Umu: Am I recording? I'm recording [laughter]
Shimon: Good evening, and welcome to-- Leah: Put this on your tape. Aoooow??? [giggles]
Umu: Okay, so this is a group called Exo
And this is what is called a debut song. So this is the very very first song they ever put out
Shimon: I actually know this group. I had a friend that kept telling-- Leah: You have friends?
Shimon: --that kept telling um, random people that he--his brother was in Exo
Umu: YAH YOU GO AWAY!!
Leah: Was his brother in Exo? Shimon: No
Shimon: It's like Avatar
Lindsey: I feel like I'm watching anime
Fiona: It looks like The Last Airbender
Davis: This is like discount Morgan Freeman Henry: [loses it]
Lindsey: It's oboe. [giggles] Fiona: Yes!!
Kevin: I'm really liking this
Shimon: Oboe. [gasps] Horn!!
Lindsey: a trombone?
Davis: This is some like, Lord of the Rings exposition right now, this is intense
Leah: It's like cell division
Yunyi: I'm too invested in this Kevin: It's like a video game trailer
Davis: This is all for a music video, right?
Kevin: It's gonna, it's gonna be something totally different. And I'm not ready for it
Henry: Thoroughly impressed Davis: Yeah. Nice
Kevin: Oh my goodness. Production value! Yunyi: Oh my-- fuck
Leah: Ahhhhh~
Kevin: I like it
Henry: Cut
Shimon: That was-- that was good
Davis: What the heck, I feel like I just already like, went on an emotional roller coaster Henry: Yeah Davis: And now you're going to make me watch this music video
Henry: I've already been touched
Kevin: Revenge of the Sith?
Lindsey: Is this Gregorian chant?
[minds blown]
Davis: Oh, this just went off the hook. Oh my goodness Henry: Oh my god
Kevin: Korean-a Burana? [a pun on Carmina Burana]
[laughter]
Shimon: I wish I could dance like that
Kevin: Good dance
Davis: Again, with the like, perfectly synchronized dancing
Kevin: I like the music so far
[laughter]
Kevin: That's how I want to go to the men's room. Just like snap! And I'm in the men's room
Lindsey: I like how they just appear.
Henry: The snare hits are like a gunshot
Kevin: Oh. Are they going to make out?
Henry: This is amazing. I'm very confused, but I love it
Kevin: I'm in awe Yunyi: Same, my mind is gonna be fucking blown right now
Leah: They have such nice legs
Lindsey: They're all pretty boys Fiona: They are
Kevin: I like that. I like-- Yunyi: The melody is so well-written Kevin: Uh-huh
Fiona: I want those shiny pants!
Kevin: That's the Calvin Klein face, the [demonstrates], the male model face
Henry: Like, peewee American concept or genres?
Lindsey: I feel like I've seen pictures of these guys on Tumblr before
Davis: Oh wow, that was a very pretty looking man Henry: What???
Henry: They're lovely
Davis: Like, the smooth skin
Henry: The butterfly and the tornado
Kevin: What a pretty man
Leah: It's like, Frozen!
Yunyi: They're all really pretty
Do I want to-- do I want to be them? Kevin: Look at that
Yunyi: Do I want to be on top of them? I have no clue Kevin: [laughs]
Leah: Would you wear those pants?
Shimon: Which ones?
Leah: The one with the black stripes
Yunyi: What the fuck was with that fire bird?
Davis: Yeah, get it Henry: Fuck yes
Kevin: Ooh, I like that
Lindsey: This is groovy!
Davis: Oh, no way Henry: [laughs]
Kevin: Oh my god Yunyi: What???
Henry: What the fuck??? Whoa!
Davis: Will they make it weird again
[laughter]
Yunyi: Oh my--
Kevin: Screamo element! I'm a big fan, actually
Fiona: Do you hear the strings?
Lindsey: Yeah, they should have wind instruments instead of--
Fiona: This video needs some horn Lindsey: Yeah, that's what it needs
Henry: He's waterbending
Leah: It's a butterfly, flying away
Like my hopes and dreams
Kevin: Is that real or is it CGI?
Davis: They're having this, this avatar fight
Henry: What the--what the fuck?
Kevin: Ooh! Ooh. Pelvic
Henry: He just turned into-- what the fucking shi-?? What???
Davis: The mirrors
Henry: That was-- what the-- whoa whoaaa WOW! Davis: Oh whoa! Now that was pretty cool
Lindsey: Back to the Gregorian chant
Henry: Why do they look like Monty Python dudes?
Fiona and Lindsey: [vocalizing]
Leah: I like them
Shimon: Really badass
Lindsey: That was good
Davis: Like, the quality is so high, like, you can tell they put a lot of people into that Henry: What year was that?
Umu: 2012
Davis: 2012 Henry: Are you fucking kidding
Davis: Korea's got their shit down Henry: Dude, they know how to do pop music better than we do
Davis: True
Leah: There's no sound
And normally in music that's called rest
Fiona: Maze Runner?
Lindsey: Was that weed-- Fiona: Kush? [laughter]
Fiona: It's sand Lindsey: Oh my god
[laughter] Lindsey: Oh no
Davis: Nice. I already like this
Oh. Yeah. Got it Henry: What the fuck-- I'm still lost
Davis: Whoa Henry: Are they in his mind?
Davis: You can't ask too many questions too early
Yunyi: I'm going to take their hair
Kevin: I like it
Henry: See now, all the questions. That's such a fucking cool pose though
Lindsey: I'm so enlightened by all this. I really like Kpop now. Fiona: It's really well done
Yunyi: That changed so quickly
Kevin: Dorian. Dorian! Umu: It's in Dorian mode? Kevin: Yeah. Well, at least that first bit was
Kevin: One of them is-- oh, that one is-- Yunyi: Oh that guy is--
Kevin: That was not the most interesting
Lindsey: It's like the-- it's like the Hotline Bling video, but with a bunch of guys instead of just Drake Fiona: True Lindsey: They're like, standing at--
Davis: Oh, okay. And we're back Henry: Whoa! Fucking cool
Yunyi: Aw man, I should be a Kpop boy for Halloween, damn it!
Davis: Oh, that's dope, with the [hand gestures]
Henry: Whoa
Fiona: Ok, that's my favourite. I guess I like all of them
Lindsey: Yeah, they're all like,
very pleasing to look at
Kevin: Camerawork. Like, the cinematographer deserves credit
Yunyi: What the fuck?
Davis: It's cool 'cause it's like, I dunno, it's less than the other ones
but like, it's still like, got a lot going on
Which is dope, but it's like,
it's more of just like, a central,
they're just dancing-- Henry: It's definitely a lot more dancing
which I really like Davis: Yeah
Davis: It's less like, imagery of like, other stuff
Fiona: Oohhh!
Fiona: Oh, he just grabbed that camera. Oh, oh, oh!
Lindsey: He's pulling me in
Davis: Tilts and they have like, the background stuff, like--
Fiona: Jeez, their choreographer must have been really really good Lindsey: They're like, intense, yeah!
Shimon: That's in minor
Leah: Their outfits don't even match
Henry: Ooh, kill'em
Yunyi: Is there something you'd like to share, Kevin? Kevin: hehehe
Henry: There's so many! What? Davis: Oh there's more now, whoa, where did these other guys come from Henry: Where'd they come from?
Whoa, they just spawned
Davis: Yeah, really
Henry: Why is the ceiling moving Davis: It's like we just witnessed mitosis
Henry: [laughs] we just witnessed mitosis
Davis: They just split into identical beings
Henry: [splitting noises]
Yunyi: Smouldering white suit
[beatboxing noises]
Lindsey: Spitting bars
Kevin: I like Korean rap. It sounds cool
Umu: Yeah Yunyi: Agreed
Davis: Oh, gang signs Henry: WHOA
Fiona: I'm sad, he broke up his- Lindsey: Oh god
Lindsey: What language is this one in? Umu: It's still Korean
Leah: [singing]
Henry: WHOA
Kevin: WHAT
Lindsey: Ohhh
Leah: Wow that makeup
Yunyi: Damn, makeup inspiration Kevin: Ooh lens flare. JJ Abrams inspired?
Davis: Oh, it's just one of many mazes
Davis: That was super cool
Lindsey: That was intense
Umu: So what did you think of this song versus the other song if you can remember?
Shimon: Keep going back to the first one
Umu: Mhmm Shimon: And like
Shimon: I don't know, the beginning was so--it was like a movie, it was so like, well-made
Shimon: I was really impressed by that
Kevin: I think the first one-- Yunyi: Actually the first one
Yunyi: But you know what? I can't really tell because like, the video had so much to do with it Umu: Right
Kevin: Well I was analyzing it musically and I liked the first one better Umu: Ok
Lindsey: Oh, I liked the first one Fiona: Yeah, I think I--
Lindsey: I liked both of them a lot Fiona: I liked this video more, but-- Lindsey: Yeah
Fiona: the, the chant-y one
Fiona: I was like, oh Lindsey: It was groovy
Fiona: And at the beginning they had--they had, like, oboe and trombone
Yunyi: The first one was harmonized really well Kevin: Mhmm
Yunyi: I liked that
Kevin: But it's so Carmina Yunyi: Yeah dude, like the--
Yunyi: The symphonic vibes
Davis: Yeah, Overdose-- it definitely had like,
Davis: It had a beat and I was like, rocking to it the whole time
Davis: And then I was just like, constantly the whole time
Henry: [dancing] Davis: Finding something to listen to, rhythmically, melodically, something that made-- that made it worth---that made it worth listening to
Henry: Ditto
Shimon: [humming]
Umu: [singing] Shimon: It seemed like there was always a major and then it went to minor
Umu: Oooh Shimon: And that happened over and over again
Lindsey: They all have very nice-looking faces
Lindsey: They're just so clean and smooth Fiona: Their bone structure--like-- her face. Like, look, her jaw and her cheekbones
Fiona: It's like that, but [slaps Lindsey] Lindsey: [laughs]
Umu: Exo it is, so far, your favourite so far?
Davis: Sexfo-- sex far. Wow. Henry: Ohhh
Umu: Whoaaa
Davis: So far, Exo is far and above
Fiona: Oooh
Kevin: I'm okay with this
Davis: Wow