Henry: Oh my GOD
Umu: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! Henry: that's stanky!
[Semiramide Overture - Rossini]
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Henry: After five years (that's ten) of a hiatus,
the iconic group 소녀시대 (Sonyeo Sidae) or Girls' Generation
are back with their 7th album - really, just seven?
'Forever One', released to commemorate their 15th anniversary.
Jacob: Mhm. Kayla Rae: No way!
Kayla Rae: Wait, I need to see a picture of them now.
Umu: You'll be reacting to their b-side song 'You Better Run',
a song that is a lyrical reply to their 2010 hit called 'Run Devil Run'
Ju Young: "You better run, run, run, run, run..."
Sorry.
I'm just really happy. "Run devil, devil run..."
Umu: 'Run Devil Run' left the message:
"That habit of you meeting girls without me knowing still didn't go away,
*chuckle*
even if you run, it's obvious, you better run run run,
even if you beg me not to leave, I don't care anymore,
I'll come back even better and I'll get revenge,
Don't forget it!"
Fast forward 12 years later and 'You Better Run''s first line says:
"I surely told you I'll return the day I become a better me,
That day has come, I'm ready! (Adam: Ooooh!) (Kayla: Woooww! Full circle!)
It's basically an intense revenge story line
acting as a predecessor in the final sequence
to their song 'Run Devil Run'. (Kevin: Oh my gosh!)
Owen: So it is, yeah, cool.
Umu: This song brings back the vengeful characters
who return to destroy their opponent,
only this time with better success.
Kevin: Literally Avengers Endgame of K-pop. (Owen: Yeah, you're right)
They're like, all the callbacks.
Liam: Well that's, that's pretty intense. It's pretty heavy.
Rachel: Yeah, it's really contrasting with this pink background we're getting.
Umu: Right, well yeah, the title track is very feels good.
Rachel: Oh, really? Umu: Like a warm hug.
Umu: Like arriving back home.
Umu: And then the b-sides all explore different genres. Liam: The b-sides are hellfire.
Rachel: Okay.
Umu: They cover a bunch of different genres.
Liam: Okay.
Umu: This song is composed by Grace Tither,
Kyle MacKenzie, Keir MacCulloch and Katya Edwards.
Henry: Ready?
소
녀
시
대
Owen: Nice, good first note.
Owen: I thought that was a good first note.
Liam: What the hell, that was so sick!
Jason: Well that's already kind of like running.
Liam: Oh my god!The feel, it's so good! Rachel: Oh my god!
Jason: Rhythm anecdote of what it means to run.
Henry: There's our sense of-
Umu: Woah, that's such a nice transition!
Jason: It's - gonna be panned?
Henry: Oh my GOD that's STANKY!
Umu: AAAAaAAAAaaAaHHHHH!!! Henry: Oh my GOD that's STANKY!
Ali: Bro, that's so sick!
Stephanie: OooOoh, that's so killing!
Liam: Oh! It shifted over one triplet partial!
Ju Young: AAaAh, they changed it!
Kayla Rae: This is bad bitch energy, this is like...
Will: That's so laid back.
Jory: Oooh~
Jason: "Mm mm mhm" - there's somebody speaking on top of it.
Good vocal production.
Kayla: I like the "Savage~"
Jacob: I'm trying to like think about that rhyme. Kayla Rae: I know!
Adam: Wow.
The beat!
Liam: OOOH!
Dude, the tom sound, like panned left or right.
Rachel: That fill! Liam: Oh that was so fat, Jesus Christ!
Ju Young: This is like a nice...
from all the rhythmic stuff that was happening, this is a very like-
Ali: Yeah, it's flow and smooth and connected. Ju Young: Let's get ready, they're gonna f#%k us up!
Will: Wooo, that's sick. Jory: That's sick!
Will: Yeah.
Henry: Oh my god, that run is so wildly cool!
Liam: Crank the overdrive on their voices! Rachel: Oh my god!
Kevin: It's still got the b-side vibes, you know?
Clearly a more experimental sort of song,
(Owen: Absolutely) but you know, it's kind of cool.
Owen: I like it.
Kevin: I like it's both ambitious and its instruments
and also the callback to the other song.
Kayla: HuaHaHAHAHA! Adam: OOoOOH!
*imitate laugh*
Kayla: I love that!
Adam: Wow, that was so good! Kayla: It reminded me of like Beyoncé,
Kayla: when she does like the laughing in her songs,
it's like *mimics*
Like, I don't know, it's just like, like it's fun.
Henry: Okay, I take back everything I said about like,
"That's just familiar, it's a comeback"
This is like so different!
Umu: yeah, not what you expect Henry: This is not SNSD, this is so-
I mean it is, but like in their timbres and vocals,
but like, woah this is new and so exciting!
Ali: I think if they were gonna make a comeback song
this is a good one, this is a good way to do it.
Ju Young: This is like a literal revamp of...
"run devil devil run..."
It's like they took it and they were like:
"Let's just shimmy it up a little bit"
But then they ended up making it really good.
Umu: Did you hear any similar elements?
Umu: Cuz I went back- Ju Young: The beginning
Umu: Oh really? Okay. Ju Young: That "mwah"
Ju Young: It reminded me a lot of the beginning of like, it's:
That low timbre.
They kept the rhythmic component, like this,
I think this song, like for me when I was like really young,
this was like so rhythmically overwhelming for me.
Just cuz like the space in between everything,
"run devil, devil run" - SPACE!
Ali: Yeah...
Ju Young: Like, it's just like...
Ali: Ohhhh~
Ju Young: They basically were like:
"Let's get the same feel of this and then just like...
make it for the times today"
and just like the, it's just like hh~ mm~
I love it.
Adam: Mm, the triplets is -
Kayla: *Badada dada*
Adam: You feel it in your body and you feel it in your soul
and you just want to like,
~I'm livin' it~
Kayla: Mhm.
Stephanie: I like the *sings main line*
it's like a bluesy, like a descending line thing, yeah,
and it comes, it's like in the first few seconds.
Like all of the sudden, just "woah" (Leon: Mm.)
Leon: Unpredictable. Stephanie: And it's just like -
Stephanie: Yeah, and captures your attention right away, yeah.
Rachel: The triplet? Liam: That kind of like descending triplet line,
it did get a little bit much after like 8, 9, 10 time it happens,
Liam: but it just kept moving. Rachel: But I still liked it.
Liam: It's like just, so nasty. Rachel: always running
Kayla Rae: I really liked that song.
I don't know how I feel about that run.
Jacob: It's definitely, it's just like, I don't know what it is,
it sounds like a B♭ down to... *Both singing line*
Kayla Rae: But then it's like, it doesn't land, it like falls.
I kind of wish that they did that with the voice,
like, I feel like that would have been powerful,
you know, like, to actually...
Umu: What if like in the last chorus they doubled that?
Umu: Like with the voice. Kayla Rae: Right, like that would have been-
But I thought that it was, I mean I really liked the vibe.
This is like kick*ss bad b*tch energy
Brian: Something that screams "angst" to me right out of the gate
is the, that fun little like bass guitar riff or whatever.
Brian: Was it a bass guitar? Jason: Electric guitar.
Brian: Electric guitar, whatever instrument it is.
The like, with the sextuplets or
however many notes you squeeze into the beat,
that was really-
the heavy metal aspect of it gave me the feeling of angst.
I see leather, I see bikes, I see bats for smashing things,
Brian: We're mad, we're angry. Jason: Yeah, you know what, you ever heard of Mad Max?
Jason: I've never seen the movie, I only saw the commercials,
but if they're like on the road, like fighting each other all the time,
like this, like they're driving all the time, like killing each other.
Brian: Yeah.
Jason: Okay, it reminded me of Mad Max,
if the colors were pink and purple and blue and yellow
and like super like, it was like all of them just like chasing after these men,
just like ready to f*cking *aggressive noises*
Brian: With bats.
Jason: Literally with bats and like axes
and they got like masks on and they're like *engine revving*.
Umu: This song sounds violent
and it sounds violent because of how laid back the beat is
and how in front of the beat, it feels like, the vocals are,
so it's like they're cutting through something that's dragging them back.
Owen: Yeah, so the drums are like:
Owen: Right? You have your classic 4/4.
But the drums were laying WAY back.
Kevin: Yeah, oh yeah they were.
Owen: So when the snare was-
if you are actually counting like 1,2...
Owen: Like way behind, right?
And then you had the synth, which was going:
Umu: Really pushing forward. Owen: Right, super on top of the beat, absolutely, like,
Owen: and also the fact that it was so articulate and short
meant that it also, because that space and the placement of them,
of each synth hit, made it like moving forward
and really contrast well with the laid back drum.
Rachel: Oh, right at the beginning there was some like polyrhythm thing that was happening
with like the triplet bass in the back and the vocals in the front.
Umu: Yo, let's figure that out.
Rachel: I think it's because, like the:
And like in contrast to that it's super back.
Liam: Yeah, the vocals on top of it are like... Rachel: And then because of the nature of the triplet runs,
the *vocalizes triplets*,
like you are really going towards something in that
and so like the contrast between that
and then the super backbeat hi-hat
makes it just like sort of disorienting,
Rachel: but like in a really good way, like, in the best way. Liam: There's a lot of rhythmic dissonance happening,
Liam: just because of, I don't know,
how like concrete that descending synth line is rhythmically.
Rachel: And then the vocals is kind of taking from both.
You know what I mean?
Like, there's a lot of like triplet feel and then it goes back to like:
*dotted rhythm*
*triplet rhythm*
Like, the contrast between the two is really nice.
Liam: That, dude, at like 45 seconds, that like:
Rachel: Yeah.
Rachel: Ah god, yes. Liam: The like, just the inflection of that part.
Rachel: Very very nice.
Stephanie: Well that's cool, they are using triplets really well in this song.
Leon: Yeah. Stephanie: Like, that laid back feel,
I didn't realize it was from the triplet rhythm in the bass and the percussion.
Leon: I think they shift every normal rhythm back a triplet 8th.
Umu: Ooooh, that's how you think they're giving the laid back feel?
Leon: Yeah.
It's like a really syncopated feel.
Like, if you subdivide into a smaller value,
and then the lineup, it will be at like 2 and 4 instead of 1 and 3.
So it's like:
It's like this, if I subdivide like this,
the normal one is like:
but then it's gonna be like:
Stephanie: ooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Will: I love the laid back, like triplet kind of chord things,
I feel like they might have been like chopped,
(Jory: Yeah) like [?????], like:
Kinda like, you know, super behind the beat, off-grid, super groovy.
Um yeah, I like that stuff.
Also the bridge thing,
Umu: When they took out the percussion? Will: With the like chopped up, like resampled vocal thing
Will: that like loop, and then pitch shifted up higher, (*Umu vocalizing*)
Umu: Yeah. // Jory: Yeah, that. Will: That was, that was sick.
Jory: I was really into that, yeah.
Brian: There was one part where it kind of changed in color
and it was more tender and they got rid of
a lot of the heavy metal things
and the percussion and the electric guitar,
and I feel like that was a nice contrast.
Jason: They also changed the rhythm from having so much focus on triple
and just turned it into duple.
Umu: Mm
Jason: And it just brought you back to kind of like,
your heartbeat, you know, kind of like a...
There's all these things going around all the time
and the bridge just brought you back to *heartbeat*,
like just something very stable, just like the meter that was very...
as opposed to all the *digidigi*, all the crazy sh*t that was going on,
so I thought that was nice, that was cool.
Umu: Did you have a favorite vocal moment?
Jacob: I always like a good belt like that E♭...
Kayla Rae: What was that, yeah, we both said mm~
*Jacob vocalizing*
Like, I like that.
Adam: I was so invested in the beat.
Kayla: Yeah, I was like *grooving* Adam: I was like "Oh, yeah..."
Kayla: Yeah.
Adam: Hm.
Kayla: But also the belts cuz it's just like, ugh, like,
Yes. Glorious.
Kayla Rae: I think that they just sound good. They do sound good.
I also think that their voices sound mature,
which is like, I mean, they all,
like all K-pop groups are just like,
they go through so much training that they will sound so good
but I think that there is something to be said about
having had experience.
And so I think they know what their sound is
and they know what works well for them,
and that's something that comes with age and maturity.
Jacob: And talk about longevity, like oh my goodness,
it's like they had like a whole career and then went inactive
and then they're coming back and their voices are still this healthy.
Kayla: That would be a good vocal warm up.
Adam: Mm~
Adam: *He-shebudugu*
*Umu shrieking*
Kayla: No, it was like:
*Nomenomedogedum*
Adam: *Hlblblbebl*
Kayla: Blblbllblbl Adam: Bababababom
Kayla: Oh yeah! *brlbrlbrlbrlbrl*
Adam: To release the tongue tension!