Kevin: well uh Yunyi: well..
Kevin: That could be the biggest surprise
Kevin: coming into kpop ever
Kevin: For me, I've never expect to listen to just hear something like that
Umu: Now you'll be reacting to the fourth solo song of their Wings album, and this is Suga's First Love
Umu: I'm going to start off this script with saying that this song may have some of the most relatable
Umu: Lyrics you may ever come across in a k-pop song for us musicians
Umu: specifically. so Suga wrote in an interview that this is a meaningful song "First Love talks about the piano
Umu: I used to play when I was young which also means it was the only friend
Umu: I had, I cried a lot while recording,
Umu: I kept crying at the emotion explosion part in the later half" so this is about Suga's
Umu: Love for music and piano that prevailed even through his hardships
Umu: in the song you'll hear him rapping from both like the pianos point of view and his own point of view and
Umu: So you'll hear him kind of change his voice to convey this story that he's trying to tell Charlotte: this is cool
Kevin: Let's get on with it Yunyi: Sugar as Chopin, Chopin has a great quote about love and music yeah
Yunyi: He said um "I tell my piano the things I used to tell you" Umu: oh
Yunyi: ISN'T THAT SO HARD HITTING?!?!?!
Umu: Yeah, yeah
Charlotte: it's like a Korean Morgan Freeman Peyton: AHAHAHAHA
Kevin: whoa it's like free rap rapping sort of Yunyi: yeah it's like narration sort of
Jarod: The kind of distant piano in the background is like kinda helps the whole memory
Peyton: setting up the groove now
Lindsey: ohhh this is cute "when my height got a little taller than--" I can like imagine like a littel kid growing
Fiona: I love that, "I didn't realize then your significance"
Emiel: I can tell there's like a build of some sort to the story Henry: yeah but I want it to happen now
Fiona: I'm digging his
Fiona: voice reflection as he raps Yeah, it's like taking you on a journey yeah he's like very rhythmic, pleasant Lindsey: yeah it's like Iambic Pentameter
Jarod: insert strings you know?
Peyton: this is quite the dialogue
charlotte: woah
Charlotte: like both of them Peyton: Yeah
Emiel: And what's going on? I can't really explain necessarily. It just kind of like it has this open vibe. I guess like
Emiel: It's not really strict to a beat or it's not supposed to be groovy but like
Kevin: Yeah, I can't take this, this is a lot
Lindsey: wait
Lindsey: "even when I pushed you away you were firmly by my side " Fiona: this is such personification
Lindsey: yeah this is incredible
Emiel: and then he brings it back Henry: see why wasn't that *sings piano part*
Henry: In from like...minute one?
Emiel: There needs to be more like Henry: that provides like necessary pacing to the song
Emiel: yep, there needs to be some sort of rhythmic drive to this tune Kevin: that sounds like a clock at the end
Yunyi: Yeah, it was a clock or is it a metronome
Kevin: No, no, I don't think it's a metronome Yunyi: could be both
Kevin: Maybe... yes Yunyi: you know the metronome the acoustic metronomes
Yunyi: acoustic metronomes, mechanic metronomes
Fiona: So I loved in the lyrics how he kept referring to like I didn't know how important you would be like
Fiona: relatable content
Fiona: OMG and then
Fiona: Just like how he
Fiona: Used hardcore personification with his instrument like I can really relate to that because I my horn is named
Fiona: Florian and like it's a person in work
Fiona: We're like best friends some days even though we get mad at each other, but it's like you're always there. It's always my fault
Fiona: It's never you you know
Fiona: You're firmly by my side unless I knock you off a chair Lindsey: yeah like (Fio: it's really nice) the firmly by my side thing
Lindsey: That's like the one thing that almost got me
Lindsey: Because it was like you're firmly by my side like even when I try to push you away like you're still there
Lindsey: And it's like ha ha because I sometimes feel like I don't want to do anything fiona: cause you're too heavy
Lindsey: But like my horn is still there
Lindsey: No matter what and like no matter what I do like I always come back to it cause I have to
Peyton: yeh I like get it, but the way he portrayed it just came out kind of.. Char: weird? Pey: Yeah. Yeah, like he I think he.. what is it called? not personified
Umu: Yeah Charlotte: personified is the word yeah
Charlotte: when you give life to an inanimate object Peyton: Yeah, I think he took it a little too far like I don't know
Charlotte: I don't think it was too far. I don't know I think it's very personal, but I think everybody's
Charlotte: Relationship with their instrument, is personal. Peyton: I guess. I don't know maybe because I don't see
Peyton: That like the music as like something that like saved me I guess or like
Peyton: Something I don't know it was just I guess it was like something
Peyton: I like kind of like grew to love you know like I was introduced to it
Peyton: And I was given the option to kind of pursue it so it's just like oh, I'm pretty good at this
Peyton: I'll keep going and then it became a thing there's just like aw man this is great
Peyton: You know, but it wasn't like something that like is all
Peyton: I have you know like this is this is just is it
Peyton: And I guess I guess like if you look at it from that perspective like then you can
Peyton: See how he got like the whole like you know like you always with me
Peyton: You're always beside me like you know holding my hand. I was just like some of that
Peyton: Just felt like kind of odd to me. Just because like I guess it's not the way I see it, but like
Peyton: Just like putting such like a like I mean literally transforming into this piano into like
Peyton: an influential like being in its life you know which is like
Peyton: I don't know, there's something very interesting you know Umu: right so this one was more relatable for you?
Charlotte: Oh, I just think that it's relatable that you spend so much time with this instrument
Charlotte: one on one that like in your head I guess it does become a
Charlotte: a relationship of some kind
Umu: Yeah, so first. Can you relate to his story?
Katie: 100% oh yeah Jarod: yeah
Umu: How do you feel it was conveyed through his rapping style and like the strings and instrumentals
Jarod: I mean
Jarod: the things is cause like as far as the rapping style most of the time when we hear the rapping like idk the kind
jarod: of the...
Jarod: the pacing and
Jarod: The rough rhyming that kind of happens like there wasn't as much of that in this rap
Jarod: I thought, I felt like it was very much more of him just like just going so first
Jarod: I was like wait a minute this kind of has a different kind of flow to it, but then I realized
Jarod: It's like it's more of just like him
Jarod: Doing the soliloquy this kind of this dedication
Jarod: And there just happens to be music in the background if that makes sense because the rhythm sometimes seemed a little like
Jarod: Like not quite there, but it was cool
Jarod: cause it had like a human element to it like it didn't feel as meant like you couldn't necessarily dictate it
Jarod: But like it was still really powerful because it's like you know. It's just him just like freely like speaking which was cool
Katie: I liked the build up that went along with the lyrics
Katie: Because it was very like he took space in between
Katie: phrases in the beginning he would just slowly start like having like a continuous flow of words and
katie: When it got to the more intense part about when he was in despair and just hated
Katie: Everything and even then piano was there for him and even when he didn't want to play it was there for them him
Katie: that's when like all the instruments came in and it started building and that's when he got louder and
Katie: It was just a really gradual, but really effective
Katie: grow and decay of
Katie: The song I was getting a little choked up there
Katie: And the in the build part especially when it the line about like you were there to see my birth
Katie: You'll see my life, and you'll see my death and I was like oh my god
Katie: that's so real
Kevin: Well
Kevin: That could be the biggest surprise
Kevin: coming into kpop ever
Kevin: For me I've never expect to listen to just hear something like that Umu: you okay? Yunyi: yeah
Umu: Surprised neither of you cried Kevin: oh, no, it's this close. Yunyi: This I was like like telling myself like dude, cry in front of the camera
Umu: How does that relate to your guys's experience with the piano?
Yunyi: dude i don't know if I'm ready, I can't share this on camera Kevin: woah it's getting yeah
Yunyi: I mean thing is that like when you're a musician like you don't simply just
Yunyi: Decide one day that you're gonna like throw yourself into like we're all we all know like how laborious like being a musician is
Yunyi: And like you don't just decide to throw yourself into this industry unless if you like seriously cannot
Yunyi: Envision your life without it and it's like like usually in that
Yunyi: Like somewhere along that like realization like music comes to pull you out of someplace in your life
Yunyi: You know in some way like it does something that is so like emotionally changing and like
Yunyi: Something that is so profound that you can't you know
Yunyi: You can't go any other way, and this like really I think it encapsulates all of that. You know... but like this especially was
Yunyi: such a
Yunyi: powerful story
Kevin: especially when he said that you know there are days where I don't even want to meet you
Kevin: But then you were there, and you didn't need to say anything and that's that's that's when I'm just like okay
Umu: Off the topic of what this is about
Umu: Musically like the piano the string is Kevin: it's great it starts off so freely and you're not sure where the beat is
Kevin: The chords or kind of changing, this rapping is sort of not like you know
Kevin: Strict in time and then it sort of just becomes in time or if it wasn't time
KEvin: I just couldn't catch on with it, but then it just it started flowing and it gave more momentum
Kevin: And it's so natural and at the beginning
Kevin: I was thinking how like his voice almost sounds like a kid's voice some of the
Kevin: Inflections like I'm like a woah because [demonstrates]
Kevin: There were like a lot of those Umu: yeah that was when he was switching between speaking as if the piano was talking to him
Kevin: OHHHHH Okay Umu: and him talking to the piano
Keivn: But then later on I did not expect his voice just this let out you know
Kevin: Just like the instrumental, so like just it's just very well done. It's very well thought out. Yeah
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