Aaron: I love this so much, oh my god!!
That should have been a guitar solo!!
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Umu: Now let's move on to the reaction video!
Umu: You're actually now reacting to a production team called the Night of Seokyo
and their song called 'Dancing in the Moon' featuring the vocalis Dawon.
And basically the members of the Night of Seokyo describe themselves as a producing crew and they actually keep their identities a secret.
They work with singers who best fit their style of music and Dawon is featured on many of their singles.
Daniel: Wait, so it's like a group of producers and you don't know—nobody knows who they are? They haven't released their names?
(Daniel: They just choose artists to sing their pieces?) Fiona: That's so cool!!
Daniel: *gasps* That's like the Illuminati for music!
Umu: The lyrics for 'Dancing in the Moon' are about the memory of falling in love,
and that feeling is like music.
The song was composed by the Night of Seokyo and the singer is Dawon.
Aaron: Three...two...one!
[♪ Dawon: I wanna fall in love ♪ ]
Aaron: Same
Fiona: She's cool!
Daniel: This is really interesting.
Fiona: I love her voice. She's so cool, love her aesthetic!
Daniel: Wait, I actually love this!
Kevin: I feel the weird nostalgia of...
city pop.
Isaac: City pop?
Kevin: Never mind.
Kevin: Minor 2nds
Fiona: I love thiiiiiiis.
It has like, fake 80's flare that's referencing to you, (Daniel: Yeah...) but it's like very current.
Owen: So those chords that he's playing, are they piano? Rather than—because I've seen that for a drum pad
But it looks like he's playing the piano. (Elizabeth: It's not a drum pad.)
Elizabeth: No x4. It's like (Owen: What is it?) It's this...
I've seen something similar that's like... (Owen: Is it like different synths...) a machine—
(Owen: ...sort of pad?) Elizabeth: Yeah, you can like program (Owen: Do pre-recorded) different sounds with the different buttons.
So it sounds like they have a lot of like synth sounds.
Owen: Oh, so that's not—He's not actually playing that on the piano.
Seiji: Hey, we should do a concert at an Urban Outfitters.
Stephen: I'd be down!
Elizabeth: It sounds like most of this is all synthesized....
Instrumentation and so they're just using a lot of different synth pads to like make all the noises.
Owen: They have the live.
Nick: And there we are again!
Aaron: YESSSS! Ugh those minor 2nds!
That was awesome! That was great.
Seiji: I don't know how those things work. I always wanted to know how they work. But...
Stephen: Yeah, I have no idea.
Seiji: Yeah.
Stephen: Must be a really good typer.
Seiji: Yeah, his words-per-minute count must be unreal.
Stephen: Must be insane, bro!
Kevin: Wow, it's so subtle—Everything is so soft, even with all of its staccato energy.
Fiona: Like the simple cute...
Melody reminds me of songs like ABBA.
(Daniel: Mhm!) Fiona: Um...
Very like sweet simple, yet there's so much stuff going on.
Daniel: Like a whisper ABBA? Fiona: Yeah!
Aaron: I love the timbre of her voice as well.
Nick: Yeah! It's like kind of breathy but not too (Aaron: Exactly!) ethereal.
Seiji: I guess there's like kind of like that trend of...
Like that trend of um...
People are trying to make like really...
Music school-y pop music. (Stephen: Yeah)
Seiji: Right? So with some, like kind of "hip"
For that, like that!
"Hip" things going on in the middle, like ear candy.
Yeah, because you wouldn't really hear that in a typical pop song.
You'd probably get a more simple progression.
Aaron: Oh yes!
I love this so much! Oh my god.
That should have been in guitar solo!
Nick: That's exactly what I was thinking.
I'm like, "That reminds me so much of like the...
[mimics guitar sounds]
A very high note.
Seiji: Yeah, because like when you do stuff like this and you're changing
the keys in the middle it's like pretty daring.
Kevin: I do like the chorus and how...
The measure structure is sort of distorted.
Kevin: Is that how it ends? Oh thank goodness!
Awe thank gosh!
*applause*
Aaron: So good!
Aaron: So what I was going to say about the timbre of her voice is it's not...
She's not over-singing and so it creates this like, "I'm cool" effect.
And it's very much like I want to...
Sing like her, but it's very unique to her. Because no one—I feel like no one else could replicate that type of voice.
Just like the whole time it was very simple. It was very reserved but also wasn't like lazy or anything.
It was just like laid-back.
Seiji: Here's a look into our lives.
I think a lot of like musics...Student communities kind of...
People like to do their singer-songwriter pop stuff and it really reminded me of that.
So like when you have a...you know, a singer and you have you want to make some cool...
songs that are a little more interesting than like I to vi to IV to ii to V to I.
So you have like those things in-between where you have like
going up by chromatic steps or doing two Vs
up by steps or down by steps.
It's like those harmonic things are a little bit different.
So I think things are a little bit different,
so it kind of reminded me of that.
Elizabeth: It was cute!
Owen: It was cute, I feel like it could have gone more places.
I thought—I was thinking that it could have got more places until the very end.
When I thought it was gonna be a good bridge or some new section
where it was a lot lighter and I was like,
"Wow, that was really cool!" But it was just the end.
So I think they could have definitely gone to more interesting places with that original idea.
Daniel: I don't know if it's just like the expectation that we're always force...
fed something aggressively like, new.
Oh, we— this is really cool. Like um...
I don't know, this cool musical material and then it's like,
"Great!" Okay ten seconds, "I'm bored."
And then like force fed something new and then—I don't know if like we're expected or conditioned
by the processes like that that are set up by a lot of...
K-Pop or like pop music?
But in this song, I felt like I started to get bored and I just wondered,
Is it actually because it's too repetitive for my taste and there's like an objective amount of
repetition that just like it doesn't feel new anymore or exciting?
Or there was no variation?
Or was it just like, I'm just so conditioned to be like a force fed something that like...
you know like this is actually like a nice pacing (Fiona: Yeah...)
Isaac: It sounds like you're supposed to be transported into space because it has very
alien-like qualities to the sounds that they were producing and
having that quality kind of reminds me of rocket.
I don't know. It's like the ends...
You don't see a consistent stream of exhaust but it just it dissipates and goes off.
Her voice is very calming.
And that's usually the case when you're in space when everything's silent.
There's not much noise
It's interesting because they do this
very similar things from first to verse and chorus,
and choruses usually stay the same.
[But] Having that, I was not, for one, thinking about the phrase structures,
Because it just kept going and going and going and there's a lot of things that will grab your attention
to add more to the character or the world building that they're aiming for so...
Yeah, it was transporting me out of this setting of sitting in a chair,
listening to the music and then even further there creating this picture for you.
So, yeah. Very nicely done.
Kevin: Uh yeah I have very much similar thoughts.
As a group known for their production or artist,
I think they live up to their name very much because...
The production is a little out of the ordinary.
It's very retro, but yeah, it still sounds very futuristic.
It's staccato, but it maintains a very nearly-ambient type of mood.
And yes, they clearly like this vocalist and for good reason because
I think she blends with their sound very well.
And yeah, there's some cool compositional...
measure structure, phrase structure things that are very cool.
Yeah, I really enjoyed it! I really enjoyed it!
Aaron: I have a question though, before we start. (Umu: Yes, sir? x2)
Have you ever gotten requests that we do "Drunken Reacts"?
Umu: Yes.
Aaron: Okay.
Umu: Are you drunk right now?
Aaron: No.
Umu: Because I smell alcohol on your breath.
Aaron: Okay, sorry no. Okay so— [*Umu and Nick laughing*]