- Umu: Ah... AKMU. - Hugo: YES, FUCKIN YES
*Rossini's Semiramide Overture plays*
- Umu: This is "Melted," the music video.
- Umu: It actually has like quite a beautiful message behind it and so I'll be reading the lyrics afterwards, but yeah, just enjoy.
- Lindsey: 3, 2, 1
- Hugo: I love that piano. - Jeremy: Yeah, no, I already like it
- Hugo: Like with the descending and then like...
- Hugo: Oh shit. That cello and orchestra.
- Fiona: Striiiinnngsss
- Hugo: Waiting for the beat.
- Naoki: Oh, nice.
- Lindsey: It's like "Heart and Soul," kinda. - Davis: Minor "Heart and Soul," yeah. Lament bass "Heart and Soul."
- Yunyi: They got that swing.
- Fiona: Why is he white? - Henry: Yeah, why is he a Caucasian man?
- Henry: It's freaking me out. - Fiona: Sorry, it's just like, alarming.
- Emiel: *scoffs*
- Kevin: Man, her voice.
- Jeremy: I really like this. This is like, a really cool duet. - Hugo: Yeah.
- Shimon: Is this America?
- Lindsey: Oh, this is cool sounding! Her voice is very jazzy. - Davis: YeEAh
- Lindsey: It's like, it's like uhh...
- Davis: He's like what what're you lookin' at? - Lindsey: It's like Fiona Apple kinda.
- Shimon: Oh no, they're driving on the left side of the road. Never mind.
- Emiel: Ho they kicked him out the car
- Fiona: Yeah cuz he was photographing... stuff.
- Yunyi: Oh, they're singing together in a duet! That's not something they really do.
- Lindsey: Honestly, this is weird to me because—
- Lindsey: Oh there, we go. Cuz I was gonna say—like, now, it's less weird—
- Lindsey: I was going to say like, I feel like we need like, like a... like a
- Lindsey: ...jazz drumbeat in here. There still isn't one,
- Lindsey: ...but the guitar kind of came in with the little... - Davis: Yeah, you need some sort of rhythm section
- Lindsey: A little more but like I feel like you need it like a *imitates sound* - Davis: A rhythm section instrument
- Davis: Something to keep time, yeah. - Lindsey: Yeah.
- Yunyi: This is very different from what AKMU... - Kevin: *makes noises of agreement* - Yunyi: ...that we've heard
- Yunyi: But I *really* like it.
- Fiona: It's more folky.
- Hugo: And even their unisons are great. Like, ugh.
- Yunyi: Man, after playing really out of tune harpischord stuff for like, the past hour, it's just really satisfying to hear in-tune octaves sung together.
- Fiona: There's so much conflict!
- Emiel: *agreeing* Yeah.
- Hugo: It's also interesting because you've got two different, like...
- Hugo: There's no solid like, this is where this takes place. Like, it could very easily take place in California, or...
- Kevin, Yunyi: Diversity. - Yunyi: *nodding*
- Jeremy: Or anywhere. - Hugo: Yeah.
- Henry: Everyone's so pissed off about happy things. - Fiona: I know, why can't they just chill?
- Jeremy: I *really* dig this music.
- Jeremy: Wait, when did it switch from piano to guitar?
- Hugo: I don't know. And the drips.
- Emiel: He's got a beautiful voice. - Henry: I just really dig this song. It's—it's the guy.
- Naoki: Ah, no! What is this?
- Yunyi: So instrumentation is cello, violin, guitar, piano.
- Yunyi: Voice.
- Yunyi: It's an interesting quintet.
- Henry: It reminds me of Ben Folds. That's why I dig it so much. - Fiona: It's just so minor and like, creepy.
- Emiel: I'm trying to really focus so I can understand the story.
- Hugo: Oh, his backpack's in the back of her car.
- Fiona: I like what the strings in the background like, it's just like an extra layer that makes it cooler.
- Shimon: Oh, no.
- Lindsey: And then. Oh my god! Bartender!
- Lindsey: The fuck?
- Kevin: Parallel fifths.
- Emiel: Oh! - Fiona: The camera's the only thing he has left. - Emiel: No, his camera's gonna break or something.
- Fiona: Oh, gosh.
- Yunyi: I didn't know the brother could sing so well.
- Hugo and Jeremy: *are shocked* :O
- Hugo and Jeremy: :O
- Lindsey: Oh my god!
- Fiona: *sighs*
- Davis: Oh, that's so sad.
- Naoki: Oh wait, *he's* the one that's arrested?
- Fiona: This isn't fair!
- Henry: *holds hand up* BOI. (henry you meme)
- Fiona: This is really sad.
- Emiel: This story is kind of messed up.
- Fiona: I like how they're singing together...
- Fiona: ...but you don't even know. It just sounds like, the color of their voices just sounds so nice.
- Naoki: Oh, was that him when he was younger?
- Naoki: He's like, reminiscing.
- Davis: oh oHH it's him! OH!
- Davis: He's like HA! - Lindsey: It's him in the future?
- Davis: Yeah. He's just like fuck, remember when my life was TERRIBLE?
-Emiel: aww they'll be friends - Fiona: No! Aw it's so sad! *has a mental breakdown*
- Henry: That doggo does not like you, brother. - Fiona: He lost his childhood innocence,
- Fiona: ...in the 4 minutes and 29 seconds in this videos that's been going on.
- Yunyi: Oh, it starts with the same piano part that opens it.
- Fiona: Yell. Scream!
- Fiona, whispering: This is so depressing.
- Emiel: Geez.
- Emiel: This is deep. - Fiona: No, everyone's not reading him right!
- Davis: Aw, and then this guy helped him...
and now he's able to be the man he is today.
- Davis: Said, "awe your camera's fucked up, but I gotchu fam." -Lindsey: He's repairing his camera!
- Davis: Friendship. - Lindsey: You find friends in the most unusual places. That's so cute, oh my god.
- Davis: AKMU is tHE SHIT!
- Davis: I love AKMU. - Lindsey: That's so cute!
- Jeremy: Whoa, this was so deep. - Hugo: Mmmmm. It was SOOO GOOOOD
Fiona: It was like spiritual. - Henry: Whoa. - Emiel: Whoa. - Henry: I don't know how I feel about that.
- Henry: Yeah, that was just confusing. - Fiona: It just like, it made me really sad.
- Hugo: I love them so much!
- Jeremy: Wait, what? Wait, was the old man him? - Hugo: Yeah! - Jeremy: Okay, that's what I thought.
- Jeremy: Oh my god, whoa. That was intense. - Hugo: And he was looking back on, ugh.
- Umu, off-screen: Do you want me to read the lyrics?
- Hugo: Fuck yeah! - Jeremy: Yeah.
- Umu, off-screen: The blue ocean that the red sun used to wash its face turns black.
- Umu: The white sky that had clouds and rain and the wind turns gray.
- Umu: I leave the darkness that find in my heart even the cold shadow that covers the night starts to harden.
- Umu: If the ice melts, a warmer song would have come out, but why is the ice so cold?
- Umu: Why is it so cold? Why are they so cold? Why are they so cold?
- Umu: The blue ocean that the red sun used to wash his face.
- Umu: I look at the past warmth that is deeply buried, too late to get it out
- Umu: I wish the cold in the world of adults would be gone too, I wish the frozen love will melt away now
- Umu: I leave the darkness that fight in my heart; even the cold shadow that covers the night starts to harden.
- Umu: If the ice melts, a warmer song would have to come out, but why is the ice so cold?
- Umu: Why is it so cold?
- Lindsey: 'Cause it needs to be MELTED *finger guns* - Umu: Yeah, exactly.
- Hugo: Oh, my God.
- Jeremy: Well, that's really intense. - Hugo: And that's like, good poetry too. It's not just like random like, "I love you, you love me."
- Emiel: Yeah.
- Henry: That's cute. - Emiel: It makes sense.
- Fiona: That was—that was a wild ride. - Umu, off-screen: All right, so the song?
- Fiona: I liked it. - Henry: Oh, it was good.
- Fiona: I liked the use of—their octave unisons. - Henry: It reminded me of Ben Folds and I love Ben Folds.
- Henry: LOVE Ben Folds, so.
- Umu: Yeah, how do you think the music carried that out?
- Yunyi: Well, it definitely conveys that message. - Kevin: *enthusiastic thumbs up* - Yunyi: It—you know after...
- Yunyi: I think, talking about how the music video and the song didn't quite fit for the last— - Kevin: For that *one*.
- Yunyi: It was a couple of videos, but this one I think really worked together.
- Hugo: Their singing was like—those harmonies! - Jeremy: It was really good! - Hugo: It was so simple, but it was like
- Jeremy: It was like, really like, intense. - Hugo: Yeah, and the acoustic instruments with the keyboard and the guitar.
- Jeremy: I like that. I like that a lot. I prefer that over, like
- Jeremy: synth and uh,
- Jeremy: ...bigger. Like, louder things, you know? - Hugo: It made me so happy.
- Yunyi: It's just not... the AKMU that we've been shown or we're familiar with, but it's still done really well.
- Kevin: I can still see this being AKMU. Like there's something in the music that is a bit more acoustic, a bit more... - Yunyi: Yeah.
- Kevin: Yeah. - Yunyi: The instrumentation.
- Kevin: Yeah
- Kevin: there's something that still makes me feel like, "Oh, yeah, this is AKMU." - Yunyi: I like how they didn't overplay the strings.
- Yunyi: Like, cuz you know like strings, string orchestras usually like that...
- Yunyi: That sort of cliche sound. Like that heart-wrenching moment?
- Kevin: One thing that works is they introduce the strings from the beginning
so there's no moment like in the—in the bridge where the strings suddenly soar. - Yunyi: I mean yeah, but even—
- Yunyi: Even like, later on, because it starts off with like, sort of like
- Yunyi: It's—it's a cello or something that starts off in the beginning with guitar and piano?
- Yunyi: But then like they introduced the string orchestra and it gets louder
- Yunyi: But it's never like, like you know over overwhelmingly sappy. They always kind of kept it more in the background.
- Yunyi: I really appreciated that.
-Umu, off-screen: Okay, so now we're moving onto their most recent song.
- Umu: Now the brother is serving his time in the army, yeah.
- Umu: So... what they did is they released a short film that we'll be reacting to next year.
- Umu: It's 20 minutes long, and what they did is they cut all the footage down and they put some of it in "Play Ugly"
-Umu: that we've already reacted to, and also in this one, so it might be a little bit confusing story-wise, but otherwise yeah
- Umu: This is their song Last Goodbye. - Hugo: I'm prepared to have my heart fucking broken. [same]
Emiel: Five four three two one, ding.
Shimon: *sings along* Wow, okay. Naoki: Yeah.
- Henry: Oh my god
- Henry: *screams*
- Jeremy: Oh, I recognize that.
- Shimon: I wasn't actually expecting it to be.
- Yunyi: Canon in D but the chords are different!
- Hugo: *hums along*
- Jeremy: Ooh, bringing it into minor.
- Naoki: Well, it changed there, the harmony. - Shimon: They're using different harmonies, even within it(?).
- Lindsey: The bass is not at all, it's just the melody of Pachelbel, but like, it's not the actual— - Umu: It's not descending thirds.
- Davis: Yeah. - Lindsey: Yeah.
*sees japanese writing*
*speaking in japanese* - Shimon: Can you read it? - Naoki: Yeah of course!
- Shimon: Read it! *super happy*
- Henry, Emiel, Fiona: *jamming out*
- Henry: *feelin it*
- Emiel: It's very intimate.
- Fiona, smacking herself: Just makes me wanna smack myself. [oh]
- Fiona: For percussion reasons.
- Henry & Emiel: *wtf*
- Henry: *freaking out*
- Emiel: *wtf*
- Henry: The oversized sweater that you can put up over your chin and also over most of your hands are so cute. - Fiona: I know right!
- Fiona: This is so fall.
- Fiona: You know?
- Hugo: *swooning*
- Hugo, Emiel, and Fiona: *jamming out pt.2*
- Yunyi: Good that they don't actually use the Pachelbel chords. - Kevin: *agreeing*
- Hugo & Jeremy: *swooning*
- Naoki: His voice is really good.
- Lindsey: They still like, they just have such beautiful voices and they just blend—like their harmonies are so nice together.
- Fiona: Where's my lighter? *makes lighter sound*
- Davis: This is exactly what a goodbye would sound like, musically.
- Henry: This is the first AKMU song where I'm like, "Meh."
- Lindsey: This sounds like an ending credits song of something.
- Lindsey: Like, it totally does.
- Fiona: The last one was just so different, it had so much intrigue.
- Emiel: It's definitely a mellow—a mellow song.
- Henry: They're so cUTe
- Yunyi: I like the castanets. - Kevin: They love their minor 4's so much in this song.
- Kevin: They even moved us from the Canon in D just to make it minor 4. - Yunyi: I know right.
[melody changes] - Shimon: Wheuhhhh - Naoki: Whoa, that was weird.
- Lindsey: Whoa. - Davis: Yeah.
- Lindsey: It's like, weird, like, warped Pachelbel.
- Lindsey: *sings warped Pachelbel*
- Lindsey: Like the pitches were just not there, but it was like, *it*. But then it—
*lindsey.exe has stopped working*
- Fiona: I think the strings in the background are unnecessary.
- Yunyi: Yes! Return of the castanets.
- Henry: They're a weird texture. - Emiel: This is like campfire music.
- Jeremy: This is so upbeat for a last goodbye.
- Fiona: Did the license plate say Arkansas or Alaska?
- Henry & Emiel: *laugh*
- Henry: Probably neither.
- Naoki: I feel—this could be the closing theme song to like, a movie or something.
- Yunyi: I like how the string quartet kinda pokes out every once in a while. - Kevin: *agreeing*
-Naoki: Those strings—high strings—just makes it so sad.
- Davis, softly: It just sounds like anguish.
- Davis: And just, they sound so sad.
- Henry: oH they're terracing! - Fiona: They're—!
- Henry: OH melodic terracing!
- Henry: whoAAAA
- Lindsey: It's got little like, excerpts of Pachelbel in it! It went
- Lindsey: *sings the last part*
- Lindsey: But then it stopped.
- Yunyi & Kevin: *jamming*
- Naoki: See, they said "mitenai" again. *japanese word*
- Shimon: That sounds like Japanese. - Naoki: Yeah, it does.
- Naoki: Is it? [ no it's not ]
- Yunyi: I dig the castanets so much. You wouldn't think that castanets would work in this song, but it just works.
- Yunyi: I feel like that's all I've been talking about.
- Yunyi: The damn castanets.
- Henry, Emiel, Fiona: *having a good laugh*
- Umu: What happened?
- Fiona: I don't know. - Henry: Five did NOT cadence to one.
- Fiona: It was a shocker. We were all confused.
- Emiel: I love how their body movements are just like, very like, stiff
- Emiel: As though they're expressing themselves and it's the same back and forth bob, back and forth.
- Henry: What is happening to the video, it's like all—
- Henry: Is that supposed to be happening? - Fiona: I think that's intentional.
- Yunyi: Oh, that's so good! They take the Canon in D's theme but then they slow it down.
- Yunyi: And re-harmonizing. That's so good.
- Naoki: Oh is that a period? *sings the part* or whatever it is.
- Davis: See, yeah, it's like really close.
- Lindsey: Yeah like they *almost* do. - Davis: Yeah but then they add some passing tones like that last time.
- Kevin: Terrence Malick!
- Kevin: Put that in there. - Yunyi: Kenny in D? Canon in G?
[the meme team strikes again]
- Naoki: Aw.
- Emiel: *sings*
- Hugo: I'm not crying, you're crying.
- Lindsey: Aw. Yeah, I feel like I just like, watched the end of like, a movie musical.
- Kevin: That's wonderful.
- Kevin: It makes me feel very good.
- Kevin: But like, melancholic good. - Yunyi: It's a good um, good closing song. Good farewell song.
- Umu: So yeah, how do you feel about the Pachelbel?
- Lindsey: It was kind of weird, but I liked it because it wasn't literally Pachelbel.
- Naoki: It seemed like they used that motif, the *sings melody of Canon in D* throughout the song
- Naoki: like, even when they had the lyrics as well.
*shimon.exe has stopped working*
- Shimon: I liked both of those music videos, they were like really...
- Shimon: deep.
- Shimon: And you could tell they really translated the sadness that they have of
- Shimon: her brother leaving.
- Naoki: Wait, is Akdong Musician also AKMU? - Umu: Mmhm. - Naoki: Oh.
- Jeremy: That was so beautiful!
- Hugo: It made me so happy and so sad at the same time.
- Hugo: Oh my God. That was really good though.
- Hugo: The song itself was really good. The song itself was
- Hugo: damn fine per usual.
- Henry: I was not crazy about the song, which is unfortunate because I love AKMU.
- Henry: They had the ability to be very
- Henry: serious and like do the whole serious thing, but I
- Henry: I just characterize them as the group that is so silly and carefree.
- Kevin: The Beatles, "Let It Be."
[kevin how u do dis]
- Kevin: That's seven, that's one. Then you go flat, and then plagal. Plagal cadence. *claps*
- Umu: And so that's what happens in this song?
- Kevin: Yeah, but then they go into five so it's like:
*flawless piano playing*
- Kevin: Not with that melody, obviously, but that's the chords.
- Kevin: *claps* That's what makes the bridge so cool! I'm going to grab napkins.
- Umu: Which one did you like better? - Kevin: Oh boy.
- Kevin: I liked the first one more.
- Kevin: Mostly because of the Canon in C.
- Yunyi: *confused* - Kevin: It's in C major, the second song.
- Yunyi: You don't like the Canon? - Kevin: No, I don't like how they used the Canon. I liked everything else about the second one though.
- Yunyi: I think I like this one better.
- Umu: What do you like about it? - Yunyi: It's really sentimental.
- Hugo: I don't—I don't know. I think I think of these two, I liked the first one better?
- Hugo: But I liked them both a lot.
- Umu: What made Melted stand out to you?
- Hugo: I think the harmonies, their voices and the harmonies.
- Jeremy: I think I liked...
- Jeremy: Last Goodbye better because, I mean, mostly because it was so touching and like the song got to me
- Jeremy: but also like, I liked how they they used the—
- Jeremy: What's that from? - Umu: Pachelbel? - Jeremy: They used that, like they turned that into their song.
Like obviously they elaborated on it a lot
but I thought that was really clever and also
I just loved how the
juxtaposition between like what the song was about and the song itself, because the song was pretty upbeat.
Hugo: Yeah.
- Jeremy: The lyrics are so sad and like solemn, almost.
- Hugo: Their lyrics are on point for their songs. - Jeremy: Yeah. - Hugo: Like damn.
- Naoki: They're both good. - Shimon: They're both good.
- Naoki: I think I preferred Last Goodbye though.
- Shimon: All right, why don't you give both of them a point?
- Umu: Half a point or a whole point?
- Shimon: Whole point for both, for me.
- Henry, Emiel, Fiona: MELTEDDDDD
- Henry: This was just lame. The concept of the last one was so cool.
- Henry: It was so unlike any other AKMU concept I've seen because most of the stuff, that I've seen at least, is like
-Henry: like carefree, youthful.
- Umu: Alright yeah, so which one do you like better, Melted or Last Goodbye?
- Davis, whispering: Melted.
- Lindsey: I liked Last Goodbye better, I think. I think it was more fun, especially because I was expecting it to be really sad-sounding.
- Lindsey: And it wasn't, it was just like, "Oh, this is the end of a chapter."
- Umu: Life will go on. - Lindsey: Life will go on.