(subtitles by @angelade17 on Twitter) UMU: Hi guys, my name is Umu. I'm a French hornist and I'm ReacttotheK's channel creator
HENRY: Hi, this is Henry. I'm a vocalist, I'm one of the reactors
UMU: And so we are diving into this "Entropy" album
We're gonna have to rush it a tiny bit because we only have 30 minutes before I have to catch a bus to go to school
HENRY: College! UMU: COLLEGE!
UMU: Okay, let's go! "Deep in Love", I DO have the lyrics pulled up
They might not be the best translations because we're reacting to this the day after the album is released
And people have told me that whenever I read translations they're very wrong
So don't worry, we'll definitely go back to the lyrics in like a week, when hopefully there are better translations out there
Okay, "Deep in Love"
You ready to fall deep in love with DAY6?
H: Oh please, please U: 3 2 1
H: Mm
U: Okay, but is this a distorted guitar sound or is this Wonpil on the keyboard?
U: That might have been like a bass, right?
Yeah that was the bass huh, unless-
H: Aw, oh
H: *squeals*
H: That.... ugh
H: It feels like a Prince song!
Right? It's got that like, Prince...
H: Attractive Prince flavor there
U: I'm sorry, I've never listened to Prince
H: It's okay, it's okay
U: Oh, it changes on the off-beat doesn't it?
U: We're on the on-beat now H: Oh, this is very like a choral setting
H: The melodic progression here is super formal
U: Woah H: Wow
U: WOAH, what??
U: The background vocals are doing kind of like a call-and-answer with the main melodic line
(U: Nice) H: It kind of reminds me of a gospel choir
(U: Yeah, kind of?) H: You know what I mean, like the harmonies are super tight and close, and very standard
U: *shook by YoungK's high note* H: And then with some of the, like soul interjections or responses
H: It's... great outcry
U: But I also feel like it's more of a unison
U: And if there are harmonies, then it's like thirds
H: Yes, yes yes yes U: Yeah
U: *mimics the synth part*
U: Yeah, wasn't that off-beat? Wait-
*counts the beats*
H: Is it vocals? U: Yeah, it's changing on the off-beat
H: The vocals? U: The chord progression H: Oh
H: Ooh, love that bass U: *convulses*
U: UGH I love how the chords are taken out for that pre-chorus (H: Yeah, so it can come out)
U: Oh that's so friggin' cool!!
"Time of Us" [sic], is that experimental? THIS is experimental!
U: Ah, when it says "deeper" the line descends
H: Mmmm U: And then YoungK ascends
U: They edit the vocals, like "D-d-d-deep"
That was weird
U: Okay H: The bassline there descends, too
H: Ooh, double-time in the bass! U: OKAY
U: OKAY
H: Ugh
U: I see that they're continuing their chant-like music from their past album
Which is more concert-oriented because you can sing with the audience
U: Yeah, "ah-ah-ah" that was edited
Oh, "d-d-d-d", hear that? It switches between channels
Oh, he's just enjoying
H: I hear. I hear it, I hear it
U: I love when Young- ugh. YoungK sings a different melodic line over the chant
H: Oh
H: *claps*
U: That was fuckin' amazing
U: That was so far, like this might be one of my favorite- (H: Take all my money, take all my money)
U: Oh my god (H: Take all my money. Give me some live tickets *laughs*) Please come see them live with me next time they come in town
H: Totally want to U: Will you please? Yes
H: Totally want to U: We're gonna go to the next DAY6 concert together
H: Gosh, it's so good U: Gosh it's SO good
U: And for time's sake we're gonna move on, but gosh darnit
I LOVE IT
H: Yeah (U: I love it, that song was so good) A lot of good text painting, whether or not they think about it
H: Like, descending lines on "deep deep deep deep in love" (U: Oh they think about it)
H: And then in the bass- you could hear the bassline is descending within the harmonic structure there, too
And then the unison singing is SO STRONG
H: It's SO strong (U: POWERFUL) Yeah
H: And it's pretty typical harmonic progression, but it's SO powerful. We love it
(H: Love it, love it) U: And it's smart that they don't just keep it chanting, because they know the audience live will take over that
And YoungK continues his own line over it
H: Oh my god, I didn't even think about that
U: So we're singing together like that (H: That's so smart for yeah, live music) Instead of just singing like, the same melody together, he's singing over us
And that's what I love about "Shoot Me"'s bridge
You know, when Wonpil's like *sings*
And we're like [singing] "IIII'M OKAY so if you wanna hurt me baby just hurt me"
H: Just crying, like straight up *laughs* U: Just crying
U: Okay H: That's awesome
U: Woah! Henry!
We're in the past! It's this morning again, it isn't 5pm anymore
U: It's 8am! H: Oh this is heavy, doc! *Back to the Future reference*
U: We came here to say that we didn't listen to this album in order
I bought this album and it 1, didn't download all the songs
2, appeared out of order
So, we made a lot of comments about how the album flows
But we did not listen to it in the order that it was released in
So just heads up about that
Now we'll be reacting to the 6th track "About Now" and the 9th track "Stop Talking"
After the last track that we get to
So let's go back to the future! Ready?
3 2 1!
H: That's awesome. Alright
U/H: We're "Not Fine"! 3 2 1
U: DAY6? H: So different!
U: Who this? H: What the
U: Who dis, who this?
U: Is Daysicc doing EDM now?
H: Feels more like the indie side of modern
H: I'm getting vibes
Chill vibes
U: I'm just so shocked because like, none of these songs have really sounded like the sound that DAY6-
"Sweet Chaos" is kind of off their "Warning" sound
H: This is so- yeah but this is so explorative U: I've never heard them do this before
H: It's well done though
U: They changed it
H: Now it's more like praise band again
U: I like the subdivisions in...
H: Ooh
U: Is it the bass? That *sings*
U: I'm also not fine
U: Oh wait, this is really relatable
U: Oh no
Here come the tears *sad laugh*
U: I love the harmonies on the YoungK's line before we drop into the chorus
U: Once again, they take out the instrumentation so that we focus on the voice (H: Yeah)
H: It's really smart. Or, it's really just intuitive
U: They add *claps with the beat*
It's like they have the dry drum sound, but on two and four they also have...
H: They're just telling the audience what to do in a live concert, just telling us
Like just clap now, you know what to do. You know what to do!
U: But they have an extra sound on top of the snare with a ton of reverb
H: Yeah
U: Nappa! Nappa, nappa
H: *doesn't get it*
U: No? ...ok
H: I really like what they're doing there with the portamento
U: Ahh H: It really evokes a kind of crying kind of sound, like ahh
U: AHH H: Probably because they slide into it
U: UGH
U: OH IT FEELS SO GOOD, YEAH H: And then the sustained suspension, like *sings*
H: UGH U: AND THEN THE HITS
H: *cries*
H: *sings* Yeah? That "cry", oh
H: Ohh, so good
H: And the crowd goes wild! U: Okay, you know that song is relatable except it's kind of opposite
U: Because all my best friends now have a significant other, so they're spending more time with their significant other than me
So, they're like...
And they still come to me with their problems
So they're like, always hanging with their significant other but then they like, call me crying
And then so it's like, this song is relatable
But if you just change that like, "You're always hanging with your lover"
H: *laughs* U: "I'm worried you're leaving me"
U: "I'm not fine 'cause you're not fine"
*sad laugh*
That has-
I feel like that's so dense in textures and sounds and harmony in the vocal parts
That I'm never gonna get tired to it, because- listening to it because
H: There's a lot more to find, yeah U: There's so much that you can listen to H: Mm-hmm
H: They really milked that IV to III suspension U: Oh my god
H: *sings* U: These songs-
U: See, these songs may be (H: SO much tension, it's great) an experimental sound for DAY6
U: But it's still DAY6's writing
You know it's them because it's they're smart within the new genre that they're trying out
It's like, they're making the choices that they would make in their usual sound
U: But with totally new sounds H: Mm-hmm U: Yeah
U: Okay! "Rescue Meeee"
H: I'm ready
U: 3 2 1
U: *laughs*
Why did they put this after the last song?
This is such a shock!
U: WHAAAAT
U: DO YOU HEAR THAT COWBELL??
H: Aw yeah!
H: Yeah, I do- I didn't, but I do now! U: *flails and sings along*
H: Ooh, the little *sings*
Some high stuff going
U: And now we're back to full-on strums
H: Ah oh- oh yeah (U: CUT-TIME) It's pre-chorus
H: This is so...
U: Where are we harmonically?
U: What scale degrees are they singing?
WHAT IS HAPPENING? I've lost all my tonal center
U: It's so odd, and I love it
U: I mean, this is... desperate
U: It's...
H: Oh, ooh ooh ooh, I like that, I like that
U: *hyperventilates*
I'm overwhelmed
U: It's like the same instrumentation the whole way through
But different- completely different sound in every single section
H: Yeah, absolutely
H: It's like they get to highlight each member of the band U: Yeah
U: Each member of the band gets their own sound H: Yeah
H: But it's not like they cut everything out, it's just a little died down
U: There we go, we built back up. Full instrumentation again
U: Was that a Picardy?
H: Mmm
U: There
H: It's not settling onto it, but it could be doing modal mixture U: Oh
H: Cowbell!
U: At this part, I feel like I can't breathe
U: I'm floating
U: They're rocking out in a desert, and you're floating in the sky above them
U: Nice higher guitar line
U: WHAT???
H: I have to listen to that one again U: Oh my god, same. Ugh
U: Sadly we can't do it in this film session, 'cause we only have 15 minutes left
But we're gonna go back to that
Because that was so much, and so many awesome things happened
So many different sounds with the same, like...
So you know, we got like, the cool synth stuff,
cool synth sounds, and then we've got like the layering of the different guitar sounds, plus the bass
H: I'm so impressed!
U: Yo H: They've like,
H: They're writing really stylistically well in a bunch of different contrasts and genres
It's wonderful