The Newfangled Four - A Cottage for Sale

The Newfangled Four

A Cottage for Sale, arr. by Theo Hicks

Performed live at THE AXIS | Planet Hollywood Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
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[ThomasDawkins]

Incredible bravery to have eight seconds of total silence after that chord, and nobody in the audience DARES break it. I came to know these men from the comedy numbers but this is just glorious singing.

[eleos]

They stopped doing this to give everyone else a chance.

[CWTmovement]

They have such a gift for comic and lighthearted pieces, then they do this and break the heart with such great sentiment. Beautiful.

[jaredprovost]

God it's like the baritone disappears... he blends so well.

[elderdragon]

Someone going "wow" in the audience at the very end is my reaction exactly.

[cristiangarcia]

I constantly return to this song and whilst i dont get as many goosebumps anymore, I still marvel and watch in awe as these four pour their greatest into such a gut wrenching preformance. Marvelous.

[duskmallow]

"It hurts to know you're gone" it does, it really does. You guys sounded so good together. Well, at least I still have all those beautiful recordings

[tichu]

That cricket is the best "fifth man" I've ever heard!

[jaredprovost]

3:00 you can hear Ryan's voice start to crack with how much passion he's putting into it, but in a way the crack makes it even more beautiful

[RighteousDiego]

Watching this again, seeing Joey and Ryan being 100% in the moment hits me more since the announcement of Ryan having to back out.
It's absolutely understandable, but "Li'l Wiz" will absolutely be missed from the ensemble. Just... please don't stop singing!

[itamarbar]

I want to dare to say this is second to instant classics. It's close to their ballad level, but because NF4 was the "comic" quartet, it has much more meaning when they pull a ballad.

[GaninIsMyName]

This one hurts even more now... In every single top 10... I see your face... But when we reach the top ten... There's empty space... I'm going to miss you guys more than people that I've actually met. I pray for all of your physical and mental health, and if you could pray that I one day stop crying over this... That'd be cool. Goodbye NF4, we didn't deserve you.

[sc-exwr]

The end of our journey - nf4,

this is truly a sad day :(

[jamesjarvis]

That 'wow' comment at the end was completely justified to go from comedy to that is fantastic! Brilliant sound generally, and that silence was golden !

[macori]

For me, this is one of their best performances and their best ballad by far. You can hear the improvement from their previous year singing this song. They beautifully delivered this heart wrenching performance with their all. Sure, the quiver and emotion made this performance not perfect, but those make the performance even better cause you can hear that they were singing this song from their heart.

Getting hooked on by their comedy performances, I forget how great they are too when singing a more serious song.
You'll forever be missed, The Newfangled Four. My own cottage for sale...

[mint_marigold]

These guys are incredible. Came here because I heard this was an emotional performance, and got teary-eyed 30 seconds in. Wow is right.

[ArianSadrayi]

1:49 That modulation to G-sharp minor combined with "when I reach a window, there's empty space" is just heartbreaking.

[evanhosley]

I'm trying to transcribe this and i never realized how good they are at blending their parts... I'm in over my head

[neelymorrison]

I am late to the game, but listening to this song I froze. It was like trance. I just sat in amazement. Newfangled Four has so much talent, not just in comedy, but also in beautiful pieces like this. They will be missed.

[DanGross_MusicJournalism]

It was literally so quiet you could hear crickets at 3:15.