James: This is so bad, I know the melody, oh oh oh my god!!!
Umu: This is a girl group called GFriend, they have six members and they debuted in 2015
And first we are reacting to a song called love whisper
at the end of this music video there
is kind of like a teaser hinting to the next one and you'll hear it
quote a "classical piece" because the next song is actually quoting a classical piece. Both: Three, two one
Isaac: [whispers] loveeeee
Aaron: i love this bassline oh! Olivia: [sings the bassline]
Aaron: It's great bass line Kevin: that's so retro that recorder this sound is retro
Oh, I love it, it all incorporates really well
Henry: this is like such an
interesting
progression so far
Katie: I'm sorry, whoa
Jarod: Flowers outdoors, rejuvenated sound, TEXT PAINTING Katie: White Hugo: they're wearing white clothing to symbolize purity.
Oh sh*t dance. get it. Yes.
d*mn they can dance. Kevin: Yeah Isaac: oh nice
Kevin: the little yellow brick asset a little it of a roll feel a little bit
Peyton: I remember this group now they had like a specific sound
Henry: Little-known fact I was obsessed with trains when I was a kid
So this video is bringing back like a weird amount of nostalgia
Elizabeth: oh that's a good show
Henry: I LOVED trains
Lindsey: ohhh that's like chromatic descending line in there whooo and the bass in the background
Isaac: [sings] Kevin: minor iv (minor 4)
Isaac: OHHHHH
Kevin: [celebrates]
Isaac: Soarin' (flyin') Jarod: MODULATION new key!!!!
Isaac: [la da da da da] Kevin: [shimmy shimmy]
Lindsey: The colors are really vibrant though
I really feel like they just took the thing and then they were like alright let's put this whole video into the software and then lets go to the saturation thing and go WHOOP
Aaron: ohhh I like this melody
Isaac: d*mn they all have really good--- Kevin: of course they're gna do that
Isaac: [sings ahhhh] Kevin: yeah they didn't do the "closer" chord progression [sings the chord progression]
Hugo: oh there they all are they just grew up out of the ground like plants
Kevin: OH They just go back to the key somehow. Henry: was that a chromatic mediant modulation?
Umu: oohhhh elizabeth: ohhh!
Aaron: You know what's weird? is throughout these like kpop I always have such a hard time like figuring out if it's minor or major
Is that is it just me? Olivia: Well, there's cause of modal mixture
They use a lot of modal mixture Aaron: okay, okay, respect, respect
Isaac: They do descending for all of these, you know it's ridiculous Kevin: Yeah
Isaac: wahhh It's good
The col--- the colors are so, what the heck Kevin: yeah
Lindsey: Everything about this is very clean like visuals and audio
Isaac: I like her voice.. it's great [the start of a fangirl era? lol] Charlotte: Wow. She has a really unique color to her voice Peyton: Yeah
Henry: This is such an interesting concept, that they're like listening to nature?
idk it's kinda cool
Lindsey: It keeps 1-2,
1, 2, 3 4...
Like 2 is like the dominant beat in this but not prominent
Peyton: [tapping] Charlotte: oh Peyton: GUITAR SOLOOOOO
Charlotte: I like how they put them under water here to like really highlight the fact that they're doing things with their feet
Lindsey: wait this is ethereal Davis: aww see her voice sounds good like
they should use it more in this song i feel like they don't use it enough
Hugo: [snaps]
They found the tree they found it
Does that mean they also found the key that they want to stay in [lol]
Jarod: I love that when they do like the layering were they put like one voice on top sustained and everybody else underneath it
That's like a really cool effect. It's gets me every time I love the layering, it's like a cake
Katie: I want all of their clothes [very serious]
Jarod: I want their legs Katie: except for that one ou--- yeah I want their legs!!!
Elizabeth: ohhh it just kinda ends oh now piano henry: hey pianer
Isaac: No, it's fin-- dang it shouldn't be finished [french horn in the background] yes. Continue. nooooooooooo
Hugo: [gasp] James: oh wait [gasp]
Hugo: [sings along to ending]
Hugo: Sh*t I feel like a bad classical musician
Second Listen
James: This is so bad, I know the melody. Hugo: Oh, f*ck what is that James: OH OH Oh my god. oh it's uh
James: [sings the tune]
Hugo: oh Yeah it's uh James: what's it called? in fruh lik [german lyrics] no, it's I know more not--- but it's um Schumann
THERE WE GO alright Schumann
Oh my god, we look so bad. Hugo: What is it? James: No
No, no Umu: Dicht der libe
Hugo: Oh f*cking damn it James: ...what's the song in? Hugo: [says German name] it was it!
James: James was KIND OF right Umu: ANYWAYS, what'd you think of
love whispered James: it was
Surprisingly complex. I mean nice nice descending sequences. Nice modulations Hugo: f*ck ton of modulations
Nice video as well Aaron: the melody was really catchy because it didn't do what you expected it to do
you know, it went I think it went up to V and then
Did like a vi - vii action?
or was it like a vii- I (seven to one) like it kept going which was interesting because you expected it to resolve back down
Especially the way that the bass and the chord progressions were going which is always good
Katie: uh it was really interesting because they modulated to ii in the chorus and it was a pretty direct
Modulation and ii is not a very common key to modulate to in a regular song. So that's why they had caught us off guard
Jarod: Yeah, you know
I think the coolest thing for me about that song was like the beat because often times whenever we listen a lot of these beats
they're like oh
You feel the quarter note, whereas for this one. You felt the
eighth note so you just sit here you're just groovin', It keeps the motion going. It's a very playful song so it's builds energy
So it's like even though there's not the constant eighth note running the way they use the space the way they use syncopation
It makes you constantly think of and feel that eighth note pulse, keeps the song going forward.
Isaac: YES. [tosses headphones]
I liked it is very light and pretty sounding the lead singer
She's like she has a great voice, but holy sh-- wait that other girl. She is great. Umu: The one with the short hair?
She's un ha Isaac: Dude, she has such a great voice
I was just thinking all this is like oh, this is one of those nice peppy songs
But as soon as she sang it was just like it hit me W O W.
Kevin: i don't think this one stood out to me much as the other two GFriend songs
I've heard but it's definitely within their style they can do as many songs in the style as they and I would listen to all. Isaac: [thumbs up]
of them like this is just one of those groups where I feel like they found a sound that really really works and I just.
Can't get enough! Umu: So moving on to song number 2, This is called summer rain this album
Compares the feelings of unrequited love and this is supposed to be about being in love
And how it's just like summer rain beautiful and precious yet unpredictable and it does quote a Schumann song
Both: 3,2,1
[ASMR RAIN]
Katie: ohhh that's gonna put me to sleepppp
Kevin: Oh, it's a dict er libe the first movement
Hugo: oh, they're taking it fast. Kevin: Oh, they even include the vocal line for a little bit
Lindsey: WHATTTTT ahahah what just happened Davis: it's like synced with the rain
Davis: Sort of the same very similar sort of percussion that was using in the last one
Lindsey: That was crazy
Charlotte: I still can't get over how unique her sound is Peyton: it's like a mature high voice. Charlotte: Yeah, I think that's why it's like weird to me. Yeah
Peyton: Like you usually you hear that youth and sound that naturally high but she still sounds like a grown...
Jarod: yeah like Schumann like a one republic esque beat on top of it liek
Henry: I can't frickin tell if it's a real bass or not
Elizabeth: This is really bothering you.[lol] henry: It's really bugging me, I want it to be like
Cause I want it to be a real bassist because like this grooves, you know?
Olivia: yeah these are more distinct minor and major Aaron: yeah, it's not as ambiguous Isaac: awww descending sequence
Kevin: very rainy, yeah I like it
Kevin: Somehow this song sounds rainier even though it's still that bright
I don't get the incorporation of Dict er Libe, I just don't get it.
Henry: oh I've played that oh my god. Yeah, no no
No, it's um dict er libe yeah first one in the wonderfully fair month of may yeah I played that on my jury
Jarod: I never thought I'd be jamming out to like Schumann esque like music in in this kinda way. I dig.
Henry: Beautiful. Everyone should look it up, It's
Fitz wund er lik, it's incredible
I'm stunned they used it in this video. Sorry.
Lidnsey: We got like a Davis: nice
lindsey: that did not go where I thought I was going to
Jarod: i love like the use of like passing tones in the next section in like [sings]
Kevin: Like it's just the combination of chords, it's just it's so elegant
Like it's something we haven't heard. see liek that
it combines like the melancholy of like
Kdrama music but just makes it fresh enough. I don't even know what it is
Olivia: They incorporated it very nicely it was a very like tasteful Aaron: it fits very good
Olivia: Like they didn't just kind of like shove it in there like they prepared it
Elizabeth: aw she looks sad
Henry: if i was a bass player I would be like
That would be like moving all of this. I'd be playing way too many notes
Kevin: Yeah, that's great though
a little half-diminished how many songs actually have diminished chords. Just think about that for a second?
Jarod: V OHHHH i thought it was gonna go to V but then it didn't
Katie: That's so cool, I'm obsessed with this Kevin: aw it ends on that? aw
Isaac: Dude, I'm liking this group a lot.
Katie: please play it again [repeats] Jarod: [repeating Schumann melody]
Jarod: Rain
Olivia: They kind of follow the same like the minor and major sections that like go back and forth the way that Schumann does
which is kinda cool
Katie: ohhh the grace note Jarod: this here perfect authentic cadence chord. because it ends
on three in the top voice
Katie: that had the little [sings the ending grace note]
that was gorgeous. I'm obsessed with that that like he's like one of my favorite k-pop songs.
What is what is this Schumann? What is Schumann?
Katie: OHHHH
I mun dict shunen dict er nacht. Jarod: I did know it sounds like this!!!
Katie: It's so beautiful
Umu: Do you know anything about what he is talking about in that song?
Can you relate it to the overall like what they were going for in this song about unrequited love?
Jarod: I am going to look up a translation
Katie: Yeah, actually it's about unrequited love.
The first half of it. It's like in the beautiful month of May when all the flowers are blooming blah blah blah
I went and I like I told her that I loved her blah blah blah and then the second one
It's like in wonderful month of May. All the birds were singing
Jarod: I told her "I loved her" Katie: then it ended not on like a major tonic chord
So you kind of assumed that she didn't say it back
But a beautiful song beautiful choice Jarod: like it was like you can kind of feel this sense of longing. Katie: Mm-hmm
Jarod: You know, it's like the the insert of the piano as this kind of this ominous call because they're hinting
at it, so it's like this like the mysterious summary
It's like you can hear them sing kind of like the same from this element. You don't really know
You don't know if it's good if it's bad blah, like it's just very beautifully put together
You know Kevin: I feel like if the problem, piano wasn't MIDI and it still kept that very robotic [sings] then it would've been better
Isaac: So aesthetic Kevin: if it were softer a little more mellow a bit more Steinway and a bit less
Yamaha? Clavinova?
Isaac: I like this group
Kevin: The yeah the reiteration at the end which I'm sure isn't in the real track, it was better
But it still sound like a MIDI piano. I mean, this is like the most delicate Schumann
bipolar piece ever and you do [sings violent version of melody]
DADADADA
You know, I think it's it's a disservice
I don't think it was very tasteful but the rest that's all was really nice
And for some reason I just felt the rain maybe it's the half diminished chords
Maybe it's like the progressions that I don't remember right now
But just felt like rainier than the other song even though the mixing is very much the same
Isaac: I don't know for the Schumann reference. It seems out of place before me because it's out of place
There's just this nuance and niceness about it. It gives that maybe a nostalgic feeling to like when you were like childhood
You may be listened to like one of those music boxes. Yeah one of those
For me it had an impact
But I can see how it's like a little awkward because like it was placed really awkwardly
Henry: They use Schumann of the wonderfully fair month of May
But then they basically didn't make any other allusion to it other than stealing the first two bars of the piano
like
Elizabeth: they could've done so much but if you're gonna do an homage to Schumann
He was such a musical genius. I mean the way he used harmony the way he use text painting
There's just like so many more ways. You can honor his memory
I mean if you want to make a video using Schumann and like he had he had a life with so much pain in it
So much emotional turmoil. I mean there were a lot of parts in the song. It's about unrequited love, right?
There's so many parts in the video where like she's crumbling up the letter and there's the notebook
That's where the ink is running
There's so many places where they could have introduced harmonies or chromaticism or something interesting rhythmic that could have
Symbolized what was happening in there narrative Henry: be more like Schumann Elizabeth: EXACTLY
Just be Schumann Davis: that was just like so such a good like brick in the wall of that song
I guess Lidnsey: I thought it worked really well with the drum line. That was like [sings] Davis: yeah, yeah
They kind of complemented each other really well, also it seems like they took that and used it in their compositional techniques
But they didn't like write the song on it
You know
I think it was like perfect and they also didn't just like have it in the beginning and then bring it back at the end
and that was it like they sprinkled it lightly throughout the summer rain
Davis: they garnish garnish Lindsey: they garnished it
Umu: Yeah and comparing this one with love whisper they were actually composed by the same exact composing duo called Iggy young-bae
what do you think of those two songs from here to each other
katie: definitely made sense in the order that they were and
I definitely see like resemblences in the composing style between the two. I really like them both
Yeah, and it's like it's interesting
I feel like if you had to put these together it's a game of first and second movement
Like you have the really energetic
first movement that's like grabs your attention that's like full of like life and whatever think of me messages you have this like this very
reserved kind of second movement
I mean even though it's not completely like ballad esque but like for kpop standards like that
Perspective like it's very kind of like milder. very tame very pretty. You know, that's their second movement
It's like you said, it's probably trilogy. So it's like a third one. It's like it's just your banger
You know, it's how you go out. James: I think there was more of a simplification in the second video. Hugo: Yeah, I think so
James: Well just in the chord structure on its own yeh no
I really liked the first one based off the various parts that are going on. , and this didn't have that
Charlotte: I can see how together like five wise but I think that they're just different
emotions Peyton: I think the second ones honestly a little more solemn but like as far as solemn songs go it's still like
Kevin: They don't have a lot of dynamic contrast in their songs
But for some reason it's always interesting and they never lose attention. I just...gfriend you got something
Composers duo dudes you got something I think the reason
G'friend really works. It feels like the aren't showing off anything like when they use chords
It feels like it's very natural. It's like we're not using this half diminished 7 to be all Whoa
We're using it because we have a musical idea and that core just serves in
conveying the idea
They're so good. They're so good. They make me so happy. Umu: Hello, everyone
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