Sean: Hello everyone! I'm Sean, ReacttotheK's channel arranger and host of Classical Composer Breaks Down the K.
Umu: Hi guys! My name is Umu and I'm ReacttotheK's channel creator.
*makes smol tiger noise to honor Seventeen's Hoshi*
Sean: Hopefully you've already seen our reaction to SuperM's '100', which was really good.
Umu: Alright, 'Tiger Inside,' let's go~!
A track by the producers Moonshine and topline by Alexander Carlson,
I'm very excited. I... quite a few people tweeted me about this, so the hype is real! Let's go.
S: 호랑이, Tiger Inside,
3, 2, 1. U: RAAA~~
U: Okay, Ten~
OH~
S: Ooh, nice *slidey sound effects*
U: It's literally been, like, 10 seconds and so much has happened already!!
What mode are we in...
S: Nice metallic sounds~
U: Ok, we're in-- S: Hell, they're really leaning on that, uh--
U: I do not know where we are harmonically. S: I think-- well, here's a sharp four (#4)
But some of these have been a flat five (b5) but a tritone away from the tonic.
U: *singing the vocal line leap*
That's-- that's a hard leap, man.
S: Ah, is it ~vroom, vroom like a fast car~?
[LOL Sean] ['Super Car' be a bop tho]
Major third, okay.
U: Oh!
*imitates background synth sample noises*
Oh~!! Dude, the chromaticism helps you kind of feel like you're sneaking in this section.
Also, the harmonies are insane.
*octave intervals*
There's like a little octave answer to the main vocal line.
S: Yeah, the very NCT shouted section.
They're just like-- having a shouted section is a very NCT thing, at least in boy groups. (*editor has flashbacks to EXO's Wolf*)
Another Major third, minor sixth line.
U: Okay, more of a recognizable tonal center!
That was a nice transition to Taemin.
*Baekhyun's high note*
We gotta check that note later!!!
Triplets~!
*Taeyong's "WOO~!"*
S: And I was just down, it was an "f"
U: JEEZ... they really milkin Baekhyun for his talents!!
S: Oh interesting~ So now-- this post-chorus wasn't on the 1st chorus, was it?
U: And then we end in major.
Okay.
Alright.
OKAY~
I totally know what just happened!!!!
Wait-- waitwaitwaitwait...
Uh, 3:23-- 3, 2, 1.
What is that sound?? *ch ch ch ch ch~*
That sound in the-- in the track. 3:19-- 3, 2, 1.
Kinda sounds like...
~Yeaaa-AHH~
Jesus~~
It sounds like either crinkling of, like, a can -- like, going like *tapping fingernails* to a can
or like, maybe...
people taking plastic forks and going ~tututututu~
That was interesting.
S: Um... yeah, we're just gonna do the thing where I go back in and talk over a 2nd listen.
U: HEH.
U: ~Mmmm~ I think this [note] is tonic
So, that's our home key. Let's see how notes develop from...
Let's see how the notes change from that. That's the tonal center we ended in.
S: Uhhhhh...
3, 2, 1.
~Hmmmmm~
~ 'kay we start in "f"...~
~lalala LAA~
Flat five or sharp four, so that was a...
Tritone...
Wah.
S: Oh, I just noticed that the vocal "uhhhh" fry
and then something doing a ~brrrrrrrr~ in the-- in the instrumental. That was a nice connection.
U: And then this is when we go to major. ~Naaaa~
Instead of *option 1*, we go *option 2*
3, 2, 1.
Which lines up with the lyrics "I won't bite you" because it's like, we're in a major key -- we're nice~~
That's really crunchy. And then this--
OH~ the upper harmony,
which just keeps ascending, ascending, ascending.
S: This also kinda ties back to that bit of the 2nd verse where there was a major third,
so now it's coming back, but they're keeping the minor sixth over-
It keeps it from getting, sort of-- just too bright and losing its intensity.
U: Wow.
Love the little doot doot-
Sounds like string pizzicato with a lot of reverb.
Sounds like a clock ticking, almost.
S: Oh yeah, it's another multi-section bridge. I didn't even talk about that, but yes.
It's another classic SM bridge in a bunch of sections.
Also-- nice choice, like--
It's like--
It sort of hits the chorus again with the bass, but most of the parts aren't there...
So it sort of builds the suspense, also-- also brought out by that that prominent tritone,
that just kinda keeps it a bit unstable and on edge.
And yeah, just like having that tritone--
*sings tritone*
was a really nice way of-- like, a lot of the sections contained that
so it really tied the whole song together, by that recurring so much.
U: Okay, let's go back and check the high notes, of course!
See if Sean's wish of Baekhyun just continuing to ascend in range for each comeback...
S: I liked-- I'm pretty sure (unless my sense of pitch glitched out) I think I think he went up to a "G" this time?
U: Yes. Half step up.
S: Now I'm hoping that that can just become a thing. Where, like, every SuperM MV he goes a little bit higher.
U: *sings Baekhyun's high note*
Oh yep, he went up! "A" flat this time.
*wheezing* JEEZ LOUISE, MAN~~
U: So. Your theory~ S: Yes!!
Yes, he DID go one semitone higher, very briefly. U: He did it!!!! WOOO!!!!!
S: So yeah, now at this point I do assume the title track for this, he has to hit an "A" on, an "A" natural on.
U: How much money we gonna bet?
S: Uh, not much. U: 5 cents.
S: 5 cents? U: 5 cents. Let's do 5 cents. S: Okay. Yes. I--
S: Wait, who's betting on which side? U: Who or what are we voting against? *LOL*
S: Cuz, like, I'm betting in favor of that happening, are you betting against him singing an "A" natural?
U: No, I'm also in favor.
s: Okay, it's kind of hard to do a bet then. U: We'll just, like, trade 5 cents.
S: Yeah, I wasn't sure if this was going to be out of that sequence, as they technically did this on their Beyond LIVE.
I thought, like, maybe... like, while that wasn't publicly available,
I thought maybe this was technically counted as, sort of, before '100' and wasn't gonna be... U: Good question!
S: But it turns out that they were -- seems like were -- planning this ascent to happen.
Cuz, yeah. At this-- I assume.
I assume he has to do an "A" next time.
U: Really curious about that.
But holy...
Tritone!!
S: Yeah!! Yeah. U: Holy moly, freaky, lowly, tritone.
S: Yeah, I really liked how they just kept doing that through the whole song in various ways.
Like, it wasn't the same pattern the whole time, but just, like-- *sings tritone*
Just like, it tied the song together and also just, like, kept it a little bit on edge the whole time because of the tension in that.
I think sometimes-- I think when they sang it, it was more often acting as a "b,"
and when it was in the instrumental (U: Right.) it was more often a "c" flat.
Um, I don't-- like, I hear it as a sort of-- a chromatic tone that's neighboring more than modal, like... U: Right.
If it's modal, then you would have to say it's either in Locrian or in Lydian,
and I don't think... (U: Yeah...) you could sort of defend Locrian at some parts.
I don't think you can defend-- I don't think it's ever actually Lydian, even if they're doing *sings notes in the Lydian scale*
U: Yeah, I just see it as switching between F Major, f minor and then the f minor has a frick ton of chromaticism.
Even the F major, though, has chromaticism at some points. S: Yeah. Yeah.
S: Yeah, like there's the *sings part before "Dinner's ready, yeah"* U: Yeah, that.
S: Which is that Major third flat six.
U: Yo.
This-- this song, like, the 1st listen through I didn't quite recognize the tritone at first,
so I was just-- I thought we went into, like, so many different modal lands
I'm like, I literally have NO idea where we are...
And then I whipped out my app and I was like, OHHh that makes so much sense.
S: It was really well composed.
Also, of course Moonshine did a great job producing it, like, I love the sort of metallic sounds in the, uh--
in the verses that are, sort of, clinking around them.
U: And then, also the texture-- they just seem to keep -- what's it called?
Upgrading.
Like... everything.
If that makes any sense. Because, um, I think back when we were talking about [NCT Dream's] 'Ridin','
um...
It was just-- so many sections were like: okay, we have this pre-chorus going this certain way,
and the bridge going a certain way, and it's so recognizably SM entertainment sound.
But this is like: okay, yeah, we have, like,
you know, the softer this and softer that, but like,
just the amount of new textures that they throw in and how they approach those sections a different way every single time.
S: Yeah.
Yeah, like, it's a very-- it's a very SM song but it's also not, like--
they're not just iterating on the same song. Like, there are a bunch of SM songs we could tie--
draw some connection to, but it doesn't just feel like 'Jopping' 2, or
an NCT song 2, or an Exo song 2, or something. Like, it's very much its own thing and they're developing new ideas.
U: Mhm, and Alexander did an absolutely fantastic job. He was the topliner.
This is awesome, I'm gonna go back and re-listen.
Like, I enjoyed '100' because of-- I was able to pick out aspects of like: oh yeah, this reminds me of SM Entertainment's iconic sound.
But this, I, like-- it's a whole step up. I like a lot better.
S: Okay, I don't know which one I like better yet... U: Mmmm~~
S: Yeah, they're both super good. I feel like it's a good-- U: 'Super Car'~~??
S: It--
*dances to Super Car LOL UMU*
S: Yeah. And we go vroom... like a fast car.
Yeah, it's a good way of, sort of, building up.
Like, I feel like '100' was the more-- like, a little harder hitting, like-- not saying better, just like
a little bit more in your face, and...
Um, yes, as you remind me, (U: Punchy.) punchier.
And so, like, it was a good one to sort of start the ramp-up, like, get--
start the hyping process for the album.
And now this one's just a little-- like, a nice contrast.
It's still really...
Like, it's still really powerful, but it's not quite so big all the time.
Um, and it's also a little more unstable and questioning. Um, with all the tritones.
And then... and then we'll eventually hit the title track, which I assume can be a really big arrival.
U: Yeah... and yeah!! I'm really curious what everyone else's opinions are of this track, and...
Maybe any predictions they may have for the official comeback.
And we'll see you all later!
S: Yep. Thank you. Bye!! U: Byeeee~
U: Hi guys, so...
In our interview with Moonshine during our Red Velvet Irene & Seulgi 'Naughty' reaction,
we talked about Moonshine's producer tag
and Sean and I went on a hunt to find their producer tag in their other releases, and...
both Sean and I forgot to -- during our 1st AND 2nd listens -- to listen for the
the producer tag, so...
S: Oh, there it is! U: AHH!! HAHAHAHA
S: There it is~!