i'm morgan, your soprano.
i'm joe, your bass.
hey, i'm orlando, your baritone.
hi, i'm kalen and the mezzo.
hey, i'm rj, your tenor.
and i'm antonio, your beatboxer.
and we are [vocalizing]
dcappella.
and we are here playing the song game with young hollywood.
let's song it up.
so, i'm just going to sing a song with this word in it.
[singing] we're going on tour, we're going on tour, i can't wait to go on tour.
[laughing]
[singing] I'm going to disney.
please don't take my kidneys.
[laughing]
[singing] it might be...
at the piggly wiggly.
sorry, guys.
i think what you have to say is, it'll cost you a kidney to go to disney.
there you go.
no, i like that, though.
i'm going to disney, don't take my kidney.
oh, lord.
who do you think has the best style in the group?
kalen.
i'll answer for all of you.
i'll give it to kalen.
i'll give it to kalen and orlando.
yeah, i'm gonna say orlando.
yeah i think kayla
it would be orlando.
i think kalen and orlando for sure.
yeah.
that's kind of their whole m.o.
it's like...
always fly.
yeah.
morgan also wears great outfits to rehearsals where i'm like, how do you do that?
not today.
how do you wear a beret and a dress?
this was my laundry outfit.
i have nothing else to wear.
i never wear jeans.
i'm only in dresses.
i can't believe you're wearing pants.
i, it's uncomfortable.
they're a little small on me, but it is what it is.
all right, well, here we go.
your turn, rj.
go for it.
could you pass me one without looking?
all right, here we go.
interesting.
[singing] winning, winning, winning, we're all winning, winning, winning, going to japan,
winning, winning, winning, this makes me think of the charlie sheen thing that happened like
10 years ago.
winning.
oh, it's our best attempt yet.
we did it.
yep.
oh.
wam bam thank you ma'am.
oh no. hand me something please.
oh.
okay.
[humming] I dunno.
um, okay, so...
[singing] tour.
we're going on a tour.
we're going on--that's a terrible key for me.
[singing] we're starting our tour in seattle, we're gonna drive across the country and see
cattle.
there you go.
um, i don't know what else rhymes with cattle or seattle, but you're welcome, we're starting
our tour in seattle.
a rattle.
oh, rap battle.
[beatboxing]
[rapping] riding in our tour bus.
morgan has always resorted to being the rapper.
riding in a tour bus.
yep.
this won't go well if that actually is a thing.
all right, i think it's my turn.
dear lord, let this be a question.
yeah.
oh man.
[singing] what a surprise i have in my hands, surprise i have in my hand, this card is red
and peach and purple surprise.
[singing] surprise.
surprise.
ba-do-ba-do-bow.
yeah.
surprise, we're disney's dcappella, we're going on tour this year, and we're going to
be going to seattle, and if you see our show, you'll be winning.
winning.
big time.
make it happen.
there you go.
we did it.
well done.
what is one thing you are looking forward to exploring in japan?
um, probably definitely the food and the nightlife, yeah, for me.
uh, same.
uh, food, nightlife, the culture, the people.
uh, everything i love is in japan, um, and so i'm just happy to be there again and to
be in front of our japanese audiences and fans.
yeah, i'm very excited about the food.
i also am only taking, like, three pairs of shoes with me, because i only want to buy
shoes while i'm there.
they have, like, all these really unique like colorways in their shoes.
especially nikes, so i want some japanese tennis shoes for sure.
i think, well, i know that i want to go to, like, a different cafe every single day, so,
like, i want to see if i can find some really fun, like, themed cafes, like kawaii, like
cute things like pokemon cafes, and, and hello kitty cafes.
yeah. and then, um, also japanese grapes are next level.
there's nothing better.
i'm really excited to check out the nature.
i'm a big fan of nature, so being able to get outside, jump in some cold water maybe,
go float down a river, go on a hike, anything like that.
if i can like hike mount fuji on, like, our day off or something, like, that, that'd be
incredible.
so, nature for sure.
i'll be surprised if you have that kind of energy to hike mount fuji on a day off, but
man.
that's incredible.
i would pass out.
i think i'm most excited for us to be there as i think some of the few tourists, because
we have a work visa, because no one can get into the country right now, so i think it's
going to be just an interesting anthropological experience to not be there with a ton of people
everywhere.
but i'm excited for the onsens.
some self-care, you know?
yeah, that's what i'm looking forward to.
the japanese spa thing.
your u.s.
tour is coming up; what is one item you must have with you?
oh.
my toiletries.
um, all of my, like, self-care products, all the things that i need to help lull me to
sleep at the end of the night, all the things that i need in order for my skin routine to
be on, on, uh, on-point.
um, what else?
he'll be stinky if he doesn't.
yeah, um, just, like, yeah, self-care.
stuff that's gonna make me feel as if i'm home but on a bus.
you know?
or a bullet train, in this case.
or a bullet train.
this was the u.s.
um, my laptop and a really comfortable pillow.
on tour buses, i just like to shut my curtain and be, like, in my little dark cocoon and,
like, watch tv, but i need a comfy pillow to do it.
for me, similar thing.
being an introvert, i need my time of isolation, so my air pods are key.
if i don't have my air pods, i think i'm a little lost in life.
um, yeah, being able to have that, listen to--i just discovered yesterday brown noise.
you guys know about this?
me too.
yeah, it is so ridiculously calming, it's amazing.
i just found this eight-hour youtube video of just brown noise consistently, so i'll
be listening to that everywhere.
can you explain what brown noise is, because [inaudible]?
so, okay, uh, white noise is like tsssss, like more bright.
brown noise is phhhhh, so it's like a softer, like, hum, almost sounds like you're on an
airplane type of a thing.
um, but it's just like, it lulls ya.
um...
lower frequencies is like the big thing about brown noise--
yeah.
--thing called pink noise on top of that?
yeah.
which is like in between white noise and brown noise.
this all sounds like a scam.
thanks, tiktok.
i know, really.
yeah.
it's like asmr.
i would bring, well, i have to have my k-pop music at all times, so my ipad with my spotify
on it?
i don't know.
me with my ipad--okay maybe my phone with my spotify.
for me, it's just headphones.
headphones, an eye mask, flonase so that i'm not stuffy [sniffing] doing this all the time.
yeah.
your video for "cantina band" marks the first time ever an outside film crew was permitted
to shoot within oga's cantina in star wars galaxy's edge at disney's hollywood studios
walt disney world.
how long is that?
what was that like?
we should ask our resident star wars expert how that was, because she partic--i mean,
she has tattoos all over her of queen amidala, and, yeah.
um, it was surreal, it was such a cool experience.
i know rj has said before, it really felt like we were in one of the movies.
it was a huge set, there were a hundred-plus extras on the set with us, and we got to all
have our own, like, iconic star wars entrances into the video, so, you know, revealed from
the shadows or a hologram. he was a jedi hologram, which was super cool.
uh, yeah, it was awesome, it was a really cool way to pay homage to the cantina band
song from the mos eisley cantina from the original film, uh, but also kind of modernize
it and put our own dcappella spin on it.
it's an orchestral song, and we did it with just voices, so it was really special to be
able to showcase that and film a music video.
it's also super cool to be there until, like, 5 in the morning, singing, and it's just another
experience, i think, at that time of night, that early in the morning, when no one's there.
it's extra surreal doing it at those off hours.
you came together for a nationwide search.
what advice would you give to others trying out for their dreams?
um, that is a great question.
i would say to be persistent, um, and, you know, um, of course, like, all the cliche
things like believe in yourself, but try to be as prepared as you can.
um, you know, auditioning is, is a job and a process within itself, so, um, i think it's
okay if you get your dream at certain points in your life too, like, don't go into one
thing and put all your eggs in a basket and then be disappointed if it doesn't happen.
it doesn't mean it's not going to happen, it just might mean not right now.
um, so just positive, i guess, mentality, like, reinforcement when you're walking into
those spaces too.
um, very much so alongside, uh, orlando.
uh, perseverance, leading with love, leading with positivity, um, and, like you said, um,
don't think that the end goal is just one thing.
it's many things, and i had an opportunity before this that i thought was going to be
the biggest and best thing ever; that didn't end up working out, but it led me to this,
and i'm so grateful to be here, and so, just knowing that the next best thing could be
right around the corner.
um, i would say just putting yourself in as many situations as possible where you'll be
in rooms full of people who do what you want to do.
and also, when you're, like, taking classes, so, like, for me, like, i love musical theater,
so i would put myself in dance classes that maybe were a little bit higher than my actual
level so i could be around people who are, are really good at what they do and push me
to be better.
um, so putting yourself in rooms with people that do what you love and, and, and putting
yourself in rooms with people who are better than you, honestly, um, it helps me personally.
it helps push me a little harder.
i think to morgan's point, something that we talk about a lot as a group when we answer
questions like this is, uh, passion is key, but practice is even more key, so you can
have the passion for something and you can have the talent for something, but practice
that, work on your craft, because passion will get you really far, and charisma will
get you really far, but take care of the gift that you've been given, and take care of it
in the way of practicing and working hard and continuing to hone your craft and learning
new skills, because that is what will differentiate you from the other people who are in your
same field.
some great advice up here.
at risk of not saying the same thing again, um, yeah, i think what--having a career in
the arts is, is really a gift, and you really have to, you really have to want it in your
bones.
it's, it's a calling, so, i think that, um, yeah, just the tenacity and, and the drive
and your work ethic has to be the foundation of talent.
i think talent is just, isn't enough.
um, and i'm sure that's cliche as well, but, um, yeah, that's, yeah, every, there's been
some great advice up here.
yeah, great advice for sure.
and i feel like piggybacking off of what kalen's talking about.
for me, the biggest thing that sticks out is the, uh, the definition of luck where preparation
meets opportunity, where people are thinking, man, they're so lucky, and you may have no
idea how many days, weeks, months, years, decades was put into that craft.
and so, being able to, i know it can be difficult, but being able to almost create the light
at the end of the tunnel until it's actually there, believing that it's going to be there,
and so preparing yourself for something to come, and hopefully someday does, and when
it does, you'll be ready.
that, i feel like, is, can be some of the most difficult things to wrap your head around,
but being able to focus on that, happens--i mean, when it's there, you're ready, you're
ready to rock.
thank you so much for watching and hopefully playing along with us on these silly song
games and questions and answers.
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