Hi, guys, this is Umu from ReacttotheK, and today, I'll be reacting to Oh My Girl's come back!
Or, I mean their 1st 2018 comeback, Secret Garden
Uh, anyways I have not heard any of the teasers, and this will be my absolute first listen. So, I am ready
Ooh, throwback to Destiny, or is this another song in the album?
I know Lovelyz did a song called Destiny
Nope, not a ballad
Ooh, I like that low throbbing synth
That goes along well with the...
Percussion sample
I really liked that rhythm and melody
Okay, half-time? -ish?
Was that half-time? That was weird
I liked that drop!
That was an interesting...
way to lead into the chorus, like the strings came in, then the voice, and then the percussion beat
Okay, chromatically descending line
Liked that, and the synth
For some reason, I still feel like it's building
Even though this is the chorus, and the pre-chorus is
Whoa
Supposed to..
Build to the chorus, I still- I feel like it's still
building up and up and up
Ooh, I like this little " synth break"
Nice visual effects
Their songs are always so gentle
Windy Day was the wildest thing they had
Oh no no no! Of course, Coloring Book was the wildest song they've done
In my opinion
It's- it kind of feels like they're going into halftime right here because they take away the lower
percussion sample that's on every beat. But that they have like this trap beat
Now the string's just like going [imitates it] It's kinda like...
Dream sequence in the strings
Really nice chromatic motion in both instrumentals and vocal melody during the chorus
I feel like there are some lower local harmonies here in the chorus
But they're so hard to hear
It's..
Drowned out by the...
Loud percussion samples and strings, which are fake
That was weird!
I really like the instrumental breaks in this song
They just, you know, they give the listener time to breathe
I love the visual effects in this music video
So this is what they're doing for the third chorus
I like it!
Okay, adding back into the percussion first
Then it's gonna go strings
And the high notes and the vocals
What a wild music video
That is accompanied by some pretty fun chromatic motion
Wow! The strings had a lot of reverb
Okay
Okay, well, as I was saying, lots of reverb on the strings
It just kind of felt mushy to me, the mixing
I'm gonna listen to that a second time, so I make sure I didn't miss anything the first time
So, already, really gentle vocals with gentle harmonies
Nothing too crazy quite yet
Except that rhythm, I just like that. It isn't out, but..
Hits me right here
And then the tr- the trap percussion
Nice motion leading it up to the...
chorus
Yeah, in my opinion it's just they added way too much...
reverb on the strings
I think they- I can't tell whether they added reverb
to the vocals too because there's so much in the background instrumentals
And like, when the strings play the faster [mimics]
It doesn't sound clear because there's so much reverb on it
Maybe they're trying to
convince fans that they're real strings. Like you can't hear the
artificial [mimics] like the leaps...
sound much different in artificial strings
When you like, switch notes, when you jump to a different interval
It sounds much different on the key MIDI files, or
verses, you know, live
Acoustic
It's an interesting texture that they're creating with that like, ...
scratchy synth of- Hear that? [mimics ]
That synth with the strings
And then, third chorus
I love it when third choruses just are like,
"Eff you, percussion! Let's just go..
kind of like,
pop ballad for a minute, and then
Okay, okay, you can- you can come back, tiny, a bit, percussion. Okay, okay,
let's lead up to the high vocals and..."
I like it when songs do that
This is going on my "best kpop third choruses" playlist
'Cause like, you know, high vocals immediately in the third chorus, like
Wait. Words aren't working right now? I'll explain after this
Kind of a cute outro
Okay, so most pop- kpop songs are copy paste verse, chorus, verse, chorus,
bridge, third chorus
You just copy paste the third chorus over, and then
The main vocalist does some high notes over it
That's the typical form of a k-pop song, or what I hear most often
But I love it when the composers go the extra length to
totally change up. Like they might keep the same melody
Um, of the chorus. Well, I mean actually you have to kind of have to keep the same melody
'cause that's the whole point of the chorus
it's a returning, catchy melody with the same exact lyrics every single time
So, basically they just
changed up this style, or changed up the instrumentation completely in the third chorus
and that's what I like
That's what I like to hear
It makes me really excited and happy, so
Thanks for watching my reaction video! I will see you guys later
Bye!