[BGM: Kwon Eunbi - "Glitch"]
[Rossini's Semiramide Overtune plays // Subtitles by youtube @anisian]
Umu: You are now reacting to the solo artist, Kwon Eunbi
and her 2020 release, "Glitch"! Raffi: GLITCH
Umu: *wheeze* that scared me Raffi: Hehehe
Sam: I knew it was coming too All: HAHAHAHA
Sam: I knew he was gonna do it, like there's a look in his eye that like-
Raffi: HEHEHE
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"Glitch" gives you the message that even though Eunbi isn't perfect,
She's confident, Eunbi says that she's living the life as if she's a "Glitch"
No one can predict where she'll show up next,
Left or right, up or down,
*reading lyrics* 'Woo as if it's a new thing, the moves are surprising'
'Imma wake you up in the morning or middle of the night'
'I'll appear and disappear anywhere'
So she's saying good luck trying to chase me,
I'm just going to live life however randomly I want
Liam: Sounds ominous haha appear in the middle of the night and just disappear out of nowhere
Umu: Ominous is not the vibe they're going for, let's just say that haha
This song is composed by TAK and Corbin
Kevin: So it's going to be a piano ballad...obviously Umu: Obviously...
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Now, back to the reaction queue the countdown~ *glitch noises*
Kevin: 3, 2, 1 good luck
Itch
Owen: 8-bit... modern 8-bit
Liam: It's a fun rhythm *badopbap*
Rachel: Yeah, I didn't know what it was- I didn't know what the beat was for a second
Kevin: Yooo Owen: Good start~
Raffi: Oooh~ Sam: Oh my god
Raffi: She smooth Sam: Yeah~
Kevin: Somehow she creates a sense of space with such minimal stuff
Will: Ooooh~ Jory: Heck yeah!
Liam: Ah, I love that uptempo beat
The hat, the fast swung high hat
Jory: I love garage
Stephanie: They're so beautiful, it's like distracting Leon: Yeah
Stephanie: I can't focus on the music All: Haha
Rachel & Liam: OoOh~
Liam: Okay Rachel: Cool 5/4
Liam: Tonicizing minor 4 oooo~
Stephanie: Mmhm
Raffi: I could like drop it like it's hot to this, ya know?
Sam: Yeah...?
Liam: Oh I really love how the synth is like moving in and out,
I don't know if it's side chain, but it's really cool
Unlike the right side
Will: Oooh, those chopped up vocals Jory: Yeah~
Liam: Aw that was a super cool effect
Rachel: It's utilizing space really well, there's a lot of empty- emptiness in it
Liam: Dude the warp on the pitch on the low synth Rachel: Yeah
Liam: That's super cool
Will & Jory *vibing~*
Will: Oooh~
Jason: *vocalizing* that chromatic like note really brings a lot of energy into the buildup
Ju Young: Ahh~ Jason: That was- that was cool
Sam: That was awesome!
That little fake, that that that- fake beat drop was crazy Raffi: I love this, yeah
Sam: Oh my gosh, okay, that was so cool!
Stephanie: Haha *vibing* this- haha~
Raffi: I love how it's like voiced digital
Sam: Yeah Raffi: Like you hear the echo
Raffi: And it's more glitchy each time Sam: That's so cool
Ju Young: *waa-waa-waa* It's like a glitch~
Liam: Oh yeah~ Oh yeahhh~
Kevin: WOWWW
The Napolean chord!
Jason: Okay, wait, wait, wait...
Ju Young: TAAAAAAK~
Jason: The production is absolutely having a masterclass right now
Jason: This is fire
Liam: Ooohhhwoahh~
Ju Young: Mmhm~ mmhm~ mmmhm~ mmhmmmmhmmhm~ yeahhhHHH
Oh I love this!!
Jason: Yeah I mean- That was some good producing Ju Young: Oh the ending is so beautiful, what the fuck
Li: Dude that was sick! Oh my god, that was so cool!
K: Very cool~ WOW This is a notworthy song
Rf: *whispers* I really like that Sm: Yeah
Sm: I really like that too Rf: *asmr voice* I really like this song
U: *whispers* I can't hear you Rf: I said I like this song!
*beep sfx* U: *whispers* I can't hear you Rf: I said I like this song!
*beep sfx*
Rf: There's just an energy, *beep sfx*
Rf: There's just an energy,
Like immediately as we listened to the first like,
I dunno like 45 seconds- 50 seconds, I was just like,
I could visualize the music in a way of like you see and- and the way the video was too,
You see lights, you see strobes,
Like there's just this experience behind (Sm: Yeah) it that's- very...
I dunno, it's- I'll just say energetic, charismatic
Like it's visceral, and it makes you feel something
U: It's so interesting that you say that,
Because that was the exact same thing you said to "Triangle" which TAK produced [BGM: Ghost9- "Triangle"]
Rf: Ah~ U: And he's a DJ
Rf & Sm: Ahhhh! U: So he knows what the dancefloor looks like
U: And he's able to emulate that Rf: Yes, yeah
U: Overall thoughts?
St: Mmhm...yeah! I agree
I was so confused about the beginning I dunno, maybe I wasn't like...
Focused enough, but I couldn't tell what the time-
Time signature was Le: What happened in the beginning?
St: I don't know... Le: *counting beats*
St: oohhhhh~
St: I just couldn't figure it out, I couldn't feel it
I was just like...wait
St: Somethings... like yeah- U: Sounds were just happening haha
St: I thought there was something like rhythmic displacement
Li: Hi! Liam here, I'm coming at you from my uh-
My basement, in Buffalo, because I really wanted to break down the introduction of "Glitch"
I want to touch on like 3 things, like the first cool thing that you get
Is that like really haunting-
High, descending chromatic line, you get *vocalizing*
Like the F# F, E that pops out in a lot of spots on the song
Is the second thing you get, of course the chorus lines
The whole concept of the song is like come and go like a glitch
Those lines tie in, in a really interesting way-
To the main thing I want to talk about,
Which is the rhythmitic skeleton that the synths-
The like kinda staccato reverby synths kinda introduce here
The first kinda weird thing about the rhythm is that the pulse
Is not straight 16th notes, it's not *drumming beats*
Like really straight like that, it's actually half swung-
So instead of straight like this *drumming*
You get *drumming*
So it's just a little bit off kilter, which is really cool
But the main thing, that I want to talk about is-
How the rhythm kind of changes
Once those chorus lines come in
First 2 times it happens is this *drumming & counting*
And then the cho- the kind of chorus line comes in,
And that rhtyhm shifts back 1/16th note, or 1/2 swung 16th note
So instead of *drumming & counting*
It's *drumming & counting*
And then immediately after that,
It goes back to the *drumming & counting*
And I just think that, that's such a cool way of kinda illustrating
The coming and going, the glitchiness of it, and I just love it
Gotta I'll play along to it *drumming* [BGM: Kwon Eunbi - "Glitch"]
It's so...
AWESOME, I love it so much
This song is so cool, the production behind it is so smart
And uh yeah, I can't gush about it enough
Haha, thanks for listening to me rant
*beep sfx*
Sm: Going through the instrumentation of like the first half
What struck me about the first parts of it,
Is that it literally sounded like they were using like-
Very, very simple synths,
In very simple like, sub basses and-
Stuff that like had no like- any kind of like fuzz or anything like that
And I just think that's so intersting
U: Cause when it contrasts into adding in the fuzz,
It just has such a different dynamic and colorful change
Sm: Exactly! Yeah~
Yeah and it almost feels like an explosion of color
Li: I think right at the start of that they used like a major mixture chord
Yeah, it goes to the major one,
It has the F# in the bass for the- for the start of it
Rc: *piano*
Li: I think that
U: It sounds so simple on piano
Li: It's an F#...
Is that F#...
U: What? Li: F# 9?
Li: With the 7? That omits the 3rd Rc: That omits the third
Le: I-I really like the whole song, like just the dynamics
It's like the bridge, like everything is super wide open,
And suddenly in the chorus it's like *woop* in one spot
And everything just like start swinging haha Like that kind of feeling
K: I feel like this song is very efficient,
It feels like the moment that normally would be a bigger drop,
They just use a simple sort of- (O: *bah~*)
Yeah a *bah~* absolutely~
But there's obviously a lot of attention to detail in the mixing and stuff
Rf: There was a lot of meaning in this song
I really get the meaning of hte lyrics in listening to it
Between the syncopation and like glitch sounds
But then when she says 'disappear' that's like the only place we here legato in this piece
Like you know it's strung together in the vocal line
U: So the glitching disappears?
Rf: The glitching disappears
Sm: Oh that's so interesting! U: Is that actually what she's saying?
Rf: It's- it's trippy
I have to look at the full lyrics again-
Well she says 'appears' and then the harmony is 'disappears'
U: *reading lyrics* 'suddenly disappear (appear)'
And when she says 'appear' that's yeah when the harmony appears
Sm: Wow~ Rf: So...
Rf: I'm very struck by that, little choices like that go so far!
K: I kinda wish the song glitched more
Just fits it's theme a little bit more- O: I was expecting it to!
O: I was like thinking about saying- K: Yeah, and there's so much space int the middle
K: Like *vocalizing* you know?
U: That's what you were hoping for?
K: Or some white noise like *krrrrr*
You know like something, yeah invasive in the background, pervasive (O: Noisy) yes
Js: Do you have a banana? U: Yes
Js: Can I have a banana? U: Do you need potassium?
Js: Yes haha U: It's a girthy banana
Js: Nice, let me eat it
This is the gooiest banana I've ever seen- U: I told you it was super old
JY: Why does it look like thatasdfl-!! U: It's jiggling- don't do it, it's gonna fall
U: It's gonna break and fall dude
You need to like censor yourself eating this-
Js: This looks gross
U: Put that in front of the banana as you eat it hahaha
Ok, ok, ok, what do you like about this song?
JY: I love the way that they depicted like a glitch
Like, when you see like a glitch in a video game,
This is how I think it- would a glitch would sound like
I play Grand Theft Auto IV, and there's so many glitches,
And that's like all I heard, like the *glitch noises*
Yeah, so this was enough for me, like if it was more than that,
Then I'd be like mhmmm... Js: Yeah, it would've annoyed me
Jr: I dunno, I think it was- like the name being "Glitch" kind of like-
Conjours up images of dubstep and you know like,
Oh I may throw like every sound possible into this,
And just like the craziest sound design,
And there was a lot of really interesting stuff happening
But it was like, chill
It was subtle, I liked it a lot
And, most of the beat was kind of inspired I guess by UK Garage
And that's like my favorite~ dance style, it's so sick
Like it could've been just like 4 on the floor or like trap or something
But this was objectively much cooler
Wl: Biggest thing for me was sound design,
Sound design was like, immaculate
It was incredible, like so good!
Like all the little like glitch sound effects and the crazy stuff they were doing
Like I was trying to kind of think about oh? How did they do this?
Like what was that effect?
There's a lot of like, bitcrushers going on,
Some of it I was just like, I don't know what that is
Like how do you make that sound, and it sounds so good
It's like the perfect vibe, the chopped up, resampled vocals were super sick
Jr: Harmonies- Wl: Yeah! They were great
Jr: All the layers were super like warm and clean
Wl: Like all the little transition sounds, and there's a lot of like cool like-
*swoop* kind of stuff
Also the ending, the very last thing,
Where it goes into like dreamy, like detuned like-
Jr: Kind of like kalimba- Wl: Weird thing like whoa~
Jr: The section right before that though, the more dubstep-y
I was expecting the whole song to be that Wl: Yeah
Jr: And so I was like, when it showed up, I was like okay, good
Wl: And that was also super cool,
Because when you have like, a house beat
You know, and like that's like the song,
And all of a sudden it is like last new section,
It just becomes like crazy like hype dubstep,
Whatever, it makes it way cooler than if everything were just that
U: Okay, so you like the fact that they held it off till the end?
Wl: Oh absolutely, that made it work for me Jr: Yeah, because like ...next level
Wl: Like I think if it was that, I would just be like,
Oh ok they made a dubstep song about glitchy- ok cool
But this was like, they made a house...(Jr: Yeah) banger
With glitchy, yaknow ideas worked into it,
And then when it like- at the end we just throw it all in
Jr: But it feels like you earned it you know,
Js: *banana eating noises* U: Carry on talking now
JY: Actually I am biased-
Js: It's been such an experience...
U: The banana eating or the song? Js: Banana
U: Ok we'll do another listen to the song?- Js:...and the song
Js: Yeah, it was good, timecode 1:56 [BGM: Kwon Eunbi - "Glitch"]
Js: FIRE~
The vocal arrangement and the production was so balanced on the harmonies!
It's so...like mathematically right JY: Hahaha
Js: It's like a masterclass of mak- production
This is very good- Do that one more- one more time [BGM: Kwon Eunbi - "Glitch"]
Just cause, it added different notes like- it added the harmony slowly
How to make somebody happy? That- that type of production and that mixing on vocal arrangements,
It was just so tight and pristine,
It was just perfect, it's literal candy to your ear
It's so good!
And I just thought it was like very tasteful,
Like everything was just the right choices for like 'glitch' that concept,
And it was like... so like well versed in it's sound design,
That I do wanna listen to it again,
Like it, it got the message across sad :(
Got the message across, but it did it in a- in an incredibly,
Well placed, mixed and produced way,
It was just nice, it would all fit in together in like a very nice conceptual box!
That moment was probably, actually,
I'd say my favorite K-Pop sound bite I've ever heard, from any song,
That that- gave me the most visceral reaction
Of like- "oH THAT'S GOOD!!"
Like WOAH~, uagh, ye~, ye~ So good, so good!
Very big fan
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Rf: *clearing throat* Wl: *clears throat*
Rf: *clears throat* Wl: *deep voice* ohh yeah
Wl: Oh shit- U: HAHAHA