Isaac: Oh! Ho ho!
I: Wow, that's, that's - Kevin: Wow, the Major IV-VII?
K: WHAT
[Rossini's Semiramide]
Umu: Okay, so now we we're reacting did to two B-side tracks from EXO's 2017 The War album .
U: Cause we've already reacted to the title Track from this album. It was Ko Ko Bop.
Lindsey: Oh! [Sings Ko Ko Bop]
Umu: So this first one is called Going Crazy.
U: It started as an instrumental track from a video that they used in their concerts in 2015
U: But then they decided to make it a full song for The War album and the song was written by Kenzie.
She actually is a graduate from Berklee College of Music and we've heard her write quite a few pop songs before including f(x)'s Red Light.
Kevin: Let's going crazy. Isaac: Kevin.
Charlotte: Ooh!
Hugo: Marimba. I'm digging it.
Elizabeth: Can I get that marimba in there?
Issac: I'm waiting for it to happen. Kevin: All these half-diminished chord songs. Give it, give me more. Give me more.
I: Okay, throw in the beats.
I: Oh there it is! K: Yup.
K: Glock, a little glock, a little marimba.
K: That's pretty awesome.
Fiona: Now the marimba's gone.
Henry: I like their voices a lot.
H: I think it's like a com - I feel like it's a comment that I make pretty often about EXO is that like, their vocal timbre is pretty good.
Lindsey: [Sings along] I hate you, wooh! Fiona: WOOOH!
Olivia: Oh they have really different tones, like their voices are, are very distinctly different. Aaron: Yeah. O: Which is pretty cool.
Henry: What the hell? Elizabeth [laughs]
Kevin: Aw man, see the bridge and the, aw, aw, the verse. Isaac: The high hat, that's good.
I: Well it's not even high hat. It's synthetic. K: It is high hat. It is high hat.
K: Yeah it is probably synthetic high hat. Hey!
Fiona: [Imitates string sound] Lindsey: Yeah I like the random like string [sound]
Katie: Triple it, triple it, triple it bitch!
Hugo: Mm, oh, oh!
H: Oh shit that run, oh I wasn't ready.
Fiona: He sounds like the violin.
Lindsey: Yeah.
F: [sings] Hate you Both: WOOH!
F: This is so funny.
L: I like this.
Katie: [Sings] fiiive...ii-v-i
K:Major.
Kevin: Oh my god.
K: What is with - Issac: Ooh! K: Major mi -
K: The major [sings] I: I'm going crazy. K: Come on man. Simple triads, thank you so much.
K: Ooph.
Olivia: They're using a lot of chromaticism in it, which is pretty cool.
O: And mixture.
O: It was like minor, but with a little bit of major in the um
O: It's like a little part.
Lindsey: I'm assuming this is a bridge because it is a textural contrast.
Jarod: I like how the notes are just like [sings along]
Henry: Although this is kind of interesting. This sort of like -
H: - Extended breakdown pre-chorus thing.
Elizabeth: I do like how the the percussion gets faster and then it cuts out and they say "I hate you".
E: So that really hits home. I mean that was clever.
Kevin: Half diminished chords are amazing.
Isaac: Woah! OHH! Okay.
Aaron: There's a lot of things - Olivia: WHAT!?
Lindsey: Oh, their falsetto is like -
Fiona: That was weirdly major. L: WAT
Peyton: Woaaah! Charlotte: [WUT]
P: What the fuuuuuck!
Olivia: It's causing me to go crazy a little bit.
O: Pick a key.
Aaron: pick a key, bitches.
A: Stick with it.
Hugo: Getting up there. Shit.
Kevin: Yeah.
Isaac: The fadeaway.
I: And still going.
I: And the piano with the G. (K: Mmm.)
Aaron: Oh. Olivia: Oh. A: Oh. O: That's a LOW pitch right there.
Peyton: [Piano ending sound] Charlotte: Finally got to that resolution.
Kevin: Wait a minute. Isaac: What? K: No, that's not a G. I: Mm hmm.
K: That's a G with an A, because there's no G that's that low.
[Mindblown]
I: Oh that's -
I: That's why I was like
K: Exactly, it was like "What?"
I: No it was like, [Low note]
K: [Imitates] Yeah, yeah you hear it I: inflection Ooh!
K: Oh man that's good.
I: Wait, you can only hear that because G doesn't last as long as A.
I: That's the reason why. K: Mm hmm. I: That's actually the reason why he was able to hear it.
I: Cause like it, G doesn't, if you let - K:Ravel does that.
I: Oh my goodness.
Umu: Yeah, so what did you think of that song overall musically?
Peyton: That was really cool. Charlotte: I don't understand the weird, like -
C: I don't know. It seems like every time they got to like a medium vibe, it was like, very like
C: [Smack in the face] And then it's like
C: Okay, and then you're ???? P: Yeah you're just driving along and then BAM! C: Yeah, and then it like came back. I don't know. P: Yeah.
P: I kind of like it. C: It was weird, but I liked it.
Hugo: Damn that synth writing was so GOOD.
H: And they had so many GOOD RUNS.
H: I liked it. I'm down. James: Yeah.
J: I really liked what they did to the voice of - who's the guy with the flowers just kind of flopped into his head? (H: Pink hair?)
Umu: That guy? J: Yeah, he's spanking his face with the flowers.
U: Chan - oh, Chanyeol. J: They doubled his voice and then they brought it downward.
J: Actually how far did they bring it down, an octave or two ocataves? H: I think it was two.
J: I don't know, but it's very, very cool voice doubling. (H: I think it was two octaves.)
Elizabeth: All in between the chorus and the verses, they had like some interesting musical interlude with a different instrument or timbre than we'd heard before, which is the most interesting part.
Henry: Yeah, it's really what it sounded like. It sounds like, you know, going hard at the club.
H: I just think it's like so cliche.
H: And that like, the world doesn't need another tinny, over-processed pop song.
H: But like, it sounded like there was a good idea, you know?
I could hear that it was kind of like underneath, buried. It was probably one of the first things recorded.
H: Someone playing like actual chords, and not just annoying monophonic screechy computer barf noises.
H: So. Umu: AKA synth?
H: Yeah.
E: Well, I think you could definitely tell that it was, it was something where someone had composed like the music to be something else.
E: And then they decided to smash it into a song, and it just sort of didn't work. H: It feels kind of re-purposed to you, right? E: Yeah.
E: It definitely feels re-purposed.
Isaac: Damn.The instrumentation was very different.
I: Like there's the one that's like a C minor I-II-V [sings] with the strings.
I: And then there's a few of them it's just like, there's like the Justin Bieber, like [sings].
I: There's that motif. There's like -
Kevin: And the the parallel major's like [imitates song effect] I: [Imitates song effect]
I: No, that stuff is like interesting.
K: They interrupt the course to give that to you and they resume back, you know?
I: It's neat. K: It's neat.
K: I wish those stuff could be incorporated though.
K: Like, maybe like the second time the chorus comes, there's a bit of 8-bit stuff going on in the background, you know?
K: That's a little too black and white.
K: And the white might be a little too generic for my liking, especially when compared to the rest of it.
Fiona: I liked that. Lindsey: That was awesome. F: I liked the wonderful random major parts, they like kept it like fresh and light.
F: And then when it started out with that marimba, like kind of creepy haunting like running melody, like underlying ostinato.
F: And I loved that. And then having the little twinkles of like [sound effect] violin interspersed and then that one guy's like [crazy high singing]
F: And then, just like having so many members and being able to use their different styles
F: Like whether it be rapping or singing was really nice to add good variety throughout the whole thing. Yeah.
L: I love that the song is called Going Crazy and throughout it, there's so much happened. It was like the song was going crazy.
Katie: I thought it like, accurately reflected the message of the song, because there were these random little interludes.
K: Sometimes it was ascending string scales, sometimes it was just like [sound effect], some times it went to major.
K: It was just random things, and it kept saying "Going crazy" so that could be like taken as going crazy because it's just like random input.
Umu: Right. Okay. Well, we're gonna move it on and compare to another B-side track from the same exact album.
U: This was written and produced by LDN Noise, our lord and saviors.
U: And yeah. Go ahead.
Olivia: Oh. Can you stop it?
Henry: That's like if you edited the end of the last song with the beginning of this song, it would be the same. Elizabeth: That's actually correct.
Peyton: Oh.
Charlotte: Middle Eatstern-y?
C: Oh. P: Wow! That didn't hit the way I thought it was going to.
Lindsey: What did - What just happened? [I'm confused but I'll still jam]
Elizabeth: I'm a, I'm a sucker for her.
E: Fast arpeggios. Henry: Yeah.
Lindsey: I was not expecting this. I was not expecting this. Fiona: You've found the pitbull
L: It started and I was like, "Oh yeah we 're gonna have like a nice song".
L: And then all of a sudden, like oh yeah.
F: That sound lets you know something's going to happen!
Aaron: I'm not gonna lie, I like a lot - Olivia: It kind of just sounded like you changed keys.
A: I would strip to this.
A: But then again I would strip to a lot of music.
A But especially this.
Kevin: Mmm, pretty, pretty good, it's okay.
Isaac: Oh! Ho ho!
I: Wow, that's, that's - Kevin: Wow, the Major IV-VII? What?
K: Is this song Dorian?
K: Now it's a -
K: Now the E is flat.
K: The E wasn't flat last time.
Henry: I do like those like, hits of harmonies. It'd be really interesting to actually see like live performances of this.
H: I've thought that like a couple times. It's like I kind of wish I could see them doing this finished product all together.
Lindsey: Yeah, it's 5 6 1, but in minor. It's like 5 b6 1. [Sings] Fiona: I like that sound.
Isaac: Wow.
Kevin: All the, all the unexpected Dorian moments.
K: Ready? Here it comes.
Elizabeth: The harmonies are so close together. It gives a really cool effect. Kind of like organ pipes?
Henry: Hangout on that tritone sub.
#AppliedChords
H: Uh.
H: Minor ii-V to a Major I.
H: Welcome to K-Pop.
Charlotte: Ooh. Where are we going? Peyton: It's like more of a drum sound.
Kevin: Sounds like distant plastic pipes.
K: I kind of like it.
K: It's pretty cool.
Isaac: It's just sneaking around. Uh. Ooh.
I: Ooh.
I: WOAH.
WOAHHHHH
Charlotte: Ohh!
Peyton: Oh shit. He kinda sounds like Migos a little bit.
C: I like him too!
C: OH!
Katie: Triple it bitch.
K: Triple it trip, triple it, triple it. Everyone triple it, triple it, triple it.
K: Triple it, triple it [X Inifnity]
K: Drop.
K: Ohhh.
K: Two psych-outs
Aaron: Oh.
A: He is just up in the stratosphere. Olivia: I like how sometimes the beat just like stops -
O: To let the, like, melodies sing for a little.
O: And then comes in, which is nice.
Charlotte: Peyton's favorite part! The descant!
Peyton: It is, it is.
Jarod: Wow.
J: Wow.
J: WOW.
Umu: Yeah, so.
U: Summarize your thoughts.
J: Well like, it's like you don't know what's going on and that's, that's the best part, you know?
J: It's like, harmonically it was just really, really, really, really, really cool.
J: You're in one place, and then you're like dancing with this other like upside-down kind of like wobble-wobble, it's just, I don't know, it was awesome.
J: I don't even know what it was, that's the best part.
J: I'm just like it sounds so cool.
J: Still very unique.
Umu: Yeah. So what did you think about this song overall musically and like the fun major again?
Peyton: I just like, I don't know, as soon as I heard it I was like, wow, that sounds like something like if people were playing,
P: Like real instruments and live, that'd be a spot everybody would fuck up.
P: Lke, you just get to that section and it'd be this clash if people played in major/minor Charlotte: Someone would miss the accidental
P: Just like, the surprise on everyone's faces as soon as it happens, it's like.
C: it'd be missed by five people in like the first few rehearsals.
Kevin: Obviously the chorus was really cool with all those harmonies.
K: There was that cool rap bridge which was great.
Isaac: Pop music and its fascination for triplets. K: Absolutely.
I: It's just so, so interesting.
I: But even like, even in classical music you listen to triplets like, and then hemiola, which is triplets on top of doodles.
I: It's just like, ooph.
I: Woah, it's kicking it up a notch. K: For sure.
I: Like even after enjoying the - it's like I feel like there's something's missing still.
K: Yeah, even compared to the last EXO song I heard..
K: I think Going Crazy has an idea. It feels more fleshed out.
K: It feels more like we've done, you know, this song is taking this idea and then making something out of it that's whole and complete.
K: This one doesn't feel as complete.
I: The use of modal mixture.
I: Minor-major, was it?
I: Or it's just complete modulation? K: There's both. I: There's both. K: But it's always on the IV chord, which I've never heard before.
I: That, that was very - K: it's always been I, you know. I Major I minor. I: Yeah.
Elizabeth: I liked that one better than the first one.
Henry: I did also like that one better than the first one, if not purely because the vocals did something interesting, because the chorus was interesting.
H: It was like, harmonically cool.
H: There was like a couple moments where like, they hinted at something that would just be like, kind of a -
H: It would be tonacizing iv, and then it would move to V, then go to i.
H: And then they like really lingered on that sort of like out-of-place harmony. It was tasty.
E: It definitely was more interesting harmonically than the first one we heard.
E: And like, I like how in the chorus like it starts in sort of a minor feel and then it modulates a higher Major key.
E: That really like, aurally, sorta pings my interest.
Umu: Okay, what did you think of this song compared to Going Crazy? Could you see how -
Lindsey: I liked going crazy a lot better because it was just crazy.
Fiona: I see how they like, they, their style kinda spreads over. L: Yes.
F: It's like having that kind of spooky little underground, like, establishment. L: Like, the another one had the marimba thing and then this one had the V-I-VI-I that [sings]. F: Yeah, and this one the synth.
F: I liked that.
Charlotte: Forever is more R&B hip-hop, Going Crazy was more EDM pop.
Umu: Yeah, and do you have a favourite?
C: Whenever he's rapping.
U: Whenever he's rapping.
C: Personally, I liked this one better because he raps more in it.
Peyton: Gonna go with you.
Umu: Yeah, what did you think of Forever vs Going Crazy?
U: Like musically, did you like one better or think one stood out more or they're about the same? James: I was going crazy over Going Crazy.
Hugo: Yeah.
J: This I could listen to forever.
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