Gwen: BAP Umu: YEAH! okay~
Hugo: B-A-P wake me up~ [sings] Gwen: [hit it with a dabb]
Hugo: [still singing] when September ends~ Gwen: [belts] wake me up inside
{intro}
Couple: [mumbling about who knows what] Umu: BAP, Shimon do you remember 'one shot'?
Shimon: [wait what?!?!]
Shimon: uhh rice! rice! [is that correct] Umu: Yes
Davis: wait one shot yeah that was the Lindsey: WAIT!!! That was the one with the guy who went undercover and then the friend
Davis: yes [agrees with Lindsey] and then [shooting sound effect] and then alternate ending Lindsey: and then the undercover and like they turned on him
Davis: was it real and then blew all of our minds and then everyone lost their sh*t
Davis: Yep~ I know BAP
Umu: Let's get started so this is BAP 'Wake me up' I cannot promise like extreme amazing musicality but I thought the message of this song is very very very important
Umu: So BAP's I believe leader had to take a year our sometime off because he was diagnosed with anxiety disorder
Umu: and so he rejoined the group he came back and wrote this and this song touches a lot on different mental disorders
Hugo: do we get subtitles or nah? Umu: yes, subtitles are important
Hugo: [score]
Jarod: I have performance anxiety I can relate hopefully not this bad but yeah
Peyton: anddddd 3,2,1 [press]
Jarod: ... that made me anxious Peyton: [bruh]
Naoki: what up with all these logos before songs it's like
Umu: the company Naoki: yeah Shimon: interesting
The crew: [in the groove]
Kevin: oooh I like this filter vocals
Hugo: this is different
The crew: [listening]
Henry: [first to react] wake me up
Fiona: [hand wave]
Jarod: I like that, an endless tunnel, cause speaking of anxiety there really is no end
Davis: I like the guitar [plays his air guitar]
Emiel: the beat's pretty good in this one, it's good Henry: yeah
Yunyi: this is groovy, it's got a good vibe
Naoki: what's the drum pound it's like standard four pound?
Naoki: [demonstrates] Shimon: [has no idea]
Jarod: it's kind of a little bit of Eminem vibe to it with the little inflection at the end Peyton: [agrees]
Kevin: dang diversity Yunyi: yeah
Yunyi: not something you see very much in asian music industries Kevin: right!?!?!?!
Lindsey: I don't have anything to say yet idk it's just like Umu: [lol]
Davis: I cannot put value on my life
Hugo: I'm lovin' this chord progression
Jarod: You can really kind of hear like the despair in his voice which is pretty awesome
Emiel: oh wait Fiona: OOOOHHH Henry: Boyyyy
Emiel: This reminds me of Maroon 5 'Animals'
Henry: [omg mindlblown]
Yunyi: oh the [sings the run] haha that was good
Fiona: OH Animals! Animals! Like animals mals Henry: [shook]
Jarod: I like how the melody and the beat it doesn't really feel settled... like it
Jarod: does, but at the same time there's like an aspect to it that's
Jarod: [can't describe]
Peyton: adfksj Jarod: on edge
Henry: that was a ... this is... really interesting
Shimon: oh! what's that called again
Naoki: it's a progression
Kevin: I don't know if I
Davis: Woah! symbolism
Kevin: like i love the musical style
Kevin: and i like the subject matter but I don't know if they mix well
Kevin: it's a little too bright/ poppy
Kevin: for a song so heavy and Yunyi: idk... tell that to Lady Gaga
Henry: sh*t that's freaky af
Naoki: Oh he's conducting
The Crew: OOHOHHOHH
Lindsey: I feel like this is almost like too real to comment on
Naoki: what bass was like [sings] or something like that?
Lindsey: It's like I feel like I just know so many people who have like gone through stuff like this
Lindsey: that I just like don't even have much to say
Yunyi: Yeah it's kind of interesting cause it keeps up an energy but it doesn't... Kevin: woahhhh
Yunyi: Like keeps up an energy but it doesn't like push to hype
Yunyi: like to where it can be like angsty or like Kevin: yeah
Kevin: well it could be darker, it could be grimier, you know? Yunyi: what is happening?!?!?
Lindsey: Like I'm really digging the music though like Davis: [turn up] nice
Lindsey: I'm really enjoying the music and I like how they're showing like I think maybe the point
Lindsey: of having like a black guy in this video is that they're really showing like a lot of
Lindsey: different people going through a lot of different things that are all like part of what an anxiety disorder would've
Lindsey: tell and they're showing that it can kind of happen to anyone
Gwen: I think the music is, there for the music and I think the lyrics are the most separate from them
Shimon: I like the rapping Naoki: yeah
Fiona: this is like empowering you know?
Emiel: this is good intensity though
Kevin: You're right it's just from I to V with scale degree nothing else Yunyi: right?! [sings] 1-2-3-1-5
Yunyi: I got [sings] 1-5-1-2-3 Kevin: I occasionally got a 5-1 yeah
Yunyi: 1-7-1 Kevin: yeah
Hugo: I'm diggin this, i'm diggin this a lot
Gwen: it just doesn't match with the words
Hugo: I think it does
Gwen: You're like half depressed but also like half jammin
Hugo: like idk I love the chord progression because the chord progression and stuff and how it started off very simple
Hugo: and stayed that way until they got to the emotion revolution part
Yunyi: the melody has been like the very fixed register and a very fixed set of scale degrees
Yunyi: which is why I think why we're not we're not responding to this, and I think it gives some kind of land locked feeling
Kevin: it's also the way the instrumentals are mixed...it's not...
Yunyi: well instrumentals like don't really change that much ones that went [demonstrates]
Kevin: Especially since all the percussions feel like that light sort of percussion never really goes [demonstrates]
Kevin: no big kick for me Yunyi: [agrees]
yeah, boom
Hugo: idk i think it's got really good rhythm, the vocals and how they overdrive the vocals
Hugo: they're doing a lot with a little
Hugo: they're making very minute changes like having the headphones there were several points where it went [demonstrates] and they made a rhythm out of the headphones
Hugo: being different and that small technical thing adds a lot to the song and there's a lot of instances of that in this song
Hugo: like in the opening it was overdrive vocals like really heavily overdrive vocals
Hugo: into... Gwen: into like airplane noises
Hugo: well yeah and just like regular vocals and like actual regular vocals and it was really cool
Hugo: I found and I mean technically it was a really well written song and then on top of that
Hugo: I think they did a really good job of performing- not, I mean it's a studio performance, so performing it, quote on quote but I think the words
Hugo: don't define the music but definitely add a level of depth to it
Emiel: i like it Henry: it also does a really good of like portraying a lot of subtleties
Henry: that go into different types of ways that people suffer from anxiety
Henry: like they have a room that's like has a bunch of pictures and like put together again, this was cool
Umu: right, okay Emielr: that was a good one
Fiona: I had the right- wait was this the same as this?!?!!?
Emiel: it's the same damn key too
Fiona: that's why I was able to sing that
Emiel: okay so that was animals and now
umu: so same key... The Crew: [sing]
Henry: I think it's like almost exactly the same chord progression too
Kevin: I wanted to like it
Yunyi: well we found the reasons why we were like... Kevin: exactly
Yunyi: why is Kevin: i never thought I'd say this but this needs more Evanesence wake me up
Kevin: it needs more of the Evanesence feel
Yunyi: I think it needed either more drive or more senitmentality but it kind of got stuck in the middle kevin: yeah yeah
Yunyi: I wasn't sure what the music was trying to convey but I mean the lyrics were all there
Yunyi: it's probably more powerful if we could just understand the lyrics from the get go
Umu: without the ...awkward trans- Yunyi: yeah in korean cause yeah you know I feel like if that would cause more reaction
Yunyi: cause the melody itself was not doing much at all Umu: right that totally makes sense
Umu: what did you think about this first the song musically like the instrumentals and all these
Naoki: Oh I thought it worked it was like standard, standard song but it worked pretty well
Shimon: I felt like it was the same the entire time
Naoki: yeah there was no variety in it apart from like one rap section
Jarod: you know, like I can kind of personally relate to that I really appreciate like the lyrics
Jarod: because it's especially the endless tunnel cause no matter how hard you try it just never seems to kind of go away
Umu: and how do you think it corresponds with the song and such
Jarod: I mean peace never like let up like you know how sometimes in those rap songs that they'll go and
Jarod: and they'll all just be kind of like floaty section or chorus where they bring in the singer? there was really never at that
jarod: it was like rap and the chorus, it was still pretty energetic like you never had like the soprano/ tenor guy
Jarod: or the girl come in and be like totally pauses, it's always just like boom boom boom
Peyton: never like a soaring [belts] moment
Lindsey: you know like he's like going through some stuff just need some time and that's like
Davis: like he wants to wake up ,I think he's currently going through it and like
Davis: to be woken up I think he's reaching out to someone or someones as like a very lonely and internal struggle that I'm having
Davis: and having other people to support me is really important to getting through something like that so
Davis: I need you to wake me up so that I can stop feeling this way
Lindsey: I really like how they didn't go the ballade route for this. i'm not saying that becasue I'm not a big ballade person but like
Lindsey: so many groups have done stuff like that where it's like OMG things are hard so i'm gonna write a ballad about it
Lindsey: because boo hoo, (Davis: nah this was a very) but like this was a much more like honest and real like expression of the emotions and like
Davis: purging experience, this was filled with emotions Lindsey: and the hardships that like he's going through, yeah I think this was really good
Davis: yeah