The King's Singers - Il Est Bel Et Bon

[LilDumar]

AWESOME!!

[timaa1224]

0:37 Epic Face!

[kabenck]

Flawless beauty.

[rmmsoccer12]

lol look up the lyrics

[ecopoliticalczar]

Um, barhocker, maybe because that IS HIM!

[pianopolly]

It's unbelievable how clean and pure their sound is all the time, even more so considering the speed in which they sing this. I really tried to pay attention to when they breathe, but no matter how close you listen, you cannot hear a single sound that's not part of the music itself. Not even natural lip sounds or something. Unbelievable indeed.

[katsandroses]

@pianopolly mm, yes, as close to perfect as it gets :-))

this one is just delightful !

[NinjaAgnostic]

0:28 for music

[thatwhichidesire]

Or is that the women themselves :D

[CoolnessManifested]

did this song in high school and it is extremely difficult to sing. it is great fun and there are some beautiful parts. one of my favorites.

[Petraphage]

Great interpretation ! Interesting to work on that song...

[GreyLabyrinthine]

We're soon going to do this with our small, not-King's-Singers-level choir.

It's going to be a nightmare.

[beakerek]

brilliant. I love it. Just like chickens.

bea

[WhaitWhattt]

hAa its the wiggles!!!

minus the asian guy

[WhaitWhattt]

hAa its the wiggles!!!



[TheForeignGamer]

Our Varsity Voices group is doing this song. But we're doing STAB, not Four-Part Men. But we're not going as fast as these guys are hahaha.

[LiaHeintjes77]

the dude all the way on the right looks like Mr.Bean

[drmgrl11]

you know whats funny is that they're like flutes. she shortest has the highest pitch and the tallest the lowest . lol

[InflatedIdiot]

@drmgrl11 made my day.

[drmgrl11]

1:26 what the heck

[Mark26111984]

@drmgrl11 Paul will often give a strange look at the end of a song, especially when it's a happy one.

[GeeEmOh]

that alto FAREEAKS me out/

[MrTaurus511]

@GeeEmOh IM GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE!!!

[lSMiLeYl]

ITS MR BEAN!!!

[catholab]

the translation of the last sentence isn't "and leaves me to do whatever I want" but " and I'm taking pleasure, my dear, I cry louder than all the fowls "

[doggydude10]

The Alto looks like Ernie from the George Lopez show.

[amoxtlacatl]

@doggydude10

OMG - he does!

Now all he needs to do is finish singing and go "¡Ay, güey!"

[silroma76]

muy bueno!!!

[spoogeworthy]

My GOD that man doing the introduction, he is excited, isn't he?

[mar1na1993]

@spoogeworthy You have no idea how many times I rewatched this video JUST for him... Not to mention the great song but... GREAT intro!

[xAiiRPLANES]

My favorite metal song. 

[larsdude777]

thumbs up if you watched this like 9 times in a row

[barhocker228]

he looks like mr. bean xD

[Colethecelloplayer]

@barhocker228 I was JUST going to say that LOL.

[larsdude777]

1:26 if you're happy and you know it clap your hands XD

[clefbor]

each one of these guys could have had a good career as a soloist and yet they came together for the sake of being greater than the sum of the parts. Sort of like the Dallas Mavericks. Only different :) I do like the earlier recording of this at the slower tempo un peu better, but hell, i aint gonna complain. Thanks for committing your lives to this music. Thanks for posting this.

[themrqwertymark]

David thinks about kissing Paul at 0:49

[405232SING]

I love the thumbnail for this video.

[dapx32]

shes my husband

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[salt0and0pepper0]

Is that Mr. Bean?!?!??!

[canifinishthissenten]

omfg as a choir kid i am so blown away by they're talent. one of the recent groups of students before me performed this piece for competition and it was at least 2 times as slow and nowhere near as amazing as the kings singers. you guys are 1 of 4 groups/people who inspire me :P

[Mrdavidgarcia12777]

personally, the tempo is not the greatest! Fast doesn't always means right!

[dnebdal]

@Mrdavidgarcia12777

I quite like it - much slower, and you lose the the way some parts are meant to sound like clucking hens. :)

[gavinfarkas]

Omg I finally found this!!!! Love this piece!

[darkpaw19]

Holy crap! my chior is doing this..... too many people to do it that fast though.

[markmcd942]

5 people are tone deaf:)

[cuddledvoncuddly]

just did this song in our hs choir! =)

[StarWarsFan7656]

This makes me so happy! Haha

[ashg4906]

this...is....amazing!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[Miss2895]

Love the way he say "il est bel et bon" at the start au the movie

[joy97hannah]

Vive Dumbo le triso !!!!!!

[TheKarolek765]

Niesamowite!!!! 

[ethanjhayward]

I know this piece is remarkable because of the technique required... However I just can not get over the beauty of their tones. Amazing.

[sethriogrande107]

the guy who sings bass looks like Mr. Bean xDD

[ethalinia]

@sethriogrande107 He reminds me of Big from Sex and the City :P

[buffiexoh]

Amazing! Best version I've seen.

[red6352]

Too fast.

[zfriderici]

Well, we now know where beat-boxing comes from. All joking aside, very well done of a hard piece; props to the King's Singers!! (Although work on the faces, you're scaring the little ones!)

[houstondma]

I disagree. This is a madrigal, not a race; this tempo is a show-off tempo, not one that is compatible with stylistic considerations of the time or genre. The present King's Singers could take a lesson from the recordings of the original King's Singers whose style, cohesive sound, vowel alignment, timbre, and blend are incomparable. The original's recording of this piece is exquisite.

[michalsobanski]

the best execution on youtube

[sopranolys91]

lovelovelovelovelovelove!

[ferraric916]

haah this is the song we r singing but i dont think this fast hahah i love their faces :)

[grandplans]

I have a cd of them with this song on it. It's nice to see them perform this song on video. Excellent!!!

[Cordillera1975]

King Singers can do no wrong...Its a gossiping song...its amazing

[massicotted]

Il est bel est bon, bon, bon, commère, mon mari,

Il ètait deux femmes toutes d'un pays,

Disant l'une à l'autre avez bon mari?

Il ne me courrouce ne me bat aussi.

Il fait le ménage, il donne aux poulailles,

Et je prends mes plaisirs.

Commère c'est pour rire

Quand les poulailles crient:

Co, co, co, co, de, petite coquette, qu'est ceci?

[biegel88]

These four singers are quite amazing!!

[doggydude10]

I have to sing this song in choir... ):

[vinceat852]

@doggydude10

good luck man! you need it. LOL

but yeah, if you manage to do it, i'd seriously applaud you. =]

[KakashiFreak100]

@doggydude10 I do too :)

I like the song, but right now we're still singing it on solfege syllables haha. We just started working on the words. ^-^

[doggydude10]

@KakashiFreak100 Do you go to Cedar Ridge High?

[KakashiFreak100]

@doggydude10 No ^^; I go to Williamstown High. Funny, though, how both of our choirs had the same idea haha :)

[doggydude10]

@KakashiFreak100 Yeah, that is pretty effing funny.

[asmarinn]

the king singer son buenisimos, esta obra es dificilisima, el frances se les va un poco en collera si,

[18Comrade]

geil

[Death9897]

the bass looks like mr big from sex in the city.lollll

[ruslan2112]

tanks wery gut

[bradbro09]

This video is a perfect example of why Youtube needs a replay button...

[mouthmouse]

Is it a new mentality to sing faster and faster? For exemple another video of KS singing the same aria about 17 years ago was slower!

Sad!

[ChessiePieces]

@mouthmouse it's not an aria - it's a madrigal.

[mouthmouse]

@ChessiePieces Sorry I was mistaken, I thought that a madrigal was an aria! but it doesn't change anything from what I said before! Thanks for the information!

[mouthmouse]

it's too fast ! the older group sang that slower

[ThoughtsOfYou18]

Dudes got lungs

[MrRetromunkey]

at 00:49 when Stephen comes in, epic bass run,

Thats why hes the best!

[TheFlutegirl15]

Love this tempo :D

[MrCelloBass]

stephen!!!!!!!!!!!! your the best bass

[wenglishsal]

There is a posting by @kingsingers showing a very young David and Stephen singing this very song.. have a look they are so young... David has a very fetching RED tank-top on and Stephen a Tweed jacket? It looks like they are singing in a sports centre???... Aww bless 'em :0)x

[Bienchen23]

awesome! we're trying to figure this out at our choir and its kind of hard!!

[effinkiller424]

Goodness, this is superb! <3

[johngamboni]

Una excelente interpretación!

el contratenor soprano tiene una voz muy dulce.

[366314ashley]

i love that guy singing soprano!!!

0:17 "he never beats me,"

[b0ttomzone]

at around 0:50 .... the bass and tenor... man, does that sound awesome.

[SugarbabyLA]

I love this sooo much, it makes me smile :) haha I sing this in my choir at school, except its SSAA, I might just do a multitracking video of this!

[Spudbass]

@SugarbabyLA I've done one, it's really fun to do!

[alltrue]

Ars nova shit, great interpretation, imitative counterpoint yeahhhh sounds very armonic polifony

[seanwhitty]

this is lovely!

[Hetahl]

Hahaha :) Love it! I have a test tomorrow with this song involved, and I just can't get it out of my head! I hope I'll manage to spell it right... :D

[babiaznprincess1]

love it!

[JessieMarie923]

They sped up the tempo. I just preformed this song, and the tempo is NOT that fast. It's fast, but you can hear the french. I think it sounds better slowed down, you can't even enjoy the music when it's that fast. Yes, it proves that they're good vocalists, but good vocalists should also want their audience to enjoy their piece.

[aukmandude]

just because you sang it at a certain tempo, it doesn't mean it's the right one. everyone has his or her own taste.

[Hisname22]

Agree with aukmandude, but there is a tempo marking written by the composer eventho its not a fixed tempo. If its marked vivace you cant just sing it andante.

[mwoerne]

@aukmandude

I'm giving this a thumbs up because you said "his or her" instead of "their"

[mouthmouse]

@aukmandude I'm sorry but it's impossible to understand the lyrics! I'm french, I knew this song before, and except il est bon commere mon mari it's impossible to understand the rest! And a song you can't understand lyrics is not very pleasant to listen to!

[nonnopirro52]

@aukmandude si chiama virtuosismo e fa parte della BRAVURA

[calivaan45]

@aukmandude I agree. As singers, we have the freedom to interpret the song as we want. That means that a slow interpretation of this song would be just as good as a fast paced interpretation of the song like this one, the different tempos need different skills in order to sing it well. That is one of the reasons why I love to sing because a song can be interpreted in a million different ways, and every single one of those interpretations can be correct.

[superman84241]

.....newb

[StickKingProductions]

@JessieMarie923

It's actually marked to be really fast, and it's in cut time.

[SillyComments]

i've just decided what i want for christmas. the dvd.

[ericabranagh1992]

me too!

[breaux2000]

At that tempo to perform this song so well proves why they are so world renowned today. Congrats King's Singers for showing the world how to perform this w/perfection.

[oguaayouthchoir]

good nicer than what we sang today.

[OllyMillMill]

0:56 does the guy on the far right say punani??

[squashroe]

Dah niknak

[TaylorComstock]

it looks like he did, but I can't really tell...who cares anyways, it's the freeking Kings' Singers!!! :)

[pisoprano]

I think it's "poulets," or chicken.

[i3rokenmind]

Nope, he says 'poulaie'... which actually means 'chicken' so pisoprano is right :D

This is amazing! I sang this song in my choir, too, maybe two years ago from now. The alto part at 1:06 is so difficult, and he does it so well! Oh, I am sooo jealous. ^^

[breaux2000]

no he says pou lailles.

[SillyComments]

@OllyMillMill

it might even be 'poulailler" which is the place where all the hens are. or "poulaille" generic term for chicken.

[StickKingProductions]

@SillyComments

In my music, it's "poulailles"

[rametep100]

Tres bien....j'adore cette chanson