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I hope you enjoy the following spicy reaction! HOT SAUCE!
So you are now reacting to NCT Dream's 2021 comeback "Hot Sauce".
Henry: Is this composed by 3racha?
U: THAT WOULD'VE BEEN DOPE!!!
H: That would've been awesome.
U: Originally NCT Dream was a graduating subunit of NCT. So after you turned 20 or 18 or something you would graduate and not be in that subunit anymore.
And one of them graduated and fans were just heartbroken. So everyone just kept saying "Put him back in! Put him back in!"
And the member, Mark, said that "Hot Sauce" is actually a very meaningful song to all of them because it is the title track off of their very first full length album together.
Through the lyrics of "Hot Sauce" they try to show off their hot sauce-like charms. The Korean title is...
Ju Young: 맛!
U: Aka? JY: 맛! 맛! Like like like taste.
U: Flavor... Yes you're correct. Synonyms.
And implies the strong and hot flavor we want to show through this song. Our song will be just like hot sauce: spicy and unforgettable.
The song is composed by Martin Wave, Tinashe Sibanda, Philip Kembo, Rosina ‘Soaky Siren’ Russell, John Mitchell, Ninos Hanna, Yoo Young Jin, Bantu, and Dr. Chaii.
So this is a ghost pepper hot sauce. We're only going to do a tiny dab of it because I can't take-OH THAT'S A LOT, ISN'T THAT? THAT'S A LOT.
This is 480,000...scoville. Sean: Scoville.
480K!
U: Cheers!
3, 2, 1!
K: WHAT?
Sam: Oh!
Oh!
H: That's...high lows synths.
Charlotte: It's still going.
S: I like how the *sings* is lower and muted.
S: Oh they're using a guitar...
H: That was a great lead in to the pre-chorus.
K: I like the vibe. It's a summer song. Very summer song. Owen: 6, 7, 1.
H: This is the first time we've really heard them sing too.
C: *laughing*
OOO!
O: I like that they have the two sections where it's *singing*. So the upper trajectory and this is the downward trajectory.
And it's a very stark contrast between the two.
U: It's like an octave up over the *singing the intro part*.
S: Yea I like that it's doubling.
U: OOOOOO
Oh now it's muffled in a different way.
Raffi: Stimulate the senses.
Sam: Yea...are they falling from the sky?
R: NCT Naughty, naughty...
S: Are they gonna sell NCT Hot Sauce? R: Oh that'd be brilliant.
K: This contrast is very nice. I do like that. O: Yea.
U: Oh I love the harmony coming in.
S: Mmmm...gosh that descending...babble is so good.
Jason: I like that.
The and of 2.
I like that they have a leg move...
U & S: OOO!
S: ooo
U: This part is surprisingly rhythmic. Usually they go for more ethereal in the bridges. And smooth.
R: WOWWW! S: Oh...
U: OOOOO!
Using hand percussion to get into this section though. Pretty cool!
R: Digital. Electronic. S: Yea, it's getting very digital. Yea.
It's interesting because they're mixing the digital stuff with like a more fragmented approach to production.
U: Right back in.
Ah! Even more changes!
C: Hot sauce descant.
H: It's falling down.
J: So that was all happening inside of a hot sauce bottle?
Don't eat us!
He was gonna eat them!
They stopped him.
Because it was actually them.
U: They are the hot sauce? J: Hot sauce inception.
U: You're not effected by this at all are you?
S: It's spicy...It's pretty spicy. But it's not bad.
U: *sarcastically while suffering* Yea, that wasn't too bad.
S: I was expecting it to be painful and it's just like...
U: IT'S PAINFUL.
H: They are selling this right? They are bottling that shit up and selling it right?
U: No announcement yet but a lot of the fans are hoping so...
H: That's hot
U: I really like this comeback a lot. S: Mhmm.
JY: Dude the dancing that you've been showing us today has been so good. J: Yea the dancing is pretty good. I like the eyeballs.
JY: Oh my god the eyeballs.
U: What about the song?
JY: *Laughing* I'm sorry U: What about the music!
J: I like eyeballs.
R: I like it.
S: Me too! R: Innovative.
H: Very, very cool.
U: So you like that part?
H: Yea!
U: Is that the innovative part of the track?
R: Obviously! No I think there's quite a bit more to it than just... U: Tell me more! Tell me more!
R: I don't know.
U: HOW CAN YOU SAY THERE'S MORE AND THEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE MORE IS?!
Raffi you can't clickbait me like that!
S: It's very memorable and if it were just that each time I feel like that would've gotten annoying.
And so like having it keep popping up but muted different ways, and in the chorus is...
First it's mostly that and that sort of shoulder roll thing.
U: You like that? JY: I don't know why. I like that.
And then that's repeated throughout the song.
J: It's because during that, most of the stuff, there's not like a lot of harmonic stability. So it's kinda just like...
Cause they're like *singing* but not like really...just kinda like screaming about hot sauce...
U: It's kinda like what a siren would be, so playing with microtones.
J: Yea microtonal going down while they're just screaming hot sauce.
So it's interesting.
K: I did like how they did like a...they have the *singing* and then they have like an instrument--it's probably a synth or something that like slides down along that pitch. You know?
U: So doubling the...? K: Yea.
U: What you call gimmick?
K: Technically we are playing with microtones here and I like that there's an instrument that like smooths it out and it makes us hear that.
C: It sounds very Spanish. And I don't know if it's actually Spanish but it sounds like timbre and the way that it's done sounds traditionally Spanish.
S: Not having lyrics there made that choreography stand out more, but then adding lyrics in and adding rapping in made it really keep staying engaging.
U: Except...that is lyrics. S: As it went on.
U: It's Spanish.
"Menea para abajo" (Translation: Shake it down low)
S: Oh! U: "Menea para abajo, y que menea para abajo." (Translation: Shake it down low, and shakes it down low)
Sorry I took Spanish in first grade and then I forgot everything. S: Oh okay.
It was so filtered I assumed it was just... U: It was just gibberish.
It was also super mumbled.
Cause I think it's successful for a reason, other than just changing how muffled it is. Or how edited it is.
I think it's a lot of what is accented.
S: Yea, I think you're exactly right. That's making more engaging than just *singing*
U: Right? Yea. S: ...going down.
U: Yea! So what I love about this hook is because first listen you can think it's gibberish and you can *singing*
...along with it. So that's the first thing. And then its rhythm is cool, and then how they use the fact that it is *descending noises*
Kinda like a siren and use that musically. Which is super dope.
And then on top of that I think this song is a perfect mix of acoustic and electric.
S: Yea that's true. When the guitars come in it feels like a surprise, but it fits nicely. It doesn't just feel like "here let's have someone strum a guitar".
C: That guitar again another Latin-esque kinda sound. H: The guitar.
C: So I guess they're playing off of that as well. Which is nice.
K: The first time I heard this the Flamenco Guitar and the *sings*
I like that. I like that the song about hot sauce does have a summery vibe at least in the prechorus.
But then it has a dark bass in the chorus. I still like the contrast.
R: I didn't see it coming that it was going to get so electronic. So digital. It like took a weird turn. It was very subtle and happened quickly.
S: It was very interesting. What sort of genres they were pulling from, or what inspiration they were pulling from.
The parts with the acoustic guitar, sort of paralleled with the reggaetón and that was something that was COMPLETELY different from the latter half of the song, which Raffi mentioned.
It took a more digital approach to the song. The glue that was sort of merging the two was that *singing* which is really interesting to see because...
That just shows how fluid that sort of motif is. It really is something that is hypnotic and draws you into a really fascinating degree.
Because as soon as I heard that I was like "Whoaaaa! This is sooo crazy!"
O: I think that the big drop, the electronic drop,
that was sort of the pre-chorus sort of thing...I thought that was pretty cool as an idea especially.
Because they had that had that harmonic rhythm bridge and then they built up the nice trajectory to what we expected to be the chorus because we've had that back and forth.
And the chorus is like the verses sort of texture.
But we're expecting a drop and then it finally got up to this higher tier, and I thought that was cool.
U: I know some of the reactors had mixed opinions because not a lot of people like the shouted type choruses. Especially the ones with a lot of *singing* kinda stuff.
But I think that's what also brings in the NCT Dream flavor of still having that kinda youthful high tone yelling versus NCT 127 that's more Taeyong and Johnny and stuff like in the forefront.
A lot of Haechan!
It's catchy, the instrumental is catchy.
S: Yea I really liked how they kept changing up the chorus.
C: Each chorus had something else layered into it vocally which was very nice and interesting. Because the first part was just instrumental below like "pick my dish". Is that what he says?
And then you layer in...you know...then there was another part over it. One guy was on his own doing a thing. And then they added a descant over that one last time we went through it.
Not to mention that time you think you're going to get the last chorus after the bridge and they just break it down and then they go back into the chorus.
It's a nice classic like changes of the traditional form. Which is nice.
J: Yea, they do. They like to scream. They need to * gestures*
JY: That's not bad!
J: No but like they need to scream about things that aren't just hot sauce or Bruce Lee.
Kinda like the end of the world. Like chaos.
HOT SAUCE!!!!!!!
U: The reason why I think this song is so successful to me is because we get the playfulness that--at least I connect to NCT Dream.
Even "Ridin" I guess some adventurousness to it. At least with the music video. Right?
It's like you're going out, you're having fun, and you don't really care what others think. That's what I kinda connect to NCT Dream.
S: Fair. Yea, I definitely connect the brighter sound--even just more major tonic chords like in a very simple way. I connect that with NCT Dream.
Like you get that sort of thing with "Diggity" with "Deja Vu".
U: This song brings an extra spice to that brightness that we've heard Dream have. I mean with "Go" and "Ridin" there are dark sounds.
But I think the electronic sprinkles of like the bass, the booom drone, it's a nice balance of a lot of different elements.
H: No their singing was real good. I like the balance between like rap and singing.
U: All in all, SUUUPER solid NCT Dream comeback. 10/10. S: Yea!
U: Implies the strong and hot flavor we want to show through this song. Our song will just be like hot sauce: spicy and unforgettable.
JY: Siracha.
J: 3RACHA!