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Zach Sang Show

Pentatonix Talks New Christmas Album, A cappella, Daft Punk and Dolly Parton

Zach Sang Show

Sangasong, LLC

Tv & Film, Music

4.7658 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Tis the season! Well not exactly, but it’s always that season for Pentatonix, the jaw-dropping a cappella crew who spend around 11 months of the year thinking about the next holiday season. And this one incoming will bring you a new album — Christmas In the City — and a tour.


They stopped in to discuss their reality TV origin story, getting dropped, virality, when’s that evolution of Taylor Swift dropping, cellist/beatboxer Kevin Olusola’s life-changing time in China (his fluency in Mandarin is a delight to behold), and of course they serve up a little singing number. Plus they chat onstage fuck-ups, delusional optimism, taking risk, queer Christmas movies, Joni, Mariah, and more.


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0:00.0

Hi, beautiful human. I'm Zach. That is Dan. And today we welcome to the studio for the first time ever

0:09.9

Acapellar Powerhouse, Pentatonic. Hey! Hi. Hello. Hey, it's very fascinated by all of you. Genuinely,

0:18.6

because I told you before, like, you are, in my opinion, effortlessly

0:22.7

talented.

0:23.7

Thank you.

0:24.7

Can you, is it as effortless as I perceive it to be?

0:28.5

Or is there a lot of effort that goes into this shit?

0:31.3

One, two.

0:32.3

Three.

0:33.7

It definitely is a lot of work.

0:39.8

There's a lot of rehearsal involved.

0:41.2

I feel like when we were on Mass Singer,

0:43.4

people just pick songs and go up there and sing and read the words.

0:46.1

And we're like crafting arrangements for hours.

0:48.8

And then like the song changes.

0:49.8

And we're like, well, it takes us like hours to recraft something.

0:52.6

So there's that.

0:53.9

But like, I don't know. Yeah, I feel like it takes work to hours to reraft something so there's that but like yeah i feel like

0:56.2

it takes work to make acapella feel special and i think that's the thing that we really like pride

1:01.5

ourselves in in taking the time working on the arrangements making sure that what we do really

1:06.8

feels like oh i don't need an instrument because what they're doing vocally i i needed these five parts. I didn't need anything else. And yeah, that takes time. But I don't know. After 14 years, I feel like we understand our sound. And now we speak our own language. Now we speak our own language. In that way, it's effortless. But yeah. I got to say, like, that is one thing that, like, I did notice is that they're, you all are very smart right and that is a

1:28.4

common thread between people who sing encapela tend to be very intelligent because there is a

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