Elizabeth: Again it's really interesting that even when it's a soloist like they layer her voice so the vocals
E: can create the chord which like that doesn't happen all the time in pop music in America.
[Rossini's Semiramide]
Umu: We will be reacting to IU again, this is released on her 2017 Palette album and it is called Dlwlrma
U: I think I pronounced that correctly? I'm not quite sure.
U: It's composed by Kim Je-hwi and the lyrics are written by her.
U: So you're probably wondering what the title Dlwlrma means,
U: It's actually IU's username on Instagram and derived from her birth name, Lee Ji-eun, but they use Ji-geum instead of Ji-eun.
U: So basically, each Hangul letter is replaced with its corresponding English letter on the iPhone keyboard, and a play on words is involved.
U: Eun means silver, which is her favorite color, geum means gold, and Lee Ji-geum also means 'right now,' 'this moment,'
U: which actually is part of what she is talking about in this song,
U: IU wants people to enjoy how your life is going moment by moment...
U: Basically...
U: Oh my god!
Lindsey: Alright, so we're gold and silver and at the moment. Fiona: Woah.
Henry: Three~ four, five.
Kevin: Wow go right off the bat. There's no intro, it just starts, just goes.
K: Even that dominant five has some nastiness. Isaac: We're on a hike. K: Yup.
Elizabeth: That was an arpeggio.
Kevin: Oh, man. A sharp, B natural, E natural, G sharp. Isaac: Ooh!
Lindsey: Twinkly- Fiona: Twinkly piano L: I was just going to say twinkly.
F: It is really twinkly. L: Yeah.
L: And it makes sense because it's shining even brighter now, now, now. F: I like this chord.
Katie: Ooh, now we've got some drums in there.
K: This is actually really, this is a bop.
Charlotte: Did we go to Broadway? I'm so confused (laughs)
C: Like this would be where the girls come out like with a top hat and they just like
C: and cross stepping across the stage.
Elizabeth: It's sort of the waltz idea where like the, the one is really emphasized and the rest of them are like
E: much quieter. Henry: Kind of flies by yeah.
Stephen: I like the fact that it's kind of like a shuffle feel, where it's not like straight eighths. Emiel: Mhm.
E: I like the harmony. S: Yeah. E: At least, it has some depth to it.
E: It's not very monotonous or pop-y.
S: Yeah.
Fiona: It's like her voice is flying.
Lindsey: She has a very smooth voice.
Elizabeth: Again, it's really interesting that even when it's a soloist like they layer her voice so the vocals can create the chord,
E: which like that doesn't happen all the time in pop music in America.
E: I mean, it's usually like
E: wah! listen to maybe the soloist but, you know, they still are very harmonically driven in this.
Henry: That's how you get the death of the studio musician, you know people aren't using those acoustic elements like they used to.
Kevin: This is the most easy-going complex song ever.
Peyton: Ooh!
P: I like the like, when she like dubs herself over and it's like it's like having backup singers and like (singing)
P: also, she leans it backs a little bit to give that like quasi-like swing feel.
Charlotte: This jazz piano...
Elizabeth: Damn~
Henry: Mmm
E: Oh, there we go.
E: That's a sequence.
H: Yeah. E: That was an ascending sequence.
Jarod: Ooh, the sustained piano.
Katie: Woah. J: Ooh.
Kevin: This would be a perfect end 'cause,
K: 'cause yeah
Isaac: Wow. K: 'cause it's such an easy-going song, you don't, you know the more I- man!
K: I just love how Kpop songs don't fade out. You know, there's so many American pop songs like (singing)
K: This is totally a type of song, you know, oh, this is an easy-going song
K: so we're just gonna have it slowly fade out until it's nothing but no, there's a nice ending, the piano does some cool chords,
K: I mean that's good songwriting Dlwlrma.
Lindsey: That was a little cadenza on that last note. Fiona: Yeah.
L: That's like a common thing in jazz where they'll- if there's just like one last note written
L: whoever like the lead trumpet player in a big band or something is, will kind of
L: play on that note a little bit and do a little cadenza. So that's kind of what she did with her voice.
Umu: That's awesome, yeah, so what do you think of that track overall musically?
L: I wanted to do a kick line
L: it sounded so like happy. That one was actually major.
L: Um, I don't know. To me it kind of sounded like a maybe like the end of act 1 of a musical
L: you know, big whole company out on stage, dance number like like we're happy, we're twinkling,
L: it was kind of like La La Land-esque, you know
L: 'cause the voices were like floaty and you got the piano and all that stuff and I don't know. It was just really good.
F: Her voice,
F: harmonizing with herself. It was like a beautiful butterfly, L: She blends well with herself.
F: soaring above an eagle which was her other voice.
Peyton: I thought was really cool,
P: it kind of got that, the Broadway vibe like right off the bat. I liked her choices like harmonic-
P: it kept that it kept it like kind of moving along like I think she he could have picked a lot more dryer cords and
P: it would have been really cliche, but I think
Charlotte: I also just like her voice, the color. P: Yeah (singing)
C: It's better than that but
C: No, it's like really
C: nice and light and airy but not in a way that it feels thin or like raspy in
C: any way, it's just kind of a nice color quality up there.
C: It's something that, some people can't create.
P: Alright, so we're at that point in the relationship.
Henry: That was freakin great. I am about to make an antimo comment. I thought it was kind of short.
Elizabeth: Ooh. H: I could've used... I could use a little bit more.
H: I thought- I liked that at the beginning though
H: it took it took a while. It cycled through a form of the song as
H: opposed to cycling through the first half form and then having the rhythm section kind of trickle in. It was all
H: voice and piano and then even then when the band came in it wasn't like
H: big and huge you just kind of it kind of came into place and then they waited until
H: that first real chorus to kick into overdrive. But yeah, I could use like maybe a longer
H: other section
H: or... Umu: like maybe a bridge? H: Maybe. Or like another out chorus I thought even would have been okay.
E: I like short and sweet. That was, that was cool.
E: My pet peeve is when songs or videos go too long and like
E: you know like I can just milk this concept because it's good
E: I like the- respect the fact that she was like the song ends here and that's where it needs to be.
E: So I'm gonna disagree with you on that. H: That's fine.
Emiel: Yeah.
Stephen: Interesting way to end without going back into the chorus and just ending after the instrumental solo.
S: I don't think I've ever heard that before. E: It had like a really nice arc into it- the piece. S: Yeah.
Isaac: I thought it was really like this the way they set it up for the beginning
I: it's like very, you know, you get you know what the meter is
I: it's 4/4 or maybe really large, well, I don't know.
Kevin: I let it call 12/8 just because jazzers use it a lot when everything's in triplet. It's like 12/8. I: Yeah, make sense.
K: Yeah
I: But then there's like you could feel a pulse of four and in the beginning it's used so
I: nicely because it feels like you've going on a walk,
I: and it's just you're just pacing around but that as soon as it hits to other portions of the piece or sections, it starts
I: taking away certain beats like on the fourth
I: like if it was in a 4/4 meter, you take the fourth beat out, or they just
I: do like the throw in the melody and pull beats back and it's like whoa, whoa. I don't know
I: it's like it sounds like you're going on an adventure and the voice is just like really
I: tells the story really well. K: Yeah, so many easy-going songs, you know, like they're made to sound lazy
I: Hmm. K: Bruno Mars' song doesn't count.
K: But um, like like this is one of those songs where you want your productive rest
K: where you're setting out a day to just give yourself rest, but you're not gonna be lazy,
K: you're still gonna do productive things like go out for a hike. This is a productive
K: easy-going song and I love it.
Umu: Okay. I: Agreed.
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