Umu: So this is Monsta X. This is a boy group and they debuted in 2015 with seven members~
They are currently ranging ages 21 to 25 years old
The song we're about to react to is their
2017 most recent comeback it's called Dramarama
in this music video they live in a time where time traveling is possible
But illegal!!!
so there are multiple storylines going on where different members risk time travel to do certain things
Naoki: oh Stephen: it sounds like a comic book
Umu: The song is composed by three
Different people and the lyrics are written by two of the monsta x members.
Fun fact, this song got them their first show award,
Which is like finally!!!
Jarod: guys it's not all about the awards and accolades, okay?
It's all about doing it for the fun the experience and you know just making some good music. You know doesn't matter! You do you~
Katie: Three two
Khan: one Kevin: dramarama
Kevin: Real jazz Khanh: extensions
Jarod: You know exactly what he's gonna try and do
Kevin: It's like a sci-fi movie with perfect kpop attire. (Kh:Yeah) I'm not used to this
Lindsey: What wait it started in 3 and then it switched to 4
Fiona: literally get me with that guitar
Henry: Shit
Okay, actually fits fucking so cool
Jarod: Yeah, the Pocket is so big you can put a Honda Civic and your grandmother's purse in there
huuuuge baby
Kevin: The bass is really *sings line*
Khanh: Other guitar
Lindsey: oh those are some tight harmonies Fiona: literally some somehow
I think those harmonies like made it sound like it was gonna go backwards too like it sounded like
*backwards sounds*
Katie: This is like
movie trailer material
Like this could be a movie, and I love the like visual effects
Lindsey: whoa they got the triplets going on
Stephen: man
Naoki: give me major swipes Stephen: yeah dude that chorus tho is
yeah like mmmm
Naoki: MAMAMAMAMMAMAMAMAMAMMAMMAM (sorry that's all i hear)
Kevin: rapping's pretty awesome
Khanh: Yeah Kevin: it's dramarama
Jarod: This shows you how powerful one note can be and how a rhythm can be in place
Jarod: You know you don't need to do Katie: that the brass like
That's
That's like
movie trailer like the movies film score
Naoki: oh Nice contrast Stephen: yep
Naoki: It's definitely more watery here, and it's more fluid
as opposed to to bum bum bum bum Stephen: yup drums come in make it more mm
Peyton: it's like the men in black of time Charlotte: I know!
That's why I said matrix
Matrix...
like Matrix and then (P:yeah)
Kevin: This inception because that car crash is taking a very long time
I just love the how many layers and it's like the *grunts*
Kevin: Another rap verse is this heaven
Stephen: that's good Naoki: another contrast
Stephen: I like the lyrics and how Naoki: yeah
Stephen: Looks like a double time vibe like I like- how it's like rising. Naoki: Oh, yeah
Fiona: oh Lindsey: wut
Fiona: I Just love that
Lindsey: I really thought there was gonna be like at all you know how them me sometimes the music cuts out
And then a drop comes in but it like creeped in and now here. We are
Fiona: That was a good read transition Linsey: from that little bridge
Fiona: medial caesura that didn't just line up with at all
with ever-
Anything ever
Stephen: I wonder if the way is that long though when it's not in the music video
It's just like being listened to on the radio.
Naoki: That'd be interesting yeah
cuz there is definitely some things going on in the music video. S: Yeah
But if you hold the silence for that long... will people like
Stephen: well you'll just use...loose all the energy you just had Naoki: it'll effect it the music differently
Naoki: I definitely still felt the suspense with the light music going (yeah)
Katie: Wow, that was really cool
Jarod: I was like watching a movie
Katie: that literally was like watching a movie
Jarod: movie and music video holy hsit
Katie: The visuals were really nice like the like like the color scheme
the Angles, I like the like effect of them time-traveling that was really cool
Musically that was really interesting there were a lot of elements that I wouldn't have expected from a pop song like the bass
And like the low brass that just straight-up reminded me of a movie
The triplets were cool. It was just like a really it was like multiple different
Genres, I got the vibe like there was this one
Neighbor tone that they used that kind of gave it like a almost like a Middle Eastern vibe
Then I also got like like kind of dubstep
Like the drops and stuff and then regular pop and then they like film score music like it was very busy
But really effective.
Henry: I definitely can see the ties to like their dubstep past, but this feels far more evolved
Which is why I liked it more interesting sounds. They generated a more interesting beat
They had genuine vocal harmony
Which usually you never get I mean how did that kind of stuff the content was also very cool. It was not contrived it was
subtle and
executed well
So I kept showing that they must have spent like most of their money on that car stunt because they kept fucking showing it like
Look we did it. We could do in Reverse too like-
all we got to do is play it backwards it's like it was been really excited that he got a car to flip over so
They kept showing it Emiel: it's pretty hard.
Henry: Yeah, that was a
Emiel: stunt and a half
Charlotte: I just liked how I go in curtain like felt like rock music like the beat
The whole thing started out as rock music and then like they gradually developed into more hard-hitting
Edgy more like pop hip-hop type sound and I liked it and I liked the unexpectedness
Like when we did the stop time I expected them like most most tracks would just be like stop time
we
Stopped everything and it's super dramatic and then there's like the drop back into like the main chorus of the song and this was like
No, we'll go into something totally different.
Peyton: I thought it was really interesting the way they blended the sounds you know the
Guitar a lot of guys are hesitant I guess makes
Acoustic sounds with hip-hop just because it sometimes again come off kind of hokey and but I think they did that very well
I was like definitely getting down for sure I
Charlotte: also like the way that they had the chorus alike in the
Instrumental part of the track and then they did like like the actual chorus over it
but then the rapper actually went over the chorus and like did all that was really cool because
It felt almost to see what he was like
Improving on the spot cuz he was just kind of like going with it and taking like
elements of what the actual chorus is but like
Changing it and adding his own things and it worked like you could like in your head
You could like hear what the actual chorus was that was really really good
Stephen: I just like how there were definite
Contrasts between each of the sections of everything sounded different in the sense of light in the intro first verse chorus
Which is nice just because how like arrangement wise it was they changed it because it helped build up the energy especially
I love the bridge where it went from that kind of like head bopping kind of like halftime groove on to where it was like
Eighth notes and so it as a listener you get excited and then that was reflected
One so what's going on harmonically was like that rising motion in the bass and then super dope
Naoki: nothing dropped (too bad that isn't true in all forms bc the silence made me cry in the music video)
(Yeah) It was just silence.
Stephen: Yeah. It was a nice and I love that
Naoki: they
bubbled up and then *gesture* Stephen: yeah yeah
Umu: how do you feel the like vibe of the song supported
what was going on in a music video?
Khanh: the cuts were really good, and they lined up with the music really well
I mean the visual cuts
Kevin: and something about seeing like
Asian kung-fu slash sword stuff with that type of guitar is really is it's really awesome
(Yeah) like kendo stuff came in I'm like this really fits for some reason
Khanh: Yeah, it's like kind of that that perfect blend of East and West that could kill me now
You know I mean
LIndsey: it was like perfect because it was it like it the whole thing
Just felt kind of I guess not as in like unpolished
But I mean roughest and just like
like a little violent
Almost and I think a lot of that in the music had to do with the way that the drums and the guitar
Were just constant the guitar sound was very like pingy
It kind of like in-your-face. You know sometimes they'll distort it, so it's a
Little held back, but it was really present
And I think that really made it in your face
And that definitely helps support the visuals
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