Brianna: She said "vocals!"
Umu: Now you're acting to the girl-group Momoland and the 2019 title track called
"I'm so hot." The title pretty much says it all...
the song expresses a girl's confidence, bordering on
arrogance in her looks, and now everyone finds her irresistible
The song was composed by Shinsadong Tiger, Bum-E, and Nang-E
Isaac: I'm so-
Hot Kevin: that sounds- that that's basically the song three two one.
Daniel: ohhhh
Fiona: I Like this old timey crackly sound and the trumpet muted
Daniel: yeah
Fiona: That just went up an octave and it got really fun
Kevin: What a weird subversion of expectations the beginning the halftime let's go
Nick: There's still things than a really subtle and beautiful just going on with the bass drums, it's not just that
There's something else not right now
Seiji: Okay, so they have like that stride piano thing going on
Stephen: so at least they're like bringing it back it's not
Seiji: Yeah, I was kind of wondering where that was gonna be
There does it seem like one of those examples are they just like don't ever bring it back?
Stephen: Yeah
Elizabeth: That's interesting this is like the chorus and they're not singing Owen: *singing*
Elizabeth: I feel like that's a trend in kpop right now, it's just just to have like a chorus
that's like (O: just dancing) like a motif and like a beat and then to have them like say the title of the song that's like
Really in right now (really) because Blackpink has done that a bunch.
Owen: Yeah. Elizabeth: Yeah
Brianna: I Love Korean rappers
I Love how they completely shift in styles. James: Yeah
Nick: I love the drum thing right before they change. The transitions and this are so clean
Owen: Woo
I like these little bubbles that are through it. d-do you here like a
Owen: Whoop- whoop
Elizabeth: It's a good sound Owen: It is a good sound.
Elizabeth: Oh, yeah. Owen: Yeah, we're goin' somewhere
Aaron: Oh... I love her voice
I'm in love with that honky tonk piano thing. Nick: Yess yes
Yes, that's really cool
Stephen: Like even here with that *demonstrates*
Like we just don't have that boom Chuck
Seiji: yeah Stephen: from like kind of like rag time, you know
Kevin: OH the the riff is gone the main
Melody's gone. It's just voice now. That's really cool
Brianna: *queen slaying that riff*
Brianna: *SHE DOES IT AGAIN*
Brianna: She said "vocals!"
Aaron: I heart it I like this because it's like
there's so much going on so much for your like
the palate to taste that it's like...
And then if something comes back from the beginning and then you just smile
because you're like I remember having a good time with that
like
Brianna: Okay, this is basically a shout section really nothing is happening
It's like you're eating the same thing over and over again, but I'm here for it. I feel it
Aaron: Oh we're back to the beginning (N: Yeah) wow that's awesome
Nick: Okay, I really like the very ending where it's like a little click on an 8-track
at the very ending with a little click on
the 8-track it brings the song together cuz it's kind of oldies in a in a very
surface level way and then it makes sense that it would be a
Recording of an old song and they're like singing over it and making it modern
Aaron: I think it's a really interesting mix of genre and
What I like about it most is while they are talking about like how attractive um
Like all of them are it's not like degrading but I feel like it's in power
I don't understand what they were saying
but like what I got from like the music was like it's like a beat kind of empowering instead of like
You know, like almost like flaunting how great they are. And I think that we need a lot of that in the world
Brianna:They're cute. James: Okay,
I just have to say it. I have to say it because it is in my bubble time
There's a place downtown where the freaks will come around
it's a hole in the wall. It's a dirty free for all
Brianna: "Take it Off" Ke$ha
James: like even the... even the rhythmic stuff. I just like could not get out of my the whole time.
Brianna: Really? James: Yeah
I mean, it's probably not done on purpose cuz there's only so many notes and rhythms
you can put together in different formations in the world and you're bound to
Write something that sounds like something someone else is written
So it's not necessarily a bad thing, but I thought it was a nice little like bit of maybe unintentional nostalgia added in there
Brianna: I was gonna say they probably sampled
a track of something else like from an old like jazz musician because it was just a trumpet part that they used
Predominantly throughout the whole song. (Mm-hmm)
They definitely sampled that from somewhere or they just had somebody just play a riff or something
But it gave me like old-time vibes rag time (yup)
James: for the percussion in the back. Yeah.
Brianna: She was cute
Nothing really changed except when you got to the rapping section and they added more like a hip-hop feel and More
Syncopation and more like bass. I don't know. I just liked how they changed from like dadada a super light and like kind of
poppy to just hip-hop and
That rap section. Yeah,
Stephen: The theme of this song is like I'm so hot, right so it's just like very
It's innocent. It's not like someone just died or something like super serious, you know
So it's just always interesting how songs
in order to help create a musical environment that fits that emotion will choose traditional jazz like
Dixieland where they're not it's rhythms or kind of the harmony or something like that to give a more playful fun vibe
It's really interesting how they associate it with that.
Seiji: It's also like a film score music a lot of times
it's like oh absolutely do not put in jazz, right because it's kind of detracts from
Like the seriousness or whatever like it has like a very clear association in like media.
Stphen: Yeah
I mean, it's just like kind of interesting
And that's not even like the jazz that that's in pop music that especially kpop is just like 1%
maybe 5% of
all of what jazz is so it's really funny how
How that's become associated with that when you have angsty jazz
Yeah, there's just which is really interesting.
Kevin: That is an experience. Isaac: It's very good
It didn't get boring because they utilized each in one of the sections of the songs
So effectively in merging into the rap, I didn't feel oh my goodness. Here comes the rap
It was so seamlessly done that I was like, wow. I actually thoroughly enjoyed
it is it panders a little bit to just the hype of
Excitement itself
Kevin: the hype of excitement itself (The hype of excitement)
Isaac: Yeah, because it's just well, let's play something. I'm on repeat. I'm almost a saloon vibe
Where if you just maybe maybe you just want to have a good time?
You want to play this melody over and over so you just do it and it becomes very hypnotic, and I thoroughly liked it
Kevin: Yeah, I think
Momoland's getting more and more minimalist with their hits ever since Bboom Bboom
Like the structures are all the same, but you got to admire, you know, like when I first heard Bboom Bboom
And I got to the bridge and I'm like, wow, they didn't they didn't do anything
They just added a little new melody and it was really short and they did the chorus again. In this one, It feels even
more minimalist, what do they do? They do the da?
da da da da which for the longest time because
Spoilers: I've heard the song. Before I thought. Oh, yeah, that's just another post chorus
but then this
Current listen, I realized that that's actually the bridge because that's the only time they sing over that main chord progression
But the main line main instrumental 90 deg is removed
and so that's sort of their their more minimalist evolution of
Inserting a bridge but not making it sound like a bridge at all and that's really cool
and again that contributes to that sort of freshness and
how it doesn't get tiring because there is that moment where the girls are able to
just flex their vocals more and not have the
Instrumental melody sort of clash with that and then they introduce the melody back and the song ends and it's great
Isaac: Yeah, there's good synthesis with instrumented voice
(Mm-hmm) and they complement one another that so that you don't have a disjunctive- Oh instruments, voice. It's just song
Isaac: This is a segment with Isaac Lee
We're going to talk about these photos on *Umu's wall.
Way too many posters. Perfect for her background not entirely for your- I'm not even sitting up look at that
Now I'm sitting up. Okay, great