Dan & Phil part 27: Let's Go Home

DryCereal · Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:48 pm

I think it's fairly equal, tbh... (From what I remember off the top off my head, Dan smushes a christmas cookie into Phil's mouth, and gets force-fed an easter nest?) but "Captain Lester" has probably tipped the scale somewhat...

Reckon that might go up on AP/LAP somewhen soon, since all the song stuff went on DINOF&DINI.

Thu Oct 13, 2016 1:12 pm

oqua wrote:As a kind of followup to my compilation of Dan and Phil touching each other’s faces, here’s a compilation of Phil touching Dan’s face with various objects (and a few examples of Dan doing it to Phil).

I think it’s such a cute habit of Phil’s and in some instances (definitely not always, but sometimes) it seems to function as a kind of kiss-by-proxy… like he has the object kiss Dan’s face instead of doing it himself (in some cases quite overtly, like with the skull lol).

Some random observations:
It’s kind of interesting to me how often Phil does it compared to Dan. Even in the examples I could think of where Dan does do it, it's often kind of different in one way or another from how Phil does it.

Dan’s most frequent response is to say “Thank you.”

Once again we have examples of Phil being kind of rough with Dan, basically attacking his face with all manner of different objects, and Dan obviously trusting him enough that he doesn’t even blink half the time.

wall-e

lion

(It's interesting how Dan holds the lion close to Phil’s face for Phil to kiss, but ultimately Phil brings his lips to it of his own volition, but Phil touches the Wall-e toy directly to Dan’s chin. Like, I'm probably reading way too much into this, but it's like Phil wants to kiss Dan, so he does it with the Wall-e, whereas Dan wants to be kissed and kind of lets the lion stand in for himself. Though Dan does end up licking the Wall-e, so idk what I'm talking about really lol.)

stickers
http://fringecringes.tumblr.com/post/14 ... heeky-grin

D: “Press the ‘be a fan’ button and— What have you just stuck to my face? Oh, it’s just a blue thing, that’s fine.”

batter

P: “Bear.” (I know, I know, he might not actually be saying “Bear,” but my phannie heart believes that he is. lmao.)

giant spider

D: “No, no, no!”
P: “It’s my new pet!”
D: “It’s the worst thing in the world.”

plasma ball
http://cloudyoongi.tumblr.com/post/7301 ... lasma-ball

P: “I dare you to put your nose on that.”
D: “No.”
P: “Do it!”

video game controller
http://amazingphil-gifs.tumblr.com/post ... hil-halo-3

whap
http://internetcultleader.tumblr.com/post/98335059318/x

spoon
http://dailyphan.tumblr.com/post/97966578821 (michaelmemeford)

balloon
http://napkincole.tumblr.com/post/11497 ... just-dance

D: “Why should I agree to this?”
P: “Just because…friendship.”

hand puppet
http://ughbeckyy.tumblr.com/post/120786258899

D: “Thanks, Phil.”

cupcake tray

P: “I’m gonna have to wash this now ‘cause it’s been on your face.”
D: “Rude.”

skull
http://octolevi.tumblr.com/post/1276911 ... -freddys-4

P: “Eww, he’s making out with a skull. Eww, look at him, laugh at him!”
D: “Bye.”

horns
http://phanbeans.tumblr.com/post/132105 ... n-your-pet

P: “Stop it!”
D: “Sorry.”

red hand
http://ghouluke.tumblr.com/post/1320889 ... l-yeah-its

D: “Thank you, Phil.”
P: “How does it feel?”
D: “Yeah, it’s scratchy, thank you, actually yeah.”

face mold
http://riphowell.tumblr.com/post/150220027392/face-mold

P: “Do you want a face mold?”
D: “You—”
P: “Face mold!”

moth
http://darkphannie.tumblr.com/post/150597097674

P: “Brrr!”

vibrating cat paw
http://count-pyotr-kirillovich.tumblr.c ... 7115701274

D: “Thanks.”

rubber chicken
http://theamazingdandillion.tumblr.com/ ... 4216249198

eye mask
http://damnhcwell.tumblr.com/post/15097 ... ce-is-that

P: “Feel that! How nice is that?”
D: “Oh damn that’s nice.”

http://riphowell.tumblr.com/post/150988102697

P: “No, no, no, don’t!”
D: “Oh Phil, but I thought you liked it! I thought you wanted to talk about it more!”
P: “No! No that’s not fair!”
Speaking of the kiss-by-proxy thing, I also threw together this small compilation of them ordering each other to kiss/blow into/hug/touch various objects. I’m sure there are other similar instances; these are just the ones I could think of off the top of my head. (I also feel like there are some interesting conclusions that could be drawn about their power dynamic from these examples, but I'm not sure what it would be lol.)

http://koalaphil.tumblr.com/post/117871 ... ssing-saga

http://koalaphil.tumblr.com/post/117871 ... ssing-saga

http://mrphaniplier.tumblr.com/post/109546822820

http://danhowcll.co.vu/post/149286976141

I thought that an additional example would be 5:50 of the Festive ditl

but when I watched it I realised that Phil isn't ordered to hug the statue, he does it of his own accord while Dan laughs.

Galactic-Howell · Thu Oct 13, 2016 1:14 pm

Thank you once again to our true overlord, oqua

I love how Dan always goes from unamused/really Phil to giggly and smiley in about two seconds. He can't deny Phil

snowbows · Thu Oct 13, 2016 1:15 pm

IckleMissMayhem wrote:I think it's fairly equal, tbh... (From what I remember off the top off my head, Dan smushes a christmas cookie into Phil's mouth, and gets force-fed an easter nest?) but "Captain Lester" has probably tipped the scale somewhat...

Reckon that might go up on AP/LAP somewhen soon, since all the song stuff went on DINOF&DINI.

I was thinking that's what the Phil trash sounding reply about musical theatre was for, as everything went on Dan's channels he just needed to publicly big up Phil. It made sense for everything to go on Dan's though as it is for charity so more subscribers can see it.

papierklemmen · Thu Oct 13, 2016 1:22 pm

I thought it went to Dan's channel because it has more subscribers. It's not one of the collaborative projects to promote each other's channels, so they just went with the one that would guarantee more views.

This said, I wouldn't mind if something was uploaded to AP to accompany it.

eevee · Thu Oct 13, 2016 2:00 pm

omg thank you oqua I'm absolutely living for these

bee · Thu Oct 13, 2016 3:43 pm

eevee wrote:omg thank you oqua I'm absolutely living for these

Same
It's like two favourites combined, lists and D&P *heart eyes*

melon lord · Thu Oct 13, 2016 3:48 pm

this is oqua feeding me with those compilations

I am so excited for the ls tonight It was the only thing getting me through work today

dezzawintz · Thu Oct 13, 2016 3:52 pm

Oqua your dedication to compilations is appreciated.

I went off on one yesterday and did a whole musical analysis of their song and BiShoe said I should put my thoughts here so they're under the spoiler! I study music and have been training in various styles of singing for 12 years, so them releasing a song gave me an indescribable amount of joy. Honestly, I was having the time of my life; musical analysis and deppy at the same time makes my nerdy heart soar.

flarequake · Thu Oct 13, 2016 4:24 pm

Thank you for all of that dezzawintz, it's really interesting to hear from someone who knows and can hear these things. If I could hear Phil going a little flat, I assumed it was just the tone changing. I remember finding that liveshow clip of them singing the Phantom of the Opera song and as a musical theatre fan, I was so happy especially that they can both naturally sing pretty well and with different ranges to duet like that. Phil's deep voice has the same effect as hi my wearing black, shivers and melting.

opendoor · Thu Oct 13, 2016 4:31 pm

dezzawintz wrote:Oqua your dedication to compilations is appreciated.

I went off on one yesterday and did a whole musical analysis of their song and BiShoe said I should put my thoughts here so they're under the spoiler! I study music and have been training in various styles of singing for 12 years, so them releasing a song gave me an indescribable amount of joy. Honestly, I was having the time of my life; musical analysis and deppy at the same time makes my nerdy heart soar.

OKAY, buckle in friends; this is going to be a long one. First thing's first, I want to say that I'm incredibly impressed. I made a post about their singing last year on the website that shall not be named; I watched about a million videos of them singing for it and I have to say, they've come on LEAPS AND BOUNDS in a very short space of time and they should really be proud of themselves. Can't think who mentioned it now (sorry friend), but the Phantom of the Opera video is a great comparison point. It still sounds good but you can hear the improvement:

Dan has previously relied on his highest register in most of the available examples of them singing (known as falsetto). The only time I can think of where he didn't is this video:

He once said in a liveshow that he sings in his falsetto because he isn't a great singer, so I think he uses it as a coping mechanism. You can hear his lack of confidence in the banana clip, and he goes up to his falsetto at the end anyway. He's done really well to get out of the habit of doing it.

He also said in that liveshow that his voice was very "gappy", and that some areas of it sounded horrible. THAT'S TOTALLY A THING, everyone has that, even professional singers. It's known as the passaggio, and it's just a few notes in between each register that don't sound as nice as the rest of the voice. If you've ever heard people talk about head voice (high) and chest voice (low) the passaggio is the gaps inbetween those sections of the voice, so like: lowest voice --> few dodgy notes --> middle voice --> few dodgy notes --> high voice --> few dodgy notes --> falsetto.

It takes YEARS to fix it. It's been 12 years and mine is still hanging around. The range of the melody in 'The Internet Is Here' is actually quite big, so it would have been impossible to not have parts where their singing is weaker. It's almost 2 octaves, here's an audio representation of what that means:

I think Phil is the main victim of that here. Phil has a low voice type (baritone or bass) and the song is written for a high voice type (tenor). The order goes, from high to low:

Counter Tenor (sings falsetto)
Tenor (most low-voiced pop music, except Hozier lol)
Baritone
Bass
Contra-bass (very low and rare)

The song is bam smack in the tenor range, with Phil's solo at the beginning starting right at the bottom of it:

(he starts on the second yellow piano key on the left, and ends on the second black piano key to the right of the dot in the middle)

The song starts in a different key to the majority of it, because Phil's voice is lower than Dan's and it's his solo. (For anyone who cares, it starts in G major, Phil's solo finishes on V/the dominant, "sing it with a friend" (0:36), and then there's a small jazzy section on the dominant before they move up a semitone into Eb major; a move that I will ALWAYS associate with Westlife when they get up of their stools and the key changes. Anyone know what I'm talking about?)

#spon but I worked out the chords for the first half of the song on the piano and there's some really fun jazzy ones in there!
Also #spon2themax but you should totally follow me and also go 2 my youtube because I sing there and I don't know if you can tell but I love everything about singing

But yeah, Phil is the passaggio victim of it being put in a tenor range. Most musical theatre numbers for low voices are in a tenor range so it might have been a thematic decision, or perhaps Dan might have struggled with his lower register? It's a strange choice but I think they would have had the same struggles in any key because of the song having a fairly wide range and them not having a lot of time to polish it (like I said, it takes years to hone!). Now let's go on a journey where we listen to Phil's passaggio!

He goes flat where he struggles. Some examples: (0:15) "brighten up my day" - day is flat, (0:27) "how the show should end" - how is flat, (0:36) "sing it with a friend - friend is flat.

On "day"; can you hear that the sound is a bit strangled because he's stuck between his chest voice (low) and his head voice (high). What he should do is imagine he has to sit on the note from above rather than attack it from below, but I can literally hear his brain thinking "now is when I go high!" To be fair it is a run upwards so that's natural unless you do a lot of practice to kill the instinct; you can hear how much his voice wants to resonate in his forehead but he panics.

A noticeable one is when both he and Dan sing "when you've got lots of followers" - the fol in followers is FLAT (1:44), and it's especially noticeable because Dan isn't. He does it again the second time, and the third time but it's a lot better, and then his whole end run is a bit dodgy. NO SHAME though, he still sounds great and lord knows I'm pitchy af too after 12 years hahaha. I do want to reiterate that they've done an amazing job, but that doesn't stop my songstress ass analysing their voices. I quite like that it's a bit off tbh, and someone was going to have to sing some notes that they struggled with. Phil took one for the team.

They could both do with work on their support and breath control (same). Support is supporting the sound with mainly your diaphragm/stomach and various other body parts, and breath control is how long you can sustain a note/melody. The better your support, the better your breath control (breath control also includes how to breathe properly/when to breathe). That being said, Dan definitely has a cold affecting his singing; he takes a breath before "me" (1:15) and he didn't do that in the show.

I thought that having Dan sing the lower part and Phil sing the higher part at the end was an interesting choice and a stroke of genius tbh (now a Jimmy Jewell stan), because Dan's voice is higher than Phil's, but I suspect that Phil would be nervous about the harmony/more confident singing the tune. A good example of Dan naturally gravitating higher is this (1:15) (oh hey, Dan's falsetto):

(OT, but I find that singing moment so fascinating because they lose confidence but they didn't even make a mistake!)

ALSO a thing that's really making me laugh is how they pronounce their t's! They're so heavy; I reckon they learned it like that because it had to be audible in a theatre (someone said something a few pages ago about having to over-exaggerate your movements to make them visible to the audience and you also have to do it with speaking and singing). It's not right for a studio recording, but it's cute. Their pronunciation in general is really good, I didn't miss a single word! I find Phil's sliding issue interesting because his solution is to almost bite the sound away and shorten it, if that makes sense? It's noticeable at points but he did a great job of not going to either extreme the majority of the time.

I said it in the post on the website that shall not be named and I'll say it again: they both have really lovely, colourful, warm voices. Dan also has a MASSIVE range, which is probably why he notices so many gaps (not sure what it is, but it's big). If they wanted to, I'm sure they could be really skilled singers. I want Phil to be a bass in a choir, because his bass section is delicious. Imagine him singing this, I think I'd melt:

Dan could be anything from a counter tenor to a baritone, but he should be a counter tenor because there aren't many about. Example of a counter tenor here:

Goddd, It sends tingles all through my body, such a haunting voice type. Mmm.

Both of those dreams of mine would mean they'd have to train classically (there are a few classical styles, but the only one I know about is bel canto, meaning beautiful song in Italian. I think it's the most common classical type?? but I'm unsure so don't quote me on that). Deppy are doing a thing called belt singing which is a really common musical theatre style (think Carrie Hope Fletcher). The main difference between the two, other than the style, is that belt singing is about trying to sing all through the range in your chest voice, whereas bel canto is about changing technique in different sections of the voice (chest voice = low, head voice = high) and learning to do it smoothly. They're both hard techniques to master; singing is a lot harder than it looks.

ANYWAY, that's my analysis, woo! If anyone has any questions feel free to shoot them my way! I never know the balance between under and over explaining things so I'm sorry if this either made no sense to you or was super obvious information. I've gone over everything to check it but I might be wrong in places, so apologies for any inconsistencies!! I hope y'all have a gr8 day.

I love when people come in with specialist knowledge, like the accountants.
I actually love Phil's voice, when he sings baritone, partly because it's nice and partly because it's so surprising. I remember Carrie's face in the teaching to sing video when she heard it.

He would have fared better if the whole thing was lower but then Dan would have probably Died.
They sort of talk-sang a lot? I did notice Phil clipping off the ends, and the emphasis on enunciating (articulating

).
I've had the song stuck in my head for this entire day.
Also I love Dan's tone of voice when he says "freaky" it's funny.

realiity · Thu Oct 13, 2016 4:47 pm

dezzawintz wrote:Oqua your dedication to compilations is appreciated.

I went off on one yesterday and did a whole musical analysis of their song and BiShoe said I should put my thoughts here so they're under the spoiler! I study music and have been training in various styles of singing for 12 years, so them releasing a song gave me an indescribable amount of joy. Honestly, I was having the time of my life; musical analysis and deppy at the same time makes my nerdy heart soar.

OKAY, buckle in friends; this is going to be a long one. First thing's first, I want to say that I'm incredibly impressed. I made a post about their singing last year on the website that shall not be named; I watched about a million videos of them singing for it and I have to say, they've come on LEAPS AND BOUNDS in a very short space of time and they should really be proud of themselves. Can't think who mentioned it now (sorry friend), but the Phantom of the Opera video is a great comparison point. It still sounds good but you can hear the improvement:

Dan has previously relied on his highest register in most of the available examples of them singing (known as falsetto). The only time I can think of where he didn't is this video:

He once said in a liveshow that he sings in his falsetto because he isn't a great singer, so I think he uses it as a coping mechanism. You can hear his lack of confidence in the banana clip, and he goes up to his falsetto at the end anyway. He's done really well to get out of the habit of doing it.

He also said in that liveshow that his voice was very "gappy", and that some areas of it sounded horrible. THAT'S TOTALLY A THING, everyone has that, even professional singers. It's known as the passaggio, and it's just a few notes in between each register that don't sound as nice as the rest of the voice. If you've ever heard people talk about head voice (high) and chest voice (low) the passaggio is the gaps inbetween those sections of the voice, so like: lowest voice --> few dodgy notes --> middle voice --> few dodgy notes --> high voice --> few dodgy notes --> falsetto.

It takes YEARS to fix it. It's been 12 years and mine is still hanging around. The range of the melody in 'The Internet Is Here' is actually quite big, so it would have been impossible to not have parts where their singing is weaker. It's almost 2 octaves, here's an audio representation of what that means:

I think Phil is the main victim of that here. Phil has a low voice type (baritone or bass) and the song is written for a high voice type (tenor). The order goes, from high to low:

Counter Tenor (sings falsetto)
Tenor (most low-voiced pop music, except Hozier lol)
Baritone
Bass
Contra-bass (very low and rare)

The song is bam smack in the tenor range, with Phil's solo at the beginning starting right at the bottom of it:

(he starts on the second yellow piano key on the left, and ends on the second black piano key to the right of the dot in the middle)

The song starts in a different key to the majority of it, because Phil's voice is lower than Dan's and it's his solo. (For anyone who cares, it starts in G major, Phil's solo finishes on V/the dominant, "sing it with a friend" (0:36), and then there's a small jazzy section on the dominant before they move up a semitone into Eb major; a move that I will ALWAYS associate with Westlife when they get up of their stools and the key changes. Anyone know what I'm talking about?)

#spon but I worked out the chords for the first half of the song on the piano and there's some really fun jazzy ones in there!
Also #spon2themax but you should totally follow me and also go 2 my youtube because I sing there and I don't know if you can tell but I love everything about singing

But yeah, Phil is the passaggio victim of it being put in a tenor range. Most musical theatre numbers for low voices are in a tenor range so it might have been a thematic decision, or perhaps Dan might have struggled with his lower register? It's a strange choice but I think they would have had the same struggles in any key because of the song having a fairly wide range and them not having a lot of time to polish it (like I said, it takes years to hone!). Now let's go on a journey where we listen to Phil's passaggio!

He goes flat where he struggles. Some examples: (0:15) "brighten up my day" - day is flat, (0:27) "how the show should end" - how is flat, (0:36) "sing it with a friend - friend is flat.

On "day"; can you hear that the sound is a bit strangled because he's stuck between his chest voice (low) and his head voice (high). What he should do is imagine he has to sit on the note from above rather than attack it from below, but I can literally hear his brain thinking "now is when I go high!" To be fair it is a run upwards so that's natural unless you do a lot of practice to kill the instinct; you can hear how much his voice wants to resonate in his forehead but he panics.

A noticeable one is when both he and Dan sing "when you've got lots of followers" - the fol in followers is FLAT (1:44), and it's especially noticeable because Dan isn't. He does it again the second time, and the third time but it's a lot better, and then his whole end run is a bit dodgy. NO SHAME though, he still sounds great and lord knows I'm pitchy af too after 12 years hahaha. I do want to reiterate that they've done an amazing job, but that doesn't stop my songstress ass analysing their voices. I quite like that it's a bit off tbh, and someone was going to have to sing some notes that they struggled with. Phil took one for the team.

They could both do with work on their support and breath control (same). Support is supporting the sound with mainly your diaphragm/stomach and various other body parts, and breath control is how long you can sustain a note/melody. The better your support, the better your breath control (breath control also includes how to breathe properly/when to breathe). That being said, Dan definitely has a cold affecting his singing; he takes a breath before "me" (1:15) and he didn't do that in the show.

I thought that having Dan sing the lower part and Phil sing the higher part at the end was an interesting choice and a stroke of genius tbh (now a Jimmy Jewell stan), because Dan's voice is higher than Phil's, but I suspect that Phil would be nervous about the harmony/more confident singing the tune. A good example of Dan naturally gravitating higher is this (1:15) (oh hey, Dan's falsetto):

(OT, but I find that singing moment so fascinating because they lose confidence but they didn't even make a mistake!)

ALSO a thing that's really making me laugh is how they pronounce their t's! They're so heavy; I reckon they learned it like that because it had to be audible in a theatre (someone said something a few pages ago about having to over-exaggerate your movements to make them visible to the audience and you also have to do it with speaking and singing). It's not right for a studio recording, but it's cute. Their pronunciation in general is really good, I didn't miss a single word! I find Phil's sliding issue interesting because his solution is to almost bite the sound away and shorten it, if that makes sense? It's noticeable at points but he did a great job of not going to either extreme the majority of the time.

I said it in the post on the website that shall not be named and I'll say it again: they both have really lovely, colourful, warm voices. Dan also has a MASSIVE range, which is probably why he notices so many gaps (not sure what it is, but it's big). If they wanted to, I'm sure they could be really skilled singers. I want Phil to be a bass in a choir, because his bass section is delicious. Imagine him singing this, I think I'd melt:

Dan could be anything from a counter tenor to a baritone, but he should be a counter tenor because there aren't many about. Example of a counter tenor here:

Goddd, It sends tingles all through my body, such a haunting voice type. Mmm.

Both of those dreams of mine would mean they'd have to train classically (there are a few classical styles, but the only one I know about is bel canto, meaning beautiful song in Italian. I think it's the most common classical type?? but I'm unsure so don't quote me on that). Deppy are doing a thing called belt singing which is a really common musical theatre style (think Carrie Hope Fletcher). The main difference between the two, other than the style, is that belt singing is about trying to sing all through the range in your chest voice, whereas bel canto is about changing technique in different sections of the voice (chest voice = low, head voice = high) and learning to do it smoothly. They're both hard techniques to master; singing is a lot harder than it looks.

ANYWAY, that's my analysis, woo! If anyone has any questions feel free to shoot them my way! I never know the balance between under and over explaining things so I'm sorry if this either made no sense to you or was super obvious information. I've gone over everything to check it but I might be wrong in places, so apologies for any inconsistencies!! I hope y'all have a gr8 day.

I love love love love this analysis!! I've been studying singing for 9 years and this makes me very very happy.

Honestly, I spent too long trying to study their performance. At first I found Phil's solo at the beginning a bit cringy but after realizing what short time they had to learn to sing I started to appreciate the song without overthinking it too much hahah. Thank you for this gem.

dezzawintz · Thu Oct 13, 2016 4:57 pm

flarequake, right??? They really can sing quite well naturally, and it excites me that they've had a bit of training. What I wouldn't give to give them a singing lesson haha.

opendoor, you've just made me realise that I'm kind of but not really a specialist in something and it's never occurred to me before, that's so cool omg. I'm so jealous of Carrie in that video, I WANT TO TEACH PHIL TO SING. He definitely would have fared better at a lower pitch but Jimmy Jewel is mega legit so I'm sure that there was a solid reason, I just wish I knew what it was beyond guessing

You're right about their talk singing as well, that's also mega musical theatre. It happens all over the place in Rent. And YES I also love Dan's tone on freaky! That was a solid bit of characterisation

realiity *singing nerd high five*!! What's your focus? Also you are SPEAKING my LANGUAGE; when I first watched the show I was so nervous for the musical number because I was like oh god, I'm can't be impartial, I know TOO MUCH what if I can't bear it, but they pulled it off and it's only made me love them more.

swofro · Thu Oct 13, 2016 4:59 pm

dezzawintz wrote:The song starts in a different key to the majority of it, because Phil's voice is lower than Dan's and it's his solo. (For anyone who cares, it starts in G major, Phil's solo finishes on V/the dominant, "sing it with a friend" (0:36), and then there's a small jazzy section on the dominant before they move up a semitone into Eb major; a move that I will ALWAYS associate with Westlife when they get up of their stools and the key changes. Anyone know what I'm talking about?)

I love you because as a person who spend most of her life stanning Westlife, I definitely knows what you're talking about

dezzawintz wrote:I thought that having Dan sing the lower part and Phil sing the higher part at the end was an interesting choice and a stroke of genius tbh (now a Jimmy Jewell stan), because Dan's voice is higher than Phil's, but I suspect that Phil would be nervous about the harmony/more confident singing the tune.

Totally agree. It is so interesting considering their voice range but it turns out great?! Maybe when Dan said in the docu that Jimmy is a music genius, he means it literally.

dezzawintz wrote:I find Phil's sliding issue interesting because his solution is to almost bite the sound away and shorten it, if that makes sense? It's noticeable at points but he did a great job of not going to either extreme the majority of the time.

Yesss

dezzawintz wrote:I want Phil to be a bass in a choir, because his bass section is delicious

Excuse me if I sound too trashy but I want to bath in Phil's voice

Your post overall:

majitzu · Thu Oct 13, 2016 5:12 pm

I don't know anything abour music, but I could understand a bit of that analysis. I have always think they have good voices.

dezzawintz · Thu Oct 13, 2016 5:20 pm

swofro I'm so glad you know what I mean! I was like this is such a bizarre reference, no one's gonna know what I'm on about. It's like; stand, key change, walk around the stools, come to the front of the stage lol. It's burned into my brain from the amount of times I saw it as a kid

I think they definitely felt very comfortable with Jimmy. I did some research and he has an impressive list of things under his belt; he's goals tbh. I remember them saying in the documentary that they were terrified to have the rehearsal where they needed to work out what key the song should be in and I love that they found someone who made them feel comfortable and knew how to work with their voices.

And you don't sound trashy! Phil's bass range really is something special and I just wanna get that boy to support the sound because he'd get work, no doubt.

majitzu, I'm glad at some of it made sense! If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them, either here or in a PM but obviously you don't have to ask me questions

you're definitely right, they both have a natural inclination towards singing

dans left hand · Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:14 pm

unfortuantly i cant watch the liveshow when it's actually live

(i'm guessing its at 9pm? if its at 8pm then i can watch it live! )

a tv show is on at that time at 9pm and i cant miss it haha. so i guess i'll be watching it after at around 11pm

i hope i don't miss anything big, do we even know if its a joint liveshow yet or if its just dan?

DryCereal · Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:20 pm

Stand by for food tweets tomorrow kids.

SquishPhan · Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:22 pm

IckleMissMayhem wrote:
Stand by for food tweets tomorrow kids.

Love the Lesters.

Artdefines06 · Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:24 pm

Dezzawintz That was awesome! thank you. I don't understand most of it, but it was really cool to read

While we are on the subject here are some parts I would love to see them play

Dan would make a great Elder Price from Book of Mormon - Comedy is his strong point.

I would also love to see Dan as Juror 1 in the stright play 12 angry men. But that's just because watching him argue for a good cause is one of my favorite things lol. Start this one at 11:18, Dan would be the one guy who pleas not guilty and has to spend the rest of the play convincing 11 other guys to agree with him.

For Phil I feel kinda guilty asking for this, because I think he enjoyed being on stage with dan more than he enjoyed being on stage, but I want him to play Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha. A man who read so many fantasy novels he ended up believing he was a knight himself and goes around rescuing damsels and slaying ogres (none of which are real). He has the perfect combination of passion and innocence to play this role perfectly straightfaced and make it believable.

nephilimcat · Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:27 pm

SquishPhan wrote:
IckleMissMayhem wrote:
Stand by for food tweets tomorrow kids.
Love the Lesters.

Quoting Dan: "I love hearing about your family". They're all too cute

dans left hand · Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:28 pm

just wanted to say i love this moment so much, it makes me laugh so so much lol

melon lord · Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:28 pm

I have conflicted sexual feelings for Elder Price so I agree

(sorry not much to contribute here's a cute gif to distract you from my lack of useful content)

dezzawintz · Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:03 pm

Artdefines06, I love your suggestions! I'd only heard of Book of Mormon, I've bookmarked the other two so THANK U. Hurray!

That tweet is so hilarious SEEK HIGH GROUND

edit: wrote hi instead of high because I'm a fool

NoOneWantsATortoise · Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:09 pm

oqua wrote:As a kind of followup to my compilation of Dan and Phil touching each other’s faces, here’s a compilation of Phil touching Dan’s face with various objects (and a few examples of Dan doing it to Phil).

I think it’s such a cute habit of Phil’s and in some instances (definitely not always, but sometimes) it seems to function as a kind of kiss-by-proxy… like he has the object kiss Dan’s face instead of doing it himself (in some cases quite overtly, like with the skull lol).

Some random observations:
It’s kind of interesting to me how often Phil does it compared to Dan. Even in the examples I could think of where Dan does do it, it's often kind of different in one way or another from how Phil does it.

Dan’s most frequent response is to say “Thank you.”

Once again we have examples of Phil being kind of rough with Dan, basically attacking his face with all manner of different objects, and Dan obviously trusting him enough that he doesn’t even blink half the time.

wall-e

lion

(It's interesting how Dan holds the lion close to Phil’s face for Phil to kiss, but ultimately Phil brings his lips to it of his own volition, but Phil touches the Wall-e toy directly to Dan’s chin. Like, I'm probably reading way too much into this, but it's like Phil wants to kiss Dan, so he does it with the Wall-e, whereas Dan wants to be kissed and kind of lets the lion stand in for himself. Though Dan does end up licking the Wall-e, so idk what I'm talking about really lol.)

stickers
http://fringecringes.tumblr.com/post/14 ... heeky-grin

D: “Press the ‘be a fan’ button and— What have you just stuck to my face? Oh, it’s just a blue thing, that’s fine.”

batter

P: “Bear.” (I know, I know, he might not actually be saying “Bear,” but my phannie heart believes that he is. lmao.)

giant spider

D: “No, no, no!”
P: “It’s my new pet!”
D: “It’s the worst thing in the world.”

plasma ball
http://cloudyoongi.tumblr.com/post/7301 ... lasma-ball

P: “I dare you to put your nose on that.”
D: “No.”
P: “Do it!”

video game controller
http://amazingphil-gifs.tumblr.com/post ... hil-halo-3

whap
http://internetcultleader.tumblr.com/post/98335059318/x

spoon
http://dailyphan.tumblr.com/post/97966578821 (michaelmemeford)

balloon
http://napkincole.tumblr.com/post/11497 ... just-dance

D: “Why should I agree to this?”
P: “Just because…friendship.”

hand puppet
http://ughbeckyy.tumblr.com/post/120786258899

D: “Thanks, Phil.”

cupcake tray

P: “I’m gonna have to wash this now ‘cause it’s been on your face.”
D: “Rude.”

skull
http://octolevi.tumblr.com/post/1276911 ... -freddys-4

P: “Eww, he’s making out with a skull. Eww, look at him, laugh at him!”
D: “Bye.”

horns
http://phanbeans.tumblr.com/post/132105 ... n-your-pet

P: “Stop it!”
D: “Sorry.”

red hand
http://ghouluke.tumblr.com/post/1320889 ... l-yeah-its

D: “Thank you, Phil.”
P: “How does it feel?”
D: “Yeah, it’s scratchy, thank you, actually yeah.”

face mold
http://riphowell.tumblr.com/post/150220027392/face-mold

P: “Do you want a face mold?”
D: “You—”
P: “Face mold!”

moth
http://darkphannie.tumblr.com/post/150597097674

P: “Brrr!”

vibrating cat paw
http://count-pyotr-kirillovich.tumblr.c ... 7115701274

D: “Thanks.”

rubber chicken
http://theamazingdandillion.tumblr.com/ ... 4216249198

eye mask
http://damnhcwell.tumblr.com/post/15097 ... ce-is-that

P: “Feel that! How nice is that?”
D: “Oh damn that’s nice.”

http://riphowell.tumblr.com/post/150988102697

P: “No, no, no, don’t!”
D: “Oh Phil, but I thought you liked it! I thought you wanted to talk about it more!”
P: “No! No that’s not fair!”
Speaking of the kiss-by-proxy thing, I also threw together this small compilation of them ordering each other to kiss/blow into/hug/touch various objects. I’m sure there are other similar instances; these are just the ones I could think of off the top of my head. (I also feel like there are some interesting conclusions that could be drawn about their power dynamic from these examples, but I'm not sure what it would be lol.)

http://koalaphil.tumblr.com/post/117871 ... ssing-saga

http://koalaphil.tumblr.com/post/117871 ... ssing-saga

http://mrphaniplier.tumblr.com/post/109546822820

http://danhowcll.co.vu/post/149286976141

This is my favorite thing.
Phil put the balloon to his mouth first. kiss-by-proxy #confirmed