Fiona: It's like the purge. Peekaboo! I'm gonna murder you
Lindsey: I like that this is called "Peekaboo" and that it's got the little like screeching noises.
That. That.
Umu: We're starting today off with a girl group called Red Velvet.
So they are made up of.. damn you are flexible. Aaron:...hurt
Charlotte: Okay, my first question is: Is she holding a gun?
Umu: Yes. (Peyton: Yep.) They're all holding dangerous weapons.
Charlotte: Oh. Ohhhh.
Umu: Anyways, so this is their 2017 release. It is called "Peekaboo".
This is also, you know, a combination of the red and velvet sides.
And it is similar to "Rookie" with like the sing speaking chorus.
Charlotte: Ooh! Rookie, Rookie.
[incoherent Rookie by Charlotte]
Umu: Mhm
Peyton: [Laugh]
Umu: And if you guys don't get the concept during the video I will gladly explain afterwards.
Charlotte: Okay!
Charlotte: [Laughing] Peyton: [Wheezing]
Charlotte: I am tired!
Go!
Gwen: 1, 2, 3.
Hugo: Bish got a shotgun. She gon' shoot your face off.
F: Okay. (L: Its kind of cool.) Zombie apocalypse. [Clap] Let's go.
F: I've got it figured out. L: Or just kill all the boys, that'd be kind of cool.
F: It's a funny- L: Really!?
F: Werewolf!
C: Wait is that a pizza delivery guy?
P: That is a pizza delivery-
C: Don't shoot him! He gives you fooood!
P: Its always the pizza delivery guy.
F: Peekaboo! I'm gonna murder you!
L: I like that this is called "Peekaboo" and that it's got the little like screeching noises.
That. That.
P: Oh! Yeah!
[Charlotte beat-boxing to the rhythm]
Olivia: I want to figure out this meter...
Its weird. Its cool though.
Kevin: Nice picardy third!
Oh.
Jarod: Ohohohoh suh! Ohohoho, whatssuh!
H: I was not a fan of that timbre on the-
Oooooh.
G: Peakaboooo-
F: Oh my god. L: Woaaah.
F: They're working!
C: Ohhh. Oh she's got a butt!
L: Girls! F: Oh my god!
F: Yes! L: Oh my god! F: This music's so good!
They're killin'!
O: They're doing some really cool stuff with the beat.
I like it.
J: Is that like a xylophone or glockenspiel kind of thing? You know what I'm saying?
Katie: Its really bare, like harmonically.
J: Is she shooting like a fr*cking crossbow?
K: But the rhythm- What the fr*ick is that?
O: Whoa. That's so out!
That's so out!
[Laugh] That's so cool!
Naoki: William Tell. Stephen: Yo, what's up? N: That was a William Tell reference.
The crossbow and the apple. S: Yeah, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
O: They're like really emphasizing offbeats.
Which is really cool.
G: I'm so confused. Why is she in plaid and no one else is? That is making me unreasonably angry.
H: They're sacrificing the pizza boy. Yeaaaaah!
K: Its in the same key as, uh, "Whistle" by Blackpink. And it uses Picardy third kind of like "Whistle" by Blackpink.
C: This is so interesting 'cause like they're like [unintelligible Peekaboo], but the beat is so hard hitting.
S: One thing that's cool about this song with like what they're doing is they've got like, further instruments that are like accompanying the vocal line.
Either high or they're low. There's not a whole lot of mid. If that makes sense? And that's just a really cool effect.
K: Harmonically it's really bare.
Um like there's not a lot going on, um, but they are putting a lot of emphasis on the rhythm.
C: Ahahah! The poor pizza delivery guy! (P: [Strumming the air])
He better get a really good tip.
P: I hope so.
[Lindsey and Fiona's Acapella Peakaboo]
F: I love that, that interval that there is.
[More Acapella Peakaboo noises]
This one.
[Emphasized interval Acapella]
L: That's a perfect fourth. (F: Its so good!)
G: Oh! She's saving his life. H: I don't think she is. I think that's not what's going on here
O: Is that like modal mixture?
Aaron: Yeah, I was gonna say it sounds like modal. But it doesn't sound like-
O: But they're using a lot of it. A: Yeah.
O: Within like every other measure which is really cool.
C: Noooo.
P: Oh god! Oh god!
C: Noo! Don't shoot him!
L: Are they trying to kill the pizza delivery guy? Boi?
That's like the only good kind of guy. He brings you food. F: Yeah
K:Wh- What? Isaac: Run.
Run, what are you doing?
K: He's gonna get killed. U: Look at the telephone box.
J: Delivery boy is missing. [Gasp]
P: Oh boy.
Did they just kill the pizza guy?
C: Not the pizza maaaaan!
L: [Gasp] Oh my god! All those shirts were from guys that they've killed?!
N: Is it because they didn't want to pay for their pizza? S: Maybe the pizza was bad?
C: Okay I love them because they're hot, but they just killed the man that brings you fooood.
Whyyy? Okay, that's the only thing I can't understand. I like it. It's cute. I like the cutesy cutesy little chorus.
P:Yeah C: With the hard-hitting beat. You're right. It totally feels Cuban. I feel that and I don't understand just...
I wanna hug my pizza delivery man
P: Not kill him.
L: I love that thing with it's got like the little synth sounds.
But then it's the same as the melody that they're singing and then it's...
It's good. F: That like weird synthy sound at the beginning and the end It was like the screechy, like the violin from psycho like the [Violin noises]. It's scary
They had that at the beginning, like you commented on it, but it was like the synth edition. It was like the full moon. I was like "Peekaboo!" not in a cute way.
L: Yeah F: Also like the title it goes along with like how things that are childlike can be really creepy.
Like these innocent-looking pretty women that are yawning and like (L: Wait) beautiful. Creepy.
L: I just realized that they blindfolded him.
That probably had something to do with like the peekaboo concept.
Because then like all of a sudden when he was un-blindfolded: there she was, standing in his face.
F: Peek-a-BOO L: Yeah F: Boo.
K: It was like a, like a jam. No. No. Nae. Nae. A bop. (J: A bop) It was a bop.
J: You know- K: 'Cause you were like [Synchronized Ba-Dumping]
J: You know it's just like...
Some kind of like musical irony. Very playful, while they're murdering pizza boys.
K: Yeah. J: Yeah, literally serial killers. K: Pizza killers.
Yeah get it- J: Pizza... K: 'Cause they're- J: They're the slicers!
G: Well. Yeah.
H: Hoooooooly sh*t
Its some spooky sh*t
Oh damn!
Yeah, so overall thoughts from both of you. You really dug it. You didn't so much.
G: Like the music was like...
...okay, and then the video was...
Murdering!
H: I thought it was great!
G: [Laugh] Hugos like yes! Murder! H: HAaaH.
I thought it was, it was just a kind of a kooky music video.
But I thought it was, I thought it was great. The music, going to the music.
I thought that some of their vowel choices I wouldn't necessarily agree with. G: Mhm.
H: Particularly one of them the Peekaboo, you said it like there was a bit of an evo in there.
G: Yeah. H: It just, it wasn't sustained, is what I'm thinking. It wasn't supported.
Like if you if you ever hear instability in a voice when someone goes up to a high note, that means that they're not using their breath mechanism correctly or they might be clamping right here.
G: And I mean pure, pure, like truly pure vowels are a very opera thing.
And I mean like that's not your one thing that prevent- like the probably the main thing that prevents opera singers from like truly being able to cross over like convincingly is: the pure vowels.
But that isn't like, I'm not saying they need to do that but...
H: Well the thing is just- G: You need to sing a vowel that you can sing. H: Well the choices that are made like, let me put it this way:
There was a really brassy boo. I don't think I'd ever hear, I never thought I'd hear a (G: Boooom) boom that was brassy.
And it really was. But at the end of day, and there were a few others like that as well.
And so for me that was like the biggest concern I had. That whenever it got to the chorus:
I thought that they just needed to, I don't know really, I don't know what they could have done to approach that differently.
I really do think vowel choice is probably the best place to start. Overall musically, I thought the composition itself was really good.
I don't think it ever got like boring for me. I really enjoyed the beat like I was, I said during the video:
I thought the beat was great. I thought the "chorus" so to speak where it's just instrumental.
[Ba-dump Break]
Yep. I thought that was great because it was,
It does, it did, something that a lot of people try to do which is, like kind of thin out the texture without losing any of your sound
G: Which they did successfuly.
H: And I think they did that really successfully and I thought that was great.
And they did that by maintaining low bass notes that were sustained. A lot of people just like make the bass a "boom boom boom"
And then I think they actually (G: Booom) sustain the bass notes on, like underneath the beat while they had the beat going and while they had a short melody that was not legato.
And I thought that's how they were able to accomplish it. And it was really good!
And I thought they used it really well, so...
G: We love serial killers.
S: I thought musically it was cool. I - this is my opinion - I thought the concept for the music video was kind of weird, um.
N: [Laugh]
S: But, um, when I mentioned before earlier where there's just like a lot of high and low as far as like, I guess you could say a range of where the instruments were, that are playing along with them.
But not a lot of mid was cool, because it was like, sparse.
But I'm still full at the same time, and then the drum beat was really cool, because it wasn't cut time.
And that rhythm is actually super common in like early, like American music from like New Orleans and also like
Afro-Cuban music so that, it's just really cool to hear rhythm like that, that has such a history.
I: But the music I thought it was like, if we highlight it, it would be like there's like tension releases, and it's like oh it's all happy and in the end-
I think it's like, sometimes you can instead of resolving it...
Through music, you've resolved through film. So its like yeah, if they told you what happens at the end.
Jeez. That is dark. What do you what do you think? What do you think about this analysis
K: I think it's so fluffy.
Honestly, like it, like a go- some of the dark stuff is cool.
But having seen other dark things, I thought they could have made it just a little less subdued.
It's like pg-13 I: But that's okay because-
K: Exploitation
It's got its own aesthetic, but I can't help it, like it's, like it's teasing me.
But, I want bit more.
U: The song was very, very minimalistic, but what you missed was how the chorus changed every single time.
K: They do, I know, I noticed that. I notice them adding it up. But its, its a lame chorus I thought.
U: And the word of the day it seems is Picardy third.
K: A Picardy third is when you expect something to go in minor, but then it goes into major, like Blackpink.
[Blackpink by Kevin]
That's what you expect, but-
[Blackpink by Kevin, Picardy Third Version]
That's what you get. And it, it resolves it, but it also makes it sound edgier, because there's like that major-minor clash now.
O: Musically: sick. A: Yeah, its catchy. O: I think that was one of the most like...
Harmonically interesting songs that we've heard so far.
And just like, not only like...
I feel like some other songs are like, they would have harmonically interesting parts and like kind of like a simple beat, but this had a really interesting beat too.
A: Yeah, it was, it was atypical.
O: There were just like two different like bass sounds that were both doing different things, but, and they didn't seem like they would kind of, would go together but they did. And it made it really interesting.
A: And they didn't follow like a set form, like it was like, like we didn't hear, like a chorus, like five times over and over.
U: Do you think like this song conveyed this creepiness that the-
C: I thought the beginning of it, when they opened and they had like all the guns and everything and it was like super spoopy, I believe it was said. P: Yeah.
I thought that was cool, but I thought that was leading up to something, but I didn't expect them- because like in the middle of it you thought they were making friends with him.
U: Right and especially since this song was like mostly made during that part too.
C and P: Yeah. C: You don't really get the same like, I don't know, when you're hearing major. You don't think that somebody's gonna die.
But apparently, a bunch of people died.
O: It was kind of like it, you know with like, little mixture how like minor sections, and then it sounded major for a second.
So it's kind of like they look all sweet and innocent.
But like, really, they're gonna f*cking murder you!
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