<p>This coming Monday at 8/7c, the Tufts University Beelzebubs A-capella group will be performing on the finale of NBC's "The Sing Off." If they win, they will win a recording contract with Sony and $100,000, quite an accomplishment for the group and for Tufts. The winner will be determined by popular vote. You can vote up to ten times using the following methods: </p>
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Call 1-877-674-6401
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<p>The Bubs have done an amazing job so far, and are making all of us feel proud to be your peers. GO BUBS!</p>
<p>They are amazing–and we voted, ad nauseum, and continue to vote.</p>
<p>It’s been great fun to watch the 'Bubs and I am so glad the Administration at Tufts made the correct decision in letting these young men participate in the show. It is great for them and terrific publicity for the University-They are the Tufts Ambassadors of Song.</p>
<p>Have already voted via text, email and cell phone. Don’t forget you can vote 10 times via each method.</p>
<p>Go 'Bubs!</p>
<p>A reminder that voting ends tomorrow, Sunday, at 9AM. Get all your votes in for the Bubs!</p>
<p>It came down to the two best groups - Nota and the Bubs.
The Bubs did themselves - and Tufts, proud, even if Nota ultimately won.
The Bubs were absolutely fantastic; their “Who” medley, “Sweet Caroline,” and other performances showed just how extraordinarily talented this group is.</p>
<p>We was robbed. :-)</p>
<p>I honestly felt either group could have won (they were the two best from the first show), but once it came down to a popularity contest with audience voting being the determinant I had my doubts about the Bubs beating Nota.
I did think that the last show was a waste, however, and based on the third show last Wednesday, I would have given it to the Bubs “by a nose.”</p>
<p>Bubs were incredible. Even in the end, they were awesome, passionate and hilarious. Should’ve won imao.</p>
<p>I think they’re good but I think they rubbed many people the wrong way. They are the type of people who are used to getting attention (whether they deserve it, I don’t know), and they carried themselves as if to suggest they expected this attention. It was a little tactless. Honestly, though, Nota was also better so I’m sure that helped (esp. the soloist in that song “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” in the beginning of this clip: [Hulu</a> - The Sing-Off: The Finale, Part 1 - Watch the full episode now.](<a href=“http://www.hulu.com/watch/117044/the-sing-off-the-finale-part-1?c=61:248]Hulu”>http://www.hulu.com/watch/117044/the-sing-off-the-finale-part-1?c=61:248)).</p>
<p>^^Wow. I couldn’t disagree more, and that’s the first time I’ve heard anyone so much as hint that “they rubbed many people the wrong way.” I thought they were not only incredibly talented and well “choreographed,” but that they were unbelievably personable and polite. As one of the judges said, they are the kind of boys that many people would like to think all college boys are like. (Wishful thinking, to say the least.)</p>
<p>Also, the finale last Monday night had nothing to do with who won. The voting had closed Sunday morning.</p>
<p>“think they’re good but I think they rubbed many people the wrong way. They are the type of people who are used to getting attention (whether they deserve it, I don’t know), and they carried themselves as if to suggest they expected this attention. It was a little tactless”</p>
<p>Wow, this is sort of a shocker of an assessment. My daughter, recently admitted to ED1 (so bias, here), watched the Bubs with a host of friends from school, who have zero connection to Tufts (although a few are indeed applying RD), and I heard the following comments “they’re so cute,” “they’re so sweet,” “…so talented,” and “they work together so nicely as an ensemble. No one is hogging the limelight.” I, myself, found them infectious, talented, ingenuous.</p>
<p>“they are the kind of boys that many people would like to think all college boys are like”</p>
<p>The best endorsement of all as to how the Bubs “came off.”</p>
<p>I could be off the mark, but I think they overdid the goofiness-- almost as if they were desperate to be well-liked. It could be that performing for TV made them act differently than they normally would. I point to Brown’s Bear Necessities as an example of simple unassuming talent.</p>
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<p>I should watch more of the episodes. If the finale is any indication of previous performances though, Nota’s better IMO.</p>
<p>Nychomie,</p>
<p>Did you see the Bubs version of the Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour”? It was really something–choreographed well, great harmonies, and uninhibited. It is a difficult song to arrange and sing, as well.</p>
<p>As far as overdoing the “goofiness”–maybe, the Bubs are genuinally “goofy,” and I mean that in the most endearing way.</p>
<p>nychomie-
Wait…are you saying that you made your comment based only on seeing the finale, which, as I have said above, not only had nothing to do with who won the competition but was also, IMHO, a waste of time with lots of boring filler?<br>
If so, I suggest that you watch the three episodes from the week before which actually comprised the competition. The Bubs were fantastic, as was Nota. (The other groups were inconsistent and, from my POV, no one was close to Bubs and Nota.)</p>