kevin: *kinda singing* fiction fiction~
kevin: *some minor chord*
yunyi: really?!?! no!
kevin: YES YES YES
*I think, the dominant chord*
AND THEN AND THEN *chord* then go back to five *chord*
*weird noises that one cannot be re created with letters*
yunyi: WOWWW
*Rossini's Semiramide Overture plays*
peyton: heh
*is ad for* blistex bliss flip
umu: OK
so anyways this is BEAST Fiction...
kevin: Fantastic Beast Fictions and Where to Find Them XD
umu: this one, the storyline is soo confusing ^^'
I feel like you might be even more fulfilled with this one Lindsey: Can we do the whole thing like this
Umu: Yeah, uh no because your face is literally gonna be covered by the music video
Davis: XDXD
Jarod: Alright Peyton would you do us the honors of
Gwen: 3
Peyton: 2
1 (he sounds like the Count from Sesame Street)
Henry: ThreeTwoOne
Gwen: We're so good at that
and this is titled Fiction
Gwen: ohh funny cuz there are books (gwen pls don't talk w/ your mouth full)
Yunyi: Oh a piano!!
Yunyi: This is bad news XD Kevin: (something about BTS?)
Jarod: This is the world's saddest violin
Kevin: You can't trust a piano in a kpop video
Look at those keys, they're already dam-
Davis: That harp was nice
Hugo: loud writing
Lindsey: Ok I think that was an instrument but it sounded like a person going
*beyond disturbing slurping noises sorry headphone users* (DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS AT .5 SPEED YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED)
Hugo: They use more strings in this group
Yunyi: I'd be down for a chiptune piano Kevin: Me too
Fiona: That piano had real ivory keys
Kevin: Distorted !!! chiptune
Henry: Ok one thing that's really cool about the sets for BEAST though
is that they feature some sort of U-shaped set in which there is something all around them
which is really cool
(づ￣ ³￣)づ
Yunyi & Hugo: *preps for downbeat/drop*
Kevin: Those bangs though
Hugo: I love their vocal choruses and then their rap verses Gwen: I'm feeling this
Gwen: Drop verses man
Fiona: Honestly if you transcribe this for other instruments, that could be a beautiful, classical-ish arrangement
Yunyi: The riff is so nostalgic
Kevin: Oh yeah
Lindsey: This doesn't sound like anything we've listened to before. I don't even think this sounds like the last song of theirs that we listened to
Henry: *humming bass progression on scale degrees*
Kevin: You're not sure if it wants to go into major or minor
Hugo: That falsetto though
(thanks to yunyi I keep wanting them to say fanfiction)
Hugo: Oh it's so nice because it's like
Hugo: It's not in your face Gwen: It's light
Gwen: It's not like AAhhhhhh
Hugo: Yeah it's not like beat the f*** out of you
it's just like softly caress you
Jarod: One thing I'm starting to notice is that they do a lot of cool footwork in kpop
you know I kinda dig it. I wish I had those kind of ankles
Peyton: Shout out to Michael Jackson
Jarod: Shout out to kneecaps XDXD
Lindsey: That guy had a cute nose
Umu: K XDXD
Yunyi: This is like really well done
Hugo: I want to sing along to it
Kevin: This cameraman really likes to shake his camera
Hugo: I don't even know the words but I want to sing along with it (the struggle of every international fan)
Yunyi: It's like both happy and sad
Kevin: It's happy sad
Fiona: So melancholy
Gwen: I thought it was a UFO too. Still looks like a UFO
Oh sh*t his hair is red
Kevin: Woah
This just got sci-fi
Hugo: Oh this is that singer from last time
Kevin: Aaww
Peyton: You know sometimes you gotta go to the end of the world to find your woman
Hugo: This is shoulder guy, I think(XDXD what even) Gwen: Oh now his hair is red?
Gwen: I mean unless they all have notes like that
Hugo: oh I love their harmonies, their harmonies are so good
they have such good chord progressions
Ash: Uh huh
Gwen: I'm so freaking into this (lol we can tell)
Davis: Oh is that a spaceship in the background? Lindsey: You know, that looks like the thing from the Topp Dogg video
*singing and humming along... sorta*
Hugo: I feel a lot stronger vocal presence from this group than the other groups we reacted to as well
Hugo: Like each of the members has a really cool, unique voice too Gwen: Yeah he's got his own thing going
Yunyi: So is it i... i, ii, V/VI, then VI?????
Hugo: They know how to use their voices and they know how to use straight tone and vibratto
Gwen: And they know how to do it together
Kevin: Throw the picture in the water
Do it, do it!!!
*umu and yunyi cracking up*
Forget it, forget her
*yunyi further cracking up*
*umu kinda sounding like a guinea pig in the background*
kevin: see...there's e.
and then it goes to...
that's small v
so, minor v
yunyi: that's definitely V/VI
kevin: that's VI, NO that's- yeah that's VI
yunyi: then what is this major?
kevin: that's the major ch-
Lindsey: Is she gonna disappear, Is she gonna disappear *angrily glares*
Kevin: VI is also iv in G major
Fiona: Is she gonna disappear (the question of the day apparently)
Davis: Wait, is she (they're all clearly scarred by that fact)
I'm gonna be
*HEADPHONE USER WARNING*
Lindsey: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Davis: WHAT?!
Fiona: Oh my *clap*
*scared guinea pig mama umu*
Fiona: XDXD
Jarod: She's not even real (they're new they don't know the struggle yet)
(I think she's lost it)
Kevin: And the distorted square wave, I think it's a square wave don't quote me on that
Davis: Omg I can't believe that. I actually can't believe that
Yunyi: Aww
Kevin: Man
Hugo: Oh and then he disappeared
Gwen: Oh he's fiction too
Jarod: *grunt noise thing*
Gwen: Or is that a symbolism for heartbreak and sh*t
Kevin: Man that was a crushing ending
Lindsey: She doesn't exist!?!
Yunyi: Broke me apart
Lindsey: He's not in any of the pictures anymore but she's right there!!
Gwen: Was imagining a boy imagining her?
(Lindsey has been defeated)
Jarod: Maybe none of this is real
Hugo: I'm having an existential crisis
Peyton: Maybe they're in two different worlds
Gwen: I'm into the orchestration
Hugo: Yeah, no I really like how they incorporate those strings
Hugo: And more electronic Gwen: Ooh that harp
Yunyi: Nice use of harp
Herny: Love project runway (yes this was supposed to seem completely random)
Yunyi: Good instrumentation
Lindsey: That scream hurt my throat a little (and my ears)
Henry: What the
Peyton: Man I wish it sounded like that when I wrote
*mimics noise*
Gwen: Omg wait
Fiona: Uuhhm
Hugo: They both wrote!
Gwen: They both wrote the same thing!
*recognizable song, forgot what it's called*
Fiona: Uhhm
Jarod: Wow
That was a trip
Gwen: Alright. That was fun
Jarod: That's like Inception where Leonardo DiCaprio and the other actress, I can't think of her name
When they go into that very bottom dream state and they're just chillin out there
Peyton: Don't leave me
Jarod: And then it's not real, and she's not real, but she is and he's just, oh man it's just
Umu: Fiction within fiction
Henry: Maybe it was like parallel universes and they were writing a story about each other Fiona: They don't know how to communicate though
peyton: *weird noise*
Umu: you like the music?
both: Yeah
Davis: I'm not really good, like I can't sit here and be like oh man that VI chord that just happened Lindsey: Yeah me neither
Davis: Or like that V/V, go into a bVI like Mixolydian expan(sion)
Davis: I can't do that but I will say Lindsey: That's a Henry thing because he has perfect pitch
Davis: Yeah that's a Henry and Kevin thing
But I will say musically, they did a really good job of
Incorporating that longing, like you could tell just based on the accompaniment and his voice
and also just the way he was singing the emotion. It did bring out those emotions where you could just tell
that it was a longing, a loving song
that's why I was just like It's totally a love song
You can hear it. So I think that was really important and they did a really effective job with that
Lindsey: I mean if you don't love suspensions in the music which they didn't even really have that many suspensions
it was more just like their choice of chords
But if you're able to convey a message without people even
like we couldn't understand anything they were saying
awe don't speak Korean
But we were still able to tell the general jist, what the feel was supposed to be
just based on the music
Jarod: Music wise that was cool
it really enhanced the scene
I was paying attention to the music but at the same time I wasn't because it was just you know
Peyton: Very intense story
Jarod: It amplified everything and that was really cool it was like subtle but forward and dramatic
it was cool
This isn't something that I would want to listen to by itself
or when I'm listening to it I would picture the story because they go so hand in hand
Kevin: Let's resolve the chords
Umu: Yeah we wanna hear the chords
yunyi: e minor e minor ok?
kevin: *imitating umu*
kevin: nononononono
I think i might just give up subbing hahah -umu
kevin: that's what it makes you want to believe
yunyi: i actually think it's a descending tetrachord
yunyi: you-you're right cuz I don't think there was a strong dominant in that one
(no strong dominant, meaning there wasn't a chord with lots of tension)
blah blah blah
kevin: that was in major. that's b.
*probably D* idk i don't have perf pitch but yay aurel skills training while subbing a YT video
*G*
*B again*
kevin: this is minor v
and this is major VI
there is also a iv chord in the bass of the relative major
it actually does a really interesting thing!
cuz you said how there's no strong dominant?
there actually IS a dominant, but it's a minor dominant so it's like
umu: *gives up trying to follow along*
kevin: it doesn't work in classical music!!
yunyi: there are chords that are all like related by the third TO the descending tetrachord
etc
i'm done now bye -umu