#acaplaya comparisons

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My Mother Told Me (2021) // Valhalla Calling (2023) // Hunt The Sky (2025)

(With only two images for Cesar for obvious reasons)

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If you count Geoff's cover of Trust In Me, and the inclusion of Poor Unfortunate Souls in the Little Mermaid Medley (which I definitely do), then six out of ten of the songs in Aca Top 10 Disney Villains have been re-covered since its release in March 2019. And look, I gotta give a large amount of credit and acknowledgement to Huldra Draco, who has comparison videos for each of these songs (and more!) on her channel, putting the same lyrical parts of the different versions back-to-back for direct comparison, but I had a very specific idea that basically boiled down to "hey what if there was a sort of compilation video where the Aca Top 10 song version flowed directly into the newer versions, as a continuation of the song?"

So yeah, I had a Vision, and I do in fact have some experience with basic video editing (I sometimes quite enjoy it, even, though I rarely do it), and so I made this!

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Far Over The Misty Mountains Cold (2021) // I See Fire (2023) // Song Of Durin (2024)

(Top to bottom, Kili, Bofur, Fili, and Thorin)

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VoicePlay - Oogie Boogie's Song vs Be Prepared

When you've got two covers of Disney (or at least Disneyish) villain songs, and both come with a "full-production" video with makeup, costuming, and set design, and both of them feature Geoff on lead vocals, well, you should probably expect a few notable points of comparison. I noticed a decent handful of random interesting similarities between these two videos, and I wanted to share them!

Geoff first appears on-screen by walking out from behind part of the background setpieces

Layne portrays a character not originally in the scene (or he simply isn't a confirmed character at all) and stays completely separate to the other three vocalists

These other three vocalists act as the trio of 'lackeys' associated with Geoff's villain character

Geoff actually interacts with Layne (not common in any video where everyone is standing up and/or positioned in a straight line, because typically Geoff and Layne are placed at opposite ends in such cases)

Use of green lighting and red lighting!

Not actually a visual thing, but both songs mention "stew", and given that the latter case comes from the original rap bit that Layne wrote for the Be Prepared cover, I figured I might as well mention/include it.

This is more of a contrast than a comparison, but I wanted a specific one for Eli too, and this is good enough!

This

(Also I'm not showing it in screenshots because it'd be better with gifs, but Geoff does a spin in both videos too!)

Both videos end with the villain characters silhouetted in red and laughing/cackling evilly!

(My full visual analysis of Be Prepared will be coming tomorrow!)

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2019 vs 2023 - or more specifically, Mr Blue Sky vs In The Air Tonight

What can I say, I like doing visual comparisons, and I've had this idea bouncing around my head for a fair while, and it was just a matter of actually getting around to taking the screenshots for it. Why these two videos? Well other than the time gap (and the fact that I wanted to include J None), I knew the camera angles/filming directions of both were relatively similar to each other, and also similar colour schemes for the clothing! (Other than J's blazer).

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When I was watching Carol Of The Bells on Patreon I was like "hey I'm pretty sure he's done that kinda movement before in YDMAWJ" and I was right!

Yeah look idk fam I just enjoy being able to pick up on commonalities and repeated mannerisms and all that stuff. It's just fun!

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Zat You Santa Claus lyrics - VoicePlay vs original

I mentioned in my thoughts/commentary post that VoicePlay had made some changes to the song lyrics compared to how the original went (according to Google anyway), but it took me a few more listens and a bit more checking the original song lyrics to realise just how many differences there are between the two, even down to the smallest alteration or word insertion/replacement! Honestly I wish VoicePlay's video had proper closed captions on it so it would be easier for me to learn the song quicker, but oh well, you can have this comparison thing I made anyhow!

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In The Hall Of The Mountain King (2022) // Classical Chaos (2024)

Never too late for a screenshot comparison post!

I was hoping someone else was gonna make a comparison post thing for In The Hall Of The Mountain King and Classical Chaos, but nobody did - I guess taking highly-specific screencaps of VoicePlay/Geoff videos for various analysis purposes is mostly my thing 😄 (on Tumblr at least).

So obviously some of the clothing pieces/costume parts got altered a little bit for Classical Chaos as compared to Mountain King. The apparent reason for this, so I've heard, is that some of the original parts got sold in a charity auction for Patrons, and it's likely that they hadn't considered doing a sequel video back then.

But there are a few other differences besides that - Geoff seemingly was painted a slightly different tone of blue, and his lips are darker, Cesar of course has less facial hair, and at least some of the guys are either wearing different contacts to the first time around, or no contacts at all (I'm pretty sure they still all use coloured contacts in Classical Chaos, but it's been a while since I watched the BTS). Eli for example has very bright green eyes with slitted/dilated pupils in Mountain King, but his eyes don't seem as distinct in CC. Or maybe his eyes just stand out less in that video due to lighting/shadows and camerawork and stuff, idk.