Henry: And I think he chooses to hold on the pitch and doesn't use vibrato until the very end
H: when the chorus comes back in. I think that that's kind of hard to do actually, it's really good.
[Rossini's Semiramide]
Isaac: EXO-CBX Umu: Yes! I: They sound like motorbikes, I don't know why. Vroom vroom!
Charlotte: I LOVE THEM!
Umu: So this is an EXO subunit. There's only going to be three out of the nine,
U: and right now you're gonna be reacting to their
U: 2018 comeback called 'Blooming Day' and actually the whole album of 'Blooming Day' represents the seven days of the week and 'Blooming Day'
U: represents Tuesday. Why is that representing Tuesday?
U: Because, the Korean title for 'Blooming Day' is actually a pun on the way
U: you say Tuesday in Korean, and which is why they use a Chinese character for the Korean title,
U: because the character means... Isaac and Kevin: Flower! U: BOOM!
U: The song is composed by Steve Manovski, Yoo Young-jin,
U: Jenson Vaughan, Caroline Ailin, and Jordan Croucher.
Kevin: Blooming Day. Will it make my heart bloom? Boom.
Fiona: Hey!
Peyton: So much bass that I want to fill the drums.
Charlotte: There you go.
Kevin: Hey, that's a pretty solid chord progression right, like you already have a good song with that.
K: I'll explain why after the song, but the way it uses a mixture. It's very good.
Lindsey: Can I be your boyfriend, I mean, okay, sure. Fiona: Will you give me merch? Then yeah.
Jarod: I like how "can I" doesn't quite resolve so it like kinda helps... Katie: The unresolved question!
J: Exactly the unresolved question, that way it kind of builds a little harmonic tension. It's like "Can I be you boyf-" and you're just like...
J: so we'll have to see. Maybe there'll be a resolution at the end of it, or maybe not.
Peyton: See this is like one of those simple songs that I actually dig,
P: because I like the sound selection.
Charlotte: Yeah, it's just a simple background texture, but it's letting like their voices really shine through. P: Yeah.
Henry: The harmonic progression is rad.
Kevin: The Picardy third appears in different places.
K: Every two bars or...
K: between every two bars.
K: So the chord progression isn't exactly the same.
K: And that keeps it fresh.
Fiona: Flowers! So many flowers, ooh!
Lindsey: I can't tell if there's mixture in here or if I just want there to be so I'm imagining it.
L: In just like in the chorus.
L: Because I think it's but it's like major mixture in a minor mode.
L: That's what it sounds like. F: I think it has flat seven.
L: Yeah, yeah no it definitely does. F: So I think that might like that's in the bass, so I think that might be making some minor-y.
Kevin: Wait, this is a song where I've no idea if it's a major or minor. I want to say it's in major.
K: But there's so much like flat six,
K: in a major context.
Jarod: Yeah, I like how it's like you get the bass going and then the voice on top of it, it's a cool...
J: range effects you got the top and like the way bottom.
J: It's like when you like toast but like no jam or anything, just like one slice of bread and another slice of bread.
Katie: A toast sandwich?
Henry: I kinda like this little breakdown section.
H: And I think he chooses to hold on the pitch and doesn't use vibrato until the very end
H: when the chorus comes back in. I think that that's kind of hard to do actually, it's really good.
Elizabeth: I think it's tasteful. H: Yeah.
Lindsey: This is major mixture in, that was like a major tonic but we're in a minor...
Fiona: Oh we are? L: Yeah for sure we are in minor 'cause there's definitely at least a flat three and sev- so it's either like full minor or at least dorian.
Charlotte: That was enjoyable. Peyton: EXO-CBX.
Umu: Yeah, so what do you think of that song overall musically? Jarod: It's pretty groovy man.
Katie: I mean it was very like energetic which reminded me of like let's go do this. Let's go on an adventure.
K: The bass was like avoiding down beats. It was like on the offbeat it was like..
K: which was really cool. You're still snapping.
Jarod: I know, still feeling it. You have that, there's like (singing)
J: there's like this kind of empty space where it's like you could fill it with something, you know
J: and it's like you're kind of left with that and this whole like whole door and the little hey at the end think there's
J: kind of a little mystery behind it. Like wait, I don't know. Can they be your boyfriend?
J: You don't know and I want to know.
Fiona: I liked all the flowers.
F: It was just like I like how that connected it all. Yeah, like we had flowers and we're pretty, date me.
F: Can I be a boyfriend, cool make you a flower smoothie ok bye. Lindsey: Yeah, it was it was very much like a
L: minimalist aesthetic. The video kind of just like had
L: random things here and there but like that the flowers really kept coming back and there's all that tonal ambiguity throughout there. You can kind of like
L: associate that- F: with the music, like the music didn't vary a whole heck of a lot
F: so and neither did like the theme. L: Yeah.
Isaac: Very nice use of bass,
I: it was just like it wasn't annoying it just for some reason because of the way they they colored it on top,
I: it was great and also the use of V-I once again.
I: If you can use V-I really well or embellish it like crazy but with coherence to the baseline it will sound
I: great!
Kevin: All right. So let's let's break down that uh, what makes that chord progression- we could...
K: Ugh, okay.
K: The reason this chord progression is so great, you see, you start with minor, right?
K: It's sad or rather it's edgy. You can say it 'cause it's upbeat, and then it goes... Oh, man.
K: I-V
K: And then it goes down to, oh!
K: You know what that means?! Look, look, this is a dominant this this just like like
K: The D sharp in the previous chord suddenly turns into a D natural, which is kind of like a mixture sort of thing sort of thing. I: (whispers) Chromaticism.
K: Yeah chromaticism.
K: And then it ends,
K: in major I, like there's the Picardy third. I: Oh my goodness.
K: So like within these four chords you get you sort of get a v, V, i, and I.
K: You know, there's a there's a musical evolution there.
K: And it's just it's just so good and not only that like the melody, the melody definitely supports it too.
K: Like remember this part of it,
K: they make sure to cover those two notes and with the melody and harmony both working towards that
K: crazy goal. This is super colorful song like you can hear the colors , just colorful.
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