Todrick Hall And Pentatonix Give The Wizard Of Oz New Life

Let's face it. Todrick Hall is a freaking genius. First the gay Disney princes video, then the ghetto version of Mean Girls, and now he's redoing The Wizard of Oz as "The Wizard of Ahhhs" (not to be confused with the similarly titled EP by Black Kids). It's like he's crawled into my brain and made everything I've ever wanted from YouTube spring to life -- and this stuff isn't getting taken down for copyright infringement!



Basically this is a melody of famous songs, both old and new, but remixed together to make them one long song. Songs include "Wide Awake" by Katy Perry, "Can't Be Tamed" by Miley Cirus, and "Damaged" by Danity Kane. Oh and Kelly's "Shoes" is tossed in there for good measure. All of the songs are fit in so they seem to be talking about the plot of the movie, which is really genius. Some of the selections have minor tweaks to fit them in better lyrically, but overall they fit insanely well.

The production values on this were insane, too. The costumes look amazing, and both the visual and audio qualities are amazing. This must have taken a long time to prepare, and with over two million views in a week, things seemed to have payed off. The members of Pentatonix have some amazing voices, and they fit together very well.

The best part of the video has to be the wrapup at the end. Most of the comments on the video agree with me that including the clips from the original movie at the end was a very nice touch. The very Rent-esque bare-set vocalists-in-font-of-a-curtain ending was very risky, but it payed off and made the video complete. There's not a lot to talk about plot wise, because everybody knows the plot of The Wizard Of Oz, but the few spins they did put on it, such as the much more elaborate and confident Wizard (I mean it was played by Todrick. You really think he was going to be timid?), were nice, but not enough of a separation to really make a fuss over.

As of now the track is not up on iTunes. This is actually something I would want in my collection, so I'm hoping they put it up, but since it's a mashup of covers, I don't know if they can do so. For now enjoy the YouTube version and wrack up more hits for this amazing and talented artist.

The Beauty That Is "CinderFella"

I know, I know. I am always late to the party. This video hasn't been out too long, but everybody and their brother is freaking out about it. All I was hearing was "this American Idol guy" made a "gay music video." Well I finally watched it and -- wait why did nobody tell me this had Willam in it?



Todrick Hall was a contestant on the 2010 season of American Idol. I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't remember him (I mean I don't because I haven't watched that show since the first season), mostly because he was eliminated when they were still sending people home in groups of four. I guess somebody took notice of his talents because he fell out of the sky and swooped everybody's favorite gay (?) Disney Prince (???) off his feet.

Oh and the prince is freaking Lance Bass. Did I mention he was my first boy crush?

The video has a ton of cameos including Willam and Shangela, fan favorite contestants from Ru Paul's Drag Race, as well as Ru's right hand lady Michelle Visage. I instantly flipped out when two of my pop idols, Kimberly Cole and Aubrey O'Day appeared on the same screen, dancing and singing together. And then of course there is Prince Lance.

The video follows the basic story of Cinderella, only with a gay little twist. He is kept from going to the ball, and is visited by his sassy fairy godmother to spruce him up and win the man. The video is just over six and a half minutes long, and the song is undeniably cute. It really does feel like a Disney movie both audibly and visually, making it every little gay boy's dream come true to finally have a prince that he can aspire to steal from some undeserving bitch that had him first (Sorry Todrick! Actually, I had plans as a kid to steal Beast from Belle. I have issues. Moving on.).

The audio version is not up yet on iTunes, and people are about to riot until it is. Todrick has a great voice and I am very glad that he is continuing on his musical journey. I could easily watch this video over and over and over again. Did I mention Lance Bass makes an amazing prince? I did? Well I guess I've repeated myself enough.

Also Willam.