Ed Helms of NBC's The Office, an a cappella alum we'd interviewed for Pitch Perfect, again opens up about his days as an Oberlin Obertone in the pages of this week's New York magazine. "I love a cappella music, but I loathe a cappella music," he says. "It's the most paradoxical art form there is."
Read the full story here. And, to prove Ed's point, here's the Obertones singing a strangely aggressive version of Toto's "Africa."
Pitch Perfect, out now from Gotham Books, is a behind-the-scenes look at the bizarre, inspiring, and hilarious world of competitive collegiate a cappella.
Author Mickey Rapkin lives in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in The New York Times, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Details, and Time Out New York. E-mail him at mickey@mickeyrapkin.com.
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