Gwen: when they drop out I think that's one of my favorite things because
Gwen: This is so much about the words and about the message that there really helps to punctuate exactly what they're saying at that point
Gwen: It's really cool
Umu: So, this is a girl group called mamamoo Khanh: mamamoo!!! I watched one of your videos Umu: oh...
Khanh: You know I found this this series called react to the K and it's honestly been like
Khanh: honestly been like
Khanh: Pretty amazing and eye-opening in the world of kpop Umu: I'm gonna murder you
Umu: in this one they talk about confidence
Umu: Like I heard stories where they were talking about how like they weren't confident in their visuals
Umu: Debuting as a group thinking that they were like "not very pretty" kind of like you know Korean standards not living up to Korean
Umu: Standards, so this song is just like you know what--- I Gwen: korean standards are crazy
Hugo: they're so pretty Gwen: It's like yeah, it's like
Gwen: It's a completely different- Hugo: they're so prettyyyy
Gwen: and like 2012 the pictures of like the top ten for the beauty pageant came out and they all had the same face
Hugo: It's insane Gwen: like these beauty standards are like ridiculous
Umu: Right so in this one they talk about like what they love about themselves
Umu: Yeah, so this is called. Yes I am Gwen: awww that's so cute Hugo: three one two seven
Fiona: [DAB DAB DABBBBB]
Lindsey: woahhh so far so good Oh, oh my girl Solar! Fiona: so far so good, oh i love that
Henry: Wow Emiel: that was an overload of like
Henry: huge homage the- Emiel: rhythmic jabs of like oh Wow
Kevin: oh it's so good
Kevin: Like there's we have that mixture, yeah Khanh: it's a lot of sound
Fiona: I like this change, I love how they sing lower
Fiona: I think that's why MAMAMOO just kinda grabs me Lindsey: I like how all that's going on in the background right now is the bass drum in like one bass
Lindsey: You know? like Fiona: and they have that underlying harmony with each other.
Jarod: I like how it has kind of like a bluesy feel
Fiona: Yes rap it girl!
Jarod: Nothing screams like I don't care. I don't give a bleep, than the blues. Katie: this is true
Naoki: Yeah, they always have these like really funky harmonies like kind of jazzy
Naoki: It's like kind of the style I feel Stephen: yeah kind of chromatic It's not like diatonic, boring like american pop songs
Stephen: Which is nice! naoki: Yeah
Davis: They get that belt in there sometimes yeah, just to be sassy sass it up somewhere
Emiel: The bass isn't like thumping enough like I can hear it in the background
Emiel: Like that kick in the back that needs to be like more
Stephen: digging the flamingo's idea deeper meaning behind it
"i'm cheeky i don't care" xD
Gwen: is she showering it confetti? Hugo: it think she is gwen: relatable
Lindsey: "It's just my taste, so don't be too sensitive" I like that yeah
Jarod: She's got like a thick voice like sits in a really low register. I dig it
Khanh: Wow she uses the voice scoop a lot
in her rap
Gwen: they will drop and and will just have
Gwen: Someone likes speak or sing and that's really effective
Naoki: This is interesting because those like swoops. You know they don't stop at the same place every time
Stephen: Yeah, which is it's just really cool. How like..
Stephen: It's there's like a contrast, but everything's kind of different
Stephen: it's not like pop music here where everything is just kind of like cut and paste? You know what i'm saying? Like copying and pasting. Yeah there's like slight alteration so
Naoki: Keeps it interesting Stephen: NOOO totally
Fiona: OHHHHH Lindsey: OHHh that was so cute
Lindsey: smushed her face into the glass Fiona: it goes to like a ballad. Lndsey: This is a bridge
Kevin: Everything's all minor now
Kevin: All the chords are minor in the bridge
Davis: when they throw in those neo-soul extensions, that's whenever I get into it
Both: [jammin']
Davis: aw yeah got the guns out Peyton: yeah got the guns out
Both: [jammin' along with MAMAMOO with their guns out]
Gwen: when they drop out I think that's one of my favorite things
Gwen: Because this is so much about the words and about the message that there really helps to
Gwen: Punctuate exactly what they're saying at that point, it's really cool
Emiel: It's like a tight chorus to like the drum beat is pretty like tight It's just
Henry: it just feels squished up top
Hugo: yaaaas Gwen: also that robot voice I think it's super endearing
Khanh: The phaser
Khanh: Vocoder effect oh
Kevin: OOOHYAY it just ends with
Kahn: Yeah, I like that
Hugo: yaaaaaas Gwen: this was adorable
Hugo: That was so good
Hugo: They slayed it. Umu: Yeah overall. What what do you think of that musically Kevin: good, man? I mean, I mean, it's you know
Kevin: It's verse chorus, verse, chorus. Yeah. Yeah, yeah like by the end. You know youre used to it
Kevin: It's not a song I would put on repeat over and over again. This is that's that's the banger
Kevin: I'm talking about like compared to (SNSD) All Night
Kevin: Like this is just you know
Kevin: percussion boom boom
Kevin: It's more prominent kahnh: okay, you know for like the the first one. What was it Girls Generation. Kevin: into the new world
Kahnh: Into new world
Khanh: Yeah Khanh: where like the highs were super accentuated and then for All Night the lows like that that low bass synth and whatever it was was really
Khanh: Accentuated, this It's just like the entire spectrum of frequencies is saturated Kevin: you feel like a wall is just...
Khanh: Yeah, saturated (kevin: hitting you) ya like yeah bang. Yeah, yeah
Gwen: Yeah, it was not very like
Gwen: Wildly different there weren't any super cool changes or anything like it wasn't like wildly musically interesting
Gwen: But it also wasn't really the point of the song right like it was just Hugo: I mean the bridge super dope Gwen: it's like a feel good
Gwen: Like yeah, I love myself song
Gwen: It's like one that you play in your bedroom, and then you dance alone by yourself
Emiel: when I mean like overproduced
Henry: Yes, like yeah Emiel: they just like
Emiel: over
Emiel: Manipulated like every single second that they had in that song Henry: There's a beautiful simplicity
Henry: To something that is hard or busy that just sounds easy Emiel: word
Henry: So like that's why a lot of like really good jazz is
Henry: Hard and you take, you have to really concentrate in order to do it well, but because they're professionals just
Henry: Sounds like it's nothing
Henry: you know I mean the easiest Tunes to the ear are the hardest ones to play and
Henry: So this had the opposite where this was a simple tune
Henry: that was
Henry: dressed up and had all the bells and whistles that they could possibly find on their sample board and
Henry: The song didn't have a lot of substance the message was incredible the song
Henry: I'm underwhelmed because I love MAMAMOO they're one of my favorites, and I really like their music but
Henry: This was kind of a sleep at the wheel
Peyton:I think that was more about the message
Peyton: rather than the music, the music itself was very, I liked the sounds that they were using like
Peyton: The robotic voice over top. Yeah like a like quasi-descant type deal
Peyton: I'm you know. I felt like the grooves you know
Peyton: were really good too - and then like the B
PEyton: Section line with it kind of went away from it and then like you know the guns and stuff
Peyton: So dope I was like you know what you're paying attention to America. You know what's going on over there you go
STephen: You know I thought musically that's great well blows my mind
Stephen: I don't know if it's just cuz like the language and stuff like that
Stephen: But how busy the melody is whether that's like the verse or the chorus because it's funny
Stephen: I was just like in the car and just
Sthepen: Nowhere near as complexes. Which is great. It's really cool. naoki: Yeah. the use of contrast in This was really cool
Naoki: Especially well like when the band drop down yeah, that was really and I weren't expecting it. Yeah
Naoki: Yeah, solo ending, think I I enjoyed that ending. it was very finishing. Stephen: Yes. Yeah
Stephen: Especially it's like empowerment kind of like
Naoki: Just by yourself because you know if you can stand by yourself yeah absolutely so deep so deep
Stephen: So deeper than those flamingos Naoki: I mean they stand in shallow water so that
Umu: Was good was there a specific musical moment that you really liked or didnt
Katie: i like the, the bluesy feel
Jarod: has a bluesy spunky feel yeah
Emma: What musically created that bluesy spunky feel was it like the one was it going one four or something
Jarod: It was just the way the melody carried a lot a lot of relying on like that flat 7 and like that minor third
Jarod: Like kind of really sits into it and that's what really kind of gives it that the Bluesy ness
Jarod: So to speak is that 7 and 3, that's what you need to know for the Blues. Fiona: I felt really good about it
Fiona: again like I love that [demonstrates scoop singing]
Fiona: It's so good
Fiona: I love when they spoke in the middle of the song and then like that was their break right before like
Fiona: Chorus or the next verse it was just great great way to break it up. Good job girls
Fiona: Love the wrapping, the lower voice, on point.
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