Fiona: They really invested with the bass. Lindsey: Yeah.
Fiona: Like they spent time with it, which is so important when music and songs do that because
if you have a strong bass, that's like where the harmonic function lies and everything's built on top of it.
If you have a good bass, your song is already better than 50% of pop songs out there.
*Rossini's Semiramide Overture plays*
Umu: So BTS is a seven member boy group that we followed quite closely during the first season of this series.
We're about to embark on a journey of solo songs, where each member basically produced their own solo song-- Charlotte: oh that's so cool!
--in their 2016 album.
Umu: So this very first one is Jungkook.
He is the maknae of the group meaning the youngest.
Oh this is actually the very first song out of the seven solo songs on the album 'cause we're reacting
to them in literal order that they are on the album. Fiona: "Reacting to the K"
Umu: Tony Esterly, David Quinones, and Rap Monster composed this song.
Jungkook attempted to write his own lyrics for this song, but ended up asking Rap Monster to write them for him.
Lindsey: *a proud stan* Yeah he did.
Umu: Since he signed the label at such a young age, his members were like family and practically raised him.
This song is thanking his members for bringing him out of his shell, and in the past he's
always told them: "You know what? I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm strong you don't have to worry about me."
He's finally admitted to them like, "You know what? My one
weakness or the one time I feel pain is when you guys are in pain."
So he expresses his feelings towards them in this song.
Peyton: Ow
Charlotte: Pew!
Charlotte: *shook* Oh. Peyton: Ooh, spacey.
*shook intensifies*
Peyton: Woah, that was really cool.
Kevin: I like that *imitates* like the sample just kind of cut.
Katie: I thought my earbuds were like lagging, but it's just the texture of the song. That's so cool
Hugo: Oh :o James: Yooooo.
Hugo: Very trap. James: pfft
Hugo: It is, it's what it is!
Lindsey: But it's so rhythmically interesting already like, you know, even the bass line and stuff. Fiona: Yeah.
Hugo: Okay, that's not trap.
James: Okay, it has layers. Hugo: It's like an onion-- James: Like an ogre--
*both laugh*
Kevin: Ohh, reggae? Yunyi: Yeah.
Kevin: Oh not quite. It almost went reggae because of the *imitates the drums* Umu: Yeah.
Yunyi: Because it was almost--that's like sort of a steel drum, actually. Kevin: Exactly.
Yunyi: These lyrics are beautiful
Charlotte and Peyton: OHHH!
Peyton: Playing quality double-time.
Henry: Oh I like the bass voice that pairs with him an octave down.
Underrated technique.
Yunyi: I like how like it's in a very slow four, but the subdivisions are so quick so it feels, like, relaxed and
like upbeat at the same time.
Charlotte: Oh!
Peyton: Yeah. Charlotte: We're on like a different drum track now. Peyton: Yeah.
Peyton: I like how they're using the space though, it's like drums for a few bars,
and then it's like kind of just the electronic like-- Charlotte: Yeah. Peyton: *demonstrates*
Lindsey: It's very--it's like a very syncopated drumline and also just general bass lines, and it's just really nice.
Fiona: *imitates the sound, extra as ever*
Henry: He's got a decent voice, but it just sounds like it has been destroyed by a computer.
I'd like to hear like a raw mix of this actually.
*jamming*
Peyton: Ooh, it used to be smile at me but now it's cry with me.
Fiona: *imitating*
Lindsey: But like the voice on the word "begin".
Fiona: Ohhh. Lindsey: That like floats up above.
Fiona: It's like harmonizing.
Lindsey: But this is really-- *reads lyrics* :o
Lindsey: (reads) "I feel like dying when my brothers are sad, when my brothers are sick it hurts more than when I'm sick".
*more jamming ft. semi-judgemental James*
Fiona: They really invested with the, um, bass.
Lindsey: Yeah. Fiona: Like they've spent time with it. Which is so important when
music and songs do that because if you have a strong bass, that's like where the harmonic function lies
and everything's built on top of it.
If you have a good bass, your song is already better than 50% of pop songs out there.
*even more jamming*
Peyton: *imitating high note* Charlotte: Yeah.
Jordan: It's got almost like a EDM kind of vibe yeah at the same time
It's like not as like it's like a very deep song yeah, very intense lyrics. A very intense purpose
Katie: Yeah
Payton: Man, I really like the song. Charlotte: I do too it's like one four five one which is very simple
But like it's still really nice. Payton: Yeah
Umu: Yeah, so even though it was more simple melodically
What cool-- Charlotte: I think are different rhythms in the drum tracks that they chose to add that made it,
That kept it very interesting and the fact that they manipulated time, not in like changing any sort of meter
But just changing a whole how do you feel it? So instead of feeling like you know bigger?
Maybe two they started making you feel a very fast four
That's what make it interesting. Payton: If I were to like put a mental image on it
I can like see this little ocean music video that you like most of a shot with him like
It's like, he's either like I don't know like on his bed contemplating or like going through life or whatever
But it's all the slow motion. You know because like even though it's like there's movement to it. You know
It's all like within this bigger large frame. You know like you feel the macrobeats, bigger
more than you feel the microbeats. Kevin: It's really sweet. It's stuff sort of bittersweet because of how the yeah, its got a melancholy
feel. Yunyi: So many arpeggiators
So many, it was good! Kevin: I like how, yeah most of the harmony is through like this ambient thing so the bass can be more flexible
That's why I couldn't keep track of the bass that it likes to do a lot of crazy syncopations and stuff.
I like that, that vibe.
Lindsey: It like really was fun to listen to
Because there was a lot of
Variety, and what was going on in the background. Given a lot of the lyrics were
I mean especially in the chorus, was very repetitive, but it worked because there was so much variety and other
aspects of the song.
Fiona: Hell yeah! Having that really strong
Bass and lower voice groove going on, that kind of shifted and evolved throughout the whole song.
It just made it so good! You know! And then the lyrics were so good! And
Lindsey: The song was just so good! Fiona: the reverb and the harmonization
It is like subtle yet effective well done high-class
High-quality. Jarod: Well the beat was really cool because it was like a very, like I said was like a very EDM
it's very like down be heavy, so it's like very like you can feel like the quarter notes was like Dom Dom DOM and then
It was really like the, like the way he sang it
like the timbre of his voice you could just kind of feel it and
Rhythmically, it was really cool. And you could just feel it's kind of he has like floatiness on top of the heavy beat
Which I think really helps convey the message
Katie: Harmonically it was pretty simple.
But that allowed you to listen to the words and to the rhythms
Umu: How do you think the message of this song was conveyed musically? Hugo: I think the music was overly expressive of lyrics?
But I thought that they were good
I mean I saw the lyrics of like you know "it hurts me when my brother's crying more than when I cry"
All that
And I mean like you know there, there are some pretty like emotional lyrics in there
But the song itself was more upbeat the song itself was more
Jam, let's go James: Yeah, I don't think it's supposed to be
Overly sad though. Hugo: No no. James: He's saying you made me again you you guys are
Almost physically a part of me. Hugo: Mm-hmm
James: So I don't think it has to be like a depressing song it can be something that you can groove to Hugo: True. Depends on how
you look at it. James: Yeah. Charlotte: I don't know I think if we had thought about the lyrics first. We wouldn't have pictured this exact song.
Payton: Yeah no, definitely not.
Charlotte: But I liked it. Payton: The song wasn't too
Power ballad-ey you know. Charlotte: Which is what I thought would be when you're giving us the description.
Payton: It's kind of one of those things. It's got like a, like it moves. You know, but it still it does it
It's not any less deep because of this movement
Charlotte: Yeah Lindsey: I think it worked really well because he was talking about like how his brothers which I'm assuming was referring to the group
Like made him who he is and how he like, I mean like the whole thing about like if his
Brother is sick. It's like worse than when he is sick because he just feels so bad
And I think like you can feel the connection
Almost in term because like the music just keeps like moving
And it keeps going and I don't know I think there was some like cool text painting kind stuff that
They did. Katie: I thought I found a lot of text painting in this actually like when
He said you made me begin for the first time
is when it like the entire instrumentation came in for the first time and
In the beginning when I said that it was kind of sparse
And I thought that my ear buds were cutting up because it was just like cutting in and out
It was saying in the beginning. I had nothing and so
Yeah, yes stuff like that
which was really cool at like I can tell that a lot of work was put into this and the lyrics are really sweet and
the message was really cool, and I thought it worked well with the song because it was it was simple but effective
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