Okay, yeah, we're rewinding
Many years as in like two years
Way back to the years before their debut days
henry: stone age // umu: STONE AGE!
Mamamoo when they were babies in their mother's wombs!
Fiona: Back in my day Mamamoo didn't have colored videos it was all black and white //umu: Yes, exactly.
Fiona: Don't be happy, be sad
Whoa
Okay, okay
Hugo&Gwen: *singing*
Umu: This was their very first music video ever put out
and it's a collaboration with a guy named Bumkey
Hugo: The key for your bum.
umu: WHAT
Naoki: Don't be happy
Naoki&Shimon: Oh, oh! Strings!
Naoki: Oh i'm in love already and I don't even know who it is
Naoki&Shimon: Oh, oh
Jarod: cinematic
Ohhh, (italian I guess) //(he's pretending to play the violin, man -umu)
Peyton: That was a ii V I
Jarod: Oh, shit!
Naoki: Ohhh!
Kevin: Man, old Hollywood.
Yunyi: Rachmaninoff is basically old Hollywood
Hugo: ooohhhh
Henry&Emiel: Woooooow
Emiel: *laugh*
Jarod: Wow
That-- That was just like
WOW.
Yunyi: Were those key related at all?
Kevin: Nope
From Eb to C#
Minor.
Yunyi: Wow.
Hugo: Oohhhh
Mamamoo, I've missed you.
Emiel: This is different.
Kevin: Man, it's like they knew their style from the start.
Yunyi: Yeah, right?
Jarod: You get the strings, and then--
Peyton: That's all you got, that's all you got
Jarod: Then she's here for you
Wow
Davis: Like I was saying, the acoustic guitar, like she was talking about how this is like Cheetah girls, yeah like
All these instrumentals and like--
Lindsey: The voice too! // Davis: Yeah, yeah
Davis: It just gives it like, almost
Davis: So dramatic! Like, very--
Lindsey: A little Latin flair
Davis: Yeah.
Hugo: And the music's great too
Hugo: It's soft and sexy and [roar]
Kevin: See, they're using the black and white to, like
Kevin: Cool effects.
Yunyi: But also, the choreography is still matching. Kevin: agreed.
Gwen: Mamamoo, they have
SUCH
GOOD
voices!
Hugo:They do!
Gwen: Like, technique wise but also just the way that they sing is so attractive!
Hugo: I know!
Shimon: Octaves.
Fiona: [weird siren-like sound] (imitating their singing)
Henry: Oooh!
Fiona: Unexpected
Hugo: OOOOH!
Gwen: [scream]
Naoki: Oooh, was that a modulation? Shimon: I see.
Emiel: Oh yeah, it is another modulation.
Umu: Wait // Fiona: [scream]
Henry: The beginning strings part was in a different key than the vocals
And then the song began
Henry: And then-- the song modulated.
Henry: And now we are where we are.
Jarod: My mind's been blown
Peyton: Ooh girl get that guitar tho! [scat-like sounds]
Fiona: Her voice is just so THICC
Henry: Mamamoo's really good.
Emiel: Her voice is really good. [nods to the song]
Fiona: They're so clear yet like-- // Henry: I'm like kinda pissed off at how good they are
Gwen: That's a boy, that's a boy
Hugo: Yeah, but like, it's still good.
Yunyi & Kevin: Damn.
Gwen: no nO NO NO (damn)
Gwen: That was cute.
Shimon: I like that acoustic guitar in the background.
Lindsey: Shh
Davis: That was really good.
Lindsey: Is it over?
Kevin: That's it?
Gwen: Okay, what?
Yunyi: (whispers) Here we go.
Yunyi: Second half
Kevin: Electro-swing?
Fiona: I like this Emiel: All of a sudden it's up-tempo.
Fiona: I like this vibe.
Fiona: I like where this is going.
Davis: wow this is pretty cool!
(cute)
Davis: This is happening.
Yunyi: Electro-swing!
Henry: Shhhhhit!
Emiel: wow.
Henry: Oh my god!
Emiel&Fiona: It's so good!
Peyton: [marks beats]
Jarod: This is cool! This is very different!
Fiona: It's so funky! Henry: Is this their first video ever? fiona: it's so funky
Lindsey: That scat! Davis: Snappy
Lindsey: I like that [scat].
Mamamoo
Henry: This kicks ass!
Emiel: This is really cool!
Jarod: This is what I'm talking about when I say substance to a piece
Jarod: Like, there's so much happening in one piece, like when people say like:
Jarod: "Jarod, what do you mean this doesn't have substance?" What I mean is like: // Peyton: MAMAMOOX2
Jarod: Lot of different things happening. It's like having a three-course meal, you know?
Jarod: You don't want the three courses to be all Mac and cheese
Jarod: you know what im sayin? You want to be like--
Peyton: 3 different types of Mac and cheese. I'm all for it.
Jarod: Yeah.
Peyton: Start up with some truffle and maybe go to some bacon mac and end with like--
Jarod: Dessert mac? Really?
Peyton: Uhh, no
Henry: Damn
Emiel: That was really good.
Henry: that was savage af. // Fiona: I love that kind of style.
Emiel: Yeah.
Fiona: That-- Like drum beats rollin'
Henry: That was great.
For lots of reasons.
Fiona: He's thinks they're hot
Henry: (agrees)
Henry: Also that music was really really good
Fiona: Their voices are
T H I C C
Henry: Yeah, their harmonies are always really really tight.
Henry: and uhh I wish I could speak more to theeeee
Orchestration, because it was just funky as hell.
Umu: So what'd you think?
umu: other than that being very cheetah girl Lindsey: I like that, it was very weird.
Lindsey: like...good weird Davis: That was not the Mamamoo that we listen too. So, that was pretty cool.
Davis: It kinda makes me wish that they did more stuff like that because they did it really well, you know they have the voices
Lindsey: They did a bunch of like twenties kind of style stuff
Davis: Yeah, but I mean, it wasn't the same like...
Davis: 2004 R&B Lindsey: I just liked that one that they did at the barbershop.
Davis: like, you know?
Davis: They pull off that slower style very well, and maybe they should think about making some more stuff like that. I would listen to it.
Gwen: This is like their own, like-- They like, they hyped themselves.
Naoki: It was very fun.
Shimon: It was great. Naoki: it was-
Naoki: The atmosphere they went for obviously worked. It was like the light kind of Billows cabaret vibe, you know?
Naoki: Kind of like, you know. I'm hot and I know it.
Shimon: Good quality. Quality timbre.
Kevin: I was thinking they'd have a whole song. Do they have a whole song that's just the last part?
Umu: I do not believe so. Yeah, I wish there was much more.
Yunyi: Yeah, they had an idea rolling and it kind of ended.
Umu: Alright.
Kevin: As you were saying they were being ambiguous.
(pun master does it again guys)
Yunyi: Was that a pun?
Oh, Mr. Ambiguous
oh, God damn it
Lindsey: Can we watch Mr. Ambiguous?
Umu: Yes, so okay, Mr. Amb--
Lindsey: aka Davis?
Davis: Am I ambiguous?
Umu: Mr. Ambiguous is their official debut song. They choreographed themselves.
Fiona: Wow!
Umu: This was all done by them and there will be a section in the middle where the song comes out and a lady walks in and
Umu: that's the producer. So she'll be giving them commentary, but it's all in Korean
Umu: I was not able to find a complete English sub video. So I will do like really loose translations for you
So you're not extremely confused.
Yunyi: Cool! Let's go! // Kevin: [scream]
Kevin: wow.
Lindsey: Ooh, is this acapella?
Naoki: It's like that thing that like rappers do it, it's like, "this is DJ Khaled"
and this is "mamamooooo"
Peyton: Gotta get that IV chord
Lindsey: I love how they have this subtle jazzy style in like, all of their music
Kevin: It's hard for a pop song to be in twelve-bar blues and not make me cringe, so
[claps] well done.
Henry: Oh, the straight hair kind of works for her
Fiona: They're so cu-- Ooh!
Davis: "Mr. Ememoho" (korean is weird)
Lindsey: Yeah, that bari sax!
Naoki: It seems like, that all their song are
based in like the previous, like, you know?
Naoki: was, like, that 20-30s kind of sound
Kevin: Wow, that low piano. Kudos for using that range.
Yunyi: CLUSTERS
Henry: [shriek]
Fiona: I love their shoes!
Emiel: This is tight
Davis: One thing I've noticed in all of pop music:
They will synthesize any horn except the bari sax
That's pretty cool, like, it's always acoustic sounding.
Henry: It's a very nondescript blues.
Henry: But like, it grooves really hard.
Lindsey: It's cause acoustic, er--
Lindsey: Synthesized bari sax would just sound like a weird bass.
Davis: I mean yeah, it sounds pretty weird acoustically so like, I can see how it would fit.
Shimon: That's a big hat.
Naoki: That is. // Shimon: Huge!
Naoki: That must weigh like, ten pounds! // Shimon: Probably not?
Hugo: See-- oh // Gwen: she's so cute-- who is that?
Umu: Hwasa!
Lindsey: Their voices are so like, dirty, sometimes
Lindsey: Like, in a good way!
Yunyi: I like the little vocalizations they have, like [demonstrates].
Kevin: Oh, yeah.
Jarod: Du, bap, bap--
Jarod: they like that chromatic
Jarod: Ascend.
[peyton jamming is me]
Kevin: They're doing it.
Yunyi: Oh hey, it's K.will!
Davis: K.will. // Lindsey: K.will's the photographer.
Lindsey: We know K.will.
Gwen: I like the moustaches.
Yunyi: I WILL, never forget him.
[Kevin is impressed]
Kevin: K.
[yeah we get it]
Yunyi: OK, we WILL not start this again.
Peyton: [scat-like melody]
Jarod: Dude, these guys are breaking down, this is funky.
Kevin: Emma wants to shoot quills at us. // Yunyi: Yeah, please don't do this, Emma.
Kevin: Don't shoot quills at us.
Hugo: Oh that low note was good.
Yunyi: Oh yeah, it's Moonbyul! // Kevin: Yeah!
Lindsey: Oh yeah, you killin'!
Jarod: Dude, she is killing it
Peyton: Oh! Better break it down x2
Yunyi: I like the singing while she raps.
Emiel: Her voice is so much deeper than anyone else's
Kevin: This groove makes me very happy
Gwen: This is un-edited
Umu: Right, producer!
Yeah, that's the producer lady.
Fiona: That was really cute!
Umu: So, basically: She's there to give them advice
On like how they're doing and so, right, now she's saying "First of all, you need to sing this live. What are you doing?"
So go record this live, like, you can't rest your voices.
Fiona: This is so great
Naoki: She just like: I'm not impressed
Umu: She's like, "okay, like, this, hmmm"
"You need to work on a lot of this, like, don't look at the ground when you're dancing"
"You need to draw your audience in"
"You're doing this wrong. You're doing this wrong" // Yunyi: Sounds like my piano teacher.
[horn-like sound]
Umu: but then, so she's just, like, giving them lots of things to work on
She's like "you need to really step up your game"
Umu: Then she's like "Haha, jk. I'm an actress. I'm not the producer."
Emiel: Oh, wow. // Henry: Lol.
Umu: "I was paid to play this role" // Henry: that's funny.
Jarod: Wait, is that like a live prank? // Umu: Yes.
Jarod: [scream] That's amazing.
Umu: And she's like "No, just kidding, you guys are great!"
Hugo: Wait, so that actually happened? // Umu: Yeah, they actually recorded this. This is real footage.
Umu: And so they were freaking out because they thought they did shit, but she's like "No! I'm just an actress! This was so good!"
Kevin: So this was actually-- the reaction is genuine.
Umu: I believe so. // Kevin: Geez.
Gwen: No cause like when they were actually singing you could tell it was actual raw footage and its amazing that they're as good as they are
Jarod: Oh got a lil piano man I see
Kevin: Don Spike
Naoki: That could be you. Shimon: Don Spike?
Naoki: Yeah but like Don Debussy.
Hugo: Aw it's so good. Gwen: They're their own hype men. I love that they're their own hype men.
Davis: Nice. Dirty.
Lindsey: They're just groovin' man
Emiel: That bluesy vibe
Gwen: *claps along*
Yunyi: They have the little trill thing but they didn't show that part
Gwen: I love it. Hugo: Oh god get it girl f*ck that hell yeah
Gwen: That guy's just like *imitates and claps like him*
Kevin: *nods*
Yunyi: Aw that's so good
Lindsey: That's good. Davis: Good shit.
Mr MMO. Does that mean ambiguous in Korean? Umu: Alright, so what do you like about this song?
Shoot me in all of Mamamoo, please. Yeah for real. There's four of 'em. You can have two I'l have two.
I like it. Yeah, especially like the little prank at the end. It's like I just got pranked.
You know...
I wasn't, like, crazy about the video actually.
um
Yeah, it was okay. Song was great. Which is normally the other way around for me as a song
I'm like 'nah', but the music video like 'ooh!'.
The song was like 'ooh!'. Yeah, I'm about the same as Henry on that one.
I really... aw, man... just, like, lead vocal lady chick. She's just so good and she has...
She has such a strong voice. It's just so *enthusiastic impression*.
The girl who did the riff at the end? Yeah! Ridiculous. I love it.
Yeah, so what do you think of this? Hell yeah! There's some- It was just really easygoing.
You know and I really liked how they played with just different... different sounds in their voices.
I just really like it when singers in general do that. It's really fun.
It makes things a lot more lighthearted. Also that rap breakup was... spot on.
Even though it was short-lived. I actually wish it were longer.
Yeah, they were mmMm mmm. Yeah, it's a super solid debut.
Do you like Don't Be Happy or this one better? *agonised noise* They were both good...
Give them... Give one point to each one. Don't do the half thing. Give one point to each of them because they both deserve one point.
I... ooooh... In comparison to the first one? Hmm. I think I might go with the first one it was very
Unique style the other one just seems kind of like yeah, they can do that. It makes sense if they can do that
We've seen them do that. I don't know. Which one was the one with the bari sax? That was the second one, right? I like the second one better
I like this one. Yeah. Both of you like Mr. Ambiguous? Mr. Ambiguous.
What is it that you like better about the first one? *through a yawn* I like the James Brown feel!
If was fun, it was exciting, you know, it was like pretty jazzy, pretty hipped up, you know...
Hip... hopped up? It was fun. The music was really really engaging. *whispers* I'm sorry.
Alright! Yeah - which one do you like better? Don't Be Happy, or Mr. Ambiguous?
Man! Mr. Ambiguous. I might like Don't Be Happy more. Yeah. Alright.
Don't Be Happy. I like Don't Be Happy. What do you like better about that one? The atmosphere was extremely convincing.
Like the way they use their voices
Conveyed this like sensual kind of like seductive atmosphere was just like on point like that's like their style apparently like while
They did have like the same kind of style in the second one it just wasn't quite as convincing because it was more cheerful
Wasn't so like 'I'm hot and I know it', you know. You said the first one was their very first music video?
Yeah, I believe it was Bumkey who wrote the piece and they like... it was a collaboration with them
I think it's really impressive that they already like
solidified what kind of genre that they're really good at
Whereas like I remember some groups you were saying they still aren't really sure what their whole, like...
Genre is. Because, you know, there was some like 'background'... not background...
Backstage. And so you kind of felt more connected to them. There was some rap in there as well. Which was okay.
It wasn't great. But it was okay
There you go, yeah, if we can compare Mr. Ambiguous... with...
Don't Be Happy which would you like better musically?
Wait. Which one was Don't Be Happy can you sing it... The strings at first and then... Oh that was sick
I think that one. Yeah. Oh, I like that one more. I like the telephone one. Yeah, I was about to say - come on!