Umu: So, do you guys know what kpop is? Mystery Girl: Yes Mystery Boy: Yes
Umu: What do you-
Umu: Have you seen any videos before?
Mystery girl: I've seen a couple, because- alright
Girl: My friend in high school was a weeaboo
Girl: And she was like "YOU HAVE TO-" then she got obsessed with kpop then she was like "MMMM WATCH THIS VIDEO"
Girl: And then I was like "what the fuck is this?" and then was like, I think it's called 2ne1?
U: Oohh ooOOoh yes 2NE1, 2 N E 1 Girl: Yeah
Mystery boy: It was way back in the day, like 6th grade, I wanna say
Boy: I had this friend named
Boy: I can't remember her name, she played clarinet though
Boy: She would listen to kpop, like walking around
Boy: And one time I overheard it in her headphone and I took one out, and I was like "what are you listening to?"
Boy: And it was, like, LOUD. And I was like "you just walk around here like nothings going on"
Boy: But like, she was having a rock party- not like that- what how would I-
Girl: Party in her earlobe Boy: Yeah Girl: Lobes?? canal? *slurp*
Boy: And then I watched a few of your videos with my friend Amanda Pham, shout out
Umu: Exactly ok so please introduce yourselves, so like, first name, instrument and year
Boy: Well, uh, my name is Aaron.. Lee?
Aaron: OH funny story about that so-
Girl: YOUR NAME??
Aaron: So in 4th grade, my 4th grade teacher, she spent the first 2 weeks looking for a little Asian boy because my last name is Lee
Aaron: And marked me absent for both of those weeks and I was like
Girl: Bitch I'm here Aaron: Anyways, my name's Aaron Lee, I'm a clarinetist here at Eastman
Aaron: And I'm a sophomore
Girl: I'm Olivia Galante, I'm also a clarinetist here at Eastman, and I'm also a sophomore
Aaron: So her family's a part of the mob
Olivia: Maybe
Olivia: I asked my grandma, she said "we don't talk about it"
Umu: That's amazing. Okay, so we are starting off this react session today with a boy group called EXO
Umu: They are made up of 12 members, and we're about to watch their debut song
U: Anyway, so this is a called Mama, the main concept that they're going for was superpowers, so all the members are kinda like
U: Alien superpower-men
U: Who are stuck on earth and they can Aaron: Is it gonna be hot? Umu: Yeah, it's pretty hot Olivia: Keep it in your pants
Umu: Okay, so, this came out in 2012, and you may Aaron: Do we hit play U: Yeah you hit the spacebar really loud
Olivia: Intro Aaron: Wow
Aaron: It's kinda like anime-esque
Olivia: Look at that tree....damn
Olivia: OH it's getting spoopy Aaron: That oboe though! Wait..
Olivia: The tone
Aaron: Are we in minor right now? I think we're in like..
Olivia: Yeah we're minor Aaron: oh!
Aaron: That chord though, that was addahahhhh
Olivia: It sounds like some Shosty let's GO
Olivia: Some Korsakov up in here
Aaron: Oh my god, triggered, stop
Olivia: Capisci lo spagnolo {Do you understand Spanish in Italian}
Olivia: This is so intense for an opening
Olivia: But like, I kinda dig it?
Olivia: Wooaah I want that on a shirt Aaron: Yeah I love this
Aaron: Did someone draw this? Olivia: You should get it tattooed on your butt
Aaron: I need a tattoo on my ass
Aaron: Tramp stamp Olivia: Tramp stamp on your butt?
Olivia: Some Gregorian chants
Aaron: That's exactly what I was thinking
Aaron: We're doing Gregorian chants in music history right now
Aaron: WAIT
Aaron: Wait this totally sounds like some church mode
Olivia: They're dressed like monks too! Aaron: They're in Dorian
Olivia: Wait they're in so many settings, I'm kind of confused Aaron: That's so hot {bc its fire hahahah}
Aaron: I wish when I walked, fire was left behind me
Aaron: Okay so they have human powers, Isee Olivia: There's some sexual tension in this
Olivia: Are they gay? Are some of them gay? *umu shrugs and wiggles her eyebrows*
Aaron: Wait this is about to be good
Aaron: WAIT Olivia: He's like "I'm in"
Aaron: I dig this fashion so hard
Olivia: The dance moves though
Olivia: Like, how?
Olivia: They're so in sync
Olivia: This is pretty bad ass
Olivia: THEY CRIMPED HIS HAIR
Olivia: Can I crimp your hair?
Olivia: Damn
Aaron: damn...That's hot, like, it's really hot
Olivia: Alright, why is kpop so much more harmonically interesting than..
Aaron: Than our shitty pop American music, that's why I like kpop Olivia: American, like, crap
Aaron: Cause there's actually fun stuff to listen to
Olivia: WHAT
Olivia: Damn what was the budget for this???
Umu: Millions
Olivia: MILLIONS? Umu: Like $4mil
Olivia: WHAT is on his face?? Does he have a face tattoo right now??
Aaron: I think that's his evil form
Aaron: Wow, that's badass
Aaron: This is like, a screamo twist
Olivia: Yoooo Aaron: We're back to gothic mode type thing going on
Olivia: This is spooky
Olivia: It's so intense
Aaron: Wait so- Olivia: This is like some Halloween stuff
Aaron: They have superpowers, but, like...
Aaron: Are they gonna save the world or something? Like..
Olivia: I wish I knew what they were saying Aaron: This is Korean right
Aaron: I wish understood Korean Olivia: It's KPOP
Olivia: "This is Korean right?"
Aaron: Wait but I swore the intro was in English
Olivia: Well, I mean, it was, you could understand- Aaron: He's wearing a harness! He's wearing a harness
Olivia: Gregorian chaaaants
Olivia: It's a cult
Olivia: Neumes
Aaron: Neumes are these little note things that- how they notated early music
Olivia: Neumes Aaron: Okay that was solid, like I'd totally dance to that
Umu: So overall what did you think of that one musically?
Olivia: That was pretty cool
Aaron: It definitely had a form to it
Aaron: You have the chant thing in the beginning, and then Olivia: "The chant thing"
Olivia: They looked like monks Aaron: And then the whole dance breaks, and then you had that, like, moment where they're all
Aaron: Holding flames or water or something cool
Olivia: It's like ~Avatar~
Aaron: OHH SHIT
Olivia: This is some Avatar shit Aaron: "Before the fire nation attacked
Aaron: Wait, but then, for each of those sections? Settings? Yeah sections, let's go with that
Aaron: There was different music for each of them, and then it repeated
Aaron: In reverse order
Aaron: Until you got the monks back
Olivia: They were some monk-ass looking monks
Aaron: I feel like to do Gregorian chants, you have to dress like a monk
Olivia: I would
Aaron: You know that- Olivia: I think I would dress like a monk even if I wasn't doing the chant
Aaron: And I really liked the costumes, like, it-
Aaron: Would those even be costumes? Or, like, clothes? Umu: Definitely costumes. So, do you know how kpop groups works
Aaron: No Olivia: Not really
Umu: Basically, you audition at a very very young age for companies
U: And then companies train you for a certain amount of years, usually the richer companies about 6 years of intense training
U: Of dance, acting, vocals, visuals, like, rapping. That type of stuff
U: Then you finally debut in a group, and so basically it's very very company-driven, and that can be an issue sometimes with
U: Creative sound, or more original sound, cause the members aren't usually writing their own music
U: But some compaines let their members do more or original writing
U: In this case, it was 100% company-produced
U: So they did the fashion, the company did the fashion, the company did the makeup, etc
Aaron: I was gonna say the budget must have been, like Olivia: That's crazy
Umu: Was there a specific musical moment that you liked the best, or didn't really like about the song? Olivia: I liked the chant
Aaron: I liked the chant, but also, when they...
Aaron: So the chants started in a lower sounding
Aaron: Key Olivia: It was like, intense
Aaron: And then, how they got the chorus key through those chords, I thought that was cool
Aaron: Because they amped it up
U: So the next one is 2NE1, but if you've already seen it Olivia: I haven't seen Come Back Home, is that what it is?
U: So this is one of the more recent songs
U: It takes- the concept is taking place in a future world
U: Future world where there's like, virtual world that you can, you know, escape your current world
U: And it talks about, like, what happens Aaron: Second life?
Olivia: Past life- wait, second life? Aaron: Second life, from The Office
Aaron: What? You guys don't remember second life?
Umu: ive never watched the office Olivia: What are you saying? Aaron: WHaaaaaaaaat nevermind
U: But basically, this whole music video talks about hoowwwwwwww
U: We are always stuck in our computers and phones, and what happens when we miss real life etc etc
U: But you can ask me for the lyrics afterwards o: millennials
U: Do your best to comment on the music, etc
Olivia: Let's do it
Aaron: Good use of silence
Olivia: We're getting spicy Aaron: WAit this is a descending sequence
Aaron: Or no- HEY maybe Olivia: WOO
Olivia: Drum fill let's gO
Olivia: Her HAIR Aaron: FUCK yes
Aaron: Mommy
Aaron: SPRAY PAINT THAT WALL BITCH
Aaron: Yo I used to have gauges like that in high school Olivia: Yo I think I can get with this
Olivia: They just look so badass
Olivia: Some strong females
Aaron: I like it, I like that
Olivia: Okay, but I hate how they have strong females and then they have them with uglier dudes, you know?
Aaron: Yo what the fuck? Is he gonna snort that? Olivia: You know what I'm saying?
Aaron: Yo, drop his asS Olivia: Is that Tylenol PM?
Aaron: I like how her hair matches her outfit
Aaron: If you're gonna dye your hair, you gotta always coordinate that shit
Olivia: Bitch you're not wearing all yellow
Aaron: No but I mean like
Aaron: The blue goes with my hair
Olivia: Your hair's blue?
Aaron: NO it's not blue, that's not what I'm saying,
Aaron: It's like the sun to my (olivia: your butt?) beach
Aaron: Yo that bass drop was fuckin Olivia: Oh SHIT
Olivia: YOOOOOOOOO this is pretty sick
Olivia: Kinda reminds me of that Spongebob movie, with the end scene in it
Olivia: Where he comes out- where Patrick comes out in stilettos
Aaron: This is in English though
U: Kpop has English words in it Aaron: Ohhh okay
Olivia: Oh shit
Aaron: Yo, is this Korean rapping?whaaaaat
U: Kpop groups have visuals, vocalists, rappers, and main dancers
Aaron: I love it
Olivia: She's got, like, the Snooki hair Aaron: I really like the makeup
Olivia: It's so pretty Aaron: Yeah it- I like it
Aaron: Oh my god, there's a bomb! Olivia: Woahahhh
Olivia: So this is the technology is controlling us
Aaron: She's like "what happened?"
Olivia: Get off your phones bitches
Aaron: Bassline's a little simpler than the other one
Olivia: But I kinda dig it
Aaron: It has a nice groove Olivia: It does have a nice groove
Aaron: V V V V V, I I I I I
Aaron: Spray paint those bitches
Aaron: I like the symbolism going on Olivia: The haairrrrrr
Olivia: Grapes and pearls throw in there Aaron: Wait those were olives
Olivia: Those were grapes
Olivia: oh SHIT
Aaron: I really like this
Aaron: And I like the futuristic- OH
Aaron: The rose
Olivia: This is pretty sick, this budget must've been really high as well Aaron: But she's definitely saying come with a u, right (cum)
Olivia: Cum with a u?
Olivia: KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS BOY
Aaron: There's so much smoke Olivia: Why do I feel like Taylor Swift has ripped them off
Aaron: I mean, this puts American- Oh that haircut- this puts amer-
Aaron: Is their city on fire??
Olivia: And now we're back to the beginning
Aaron: WAIT but no- that was all happening in the other
Aaron: The other reality wHATTT
Olivia: Damn
Aaron: I really liked that. They told a story and used cool music
Olivia: That was pretty sick
Umu: Overall was there specific musical moments that you liked or didn't like
Aaron: That sexy ass bass drop
Olivia: That bass drop was tho, OOHOOHOO
Olivia: There was some spice in there, lil paprika,
A: lil salt Olivia: Lil cumin
Umu: You guys are such memes
U: Overall what'd you think of that musically too?
Olivia: I thought it was really cool
Olivia: I digged it
Olivia: I liked the groove. Maybe it wasn't as intense as the other one
Aaron: I felt like it didn't change keys as much, and there wasn't as much variety. Although they did have that one girl rap
Olivia: Yeah, harmonically Aaron: The other one didn't (guess they didn't count the screamo part as rapping)
Olivia: Harmonically wasn't as interesting as the other one, but I still liked it
Aaron: I liked the storyline of this one more
Aaron: I thought, because- Olivia: You actually understood the storyline of this one
Aaron: Well that and also
Aaron: It was a story within a story because it took us back out into- but we were watching another screen
Aaron: Shit man
Aaron: Yo this is like screenception right now, because we're watching a screen, (O: what if someone's watching-)they're- you guys are watching a screen
Aaron: What if someone's filming you right now?? oh my god Olivia: Then we could watch you
Olivia: screenception