#acaplaya ramblings

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I didn't have the space to fit this one into my Voiceplay Visuals part 1 post for Thriller (dang image limit) but I felt compelled to share this one anyway, so here, have a bonus Geoff pic! Honestly he's so pretty (yes yes put another dollar in the jar), and maybe it's just me but it feels like this could be like a painting or something?

(Also would anyone at all be interested in a post or two of me showing off some of the pics of Geoff that I've accumulated? I have a whole folder full of them)

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Oh boy LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS!

So basically when VoicePlay released their cover of Sleeping In The Cold Below back in February, the creators of Warframe absolutely loved it (as they should - the cover is a freaking banger), and wanted to do a proper collaboration.

This apparently took months of planning, and VP did a good job of staying quiet on this - it was only late in October that we started getting a teeny tiny sneak peek, when Omar posted a clip on his Insta story of some of his makeup/prosthetics, and you could tell he was at Pattycake.

Also Warframe straight up altered the designs of one of the "On Lyne" boy band members, and you can't convince me that they didn't model him to look like Geoff at least somewhat.

Like here's one image of this boy band (idk when the image was first made public):

And now here's another:

One of them look familiar to you??? 😂 (honestly good for him; it's what he deserves)

The Patreon post about it actually gave us a release date, so I guess that's when us Patrons will be getting it at least, and then everyone else might be getting it a bit later? Either way, I'm really hyped for another video with choreography/boy band dancing (wish come true!), and I sense another Voiceplay Visuals opportunity!!!

2024 was the Year of Shadow.

2025 will be the Year of VoicePlay!

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(As per previous videos, this was written up after I got Early Access on Patreon, but before I had actually watched it. Thoughts/Commentary post will be up not long after the YouTube premiere)

My guess was right! It's Thriller! And J None's back!!!!

I thought they weren't gonna do this song unless they could get Omar Cardona for it, but I guess this was too big of an idea to miss out on, and obviously J is gonna be perfect for it as well!

Honestly, after the god-tier amazingness of Hellfire last year, I've been really keen for months about what VoicePlay would do for Halloween 2024. And now? Well of course I'm still super excited, but I'm also scared 😅

Of course the song cover itself will undoubtedly be super amazing (I can practically hear Geoff doing that bassline already!) but what the heck is the music video going to be like? (And again, remember that I haven't got a proper thumbnail to go off of, and in fact I haven't even yet read the description of the Patreon post!) I'm hoping for no jumpscares like in the teaser (@VoicePlay y'all make me high-strung enough already thank you very much!), and that hopefully I can survive whatever Geoff looks like, for better or for worse (y'all reading this will obviously know what he looks like just from the premiere thumbnail posted above, but I'm keeping this here anyway).

Oh and also Geoff better do at least some of Vincent Price's spooky monologue or else what is even the POINT.

See you on the other side, I guess!

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It's time for YouTube Music's annual music recap, and just like last year, I downloaded the app purely to get my summary/statistics, and then deleted it again.

No surprises here, though honestly I wasn't quite sure if VoicePlay and Geoff would be that high up in my artists list (or top songs), because my music range has been more varied on YouTube as compared to my Spotify usage, but no, they still took the top spots! 😁

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Man, what is it with me and men who can sing who care a whole dang lot about their son and wife (as they should, don't get me wrong)

Like okay one is Geoff and the other is Odysseus from Epic The Musical/The Odyssey, but still, when I'm in two fandoms at once, you can't blame my brain for finding/making connections!

(EDIT: any Epic fans who see this and decide to leave a like on this are legally obligated to go to Geoff Castellucci's YouTube channel and listen to at least one of his covers /j)

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Okay, I did a first watch-through/reaction and was going to type a few thoughts and then go back and rewatch it, but then I realized I'd probably have more to say after the second time.

Probably won't do a Voiceplay Visuals post for this video (unless any of you really want one anyway), but that doesn't mean there weren't any interesting things to look at! Really need to go back and pause a few times when I inevitably go back and rewatch after writing this

This was an Eli & Layne arrangement! The last time Eli and Layne collabed on a song arrangement was for Enemy, and the last time Eli did any sort of arrangement at all was for Creep (which also featuring Anthony Gargiula, interestingly enough)

I thought from the teaser image that this was maybe filmed at OptiView360 like Sleeping In The Cold Below, but actually it was filmed at Vū Studio Orlando, the same place that was used for Valhalla Calling!

We love a good subharmonic drop from Geoff <3 (and I love his grey streak too okay bye)

Oh boy I cannot wait for the reaction videos for this one! Plus I feel like this cover deserves some proper analysis that I don't have enough knowledge to do myself!

And just like with Sleeping In The Cold Below, Voiceplay have created this fascinating world/story concept, that just makes me want more!!!!

(Never beating the non-human allegations now /j)

Black Hole Sun - VoicePlay ft. Anthony Gargiula (acapella) Soundgarden #...

This is just mind-blowing 🤯 As someone who loves the original and ADORES the cyberpunk aesthetic, it's like VoicePlay put this piece of art together for me specifically. Treat your ears today and give it a listen.

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For those of you not on TikTok (neither am I but I found out from the Patreon Discord server), Geoff created a Carol Of The Bells singing challenge, to see if anybody could sing four lines in four octaves, and he demonstrates!

"Hark how the bells" - 4th octave "Sweet silver bells" - 3rd octave "All seem to say" - 2nd octave "Throw cares away" - 1st octave (in chest!)

Y'know, normal person behaviour. /lh

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He's never beating the dragon allegations honestly /j

Also he's getting really good at holding subharmonic notes I mean like damn

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VoicePlay hopes/predictions for 2025

So it's very extremely hard to guess what songs VoicePlay will cover, because they can and will do basically anything and everything, and Geoff is relatively diverse in his solo stuff as well, but in terms of more general video/song concepts, I actually had a few wishes that came true in 2024! I wanted more of the guys (or at least just Geoff) wearing eyeliner, and we got Be Prepared. I wanted more of Geoff playing piano in a video, and we got Imagine as well as Wicked Game. I wanted more choreography stuff, and we got Thriller and Party Of Your Lifetime. And so with that in mind, I have just a few humble requests of things I would enjoy seeing/hearing on either channel in the new year! (And after reading through this list, I've realised that most of it is to do with Geoff specifically, oop-)

Another "Disney Princess Geoff" moment, like in We Don't Talk About Bruno or Christmas Don't Be Late. I'm not fussy on specifics, but please, let me have this, I know Geoff would be up for that kind of thing, and it would be the best, whatever it turns out to be *cough* Geoff in a dress *cough*

And for that matter, more of Geoff having some more colour in his outfits, please! Like yes of course he always looks fantastic in black, but I want more stuff to make fanart of where I can actually use colour in my art, dangit!

I would love love love to hear more of Rock Tenor Geoff. Doesn't have to be anything super high/dramatic, even if I just got to hear more of him singing like he did for that one bit of In The Air Tonight (you know the bit), please and thank you.

Another Disney song cover or Disney medley from VoicePlay! 1 because well I love Disney music, and 2 because they've done at least one Disney thing per year since at least like 2017 now? So I feel like this is a fairly reasonable prediction to make.

Geoff singing an actual proper love song, PLEASE! Like okay yes sure Till Then does count, and you could maybe count Way Down as well, but still, I want another! Anything swoon-worthy plz, it would live in my head rent-free for months and I'd be okay with that!

And speaking of Geoff solo stuff, I might as well make note of my hope for a Geoff original song! Multiple of us Patrons have been dreaming of the day, and maybe it'll come in 2025, and maybe it won't (it probably won't, but eh), but someday, surely! (But if/when it ever happens, it might easily become my favourite song of the year, and perhaps favourite ever?).

Oh and also not technically related to Geoff or VoicePlay's channels, but I'm also really hoping that Pattycake Productions finally completes and uploads the Halloween video that got delayed for two years! It's likely gonna be another Layne & Tony original song, and it's meant to be featuring Geoff! It was originally meant to happen in 2023, but it got postponed, and then it was gonna release in 2024, but it didn't happen again! So like for Halloween 2025, please let us see it!

WILDCARD: VoicePlay superhero video. Because the Patrons were talking on the Discord a handful of months ago about "gimmicks" that VP haven't done yet, and the concept of superheroes got a decent bit of discussion.

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Okay, so when I was like "hey maybe VoicePlay could do an updated version of one of their songs from their Peppermint Winter album or something like that?" this was not one of the songs that I ever would have predicted for a refresh! Still, seems like it was a good idea for me to have a full listen-through of that album like a week or two ago! Their 2012 version features Geoff quite heavily (it's a Louis Armstrong song to be fair), but I have also watched a video of them doing it live at Disney World and that version is a bit different in the arrangement (and the Patreon video description even says that this is Layne's third time arranging this song for VoicePlay), so who knows what it's gonna be like! You won't be getting a Voiceplay Visuals for this one, but as always, I'll have a thoughts/commentary post scheduled for not long after this video premieres! See you then!

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And now it's (almost) time for the first proper VoicePlay music video of the year! It's been a while, I know; as of me typing this, I don't even know whether we're getting the public release of this video before a new song from Geoff or after (should've definitely been after, but stuff happens, y'know) (EDIT From Future Me: definitely afterwards)

Anyway, when VoicePlay released early access for their Mini of "the Line" on Patreon, they indicated in the post description/caption that that wouldn't be the only song from Arcane season 2 they'd be covering, and well, they certainly weren't misleading!

I haven't watched any episodes of Arcane, either season, but that's no worry! As much as I enjoy seeing VoicePlay cover songs that I'm already familiar with, I also definitely love getting introduced to songs/music I never would have listened to otherwise because of them! (Same goes for Geoff covers, of course). And their cover of Enemy was definitely awesome, so I'm excited for this one! (And we always gotta love it when J None is with the group again!)

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there'll be enough stuff happening in the video itself for it to be worth a VoicePlay Visuals post (EDIT: ehhhh maybe not), but either way, I'll still have a thoughts/commentary post ready to go for after the video has dropped publicly! See ya there!

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It seems VoicePlay have been busy doing filming for their October/Halloween video! (And yes I know they haven't posted anything (full-length) for September yet but it should be coming this Friday/Saturday, hopefully (timezone-dependent)).

(Note: neither of these are my screenshots - both got shared by different people on the VoicePlay Patreon Discord server).

At this point in time at least I really know nothing about what VoicePlay have in store for us for October, only that this year, Geoff is in charge of the Halloween song/video, not Layne (just the way the "arrangement/video leader roster" worked out this year, I guess?).

And if by some miracle they managed to get Omar Cardona as the collaborator for this one (he's been busy performing in an off-Broadway musical), then I'm pretty sure I know what song they're doing, because it's a song the Patrons have been requesting and Omar is the one that Geoff said he'd want as the collaborator if they were to do it. But I really don't know, and I'm not holding my breath. Whatever it is, I know it'll be amazing!

(And finally, I wonder if Geoff is wearing at least some of his video outfit in that photo or if that's just casual clothing, because I like the red/maroon/magenta shirt and it's not a colour he wears all that often, and pairing it with the unbuttoned black shirt feels like a deliberate choice. Okay bye)

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VoicePlay 'Zat You, Santa Claus? - thoughts/commentary

Oh I loved this so much! Over on my "main" blog, BismuthBookshelf, I made a post like a week ago (about my favourite non-VP/Geoff Christmas music videos) where I mentioned how I was wanting more jazzy Christmas music, and this might not be the same sort of vibe as Man With The Bag or I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm, but it's still great! And of course it's wonderful to see J with the group yet again!

Okay so starting off with the set design: Filmed at Pattycake, duh, and the brickwork kinda looks like a set that VoicePlay and/or Geoff have used before (like Geoff's Shenandoah video kinda?), except for the windows and the vertical wood planks. Idk, I'm writing this before the BTS video is out but I'll update it if I figure anything out (EDIT: yeah the woodplanks were added in for this shoot, and maybe the windows too, as the "bricks" aren't actually bricks)

Love all the Christmas decor, like the carousel and the felt/fabric Christmas calendar(?) thing hanging up, and the tree! (How long did that take to set up and decorate? EDIT: actually Layne's wife Cyndi helped a lot with set design!)) And of course the Voiceplay logo symbol on top of the tree is brilliant. At least a few Patrons have already been wishing for that to be an item in VP's merch store. Also the five stockings hanging up have each of the guys' first initials on them! <3 (From closest to camera to furthest away, it's G, C, J, E, & L).

The guys are all looking very snazzy in this video. Love Cesar's scarf, love Layne's red sweater(?) (the most colour that any of them are wearing in the video), and honestly Geoff is really working that long-sleeve black turtleneck, man! 👀 (And obligatory shoutout to Geoff's hair, of course, *chefs kiss*)

I'm of course just typing this all from the Patreon early access thing, but fun fact: this is both the second Christmas video and the second consecutive video of this year to be filmed without an actual cameraman! But unlike using an iPhone like in the previous cases, this was filmed using a robotic camera arm, fully programmed to the music, able to repeat precise movements with each take! I highly doubt Voiceplay are gonna give up on using human camera operators completely, but this is still a cool thing to have as a potential option for video shoots! (EDIT: it's called "Cinebot", and a guy called Ben Meyers helped out with programming/operating it!)

Right, now time to talk more about the vocals and the song arrangement itself!

As per with previous thoughts/commentary posts, most of these notes are after a second watch, with a few extra thoughts mixed in from additional watches, because as I've said before, the first-time watch is just for the vibes

Y'know when I listened to the cover of Zat You Santa Claus on the Peppermint Winter album, I was like "eh it doesn't really have much of a Christmassy vibe imo, gives me more spy movie vibes?" but like with this version I don't even care (the video makes up for it, it's fine), and by the the time you're reading this post, this song will have replaced the old version in my Christmas Spotify playlist!

On my second watch-through, I had the song lyrics up on my phone (while the video played on my laptop), and that made me realize that a few lines got slightly reworded, and then there's a whole section that's not in the original! The bit where they're singing "he's coming for you/hope you've not been bad" or something like that is definitely new, but not new for VoicePlay, because I went back and relistened to the 2012 Peppermint Winter cover and that section is in there as well.

Doing a relisten of their previous cover also made me realise that this arrangement really is different to the older one, even genre-wise, and I like this one more!

Okay I'm gonna do a third watch-through, pausing to take notes as I go, just to make sure I don't miss anything or forget to mention anything here!

A nice bit of whistling from Cesar at the start! (Seriously can everyone whistle except me? 😅)

"Is that you, Santa Claus?" pfft I love the little bit of dramatic flair Geoff put on the delivery of that line 😁

"Are you bringing a present for me?" ooh that harmony at the start of that line! I don't wanna say it's dissonant, because I'm not a music expert and I really don't know, but it sounded "different" and I liked it!

"Something pleasant that you can present; a present for me" this is one of the main line changes, because in the original (and in their 2012 cover as well, in fact), it's "something pleasantly pleasant for me". But sure, why not change it up a bit?

Eli killing it as always!

Oh man I'm almost tempted to make a screenshot compilation just for the "he's coming to get ya" section alone ngl. All their facial expressions are just so great! I feel like I gotta watch this video five times and just focus on a different person each time!

I'm assuming the YouTube description will confirm it (and/or the BTS video), but Patrons are guessing that "Santa" (the one handing over the present) is Tony, which'd make sense (though I'm also guessing that the voice of Santa would be Eli, since he did the same thing in Mission Jingle Bells and Oogie Boogie's Song, and was "Sandy Claws" in Jingle Bell Rock last year.

UPDATE TO THE ABOVE: Nope, that was actually Bucky as Santa Claus! Or as the YouTube description puts it: "Zat Ur Hands? - Bucky Claus" 😂

Omg now I'm just thinking that it would've been really funny if Geoff had subtly sang "Is that you, Sandy Claws", as a fun little double throwback, lol.

Not sure what I love more - Eli killing it on lead vocals yet again, or Geoff just fully grinning as Eli does so 😄

"Who's there, who is it? Are you - stopping for a -" Layne!!! I love him honestly, and it's always great when he gets a little bit of lead vocals.

J's Louis Armstrong impression was freaking amazing, and so was the scatting!

Yeah I love this song and video so much - it's so fun, they all look like they had a great time filming it, and it's such a freaking vibe!

And that's VoicePlay's final song of 2024 (SIKE! We still got Party Of Your Lifetime to come, but hey, I didn't know that when I was first writing up this post!) other than some VoicePlay Minis and stuff (and Party Of Your Lifetime!). I of course have not a single clue what VP has in store for 2025, but that's just part of the greatness of VoicePlay! You never know what you're gonna get next, but it's always gonna be amazing in its own way.

Happy Holidays, and see you soon for both some 2024 roundup posts from me, as well as whatever Voiceplay has been cooking up next! ;)

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Geoff Castellucci Carol Of The Bells - thoughts/commentary

Excuse me while I go pick my jaw up from the floor because like MY GOD????

So yeah Peter Hollens' cover has been definitely dethroned in my mind! Geoff has done it again! This feels like the spiritual successor to his God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen cover and I love it so much!

Okay so the thing is that this dropped to Patreon late in the morning last Sunday for me (the day after Zat You Santa Claus appeared on VP's Patreon), when I was about to go out shopping with my mum, so I barely had just enough time to watch it (there was no way I could wait when I saw what the song was!), and thus didn't start typing stuff up until I returned home from shopping (yes, my premiere post was actually typed up after I had already watched the video, but it was still true of my thoughts before I had hit play). And then after I got home, I had other new videos to watch, a Christmas tree to decorate, a dog to walk, etc, and basically it's now nighttime, roughly 10 hours later, that I'm able to watch it for a second time. So I'm gonna do what I did with VoicePlay's Christmas upload, and rewatch it on my laptop while pausing to type up notes on my phone, so I don't forget to mention anything. (And I won't be doing Voiceplay-adjacent visuals for this one, so I'll have thoughts on the video itself here as well).

Review/commentary below the cut!

Love the beginning with the audible crackling from the fireplace! Really helps start to set the mood/vibe right off the bat and draw you in!

One of the Patrons drew attention to the fact that all of the "Geoffs" walk into shot in this one, and actually yeah that's a new thing for Geoff! And I gotta wonder if that was an additional editing challenge for him. It works phenomenally well though - like I didn't even think about it at first really!

Ooh that first piano note with like the background reverb(?) and the strings and stuff, now that sure sets a tone!

Obligatory appreciation for the hair - the grey streak is becoming one of multiple grey "highlights" and I love it. Okay moving on, just had to get that off my chest as per usual!

Oh wow that backing percussion! Almost sounds like a bit of war drums in there? (Seriously, this is basically God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen part 2 and it's THE BEST)

Dang it's close to like a full minute before we get the first proper vocal line (as in proper lyrics rather than humming or stuff) but it doesn't matter because he has me ENTRANCED.

In Geoff's most recent monthly webchat on his Patron, he had told us that there was like a couple or a few good subharmonics in his upcoming song cover, and OH HE WASN'T KIDDING!

"Merry Christmaaaaaaaa..." and that is where my jaw dropped, and basically stayed dropped for most of the rest of the video. SIR!

Okay so like it's a little hard to be sure, due to the heavy reverb effects on the sub (which I personally think was a great addition - makes it more epic!) but like uhhh did he hold that subharmonic for 14 seconds? Like I know he held a B0 sub for 15 seconds in Valhalla Calling, but like still, dude!

And I of course gotta give some love to Tenor!Geoff as well. Geoff is getting so good at using his upper register!

"All seem to say... Throw cares awaaaayyyy..." Case in point! Gosh that was so dang gorgeous!

I honestly wish I had more to say about this cover, because it is phenomenal, but basically I sat through most of that rewatch with a massive grin on my face. That was freaking stunning, and honestly a video I'd be dang tempted to watch year-round, because seriously, wow.

In about half an hour from now, VoicePlay's Zat You Santa Claus? cover will be dropping, and then half an hour after that will be my thoughts/commentary for it! (I swear I had to edit the bottom of both this post and the other one because I predicted Geoff's video to be premiering at some point after VoicePlay's, not before). I'm gonna be doing a couple of posts summarising all the videos we've gotten from both Geoff and VoicePlay this year, because why not, and I'll have them posted at some point before Christmas! Now onto Christmas With VoicePlay!

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A random selection of old VoicePlay live performances

I had vaguely considered making separate posts for each of these, but eh, let's just throw em in together.

Want something to help entertain yourself while you wait for any new VoicePlay/Geoff content? Well here's a small selection of live show recordings that I stumbed across over the past month or two! I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

4:2:Five - Frankie Valli Four Seasons Medley

This one isn't technically VoicePlay - it's pre-VoicePlay! Aka the group under their former name, 4:2:Five. Apparently this was for some "Celebrity Cruises, CLIA award dinner" (just based on the first couple seconds of the video), all the way back in 2010! So we have Geoff, Layne, and Earl all looking very young (baby Geoff! 💜), and then they're also joined by former members Danny Alan and Ryan Reed (shoutout to one of the Patrons in the Discord server for identifying them for me!)

I knew every song here, and I loved both the singing and the bits of choreography, but the first time I watched this it took me an embarrassing amount of time to fully realize that "oh wait this isn't actually acapella" 😅😂

VoicePlay - Boy Band Medley (Acapella) (from 2013)

Last month (back in December) I happened to hear What Makes You Beautiful by 1D on the car radio. My first thought was "god this song must be over 10 years old now" (correct - it's 13 years old), but my second thought was thinking that VoicePlay would be great at covering the song. I said this in the Geoff's Patrons Discord server, and someone else was like "they have covered it", and of course I was like "link???"

I still think a cover of "What Makes You Beautiful" done by the current lineup now would be amazing (with either Omar or Anthony as the collaborator maybe?), but this was definitely fun as well! Honestly it's kinda fun to go into a medley like this, not knowing for sure what songs are gonna be used, and so you have like one or two seconds of uncertainty when a new song starts, and then it clicks and you're like "oh my goodness"

If you're reading this without watching the video and you're being like "what do you mean you weren't sure about the song lineup? Isn't it just more or less the same as their 2019 boy band medley?" Nope, there's only three songs here that also make it to their Boy Bands In 5 Minutes video (also the 1D song they replaced WMYB with, Best Song Ever, hadn't even been released yet when this live performance was done! As it came out in July 2013, while this was January 2013).

As I watched this video, I quickly realized that if I had somehow known about VoicePlay in this early era (and had been like 2 or 3 years older than what I actually was in 2013), Geoff wouldn't have been the one who would draw my eye the most… I would've been giving most of my attention to Tony 😅 (what can I say - he can dance and he looks great in eyeliner)

Kinda amusing to see that apparently the joke about Geoff being "old" has been going on even since his short-hair days.

'WOW HITS' VoicePlay on The Sing-Off Tour 2015

When I asked for the link to the previous video, this video ended up being shared in the chat soon after as well, and I was like "alright sure, might as well watch it", and yeah it's pretty great 😄 (And also Utterly Ridiculous)

Was so blown away by getting a Layne rap section that I kinda hadn't fully processed what song it was, and so the drop into the "chorus" with the background choreo movements from the other four guys fully kicked me in the face 🤣

I wasn't fully familiar with every song here like I was for the previous two medleys (never heard of "Drunk On A Plane" before in my life), but hey, it's still overall a good time (even if I feel like I'm missing a bit of context with the "WOW album thing, lol)

Voiceplay - Oogie Boogie Song Live 12-20-19

This one was also shared in the VP Discord server back in December last year, though the original video of course comes from 2019, and it's a live Disneyworld performance! (I think)

Look, if you're a big VP fan like me, then you likely know Oogie Boogie's Song off by heart. And if you watch as many reaction channels as I do, then you perhaps may even know it inside out and backwards. But this video is still worth a watch in my opinion! (Though note that the audio is a little iffy, and there's a bit of a feedback noise when Geoff goes for the E1 sub)

I've mentioned this back in my Voiceplay Visuals post I did for Oogie Boogie's Song, but basically that video is one of the few videos where my brain struggles to fully comprehend Geoff as "Geoff". It's hard to explain. I still know it's him, obviously, and it's not like a Song Of Durin situation or a Hide And Seek situation, but with the heavy face makeup and the costuming and the in-character theatrics and all, he's very much being a different person (or, well, Boogey Man, I suppose).

All of ⬆️ the above point to say that this video is honestly really something! Like seeing Geoff looking like his regular self (no costuming or face paint), but with him still acting in-character and just looking like he's having a good time? Man it's almost too much for me to handle, I love him so much <3

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So there's an unofficial Discord server for Geoff's Patrons (he's very much aware of it and totally cool with it), and last night someone said that we should've suggested Geoff do a new cover of Be Prepared from The Lion King for Halloween (last we heard, he's yet to decide on a song for this year). And then someone else presented a description of how Geoff could dress/appear for such a video and it's been living in my head all day rent-free, so now I'm sharing it with all of you (but tweaked/added onto, courtesy of me)

Geoff with black hair (or at least very very dark brown) (but still with the white-grey streak (maybe even with the streak being more prominent?)), a scar across one eye, of course, and a low-cut shirt (maybe even a slightly ragged shirt with rips in it) (sleeves optional).

I swear if it wasn't for the fact that I'm in the middle of working on a big/super-detailed fanart thing that I wanna get finished as soon as possible, I'd be so tempted to try and draw this. But maybe I'll keep it in the back of my mind and get around to it at some point after I finish my current art thing. And I'll just leave you all with the mental image for now ✌️