Introductory Time!
Today, we have a new pair with us that will be reacting to a few Kpop music videos.
Umu: You've already met Rachel in the Vocalist React Series.
Rachel: Woo! / Katie: I am Katie and I'm a freshman and I play the violin.
Have you--have you ever, like, heard any Kpop songs before? Do you know what it is?
I had heard of the genre before.
Um, I hadn't really watched any videos, but then I came across this wonderful YouTube channel
Katie: Because we go to the same school. Rachel: Is this your first time ever?
Katie: Reacting? Rachel: yeah Katie: yes Rachel: Omgeeee
Katie: So I like heard a few songs, but I know pretty much like nothing about the genre. Rachel: Your K-Card
Katie: I'm what? Rachel: you're losing your K-card (like V-card HAHA)
(wheeze)
Katie: Okay?
Umu: We're starting today off with a girl group called
Mamamoo. Rachel's actually seen them live already on a competition show.
Rachel: not like "live" live. Umu: nAHNAh not like "live" live
Umu: but like on the screen live, yeah
Umu: But this is actually some of their most recent music.
the very first song that you're going to hear is kind of like a
Christmasy song and it's called "Memory". This first song is actually a
non-title track song meaning that it came out in the album, not
originally as a music video on YouTube, and so, later on they recorded a music video
and they released it as like--kind of like a Merry Christmas MV.
Yunyi: Miracles in December (YES EXO YUNYI WELOVEIT)
Kevin: 3, 2, 1 Christmas~!
Jarod: Memoryyyy [Jarod and Peyton jamming]
Jarod: ooh
Ben: That guitar tho-
Ohhh
Emiel: Woah, this is pretty sick
Shimon: it does feel Christmasy
Ben: Yeah it feels like a Michael Buble like
(big laugh from the big bois)
Kevin: It's so good. Yunyi: I'm in Michael's.
Katie: I like the strings.
Yunyi: There's / Kevin: *head shake* no
green and red garlands
Yunyi: on sale / Kevin: crinkle crinkle?
Katie: Coloring? oh, I wanna color
Ooh, also this was shot with a really high frame rate and like my eyes are on fire / Fiona: this makes me so happy
Man I feel like I should watch this movie
er-not movie, music video for when I ever, like, want to unwiiind after a stressful day.
Yeah / likeit'svery like, relaxing
That's a sensual crayon / Rachel: i know / Katie: I'm just gonna say it / Rachel: it's very--
Take out the synths and you would be right on with jazz music
Fiona: Oooh I like this Emiel: It's like that touch of like yeah synth edge that's like
Oh, can't you just get rid of it.
Lindsey: This does sound very cristma- it is like the like Melissa: She said Christmas
A little like the violin line in there. Melissa: Also the word Christmas. That's some music theory right there, Text Painting.
I wanna see the finished product of this drawing
*collective oooh*
Henry: frickin' rap in Christmas music? what in god's name is happening Fiona: Wait this is awesome
Rachel: Gotta get that Katie: Is this rap?
Yeah that boom boom pow
So like I love the rapping in songs normally
but this just doesn't fit
I don't think that goes with the Christmas vibe
This is the whole rap, cuz you actually don't expect it.
It's like jazz and rap / Yeeah / it's like a mishmash
appropriation of black culture.
EHHUHHAHAha *shocked breath* ᴴᴼᴴ ᴴᴼᴴ
(topic change LOL) The strawberries!
This just kind of like soft, breathy voice..
just everything so smooth.
ᵒʰ ᶠᵘᶜᵏ
wow. / ohmy, wait, that cake looks so good.
I want that cake right fuckin' now. Like, holy shit.
I feel like I would show this if I was trying to like
go on a date with.. Rachel: ..And he slips in the cakepop.
*hand gesture* What do you think about that?
Yeah, honestly
This makes me want to cry. I just feel so nostalgic right now.
Those are very long nails. Rachel: Yeah
sounds very inline
Katie: Imagine, like, playing violin like that. / Rachel: No,
look there they are. / I don't think that you could.
I know it's already past but I just have to give my salutations to the rapper of this group.
Moonbyul, b--for doing excellent..
relaxed rap sesh and that,
that earlier passage, that was so good.
That with a light guitar
(light jamming)
Oh a key change.
See, but this time I think it's appropriate. / Yeah, cuz it's slow and just like laid back.
The thing is that the trumpet is played so well in this video that I actually
can't quite tell if its saxophone or trumpet..
It's trumpet. / oh yeah, that's trumpet.
Gahd, who's the trumpet player?
Ooh, that's tasty. It's like a tasty, mild trumpet. (like hot wings??)
Take a song. Come on.
Hello, would you like trumpet in the background? That's..Yeah.
That's the jazzy. That's like jazziest element of this.
It's like / -and the drum beat.
Yeah, I like the *stutter* piano.
The piano line, like some of the chords and stuff.
Oh wow. This ending is very jazzy.
Wait that's so cute, they drew the seasons. / It looks like inside out.
hhh at 9~
there you go, it did something.
There was a 9
awwoohhWOO (this was really high pitched i dont know how to caption that) *WHOA*
Those drawings are sick.
*thigh slap*
bless their hearts, this is so cute
whoa, that was really dope / so yEah
We really like the trumpet and that snare because it's just, like, it's not in your face at all it's just..
*vocalizing* oohweEE
Just kind of floats along with the line, just like fitting it like a color in the background.
But at the same time, carries its own line.
says it's own thing.
I thought the rap was cool, cuz it was
kind of understated and you didn't really expect it.
*firm* I didn't like it that way.
ehh I didn't really like it too much either.
*more firm* also, it didn't fit the vibe *FIRM* at all.
it is--okay, that--
Why would you? *laugh* Ben's just being
controversial today. Ben: controversial??
(offscreen) But like, we never hear rap in, like, slow music. So it's definitely unique. It was also, like--
I didn't love it but I thought it was cool. / Ben :It was a cool way to do something different.
That was nice, that was lovely.
That was like a nice cup of hot cocoa with like some marshmallows on top.
It's.. really good. It might be a little, a little too on the
background music side,
so uh it's not my favorite Mamamoo. That being said, it's very effective.
It was, it was really
easy to listen to except for that one rap verse.
I just don't think that was really like--and like, people who watch these. Like, they know me.
Like, I like the rap. Like, the hype kind of stuff but I just don't think it really... it just seemed really
out of place here, but I really like the trumpet stuff. And I like jazzy kind of undertones to this piece.
Yeah, the trumpet was nice.
I like the trumpet and, like, in general trumpet's good Instrument. Go trumpets!
Like, I think Mamamoo's really awesome and like,
I love when that girl raps because, she's such a badass awesome I just
It didn't-- It didn't even sound badass in here it just sounded like, "Oh this person's talking now." / Yeah like,
well, what's like what's interesting is that they tried it though. Like, good for them for trying.
I don't--wait-- that sounds really condescending but
I'm sorry (C/N: it's okay we forgive you)
No, experimentations always good. / Yeah!
Oh man, okay that was great. I loved that.
The RAP, literally had
NO business being in that song.
(coherent complaints that i'm too lazy to caption, basically: rap was really out of place)
what the fuuuUUuck?
it didn't go with the beat at aAAall..
But like, ye-it was funny, I guess.
And, like her voice is great for rap. And it sounds like--
the rap sounded kinda good.
But in the place in the song.. I was like:
what are you doing there? lol
also, on top of, like, the beat that it
was, like there was no beat. It was just like *dududoosh*
yeah, exactly. So, there was nothing to rap on.
(offscreen) Mhm
she was just, she was goin'.
(offscreen) Mhm
Oh! I loved the band. *sound of agree* I loved their voices. It was great.
Oh and the video is really cool too.
(onscreen) Mhm
(Drawing?) standard is good!
Umu: This is Mamamoo's latest. This is their title track song.
From the 'Memory' album.
You just listened to Memory. And this music video of the main song is called "Decalcomani"
Umu: Decalcomani? / That sounds French
Umu: It IS French, and it's that art that you like.
On one Side of Paper With Ink and you Fold it over and Unfolding all the rorschach Test I
Said That Wrong Fitting Clot like Worse
Yeah yeah Yeah and Basically They use that as a theme in This music Video as like when you're Truly in Love with someone and
What i'm Sure yes Use Mirror-Image stem, oh like Thought and Feeling Wise I think that's Really
Awesome I'm Here are Both 11 and I have to do that on you, oh?
There it Is don't you just get Expensive
Damn they're so hot yeah There is like, oh God Damn that's Pretty G
Dress
oh
Fuck yeah here We go?
Little girl yes
What I like the beat yeah yeah this Is not Christmas
Just like I was Looking at a gel rolling in the Deep' Kind
Of vibe you know, yeah took my arm Up in the Background drop out in Sister Boy yeah
Totally Get your Can Damage your Shame get Those, oh nuts Girl
Maybe that a silly go blakeley, oh my god they're all slim, oh, oh?
Weird oh busted
Where is Rebecca yeah?
This Is not like that you Should, Add fun
but across the Land I
Mean is that Ready when it Is
Not as like Genuine and Slightly
Like Comfy and Lasting
Down
There so good it's Really cool and I love the
Whatever Is There in The Fence?
The Theme They like yeah
Aesthetic, Oh and it Dropped out I do that I love it it never Gets Old lers
Course of Course Drop of it, oh
Yeah I love when they, were Two models like yeah?
Or it might dancing too much case Three Different People know How I get
It Hopefully They're Actually to Conform Yeah
Together
Wow okay not that Make the dancing like Four Times I would Buy This i like it
The Amount of Symmetry and Like Videos Makes Me so happy
Yes yes That's Good Waiting for her to Deliver the truth
Then Get it girl fuck Yeah I
Don't know what you Think but it's not Really Important
Yeah
This Is pretty good, oh, we're Back yeah Mike Who's here, we are, oh?
Well I feel like without the music Videos this Would Just be like Really Awkward yeah?
Damn it's getting Intense, oh
my
Okay i kicked it over This way I know the blindfold yeah I can't go, oh?
That all day, oh, oh, wow wow edward cullen. That you
So what's going to happen you
Have my attention, oh
Okay, what does that meet that's a metaphor it's Definitely oh Lots and Lots of Metaphors, oh?
There We go yeah yeah yeah pineapple Watch, oh?
Oh, whoa, oh, Whoa?
I like that oh Visually
I'm sorry that was 11 Good Boy, Industry These Are like obliques With it like
You Would not Talk About that Movie and Philosophers, oh my god Kids
Can Look Throw me Around like that I'm not ray, oh?
I
Feel like Someone Is like Strapping in Like as Their - Puppy Galaxy ruby for the walls yeah
Visually the
Music Video Hopefully of my ally to be one of my Favorite
Good neon Me Weird Imagery Beats Lately Traffic
Is pretty cool pretty cool, yeah all right you want english Lyrics are you good I'm?
Good okay all right what do you think about that one
Definitely not the Best Movie I've Seen, yeah Mamamoo's like Sparkly to me like, oh mom sounds like
Shimmery wasn't like Bam I just Show me?
Yeah Like it was Confused it Didn't know what I wanted to be There is a way to Make Two Different songs
Like Early when it Comes to like Having that sort of Thing happened like There's a way to
Do it in A cohesive way i didn't think that like Musically the two
Blondes as well
I'm fucking the lemon, oh, don't look at the fucking Traffic Whoa
Wow that's A knot yeah very like Really Hidden Metaphor alright yeah yeah?
Yeah Mama wanted to come out Back with A more Mature Concept because before There no shit
Fuckin Explicit Content in This One Damn Would you like about this Song Because this isn't my usual
File No it's not what I liked it they Fucking Killed it in A rap, was?
Perfect Yeah Rapping, was great She Killed it I liked a lot it was Really cool and very
Different from
What Else I've Listened to them but Also Version from Memory Which Is weird it's on the Female Phone yeah?
Totally Different Yeah Totally Different I loved it I just Found a chorus to be a little Poppy but yeah it was quite Nice
It was like This I think was like Probably my lesser?
Lesser like Mamamoo songs Have Been Overall Kingdoms are Always There for me so I guess This one Didn't Quite
Mamamoo's me as much as the other Mamamoo tracks but it was so white but why excellent
News Good I have fun
Videos cool, Piece Definitely like Definitely Driving They Definitely played off the whole like like
Kind of Kind of deal With the Choreography Having them using Groups Afford to have
Musically it was
very Consistent
It kind of like Rude One way the whole Time I felt like the Kids Varied some
Rhythmic Things Music Wise it's not that far out
yeah which I wasn't Expecting I think I just Had This Flick I
Pre Yeah Iíve Shown you like not extremely out There yeah it's Really
Easy to Have a Frequency, is like idea yeah might be
But no i i dig it it's kind
Of like what was the Pop music that I've Listened To it's like better Pops and the Pop that
Is right now that's my room because Lately it's Just like
Two Chords no instruments so far This One Musically hell yeah I
Was like Way more Focused on the Video and like as a musician at Music school I got A not do that
but yeah this is like this is a jam Anyway play yeah Which Would you like This one I like This
One I like the Music of This Song Better They Can, come you
Need The Choice From Windy all right even Though it's like the more typical Kpop I
Think it Worked Better Than The Christmas Evening, also to the present Anyone of The Kind of Boring I feel like I've Really
Enjoyed During Christmas Time You Feel more roof
You're more Bubbly Be okay for A few More Buble I like That better yeah it
Was A very Intimate Feel like if the Music really Just kind of like brings the Air and brings Youngest Member in
Definitely Memory
Yes Memory Memory Look, it's A good Christmas Tree, Maybe you want to cry
A miracle in your memory
Everyone's Gone Memory Memory Because it's Just so silky how Can you not like it yeah Double
You know but hey Good for them for Exploring New Territory With This kind of Pop Jazz Mashup Fusion
Yeah