Rachel: That's not easy to do. [mimics vocals] H: No… they are sitting…
They are doing some high onsets, and belting. Rachel: Yeah [sings high notes] That hurts.
[Rossini's Semiramide Overture plays]
Umu: Now you're reacting to the girl group Red Velvet,
and their 2018 release "Really Bad Boy" or RBB for short. Rachel: RBB!
Umu: RBB (Collin: R…B…B…) is a follow-up to their popular song called "Bad Boy".
This addition to the series expresses the charms of a bad boy.
But don't think the girls are fools. They know what he is…
Collin: [laughter] Umu: …which gives them the power.
Jordan: The member Joy summed it up as:
"We'll be training you. So… act badly if you dare."
James: L-O-L. That's great.
Elizabeth: Jordan, your narration is like… [makes heart sign] Both: [chuckles]
Umu: The song is composed by Kenzie, Timothy "BOS" Bullock, Sara Forsberg, and MZMC.
Fiona: Alright! [gibberish] 3, 2, 1… [plays song]
RBB! …BB. Aaron: [chuckles]
Kevin: Right from the get-go, they start on the tritone of the scale.
Hugo: Oh… oh! Rachel: That's the thing you sent me! What is it, an E? D? Okay.
Kevin: This is such a good counterpart to their "Bad Boy" song.
Like, this makes me like their OG "Bad Boy" song better.
Fiona: [singing, imitating song] One, one, one, one, one, one, one, one!
Elizabeth: It's so interesting. James: I love this.
Fiona: That drum beat is interesting. [sings drum beat]
R: It's funny because it's all like very… like…
…focused belting, but I feel like they turned the level down, so it's not as like… like, powerful.
H: Yeah. R: So… they're all just like straight-up belting. It's impressive-sounding.
That's not easy to do. [mimics vocals] H: No… they are sitting…
They are doing some high onsets (R: Yeah.) and belting.
K: Hey, like, they're not the crunchiest chords. But when put in context, they are pretty…
…shining. Isaac: Shining!
James: Oh… did you get that? Yeah, whoo! Elizabeth: "Shining" reference! "Shining" reference!
Isaac: [screams]
K: She's just like, "oh, yeah, that was mildly annoying." Both: [laughter]
K: She didn't even look that affected by it. I: "This is mildly irritating." K: Yup… yup.
E: It's like… it feels like it should be mi-re-do. But it's like mi-re-di.
J: Di, yeah. E: It's got like a sharp 1. Tasty!
H: Ooh, I like that chorus filter over top.
R: Yeah. She's good! H: Mm-hm.
K: Oh, I get it, 'cause that's a dog. [holds up hands in shape of a dog's head]
K: Ahh. Such a great part. I: I love this part.
J: I love this. E: This is COMPLETELY different. (J: Yeah.) Wow…
E: There's the scream again! Who? Who can do that?
I: Alright, descant! Alrighty.
J: Oh my god. E: It's like… it's kind of the traditional, like, K-pop rap, but they've completely changed the instrumentation…
J: And now we're back… with the sax. E: And now we're back with the introduction! J: Yeah.
E: So they're repeating the introduction from the beginning of the song.
J: I love the funky sax. It's so fun.
K: I really really really really really like you. I: Really really really. K: Really really really bad boy!
F: I like her! The girl who's going like [imitates vocal riffs]
Wow.
Hugo & Rachel: [are shook]
Umu: [laughter]
R: [singing] A really bad [attempts 2-octave jump] boy!
R: Oh… YEET. *sees werewolf* Eww.
J: Oh my god. Okay. Wow. E: That was awesome. I loved every minute of it.
R: It was very, like, "Bang Bang" Ariana Grande/Jessie J, (H: Yeah.) all that.
Umm… lot of just, like, focus on the power. (H: Mm-hm.) Um… and,
yeah, they pulled it off really well. H: Which, yeah, I was about to say… which they… which they, like, came through with.
R: Yeah. It didn't even seem like they were straining at all, which is always impressive.
H: Yeah, no, it sounded really good. And the orchestration was really nice too.
R: The squeal thing seems… fake to me.
H: It was a bit excessive, once it reached like… four or five times. (R: The third time. Yeah.) Yeah.
F: It was funny, because the first time I was like "was that a scream? Or was it…"
A: Yeah, actually… yeah. F: 'Cause like… in the video, she's like [scary noise]
So…
Umu: Yeah, they had… they had all the members scream, and…
One of the members, Irene, screamed the best, so they kept that in.
A: Ohh… kay. F: [laughter]
Umu: And it does sound like… A: It does… it sounds better and (F: It's like in tune.) more musical than just, like, a scream.
J: That scream! I… I don't even (E: Holy shit.) I don't even wanna call it a scream, because it was…
There's a difference between screaming, and actually producing a note. And that was a produced note.
Like, she was…
I don't know… wasn't a belt — I think it was… I don't even know what it was. It… but it…
It was resembling a scream, but it was, like, a very skillfully produced, very very high note.
Jarod: I thought it was really cool how they did like the…
They would introduce a line, as is, and then they would bring it back, except this time was like…
next time was like… harmonized, like, really cool, like… really cool-ly. Um…
Collin: With a K?
Jarod: No. Collin: No? Okay.
J: Like, more like… C-O-L-L… space… L-Y.
Umu: Collly? J: [stammers]
Umu: C-O-O-L…? J: Did I just only say one O?
Umu: You said C-O-L-L.
Coll-ly?
C: Take this part out. This is bad. All: [laughter]
I: I thought… wow, just like…
I'm starting to notice more: Red Velvet just has their own style. And… it's more enjoyable the more I listen to them.
So it's like… they would have notes. So you have singular notes. But then they just slide.
They just slide downwards. I'm like "wow," that's… such a Red Velvet thing to do. And…
And some of the sound files that they use were just… very peculiar.
Like, one thing that caught my ear was just this really low-sounding file, it's like
[sings low note] It's a D. Just floating there.
Something I… I noticed as well with, like…
I think horror films in general, they have… low frequencies, just thrown in the background, just…
…putting the vibe that you're gonna be scared later on. So it's kind of a fear factor that they add.
And I thought it was really neat.
C: I thought the video was really creative.
So much thought goes into the videos, that it's like… we need another…
We need, like, a video on the music, and a video on the video. Both: [laughter]
Umu: That's when I'm gonna have producers react to the video.
C: Yeah, yeah… exactly. J: Yeah, yeah, yeah. U: 'Cause they know what they're talking…
C: Yeah, fair, fair, fair.
J: I think it's funny too. Because… like, again, that bad boy trope, of the girl falling for the bad boy,
it's usually always at her expense. But through this lens, it was more of like a women empowerment thing,
where like, (E: Yeah.) "we know you're the bad boy, but like… we know. So, like, you… like, like, we…"
"We've got YOU under wraps," y'know?
E: Mm-hm. Even in the chorus, like, they had, like, the…
They had all the members singing, like, "bad boy"… (J: Mm-hm.) Really, like, low in the register.
Um… and then they had somebody singing on top of it, which is just…
J: Yeah. E: You don't really hear, 'cause the main focus, to me, in my ear, was the screaming and riffing on top…
J: Yeah. E: …and… That's not what the chorus is usually supposed to focus on.
J: Yeah. E: So definitely… that definitely feels very, like, female empowerment in that sense,
because it's like… oh, hear the girls singing about wanting… knowing a bad guy, being attracted to a bad guy,
but the main focus is on the one female who's… being very virtuosic (J: going crazy on top!) on top, yeah!
So that was really cool too. J: Totally. And it's just so pleasing… to react to something where there's so much talent
in the group, but also so much creativity, and so many awesome choices being made, so…
I'll definitely be listening to more of this group.
K: There are a lot of… continuations in this song.
So not only is this, in terms of the music video and the mood, a continuation of "Peek-a-boo", with that
slightly "Thriller"-y, horror-y vibe… but… um…
"Bad Boy" is in D major. And "Really Bad Boy" is in D minor.
So it's like the dark, (I: [laughter]) faster counterpart of "Bad Boy", which I really dig.
And now… we're gonna have a crash course music theory lesson. Let's go.
Alright. So I find the bridge part really interesting. So we have the…
[plays chords from bridge]
So… on surface level, what this seems like is…
[playing chords] E major… B♭ minor… and then D minor.
Now that doesn't make much sense. But…
[plays B♭ minor chord] This is chromatically related to [plays D minor chord] that.
[plays B♭ minor chord] With a B♭ minor chord, it's D♭, F, and B♭. But in this context, it's probably
more correct to put C#… and so C# means that it goes up to D, so
[plays chords]
So, like, when I first heard it, it sounds like a B♭ minor chord, but then I was like "wait…"
In context, that's not a B♭ minor chord. That's like this neighboring chord that doesn't really matter…
…what key… it's not a different key. It's not like "oh, we're in B♭ minor".
It's like [playing chords] just a little… neighboring chord. Sometimes it goes here, sometimes it goes there.
It's just a neighboring chord that… ultimately gives it a crunch… that, when it resolves to D minor,
it sounds a bit more satisfying.
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