HUGO: Interesting how she's pulling away on her high, when we're so used to her going up-
RACHEL: What? HUGO: Oh, woah woah woah WOAH
[Rossini's Semiramide plays]
UMU: Okay so you guys know who Ailee is LINDSEY: Oh QUEEEEN
UMU: Yes LINDSEY: Queen Ailee FIONA: Oh, we like that
F: We like *that* L: She owns the arena in the palm of her hand without doing anything
U: So this is Ailee and this is her 2017 comeback called "Reminiscing"
Which is composed by Park Geun Tae and according to Ailee herself HUGO: Geun Tae
U: The song is about a person who's remembering a past lover and feeling heartbroken because she can't do anything about it anymore.
H: Sames. Here we go!
R: That looks like a
R: Weeds H: Oh, oh
H: More city scenes, yeah RACHEL: Okay 'Ri Grande I hear dat
H: Yeah, you right though
L: I can't believe she's actually this talented like, in real life. That's so stupid
L: She's so beautiful!
JAMES: Nice velvety low register, that's rad MELISSA: Yeahh
R: You wouldn't think it would be like super present down low. She's got that H: She's got it, she's got it
KEVIN: Half diminished chords are always welcome in this world
H: It's like keyboards. Oh, we're getting some color
R: I love the R&B stuff
HUGO: Interesting how she's pulling away on her high, when we're so used to her going up-
RACHEL: What? HUGO: Oh, woah woah woah WOAH
F: I love that [makes synth noise], it sounds splangy in a way?
F: It's like, jiggly L: It sounds very soulful, like her vo-
L: Woah
I: WOW
K: [excited flapping]
J: She has a very stylistic voice, she's choosing to do a lot of stylistic things
[is shook]
J: She interrupted me I'm not gonna talk anymore
M: SHOOK
R: Yes, girl! How do you write that? [sings]
R: You'd never think! She's like, sneaky talented
K: I didn't realize that this was an Ailee song
because I associated with her with a
different type of song and mood and presence. Oh this is great
H: She's hiding her talent in like the laidback-ness of this song R: I want to go anywhere pretty
R: It's also a good song, it lets her do her thing H: Mm-hmm
M: Okay, the way she put like a rest like a space between like-
M: *quietly* oh fuck
U: HAHAHA
J: Fuck! M: It's like, "I need- " J: Sorry
M: " -you", like there's like a space there and I think that's really cool. Yeah
L: And she just makes it sound so easy! (F: She just throws it off)
F: Everything she sings it's just like, huhh [hair flip]
L: Yeah it's like a sigh, she's just breathing and all of a sudden it just comes out like beautiful
R: Yep
H: Little bit of electric guitar in there, that's cool
K: See, this- these types of sections work
because the rest of the song was so colorful and embellished and, and crazy
And then we get chords! Wow
ELIZABETH: Most of the intervals that she's singing are like, steps or thirds
So like, there's not a whole lot of movement in the vocal line
J: Oh, okay
That's fine. It's coming
L: OH MY GOD
L: [shooketh] F: [squeals]
F: Oh my god!
L: STOP F: She's so good
R: Yes girl H: Oh! Oh!
HENRY: Oh yeah, oh yes. See, that writing is sick
R: How did she do that?
R: There she is
H: There are moments where she does something like that, or where the music does something cool like that
That should be more of the song
E: Yeah that's very frustrating when like
One element is like whoa!
That's like my whole problem with Mozart
R: I feel like she's the best vocalist I've heard here yet
H: I'd be able to get behind that
R: She just got like so solid all the way through, and like helpfully belts
F: Her voice just sounds so like, velvety and natural
L: Velvety! (F: Yeah, velvet) That is a very good word
F: It's like, it's so soft and like, I wanna touch it heh
L: Yeah
J: Yeah headphone drop, mic drop. Yeah, yeah M: Amazing
M: Yeah J: Everything, everything was right M: Guys she's my new celebrity crush
J: Yeah I knew of her, she's fantastic and actually
you know even more than the agility and the riffs and the [sings]
like all of that, but that's impressive, but one thing that really stuck out to me with her voice was
She was very stylistic in areas that need styling. Like all of that high crazy fast
stuff speaks for itself. Like you saw my face like, it speaks for itself
You don't really need a lot
If you can do it great, you know, and that really packs a punch
But in those areas where she was more just singing, you know, the- the line where it was more soft-spoken
Just some of the- the way she would start notes the way she would end notes
There was like rasp there was a lot of
character there and those are specific choices that well informed singers make to add interest to things
So I really enjoyed that as well
M: You could tell there were not a single note or syllable that she just kind of phoned in like absolutely not ever
She was just like I want to make every single note or like thing that I sang be as interesting as possible
She always just added stuff
So like there's that one like long note that she kind of did, not quite a trill but like just a little ornamentation
And it's like (J: [sings]) yeah that thing. (J: Yeah) And it's like (J: So cool)
A lot of singers wouldn't do that 'cause like, you know
You can just like hang out on that long note like, it's easier, but she was just like no, no boring notes for me J: Yeah
F: She's so floaty like (L: Seriously) the way she does it
It's just like it proves that she's such a high-quality technical singer
L: Yeah and, I mean (F: Effortless)
L: I don't even- F: SAME
L: I'm trying to come up with words, but really it's just like
The fact that we've seen her perform live and therefore know that this is like
Legitimately what she sounds like when she performs live F: And her demeanor
L: Yeah, and that's like what she actually looks like when she performs live, like
That's how just- that's just how she carries herself? Like that's pure talent right there, all of it. That's just her F: She's not fake
L: Yeah F: She ain't no fake bitch like some of y'all haters out there
L: I just remember like the one thing that stood out to me the most about her live performance is
how much she genuinely looked like she wanted to be there, and how much she genuinely seemed like she enjoyed what she was doing and
Every time they would show like her face on the big screen
She just looked happy, like she looked like she was in her element. She didn't look like she was being controlled by robots like... some others... but
You know, like that's just her and she like you can tell that's what she loves doing and she's very good at
F: Yeah, not fake. Not fake!
F: Yeah! L: We stan!
K: Why is that leap so magical, you know?
So what she could have done was
You know, you know this is a triad
of F major. And then
Another weird tritone downwards thing going on
The next thing is what matters. She could have done, you know
That's pretty cool, major seventh
That's pretty vocally virtuosic to be able to shoot that high, but she shoots one more higher to the
second or ninth depending on how you interpret it, where you go
Woah!
That's some cool stuff
K: And then there's something, and then she
spirals downward. So it's- it's the extra
So if you look at the two Fs that look similar, She goes- she goes one above it. So
Yeahh
Yeah! That's a possibility. I bet you didn't know this was possible
Ailee just proved it. And I assisted in proving it
K: Yeah, what'd you think? I: Wow, she is uh
very virtuosic and definitely I think one of the best voices I've heard so far
Her skills are very good. I really enjoyed the song
H: She was awesome
H: Song was good overall
But man, girl can sang R: Yeah, it was like a combination of like I really liked the chords that are kind of unexpected
but then you're- those are like mm chords,
And then yeah, she can, oof, she can H: She can saaang
R: She understands that there are components when good...
H: She. can. sang R: She can sang!
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