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i just love how becca was just like...a girl who listened to music and wore eyeliner and everyone acted like she was morticia addams levels of trad goth plzzzz
girl was the extent of edgy for upper middle class people with parents with enough money to pay for college lmao. she could afford to actually wear any alt fashion but like. thats too scary for her for sure
The scene where Aubrey violently throws up for like fifteen seconds straight and they're all scrambling around in it for the little whistle thingy literally scarred me for life and I've never ever been the same
We the people, have our tickets for the long way round. Two bottles whiskey for the way… etc etc, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America .
Fun Fact: When Cynthia sings S&M and sings the "na na na c'mon part," Esther actually sings that in the real S&M. Esther does the background vocals in that song so that's another cool correlation/
The fact that I was in A Cappella in college and we basically exclusively partied with each other but hooking up was HIGH DRAMA and every practice was HIGH STAKES because all 3 groups were competing for the favor of the Musical Director of the school….. Pitch Perfect is very accurate
i think that pitch perfect being released in 2012 is key to why it is so iconic. if it wad released today, tiktok would CAPTURE AND DESTROY the cup song and everyone would hate it. but due to it being made in the olden days, it is and will forever be iconic.
Honestly it was annoying then too but it had a good few months of being fun before it got too much.... I agree these days it would get annoying within a week and it would've been done
the cup song was so *revolutionary* that my music teacher brought in a bunch of plastic cups to class one day and we just learned it in a circle for the whole lesson. Yes. we did it in a circle, exchanging cups, a constant flowing rotation. A dance. That's a core memory right there
We did a similar thing but with almost all of the school. I still get the chills when I think about today❤, great to hear there are other people out there with the same experiences😊
our literal class teacher would pull up the youtube video and have us do the cup-song as a reward if we did good during class- we were like eleven when she would do this. it was literally iconic
maybe i’m just a cynic but I’m so convinced that the directors just googled “emotional movies with good endings”, saw The Breakfast Club and ran with it without ever watching it
The Breakfast Club is one of those movies where either you get it or not. not the really the meaning but the feeling. I bawled my eyes out on my first watch and so did many people.
ON EVERYTHING 👏🏻 haha I just found this channel today with this video... I'm an instant fan girlie now 😂 No, but for real he's talented & HILARIOUS. I thought the anaconda cup song cutaway was going to end my life💀 I was laughing so hard 😂😂😂😂
bestie PLEASE cover the second one because my brain could never truly comprehend how the barden bellas, OF ALL PEOPLE, beat pentatonix at an international acapella competition...
Some general praise: Im convinced Mike is actually a genius. To be this in tune with media, culture and memes while having a Master's degree in engineering is wild to me, not to mention the humor, vocabulary and editing. Every student at our engineering and computer science department is a socialy-awkward, musky straight incel dude whose abilities and interests dont go beyond tech and nerd media. Mike has both, witty af. Literally the most tolerable male STEM-Major.
@@yippeeioh Also him still having a computer science day job coding while putting together 5 hour videos about TV shows with plot and character analysis. You can tell from his videos that he genuinely loves education and math, but its soooo not his whole personality, which is inspiring tbh cuz many tech people do make it their isolated interest. He knows about fashion as well. Im in awe honestly. As a fellow queer person with STEM degrees (not engineering tho) that is not the typical person you would expect, Mike slays. Being good in STEM *and* being a popculture girlie? Possible!
Timestamp is 10:05, for those who don't know. That monologue is forever burned into my memory, I'll sometimes act the whole thing out in front of the mirror. I can't believe Mike did that 😭😭
I started college in the fall of 2012. You would not believe the amount of acapella clubs that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. And people singing together in random spots around campus. And doing the cup song in the cafeteria. It was EVERYWHERE.
Being a band nerd around this time and suddenly so many people in the band and color guard deciding that they can and should sing acapella in-between rehearsals and performances, just a little bit of hell. It also didn't help that Pentatonix are locals, a lot of kids thought they had something going on
I was in high school when this movie came out and one girl literally started an acapella group for her senior project because of this movie. It was actually kind of slay, ngl
In regards to her Dad mentioning she's going to college for free: in the States, many public schools allow their professors' children to attend for free, as like a benefit since most professors make no money. So, she went to school for free because her dad teachs there. (I think they do still have to apply like everyone else, but once they are accepted, it's free.)
As an american, I wish this was true. Some colleges might have deals like that for some faculties children but most only offer a discount on tuition. Still the chance for lots of debt 😭
I was a freshman in college in 2013-2014. The best part of the legacy of Glee & Pitch Perfect was the acknowledged hottest guy on campus wasn’t a frat president or athlete, he was a member of our a cappella group.
It's also fun because Ester Dean literally wrote 'S&M' too! (Interestingly, she also sings a lot of the chorus on 'Superbass' as well as being one of the writers)
1:07 Speak for yourself, I remember everything about the plot. Chloe’s giant grin when she meets Beca at the activity fair. Chloe barging in on Beca in the shower and the two of them naked singing Titanium. Cup song. Chloe flirting with Beca at the party. Chloe using teaching Beca to dance as an excuse to be all over her. Anna Kendrick rapping No Diggity. Beca and Chloe creating a mash up of a love song and a break up song.
@@_Ash0099 Last time I checked they were far and away the most popular Pitch Perfect fanfiction pairing on ao3, so definitely not just you! Anna and Brittany even filmed an alternate ending to the third movie where they kiss!
i have been obsessed with pitch perfect for years. i've seen all three movies far too many times. i have no idea why i love them so much. not singing along horribly trying to sing all the parts at once for every song is a crime to me lol. cynthia is my favorite for obvious reasons. i'd die for her. overjoyed that you're covering this absolutely vital piece of media.
Fun fact : I once watched this movie every single day during the entire summer of 2013 and now every single word to this movie is forever burned into my brain :)
Me and my mum learnt the cup song and showed my grandparents. In my granddad's will, he said "the song with the cups about missing me when I'm gone". Apparently he always said you'll miss me when I'm gone. I don't think anyone has seen a family laugh and cry at a funeral before. It summed him up. The song always makes me happy and a bit sad
there is one point in one of his glee videos (the one he wears the red sweatsuit, the first one i think) where he just GETS. DOWN. and i listened to it on loop like 5 times
I was a huge a cappella fan, and my second year in college, I got into a group. It was only a few months after Pitch Perfect came out. A cappella truly is like a small fraternity/sorority group. You do everything together and party together. And what could have been a very nerdy and niche thing I loved suddenly became a cultural phenomenon and everyone I told I did a cappella thought it was super cool. “You do a cappella? Like Pitch Perfect?? Do you do sing offs too?” I guarantee if that movie didn’t come out, no one would have thought I was cool for doing a cappella. 🤣
I used to have the entire riff off memorised and could perform it at a drop of a hat. And i have never put the same level of effort into learning something since
The fact it’s been 11 years and I still think about this movie once a day. It’s imprinted in my brain. I still sing the mashups while showering or doing any mundane task
as a librarian, i feel i must inform that this lovely film is loosely based on a non-fiction book titled pitch perfect: the quest for collegiate a capella glory. thank you, that is all
God, I had a whirlwind obsession with this movie. I watched it every night for like a week straight, and then I was over it. But totally taught myself the cups song during that period of time and performed it for the person that showed me the movie...what a wild time.
"HAVE" to go to work? What, for money? Food? Yeah right you're just not a real fan. Mike is LITERALLY feeding you right now and you want more? Selfish. Greedy. Also have a good day at work ❤️
I was in the competitive acapella scene this movie is based off of, met Deke Sharon once. This is literally biographical to what it's like. My group once learned pig latin so we could trash talk other groups at regionals/semis without them being able to tell.
It's actually amazing how accurate this is as a glimpse into acappella/choir scenes but most people are so far away from it they do not even understand
This movie urged me to join an Acapella group a year ago and it literally led to me meeting more people on campus and finally feeling like I had a friend group❤ I love this movie and it still makes me smile so much after watching it as an adult
About the free college thing: many schools in the US will let immediate family members of full-time faculty attend the school tuition-free. They usually still have to pay for everything else tho. I think that’s what they’re implying here.
To clarify, that’s almost always for private universities, which are usually much smaller and there are fewer of them. They also usually have to be R1 universities which means there’s a very high level of research activity happening and they’re very well regarded. There’s like 40 of those in the US. And I don’t think it’s very many of them that offer 100% free tuition.
Hilariously enough, I work at a university, in the medical hospital, so that my child can go to college for free. After I've been there a year, their school will be completely free.
The soundtracks for all 3 Pitch Perfect movies totally shred but there's just something special about that first movie's showstopping cups song trickling down into school's worldwide for the soul purpose of annoying teachers. Also, we all know DSM should have won in the 2nd movie + the hard shift into the action genre in the 3rd movie was the saving grace of that film.
I really hope you do the other 2 movies. Your commentary is truly my favorite. And as a chorus girly, your commentary of seniority hierarchy for solos is so real
10:40-so are we all just gonna ignore that mike had an old acapella outro that was exactly like this??? we know that pitch perfect influenced you, king
When beca is mixing titanium she actually has an audio mixing software installed directly into her brain. Shes simply copying down what she already wrote down in her head
one of my favourite high school moments was when we used to do house christmas carols and in 2019 the house captain was like "oh hey guys were gonna start with the cup song", someone demonstrated, captain went "okay got it?" and like 5 minutes later all the teachers jaws DROPPED when we just instantly did it in sync they had no clue what the hell was going on
I distinctly remember watching this movie twice in theaters with my sister; the second time we were literally the only people in the room because it was one of the last showings at the end of its run, and we just belted along to every song. It was so much fun
i worked at my college radio station up to 2021 and about half the music we played was digital and the other half were actually CDs! I know lots of stations are fully digital but in 2012ish, it’s no stretch for them to be using CDs!
The way 9yr old me legitimately watched this movie twice a day for a full ass month in a state of intense hyperfixation and then repressed it all to the back of my mind immediately after (apart from the cup song which was the only way I could get positive interactions from people at school). This video has been a reawakening. Thank you Michael Microphone.
I, too, was obsessed with this movie for like a year when I was in middle school and I rewatched it a month ago (I'm 21 now) and it is legitimately such a good movie like i cried laughing at some jokes I didn't get as a kid plus the NOSTALGIA ?? girl it was an out of body experience
Mike literally dripping in charisma uniqueness nerve and talent that a warning of inevitable drowning in fabulous will occur if you find yourself passed his event horizon of slaying. Okrr yas gawd thpop 😂 bloody great video as always x
I saw pitch perfect before it came out because they did screen tests at colleges across the US, and people were dying laughing, so loud that we couldn’t hear a thing Lily was saying so quietly. Cue watching the movie a second time and dying laughing all over again
the way you didn’t talk about the gayification lore that is bechloe was borderline criminalllllllll !!!! the implications that the two leading ladies of this accapella film were feeling eachother did change the trajectory of my life yah thank yew
this movie was my entire personality 2012-2014 . i literally watched it 3 times a day everyday for almost 2 months straight. could recite it word for word in my sleep
When I was in college as a radio DJ in 2015, we definitely still used digital media, both vinyls and CDs! Makes sense that they did in the 2012 period piece masterpiece Pitch Perfect.
My college/hometown was where Pitch Perfect was filmed and one of the highlights of my college career was that I graduated on the stage the Barden Bellas fought for their lives on at the finals.
Skylar Astin has such great charisma, he can make me believe he has chemistry with any person he's playing opposite to. You seen Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist??? Yeah he's dreamy
I was absolutely obsessed with this movie in high school. We had it on DVD and when I was home sick from school with a flu or something I watched it like 6x, directors commentery, audio editors commentary, the whole thing. What a weird time
