Jarod: Like kind of like staccato in the rhythm and the line kind of feeds this, not necessarily animation stuff,
just the videography, I guess, in a broader term. Katie: Um, hmm.
Umu: YeoJin is the fourth member to debut, and is the maknae of the group.
Lindsey: That's the youngest one? Jacob: Yeah.
She's currently age 16, Lindsey: What the what f*ck? Jacob: but in this music video. She was 14.
Davis: Yass. Lindsey: What's the bigger f*ck?
Jacob: So, her color is orange, and her animal is the frog.
Charlotte: Ribbit!
Umu: She isn't part of a subunit, and in Luna lore, so, meaning in the story that they're setting up for this girl group,
she is said to have gotten lost in a forest.
The song is called 'Kiss Later', and was composed by Hyun Hwang.
Charlotte: Do it!
Peyton: What? Here we go!
I thought the last one was birds.
Charlotte: Maybe they're all intertwined together, because they're part of the same group.
Peyton: Maybe...
Charlotte: Because she's got bright pink on her walls, Peyton: True Charlotte: but her color's orange.
Peyton: True
Charlotte: They're showing they're united.
Peyton: Ah
Elizabeth: Is it in Lydian?
Lydian is the key of childhood.
Jarod: What the heck?
Lindsey: Whoa!
Davis: Yeah
She's got the..
Lindsey: Oh, my God! Davis: Cuteness factor is maxed out. Wow. Lindsey: Yeah!
Lindsey: Oh, my God
Davis: Okay, we have another animal head. I like it. Lindsey: I love these horn interjections.
Peyton: Like a quasi-jazz feel.
With the strings, which makes it studio orchestra?
Jeremy: Oh, my God, that's creepy. Oh, no.
Rachel: She has very nasal resonance. Not that that's a bad thing.
Lindsey: She's literally the age of a freshman in high school.
Davis: Yeah.
Lindsey: But she's so talented.
Kevin: The weird subtle key change into E-major.
Isaac: (singing)
Oh, I guessed it right! Oh!
Davis: Oh! Lindsey: Whoa! Davis: Nice piano fill.
Lindsey: Piano frog. Piano man.
Elizabeth: That's not how you play the piano.
Rachel: See, they make it way more complex when it's just piano.
Henry: Oh, sh*t!
Elizabeth: Oh, yeah, bichord!
Woo!
Peyton: Wow, they were walking the baseline.
Jarod: Like, kind of like staccato in the rhythm and the line kind of feeds this,
not necessarily animation style, just the videography I guess, in a broader term.
Jeremy: I like how she's harmonizing with herself. Rachel: Yep.
Very rhythmic.
Katie: That's a good message. I like the message in this song.
Jarod: Yeah
Jarod: Just give me a hug. Kiss later. I dig that.
Kevin: Oh, I love the bridge, and how it starts off with the exact same da, da, da, da, or da, d,a da, da--same rhythm.
Like sophisticated songwriting.
Elizabeth: No. No, no. No. No. No, no. Henry: Fourteen-year-old!
Elizabeth: No! No!
Thank you.
Jarod: As far as the messages in all of the K-pop videos, I like this one the best. Katie: Me, too.
Jarod: Like, in everything I've seen.
Elizabeth: Oh, yes, electric guitar solo. Let's do it! Henry: Oh, yeah! Oh wow, hey!
Peyton: Whoa! Like, weird rock guitar jazz lines.
Elizabeth: Just listen to how many voices there are layered. That's crazy.
Peyton: Oh, it's more so like, "Yo, I'm into you, but I'm not sure I'm ready to kiss you yet".
Okaaay...that's a new one.
Charlotte: What?
Elizabeth: For the fact that she's 14 and she did that video, and like all the different voices layered, and the amount of complexity, like, that's,
that's phenomenal. I mean, and she's like doing those dance moves and I'm like man, at 14, I wouldn't get off the couch.
Henry: I get that it's like a whimsical thing about like, a girl kissing a frog prince-man,
but it's like a man who's like a frog, and he's like, "Kiss me, child!", and she's like, "Let's just hug for now".
I find that deeply disturbing.
I'm just so...uhm, ughh.....It gave me...you know, made me uncomfortable.
Elizabeth: Well it's just, they're clearly
playing up the fact that she's the youngest, like they didn't try and convince you that she was more mature than she is.
The song itself was very like childlike.
You know, it was a lot of like her voice is layered. and then like poppy fake brass, and you know,
there was like an electric guitar solo, which...
Henry: This is true. Elizabeth: You know, it definitely felt very childlike, with like the little like wind chimes at the beginning,
you know, like they're playing it up, and
Henry:The strings are like (mimicking strings)
Elizabeth: Yeah, so.. Henry: It was very ,"Aahhh!", you know, Elizabeth: Yeah, so, that's just,
I guess, the route that they chose to take.
Elizabeth: So, you know, Henry: Yeah Elizabeth: it was like, a fairy tale, like, you know, Princess and the Frog.
It's really, really hard to not get distracted by these videos, actually. There's so much going on. Henry: It's a lot to absorb.
Rachel: Well, that was weird! Jeremy: That was strange.
Rachel: Maybe it was supposed to be like, childish fantasyland.
Jeremy: Definitely. I mean like you said, they're playing off the fact that she's so young.
Rachel: Yeah
Also, I don't know if her sound would have worked, like the fact that she like was spitting stuff out, and it was very quick.
She doesn't have much time to actually like, sing sing.
Jeremy: Um, hmm. It was sorta like speaking Rachel: Which I think that worked.
She was very (mimicking singer ). Like nasal, yeah. Jeremy: A lot of people are like that young. Rachel: And like, it almost sounds like she was trying to manufacture that a little.
Jeremy: Um, hmm.
Rachel: But, I don't know. It was a lot.
Jarod: Wow! Katie: That was a lot to process. Jarod: Yeah. It's like very like (singing). Katie: That was like,
if you would have asked me what I thought K-pop was before I'd ever seen a K-pop video,
that's what I would have imagined.
Kind of jazz, but like (singing) Jarod: Kind of jazz, but like definitely sonorities that are not comparable to western pop music.
It's kind of its own sound, which is really neat.
Which is really fun. Katie: And just like a lot of colors, and a lot of things happening. Jarod: Yeah, it's like (mimicking noise)
Katie: But, we like the message. Jarod: We like the message, which is good, kids. Wait.
Lindsey: I don't really even know what to say. There's like, a lot.
Davis: I think the biggest thing that I could say is they were certainly more focused on the
Lindsey: Visuals?
like the music video than the music, I think. Lindsey: Um, hmm.
Davis:The music was fine, you know. Like it was cool, but like... Lindsey: It was enjoyable I'd say,
like it was easy to listen. Davis: Yeah. Lindsey: Like it was enjoyable to just like,
sit back, have on.
Isaac: Very cute. Very cute timing.
Isaac: They bring it to light, where have like poppy motives, like the way she uses her voice.
It's very short,
articulated, and it just bounces around here and there. And also I really love the motive from the chorus, which was like,
da da da (singing) Kevin: Um, hmm.
Where you have...you don't resolve it entirely,
so it leaves a vast, like...it leaves so much room to explore. I thought it was very nice.
Kevin: It's the one of the best. Like don't sleep on this. Just because it's in a big band style doesn't mean that it's like,
you know, a gimmick or inferior. This one really, really does it well, and it's harmonically adventurous,
it's got all the instruments, it's got that cool guitar solo, and like, it's just so fresh. It's
like among the first few songs, like this and Hustle song might be the most
diverse when it comes to just the instrumentation and the differences between the different choruses, so, it's a good song.
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