the castanets in the last song? How does he do that? This was so good that Ubisoft (game maker) saw it and came to Chance (started the song in red hat) and asked Chance to write a song for their new game Skull and Bones. It’s a great song if you want to hear that one…Skull and Bones. Right now they have a lyric video with scenes from the game and a short live one for the Ubisoft crowd. Really fun!!!🥰

Their Sea Shanty Medley went viral on TikTok primarily in Asia for people to dance to. This video led to Ubisoft to commission Home Free to write an original sea shanty for a soon released pirate game. Chance wrote the shanty called Skull and Bones the same as the game. There are two video versions. A shorter live version where they introduce the song at a gamer convention. Chance plays the guitar and Austin the mandolin. The lyric version is longer where they sound like a whole choir . The term Home Fries probably began at The Sing-Off which was an acapella competition show. Pentatonix won it the third season. Home Free won the fourth season. Voiceplay also competed the fourth season. Home Free and Voiceplay became close friends despite being competitors. The acapella world is a small cooperative world. Ben Folds, one of The Sing-Off judges, called them Home Fries once when evaluating their performance. The other two judges were Jewel and Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men.

Great medley and can't help but love our boys! Thanks for your enthusiasm.

Ben Folds was one of the judges the season of The Sing-Off where Home Free won. He mentioned the term "Home Fries" there, and I think it stuck! We are all proud Home Fries! Thank you.

Sea shanties are sailor’s work songs. The practical flannel shirt, white linen shirt, and stocking cap are more historically accurate than the fantasy pirate garb. But the outfits reflect the guy’s personalities. 😊 Some of these songs go back to the 1800’s. And being passed down orally, the melodies stay the same, but the words change. The Wellerman song refers to the supply ships that would restock New Zealand based whaling ships associated with the Weller brothers, not pirates. Well, not actual buccaneers anyway. Thanks for reacting. Like the original shanties, this medley is meant to be a shared experience.

You really need to see them live. You can feel Tim's bass notes. They also show you how they layer the beat boxing. And Home Fries are everywhere!

Thanks for a great reaction. You two are both great reactors. Please do more Home Free!

They were asked to write a song for a game ""Skull and Bones" written by Adam Chance, after someone at Ubisoft saw the Sea Shanty Medley. Check it out!

I have no problem believing Austin had a pirate costume !

I don't know if it was the first time or not, but when Home Free was on The Sing Off one of the judges, Ben Folds, referred to fans as "Home Fries".

Sea shanties are work songs. It takes a lot of people working together to pull ropes and raise anchors. The beat of the shanty made sure everyone pulled together.

Breakfast has "hash brown" potatoes, which are shredded potatoes. Home Fries are thinly sliced potatoes fried. Sea shanties were used by sailors, on wooden sailing ships to keep a crew happy, to keep a crew in time while hoisting anchor or hoisting the yardarms/and or sails, or for when ships were becalmed and the sailors rowed their smaller boats, to tow the ship into a breeze. Different crews sometimes had different words for the same melody. Sailors, in merchant vessels or pirate vessels had no uniform. They either wore what they brought on board, in their sea bag, or purchased cloths from ships stores against their wages. For a better idea of the difference in food the hands aboard a ship, compared to the officers watch Russel Crowe in Master and Commander.

Home Free never disappoints! Now give a listen to the sea shanty Skull & Bones that Chance wrote for the UbiSoft video game of the same name.

☠🔥🔥☠ That there is pure pirate 🔥! Great reaction! 👍👍👍

This was released on TicTok and everyone started doing their own rendition.

Yes 👍🏽 all these covers make you move. This was fun and I loved your dancing 🕺🏻🎼❤️‍🔥🎶. There are several amazing songs and I love the Chinese Tik Tokers who dance to the songs. This is great. 🙋🏻‍♀️❤️‍🔥🙌🏽

Now your ready for their original sea shanty called “skull and bones”, written by themselves and relased in conjuction with a game from ubasoft with the same name

Its a bit of an odd one to do as a first, but I recommend doing it this way nonetheless. Voiceplay's cover of 'Valhalla Calling' by Miracle Of Sound'. They have A LOT of great music and its just as big of a rabbit hole as Home Free and just as worth doing, but I feel like Valhalla Calling is a good intro to them. It even features a former member, J-none, who left the group to join the US navy. J-none was their primary baritone before leaving and Cesar, another *amazing* singer, took his place. He's the black dude with the awesome warrior knot hairstyle in the music video.

It is a misconception that these were specifically pirate related. On any ship in the age of sale: navy, merchant, and pirate; these were work songs.

Imagine what Tim's backyard neighbors must have thought!! gotta see Skull and Bones, just gotta!!

This was one of the first Covid lock down videos done on a suggestion by Chance.

Actually there is a lot of history behind sea shanties, like the last part of it is actually about the Mexican American war back in the 1800's for example. The history behind these songs can get really interesting and some of them have some legends connected to them! It can be really fun looking into that stuff!

Awesome Reaction Guys

Enjoyed your reaction. I too am an a cappella enthusiast and agree that Home Free, Pentatonix, and VoicePlay are three of the finest groups with tons of content to explore, but you're missing one. That one is a group called Voctave which is different than the others. It's larger and has no beatboxer. Think of it this way. Home Free, Pentatonix and VoicePlay are the combos, and Voctave is the orchestra. If you'd like a suggestion on a starting point with Voctave, listen to their Disney Love Medley, which features Kirsten Maldenado of Pentatonix. You could also check out their stunning Disney Princess Medley which features each of their female vocalists. You will not be disappointed!!! I look forward to many more of your reactions to all four of the aforementioned groups... they are simply the best!

This was recorded and filmed during the time of Covid quarantine, so they had to become really creative, recording their parts in makeshift “studios” in their closets and using what they had to film their parts. They did an amazing job especially given the circumstances!

Has any one else noticed how kinky Austin and Tim were that they just so happened to have pirate outfits on hand for this video, or was it just me? Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase " plundering for booty" 😊

Love the enthusiasm and Adam's caste-Nots!

I believe this may have been done during covid lockdown so they would have had to use what they had on hand. What's interesting is Tim and Austin may have already had full pirate costumes in their closets. LoL.

This was a Covid video which they did from home. They either had these clothes in their closets or they had to order online.

3 pirates and 2 longshore fishermen.

Hi guys! Love your reactions! You'll have to check out their live version of this. Just my opinion, but I think the live version is even better. Have a great day!

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Home Free can sing anything a capella Voiceplay tends to be focused on musical theater in general Pentatonix has a more update popular music vibe Voctave does large scale almost orchestral production. Not sure exactly who Adam Rupp and Austin were dressed as but, I believe Rob was Smee from Peter Pan, Chance was Steve Zissou from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and (obviously) Tim was dressed as Jack Sparrow.

You should check out Voiceplay’s cover of “Drunken Sailor”. It’s really good.

They are baudy songs are subg today in the pubs of old Richmond pubs.

If you like the costuming..watch 💥...Brother The guys go all out.. 🌿🌿🌿

This was done during Covid so they couldn't just run out to the store for a costume. You should see their Live version of thís. It's even better.

Actually you can find lots of history about sea shanties and how they were widespread everywhere that there were sailors.

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Also, this was made during quarantine so they were all in different places.

They are all dressed as sea faring sailors in different eras

HF !! The best of the best!!

Think of the songs similar to military cadences. How do you get a bunch of men to coordinate hauling a rope pulling a sail up. Sing a song to get everyone on the same page (figuratively).

They are all dressed like famous Pirates.

LOL noo its not just Pirates but all Sailers usd to sing normaly a fiddle or and a squees box were used harmonicas too they sang to keep time while working like on the capstone. Today this is a modern winch drum on a sailing boat but way bigger the capstone usd long hand spike insrted into the head they used it to lift th anchor or on a warp line to turn the ship on anchor also to lift spars up th mast to replace damaged or broken a favourite song of English sailors wasa song called stamp and go so on the word samp they would tamp a foo down to get a better grip on the deck and on the ord go push on the hand spike to turn the capstone while the musician sat on the head of the capstone leading th song

It's really more sailor songs than pirates, in spite of some of the costumes.. Songs to work by on sailing and whaling ships...

Watch the vide go from black and white to color and the back to black and white .

Home fries with red onions and green peppers have been all over the North East. So . . . wrong. It is everywhere. // Does that first one actually have a 'Z' on the shirt? // Sea Shanty, they were used to maintain the rhythm they needed in pulling ropes and other things. Long history of more than a few hundred years. The one "What shall we do with the drunken sailor" I heard in a music class in college.

VOICEPLAY!!! You won't regret it!!

shanghai (v.) "to drug or otherwise render a man unconscious and ship him as a sailor on a vessel wanting hands," 1854, American English, from the practice of kidnapping to fill the crews of ships making extended voyages, such as to the Chinese seaport of Shanghai.

Practice up for International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Coming in 10 days. Brush up on your conjugation of the verb Arrrr!