[Subtitles by youtube @anisian] Raffi: That rapping though, man-
stratosphere
[Rossini's Semiramide Overtune plays]
Sam: Hello!
Before we jump- oh wait that wasn't in the script, I'm sorry-
Umu: No that's fine!
*static noise*
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Sam & Umu: *claps* woooo~
Umu: You are now reacting to the boy group, SuperM. Which is SM entertainment's super group-
So it actually it's actually consisting of members from groups that already exist
So from EXO, NCT, and SHINee, and you're reacting to their 2020 pre-release single called "Tiger Inside"
Ju Young: I think I know some of these people so- (Umu: Yeah-) I'm going to try-
Umu: You don't want me to tell you who?
Ju Young: I'm gon- Yeah, (Jason: Can you tell me who?) I'm gonna try to figure out who they are Jason: Because I'll toTalLy freak out
Umu: hahaHAHA Jason: Because I know everyone in this video, PERSONALLY
Umu: In an interview, the member, Ten, said this song is about overcoming hardships and bringing out the qualities of the tiger-
Strength and courage, that are hidden in all of us
The lyrics encourage us to protect our personal boundaries and speak out against hate
Ju Young: *Australian accent* oOh, I like that, I like the tiger reference...
Ju Young: *American accent* Oh my god, I need to sto- Jason: *British accent* That was wonderful
Jason: *British accent* I do also-I also like the tiger reference Umu: *about Ju Young* wHY are you suddenly Australian
Ju Young: Why am I- Umu: *about Jason* wHY ARE YOU ENGLISH?
Jason: *British accent* eXCuse me~ *quotes "Hamlet"* 'to be, or not to be (Umu: What the fu-), that is the question'-
Ju Young: *Australian accent* And here we see a tiger-
Jason: *still quoting "Hamlet" with accent* 'Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer, the-'
Ju Young: Oh my god Jason can we just like play this?
Umu: *screeching in the background*
Umu: The song is composed by Jonatan Gusmark and Ludvig Evers, also known as the producing duo "Moonshine"
Umu: and Alexander Magnus Karlsson
Henry: oOOh-
Owen: Wait, isn't Magnus Carlsen the really famous chess player?
Umu: Oh- (Kevin: I think so) haha Kevin: That rings a bell
Umu: But this is ALEXANDER Magnus (Owen: Like the world's best- ok cool) Karlsson Kevin: Alexander the chess ma-
Owen: Alexander...secret identity (Kevin: So-) best chess player in the world
Kevin: I saw a tiger (Owen: Oh?) and a tiger saw a man Owen: Alexander...secret identity (Kevin: So-) best chess player in the world
Kevin: I saw a tiger (Owen: Oh?) and a tiger saw a man
*T/N: alexa play awkward silence by Stray Kids*
Henry: tiGER STYLE are you ready? (Charlotte: Yeah) Meow, Meow, Meow
Sam: woahhhhh...
Jason: *hums the first line* Ju Young: *yahhhhhh*
Ju Young: Oahhhhhhhh Jason: That sounds like a tiger's *trilling mouth noise*
Charlotte: ooOH
Henry: I like that harmony
Ju Young: oH MY GOD HE'S KAI
OH MY GOD IT'S KAI...IT'S KAIIIII
Jason: Yo he looks fresh
Ju Young: OH MY GOD SHINee!! oH MY GOD BAEKHYUN *nonsensical fangirling noises*
Henry: oOH tritones~! woAH
Charlotte: wHErE aRE we goiNG??
Henry: OoH that harmony!
Kevin: Oooh I like the-
the rap chorus voice
it's really dissonant somehow
Raffi: I love the contrast of speaking and singing (Sam: Yeah) It's like I've got something to say (Sam: Yeahhhh)
Jason: He's got the most drip Ju Young: oOohhhh Oh my god my king, uagh, my vocal king
Kevin: Oh and then the next section is all in major, that's cool it leads into it
Charlotte: What are we doing there?
Jamal: Oh, geez... he's jacked too
Kevin: Oh I like the echo *vocalizing* aW- Owen: Oh, that is cool, yeah
Kevin: I like the sound of that Owen: I like this chorus, yeah (K: aW)
K: It's so crunch
Sm&Rf: Woah
Ra: This is cool though
Jm: Singing his heart out
Ja&JY: oOoO
Ja: Super flawless vocal performance there
JY: Oh my god... wow... wow... wow... woah
B: oH?! Okay
H: oHH He went even higher in the last little bit!
I like the difference of his timbre, a little higher Ch: *screams*
Sm: This song has so much energy
I like that
Rf: That rapping though...man...
stratosphere
Sm: Yeahhh Rf: In the stratosphere
Sm: That went into outer space Rf: Hahaha
O: I love how much space there was in that last section, it felt so open
JY: *gasp* I love the traditional stuff they're wearing! Oh my God~ Ja: Yeah, I like that
Jm: oH
ahaHA-
Ja: That's almost haunting even though it's in major
Rf: That is not your average tag you know?
*hmm* yeah-
JY: oH Harmony, yes, wow, jesus christ Ja: I like how they had that *vocalizing* at the end
Ja: Um....
U: dO yOU wAnNA go thRouGH thAt a seCONd tiME? yOu were scReamiNG the eNTiRE time JY: i"m sorry asdkfljk no I was like-asoidjf-
Ja: Yeah that's gonna be a bitch for you to edit because we're both just like
*turkey noises* (umu dying of laughter behind the camera)
JY: We were just like talking agai- I'm sorry- Ja: Yeah you were screaming and I'm like that guy's fresh (4x)
JY: No but like I'm sorry guys my 2014 like [EXO's] "Growl" phase (Ja: grOwL) came out oh my god and like [SHINee's] "Hello" ough!
*static noise*
Rf: WoW... (U: So I heard a lot of wow's can you go into it?) I know haha
Rf: There was just so much charisma to it and like in the music too, like I mean... you know-
it whoo-
it's interesting when like they start out right away just speaking instead of singing because you're like-
that's really the text, like the text is doing the work there
and so, the message is clearly the goal
Sm: Yeah, no, I definitely agree with that. I feel like there's also this interesting sort of duality of-
things that were being spoken and things that like weren't pitched and then things that were sung or things that were-
things that that had pitch, and it blended together so seamlessly. I was just- I was having such a good time and-
that chorus, that descending line in the choruses
that's nuts
K: I don't know why I imagined like an old orphanage where like they ring a bell when they say dinner is ready
and then the tones are *vocalizing* I think all the kids would just be like, okay it's dinner time, we can't mess around ahaha
U: Yeah, so you seem to enjoy a lot about that- K: yeAHH I really like that!
K: The whole experience felt very compact even though there was like an added rap section
Okay, if a classical composer hears this, this is not meant to be serious, but I feel like this is the type of song where like-
a composer could analyze just to see how simple ideas develop
into like an entire song (O: Mhm) experience- cause the whole thing with introducing the tritones the- *vocalizing*
and then how that plays with the major and then sometimes the minor, I feel like-
every new section is built towards stuff introduced from the previous section in a very calculated way
H: It's a f-god dang parallel major to minor, this time I was- I didn't have to pluck it on the piano
I was singing and I'm like- (Ch&U: *starts clapping* Ch: YAYYYY HENRYYYY YAYYYY) OH MY GOD I went to school for music
H: Yeah, what is that *vocalizing*
3, 1, 5-7, *vocalizing*
Why does this keep happening... I'mma-
Why is it always when I think something in Kpop sounds like wHaT wAs thaT haRMONY?!
Its literally just a parallel major to PARALLEL MINOR WHY DOES THAT ALWAYS HAPPEN??
WHY IS IT EVERY SINGLE TIME I THINK THIS IS LIKE- OH THIS IS SOME WILD HARMONY, IT ENDS UP JUST BEING *plays piano*
and somehow that blows my mind...
*sad boi piano music meme*
*static noise*
Ch: *wheezes* U: Yeah, Charlotte what did you enjoy about that song?
Ch: wOO (U: Mhm) wOO (U: Mhm) WooOOOHOO
Okay, what was that first one that they did? (H: *vocalizing) There was-
Cause that was the second half, but in the first half we had a different one... (H: hEh?)
Ch: BWAHSHAHAHA
C: *vocalizing*
H: That's tritone Ch: Yeah (3x) but then they do it-
Ch: reverse it I think and then we go the other way right?
Ch: *vocalizing*
H: oH?! Ch: *vocalizing* That's the second motive can you play it back to back Hen-hen?
Ch: *Henry plays piano* Now go to the other one *piano*
H: And then that was- *piano*
It's almost kinda like... *piano*
Ya know what it feels like? It feels like an octatonic scale to me *piano*
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6-oh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8...9
Octatonics- oh jesus christ why am I doing this... normal scales that you hear have seven notes in it before repeating
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7- and then we repeat "F"
The octatonic scale goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and that's kinda what I feel when I'm hearing them go *piano*
That would be there, but then the *piano* that's like a-
I think of like of space missions-
Apollo space missions, that's what... augmented? *piano*
Ch: Well I just think it's funny that we go from tritone to augmented
Okay, can we talk about something completely different now? *wheezes*
I wanna talk about the part at *dooby dooby dooby-doo* 2:17 where we get this very vocally like
break in it that just kinda all calms down
Henry-!
*spongebob time card 'a little longer than a few minutes later'*
Ch: Yes, so we have that-
I thought that we were ultimately going to go back into the last chorus then
and then they fade out into possibly one of the most wicked rhythmic rap verses ever
H: Yeah, I get you, I thought we were going to go back to the chorus there Ch: Yeah
H: Yeah (Ch: *vocalizing*) and then we have the triplets in
Ch: *vocalizing duh-duh-duh-duh-woOOP* H: And then back into the- I guess its the prechorus
Ch: Okay but then they go that into that but they just fade out everything else underneath it
So you just have that bass in there
and then they're just like bringing this whole other vibe- (H: It kinda brings up the whole tension) IT DOES-
I thought we were going to go back into it again, and then they're like SIKE here's a pre chorus
K: The beginning of the final chorus it sounded like we started-
but then he does a little blues scale downwards-(O: Oh, that was fantastic yeah) yeah
and then it's cool because we've heard this type of delay before but this one actually begins like
this is a start- aH gotcha, it's not the real start and then they just continue it's like-
it feels like the final chorus but like-
one measure (U: *sneezes in the background*) longer or two measures longer
B: Cause I feel like they do the same, there was like a formula put in a structure, but I feel like
the structure was never like built upon Cl: Yeah!
Cl: it was like they added modal mixture to make us not bored-
Cl: but I was like "but I'm still kinda bored" like it's cool (B: Yeah) but like B: The most exciting part was when-
B: that boy [Baekhyun] was actua- giving me range, giving me... high
It was visually enticing, but it was aurally not, not hitting, like it was good-
but like it never- there was like... missing something- like what you said, it had so much open space it felt like-
we've- (Cl: Yeah) there was something missing
I was like, I- some- certain parts I was like 'oh they could harmonize there' or they could (Cl: Yeah) just be like-
more risk, I don't know like a beat drop, something like a-
grandpa's- I don't know it was just like missing something
*spongebob time card voice 'meanwhile'*
O: It felt like the different sections were nicely latched together,
like it felt like a very tightly woven sort of feeling, as you went from one section to another-
and also as you went on, everything felt connected in a really tangible way
to what came before like you were talking about with the motivic development
and I thought there was one cool thing with the video complimenting the music really well,
where in the prechorus, the video kept tunin-going to shots where it was zooming in, preparing you for that drop, like kind of like drawing you in-
in a way where the music was doing as well, and I thought that was a cool way to play off each other
U: That is really cool, what do you think kept your attention even though we had lots of repeated material throughout?
K: I think there was a lot of changes- (O: There was a lot of changes) there were a lot of textures that-
are so interesting that when they come the second time, we're more familiar with the context now
so even though it's the same thing repeated, it's like that second time just
it's equally as fascinating as the first time
There's a really bouncy, and round sound that (O: Yes, absolutely) lower *boom-boom-boom-boom* and I thought that was such a cool effect
O: No, yeah there is that round sound is a good way of describing it (O&K: Yeah) I don't know but just the picture in my head of the song
is that sort of like- (K: Yeah exactly) that shape to it (U: A plump tiger bhajshd) whatever it is-
O: Yeah- (K: Oh no-) oh god-
K: Nah, this tiger's pretty lean (O: It is) if you're actually talking about a tiger (*Umu dying of laughter behind the camera*)
[BGM: Stray Kids' "Back Door" // Subtitles by youtube @anisian]
JY: *deep breath* I'm- oh my god- (Ja: Yeah, we-we've heard-) dude- I remember him with like mushroom hair, that's like all I remember