Pentatonix - The Sound Of Silence
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Pentatonix takes this song from being a melancholic lament into a reflective and contemplative melody about seeing yourself alone. It is still mournful about the silence that the singer is forced to endure and the band team members have all of their talents on full display as they pay homage to this masterful musical number. Each one of them brings something different to the table and likewise, their united abilities show how far they have come as a band. Of course, do not take my word for it. The YouTube video already has over 2 million views as of the writing of this review.
In 1965, the song began to attract airplay at radio stations in Boston and throughout Florida. The growing airplay led Tom Wilson, the song's producer, to remix the track, overdubbing electric instruments and drums. This remixed version was released as a single in September 1965. Simon & Garfunkel were not informed of the song's remix until after its release. The remix hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending January 1, 1966, leading the duo to reunite and hastily record their second album, which Columbia titled Sounds of Silence in an attempt to capitalize on the song's success. The remixed single version of the song was included on this follow-up album. Later, it was featured in the 1967 film The Graduate and was included on the film's soundtrack album. It was additionally released on the Mrs. Robinson EP in 1968, along with three other songs from the film: \"Mrs. Robinson,\" \"April Come She Will\" and \"Scarborough Fair/Canticle.\"
The song's origin and basis are unclear, with some thinking that the song commented on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, as the song was recorded three months after the assassination, though Simon & Garfunkel had performed the song live as Kane & Garr two months before the assassination.[8] Simon wrote \"The Sound of Silence\" when he was 21 years old,[9][10] with Simon explaining that the song was written in his bathroom, where he turned off the lights to better concentrate.[11] \"The main thing about playing the guitar, though, was that I was able to sit by myself and play and dream. And I was always happy doing that. I used to go off in the bathroom, because the bathroom had tiles, so it was a slight echo chamber. I'd turn on the faucet so that water would run (I like that sound, it's very soothing to me) and I'd play. In the dark. 'Hello darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again.'\"[12] According to Garfunkel, the song was first developed in November, but Simon took three months to perfect the lyrics, which he claims were entirely written on February 19, 1964.[13] Garfunkel, introducing the song at a live performance (with Simon) in Harlem, June 1966, summed up the song's meaning as \"the inability of people to communicate with each other, not particularly intentionally but especially emotionally, so what you see around you are people unable to love each other.\"[11]
The lyrics of the song are written in five stanzas of seven lines each. Each stanza begins with a couplet describing the setting of the scene, followed by a couplet driving the action forward and another couplet expressing the climactic thought of the verse, and closes with a one-line refrain referring to \"the sound of silence\". This structure is supported by a melodic contour, where the first and second lines are paired with the arpeggio A-C-E-D and a repeat a step lower, respectively. The arpeggio is then stretched to become C-E-G-A-G and repeated twice in the second couplet. For the last three lines, the contour then leaps from C to the higher A, rises to the higher C, and then falls back to the A before singing the stretched arpeggio in reverse and finally retreating to the lower A.[19] The progress of the lyrics through its five stanzas places the singer into an incrementally increasing tension with an increasingly ambiguous \"sound of silence\". The irony of using the word \"sound\" to describe silence in the title lyrics suggests a paradoxical symbolism being used by the singer, which the lyrics of the fourth stanza eventually identifies as \"silence like a cancer grows\". The \"sound of silence\" is symbolically taken also to denote the cultural alienation associated with much of the 1960s.[26] In the counterculture movements of the 1960s, the phrase \"sound of silence\" can be compared to other more commonly used turns of phrase such as \"turning a deaf ear\" often associated with the detachment experienced with impersonal large governments.
The first stanza presents the singer as taking some relative solace in the peacefulness he associates with \"darkness\" which is submerged \"within\" the ambiguous sound of silence.[30] The second stanza has the effect of breaking into the silence with \"the flash of a neon light\" which leaves the singer \"touched\" by the enduring ambiguity of the sound of silence. In the third stanza, a \"naked light\" emerges as a vision of 10,000 people all caught within their own solitude and alienation without any one of them daring to \"disturb\" the recurring sound of silence.
In the fourth stanza, the singer proclaims in a declarative voice that \"silence like a cancer grows,\" though his words \"like silent raindrops fell\" without ever being heard against the by now cancerous sound of silence. The fifth stanza appears to culminate with the urgency raised by the declarative voice in the fourth stanza through the apparent triumph of a false \"neon god\". The false neon god is only challenged when a \"sign flashed out its warning\" that only the words of the indigent written on \"subway walls and tenement halls\" could still \"whisper\" their truth against the recurring and ambiguous form of \"the sound of silence\".[6] The song has no lyrical bridge or change of key, and was written without any lyrical intro or outro to start or end the song.
When director Mike Nichols and Sam O'Steen were editing the 1967 film The Graduate, they initially timed some scenes to this song, intending to substitute original music for the scenes. However, they eventually concluded that an adequate substitute could not be found and decided to purchase the rights for the song for the soundtrack. This was an unusual decision, as the song had charted more than a year earlier, and recycling established music for film was not commonly done at the time.[127]
The song was used during the fourth season of the television series Arrested Development in 2013 as a running gag alluding to characters' (primarily GOB's) inner reflections. It was also used as part of the soundtrack of episode 4 of The Vietnam War, the 2017 documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. The Disturbed cover appeared in the soundtrack of episode 8 of season 5 of the TV series The Blacklist. In episode 8, season 2 of the mystery-comedy TV series Only Murders in the Building, titled \"Hello, Darkness\", the residents of the eponymous building sing the song during a blackout.
hi. im 14, and at my junior high we have a talent show evry year. so me and my friends wantedto do an a cappella song by pentatonix. we heard this song and loved it, i went onto musicnotes.com and saw this, immediately bought it. we loved it! we had a great time learning it, but we have 4 years of experience with a cappella singing. if youre just starting off, i dont recommend. But if youre a bit experienced and comfortable with a cappella, THIS SONG IS FOR YOU!
[Scott Hoying]Hello darkness, my old friendI've come to talk with you againBecause a vision softly creepingLeft its seeds while I was sleepingAnd the vision that was planted in my brain still remainsWithin the sound of silence
[Mitch Grassi]In restless streams I walked aloneNarrow streets of cobblestoneBeneath the halo of a streetlampI turn my collar to the cold and dampWhen my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon lightThat split the nightAnd touched the sound of silence
[Kirstin Maldonado]Fools, said I, you do not knowSilence like a cancer growsHear my words that I might teach youTake my arms that I might reach youBut my words, like silent raindrops fellAnd echoed in the wells of silence
[Scott Hoying & All]And the people bowed and prayedTo the neon god they madeAnd the sign flashed out its warningIn the words that it was formingAnd the sign saidThe words of the prophets areWritten on the subway wallsAnd tenement hallsAnd whispered in the sound of silence
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