Indeed, Sully. Indeed.

Wtf. Nice to see you here my lad.

Oh god he's back again. (lolimjokingdonthatmeplease) Have you ever seen any other quartets or just NF4?

Sully? You watch barbershop too?

Otamatone barber shop when?

Where can one find these scores?

I’m happy they scored so high assuming it’s out of 100, even if they don’t get a medal I love them

@@AnimeLover930 Yep, all barbershop contests are scored out of 100. To frame it, the best song of the quartet contest was Signature's Dance With My Father with a 95.6, and their average over the entire contest was 93.8, compared to NF4's 89.7

actually 16. :)

@@alistairwall5470 Acoustix won after they changed their bass singer. They were good with both.

When they all pointed at the one judge you could just feel the aggressiveness ness cause after him they were pointing at different people😂

At what point will they just flat out attack them?

Mr Porkchop What

@@thebrutusmars The 'them' is the judges

Mr Porkchop Yeah, no, I figured that part out. I’m questioning the rest of your comment.

So, it hasn't changed in the last 50 years... ;)

Robin? What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be working on your next video?

Lmao

Woah, I used to watch your videos. How's life going for you now?

@@Joyful_StaR Going okay, still making videos.

John Faustin and I do too!!

Yeah LOL but not the judges

Me too👍😊💞

I dont get it.... an explaination please?

@@maxilye Artistic Licence is another quartet from the same district as the NF4. They've been competing for quite a while and I don't think they've ever made the top 10. Look up their version of "Everybody Wants To Be A Cat"

Sydney for the sake of clarity before anyone pounces on this, Artistic License have made the 10 for the last several years and got leapfrogged out of the 10 by Midtown arriving and Pratt Street moving up. Hence why this year pertinently would suck for them. I think between the two of us that should cover the OP

@@joshwmiltonman Thank you for the info! I am not very knowledgeable in the history of barbershop so thank you!

"Distinguished judges...and Jay Dougherty."

Curse of being the fan fav? Shrug. 😕

They'll win someday, just the top 5 are better quartets. Just don't be surprised when don't medal next year either as two fantastic Swedish quartets are back in in Lemon Squeezy and Stockholm Syndrome - both of whom medalled when they last competed.

Think about it, having them not win means we get more videos of them at contest easy

​@@AlwaysHungryAlwaysThirsty I'm pretty sure they said that somewhere. In 2017, they came to BABS, and 2018 and 2019 I think they took of to settle in with they're new bari.

The KZfaq audience and the Judges look for different things in performance. KZfaq looks for humor and the judges and look for nice barbershop.

The BHS channel lol

Bob McFishkens Seconded

Artistic license?

@@nunoribeiro7407 No, that's too easy

@@nunoribeiro7407 They're our friends, they're our friends...

Kyle H. - TurtleXD Me four!

Lol me too!

Let me add to your playlist: Storm Front, Lunch Break, FRED

Check out Main Street, too.

NF4 is the reason I enjoy barbershop.

@Terri Seaton true, which is why I felt dumb when I first heard this because OF COURSE they all sound good individually when they're all singing their parts. When listening to this stuff though you just kinda forget sometimes that they're all singing though and it's not some backtrack their singing along to. Which I guess also shows that they're good at what they do too :)

You can hear them individually when they sing their Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious parody.

It totally does. Frankly, a lot of people in choirs don't have stellar voices - that's part of why they're in choirs instead of singing individually (and I know this because *I* am one of those people, LOL.) If your voice is really good, you strive for the solos, for example. In Barbershop, where you have only 4 people, you have to be a LOT better - and I also know this from singing Barbershop (again, in a choir class, and with about 4 people per part instead of only one) and it's a LOT tougher to stay on your part (especially if, like me, you enjoy singing harmonies.) With about 4 people per part, I did much better as there was someone else singing my same part, so I didn't accidentally wander to another part. Again, from my own experience, I cannot even IMAGINE trying to sing alone, as the only one doing my part, when the people around me are singing such gorgeous harmonies and doing it so well. It's so easy for me to "wander" off of my part to a note that seems like it should be in "my part" even though it's not. So to be in a foursome like this, you have to be WAY better singers. You have to be able to carry your part, not wander, and balance your volume so you "fit in" with the overall harmony - a lot of things to think about at once. And because their voices blend so nicely, it's easy to forget, just as you said, that each of them are an individual voice, and they ALL have to be good in order to sound good together. I would (generally) argue that in each singing group (no matter the kind) you have some people who are relatively better and some are relatively worse, but I would say that in this particular group, it's pretty even. It's part of why their "sound" is so good. And I think that's generally true for Barbershop as a style. There's not really any room to NOT balance each other out and still have it sound good. So I think Barbershop inherently requires more talented (and better trained - note follows) people than other singing styles. So yes, you completely make sense to anyone who has sung anything with another person where they're singing a different part. Even if you're just doing "Simon & Garfunkle" with a friend! NOTE: I DID discover that you CAN learn some of this stuff by training - my barbershop class showed me that! I'm much better at following "my part" in small groups than I used to be, though I'm REALLY out of practice since I haven't sung with a small group in at least a decade now. I also had a choir director in HS who encouraged me to participate in a solo event, and her additional training really improved how I sing overall - as did the advice from the judges - I still use the techniques I learned from that one experience. So, if anyone out there reading this has any desire to improve the way you sing, as long as you can do two things to start with (carry a tune and be on the beat) I firmly believe that you can improve your singing ability with training. You may never be a fantastic solo artist, but you can seriously improve your skillset. If this is something you love, I heartily encourage you to go for it.

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and this year

They've gotten sixth place, like 5 years in a row.

@@brianmchaney7473 I thought this was only their second time in 6th. (The joke still applies, even if my ranking history is a little off).

@@Klffsj yeah, idk. I was just joking, too. I don't follow it very closely.

@@brianmchaney7473 2013 - Int. Youth Quartet Champs 2014 - 16th 2015 - 14th (Finishing one place above this year's champs Signature) 2016 - 11th (where they mic tested the finals with the Hello My Baby thing) 2017 - 9th 2018 - 6th 2019 - 6th www.harmonize.ws/HarmonetReporter/scores/scormain.htm - This website has all the scores and final placements.

Holy shit you’re right

Wow I never noticed that before! Amazing

Jeezzzzzzz how did they do that

Yeah, I just noticed that and came here to say that, but I'll just like your comment instead!

Dawson Brown 3:11 though…

Just him in general man. He is on a godly level

He dances like Bear in The Big Blue House- I can’t cope.

So good hahaha

call it: the newfangled factor

I feel like Joey could do the Josh Gad type, especially when he sings "So do you, that's why I'm unwell too"

Dude I was just about to say, the intro hits different now

what happened to ryan?

Klemen Vidmar He’s leaving the group, Joey left a long message about it on their Facebook.

Jekyll they’re actually disbanding completely. They said at the end of the post that Jackson had also been wanting to leave, and that even with only one different singer, it wouldn’t be the same

@@visualeyesmusic Ah I see I missed that part. That's unfortunate, but it makes sense. After all it's not the Newfangled Four without those four.

Where is he going?

@sharpdressedcat230That also sounds like he died… 🥲

@@lukegimenez8146 He got married and now he's a vocal coach at his local school of Jazz

I didn't even realize this untill I saw this😂😂

or the most popular 6th :P

0:34 Joey's wink after Throwback

@@catswag16 Oh, I missed that! Also 3:12 Jackson and Ryan singing "They're pretty cool" (I was too focused on Jake to notice at first)

4:39 and the „...woah!“

If you watch the original by Avenue Q it hits HOME

Same, and also at 4:45 :D

Girl me too he's magnificent

His mom Kathy Tickner teaches at my old middle school as the art teacher, her husband was also an Olympic medalist, I’m so proud of their family!

whats a girl gotta do to join the jake fanclub around here

@@TheKnowledgeWizard Exist. Everyone is a member by their very existence.

Calm down, they're not perfect. Their humor sometimes misses its mark. Timing and pacing are also slightly unpolished. Joey is sometimes a bit off on the high notes. This was really good song, got one of their best scores. But some of the others weren't up to snuff. Yes they have much more mainstream appeal than the others, and they're also my favourites, but that doesn't make them the best in a technical optic.

LucAs Bune What, are you one of the judges? Barbershop is a dying art, and it’ll keep dying if new blood isn’t injected into the medium. They’ve also really improved-and it sucks that all these old guys are still around, it’s stiff competition.

@@stormcloudsabound They definitely have improved. And i'd even agree that they deserve better than 6th. But the notion that they should flat-out win on the basis that they inject new blood and have mainstream appeal alone, i'mma have to hard disagree.

To be fair, the top 5 was absolutely stacked. Midtown scored a 90.

This is the second song I have heard of theirs and I’m dying for more. Time to continue this binge session.

So, I just kinda got thrusted into this via KZfaq recommendations. You seem to know about them splitting... may I bombard you with some mighty fine questions? ^^ First: This feels like it was part of a TV show. Where did it air? I figured it was some kind of contest and aside from just crawling this youtube channel, I'd love to watch an entire contest to have a bit more context. Second: Is this an annual contest and can I watch it from Germany? (Hallo! ^_^) Third: Is there like a website or Twitter or something where all those related infos land? I'd love to keep an eye out. This stuff is phenominal and so entertaining!

@@IngwiePhoenix Hi! 1. This video was from the Barbershop Harmony Society's 2019 International Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. 2. I believe this is an annual contest, obviously there wasn't one for 2020 but fingers cross we get a 2021 contest! 3. I'm not sure but I'd recommend searching the Barbershop Harmony Society on various media sites, but the best way to see more barbershop videos like this is on the society's KZfaq video :>

yes

I love them they are the only group good enough to funny songs

@@HallowCosmo Plenty of groups do comedy songs. NFF just isn't at a championship level yet with their technical skill. Judges aren't picking on them or anything, they're just not as technically good as the quarters above them yet. Give it 5-10 years and they'll be in the AIC.

At a champion level**

Garret Castro I saw this and was like now this needs to be converted into puppet form

@@meganfrigerio2274 YES oh my god the puppets would be awesome tho

Saw it live off Broadway a few years ago

I know right

I've just noticed that, thanks XD

Pedro Roque don’t we all!

They will be, some day. Don't you worry about that!

Wait 5 - 10 years, they'll defo be there by then.