Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Ben Folds. Edit source History Talk 0. Categories Personnel Judges Add category. We were only in the studio for three days playing around with a lot of new ideas, trying to figure out what to do. The opening numbers put together 16 acts with mics on stage. Piet Levy is the Journal Sentinel's music writer.
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He was so technical about the arrangements that sometimes it confused the other judges or host Nick Lachey. I found that refreshing, though — it made the Sing-Off different from other singing shows, where they talk about the performers' "spirits" in an abstract way. If you watch about five minutes into the clip above — and you should, because it features everyone's favorite Sing-Off alums, Pentatonix, in their first performance on the show — you can see what I mean.
Way to not dumb it down, Folds. And it sounded great. I mean, he already thought about the best ways of arranging his music so it would sound good when performed a cappella.
Doing it again for live TV is only natural. I may be biased because I'm a fan, but, when they'd get the groups to perform songs by the judges, his songs always sounded more layered than the others. I've seen Folds divide the audience for his concerts into three parts and do three-part harmony, so he's definitely into it, and it sounds even cooler in person.
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