Hi, my name is Umu and I am ReacttotheK's channel creator
and welcome to my Sulli Goblin album first listen,
I will first listen to two songs, two whole songs,
I have heard so many amazing things about these b-sides
so I am just gonna be jumping in without previewing anything
and first I will listen to 'On The Moon'.
Nooo!
3 2 1
*whispering* Silence...
Just kidding, I muted it.
3 2 1
That's much better.
That record crackle...
sets the mood.
It's coming closer and closer to us.
And Sulli comes -
or not.
Long intro.
There she is.
Hmm
Love the sound of the guitar
and love how it mainly is existing on the left channel
but then sometimes comes center,
while we have bells in the right channel.
And of course ... yeah ...
Her voice and her harmonies are right in center~?
Now she said happy, and we're getting happy.
Wow, I feel like...
I'm not on Earth right now.
I love, yeah,
the experience that I am having right now with these different sounds,
love the rhythmic whatever percussion instrument that is,
it sounds like someone is just clanging metal.
And I love being surrounded by this warm synth
that is bouncing between my right and left ear.
Oh, new percussion sample.
Oh, it's not returning.
Are you gonna come back?
Unless I just hallucinated a...
And now we are experiencing the chorus in this vibe, with some strings.
Now are we gonna stick to this vibe?
Or are we gonna go somewhere else?
Sticking for the vibe for now.
Yeah, no, there is the dddada *imitates percussion from earlier*
That isn't...
Those aren't strings, that's a synth patch
that is kinda the texture of strings.
Okay, we're sticking in with this vibe.
Soooo much reverb on her voice part.
I kinda wish that we had a little interruption of this energy
because we had so much fluctuation in the beginning
and then suddenly it is just continuing this one vibe.
And especially since she is sticking to this,
her head voice for the melody, we aren't getting any ... dynamic shift,
or it isn't really outlining her range, the melody, at all
so I feel like we needed a break for that second verse,
to go back to what we had before, or something different.
See, we're keeping the same instrumentation, but thinning the texture.
And the synth patch has more reverb on it.
Oh! Okay, okay long intro, no - I guess you could count that as an outro -
yeah yeah, that's definitely an outro, what am I saying?
But yeah, like I said, I just really loved the different sounds
and I kinda wish that we explored where this sound could take us,
like a slight right turn into a slightly different vibe,
but the lyrics were sticking around one specific message
and I could see if the music were to keep supporting that
of course it wouldn't do like a slight right turn into a different vibe,
it would stick along with the att- or not attitude,
but the personality of the lyrics.
Now on to 'Dorothy'.
"Somewhere over the rainbow"
3 2 1
Yeah.
Low notes.
Mm.
We got a little dissonance.
Mhm.
Are we in a garden right now, surrounded by pigeons?
Oh I love it.
WWOOOOOWW!!!
*mimicking triplet rhythm*
Yeah, rhythmic line is amazing.
Tri-pa-let tri-pa-let, and then she *imitates syncopated rhythm*
Oooh, oh this is good!
She's really exploring different rhythms right now.
Oh those chords.
And as the piano line develops into something else ...
we get slight variation on the vocal rhythms.
'Cause she did this rhythm before, but not for as long.
*imitates rhythm*
Oooh it's, oh it's so good! Oh that's so good.
Oh, "Dorothy", right? That's what she's singing, "Dorothy".
It's like a broken record.
"Dorothy" "Dorothy" "Dorothy"
but everything else is so free in the background.
I'm nearing tears right now, this is really pretty.
Kinda, the new sound sounds like it could be like a cricket or something.
Excuse me.
It's amazing what you can do with good rhythms.
And how you can just develop them in a tiny bit,
but also repeat them while adding in new things around it
and how effective it is, it's so effective.
What?
Yeah, and the piano is doing new things.
These rhythms we've heard multiple times throughout this song
but it's so, so fresh!
Oh the little, was that just me or did the piano line swing a tiny bit?
*sings swung line*
Oh, this song is in compound meter!
Why did I - it is in compound - is it in 12 -
Do you guys feel that in 12/8 or 6/8?
Let me stat from the beginning again.
*counting rhythms*
1 2 3 - 4 5 6 - 7 8 9 - 10 11 12 - 1 2 3 - ...
I feel this in 12/8.
But at the beginning, since ...
the reverb, the "dadada dadada", it is outlining the triple meter,
but at this point I only felt it in simple time.
... 3 4 - 1 2 3 4
My mind is blown by that song.
Sorry I talk so weird...
I'm just trying not to cry, yeah, I was really moved by that, I think.
Well, I'm kinda speechless,
maybe I'll be able to talk about this song more in the future but I -
Yeah, it did everything that I wanted it to do,
I mean I didn't even know what I wanted
but it gave it to me and it gave more,
like I had no idea we were gonna amp up the energy
with the percussion like that,
I thought we might just stay in this ethereal garden,
green garden vibe the whole time, but then...
it still managed to be green garden, but with like...
this extra percussion added in.
That was amazing.
I hope we hear more K-pop songs like this in the future.
Thanks for watching guys, bye!