Elizabeth: The hits are very harmonic, like the rhythmic hits
Henry: Yeah
Umu: Okay, so today we reacting to our very first OST, do you guys know what an OST is?
Henry: Uhh no
Elizabeth: Wait
Kevin: It's like a soundtrack to - it's like a song to a movie
Umu: So this is an OST called "The Door" from a kdrama called: "Wise Prison Life"
where it depicts people living in an unknown space in the background of a prison, so
Lindsey: Oh my god, that sounds iconic
Umu: I know it's interesting
Lindsey: That sounds likes something I'd watch
Umu: So the lyrics are by Mino, who is a member of the boy group Winner and Zico
who is one of the main rappers from Block B
Jarod: Hell Yeah
Umu: And this is composed by Zico and Pop Time and it's arranged by Zico and Pop Time.
And so, fans told me, that there's lots of wordplay and that, door expresses the heavy emotions of prison inmates on a light beat
Centering the balance between the two. And of course as you see before you this is a fan-made lyric video.
Charlotte: Woohoo!
Kevin: It's gonna open the door
Issac: Boom Kevin: What?!
Elizabeth: Oo
There is some hemiola
Jarod: That's tasty Katie: It's so laid, like on the back of the beat
Jarod: Yeah, I know
Peyton: Wow that was pretty freaky. I like it!
Lindsey: Maybe it's just like in duple, but he just started out with triplets
Fiona: Yeah Lindsey: So that it was rhythmically ambiguous
Fiona: Sounded like an R.L's skills exercise we do in class
Lindsey: Yeah!
Issac: Ahh-What was that?
Kevin: Man this is the strangest instrumental I've heard in a while
Peyton: I like his rhythmic variation
Charlotte: I like the descending bass
Stephan: One thing that's cool is, I like how they just start where one is in the beginning, to where you don't hear
Actually the pulse until like after like once like before he comes in more with the group.
James: Yeah Stephan: It's cool cuz you're left guessing
Fiona: This is just cool. Like the piano in the background leading it to like
Ooo Fresh, okay
Lindesy: This is really cool actually Fiona: Good bass, Good bass
Elizabeth: The hits are very harmonic, like the rhythmic hits
Henry: Yeah
Lindsey: Ooo, I like the rapper's voice
Fiona: This is really cool
This background has got me interested, and now it's more like kind of like an off-kilter like, piano hit vibe
Elizabeth: It's interesting that the synthesizer parts. It's like if you pluck like a pizzicato string bass. That's what it sounds like to me
Which does in fact feel very jazz which I think, like he's jamming
Henry: Hm?
Katie: This is interesting
So sparse. Jarod: Yeah Katie: Like very staccato
Jarod: So each phrase is very meticulously like placed. It's very specific
James: I don't know it's just kind of like Stephan: I was gonna say, I feel like they can build it up even more but they don't
Jarod: This is so like cool. So cool. Katie: Yeah
Kevin: Nice starts with a major four. Throws me off a bit Oh
Just kidding starts with major one? Add nine?
Henry: Heeeeeeey extensions
Lindesy: They're like not doing anything to change it, but it still feels like it's building
Fiona: Yeah Lindey: I don't know how
Fiona: Now here, like I thought it was going to get big but like this is way better having it expansive and like nothing happening
And now it's going to be big Lindsey: Oh
Jarod: Oh yeah, this is fun. But the same time it's like it builds but doesn't - again not like in your face. It's very much still within that cool
Wait, that's the end?!? Wait that was dope! It's like--
Katie: And it's just like, leaves you wanting more.
Umu: Yeah, what do you think about that song overall musically? And do you think it supported kind of a theme of maybe kind of mysterious or like?
Definitely being in a prison or something?
Elizabeth: Yeah, there is definitely harmony, but it wasn't like, like the focus is not on the chords
So I think that gives it like a where are we now? Sort of vibe
and there is definitely there's a lot of seventh chords
which is always what you do when you want to like add like something just a little dissonant in there. Something a little off in
Your chords and I think also it was like very airy breathy vocals
So nothing concrete nothing you could really like, you know, dig your ear into.
And, and the fact that like the rhythm the rhythmic hits were all like
Arpeggiated piano arpeggiated synth it wasn't like you could really feel the beat. It was more like a ooh
Harmony, Oooh harmony, like one after the other. So yeah, I really did think you could get that vibe from it
Fiona: I wanted to be at that party but turns out it's prison. What? That's crazy?
My brain just was like fed new little snippets of reasons to like it every time it changed texture
but I think most of it relied on, I like was listening to like lower voices or what's going on in the background with the
Beat and the synths, I just really enjoyed that Lindsey: The drums
Fiona: It was really good
Lindsey: Yeah, I think going off of that
Also, even like there were times when it changed but what it changed to was something that had already happened
But it still sounded like new and fresh at the time the way they did it and that's so awesome
Fiona: They have little transitions to each little phrase. And usually with eight counts or 16 sometimes before. Good to pay attention to that Lindsey: Yeah, so good!
Kevin: I find this very interesting that this is like an OST
Umu: This is the most complex OST I've ever found
Kevin: Yeah, but also yes, so not mainstream like you know with usual kpop
Or kdrama OSTs, you hear these strings. The lagato strings with the very melancholy voice
Issac: Or soft piano Kevin: The soft piano that happens to be a very badly recorded studio, like the really tinny sound
Not-not that, that's a burned piano
The song's pretty weird, but in mostly in a good way Katie: It was sparse but everything had intention which made it really like effective
Because definitely less can be more and in this case. It was very well done and I like the harmonies the
Colors of the music. Yeah, this was just really cool. Jarod: I really dug it because it was yeah
Like everything was intentional. It didn't feel like whenever he kind of came back to the returning sections
It didn't feel like a kind of copy and paste from the prior
Like everything felt fresh even whenever we were returning to like a chorus or whatever
To like the same verses like it it still felt new and it still felt like it was flowing.
And it never it never really had to like
Go above let's say like a mezzoforte, like a medium loud, you know
It kind of everything was very reserved
And then like the ending like all of a sudden pshuw, like I missed it
It was like wait a minute. Wow, that's sick because what says cool more than just like stop it, you know
Katie: Mm-hmm. Take away.
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