Orbits: *scream*
[BGM: LOONA - "Voice" // Subtitles by youtube @anisian]
Umu: A couple of weeks ago, I had the absolutely amazing opportunity
of not only getting press passes to both LOONA concerts in LA,
But also, being able to spend 25 minutes with the girls before one of their fanmeets,
this video will be a sort of
concerts, interview experience recap,
So, if you are curious about a specific topic,
I have labeled the timeline below with each topic that I'll be covering in this video
If you're curious why the heck this is being filmed outside,
well, it's a beautiful summer day, and I thought this would fit the vibe of LOONA [BGM: LOONA - "Butterfly"]
So I hope you enjoy,
Beautiful nature around me
So, let's continue in chronological order,
First up was my interview with LOONA, so I interviewed them right before their fanmeet, [BGM: LOONA - "Flip That"]
Which happened on a Saturday, while their concerts happened on Monday and Tuesday
This being my 3rd in person interview, I'm finally learning,
Or at least getting used to haha
The speed at which...
KPOP things happen
And I'm just so grateful that everything ended up coming together, and that's mostly thanks to
The people who helped me out
I think it was meant to be because,
One of our reactors, Sam,
Who lives in Arizona happened to be in LA the same exact weekend as me
And so when I heard that he was in town on Saturday,
I was like, naturally...
You've gotta meet LOONA!
That part was so beautiful, actually the-
This guy over here, he's an opera singer LOONA: *gasp* wooah~
Umu: And when you sang that part in Paint The Town,
He FREAKED out!
Sam: so good~! Haseul: Thank you! Haha
Umu: So he was one of my PAs for the film session,
and JRE and his girlfriend, Hyejin, are big LOONA fans,
So they were down to also help out,
And Jarod who used to react on this channel is now a cameraman...
Content manager person for a professional
Valorant team? So he has quite the equipment,
So he is also helped us out a ton
And so, so many things, so many things could have gone wrong that day
But my team was quick to respond to every little change,
And MyMusicTaste, which are LOONA's concert promoters for this tour,
Were fantastic at communication and really quick to text me on Kakao if anything changed or came up
Yo, so it's the day of the collaboration,
In fact the collaboration is happening in a few hours,
4-5 hours, and
Because I went straight from a collaboration with another group,
To going on vacation with friends, to this
I didn't really have the time that I needed to think things through,
And so I forgot I needed to check for what the room would look like,
So then I reached out to management,
I was like Hey! Can I have pictures of the room
And they're like 'yeah here you go~'
And I was like OH SHIT that's really not good lighting!
So, Sam and I, when we were about to go pick up the food for LOONA,
Went to the camera store first,
And luckily they had what they usually sell out of, IN STOCK
And it's not going to be the best of quality
We needed much more lights- [BGM: LOONA - ????]
*static* We need to- Sam: Small interruption
Umu: LOONA just alsdkfj small interruption by LOONA
Just basically we lucked out that we could get what we got
It may not create the best quality of video, but it's enough
And we got our wal-watermelons, we got lots of fruit popsicles
We can give it to management too Sam: Oh perfect!
Umu: We haven't run out of gas, we haven't- Sam: We love that
Umu: Gotten into car accidents, like today's the kind of day that everything could go wrong
Sam: There's still a lot of daylight still- Umu: Right- I know, I know
I keep almost jinxing it, Sam keeps saying, don't jinx it, dont jinx it
But I'm just like, I'm grateful that only one thing has gone wrong,
And we've been easily able to fix it
I mean, I'm minus over $1000 but...haha
I texted my mom and she was like- AHHHHHH Umu & Sam: Hahaha
Umu: But yeah, ok, fingers crossed nothing else goes wrong
Everything went pretty smoothly afterwards,
But at like, lightning speed,
I did stutter at the beginning of the interview,
Because this is the first time I was interviewing an artist in person that I was actually a huge HUGE fan of
Like I've been following them since their very first solo debuts, [BGM: LOONA - Pale Blue Dot]
But then afterwards I took a deep breath and got my shit together
Until uhhhh, the question about...
Songwriting, and I asked if any of them had taken any lessons, or started practicing...
Songwriting, and Heejin was like oh 3 of us wrote on the last album
And time froze and I was like... SHIT
Cause I pride myself in doing hours and hours and hours and hours of research
For the artists, but LOONA was so last minute, I had like 5-
5 hours to come up with questions, and I marathoned maybe 3 hours worth of interviews,
But, I didn't check the freaking highlight medley,
I didn't check the credits of their most recent album
And so while all this was running through my head,
Of absolute shame and regret, I had to just delete all those emotions,
So that I could focus on coming up with a backup question, to like mask my failure
My bad orbits, I promise if there is a next time,
Hopefully we'll have more time with them, and I'll make sure to check credits,
And I will also ask just more in-depth questions about their first time
Writing lyrics and what the other members are doing to prep to write lyrics in the future
So for the time being, 미안해요 I'm sorry
You guys did soooo good, the team really pulled through
Hyejin and Sam got the knives out, and they worked really hard
To cut that watermelon in time
Hyejin: It was... fun
Umu: And the second you guys raised the popsicles and the watermelon up,
Yeah, the reaction was amazing,
JRE: I'm telling you, bring food to every content piece,
I"ve done it before, they'll love you Umu: Okay!
Umu: Yeah, no, I was really excited, originally I was thinking of doing In-n-Out fries, vs. Shake Shack fries
But then I ran that idea by some orbit friends of mine,
And they're like don't do that~
It's going to be so hard to keep it not,
Cardboard texture, and so I was brainstorming,
And I was watching interviews,
And one of the members brought up watermelon,
And I thought, Ooh~ we ok, we can do summer-vibe foods,
So let's do watermelon, vs- ooh! We can do fruit popsicles,
Because that's something cold, and I can bring an ice chest,
With a f*ckton of ice, and we can give them something refreshing before they move onto their next schedule
And so, hehe
When we were shopping for fruit popsicles,
At Vons, I was overjoyed to see that one box had cherry flavor,
And so haha, I really made sure to point that out to her when we were getting the food out-
I'm like- Choerry!! There's cherry flavor!!
And so I thought- that's just one of my favorite moments of the interview
This is my first time picking out a watermelon so I was hoping it was ripe
LOONA: Oh~
Umu: I heard that you have to knock on it, and it'll sound like a door if it's good
LOONA: Ah~ (Translator: *translates*)
Umu: Score! LOONA: Yeah~!
Umu: And so, after the girls ate, my team started packing up our lights
And the cameras and I was running around doing what I could,
I wasn't sure what I should do, because everyone got everything covered,
So I was just standing there in the middle of the room with a million thoughts going through my head
Thinking like, so my team's got these lights, and those chords, what do I do?
Do I need to put my bags here, and just like a lot of things going through my head
Which probably caused like, resting stress face,
And suddenly this very small figure came up and gave me the biggest side hug,
And at first I thought it was my friend Hyejin,
Who is one of the personal assistants for this shoot,
But then I look up and across the room, there's Hyejin,
So then it dawned on me, that it was a LOONA member giving me a hug hehe
And my thoughts went from 100 miles per hour, to like a gazillion miles per hour
And I looked down, and there was the cutest form of Yeojin giving me a hug,
All these thoughts I'm like, ok, I gotta be professional,
And in order to be professional, I gotta compliment her,
But what if it's unfair to compliment her, I should compliment everyone haha-
Oh my god I'm so tall-
Like all these thoughts are going through my mind,
And while all these thoughts were going through my mind,
I saw that JRE was just standing in front of me with a camera,
And so I'm like *aggressive finger hearts* haha
We should pose, and so we started throwing hearts at the camera,
I don't think- I don't think the camera was even on-
Luckily, Jarod caught the footage haha
But yeah all these thoughts were running through my mind, and then I was like okay-
Uh, uh, gotta be fair, compliment everyone,
And I start- to the side and I'm like OH MY GOD EVERYONE'S SO CUTE!
Anyways... um...
I just feel like, this interview, a lot of things came full circle for me,
The Yeojin moment definitely, she's the bias wrecker now,
She's the bias wrecker now, and I think it's just meant to be,
Because her solo song was my favorite, it only makes sense that she's the bias wrecker now
And my bias, Choerry, got to feed her cherry popsicle,
She seemed to enjoy it, I am just so incredibly grateful that,
With how CRAZY LOONA's schedule must have been,
They were in LA for 4 days right, but it just so happens that the timing for my interview with them worked out
And even though it was just a little bit of time that I got with them,
I got to ask them some questions that I was dying to ask and...woah~
Hopefully one day I can ask more in detail questions.
But for the time being, we're going to eat (JRE: Yes!) fooood~
All: *harmonizing* foooooooood~
JRE: Food~ food~ I don't even know why I said like- haHAHA
Umu: Good job~! [BGM: GFRIEND - "Me Gustas Tu"]
Okay, so let's move onto talking about the concerts!
I was SOOOOO impressed with orbits!
Because on both day 1 and day 2,
Everyone knew all the fanchants, especially to "Hi High"
Whenever the songs came on, the singing from the fans were soooo loud,
I felt comfortable to sing along too,
Even though I was like in the press area, just like awkward by myself [BGM: LOONA - "Butterfly"]
And then I'm so glad, but some orbits on day 1,
Who was standing in front of me in the VIP section I think it is,
Decided to say hi, because I just kept taking pictures for people,
Because I didn't know what to do with myself,
I thought the concert started at 6pm,
So, I arrived at like 5:30, but it actually started at 7:30,
So I was just standing in the press section by myself,
And um a nice orbit decided to strike up a conversation with me,
And we had a fantastic time talking,
And even a fan of the channel was there, and she joined in the conversation
And I had a really good time, it was just overall like,
Kinda taken aback at how loud haha
Some of the- even some of the singing to butterfly like 'wings wings~'
I was- I was like really emotional, it was really good to see,
There was actually quite a big difference
From day 1 in LA to day 2 in LA,
Not only just sound related, but also performance, choreography related
Because the first night, they described towards the end of the show
That they were having in-ear troubles, which explained why some of
The vocal delivery was a little bit out of tune,
But it was actually quite impressive and let me explain why
Because, when you can't hear yourself, and you can't hear the music,
I think the in-ears is both yourself and the music right?
It'll be really hard to stay on pitch, but what was impressive is all the high notes
Were in tune, let's say that there was a melody happening,
And running up to the high note was a little bit flat, [BGM: LOONA - Wow"]
But then once they got to the high note,
They knew exactly what shape their mouth should be,
Where to- you know, all the technical things that me saying it will sound like-
Weirdness, like shape of the tongue, amount- right amount of breath support and stuff
I'm sure there's actual technical terms for, I can't-
That I don't know because I'm an instrumentalist
But they NAILED those high notes,
They didn't need to hear the music, they knew exactly where those high notes are,
And it goes to show how many times they've practiced those
And then it was even more impressive to see on day 2
When the sound people got their shit together,
They nailed everything!!
Everything was perfectly in pitch, and both nights,
Both nights I really enjoyed their melodic phrasing,
And especially Yeojin and Haseul's is it My Sunday? ("My Melody")
[BGM: LOONA - "My Melody"]
I was- I was really impressed with how,
Every single time they held out a note through the end of the phrase,
They would keep that note going until the very- until the end,
Because so many times a melody- if you hold it out,
For a certain amount of length of time, you'll drop off
The energy will die down towards the end,
Like *vocalizing*
You know, you fade out, but they'd be like *vocalizing*
[BGM: LOONA - "My Melody"]
But I was like, damn~ they're really pushing towards the end of their phrases,
Because that's something that we're taught or at least in the music school I went to
With phrasing, is always feeling the energy and pushing the note forward until the end
So I was like damn, that's like some classical phrasing going there
And speaking of units~
"One Way"!
WOW!!
Day 1, when Yves started singing, woahhhh~
I- My jaw dropped open, her vibrato is so beautiful,
And everything felt so natural,
And day 2 when they could actually hear themselves,
It was so- it was such a breathtaking, gorgeous,
Everything felt so effortless and floaty,
And breezy, and beautiful, and that's the same with the rest of the subunits
On day 2, like Jinsoul freaking HIT every single high note in "Loonatic" [BGM: LOONA - "Loonatic"]
It was a surprise that they decided to perform the B-side songs for the units,
I'm curious if orbits have any theory,
Perhaps it's because one, they could choose to perform My Sunday ("My Melody")
Which is a B-Side, and two, so they could perform "Loonatic" which is an English song
That was an interesting choice, I was looking forward to the title tracks,
But, I did really enjoy the songs that they ended up choosing
I was having this discussion with JRE and how overall, [BGM: LOONA - "Hi High"]
This concert felt very much like a performance that showed off
The different colors of LOONA,
Whereas with other artists, sometimes they tend to choose the more,
Upbeat, hype...
Danceable, get everyone twerking kind of songs
Whereas this one, it just felt like LOONA was just like 'here are the flavors of LOONA'
And they just performed everything that they had
Although like, the order, like in terms of energy flow,
It kind of went like this- *hand up and down*
And so there was like extreme highs, and extreme chill parts as well
And I'm not sure how I feel about that, so I'm very curious about what you guys think
Of the song order,
And, and I really hope that orbits have the ability to go to multiple concerts in a row
Because, the unit stages, each night they performed the stages a little bit differently
They improvised some dance moves, they decided to start things differently,
I'm not going to spoil what happened, but
Oh my goodness, it is so adorable to see them goof off
And run into each other as they're like switching sides
In a like impromptu stage switch, it was so fun to watch
Ok, so we have to talk about "Paint The Town", Paint The Town ooh... was that the highlight?
I think "Paint The Town" is the highlight, my favorite LOONA song is definitely
"Why Not" [BGM: LOONA - "Why Not"]
And I love to see "Butterfly" live, [BGM: LOONA - "Butterfly"]
Because it's so graceful and regal, and it's my favorite girl group choreography period
"Paint The Town"...
I know this is a vlog that's going to be approved by management before it goes up [BGM: LOONA - "Paint The Town"]
But I gotta say, "Paint The Town"'s bass,
It traveled to the different buttcheeks haha
It was like all over the body!
"Paint The Town"'s bass just like, it travels!
I think one of my reactors when analyzing music before,
He was explaining like, this is the kind of bass that when you go to a concert,
The bass digests your food for you,
And I'm like, DAMN RIGHT
Ok, I'm gonna stop there
I gotta say, the song choices for the setlist, [BGM: LOONA - "Heat/9"]
I can imagine doing so well in an outside concert venue
Just imagine...
In a beautiful, summer day like this,
Like hearing "Flip That" outside, hearing "Butterfly" outside,
And then, if the concert happens in the evening, hearing "Star"(light) when the sun sets,
And the stars start to appear in the sky,
I think I would cry if that happened,
I really hope that LOONA can have some sort of outside concert venue in the future with these songs
Because, this kind of atmosphere fits
Their story-filled performances so well,
And another thing that I'm hoping people will comment about is,
Which member were you most captivated by?
When watching them live, because I thought it would be my bias
I thought it would be Choerry, and yes for the most time it was
But, each member has such a distinct...dance flavor?
Characteristic- such a distinct characteristic to their dance,
That just depending on the vibe of the song, I would watch someone else
As we come to the end of this recap, I just have to thank MyMusicTaste for pushing,
And pushing to keep my collaboration with LOONA in their schedule [BGM: LOONA - "Hi High"]
And I hope this video gave you anticipation and excitement for seeing LOONA live in the future
Maybe it gave you some insight to how absolutely sweet the girls are in real life
I look forward to meeting more of you in person
At LOONA's next world concert!
Until then :) Bye~ [Subtitles by youtube @anisian]