The Newfangled Four • Stonehenge • arr. Anthony Bartholomew • 2023 Quartet Finals

Performed live at the KFC YUM! Center in Louisville, Kentucky, at the Barbershop Harmony Society's 2023 International Convention.

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[TheNewfangledFour]

BEHIND THE MUSIC: As you can tell, one or more of us in The Newfangled Four are HUGE Ylvis fans (I'll give you a hint, it's me). If you aren't familiar, Ylvis is the comedy/music duo(trio?) from Norway that made the world famous "What Does the Fox Say" song in 2013, now with over a billion views on YouTube. They have a lot of other songs too which are very very funny, including one about Stonehenge. A few years ago, fellow Ylvis enthusiast, Anthony Bartholomew sneakily shared this arrangement with me (but not for Newfangled Four, I think he was just bragging), and all I could do was appreciate it from afar and laugh alone in my room during pandemic quarantine probably, and wishing I would be allowed to sing it one day.
Fast forward to 2023, we are looking for 4 new songs to sing at the international contest in July, and we have this amazing idea for a parody of a different song and immediately reach out to Anthony B. to arrange it for us. He tells us, "NO GOD NO PLEASE NO ANYTHING BUT THAT SONG FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT SING THAT SONG, " because his quartet is going to do that song. So I said, fine, but give us Stonehenge, and then that's how we got to sing Anthony Bartholomew's arrangement of Stonehenge. He did do a teeny tiny bit of re-voicing and updating, and eventually we landed on a version with 8% more barbershop 7th chords.
We also had no idea how this would do and were completely prepared for it to fall flat and for no one to get it, and amazingly it was our highest scoring contest song ever.

[stdm]

Woah Jasjxt7on, that final rise up to the high note was incredible!

[katiebarker]

You could say that this is Jaxississippi Nacho Bell Grande's Roman Empire

[JMalaby]

Fun fact, this was by far their best scoring song of the competition, with a total of 92.9 points. Their music and performance scores (95.4 and 94.4 respectively!!) were especially fantastic! I'm so excited to see them compete next year.

[EthanFrahm]

Joey Buss does it again, the overtone on that last chord is SCREAMING.

[joshwmiltonman]

The improvement from Joey and Jackson is staggering! Jake's level is still high as ever and Marcus has blended in really nicely. Genuinely have a shot at a medal next year

[SingingSpock]

Yes. Kisses his nose and mouth. *Definitely* what Ylvis originally wrote 😂

[LucasBenderChannel]

I have fallen down the Newfangled rabbit hole hundreds of times before and dang it, we're doing it again!

[DaveMast-zz]

Ever notice how these guys are the only quartet in the competition that move the audience to spontaneously erupt before they're even done with their final note?

[TycheTheLlama]

oh my god I saw the title was Stonehenge and I was like, 'the only Stonehenge song I know is the Ylvis one but there's no way they're doing that, it's way too obscure' AND YET
so yeah NF4 is my life now I love them so much for this

[TylerLeeJones]

who wrote this awesome chart for you? it's Anthony Bartholomew 🔥

[corydoffing]

When this song pops into my head all I can hear is: What's the meaning of Solfege?

[GrowWildOutdoors]

I know I've been watching NF4 enough when I recognize the humor of a Bartholomew arrangement. 😅

[saraalhashimi]

Ok but Jackson going off on those vocals during that whole ending is giving me LIFE! ❤

[TheBigManCann]

The collective, “What’s in the box!” Is so great.

[AJ]

If it wasn’t for Spider farm, this would definitely be the song of the contest😂. Been so excited to watch this again

[fernandodolz]

that's a lead ladies and gentleman

[justadam]

The sweetest moment by far is 5:10, At the end, where they all look so proud. Jake is sort of still in the performance but his smile right before they break character is so heartwarming

[deanbuttholio]

The Newfangled Four has come so far in terms of vocals. Most notably, their tags have gotten a LOT tighter. The way Jackson's voice locks at that post is unlike anything I've ever heard from him before. I mean, he's not even harmonizing at that time, it just locks... by itself! Perfectly holding that note so smoothly is incredible.

[duskmallow]

That lead solo in the tag is not in the original, that means Anthony Bartholomew came up with this iconic bit

also that slide feels like the biggest whole step of all time