Yunyi: I just played a recital and before the
recital, I ran the recital program twice in
the morning to make sure I could do it.
So I just played piano for like five hours straight...
sO PLEASE *starts dying*
*Rossini's Semiramide Overture plays*
Shimon: Oh is it started? Umu: Hi! Okay, so we have a new
reactor with us today!
Please introduce yourself! Ben: Hi my name is
Ben... uhh I saw Naoki was was having such a
great time so I had to kill him a bit...
Umu: HAHAHAHHHAHAHA A BIT Shimon: A bit hahaha Ben: It took a while
Shimon: HAHAHAHA
Ben: But uh yeah he's donezo so I'm here. Hello! Shimon: Oh no
I'm a senior violinist...
Shimon: Hahahahaa Ben: Yup that's what I do
*Not so donezo Naoki appears* Ben: Ohhh Shimon: Oh wow good to see you
Naoki: Thanks man
Shimon: I thought you were done
Umu: This is 2NE1 this is actually
actually the very first girl group that
our series reactors have ever reacted to
you've never seen them before you've
never seen them before so it's the first
time for both of you Gwen: Ooh newbies
Umu: Well we're going to watch two more of their songs
today that came out after "I Am the Best"
Yunyi: They're not here anymore, right?
Umu: Yeah they're disbanded. Kevin: "They're not here anymore" ㅠㅠ
Yunyi: Open "to anyone" 2NE1
Umu: Right...
This is "Missing You" this- Ash: This was released in 2013
and it consists of a storyline of the
four members each experiencing a
different storyline but in the end what
they all have in common is pain and loss.
Fiona: Oh same Henry: Emo
Lindsey: three two one Davis: one
Kevin: Oh yeah!
Jeremy: I like the harmonies, they're tight
Kevin: I'm getting "Grimes" vibes Yunyi: Woooow that hat
Fiona: That's sparkly
Lindsey: Oh! That was a nice harmony Davis: Again with these wide-brimmed hats!
Gwen: I like their hats
Umu: They look good Lindsey: This is written in SATB style
Kevin: The bass note was a bit sharp but I liked it
Jeremy: Oooh, this is like, so R&B Gwen: Oooh. Yeah, she has a great R&B voice!
Fiona: Teardrop Henry: Teardrop—she killed somebody!
Kevin: No more Grimes
Fiona: Okay I always talk about the sound effects but
the little bubbly sound is just so cute!
Ben: [no idea what he's saying] Naoki: Oh that lipstick though!
Kevin: Instrumental = Grimes. Voice = no Grimes.
Henry: I feel like if we're talking about like pain and
suffering, why the little bubbly sound is
there is kind of confusing. But that's just me.
Fiona: I think that's like, that's a
symbol for like people in general like
you can act all bubbly!
Fiona: But on the inside, you're sad Henry: But on the inside, you're just a feather on fire.
Yunyi: They're all so fierce! Kevin: The voices, I like that!
Like their voices are so different.
Ben: Oh OH...yeah? Oh it's going somewhere? You feel it you feel it... Naoki: Yeah...okay
Yunyi: OH...I did not expect it to go here Kevin: Ballad all of a sudden
Gwen: I like that the piano is so apparent. It makes
it feel more like an acoustic ballad
than like a...full song. Which I think is
really appropriate, and nice and great.
Kevin: It's like the chorus is more relaxed than the verse.
Yunyi: Yeah... Kevin: Which doesn't happen too often
Yunyi: It's just completely changed Kevin: Yeah
Naoki: I mean the harmonies are a bit thicker now after that... I mean it doesn't change as much as we wanted.
Ben: Yeah, you wanted something a little more surprising...like that.
Henry: Cool chord thing.
Naoki: The silence Ben: Oh
Fiona: Don't do that Henry: Whoa...ehhhhh
Lindsey: I bet Fiona liked the little bubble pops? Umu: Yep
Gwen: Still very good R&B voice
Umu: Is it because it's like low-ish and raspy?
Gwen: Yeah, she's got like a dark...yeah. Jeremy: And the way she moves it.
Davis: They're doing a really good job
contrasting the electronic music and the
acoustic music. Lindsey: Yeah
Fiona: Wait, musically this is beautiful!
Kevin: I like it, it's different!
Lindsey: It's got like a weird major/minor thing going Davis: Yeah
Naoki: Oh, wait—chess against herself? Ben: Oh wait wait
Ben/Naoki: Ohhhhh Naoki: That....horse
Shimon: ...horse?
Naoki: It was symbolic...because she Ben: Wait it's coming again. Guys guys!
Lindsey: Does her back say "sushi"? Umu: pffffftttt
Yunyi: This is the relative major, right?
Kevin: Was the verse in minor?
Yunyi: Yeah, the verse is in minor.
Kevin: Then it is, then it's definitely the relative.
Henry: She is naked
Fiona: This is a beautiful sooooong
Kevin: "If love ceases to be"? (reading quote from MV)
Davis: Where did those feathers come from? Lindsey: Is he leaking feathers?
Gwen: Dancing...I miss dancing
Kevin: Lighting
Lindsey: Oh that's kinda cool. Oh yeah they all have lovely voices, I think. Davis: I'm sure her voice...
Naoki: Oh, echo?
Ben: Back to the simple like piano
Naoki: Yeah very uh, piano-y...obviously HAHAHA
Ben: This reminds me — modulation?? All: OHHHHHH Naoki: Yeah!
Shimon: Wow
Kevin: What a subtle key change! Yunyi: Oh!
Like, like one wouldn't even notice it! It just, it's there.
And there's no like big *makes sounds*
There's the big percussion swelling Yunyi: Are you just gonna ignore the fact
there's a fucking transparent piano in the background?
Henry: These vocals harmonies are really, really good! Fiona: They're really tight too, they're close together
Jeremy: I really enjoy the unexpected chord progressions.
Jeremy: Like, I expect them to go somewhere and then I hear like, an applied chord!
I'm like, what??
Davis: All their voices are kind of unique in their own way
but they blend together in a really good way and it sounds good!
Gwen: Oh oh ohhhhh...that didn't cadence.
Kevin: I liked it! Yunyi: That wasn't 1? It didn't end on 1.
Kevin: It had a 4...I think?
Umu: No I thought it was a half-cadence?
Kevin: No it's a 4, I think.
Umu: Plagal? Yunyi: Yeah, it's a 4
Kevin: It's not a plagal because it doesn't go back to 1.
You can't call it a plagal!
Yunyi: It's uh, a "plagal half-cadence"
*Umu & Yunyi laughing* Kevin: God dammnit...Don't quote us!!
Yunyi: Don't quote—yeah, that was total *Kevin's turn to laugh*
Yunyi: This is what 4 years of music school does to you.
It makes you able to come up with just complete bullshit on the spot.
Davis: Yeah, it was good, because like I wanted to
listen to both know the piano and their Lindsey: No.
harmonies. And I also wanted to listen
to the electronic stuff, like the little *mimics sound*
Lindsey: I didn't love that song, I didn't hate it at all
Umu: Mhm Lindsey: I didn't dislike it.
It's just not one of my favorites
that we've listened to but it was like actually
interesting to listen to like the
backgrounds and stuff Umu: Yeah.
Umu: Yeah, harmonies were on point Davis: Yeah, it was good
Lindsey: Yes! Very interesting harmonies!
Fiona: I liked it a lot! Henry: I liked it
Fiona: It spoke to me Henry: I liked it a very decent amount,
Henry: The vocal harmonies at the end were like, mhm!
Fiona: I enjoyed, like how acoustic it was Henry: Oh my god I'm so tired
Fiona: And that, I didn't hear any drums at all
Henry: Yeah! That was actually a really interesting choice
Fiona: It's not exactly—like it's not quite K-pop. It's more like...
"K-pop takes on acoustics" Ash: Yeah
Henry: There were not that many..."Hey, ho"
"This is a weird ass fucking chord "
But like, I mean, not that that is all that
gives music value, but just that like
it was pretty—the chords were pretty straightforward, but the harmonies were really good!
Jeremy: I enjoyed it a lot! Gwen: It was a, uh—
Jeremy: I really, like I think my favorite part was the
accompaniment, I thought it was awesome!
Gwen: You know how sometimes the music videos like the
entire point of watching the thing? Umu: Mhm
Gwen: This is, the uh, this is about the music. Umu: Opposite?
Umu: What'd you like about that song musically?
Ben: I don't have uhhh Shimon: Piano
Naoki: What'd you say? Ben: He said piano
Shimon: It was really laid back Naoki: Yeah, it was really chill
Ben: Yeah, it was good
Naoki: It might've been more emotional with like, a drum beat
like just like something else to add to it.
Ben: Well, I think that's why they were trying to use
Like the sound, the synth sounds, that kind of thing
and the techno style Naoki: Well, they took it away in the end
Ben: Well yeah to kind of bring it back to where it's like more emotional
Shimon: It didn't really feel stable because there was no bass
And then they replaced it with the synth, which wasn't that low
And maybe that had something to do with like, the unstable...love
Ben: Unstable love? Naoki: Unstable Shimon: I don't know
Kevin: I love the key change, how it just doesn't—
it doesn't make itself known, because usually even
in these slow ballads
you know—there's a percussion
or some synth that goes, *makes synth noises*
Umu: Is it the *sings part of song*
Kevin: How did they do it? It just... Yunyi: How did they do it?
Umu: They just did it, wasn't it a direct modulation? Kevin: They didn't, no it was
Kevin: Yep, yep Umu: That!
Yunyi: No it was, it was Umu: Oohhhhhh
Kevin: That is so great because, because it does a thing
So what it does is uh
Yunyi: Wait that was actually just a half step modulation
Kevin: No it's whole step! Yunyi: Whole step whole step
Kevin: Which is, which you can easily go- this is already the V of the next. so each-
uh let's see
Kevin: except they used the G chord Yunyi: i thought it went up a half step
Kevin: it doesn't use this chord. So this is usually the chord I would use
But instead, it just goes
...it just goes
Umu: Alright so the next one is quite different
Umu: It definitely has more, uh musically drops Ben: Drive?
Umu: Drops drops Naoki: Good! Ben: A drop? Okay okay okay
Naoki: I'm liking the background Ben: Well, also the first one was more like a ballad, kind of soo
Ben: "Come Back Home M/V" [reading video title]
Naoki: I think "M/V" is "music video Ben: Shhhhh [everyone laughs]
Ash: This music video is set in a futuristic world Henry: Oh, I can see that!
Ash: Yeah everyone's like super immersed in the
virtual world of social media and
technology. Uh, in the music video you'll see
that one of the members is in love with
a man who's so focused in the virtual
world so all four members go into the
virtual world to destroy it.
Fiona: Okay! 5...4... Henry: Oh my god
Yunyi: 3...2NE1!! KevinL ...virtual paradise
Fiona: "Virtual Paradise...come back home."
Ben: Alright.... Naoki: It's cool!
Shimon: Vibes? Naoki: Yeah vibes!
Lindsey: Ha! That sounded like a cellphone
Gwen: Is this about Batman?
Lindsey: Glockenspiel...? Oh yeah, it's probably vibes Davis: ....vibraphones?
Yunyi: Reggae?? Kevin: Right?!
Fiona: This is kinda like ??? vibes. Henry: Oooooh yeahhh I'm digging it!
Fiona: This is cool, what?! What, K-Pop? Hello...excuse me?
Kevin: You can still hear that opening—oh!
Fiona: This is some hipster shit right here!
Lindsey: This background makes me think of "Nan, You're a Window Shopper" by Lily Allen
Davis: Oh yeah I know exactly what you're talking about
Kevin: Oh give me that sequence! Umu: What sequence?
Davis: Oh no Lindsey: Me too
Kevin: *singing along* 2 5 1 4
Naoki: Oh, there we go! Ben: Yeah
Shimon: I like that!
Umu: What happened there musically?
Naoki: There was a build and it stopped Ben: And then it came in Shimon: The beat
Kevin: I've heard this a lot of times Yunyi: But I still love it that they threw a diminished chord in there
Kevin: It's actually just the 5 of the relative minor it's not a diminished chord. Yunyi: Oh, seriously? Crap.
Yunyi: What is this about? What is ha—
Gwen: What?
*beat drops*
Naoki/Shimon: Oooooooohhhhhh Ben: Whoaaaaa that's intense!!!! Oooooooohhhhh
Henry: Ooooohhhhh myyyyy gooooooood Fiona: Now that's autotune!!
*Henry is still saying oh my god* Fiona: This is autotune I can get behind
Kevin: Oh my god the neon. Ughhhh
Shimon: Whoa what the crap
Ben: Yeah dude the electronic sounds with the geometric shapes
Kevin: WHAT
Davis: Oh see? Again
*shook*
Naoki: It's like a rap Ben: And also, randomly acoustic?
Naoki: Yeah! Rap with acoustic, I've never heard that!
Lindsey: There are just so many different things going on in the background...I really like it though.
You got the string orchestra, you got the little *makes sounds* on like, the electric guitar
Davis: Yeah, yeah this is.... Lindsey: And you got the acoustic guitar
Kevin: Here comes the reggae again...no?
Lindsey: *mimics sounds* that's like the reggae-kinda thing
And you got the techno beat it's like...that's really cool
Yunyi: What's gonna happen next? Kevin: Right?
Jeremy: I'm just like not a big fan of electronic music
but...*shrugs*
It's like switching back and forth between electronic and acoustic...so that's cool
Umu: Half of it is your favorite, half not? Jeremy: Exactly!
Naoki: Ah but I see they're using their motifs *sings* a lot
Kevin: Yeah the sequence
Ben: Would you call it a light motif?
Yunyi: Oh see, now it's like the styles are unifying a little bit Kevin: Uh huh
Yunyi: Because this more of the, sort of like...
Gwen: Just kill em, kill em
Yunyi: ...EDM section. Oh no? It's here! Never mind
Kevin: Ready for the chord? ...Yep.
Fiona: This is wild
Henry: That's just a BUNCH of Molotov cocktails!
Kevin: See they use same chords a second time because the note in the melody is different
Gwen: Oh so are they rebelling against the Matrix?
Kevin: See, it's the same chord. It's still a 5 minor. But the *sings* makes it more edgy
Lindsey: It's virtual
Henry: Oooooooohhhhh that's always gonna be good!
Yunyi: I love that quarter tone, wow
Gwen: Yeah, you know how her voice goes, "Come back hooooome"
Why did they— Umu: Why not?
Gwen: Why did they make go sharp, it just makes me itchy.
Naoki: Do you wanna come...now? Oh my god Ben: Really?
Naoki: I didn't even realize! Ben: Really??
Yunyi: Are they even different? I can't even tell
Kevin: I think so
Yunyi: Wha—whoaaa
Lindsey: They really like their whole "tough girl" Davis: Now it's like Terminator
Davis: And they're leading an uprising against Skynet
Yunyi: So this is more like ballad-y Kevin: Yep
Yunyi: What is happening in this... Kevin: Now it's building
Naoki: They're baseball bats Ben: They're rebelling!
Naoki: So it's kinda like, they didn't get past the first round of world baseball classics
Ben: So might as well take out all their anger Shimon: True, true!!
Ben: Oh yeah they lost ??????
Yunyi: Is that how it ends???
Lindsey: That's a cliffhanger, it ends on a half cadence haha
Kevin: I'm so satisfied by that ending WOW that's like, the most satisfying ending ever [sarcasm]
Mahler ain't got shit—Nah I'm kidding!!
Gwen: DO ANY OF THEM HAVE CADENCES??
I SWEAR
Umu: What did you like about that song specifically. like instrumental-wise, melody, harmony...
Ben: Definitely the techno bit
Naoki: Yeah more stuff happened. There was more contrast which made it more enjoyable
Shimon: That's true Ben: Yeah
Shimon: The, what do you call it? The build went to places that we wanted to
Naoki/Ben: Yeah, yeah
Naoki: It was definitely more satisfying musically
Ben: The contrast was really cool, I thought it was really creative. They did a lot of different things.
Shimon: I don't know if I liked that, the acoustic guitar with the rapping
Naoki: Oh yeah, that was a little strange
Ben: I mean, I think they were trying something new. Like, I could—yeahhhh
But also I liked the whole social commentary thing. I thought that that was really good
Jeremy: I liked the song more than I liked the video
Um, but the song had it's highs and it's lows. I really liked the parts where it was less electronic
Not so much the parts that were electronic
And yeah, that's just like my opinion
Gwen: Personally, I don't necessarily dislike electronic I just disliked that electronic
Because it just felt like, unnecessary
The song itself was not acoustic, obviously
But nowhere near that level of synthesized and electronic
And I just didn't think it belonged there. I mean, feel free to disagree
I just like, it felt weird
Um, super into ponytail girl! Got the best voice
Gwen: What's her name? Umu: Minzy
She's got a really good clarity in her upper tone
Without it being like *sings*
Henry: The breakdown of the song was
fucking amazing!!
That whole breakdown part Fiona: It was cool!
Fiona: It was unexpected, it was tasteful.
There are some songs where it does it too much, but this one Henry: Yeah, they just
Henry: It happened twice, the [sings] "Come back hoooOomme"
Fiona: "Come back home" [impersonating robot]
Kevin: The last bridge before the final chorus happened near the beginning
Yunyi: Yeah, exactly! Kevin: So it's verse/chorus/extra bridge/verse/chorus...hook. That's it!
Yunyi: They ended on a ....ooooh
Kevin: Good job! Good job throwing us in the loop
Kevin: I liked the first one more. Umu: Okay, you liked "Missing You"
Kevin: Yeah Yunyi: I loved that one
Kevin: The first one or the second one Yunyi: The one that we just watched
Umu: Okay "Come Back Home" Kevin: Okay
Yunyi: I wonder if they do that, you know?
If they spice up, like the formal content, the melodic content of like their songs
To throw curveballs at people that are actually listening for like diversity in their music
Kevin: Possibly Yunyi: Instead of just like, writing pop
Because like American Pop singers, or groups, or like Pop artists
Kind of just like, write pop, you know?
Like, Beyoncé did the whole thing with "Love On Top" and everyone in our theory department lost their shit
And that was even that crazy...sooo Kevin: Exactly
Davis: It was very colorful and evolving
Umu: So both musically and visual-wise? Davis: And visually
Davis: This like classic K-Pop...and I really liked it
Lindsey: K-Pop banger!
Davis: Yeah it's a banger! For sure
Lindsey: I liked that though
[Lindsey is tongue-tied] I liked that one better than the other one. Davis: Yeah, me too
Umu: So which one did you like better?
Jeremy: The first one Gwen: I think the first one
Both: Ummm
Henry: I think the second one Fiona: They're just so different! I'm split half and half
Fiona: The first one is for when I'm sad, the second one is for whenever I wanna not be sad...so it's like, or when I'm happy
I'm split.
Umu: Okay, so which one did you like better, "Come Back Home" or "Missing You"
Ben: Come Back Home, Come Back Home, for sure! Naoki: The second one