Brianna: oH?
[Rossini's Semiramide Overture plays // Subtitles by youtube @anisian]
Umu: You are now reacting to the solo artist and dancing and vocalist queen, CHUNGHA,
and her 2020 single, "Stay Tonight"
The song sings of looking into one's heart, and showcases a vivid sense of self,
that suggests you stayed the night, even in a time of darkness where the flow of time is scattered
While the words of the song connotate the theme of love, the song does desire to reach out to it's listeners
encouraging them to trust their time to Chungha, their time spent listening to her music
The song is (Sam: Oh wow) composed by VINCENZO, Any Masingga, Fuxxy and Anna Timgren
And the choreographers are 최리안 and 김란
Ky & Njoe: Yesssss~~ YES
Ky & Njoe: Yes Ma'am!
Njoe: House of Love, that's House of Love mama Ky: House of Love, yes, House of Love
Ky: That's the House that- (Njoe: That's their voguing house) did the backup dancing too I think
Ky: 3, 2, 1
Woo~
Kevin: It's a perfume commercial
IT LOOKS LIKE A PERFUME!!! Owen: It does look like that
What is that? Oh it's Pandora's- I saw the word Pandora
Ju Young: I like this harp action going in the beginning Jason: Yes
Ju Young: Very ethereal
Kianna & Ari: WOW
Ari: Pretty! Yup, she's gotta make her entrance
Brianna: Oh~
Sam: Oh, very interesting
Raffi: I LOVE her voice~
Rafael: It's like a super modern take on like an 80s beat- Raffi: The MIX is pristine
Ky: So clean, that's so clean!
Njoe: Yes! yES! MMMhmMM Ky: Yes legs let's gOO
Raffi: Ok, mhm, yep, sure Sam: Wow, oh okAY
Sam: Oh there it is!
Brianna: Oh?
Owen: I like how they added the-
Um- more clear bass on top of the guttural bass
as the second chorus came around
Ju Young: It's very futuristic vibe I think (Jason: Mhm) and I think it-
Like with this like funk kind of bass going on in the background Kianna & Ari: WHATTT
I think it fits very well Jason: That's very funk bass
Ari: A MAN RUG and they're just spinning her Kianna: A MAN RUG??!?
Kianna: Where do I get one?
Ari: Right? Kianna: Kidding, kidding, kidding
Ari: No, no, no, I'm not kidding
Sam: Also have you noticed that her mix, and her belt are like so seamlessly sewn together?
Raffi: Yeah, there's- yeah there's a lot of sliding work in the-
Sam: YEAHHHH~
Cloud: Could we just talk about how everyone is in like these high fucking heels?!
POWERFUL SHIT!
Ju Young: Ugh, I love this part!!
WOO! AHH!
Jason: Aye!
She said triplet~ Uh-huh
Raffi: Love the rhythm there, it's so attractive
Kevin: Nice Owen: You got a piano
Kevin: With high- (Owen: It sounds like a piano) highly filtered, highly reverbed
Owen: Yeah Kevin: But I think it's very well done
Owen: Mmhm, I agree
Jason: That was cool Ju Young: MMMhmmm
Jason: Ooo
Ky: AHHHH Yes DANCING!! Let's GOOOO Njoe: *humming along*
Ky & Njoe: *vibing to the music* Njoe: YESSS
Njoe: Ka, ka-
hey, hey!
Uagh! For the gays, by the gays! Ky: For the gays, by the gays for real!
Ari: Beautiful! BEA-U-TI-FUL!
Njoe: Ripple, ripple, ripple, ripple Ky: Ooooo~
Ari: They don't just stop, they like..
They st- they come to a- they slow to a stop, you know? It's-
There's a lot of canons in the uh-
Canon is one after the other right? (Kianna: Yeah) I wanna make sure- Ok
Cause there's a lot of that like you know?
And that's a really easy way to make one movement, make it memorable and also make it interesting to watch
IT's really cool
Rafael: It's interesting how much just like, playing with the density of textures wh-
In a song will like really have a compositional effect without actually doing anything
Like they had a beat drop, and the beat didn't change,
They just orchestrated it differently, they took everything away except for the bass
Right now, I'm pretty sure-
Yeah, they just took the away the bass and beat, but kept everything else the same
Just changed the orchestration and it totally feels like a new section
Like even here it's the same beat, but it feels like something new
Cloud: There's also like a lot of really cool sections,
I don't think there's anything like maybe super new or earthshattering,
but like man did I love it! (Brianna: Mmhm)
I was like, this is a recipe I vibe with, her voice is great Brianna: Yeah it was good
Cloud: Like, would put this on my iPod and listen to it on the way home right now!
I might do that haha I will probably do that
Umu: What was it about the different sections, and like the variants that made it work
Cl: Man, listening to the beginning again after listening to the whole song feels so weird
Because it- it's so different but it all fits together, which-
Maybe that's what's so cool, is like they can be different, and have variation,
but still keep the same tone and fit well together
Becuase it's not like a weird tone shift, for a lot of them
Well the mood is totally different, like it still feels like the same arch
It's because, when you split off into that like
Ok cause the textures like sometimes are fuller, sometimes they're less full,
But they usually take from that same sound,
of like that retro, throwback feel,
Like they-they'll come back and it'll only be bass, but that bass is very like *vocalizing*
Like it still has that same sound, so it keeps the mood
At least that's just my opinion
Br: So I actually just searched up Bob Fosse, because a lot of their movements, really gave me like-
Bob Fosse vibes, it was a lot of like hand movements, like slow but also like sensual I feel like
And I thought it really went well with the music and the vibes that it was giving
It gave me a lot of disco, because the sounds they were using, it was a lot of like-
It wasn't very syncopated, but it was more like subdividing within the beat,
and a lot of synthetic bass sounds, but not super low, it's like mid low
I would want to say, and I really liked her voice
Like I was- When you told me that she was a dancer, I was like, ok it's just gonna be a lot of syncopation heavy like-
But she actually sang, like really well,
I was like okay, because she went to a full head voice,
And then she also showed off her falsetto which was really strong,
So I was like oH? Okay, she's versatile!
I feel like with Kpop singers, they really have to get bot- good at both,
Be really good singers and dancers, but most of the time, singing isn't really like-
You know... put at the forefront, but in order for you to be a Kpop solo artist,
You really have to have both really well, and like she just proved why she's a solo Kpop artist
Because she can do both very very well!
Ki: The thing about Chungha, right that I've noticed, she's just such a good performer,
She can make walking look like dancing, do you know what I mean?
Ar: And there's a way to do that, yeah
Ki: But it is- I dunno, she walks so- it looks so good when she's just walking like-
Ar: That's what happens when you know how to walk with purpose
You know? When you're on the runway, they teach you how to walk,
Like there's certain ways that a- wow-woaH- (Ki: oKAY~!)
*tv static*
Ki: It's very nice to see voguing being utilized in Kpop
I am- do not claim to be an expert in voguing at all, but I did recognize a lot of like the very steps
That you'll usually see in ballroom, like whenever two people are facing off
In voguing, like a lot of like- I'm really- I'm really terrible at it but um-
There were some very gentle um they'll call them like-like either death drops or shawham's or whatever
But it was really cool to see them pay homage to that style and um
Did a really good job, it was very subtle but not all voguing has to be really intense and like waacking and stuff
Ky: And Chungha is a waacker, that's why her lines (Nj: It's true) are really pretty and she really knows her body
And really knows how she moves, and how well she looks when she moves
Oh my god (Nj: Mmmhm) I love her so much (Nj: Perr, perr, perr~)
Just really good stuff, really impactful and like right now we see a lot more like voguing-
Influenced elements in Kpop (Nj: That's true) and it's nice that Chungha brought on the actual like dancers
That are involved in the (Nj: YESS agREED!) community into his-her videos,
And she actually even gave them a spotli- (Nj: To shine) like a section to shine at the end
When the did all the- (Nj: *vocalizing) yeah, yeah, yeah
Nj: I love it Ky: Yeah, that section
Ar: Voguing itself it looks like very pretty, and like picturesque, but um-
Trying to get your hands to like move in those angles, it feels extremely unnatural
Ki: IT DOES (Ar: So like- yeah) it does!
Ar: So when you see it really well done like that,
it's like that- they're very good dancers (Ki: Yeah) in that way
My favorite part quite honestly was the chorus like-
I don't know if it was the prechorus or the chorus where they would all turn and literally just stop and look at the camera
Like that was the choreography and they'd just li- they would lip sync-
Ki: YES! Ar: It goes with the style as well
Ar: Like voguing, it's a very very performative style, and like your face is extremely important so like- (Ki: Expressions)
Ar: When they did that, and then they like walked forward with it, it was like it just felt like home
Like it felt correct- Ki: It felt like home, yes it did
Ki: This choreography felt like home wooo Ar: Yeah~
Jm: How they would build in and out of the chorus, both with the choreography and how Raf mentioned earlier how they would-
Break things down and slightly change textures, and it would feel like a whole-
A whole new section, but not much is like being changed
Like just kinda like on that tension- resolution aspect of music,
Not necessarily harmonically but just with like feel I thought was utilized really well with the-
Different...choreography, which I thought was really cool
Js: What it seems to me was like the buildup
You know into that chorus, I was expecting something very extravagant to come,
You know, most of the time when you have-
You know, like such a leading like percussive aspect to you know like-
A song, you expect there to be just this grandiose chorus but-
With her concept of speaking about you know the idea of time being scattered, either with-
Somebody you want to spend the night with or if you're listening to her music,
When people are in the midst of feeling that time is not-
You know like- like in COVID-19 times right now, that's you know, non-apparent
and it's kind of confusing, and it's causing anxiety or issues, or it's causing a feeling of nothingness um-
That- the chorus really accentuated the idea of time so,
It pulls you in um-
One, because sonically, it's interesting to listen to, but two it's kind of-
You know, parallel- poetically parallel to her idea of I guess just time
You know playing with time, even when time is like nonexistent in one's own reality so... I guess?
JY: There wasn't a lot of like you know, embellishments or stuff like that,
But she was able to make it interesting,
Like you said before, like the way that she's like playing around with you know, triplets and stuff and just yeah-
And just visually, it was just very, very cool to watch, yeah
Js: The bridge at the end, I wanna figure out what they're doing there really fast-
Kv: So, so, okay, so D minor right? *plays piano* Ow: Wait I would treat it not as a C minor-
Kv: D natural minor *piano* (Ow: Wait) U: He said he wouldn't treat it as a C Minor
Ow: Treat it- (Kv: Huh?) Cause it's- Kv: You wouldn't treat it?
Ow: It's cause the bass is going into a B Flat Kv: As a C Minor?... Well that's how I heard it so...
Kv: We're gonna do it~ So we got these- Ow: WAIT NO NO NO NO
*tv static*
Kv: Okay, well anyway, let's just- let me just play you the notes
This is clearly a highly debatable um- music theory problem Ow: Fair Enough
Kv: BUT~ So- so the song is very much in D minor *piano*, all the chords that she goes through are within these notes
Except different octaves, and then near the end- well somewhere in the bridge she went into- *piano*
It's very subtle, and I like how it's mixed,
How I didn't even hear it the first time, that's cool
*piano* It was the color change
WOAHHHHH
So disregarding that one chord, which I think is really cool,
I think um the rest of the song is definitely one of the most interesting songs that's completely diatonic,
Meaning, completely using the notes of the scale, and sticking to the notes of the scale
But, a lot of it is because the instrumental timbres are really cool and super sick
Ow: I-I-I would agree with you, I think the timbres and also the articulations are what makes this song really work for me
How- how nicely she cuts off, how nicely she articulates the *vocalizing*
Um- *static*
Oh yeah her articulation is really good, she definitely sells the melody as much as she could've
U: So you guys were talking a lot about her vocal technique, do you guys care to go more in detail into like the mel-
Melt? The- head and belt mix thing and you said talked about slide
Rf: Yeah~ Well I think- I think the best place to hear it is the beginning when she's-
When the melodic line goes up and she's choosing to slide to those
Because like what Sam mentioned the mix, the belt is seamless, because you could have this kind of weird-
It's- you hear it in guys a lot like- *vocalizing* like you would crack you know?
Because there's that like passaggio there,
But what she's done- I mean it takes a lot of work, is there's like these slide exercises,
All this stuff, like a lot of classical musicians and like musical theatre peeps and pop peeps, everybody does it,
And so she's created a balance in- in all of her registers,
So for the tessitura of this piece, it really is on display because she's constantly going between those notes
Sm: Definitely I paid attention most to her vocal abilities (U: Mhm) and once I hooked onto that,
I couldn't really stop listening to it, so it was very wonderful to hear
U: That's awesome, cause you say that you usually- even though you're a vocalist,
you tend to listen to the instrumental and harmony first, but she really hooked you in with her voice
Sm: Yeah, there were definitely some really cool chord moments,
There was a moment where it was descending half step chords down, that I just made me gush and made me say WOW!!
I can't believe you did that while also belting, and um uh-
When that happened, I just...I-I knew that I really enjoyed this song,
So, this was wonderful!
[BGM: IU's "My Sea" // Subtitles by youtube @anisian]
Ky & Njoe: *singing and dancing*