Henry: Yeah
Umu: So now you're reacting to the 13 member girl group Cosmic Girls,
and two of their 2019 b-side songs.
Umu: First you'll be reacting to their song called 12 o'clock, released on their 6th mini album WJ Stay
Kevin: It's a pun on would you stay?
Whaaaaaat?
I didn't know you could do that. That's so cool. That's a Kevin approved pun.
Umu: So this song urges listeners to love themselves and to not miss opportunities to make themselves happy
This is composed by dress, Kriz, Brother Soo, glowingdog, Yenevara, Kim Yeon-seo, Dart, and P!Bee
Henry: These are some names right here Cloud: Can we get that list again
Umu: P!Bee
C: *whispered* 3, 2, 1
we're going kinda slowly with these today
Fiona: Oh! Oh those drums it makes you wanna dance automatically and makes me wanna use this old-timey voice
H: It's very staccato, even the vocals C: Yep
And you've got the little "boop!" It almost sounds like a metronome
Just like- H: Yeah C: Boop!
H: I love the C: Oh yess H: Kind of like New Orleans band in the sound
Elizabeth: I would swing dance to this, hell yeah Owen: Yeah, oh definitely definitely
Oh, do you see how they slowed down the harmonic rhythm so- by, by two to get to you like a much more
"mmm ta, mmm ta" instead of "da da da da da da da"
E: Yeah
This is almost like electric swing. O: It's totally, yeah, exactly it.
F: I feel like their dance is like that, Daniel: Do you hear that that was like modal mixture or something?
F: The *makes the noises from the song* D: Yeah but the way before they---
like right before they uh
resolve the harmony is just like
Oh, no, it didn't happen there
C: I do really like this so far
H: Oh, that's different
C: She's goin' a little deeper
K: This is a cool rap with that instrument... the saxophone
Both: bibidibabidibu
Isaac: Ah K: Elephant?! I: Lament bass would help K: eLEPHANT?!
H: I do
Yeah, this is really upbeat
Oh, that's jazzy
K: There is a piano but it's kind of...it's not part of the syncopation I guess
H: I knew that was coming, but I still was like *noises*
C: Did we have a little string action there instead of going like back to New Orleans kind of like jazz sound-
H: Yeah C: -they're bringing in strings. That's interesting
F: That's how you know it's a good part- D: That's how you know it's lit! F: -if like your elbows are above your eyes
D: You're like this, it's like so lit
You know honestly, I really like this
it's so like delicious, you know what I mean
Nick: I love the little uh Aaron: Ohh N: kalimba type thing in the background
A: But also we just like changed rhythm or - it's not rhythm like N: tempo? A: time
H: Oh! There it is, there it is, there it is there it is. There it is!
C: Ooh do you hear like the
H: Oh C: Yes
H: OOHWOAAHHOHO
D: This is a counter harmony now or like not like counter harmony but counter melody (F: *high pitched noises*)
Do you hear that with the other voice?
Very interesting musical weaving
K: I do like the 10th lead *demonstrates?*
*demonstrates again with song*
Nice
Ends on the four?? Fascinating.
D: That was (F: It was nice) it was kind of musically flirty...
That ending F: It made you want more D: Exactly
I just want to mention how musically, as I said before, delicious it was
Because there's just so many different styles...
that were used F: It was delicious
D: Uhm, you know just like things that you wouldn't even imagine
So there's like that, you mentioned like that 1950s jazz club kind of thing
And there's this sax ostinato
which also was its own unique style that they're referring to and then also like the
Disco-y kind of feel I don't know how to describe it but it's just-
F: That song was about textures (D: so much) it was multiple layer- D: It really was!
F: multiple layer parfait cake and it had a lot of fruit in it
D: Yeah exactly, F: That was different from each other D: musical fruit *fruit eating noises*
O: So I-I'm a sucker for a sequence. I just like the the setting for the sequence.
It's just it's so satisfying you rock back and forth. It's like down
and up
And then it's just so satisfying,
and like the-the saxophone too and all the con- and switches in genres
E: I just love that we have some like swing going on
I used to swing dance a bunch and it was like so much fun
And it's just like, it just is music that makes you want to get up and move and dance and you know
I need that kind of motivation in my life. So!
Yeah, I enjoyed it a lot.
A:There was a lot going on though. There was definitely like a lot to concentrate on
We definitely skipped around in several different genres of music.
N: Oh, yeah, yeah A: which is interesting and I think it's an interesting character
Characteristic about kpop
N: They-they brought it really together though. That was one of the most like cleanly done
Uh kind of not quite compilations but like integrations (A: Yeah) of different types of music. Yeah
H: It's okay C: I really liked it
H: No, okay, I really liked that little like little vocal thing and abrupt ending and then but it's not really and they come back in
but I wish they had added something else to there because we've heard a-
we've heard a lot of different little styles a lot harkening back to just like New Orleans jazz, big band second line style.
But- and I, and I thought they would bring that in with the electronic sounds at the end.
But they didn't and that kind of disappointed me because I thought it would be a really cool mashup
and though I expected it, it's kind of like that,
you know,
you see two characters in an anime going through did their own arts and
Like in a cross pass and you really want them to to have that like cool collab and that cool like really awesome
C: It's all about anime (H: fight.) and baguettes tonight folks
You never get your questions answered and then by the next season they're under a different in a different studio
and the animation sucks and the characters suck a dialogue sucks (Umu: Are you okay?) looking at you a one-punch man season two
Umu: OOOoohhhhhhh C: NOOOOO I haven't watched it yet Umu: Me neither
C: I did kind of expect it to go more big brass more like, you know, like rev it up kind of thing
But like it had that one break or whatever and it wasn't quite big band
But I still very much liked it was like a very like chill kind of like swing bop kind of like New Orleans ? style
it wasn't like quite the
acoustic bass sound I would have liked it to be but I love that like bass line
as soon as it came in I was like just hit it with those fast quarter notes
but yeah no, I really really liked it. That's like going on my cooking playlist
Umu: So you'll be comparing 12 O'clock to their b-side called Sugar Pop (A: Okay, I feel like I'm not going to like both of them) which was released on their 2019 for the summer album
This is an upbeat summer song about being infatuated with a person, inviting them into your candy shop and asking them to say something sweet
my my my my my sugar pop
I wrote this up at two am
The song is composed by Olliepop, Caesar and Loui and Hayley Aitken.
I: Sugar pop! Pop pop pop
K: Three two three, three three.
Oh boy. Yeah
D: It's very light F: very happy
D: texturally 'cause you hear the voices and then you just have this like
Uhm, electric guitar bass.
F: Yeah the guitar is so effortless too it doesn't leap around too much. So it's kind of like lazy and cool
K: First verse rap
E: It's no longer summer in Rochester
O: Very ascending. I like how it's like how it's like they have a melody line and that one comes over
and it feels like it keeps increasing even though it's staying the same place
K: She's creeping, she's creeping to the clerk.
D: Oh that's so int- the chromatic
F: AAHHHH bubble sounds
D: it's like playing between like one pitch center like *demonstrates*
Ooh
F: This is so weird cuz it's not
fully major?
D: Yeah, it plays with some like modality.
H: I can hear it. I can hear it does sound like the, yeah
just their verse C: But they added like some of those like percussive uhh like umm
H: Oh that *noises*
I love that kind of lead-in
There's got to be pops in C: yeah, right
D: Like even there *noises* that was a descending minor
umm, bassline
F: It's like troubles happening
a lil bit
A: That's like Mario Kart boot up- or just N: *gasp* Yes
It's so pretty with with the just like chromatic stuff just going up
O: I love how they're playing off like the vocals with that sort of pop and with the like,
it feels like the instrumentals are responding to the vocalists,
the vocals a lot more than a repeating chord progression would.
E: Yeah, yeah
F: Has like it cool intensity to it
you can literally take this kind of bass line and make it sound really menacing and scary
like you could literally do that with this
But it's like, I'm cool and fun
E: Ooh, what a bridge O: They're still using the same thing
they're still having that-that pop throughout the entire thing even if it's changed sounds.
C: Ooh
I like that
the like, insert of the register
H: Yeah
F: Yeah
D: Ooh that's so interesting
F: Weird, another- D: the polyrhythmic thing F: Rhythmic thing
It's like D: Yeah
F: Another duple triple minor major like what more can you add? (D: Yeah)
O: I like what you said about the rhythmic ? like I haven't thought about that way
Kinda feels *sounds out rhythm*
E: Yeah
F: I liked it. (D: Yeah) I liked all the things
Had a lot of things D: you know what that reminded me- F: And they repeated and it made me happy
D: You know what that reminds me of? Like literally going (F: pie) a candy shop. F: Yeah
D: And like you have so many different types of candies F: and you can buy it and put it all in the bag D: And you just eat it
D: And then you have so many different like flavors and textures and I think that's what they're doing. It's really flirtatious musically
Cuz they're just throwing things at you (F: true) and then they're taking it away. F: Okay, but (D: its like major minor)
but you know what I mean like you go into the candy shop and you have a bag that you fill up in a weigh at the end
It's like I'll take some jelly beans and that's the minor sound
I can't take those raspberry things and that's the major sounds and like you do that with rhythm and then you just like
D: yeah exactly F: there's a little bit of everything in that bag. You got like four pieces of every candy in that whole shop.
No, yeah that's essentially what I think of there's just so much in that
small three minutes F: But it's enjoyable
K: I don't know how to feel. Man, it's so interesting.
There's been another song recently with a lot of chromatic lines
There's going for a very bubbly kind of innocent cutesy feel that I did enjoy and that was fromis_9's Fun.
and I'm try- I'm racking my brain trying to figure out
Why that song worked for me and why this song didn't this song even in the chorus where it's rather light,
There's this a flat major chord in the B flat major
So it's like a seven but Roman numeral seven not like a dominant seven in the jazz term
there's a Roman numeral seven chord (I: Mhmm) that kind of adds this shade of darkness
and
Maybe because I could perceive how flat this key is when you add a core that has more flats and with all the creepy
With a creeping chromatic session and everything. Yeah, it ends up being a little unnerving
Than it is
Rejuvenating. 'Tis weird 'tis weird
maybe I'll wait till next summer and then listen to this and I'll have a different opinion because today is a
a rather cloudy day.
Did you guys like Sugar Pop or 12 O'clock better?
Umu: You guys are always like *dramatic high pitched noise*
E: These are a hard questions!
O: I like sugar pop
I liked how-how open it was and how-how well everything played off each other and also how creative it's different sounds worth
E: Yeah O: There is-there is so many, so much tamboral variety.
E: I don't know. I-I'm still feelin' electric swing today. So
I'll go with the other one
F: Sugar Pop
D: Yeah F: because I didn't like the- I like that *noises from 12 O'clock* of the 12 whatever 12 o'clock, 12 o'clock
But I didn't like the *more noises from 12 O'clock* parts
D: I like the sugar pop because it's just fall- It was just so flirty. It was just so like
creatively like
sporadic, you know and it just had so many musical elements that just feels like you just feel so full even though you you haven't
Had a taste of every single thing fully. You know what I mean?
N: What is a sugarpop is it like a
Frozen dessert or is it like a lollipop or is it a metaphor for the cherished ones in the summer time?
A: I'm gonna punch you in the throat