Collin: Do you hear the piano? Jarod: Yeah. Collin: There's also the EDM sounds. And they actually work. That's kinda weird xD
Jason: Now you'll be reacting to the boy group called UNB.
Umu: UNB was created on the survival show called "The Unit", which is an idol-rebooting
show where idols are given a second chance to debut so they can hopefully make it big.
Jason: So all the members of UNB are from nine different
existing K-pop groups.
Umu: 'Black Heart' is composed by Hayden Chapman, Andy Love,
Ryan S. Jhun, and LDN Noise. And the CEO said Black Heart' was inspired by The Great Gatsby, and featured a
combination of jazz in the 1920s and EDM in 2018.
Lyrically, the song is about a person with a black heart falling in love, and the UNB fans requested that you guys watch the
dance version, since the actual music video that they produced wasn't very good.
So I edited the studio track over the live version, and the live version
actually, they added some sections in, so I cut the live version to fit the studio track. Stephen: Oh, sick. Seiji: Oh.
Umu: So, there might be a few jump cuts in it. Stephen: Hey, that's cool. Seiji: Wow. Stephen: Film editing.
Umu: Enjoy!
Peyton: (singing)
Charlotte: Oh!
Peyton: Yes!
(singing)
Charlotte: Oh!
Oh.
Stephen: So, here we've got that whole like, one part of the band is swinging and the other part isn't, but
that was like, since the main theme is like straight, that worked well. That was an example of where it worked well.
Elizabeth: This is like an interesting blend of synth sounds and brass sounds. James: Totally.
Charlotte: is he dressed as a lifeguard?
Peyton: can't tell!
maybe?
Charlotte: He can come rescue me any time.
Peyton: corny!
Seiji: This seems very dirty loops-esque. Stephen: Yeah. But like, very catchy chorus. Like,
the melody is very cool. Seiji: Whoa!
Peyton: Whoo! Charlotte: Ooh! Peyton: Fancy feet!
Elizabeth: Got some displacement dissonance. James: Um-hmm.
Seiji: The dissonance is just so perfect.
Stephen: Yeah, this is a really sick song. I would listen to it.
Collin: Okay, you hear the EDM? Jarod: It's like 20, maybe 10 seconds of like,
Collin: No. No, no, no. It's underneath. Jarod: Oh, it's underneath?
Isaac: Oh, he has a good voice. Kevin: Mmm.
Isaac: Nice.
Kevin: It's a really catchy progression.
Charlotte: Oh!
Charlotte: Who's hitting those high notes?
Peyton: (singing) He's way up there. Charlotte: Yeah! Look at that falsetto.
Elizabeth: That's so interesting, because the bassline like,
sounds like it should be descending, but unlike the last one, it goes up,
James: Um-hmm. Elizabeth: so it makes you feel like it's in three for a second, when it's actually in four.
Peyton: Whoa! Whoa! Charlotte: Fancy feet again! Peyton; Whoa! Whoa!
Charlotte: Go, lifeguard boy!
Peyton: Yeah!
Kevin: I Just really like it. You don't hear EDM songs that sound very drone like
go into a major chord, in the chorus, especially.
Collin: Just listen to the layering.
Do you hear the piano? Jarod: Yeah. Collin: And there's also the EDM sounds. And they actually work. That's kind of weird XD
Elizabeth: Yeah, the synthesizer, the whole way through the verses, is completely on the off beat,
so it's like supported displacement dissonance, because you still get like the brass hits at the beginning.
Hugo: I will never dance that well.
Jeremy: Whoa, that was cool. It went from one head phone to the other. Hugo: Yeah, panning.
Jarod: The horn in, what?
Collin: Yeah, yeah. yeah, yeah. Jarod: What?
Hugo: That's was really cool. Jeremy: That was so cool.
Umu: Yeah, so what did you think about the music?
Were you able to pay attention at all? Jeremy: I was like so focused on the dancing...it was good. Hugo: It was like electro-funk,
Jeremy: Yeah.
Hugo: is a good way to describe it. Like electro-bebop. And that's a genre that you can go into some really
weird places with. And they went kinda there, cuz it's that weird thing of keeping that like,
I don't know, that old timey bop feel mixed with new dance music.
This is a type of music that kind of requires having choreographed dance to kind of really enhance the performance,
and I thought that the choreography was so good.
Like Jeremy said, I was mainly focusing on that, but the music supported it really well .
Isaac: Like, EDM, they always have like really fast and just like unattractive, like heavy beats.
Fast and heavy. And then they get to like this middle section or near the end,
where they just slow it down, and then they propel it back forward with like, the rising synthetic line. Kevin: Um-hmm.
Isaac: And it's like, it follows the tropes, but it was very enjoyable, because it's like you have all the other
aspects, like their choreo, and also the way they like sing back and forth between different timbres of their voices,
so it's just like, there's a lot of variance,
and it's quite enjoyable. Kevin: When I think sometimes about
how K-pop uses a lot of jazz band sounds, sometimes
I'm tempted to feel just a little sad because like, I think, okay, it does get old. What can you do to create something
that's enjoyable but still fused? Like, there's gotta limit at some point. Isaac: Um-hmm.
Kevin: But then I hear songs like SHINee's 'Woof Woof', and I hear songs like this, and I'm like wow,
there are endless possibilities to make enjoyable music that is fusion of the old and new, and it
sounds catchy, it sounds exciting,
but it doesn't sound too cheesy or hokey,
and anything cheesy about it in terms of chords is kind of intentional. Isaac: Um-hmm. Kevin: And these are the songs that really give me hope, and
really make me like the industry more, and the composers and just the creative talent behind K-kpop.
Isaac: I concur.
Jacob: Damn.
Collin: It actually worked. Like, that was really strange. Like, they found like the palliative sounds in EDM, cuz it's this fast like,
I don't know how to describe the sound. You know, it's like a kind of a high pitch like zip?
Jarod: Mm-hmm Collin: Anyway, but they found like that, and they put a piano and a high register, and it actually worked.
Jarod: Right. Collin: That was cool.
That's creative. That was...yeah, that was really well done, I think. The dancing was impressive.
Jarod: The dancing was very impressive. Damn, those guys can move.
Collin: Yeah! Cuz well, you can't call it jazz and you can't it EDM if all you do is take like
here's one part, like one small part of jazz instrumentation in one part, Jarod: Right. Collin: and there's more EDM because of the rhythms.
Jarod: I guess it's like.... Collin: You can't call it a mixture. Jarod: I guess maybe technically,
sure. Collin: I'd say instrumentally, but overall, like, no, not even close. Because it's not like... Jarod: Oh, right, no.
Collin: Yeah, which I guess we're kind of like...that probably wasn't their intention to actually
combine the two genres, but like... Jarod: Right.
Collin: They maintain the core of pop music, and then put the other things on top of it. Jarod: Right. Collin: I think they layered it well.
So I think they did one aspect of putting the instrumentation together that was good,
but I wouldn't say they actually combined them.
Stephen: So, I really like the chorus.
I also really liked the section after the chorus, like the little dance breakdown then that they would do because of the
like dubstep kind of influenced
line, synth line, where it was like, (singing)
which was cool, because like they juxtaposed with the straight eighth section
that the rest of the band is playing, and that's where it worked, just because--going it over it now really quickly,
but like the way that they were swinging, it was based off of like a sextuplet
instead of just a regular triplet. Because of that, you can fit eighth notes over a sextuplet and it'll still work.
Like you can still find the eighth note in the sextuplet.
So, that's kind of like a little bit of a secret on like why you can have contrasting rhythms like that,
but it doesn't sound like anything's in discord.
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