Khanh+Kevin: WHAAAAAAAAAA
U: Okay, so, B1A4 is a boy group that debuted in 2011
U: And their group consists of 5 members ranging ages 23 to 25
U: This song is actually produced by the leader of the group, who is an avid music producer and composer for not only his own group, but a few other kpop groups
Davis: Oh I like that
U: And then on top of that, these members often write their own lyrics, so their music is less company-produced
Davis: So we're getting more of an idea what they're about
Davis: It's gonna be up close and personal
U: This is their 2016 comeback
U: So you won't see the 5 members together in the music video, but they'll show up one by one, and the lyrics will be on
U: It's kind of about what's happening in the relationship right now, but in the music video it's reflecting back on what the relationship was like
Stephen: Cool
Khanh: mensonge
Khanh: Le mensonge {what it says on the music video opening, means "the lie" in french!}
Kevin: B1A4 paper
Gwen: That's a cute dress
RacheL cute towel Gwen: Slash scarf
Lindsey: Woah, I didn't think that was (F: that's what my long tones sound like) acoustic at first, it seemed like there was gonna be something coming, but now it's acoustic
Jarod: It feels very reflective, you know
Henry: Interesting vocal tone
Rachel: See, like, that melody in general is very common, I think
Rachel: It sounds familiar
H: oh god...wow Emiel: I like this, it's not in my face, which is really cool Henry: I already have a weird connection to how this sounds
Henry: already and how this is. This reminds me so much of last year
Naoki: Ohh it's building with the- oh
Khanh+Kevin: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Khanh: Did that just go up a step??? Kevin: No, it went up like a minor 3rd
Kevin: So it went from A Major to C major
Khanh: AHHHHHHHH
Khanh: I mean, I was going to be like WOW that percussion is lame Kevin: That's how you build anticipation, you don't just give a modulation
Kev: It's a perfect buildup
Fiona: The background beats with the violins is such a fresh feel
Fiona: It's like, so uplifting
Lindsey: WHAT THE FUCK
Fiona: He's already hot because of his voice Lindsey: YEaaahh his voice is soo deep
Davis: These are such sensitive lyrics too, like wow
Henry: Wow Emiel: Wow that was a lot of Henry: It seems like their life just went by
Kevin: He uses an inversion of- I'll tell you about that later Khanh: Yeah, no, I'm hearing it
Kevin: It's very cliche chord, but it makes it very fresh
Fiona: Nice strings
Fiona: And like, he's singing but everything else is so broad, and now it's divided by beats again
Lindsey: That's cause there's no percussion and they brought it in Fiona: I loved it
Khanh: Is it gonna go??
Khanh: There it is!
Davis: That was the strangest key change I think I've ever heard
Davis: Absolutely no preparation whatsoever
Jarod: But notice how she's different depending on each person she's with , you know
Jarod: Yo, girls, stay true to who YOU are and don't change for no man
J: And dudes, don't change for no girl either
J: Or, you know
J: If you like men and you're a man
J: Then don't- STAY YOU
Lindsey: Oh man
Fiona: There's like, strife between them
Lindsey: She's cute
Fiona: She's second guessing everything
Lindsey: I like her style Fiona: Is she trapped?
Kevin: Nope, it's gonna stay here. There better be one more key change
Naoki: I like how they used the strings to emphasize the cadence with the syncopation
Stephen: Also how at some points it's emphasizing the down beats, and it's just like Naoki: Yeah
Davis: Damn, I'm missing that progression from the beginning
Davis: ANOTHER ONE!! WHAT
Davis: Settle down, please
Lindsey: That was a WEIRD modulation Fiona: The shape of the song is like {exponential function???}
Fiona: It just keeps going up
Stephen: Really nice upper register Naoki: Yeah, absolutely
Davis: He's just getting more and more exasperated so he has to get higher and higher
Katie: It's really sweet though, cause he's like leave me, be happy, its an amicable breakup
Katie: That's what important
Katie: awwwwWWWWW that's so sad :'(
:'(
Jarod: Aw Katie: All of the memories just melted away
U: yeah, so...What did you think about that song overall, musically?
Katie: That was a rollercoaster of emotions
K: And I was thinking about what I said with being thrown off with weird modulations
K: I mean, I still think it was a weird modulation, but maybe that was like, representing of how..
K: Their love just abruptly stopped
K: And just changed and it was like????what
K: cuz i totally get that J: What was going on...what I felt was, at the beginning of the video it sounds very reflective
J: And throughout I was thinking well what makes it sounds that way?
J: Here's my hypot- What I think created that Katie: Hypotenuse
J: Here's my hypotenuse
J: But once you hear the beginning, you know it's gonna be a sad song, or whatever
J: But what gives that characteristic
J: I think it was use of the high strings
J: Lots of reverb, so everything echoes and kind of gets that really fade-y kind of effect
J: And then you kind of put that together with a really soft, subtle piano and then you have
J: Really subtle snare beat
J: I think the kind of muff- something, not muffled, like listening to something through water, that kind of effect
J: In a higher range, you know, I think that's what gives it that
J: And there's some guitar, I think, like some acoustic guitar, which is, like classic love or sad song vibes
J: You put that all together, you make this soup
J: You make this soup of sounds K: Wow
J: And voila, we have this K: He got it, he nailed it
Fiona: So uplifting it just kept going and Lindsey: It kept going
Fiona: It was like sad, and pain, but it's still growth Lindsey: See I just think it's interesting cause the song itself sounded very typical
Lindsey: Indie pop
Lindsey: Sad boy with an acoustic guitar kind of thing
Lindsey: So it sounded very stereotypical, a little bit, but then it had these random modulations which gave it a little edge
Lindsey: I thought it put it a little over the top and made it a little, it's own thing
Fiona: Spicier
Henry: Wow, that was so weird
U: I just got so many mixed feelings about that
Henry: Wow, yeah. Woah, oh my god
Emiel: OKay, well, yeah let's sum it up Henry: It just was like
Emiel: MY PART
Emiel: Good, good parts within the song, but as a song altogether, it was completely incomprehensible
Henry: Exactly true Emiel: I was just really confused if I'm honest
Henry: All the parts were great Emiel: It was just really hard to listen to all together at the same time
Emiel: It had a friendly vibe to start with, well, "friendly", but more just relaxed Umu: it was pretty chill Emiel: Yeah, chill
Emiel: And then he started rapping and I was like okay that's different
E: And then it modulates a bunch every time it goes to the chorus and I'm just like wow
E: This is a lot going on at one time
Henry: But, I will say this
H: I don't think I've ever had such a visceral reaction to something that reminded me
H: So sincerely of something that I have very much put away in my past
H: That was really weird. I felt kind of weirdly personally invaded
Gwen: It was cool, they did a lot of key areas that didn't necessarily make sense
Rachel: Yeah, the chorus was in something esle
Rachel: But they held it to their guns
Gwen: Yeah it kind of made it a cool way to differentiate the two stories?
Gwen: I think that was cool
Rachel: But other than that it was very, like Gwen: Sad R: Pop-ballad-y
R: And SAD
Stephen: I really like how, once again, in the chorus or the bridge, when we get more dramatic, we go to that half time groove again
S: Also loved how, especially near the end, they all have great voices in their upper register, so when they do the really high harmonies
S: And then they were just nailing them Naoki: The climax was
Stephen: That was really really impressive Naoki: Really well done
Naoki: The build up to it, just..
Naoki: The structure of the piece was really good
Naoki: you got the intro/exposition of introducing all the melodies, you got the rap, then you got some kind of chorus repeat
N: Then it builds, then you got the climax, and then
N: A fade
Kevin: I'm trying to remember the chords- OH yeah I know what it is
Kev: What happened was
K: So usually, in most kpop songs, they go
K: And this is the IV chord, but then they go minor IV
K: And then they go back and you hear that all the time
K: But this song, they do an inversion, it's really weird
K: So there's that
K: It sounds more hollow, you know, and then they add a little VI degree there
K: Just to give it a bit of a spice
K: Then they go here. WHat?
K: And here they use a similar chord , but it's more
K: This chord
K: it's actually the same as, but like root inversion, if you know what that means
Kevin: STUDY MUSIC
Khanh: That was- it was the only kpop song that I've ever heard that did THAT
Kevin: The thing is Khanh: The minor 3rd modulation
Kevin: It builds it up, too
K: The first time, the last chord of the verse, which is that inverted minor IV
K: When it came up, all the other instruments, so it's just the voice
K: Then there was a drum fill that was really trippy
Khanh: I thought it was pretty lame because, like
Khanh: The drum samples were just, like, they didn't sound very high quality
Khanh: They didn't have the full spectrum of harmonics that I would expect from a drum
Khanh: LIke, those sound like $5 drums
K: HEY he's probably using a $5 to film the girl
K: In the video
K: It does fit the aesthetic, sort of
Khanh: It was just
Khanh: I don't know if it was just EQ-ed out or what, but it didn't have that full frequency range
Khanh: That sounds like... what's going on? And then it moved down
Khanh: So, yeah, I like it musically
U: How'd you feel the music supported what was going on in the music video and the lyrics
Davis: It all fit together really nicely
Davis: Boy sad, lyrics sad, music sad, everything sad
Davis: So there you go, it's all a lie
Katie: I think the weird modulation representative of, like, how things change and you just can't really stop it
Jarod: Yeah, you're really feeling it just cause of the groove they have going, they scene that they've been able to create with music
J: To really support and enhance those visuals, like you're really feeling for them
Fiona: The song feels like you would be outside a lot Lindsey: I think they were just, in general
Lindsey: Whether it was major or minor, I wasn't even really paying attention, but the whole thing sounded kind of, like
L: Somber Fiona: A somber, like, happy but bittersweet
L: And I think that the...
L: The lighting filter that they used for this, I don't know exactly what they used but it was dark
Fiona: It made it seem like a memory. It had a green cast to it
Lindsey: It just. Worked really well and it was a little bit glazed over, dark
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