Key: This is real brass, by the way
Elizabeth: *looses it*
Henry: Thank you
Umu: So now you're reacting to the five-member boy group SHINee and their B-side song "Woof Woof"
from their 2015 Odd album.
U: So the song is written from the perspective of a dog
trying to get the attention of a girl saying: "Do you like dogs? Come here and play."
"and if I follow you don't avoid me. I keep wagging my tail."
It is composed by Will Simms and DWB.
U: And so a bunch of fans tweeted me saying:
"YOU BETTER SHOW THEM THE LIVE PERFORMANCE"
So i edited the live performance to the studio track
So the original audio of them so you know you can still hear all the instrumentals clearly.
And also like the performance version like goes on for like five more minutes
It's really long so we're just sticking to the original song.
Kevin: Let's go!
Isaac: Woof! Kevin: 3, 2, 1. Woof Woof.
Charlotte: Oh my god! (laughs)
Fiona: It's so cute I like how like it sounds like a bunch
of voices going (scat singing) like in the background
K: Oh it's 12-hour blues, no way.
K: Oh, it reminds me of the '60's bands
It's like a modern reinvention.
Big sixty boy bands with a little bit of funk band and and they put like big band influence.
Even the vocal lines
Very retro
Collin: This sounds like music theater.
Jarod: Yeah modern Broadway.
Key: This is real brass, by the way!
Henry: Thank you.
H: Much appreciated.
K: Oh I love this. (Scat singing)
Like a early Rolling Stones type of (more scat singing)
where the percussion is very hyper.
K: Putting it in a modern boy band setting it's oddly meta I really dig it.
H: It's weird this is in blues form.
Elizabeth: I also just love the sax and the walking bass
H: Mostly blues form.
Peyton: Wow.
I can't- They're like four different brands of cute at the same time
And it's confusing me
Fiona: That's fun; it's like acapella of a dog.
F: dogapella Aaron: dogapella xD
H: You know it's sticking pretty true to blues form.
H: That trumpet player is on it. (vocalizes)
E: Oooh, half time! Yes...
K: Oh it doesn't go to four.
Oh no it DOES go to four.
Oooo
I: That whistle, though...
H: I really want to see this video
but without any of music...
...or vocals... (giggles)
Just see a bunch of people run around on stage.
I: (Imitating the bass line)
K: Why did it turn into a hip-hop song?
"All my guys in the West Coast".
C: What? J: What?
J: You first.
C: Aww, shit... (laughs) Umu: HAHAHAHAHAHA
J: I mean I can go first I just thought you had like an immediate...
C: I do...no, you can go first.
J: It was like straightforward like blues form. Had like almost like a 50s vibe to it.
C: That was like almost Footloose J: yeah yeah yeah that's exactly it
J: Footloose with dogs. You know John Travolta, he's a dog. You know?
It's Grease but they're DOGS! Like...it's like (vocalizing) Like the saxophone (more vocalizing)
C: Yeah...
And it's like...yea it was pretty cool I like how he gave like the live shout out to the real brass...
...that I hope he's not lying to my face. U: Well he says this is real brass by the way
or my mouth cause there's so much... there's a lot of (everyone vocalizes)
C: I mean it was cool because they have to like the kind of acapella thing yeah going and then the outlines
then there was like one of the bridges or something there was a bass
just like a man, bass voice outlining it. Which is cool. I mean I didn't like it
but like I can't really criticize it cuz like...I mean it was what it was.
It's just my opinion but that's not...It doesn't really matter.
J: It's a great live show piece C: I mean yeah like that would
be a super sick way to into concert if you were a fan. Like yeah I get it.
Peyton: Wow.
Charlotte: I am overwhelmed.
U: In a good way? C: I don't know...
P: Just simply overwhelmed.
C: I don't even think I could sing anything back from that because the entire time I was so distracted.
U: By the perfomance?
U: Well, I guess Peyton compared to the arrangement that you played
P: Oh it makes a lot of sense. Sean did a great job capturing a lot of this stuff.
All the walking bass stuff and like the groove in general.
Some of the rhythms were different, but I think listening to the originals kind of opened my eyes up a lot.
I think they could have honestly done more acoustic in certain places I think.
Because the real brass by the way is kind of cool.
But...I think...like especially the swing section it sounded like an all electric bass kinda deal.
And like electric bass swinging is just so janky. Like I don't know, I don't like it.
But yea aside from that, no that was pretty cool like in general. Like I like the song.
H: It's just kinda like the same things over again.
And there wasn't exactly like a clear delineation of like okay this is chorus material
and okay this is verse material other than the melodic rhythm, because the harmonic rhythm was uniform
the entire time as a blues form. And then they did the one thing in like two
thirds towards the end where they did like halftime and that was okay.
Like I don't know it didn't blow me out of the water like songwriting wise but at the
same time it was a cool performance and they hired brass musicians and it's good in my book.
Check mark. A+.
E: I just thought the video was so distracting.
I feel like I should probably listen to it again without the video just because you
know when it's a bunch of like... H: heart throbs
E: Yeah heart throbs in like dog ears
using dog bones as microphones...the aesthetic of kpop can be very
distracting sometimes which is a challenge I have discovered a lot while
reacting on this channel. But I don't necessarily think I think they did some
creative things with this like like having a walking bass line, having like
the like jazzy brass..."jazzy brass" sorry. I think I think that that's like...
I don't know. Again it was I think they were just trying to be playful and fun.
And they achieved that. H: Yeah, totally.
K: So there was a time when R&B wasn't our impression of R&B.
R&B meant the British rhythm and blues invasion
so like early Beatles, early Rolling Stones, The Kinks, early The Who...all those bands.
*That* was what R&B meant and this is a throwback to that.
And I just did not expect it. You know like I've heard songs with 12 bar blues, but they go for
the more jazz-like aspect. This is a more big band, but mostly British...
British Invasion band vibe and it's really great.
And obviously the tempo change is very tasteful and it fit the styles and it's a really great callback.
I: C major blues scale just for the most the entirety of the piece
(sings C major scale)
I kept thinking the way they do the riffs was very Ariana Grande.
And then they just squeeze know it's like swerve it upwards
K: There, there Mr. Millennial
I: It's very nice K: there, there cause Ariana Grande is not the first thing I thought of.
In a modern context, yes she's probably the closest.
I: And then there's like the CeeLo Green stops. K: THE CEELO GREEN STOPS! AAAAH!
K: What about James Brown? What happened to him?
I: No see that's interesting cause it's like you have a different view of like how this sound like curves...
because it's like I didn't listen to pop music until like grade 8, grade 9?
Or like later in high school. But you have that...that's what I immediately
gravitated towards. I thought it was interesting.
The energy just kept going even though they kept a repetitive bassline.
K: Yeah with a lot of pop songs the listener, like when we react to it
sometimes we feel boxed in within like it's gimmick but the thing is back in
the day when these boy bands played the bass lines were all very simple.
They were just yeah it was good to be a blues scale so I think if it weren't a
blues scale in this song it would detract a little too much from the genre
was trying to pay homage to. And that's it!
U: Hello everyone I'm Umu, ReacttotheK channel creator. I would like to thank you for watching this video.
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