Henry: Oh my god the key change as she's going through life that's so
Henry: perfect
Umu: You're now arriving to the SM station song
featuring Yesung from Super Junior and Bumkey from the group Troy
the lyrics were written from the perspective of a carpet that
has seen everything its owner has been through the carpet tells the girl that
It is always there for her to provide her comfort and rest when she needs it
The song is composed by monotree
And by the way, like google jingle you hear at the beginning is just the SM station jingle. It isn't actually for the song
Kevin: I hope this key this piece is not an e-flat minor because that would be a bum key
to play on the piano. Isaac: Oh, yeah,
Kevin: let's go
Fiona: Carpet is not a good angle to be seen from typically
Daniel: Whoa,
Daniel: Oh That's like I thought that's the actual music videos I was like wow
This is awesome already
Seiji: Wow, that's a jazz intro
Henry: ha
Cloud: I think I just got goosebumps.
Kevin: oh I love the freedom. It's like they established like a soft beat, but then has these tiny little
Surprises
Seiji: Yeah at school they've got like the altered dominants going on to make it a little more flavorful
Kevin: Oh OH
all the whole tones
Isaac: every piano student just
Going at it
Kevin: Oh more whole tones
Stephen: It's always interesting how when somebody wants to get super emotional they just picked piano
you know and then I feel like they sing it a specific way to like, why why we associate that with
Those emotions, you know
Henry: aw the stain too Cloud: it's got character now
Cloud: oooh that's niiiiiiice
Isaac: Yoga's good for you- or stretching. Kevin: Yes
Kevin: Check these chords are so diatonic
Kevin: and then you got the snare and then oh there's some jazz
Isaac: oh voices
Kevin: ooo, and then the jazz intensifies a lot
Isaac: ooo give that g7
*GM7
Kevin: oh my god b6 mixture
Henry: Oh
Henry: awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Cloud: I feel like that might have been really creepy
but like it wasn't (noo) because of context
Henry: no it's like Aladdin
Henry: As vocal mixing and
Like the when they wrote and voiced the harmonies for the voice parts, that's really nice
Cloud: it's been a while since I've seen a cassette tape
Henry: oh she's still cleaning it
Oh my god that rising, oh my god the keys change as she goes through life, that's so
Henry: perfect
Elizabeth: It's not truly like dramatic and heart-wrenching if you don't modulate up like a step (yup) at least
Owen: Is the carpet- no Toy Story 3 the carpet is
Elizabeth: stoooooop
Cloud: No! Henry: singing that in unison is really effective
*gasp*
Henry: More whole tone like we heard in the beginning
but it's sadder
Cloud: *crying* Buying a new carpet
Henry: or is it the same one?
*GASP*
It's the same carpet Cloud: I'm so confused
Henry: the same it is the same
Seiji: aw man they shoulda ended on minor 4 though
Would have been sold,
Stephen: man she's got a thing for that upholstery
Seiji: Those are expensive you I mean you would have a thing for those that was like a nice rug
Elizabeth: I don't know why but that made me really sad
Umu: the story the music or a combination?
Elizabeth: I mean the music was like
Owen: The music was pretty sad
Elizabeth: I feel like there's a lot of songs that we listen to that are that like very calm
but emotionally
drawing you in kind of songs where it's just like mostly vocals and
Elizabeth: Solo piano Owen: ballad style Elizabeth: ballad style. Yeah
Owen: it's all about letting go and like growing up and getting rid of things that you
love or
Had when you were younger throughout your childhood
Elizabeth: Maybe that's just like really applicable to my life right now. And that's why it's sad
Isaac: It's really weird thinking about this because I'm thinking okay the music definitely
Supported it where it's very pensive like you hear the bass just slowly strumming. They're very tasteful very colorful in the sense
It's like there's block chords. So it's just all at once and then sometimes at the very ends. They've just play out in arpeggios
I guess more split up. So it's perceived as an arpeggio
Kevin: nostalgic, Isaac: very nostalgic
Yeah
And also just like the the way that the music is trying to push
Well for me I felt it was pushing me towards feeling this nostalgia of like, okay, I'm looking at the screen
I'm looking at carpets. I'm looking at this girl interacting with the carpet
And then yeah, it's like the inflections all the ups and downs and also like the whole whole tone scale
It's like a little bit peculiar
I think I don't really know why this is you put it there, but it made it stand out
So it's just oh you know it's the beginning. You know, it's the end.
So maybe it's a signifying so well, there's a beginning and end to
Carpets because carpets do have a warranty
Kevin: very often in these jazzy style chamber jazz style. Um,
k-pop songs
I-I-I hear
the pianist or the instrumentalists trying to make every chord the juiciest it could possibly be and
the result of that is a lot of the songs end up sounding somewhat similar because
every chord is just so juicy and
it's like oh here's another really juicy jazz song and there's nothing
inherently wrong with that but then a song like carpet comes up and
and
it's so
Economical in the way it uses- when it chooses to be diatonic
There's some chords where they just play notes from the triad
All the riffing is from the triad and then sometimes it breaks out like the beginning obviously it breaks out the whole tone
but then it becomes much simpler for a bit and then it breaks out the crazy jazz and then by the time it modulates
Because of how complex is we don't even realize he really modulated
Fiona: I thought that song the piano and voice really like were a good partnership
Daniel: Yeah, for sure.
Fiona: They weren't alone. Really.
Daniel: I think you mentioned the balance right? That was like really really good
Yeah
I think it was like it's very traditional like I think jazz trio with percussion bass and piano as you said before
How it's on a very holiday esque
and I think it also has to do with the fact that it was like very piano happy was
Also because in the music video how it was retrospective. Hmm, right?
it was looking back
like aw we're brining back the memories that we created rather than like this is a forward moving thing
Well at the end she put her face against the carpet. I was like that's really sweet
But you're gonna break out like me and I don't think that's gonna be good either.
Henry: I like that the outro part had the
The whole scale the whole tone going it out it was so nice
Umu: Come back it was at the beginning too- Terry: yeah.
Henry: Yeah. Yeah exactly
that was like a
Terry: So that was the moment where I'm like I could hear like the melody of a jazz standard and then it's a whole nother thing
But like just changed the timbre of the voice and change the melody of what he's singing and like it's a k-pop song
You know, they're so funny. I like you know music is music
Henry: Yeah
Terry: you know
Henry: and I think just in terms of like because we know that I talked a lot about like choices for like
How you're gonna have something sound or like what sounds you were gonna use they very easily
When the bass came in could have had riveted simple Shh and brushes and it would have sounded
It's not a really nice it would have sounded
what many would aren't you exactly the same but there's something about
removing that element and just having it be like lively piano and bass and the voices that just like like
Sometimes it's not always what you choose to put in. It's what you choose to leave out, which is basically like, you know
Henry: it's not about the notes you play it's the notes you don't play
But like we believe it's really true when you're thinking about what
Henry: what
Like needing exactly enough to make something exactly the way it's supposed to be and not feeling like you
Need to say a million things just to get one point across if you can say one thing to get one point across
Just say one thing, you know, I think that is really important and often overlooked in pop music
Cloud: dude every time they went into the whole tone scale, we're like whoa!
Henry: It was setting the scene and then it was
Resetting this scene that probably was evoking the flashback. Cloud: give you that Henry: instead of like harp harp harp
Whole tone. I think within jazz has more of that mysterious effect. So using that whole tone scale there and then
That because we see her and then it's whole tone and then we do flashbacks and now it's like we're back today
Cloud: take it back to using the whole tone at the same point because in the beginning it's her walk into the shop and the end is her walking in the shop.
Henry: Right so the whole tone is the transition is musical transition that fits so well with the the film
I don't know-
Cloud: I like thought that it was her mom walking into the shop (what came first)
Because like I was like, well they have to get the carpet. Yeah, that wasn't sure at first it's her (Yeah)
Henry: as far as timing you cut and edit whatever but you had to create a narrative to fit that kind of music
or vise versa
Cloud: or the last part where she's all like all like
she's in different outfits and like growing
Older and it's just like switching very rapidly and the music is like climbing up
Cloud: that was that was a LOT
Henry: I didn't catch on to the form. I wish I did. I know as far as jazz goes
Since there's so much improvisation. I think having this narrative structure
allows
listeners to digest new ideas that come a little easier, you know, because in
If you just go out to a cafe and listen to jazz, a lot of musicians will play familiar licks
like were just small musical passages and
to jazz music jazz musicians
they may recognize a lot of those like, oh I heard you play that in the last thing or oh,
That's a that's actually a little small small melodic phrase from another famous jazz piece
but with here
I think especially different
instrument
Timbres whether or not like it's some figure in the bass or it's the piano that's playing something or the whole tone scale to harmony
I think having the narrative helps guide you listen guide the listener through like
Why they're playing a thing and also kind of ties
typical
harmonic
Choices to typical emotions like whole tone being mysterious that's a typical choice, but with the narrative it helps like explain
Yeah, this is a typical feeling and here's a good way of portraying that I feel like I'm rambling. I don't know
Cloud: she'll take what she likes
Umu: cool
Henry: how to read phonetic Cloud: im trying to communicate ASO so