(laughing)
- Making a comeback for my friend's video.
- After being cyber on it, apparently.
That sounds...
What I meant was that we're very tight,
obviously, I don't mean that - Stop.
You know, the hanky-panky. (crickets chirping)
- Hi! (laughing)
- We are with Mister Joel AKA - Roomie for short.
- Do you like to be called Roomie?
- Yeah, sure. - AKA Roomie.
- AKA the master of many voices.
- Yeah, that's me.
- How much to you know about K-Pop?
- Not that much.
I used to know a little bit, like,
when I did more song writing back, like,
2013, 2014-type things, I tried to write
some songs for, like, J-Pop artists and stuff.
I got a couple things, like, released
but nothing, like, major.
When I was girls Generation was, like, new.
- It's gonna be a band called Monsta X
and they're like a new-wave K-Pop band,
very electro-pop-y.... I'm just gonna show you.
- You just touched your feet before we started filming
and then touched your computer (laughing)
and now I'm holding it. It's great.
- You're touching my toes, essentially.
- You're holding Sammy's foot.
- In context, I have a blister and I just touched it.
- We're at my place and he's like "I need to poke it."
(laughing) And then poke it...
- You watched me poke it. - I did watch him poke it.
I didn't say "Mmm" though.
- So this Monsta X "Beautiful."
- From The Clan part 2, their new album.
Okay, here we go. Are you ready?
- I am ready. Let's do it. - No pressure, here we go.
(electro-pop intro) Look at the aesthetic on that.
Why is it really pixilated? (laughing)
I'm looking at it and I'm like at 230.
- Yeah, why is it like that?
- There we go. - There we go.
- I can actually see his skin now.
- I can actually see the little glitter
he's got on his eyelid there. - That is cute.
- Back we go. Okay, here we go.
- Okay, oh, that looks high quality now.
- I'm not in 1920 any more. (laughing)
- Or a video game earlier. (laughing)
- Here we go. (electro-pop intro)
- Okay. - Yep.
- Fashiony. - Some moths.
(all exclaiming)
- Everyone's asleep though. (beat drops)
♫ Okay!
It sounds like some pretty hard-hitting
beats for a K-Pop. - I know!
It got kinda grungy on me, like...
- I don't know if "grungy" probably...
- No, "grungy" is not quite the right term.
- It cannot be a K-Pop band and be grungy.
(laughs)
Grungy is like punk, it's like you don't care.
Like, "Oh, I don't care, I'm gonna
be in five different studios."
- Yeah. Okay, he's the main lead.
- I just know I could pull off a glittery blazer.
- Do you guys understand the language?
- No, some bits. I'm getting there.
- Okay.
- I'm using memorise to learn it.
(music stops) - What are they saying then?
- I don't know! (laughing)
- Okay, so you don't know any.
- I know how to say "thank you," "please," and "let's go."
It got softer. (laughs)
- They use, like, so much skin-softener
manipulations and stuff on this stuff.
- On top of makeup as well. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, YouTubers are getting there
but they're, like, on another level.
- We're close to being K-Pop idols.
- Have you seen Ru Paul's Drag Race?
- Beck loves it.
My girlfriend, Beck, loves Drag Race,
but I've just watched, like, clips.
- Have you seen whenever Ru Paul is on camera,
like, it's so soft, like they've softened it so much?
Eventually my YouTube videos are gonna be me
with a soft filter on plus makeup.
I'm gonna look like this, this is my end goal.
Oh, he's angry!
- You see the breakdown is right down here.
- Cool!
- It's cool that they're doing that
camera-shake stuff as well. - Yep.
- I always wondered, are all the K-Pop things
filmed in the same studios? - Probably.
- Because they always have this,
- Yes! - Camera that's like...
- Legit, I think there's one venue
that's had, like, Girls' Generation,
Monsta X, BTS, like, all the big bands
were filmed there because, I guess, it's just convenient.
- So I have this series on my channel called Pop Theory
and was thinking at one point about doing one about K-Pop
and just about with the academies that they have.
I think I linked you to a documentary about this as well.
- Yes.
- It's just, like, how they make them,
like, get them in debt and make them
do a bunch of surgeries and stuff.
(music starts) - Ooh.
- That's cool. - Oh god!
(giggles)
(rapping in Korean)
- I mean, they're edgy in the way that,
like, Take 5 were edgy like they suggested.
- Yeah. - It's not "edgy" as in edgy.
- It's not really edgy but it's getting there.
(singing together in Korean)
- I just need to dance like this.
- I mean, what you just wanna say quick
about something like this is about,
like, even if you understood the lyrics
do you think that you'd believe anything
that you're singing? - No.
- True!
- That's just one of those things.
But I think that almost helps, the fact
that you don't understand, it's almost like
"Ooh, baby, baby, I love you," and it's whatever.
- Like, it could be nothing deep at all.
- Yeah. It's like the opposite to a cheering.
- Yeah.
That's my morning workout.
- I was wondering, like, is this a computer-generated stage?
- Yeah, I was thinking that. - I think it is.
- Oh, their blazers are off.
- Oh, they pick 'em back up?
That almost seems like a waste of energy.
- That looked a bit cheap, didn't it?
Like, when they're changing the grading on the same
material, like, on and off. I don't know.
- That was cool. - Yeah.
- But, I don't know, this... it must be real.
- Yeah, it must be real.
And, obviously, like, very talented performers.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, now I can see how some peeps are like
"This is the high point of my day,
watching X" and reading into whichever Korean boy
you like the best, or whatever.
- Oh, I don't think we do that.
- Yeah, I don't think we do that.
(laughing) - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Photoshop their heads onto, like, different nude bodies.
- Or me photoshopping myself into
group pictures with them. (laughing)
- Yeah, actually you have done that one.
- I've done that. (groans)
- He's actually posed himself and fused himself in..
- Viewers have done that, I haven't done that.
- Viewers have done that, not you on your separate account.
(laughing) Right?
- Who's Sammy? - Who's Sammy Balbon?
(laughing)
- [Man On Computer] You can get your website online today.
(laughs) - This is great.
I love that. (laughing)
Big Hit. - Big Hit.
Is that my throat making that sound, then? Is it?
- I think my throat is just making sounds like that.
That's very cinematic. - (whispers) Jungkook.
- He's a great actor. (laughing)
- Just like me? (laughs)
- Purple hair? - Yeah.
- Blue hair? Purple. (energetic pop music)
- This is a bit different now.
(rapping in Korean)
- I love when they throw in English words.
- Yeah.
These guys do it more than most people.
- I remember, like, some old girls getting ready
and had "Sunglass" in there for sunglasses.
(laughing) - I love that
- (together) Sunglass. (rapping in Korean)
- Do you need to know their names? Would that help?
- No. - I don't know.
(laughing) - You're like "No."
- This is Rap Mon. Rap Mon, not Rat Mon.
- Now, is he called Rap-something because he raps?
- Yeah. - Rap Monster.
- Well, it's a good branding choice.
- That's a good name.
- Jungkook.
- Stopped having tips on his hair.
- You know what they say. - He's got two earrings.
- Yeah, I know, right? - Ooh.
And he's given pink hair.
- He actually had silver hair which is why
I decided to go silver.
- Wait, what did they take off?
- I don't know. - This is the thing,
I thought they took off... - They're still wearing it.
- I thought they took off one of their jackets
but they're still all wearing their jackets
so it always confuses me.
- Was it something on their legs or something?
- I don't know. I think, maybe, it was a scarf.
- Let's go back, let's go back, let's go back.
- Well, you went back a long ways.
- I like this bit.
- This one looks like a good place to travel, though.
(beat drops) - It's just a piece of cloth.
- Yeah... - It looks like trousers!
Why would they just take off something on their pants?
- Maybe they were holding something.
- J Hope wins the award for worst fashion in this video.
- That means "Ready, set, fire."
I know that much.
And these choreographics are pretty slick.
- Yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
I think it's just the big group.
- It comes to a point where it's just,
like, is it about the singing or the dancing?
- Yeah.
(mimicking vocalist in Korean)
- He can actually speak English, among other things.
What was that sky shot? - Huh?
- Why was it just a random sky shot then?
I've never seen that before.
- It's so silly, isn't it though?
- Yeah. - I think that's why I like it
a little, it's just over the top.
- Yeah. - It's all extra.
- It's like Deadpool or something
(laughing) in music form.
You can't take it seriously, at least I can't.
- Yeah.
- It's not like "Oh my god, this is so cool, guys!"
- Yeah, it's like, I totally can't take it seriously.
- I wonder how much they work on every choreography.
- I wish my mom put me through that dance school.
(laughing)
- So you could have been a K-Pop star by now?
- Exactly. - Yeah, I get that.
You would have been. You would have been a K-Pop star by now
- Right?
- You have all the traits necessary to be a K-Pop star.
- Just not... - I bet it's just dance.
- Yeah.
(laughing) - Oh no, one's dead.
- This bit.
(exclaims) So slick.
- That's cool.
- It's nearly over, by-the-way.
- My heart rate rises watching the video.
Like, I'm just waiting for the next...
- That floor looks cool. I just spat like crazy.
- That's fine, I'm always spitting.
- You just projectile spat.
- I'm sweating watching this, like,
I know that I would not last.
- It's very warm in here as well.
Wait, they held their arms like that
in, like, as (makes explosion noise)
it's kinda like they shot a bullet.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Apparently it's about the, because the BTS fans
are called the Army, - Mm-hmm.
- So this song is about them standing with their Army.
- It always fascinates me, like,
with YouTubers and with artists and stuff,
when you all, like, you and I aren't best friends...
You know how I talk about sponsors
and you don't have my number and I'm gonna try
(laughing) to sell you a book next week,
but, you know, we're friends.
- I don't give a shit about him.
(laughing)
- I mean, the second one was way cooler cinematically.
- This is why we're friends,
I feel like we can stand to be guests together now.
- If anyone in the comments thinks
that the other one was more cinematic,
like, more visually interesting,
it would be interesting to hear why they would think that
because just a lot more was happening.
- Yeah.
- But the first one was cool as well.
I don't even remember the first one now.
I think this happens to me with K-Pop though,
(laughing) it becomes a blur.
- A mess. - It's also, like,
overloaded with cool. - Yeah.
- It's a big, dramatic blur. - Yeah.
- A lot of, like, tension is happening,
and drama, and choreography that is, kind of, intermixed.
- It's just that there are so many bands doing
pretty much the exact same thing.
- And the same sound. - Yeah.
And you don't know because a lot of them
are probably the same producers and everything as well.
It's just very much like...
I don't know. What was the last one, BTS?
- Yes.
- And the first one was Monsters?
- Monsta X. - Monsta X, okay cool.
I like it. I think it's quality stuff.
None of them were, like, punk...
(phone rings) That's me.
(singing along with the phone)
I had a nice time watching K-Pop with you guys.
- Joel's our favourite Swede. - After the vegetable.
- And if, like, Felix would ever take an interest you...
- Oh, well, fuck you. - Exactly.
We're going to try to make our own K-Pop song
on my channel, basically, so we are gonna
figure out what works about these songs and make our own.
Mickey and Sammy are both gonna sing, it's gonna be great.
- It could definitely go one of two ways.
(laughing) - I'll let you decide.
- I have complete faith in your ability,
(laughing) it's mine I'm worried about.
- Because Joel can actually sing.
- Well, not in Korean. So we'll see what happens.
It's gonna be a lot of fun.
- Thanks for being on our channel, Joel.
- Thanks for letting me come...
Here. (laughing)