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Now let's move on to our reaction of *Screams*
You're now reacting to the seven-member girl group
Dreamcatcher and their song "Scream" released in February 2020.
The lyrics of "Scream" talk about
about bullying and harassment. In the first verse they sing:
"Though everyon throws stones at me I can't escape/it is not fun at all/who is this for?
Please someone tell me/please I don't want to scream". This song also refers to the
story of Lucifer becoming the devil. When he was removed from the light people
forgot how to say good things and the darkness has consumed their hearts. You
may notice that there is one less dancer in the group of seven girls, and that's
because one of the members is actually in China competing in a variety show and
the mask singer represents of her presence.
Kevin: I like that that's a good...that's good.
Alright. U: It was composed by LEEZ, and Ollounder.
Daniel: Wanna like hold hands as we do this? We can like do this. Ready? Fiona: 3, 2, 1.
Cloud: I like her hair. Henry: Guitar. Are we gonna get full punk here?
The drums are really industrial.
Down beat, down beat, down beat.
K: Yeah the symphonic metal vibes are pretty strong right now.
Owen: I do like this chord progression because they have, they have that dominant that they sit on for awhile
and it wants to lead them to the major key but then they keep going back
into the underworld of minor.
F: I like that mirroring of a lower voice under her while she sings in octaves.
H: Dang. whoa. C: I really like this.
Elizabeth: Oh they're doing that thing where the like electric guitar and the bass
follows the vocal line exactly in rhythm and pitch. I like that
James: I like that...those like offbeat screams...going up the scale. Briana: Yeah.
H: Dang that is so cool.
H: (vocalizing) C: Her voice is really deep.
H: But it's so full. It's really supported. Dang, that was a really cool fill; duple on top of it...a lot of power.
B: Do you hear these harmonies? Like this (vocalizes) there's like suspensions throughout. Yeah, it's really nice.
H: Wow she manages that flip really well.
O: I like that hit they did after the the build-up, after the scream. Like that
that hit is just so heavy and really satisfying.
D: Whoa, this is like major Phantom of the Opera vibes. F: Listen to this space.
That drippy like (clicks tongue). D: We're suspending everything.
H: Clever. I see yeah...I always enjoy that I don't think I'll ever not like that.
Again, again! Ah!
Seiji: Man people in the anime are gonna love this.
...or like a Final Fantasy or something like that. Man, they're gonna eat this up.
H: Ohhhhhhh...I thought that might happen...I THOUGHT THAT MIGHT HAPPEN!
Cut out everything and just the voices scream. It's a fun trope and I actually really like it.
Like withholding the the percussion on the downbeat and then adding it on the
next one or like a bar later so it has more like attention and to anticipation; more that suspending that tension.
O: This song I think highlights how important articulation is, in terms of how long notes are.
Because I think the reason the chorus (vocalizes) is because they cut those those big
triplets so short, and and you can really feel the subdivisions in between them
just by playing those three notes you can feel (vocalizes) because they
make it really hit hard and then cut it off immediately so you feel like there's
just that space that you want that your brain I think
inserts a note into. Yeah, and articulation is really important. Like it's three
things the beginning of the note (vocalizes), or the length of the note if you grow
and the ending of it. But how they cut off and also how sharp the
articulation around those triplets was makes it just *pop* really hard.
Aaron: They should scream.
U: iT alReAdy HapPeNED!!!!!!!!!
N: Oops A: Dude, we are gonna have to go back. I honestly didn't notice much screaming.
U: Here, let's listen to the instrumental.
A: Okay it sounds like a far-off scream. Like in the balcony of Kodak, and it just
kind of like
"oh no..." I...
I broke a nail like...
U: Can you talk about how at the beginning how you were talking about the production of the downbeats... Nick: Oh! Okay!
One of the really brilliant things that they did at the beginning of the song is there's not much actual action
happening on the triplet parts of the beat so you've got like (vocalizes). But you don't
have much (vocalizes). So one of the things that they did in the production of this track
is that they made it so that the hits of the drum decay on one of those (vocalizes)
...on one of those little rhythm things. So that you get a sense that the song is
in twelve eight so that's four beats and then three little subdivisions of each beat.
Before you even hear anything happening on the subdivisions. A: Yeah.
N: Which I mean it's just truly brilliant whoever came up with that, and it shows us a lot of attention to detail.
I: The hook was very well used. I think the pre-course you have this very...what's the word...
expdient melody was just very quick and it just very brief it's like (vocalizes). There's more silence and
then you have this scream and you're thinking it's like, "Where is the trouble?"
"What's going on?" and then it goes into the drop and I thought that was very effective.
K: Whenever I react to Dreamcatcher there
are some things I like very much about them. Cause I think they're very creative
and they an have a very unique spot in kpop right now. But at the same time
there are certain things that I've always thought that they could do more
of, and I think this song...all the stuff that they are already strong, they were
already strong at are even stronger. But some of the things that I thought they
could do more of are still a little lacking.
For example dynamic range; I just wish that since they're going for this rock
type of style there's so much rock influence, borderline metal influence I'm
hoping that the dynamic range between the more lyrical sections and the and
the more rock sections are a bit wider. U: So like mastering/mixing? K: Yes, mastering/mixing
kind of thing. That being said in the past, sometimes when they use like a more
like a drum set sound I've noticed the sound-the timbre wasn't as punchy for me
but this time I thought everything timbre wise was really good. So I think
this is this might be one of their best songs for sure. Yes. U: Amen brother!
K: Yes. I like the drop.
I don't know you shouldn't call it a drop because it's a very metal type thing but
you got these really rough strings either the strings were performed in a
rough way or they would combine with a certain effect and that staccato thing
that makes it sound really punchy and really rough. So I like it it's just that
yeah, I still wish that their metal could come out a bit more and things could be
even you know and then in the mixing department even more drastic.
S: There's a point where the guitar plays:
And they mixed down and I think the singer plays like:
Her first line is also that
in the next verse or chorus
Stephen: Musically speaking that was like very compelling. Like it
was very catchy melodically.
I just... they kind of stuck with one thing and they
built upon it and they knew how to hook you in, and then the chorus like what they built to-
because a lot of songs will either have like kind of a catchy intro
but you know that's it or like a catchy intro and maybe a verse
like their one section-but with this song each section was strong and built upon each other.
And then it's almost like an essay, right? You've got like your thesis which
is the main point everything else is supporting that but the thesis that's
the main thing, that's like what it's all about. So you can think of the chorus as that,
and the chorus was very strong like, I remember it. It was memorable.
Simple motives that they used were very effective.
*Playing Dreamcatcher's cover of Big Bang's Bang Bang Bang*
H: Feel like I have a bias now too. It's so cool. U: Yeah no alteration on her voice in that it's just her.
H: Daaaaaaaaaaaaang.