Jarod: Oh, kinda like scatting goin' on now. Katie: Ooh, yeah!
Jarod: Ooh!
Umu: So this is MINSEO's very next release after 'The Grand Dream'.
This is called 'Is Who', and it's her first comeback in June of 2018.
It's composed by Jewhi. According to her agency, 'Is Who' will feature a dramatic transformation of MINSEO.
While her previous music has been centered on folk songs and ballads, this song will offer a jazzy gypsy sound.
James: Oh, yeah. I'm so ready.
I love gypsy! Okay, sorry!
Fiona: I look forward to a jazzy gypsy sound in three, two, one, and scan it.
Lindsey: A diary? Fiona: Clock ticking. Oh, typewriter. Lindsey: Everything..she's very much all about clutter.
The last video also had a lot of clutter, and this has a lot of clutter
Melissa: Wait this is like.... James: Do I hear someone practicing?
Oh!
Melissa: I like how it switched rooms, and you can still hear footsteps. This is so cool.
The music gets...she gets closer to the music. James: Wait, that's so cool! James: Oh my God!
James: Wait, I'm in love with this already.
Melissa: Cuz you can hear her getting closer to the music, like when you have like an offstage horn solo or some stuff.
Elizabeth: I love this. Henry: Those are the notes.
Elizabeth: Fiddle!
YES!!
Fiona: Ohh, Give me somethin' in minor, hun, yes! Lindsey: Yeah!!
Rachel: She's a very talented vocally. Hugo: Um-hmm.
Fiona: She's bad, and she knows it!
Lindsey: (whistling)
It's so bluesy!
Ooh!
Oh!
OH!
James: Interesting.
Melissa: I love this background, like this beat.
James: Oh!
OHH!
Harmonic minor scales everywhere! This is what I live for!
Fiona: Like, the violin and piano, they like (imitating instruments) Lindsey: Yeah, it's like a little call-and-response between them. Fiona: Yeah!
Kevin: See, that's some authentic stuff, right there. They're not going for the poppy fusion. They're goin' for the real stuff.
Stephen: Ooh! That was bluesy!
Also a nice 2-beat feel in the bass.
Kevin: When is your diminished chords, you know they mean business.
Fiona: Yes, piano solo, take me over! Lindsey: It's almost like a little bit vaudeville.
Kevin: When a piano actually has tremolos.
Ooh those double stops, though. Come on!
Jarod: I love how the piano and the fiddle kind of take on
almost the role of a character as they answer. Katie: Yeah! They are they are like characters. That's a good way to put it.
Stephen: It's funny that you mention gypsy jazz, because I feel like it's between gypsy jazz and just Dixieland music.
Lindsey: This is so good! I'm enjoying this so much.
Hugo: She's such a good voice though. Rachel: Yeah. Very sultry.
And it sounds more mature than like, the typical female K-pop singer. Hugo: Um-hmm.
Henry: The fiddle playing is just really good. Elizabeth: Oh! Now we're in major.
Henry: Not for long.
Elizabeth: There it is again. See?
That's actually very effective.
Chromatic ascending sequence!
Elizabeth: Applied chord. (singing) Henry: Oh my God, instrumental solo!
Everyone stop! This is an instrumental solo!
Kevin: A thorough solo.
Henry: I love it.
Elizabeth: Is she scatting right now?
Rachel: She's currently scatting.
James: Oh, my God!
Melissa: I love this.
It's interesting if you hear like her vocal line,
like how her eighth notes, like rhythmically what it felt like, compared to the violin, er, the fiddler, who's probably been playing that
style a lot more.
Hers felt a lot more straight.
Fiona: Aaugh!! Lindsey: She's falling, cuz she's to fall in love. I get it.
Rachel: Nobody can save you unless you work hard for the money. Hugo: ...work for it Rachel: Soon the silly Childish Gambino girl love...
Rachel: So...I missed all that.
Lindsey: I Like how they have like the typewriter sounds in there at the end. That's probably only in the music video, I'm assuming, but I think that adds...
Fiona: Diegetic sounds. That's what that is. Lindsey: Yeah
Henry: Hohhhh!! Elizabeth: I'm in love with her.
That was amazing. That was everything I never knew I wanted. Henry: Everything that I wanted from K-pop happened in that.
Elizabeth: Yeah, I feel like it takes a lot for the both of us to be like, speechless during something.
Henry: There was a thoughtful B section, there was an instrumental solo,
there was a vocal solo that I didn't even know I wanted, and then it happened, and then I knew I wanted it when it was happening, and it's great.
Elizabeth: There's fiddle.
Henry: There's fiddle.
Henry: There was real acoustic guitar, there was
acoustic piano.
Hmm?
Yeah.
This was a very, very good song.
Katie: Well, I liked the fact that at the beginning they respected the actual style of gypsy jazz, and they had the like,
(singing)
cuz they didn't have...like there wasn't usually percussion that played in gypsy jazz, it was usually like guitar, fiddle,
sometimes mandolin.
Like, I don't even think bass was really common.
There were usually like two guitars--one would be the lead, and the other one would be the
(singing)
So that was like the rhythm pulse. And they did it really well, and like Jarod said, the piano and the
violin kind of took on the roll of characters,
which was really fun to see. The licks were really good, and the violin playing was really good too,
like the double stops.
Jarod: I was really happy to see that there was the violin solo, because sometimes it's like we'll see these pieces that'll feature
instruments, but won't give them kind of their moments, Katie: Um-hmm.
but like we got that moment, and it was awesome.
Stephen: Well, I mean the fact that they had a fiddler, because most Dixieland bands didn't really have
jazz violin. Jazz violin, or something like that, like improvising violin, Seii: Yeah
Stephen: that was common in Duke Ellington's band. Or, not common, but like,
you know, he was one of the first guys, I think, to do it.
So, there's that. So, that I think, like made it gypsy, and also just like it was in minor, you know,
just like, the harmonic progression. What made it Dixieland was like, the scatting,
they specifically--and you could speak more to this obviously, because you're a pianist-- Seiji: Um-hmm. Stephen: but like, they had stride piano,
some of the fills the pianist was doing was definitely bluesy. The beat that the bass player and drummer were doing were like,
literally beats I would play on a Dixieland gig. So I feel like they were kind of
combining the two a little bit, or being influenced from both, and it worked great. And she had a scat solo, too, so.
Seiji: Yeah, it sounded a lot like a historic performance. I mean,
like you said, especially the bass, too. The bass was.... Stephen: That bass player was on it! Seiji: That was some Dixieland happenin', there.
Rachel: She seems way more sophisticated than the ones we've watched before. I like her.
Hugo: That was awesome.
It's so complex. Rachel: Super stylized.
Hugo: Yeah, exactly super complex, Rachel: Yeah. Hugo: but her voice fits it perfectly, and she sings into it perfectly.
Rachel: And I want to know if she wanted---if she likes that style and wanted to do something like that.
Hugo: Well, she kept it In there, where like, she was singing that style from the point of someone who's been singing, you know, K-pop for
Rachel: Yeah. Hugo: as long she has. And you know, she's not old by any means but,
Rachel: And she also like, can scat very well. Hugo: Yeah! Rachel: It was like, a technique.
Hugo: It was awesome. Rachel: Super technical. She knows how to maneuver that part of her range with the breaks so that it's
Rachel: sultry. Hugo: Her lows are really good. Rachel: Yeah. Hugo: Her highs are really good.
Isaac: I liked how they used perfect fists for a majority of the bass line.
(singing) bum-bum-bum-bum-bum... Kevin: Oh, yeah, okay.
And yeah, I thought it was interesting how they really, really went for the--is it gypsy vibe?
Kevin: It is very...it's Jewish Isaac: It's Jewish? Isaac: It's very gypsy---it's Jewish?
Kevin: Yeah. Isaac: Or even like a saloon kind of kind of sense.
I got a saloon kind of feel. Kevin: But it feels so respectful. It feels like an homage. It didn't feel exploitative. Isaac: Oh, yeah. No, I liked it, cuz they did it really well, that's for sure.
And also, I really liked the scat. Kevin: The cool thing about the scatting here is it sounds like it's a Korean language scat.
Kevin: There are some syllables where I'm like, okay, I wouldn't use that, Isaac: Yeah. Kevin: but because it's like it sounds Korean. Isaac: Yeah.
It's a Korean scatting. That's so cool! Isaac: It's very interesting.
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