Hugo: She has a lot of cutoffs and a lot of space in between notes often
Hugo: In a more talking kind of style
Hugo: So when she makes a more legato line, I like it a lot cuz it... Jeremy: Yeah, I like it too
Hugo: makes a differentiation
Umu: yyaaaAAAAS GURL okay
Kevin: It's over, man
U: So Lee Hi is a solo artist from the same company as AKMU and Blackpink and Big Bang and 2NE1
U: Anyway, so, the first song you'll be reacting to is one from her first full album and you'll see a stuffed bear in the music video
U: And it's name is Krunk and it's the YG company mascot
Emiel: Dope
Henry: finna. get. K R U N K
{katie's jacket is so cute omg}
Jarod: Tritone!
Lindsey: WwooOooAHHHWHAT Fiona: Scat scatscatscat
Lindsey: This is... like..
Lindsey: I like her vocals already and she hasn't even said a real word yet
Kevin: oH but it doesn't resolve. It goes on V instead
Kevin: So yeah it is jazz {ya like jazz}
both: Over... Jarod: See, but, it's over, but with the tritone, it raises a question
Jarod: You know, the music, like invokes "is it really over?" K: gotcha
Peyton: Oh boy, she's actually got a cliche bassline going in the back
Emiel: This is a blues form Henry: Hey, it's a blues! Emiel: Are you kidding me?
Melissa: Yeah, that bassline is so jazzy, but the melody's not jazzy anymore
Lindsey: This is literally a blues progression
Emiel: This is out
Henry: DAMN
Fiona: And vocally she can do whatever she wants
Fiona: That's kinda what it sounds like, it's good
Lindsey: I mean, it is the blues
Fiona: Yeah, like, it adds to this- there's so much freedom with what you can do
Peyton: If by some crazy chance you ever get a million subscribers
Peyton: I will find a bear costume {peyton is a furry confirmed?}
Melissa: YES
Jarod: This OG bear
Katie: Tonic prolongation
Katie: Subdominant! Jarod: IV
Katie: Still technically
Katie: Tonic prolongation Jarod: I
Katie: But now we're gonna go to the dominant Jarod: V
Katie: Subdominant Jarod: IV
Katie: And back to tonic Jarod: I
Hugo: Her English diction is really good
Emiel: I like her voice though
Henry: Yeah, I like her voice a lot
Emiel: Good melody
Emiel: I guess I'm not a fan of the music video
Emiel: But the song sounds alright, other than the fact that it feels pretty downbeat oriented
Emiel: It's very, like, uhuhuhuh
Katie: This would be really good for, like, intro to soloing
Jarod: I know, right? It's like Katie: Teach the blues scale
Jarod: Yeah, there's this thing called a blues scale which is usually I, flat III, IV, flat V, V, flat VII
Jarod: And back to I
Jarod: So that's how to sound jazzy 101
Fiona: This is a slower song than songs we've listened to lately
Fiona: It's, like, laidback Lindsey: Well, it's because it's literally a jazz progression
Stephen: Yeah,...like how he's playing the high hat right now
Stephen: that's actually how you're not supposed to play it like that
Stephen: That's actually, like, the wrong way to play it. I got yelled at once here, actually, for playing like that
Naoki: Wait, so can you describe what that- Oh, tell us later Stephen: sure
Peyton: They're using very, like
Peyton: Naked blues progression where it's like, there aren't any.. um..
Peyton: Extensions or extra turnarounds in there
Henry: You know what I really appreciate the most about this?
Henry: Is that
Henry: She's an alto
Henry: That's badass {imo i think there are other altos in kpop but lee hi actually sings in alto range}
Melissa: Also, the saxophone was doubling the melody, which is kind of like, you know, they could've done something different
Peyton: Ahhhhh midi trumpets
Peyton: aaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH
Khanh: It's gonna go back to V
Khanh: Oh no Kevin: Nope, nope
Khanh: I thought it was- Kevin: Now it's gonna go back to I
Kevin: Oh, so I and then V
Naoki: But it seems very simplistic
Naoki: Beyond the ...
Stephen: Well, that's the- Naoki: Twelve-bar blues
Naoki: I mean, that is simplistic in its nature
Stephen: No, seriously, everything instrumentation-wise is simplistic
Stephen: But her voice and the melodic line hides that
Lindsey: Yeah, I figured she's probably 16, 17, something like that
Lindsey: That was great, that was definitely the cutest blues I've ever heard
Lindsey: Good for her, though, she's got a very mature voice for somebody of that age
Umu: So what did you think about that song overall, musically?
Jeremy: In the beginning, I really dug it, like, I liked it and it was cool
Jeremy: And then
Hugo: It didn't go anywhere Jeremy: Yeah, it was the same thing the whole time
Hugo: And it was good, like, I thought the style was really cool. I think she did that style well, I just think overall with that particular song...
Hugo: There could've been more
U: So what'd you hear them doing with the high hat, I'm curious
Stephen: Sure, so when you're playing jazz, you're supposed to open it a certain way
Naoki: What does that mean
Stephen: Ummm so, in the high hat, it's closed, right? The t-t you hear Naoki: Oh right
Stephen: And then open, legato sound
Stephen: Just the way he was doing it and accenting it, it hard to describe unless you actually play drums
Stephen: But they it makes it sound really square
Stephen: It doesn't swing. It feels it's like..
Naoki: Sounds flat
Stephen: It's flat, it's kinda jive
Stephen: It's just really cheesy and corny
Stephen: So, it's just really funny, I mean, everything else they were doing was great
Stephen: BUT I literally did that once, here, at Eastman. I got a stern talking to, and it was like "yo you can't play a high hat like that"
Stephen: It's just really funny that's how they doing that, and getting away with it
Khanh: As a jazz player
Khanh: Everytime I hear a twelve-bar, I'm like
Khanh: "really?"
Kevin: Then they have to take it to that really slow tempo, where the song just feels really choppy
Kevin: The song doesn't even feel connected Khanh: There's nothing that drives it
Khanh: It's just
Khanh: ONE 2 3 4 FIVE 2 3 4
Khanh: This is just the same melody, like, 6 or 7 times, however many- yeah
Melissa: My favorite musical moment was when she was like
Melissa: Deleeeeeeeeete, that was my favorite
Melissa: Cause she was just like "delete"
Melissa: And I was like "yes"
Melissa: Good word choice Peyton: new phone who dis?
Peyton: I listen to a lot of jazz
Peyton: So I've really got an idea of what it's supposed to sound like
Peyton: And it moves around a lot more, like, the whole
Peyton: I guess it feels more improvisational, as opposed to
Peyton: But see, I think they- it's good because they understand what it is
Peyton: "Oh, we're not trying to be jazz"
Peyton: This is just a fun little cute, like, little thing, you know?
Peyton: But I think it would be more interesting if they tried to go more in that direction and got someone to really walk over it, you know
Lindsey: Okay, you think, like, a blues tune, just a jazz tune. You think that there's gonna be a solo break in the middle
Lindsey: But she just opens the damn thing scatting
Lindsey: That's kinda awesome, and then she just goes through the whole rest of the song
Fiona: She barrels through
Fiona: Great job Lindsey: I think that's kinda cool
U: Let's move onto the next one, it came out 2 years later, this is her 2016 release
U: Lee Hi will be acting in the music video with a dude who is a solo rapper, his name is One {jaewon!!}, and he debuted actually in this year, 2017 under the same company as her
Khanh: Three! Three! Kevin: MY star!
Melissa: I like how they said bass so you know what voice it is
Peyton: INCOMING BASS!!!!!
Emiel: Cool
Emiel: I dig Henry: Same
Stephen: The way that the bass and drums- or just the intro is, reminds me of a doowop, 50s American kind of Naoki: Yeah
Kevin: ooOoooOH a V, VI, I
Khanh: V, VI, I!
Fiona: It's so groovy Lindsey: Oh my gooood
Fiona: This is so vintage!
Fiona: Like, this sound is
Fiona: Probably some pop song from the 60s Lindsey: I like the baritone sax BUUUUUUUUUUUUH Fiona: They just took the progression
Hugo: She's got a lower voice, and I like it
Jeremy: Yeah, me too
Jeremy: Cause a lot of them are very Hugo: High and airy Jeremy: super high- YEAH and airy, you're right
Henry: Oh my god I love the birds
Henry: Are people who've got white gloves and are doing this Emiel: That is pretty dope
Henry: This is actually a super thoughtful music video
Stephen: Here I can approve the drum set beat is not cheesy Naoki: It's not jive Stephen: Not jive
Stephen: It's pretty cool and that tambourine
Khanh: Now the instrumentation is fuller with horns playing
Hugo: Oh nice bahbuhhhh in the brass
Henry: Real horns?
Emiel: What? Henry: Real horns? They're just kinda buried
Kevin: YES Khanh: I like that one
Kevin: Me too Khanh: How they cut out
Kevin: That's funny cause that's V, VI, I, which is the same chord, but theres no chords this time
Khanh: Yeah Kevin: V, VI, I?
Kevin: WOaahh
Stephen: I'm just trying to hear, there's like, another sound that they've got matched with the bassline where it almost sounds like a low trombone or horn...
Naoki: Oh yeayeayea St: like a synthesizer
Stephen: Or a bari sax?
Stephen: Cause they had baritone sax a lot in doowop and early blues, R&B
Naoki: Is that a backup band?
Lindsey: What the hell Fiona: You're right
Lindsey: There's just a sousaphone on stage, there's no sousaphone in this music {for the Aesthetic™}
Hugo: She has a lot of quick cutoffs and lot of space between notes often
Hugo: In a more talking kind of style
Hugo: So when she makes it more legato line, I like it a lot Jeremy: Yeah I like it too
Hugo: It makes a differentiation
Kevin: It's a minor III
Kevin: It's a minor III Khanh: That's what I thought, not minor VI
Kevin: So it's iii, then V/V, then V
Kevin: So there's iii, predominant, dominant
Fiona: It's like, sultry
Fiona: Now it's like- Lindsey: WHAT they're getting married now?
Peyton: those heels *snap snap snap*
Hugo: Yeah, that was a low note
Hugo: Got that pentatonic scale going in the background
Khanh: ALL my girls out there
Kevin: I'm such a fan of this!
Jarod: Oh, she's about to throw it down
Jarod: She about the throw it down Katie: Hey they're trading twos!
Fiona: It's like braidsmaids
Lindsey: GURL 19 is too young to get married, take it from us
Khanh: Aaaaahhhyea that harmony was fun
Lindsey: She's got some nice vocal runs in there, like, in the background especially
Jarod: This kinda has a 50's, 60's kind of vibe to it
Katie: But the minute she was like
Katie: BASS
K: I was like we're gonna get some Grease up in here
Jarod: boutta get some Grease
Jarod: My star
Kevin: Was that a dog pastor???????
Khanh: A dog pastor- Kevin: WAIT
Khanh: Oh man, she is so- Kevin: WHAAAAAAT it ends with a bass on the dominant VII
Khanh: And like..it, being very present in the mix
Kevin: That was good stuff
U: Anyways, what did you think of THIS song overall musically?
Naoki: I thought it was a lot stronger than the first one, it was way more interesting, and didn't seem very square or JIVE
Naoki: As this guy says
Stephen: Yeah the drum set beat was a great
S: yeah no um just wanted to clarify- Naoki: Drums were okay, so it was a good song Stephen: YEah there you go xD
Stephen: No, it great. Totally doowop influence, which is nice,
Hugo: What's interesting, cause ends her phrases a lot of down
Hugo: Like, she goes biiIIIIIIIIIIIiium
Hugo: A lot of her phrases- it's like she's singing to the middle of the note and instead of singing all the way to the end of the note
Hugo: And through the note, which isn't- that's a technique, that's a style
Jeremy: And it works in this song
Hugo: And in particular, for this style, it works, but it does make it more
Hugo: More impactful when she ends up singing all the way through her notes, making it more legato
Hugo: Like, actually singing through the line
Hugo: She doesn't do it a lot, but when she does, it's nice Jeremy: It sounds cool and it's a good contrast
Lindsey: I'm a fan. I really like this girl Fiona: There are like
Fiona: She'd be singing and then all of a sudden the BAW, the big band trumpet-y sounds
Fiona: All the chords filled in, and it was nice
Khanh: Like the previous one we watched
Khanh: It was a pretty standard progression
Khanh: Going to iii was a nice mix Kevin: Pretty cool
Khanh: With the, you know, the 60's dadadaa Kevin: Yeah yeah yeah
Khanh: That piano in there
Khanh: But I feel like her voice just could've used a little more nastiness, you know
Khanh: like, it's such a fun song Kevin: Her voice could've been
Kevin: Brought out more Khanh: Everytime she was like dADADABAAA
Khanh: She could've given a little more
Khanh: AHHHHHHHHHHHHH in there
Kevin: She had some nanananan, you know, her voice Khanh: But her voice is so clean the whole time
Kevin: That's a very interesting, I never seem to think of that Khanh: Just so controlled, that whole time I was going 'girl you gotta GO FOR THAT, that scoop
Kevin: And her visuals are doing it, like, what she's doing with her body movement Khanh: And the content of the visual is
Khanh: It's so playful and so flirty, it's a lot of fun
Khanh: But I just felt like if she just did a little bit- got a little bit out of that classical or pop clean comfort zone
Kh: And experiemented with a little more dirt, I would've had more fun with it
Emiel: It was cool, right down the pipe
Henry: Yeah- did you say right down the pipe? Emiel: Yeh H: That's such a good way to put it
Henry: Easy to digest Emiel: Nice melodically, harmonically
Henry: I wasn't drowned in textures, but I also really appreciated the fact that there was playing well-represented
Henry: They used real horns
Henry: If I were to think of a song that could be like a mascot for what we like about kpop
Henry: Even though this isn't the best or the worst thing we've ever seen, I definitely feel like this is one of the more across-the-board
Henry: Good representatives of what we like in a kpop music video
Henry: It was interesting visually, the story was straightforward, the music was not overbearing but not boring
Henry: We we do hear is based so much upon taste, and specific things about our tastes
Henry: That I feel like this hit all the marks
U: And compared to the first one that we heard?
Emiel: Way better Henry: Yeah, way better
Stephen: I don't know, I feel like
Stephen: In her last music video, and in this music video
Stephen: Very innocent, kind of young love vibe and a lot of the style she was pulling from
Stephen: All that music from the 50's and even early 60's
Stephen: Young love, very innocent vibe so it's just really cool to see that
Lindsey: You can tell that this is more current, and that she's matured more and has more experience because
Lindsey: The first one was a great little blues whatever
Lindsey: But now she's got
L: She's just more [slams fist into palm] YEAH
L: you know? But she's still got the jazzy style
L: But she's got the pizzazz with it too now. The last one was cutesy blues and this one is in your face badass jazz
Kevin: The thing with twelve-bar blues, again, this is something I just thought of
Kevin: The thing with the last song, "It's Over", the reason why twelve-bar blues doesn't work for us
Kevin: Is because twelve-bar blues is a progression used to jam Khanh: To improvise
Kevin: To improvise over Khanh: The interest in a twelve-bar comes from melodic variation
Khanh: Which is, you know, you present a melody
Kh: And then you present variations on that melody that you come up with on the spot, improvisation
Kevin: If the song feels so prepackaged, it should not be in twelve-bar blues Khanh: Yeah exactly
Kevin: And to not stick to twelve-bar blues the entire way Khanh: Where as this progression, you know, it's more of a standard progression for a song form
Kevin: It feels like a pop song where yeah, there's a chorus, then something different, then there's a verse that does something different too
Khanh: It just had a lot more harmonic interest
Khanh: And honestly, in my opinion, it was a lot more fun to listen to Kevin: Exactly, same
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