{"id":5831,"date":"2024-07-16T22:34:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T22:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/?p=5831"},"modified":"2024-07-25T19:28:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T19:28:56","slug":"listen-more-than-journalists-cherubs-show-hidden-talents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/07\/listen-more-than-journalists-cherubs-show-hidden-talents\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: Talents run beyond journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"More than journalists: Cherubs show hidden talents by Medill Cherubs\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1873404636&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=800\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[MUSIC]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re all good at journalism here at cherubs, but what makes us unique? I can make a three-leaf clover with my tongue, but I highly doubt that anyone wants to see that. For cherubs who are interested in showing off their talents, what better place than Cherubs Got Talent?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[MUSIC]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Community and academic associates announced the cherub talent show three days before the performance, leaving a few groups scrambling to put together an act. Even though it was a quick turn around, some cherubs had been interested since the first day they stepped on campus. For William Karr, he knew the talent show was his destiny.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>WILLIAM KARR: From the start, when I heard about Cherubs Got Talent, I remembered seeing past videos of people from previous years participating in it, and it looked so fun. But, I didn\u2019t really have anyone to do it with, so I was kinda just like hoping someone would ask, and when someone did I was like, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019m jumping on that opportunity.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">William\u2019s group decided to see how quickly they could identify Taylor Swift songs while blindfolded. Some members were diehard Swifties, sporting their cardigans with red stars, but not William. He was just there for the ride.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>WILLIAM: I enjoy Taylor Swift songs, but naming them, knowing the lyrics, that\u2019s up to debate whether I can do that.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though William didn\u2019t have a talent on display, other cherubs performed acts that they have been honing for some time. Ivanna Zhang performed a classical piece on the flute. Luckily, she brought her instrument to cherubs and decided the talent show was the best place to practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IVANNA ZHANG: It\u2019s because I don\u2019t know what else to do. I brought my flute, because I just kinda needed to practice and flute is a great way for me to&#8211;when I have time or when I\u2019m stressed out&#8211;it just helps me to keep calm, because all you focus on is the music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[IVANNA PLAYING THE FLUTE]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CAA\u2019s were in charge of judging the show. They used a couple of different factors to decide the winner, but uniqueness and time spent preparing were the main categories on the judges\u2019 minds. Juliet Allan valued acts that weren\u2019t the standard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JULIET ALLAN: We really love when people step out of their comfort zones. We love when people are collaborative, have good crowd work. We also look for effort. The winners this year put in so much effort. There was so much creativity, which we really love.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vidyuth Sridhar was a testament to the collaboration of Cherubs Got Talent. He began on the piano with classical music, but his current favorite is contemporary songs that everyone can sing along to.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[VIDYUTH PLAYING PIANO]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">VIDYUTH SRIDHAR: What I like the most is making people happy and enjoy what I have to offer, and if they\u2019re singing along to me, that\u2019s the biggest compliment I could ever receive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The winner of the talent show was a group who performed a parody of \u201cEspresso\u201d by Sabrina Carpenter, featuring elements of the average cherubs\u2019 life like Colectivo, absentee sources, and free time with friends.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[CHERUBS SINGING &#8220;ESPRESSO&#8221; PARODY]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The underlying theme of the winning acts was community and pure fun. Evelyn Won didn\u2019t perform, but she noticed how the beauty of the cherub community was on display during Vid\u2019s piano performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">EVELYN WON: Vid was able to bring all the cherubs together in that one moment, and we were all singing Bohemian Rhapsody, and we\u2019re all harmonizing with each other, and I just thought it was super fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[VIDYUTH PLAYING BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From Cherub News, this is Camille Culbertson.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[CHERUBS SINGING ALONG TO BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music by Lee Rosevere<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students share their experiences of performing in Cherub Got Talent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[273],"class_list":["post-5831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-campus"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":273,"user_id":118,"is_guest":0,"slug":"camieculbertson","display_name":"Camille Culbertson","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f06a27fd393b5cd3e32203570b35689ef1ce60313f536f136738897f827f2f1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Culbertson","first_name":"Camille","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5831"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6623,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831\/revisions\/6623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5831"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}