Umu: Hi everyone, my name is umu and I'm ReacttheK's channel creator
Sean: Hello everyone, I'm Sean ReacthetheK's channel arranger and host of classical composer breaks down the K
Umu: Welcome to Sean's and my extremely (x5) late reaction to Baek Yerin's Popo
So when Baek Yerin came out with this album in December of last year, we got so many requests to react to it
But sadly, I was on hiatus back when it was released. So without further ado
Let's jump into the reaction
Sean: Three two one
Umu: Ooooooooooh!
Slow moving melodies
OoO and then they sped up real quick for that instrumental intro moving to verse...
One
Umu: *feeling the music* oooooOOO
Her vocal melody is goooood!
Sean: Applied dominant with a flat nine
or secondary dominant depending on which term you learned it as
Umu: *excited screech* That instrumental transition
U: Oh! Hear that bass?
The vocal melody is so good too, it keeps not
quite resolving where I think it's going to
S: Is this all in english?
This is an unusually large number of english words
U: *deeply vibes with the music*
U: *surprised pikachu face* oooooOOOOO!
Is that a flute...?
U: *intense gasp* we HAVE FLUTE?!
S: Nice use of trumpet down in the low range
People tend to not use that enough like they want trumpet to be up high and
really loud and penetrating and like
It does that well, but it has a nice tone low in the range
Also, I suppose it could have been one of those trumpet similar instruments like cornett or flugelhorn
U: OOOH! and the flute and brass is continuing
Oh, this is so *mic peaks in excitement* good
U: *more excited vibing* OooHOO!
U: Oh so good!!
Her melody just continues to flow together
Whether-
U: *surprised pikachu vibe face pt2*
And trumpet now
U: Wow cats and acoustic band. What else more can you ask for? (S/N: this is peak ghibli vibes)
U: *happy vocalizing* brrrghang
Yeah those hits!
Ooh!
U: *surprised pikachu face pt3*
U: *surprised pikachu face pt4*
U: *surprised pikachu face pt5 + excited clapping*
U: I bet during a live session we could have some improv in this section
S: Yeah, I appreciate they really took advantage of the fact that they have real instruments for this
U: OH! we got strings now *surprised pikachu face pt6*
U: whAtTTTT?!
That's a little
musical-esque I feel like
U: Long instrumental break!!!!!
Oh bless your heart Yerin or whoever arranged this track. Holy sh*t!
U: Oh the bass!
Oh my god... Wait is this- this is the rest of the song?!
Oh you faded now? No don't fade
cAdeNCE!
S: Is...
Did they not come up with an ending for this...?
wHy?
Why did they not come up with an ending like it was so good
and then they just sort of...
Never minded the end that was a really nice everything until they just decided to fade it out
Oh, I loved that
That just felt so good, okay time to call Sean
U: Hey
What is up?
S: Uh...
What is up as in...?
I was not prepared (U: No like what's up *dies of laughter*) to answer a question that wasn't about the song
S: Uh, yeah, it was good
The instrumentation worked really well
U: Oh my god I was not expecting that long ass instrumental ending S: Yeah
S: Yeah, I felt I- U: That was
S: Yep, go ahead U: French kiss
S: Yeah, it was like it- I -I think it was basically just like
They did two choruses and then the rat- rather than doing like
Bridge and final chorus just went into a long
instrumental
I mean too long to really just be an outro like that was that was a substantial part of the song
S: Um, but yeah, I- I appreciated that like since they have real instruments they really
Took advantage of it and let them shine
U: I could see if this was performed live that
That instrumental ending would be a good time for the instruments to solo
U: You know, Jazz (S: Oh, yeah) style
S: Yeah,
U: I want to see this performed live so badly because you know that it's going to have a rad jazz cadence at the end
instead of you know, unless well do jazz performance like ensembles ever do like a
decrescendo fade out or is there always S: I mean there's- there's-
U: Hit, hit chord
S: I mean, there's going to be some sort of
Ending, yeah, like that was I feel like that was the one bad thing about this
Is that like they just forgot to write an ending and they just faded it out
S: Um U: Well, okay
I mean you can see it either as bad or good because I know a lot of musicians on my channel half of them
Love fade outs, half of them don't and so you can view it as good or bad
S: I- fade outs work in a particular context, uh when the whole thing is just sort of receding
Like the nature of the music is something that sort of recedes into the distance
but this was just like still going along as normal and then just
Someone pulled down the volume
like it (U: Mhm) really felt like they needed to
they just needed to
Compose an ending for it
U: I think I think it gives them so much freedom to do whatever the heck they want live
like end (S: They-) it differently every single time
S: They can still do that, like nothing says you have to play
You have to stop where something stopped live like yeah, I agree with your thought that have a
have solos like po- possibly part way through that or just like
Add in some extra times that everyone supports and people solo a bit over it
um, like there's
I know with classical we're fairly used to pieces having a somewhat fixed form, but
with a lot of genres
It's pretty easy to just add a section where everyone
well several people play the chords and then someone solos and
You want more solos you just add more solos
U: What was your favorite aspect of this song?
S: The both the composing for and also I thought the mixing like everything felt really clear
In the instruments, too
like even with there being quite a lot of them and
Like various layers in that and the voice everything felt clear, it never turned muddy
Also, I thought the
The harmonic choices were nice where
Some of it would just like drift down into flatter areas or have like a modified chords, but not quite
The- not entirely the conventional way like I think there was one thing that was a
I want to say it was a minor four, but it had the major seventh on it
And I also think a ninth I may- I heard this song once so I may be
Fudging some details based on not entirely remembering
It accurately, but I feel like there was like a minor major seventh
Plus nine or something. It was like minor fours are super common, especially in ballads, but
They did something to make it a bit spicier than the standard one
U: Yeah. No, this song was
I feel like a like a step up a lot grander than "Our Love is Great" album
And I just- i'm so excited to listen to the rest of the album
I'm not sure if i'd have the time or ability to react to it on camera, but i'm definitely gonna marathon the heck out of
This um call- "Every letter I sent (you)" this is from the Every letter I sent (you)" album
And it's so cool to hear her voice with a full-
Because the strings came in at the end (S: Yup) the full ensemble
That was just so exciting
Yeah, the melody was beautiful too and I loved the
Um harmonic rhythms because we had you know, something like
U: *vocalizing*
You know so they kept (S: Yeah) changing up, um the rhythmic patterns
And it was just overall really calming and fun to listen to at the same time
S: Yeah
U: Thanks so much for watching everyone
U: We'll see you all later, bye bye! S: Bye