Umu: Alright, okay, so...
You two, welcome, you are reacting to 2PM and -
do you guys know when their last comeback was?
Henry: No, I just remember "Put your hands up!"
*Henry and Ju Young singing 'Hands Up'*
*laughing in nostalgia*
H: That was my middle school experience.
That and 'Heart Beat' were uh. Man.
*more nostalgia*
U: Okay, well that kinda, that answers my next question (J: Don't cry...)
U: because their last comeback was called Promise (I'll Be)
and it was released in September 2016, so almost 5 years ago!
But they are BACK!
J: Back at it again. U: Ladies and Gentlemen!
U: And I would love for you two to introduce yourselves,
let us know your name, instrument, and what your-
or when you started listening to 2PM
and what your favorite song is (by them).
H: Aw man...
H: Hi, I'm Henry, I am a singer and a music teacher,
and I started listening to 2PM back in 2011...
...2012, that time frame.
Probably my go-to favorite song is 'Hands Up'.
H: *laughing* I'm just such a sellout, it really is good, though! (U: Nice)
H: It's like, that was the banger back in the day.
J: Okay. Hi, I'm Ju Young, I play the clarinet,
I started listening to their music -
when was their first, what was their first song again?
It was like... was it 'Again & Again'?
U: Uuuuuuuh?
J: I started listening to them when that came out. Yeah. (U: *singing 'Again & Again'* - '10 Out of 10' was their [debut].)
U: '10 Out of 10', 2009?
H: Dang! Alright. J: So I started listening to them when 'Again & Again' came out,
J: and my favorite song is 'Without U'.
J: Endgame! That's it, it's 'Without U'. (H: Okay)
U: But okay, okay, you two...
OGs...
H: I don't know about that,
H: I just liked them in the past. U: 2PM - K-pop OGs.
H: I mean 2PM is like... (U: You two got into K-Pop before me)
H: If you asked me, right when I first joined the channel,
like "What girl groups do you like and know,
and what boy groups do you like and know?",
the top two answers would be: SNSD and 2PM.
J: Henry, that was good! You know what's good! H: So yeah, like...
H: So like, they were my introductory two groups to listening to K-pop.
H: So I have a lot of sentimental feelings (U: Gotcha)
H: ...when I listen to 2PM.
So let's see, yeah, I'm really excited to see their comeback.
H: Alright, you ready? U: Let's do it!
J: Yes. U: Mhm.
H: I will count us down. 3 2 1 go!
H: Oh.
H: Wohohow! What? What? J: What the heck?!
H: What the HECK? J: Wait, what -
*joint loling*
H: Alright.
J: They love their guitar riffs. So nice.
H: Yeah, that's a really nice sound.
H: Uh.
H: Oh, I like that clarity.
J: Ah, trumpets! Ah! Ahaha! H: Oooouuuuhhh. Uh!
J: Ohhh....
J: OOhohoho!
J: It's getting hot in here!
J: I'm like low-key sweating H: Yeah, lots of close, stabilized shots.
H: Yes.
H: Wet shirt?
*Henry mimicking hits* J: Nice.
H: Hm, that mass line in the chorus is so...
rich.
J: Oh, and this like 50s little retro thing going on - OKAY.
J: Oh, this is jazz organ! *contended sounds*
H: HA HA! ha.
J: Oh, that run, the run!
So clean.
H: Uf.
H: Good god! J: Oh, he is not usually singing! Wow!
H: I like that chest voice, oh my god.
H: Uhu?
Aha.
Huh.
(H: Aha.) U: So the song at the end is just hinting towards another song in the album.
J: Haha. It's getting hot in here. (H: Aha)
J: HAHAHAhaha!
U: I feel like you guys were pretty speechless throughout,
I'm like: Are they gonna say anything?
H: I don't know, there was a lot of pheromones in the air...
*Umu cracking up*
U: What about the music... (J: AHAHA!)
U: ...[?????] H: That funky funky guitar is so... intimate.
J: It reminds me of 'My House' H: I don't know, like at the beginning, and...
H: I can't make the connection
J: Sorry, no, like in the beginning part there's a guitar. H: but I love that chorus funky beat.
H: It's very intimate *demonstrates*, it's really nice.
I really liked from the intro how they kind of opened up in clarity
once the instruments are established,
and then they're like "alright, let's bring in the voices"...
and their, I don't if it's their mic placement or something,
but their voices are all really really clear,
and throughout this song,
the vocals are definitely at the forefront of this piece. Piece? Song.
And a lot of times I feel like
you can hear the mics pretty close to their mouths,
cuz you can really hear a lot of their breathing
and a lot of the little sounds of consonants and vowels,
and that just is a very intimate setting,
to listen to someones voice,
which I think is why you feel a little disarmed,
and a little uncomfortable,
but in the way you want to be uncomfortable...
...um...
H: because you just sound really close to them. U: Taken aback, like ~oh~.
H: At least that's what I got.
U: Ju Young, you mentioned that you heard some similarities
between this song and 'My House',
was it just the intro that you got the vibe from, or what was? (J: Um...)
J: I think just the instrumentation that they used,
very [?????], I feel like, it's just very retro,
and I think, you know, they have, you know,
you can definitely hear a change in the style that they are going for,
and I guess this a bit more mature, in a sense,
it's nice, I really like it - it's kinda hot in here, you know.
Because a lot of songs that I listen to it's a lot of like:
*demonstrating*
and it's always the instrumentation that builds the song up,
but in this case it's a lot of the vocals,
and there isn't much of a drop, which I am not complaining about,
I think it just, I guess it sounded like honey to me,
it was just very like...
you know how when you see chill people in LA and stuff?
that's the vibe it kind of gave me.
H: They did more buildup in pitch for the pre-chorus,
(J: Yeah) H: like stacking things up, rather than the typical, like,
eighth-notes - sixteenth notes in the drums
to get you a lead into a pre-chorus to chorus,
no it was more of their voice.
I like what you said about a mature sound though,
I think that's just in the style and instruments they use,
cuz we hear a lot of funky guitar,
sometimes you hear a bit of a muted trumpet
and just more instrumentation that
maybe it reminds you a bit more of just jazz,
(J: Hm, yeah) H: like a typical jazz small ensemble,
H: which I think just
really emphasizes that more mature kind of aesthetic,
which definitely comes across in the music video, too.
I don't know what this whole apocalypse thing is about,
(J: Yeah) H: I'm thinking it's just like...
H: I mean I get the theme that like,
"No matter what ever happens, we're gonna make it through,
because I lo- I am so infatuated with you,
I'm gonna make it through, like even a world end,
so I can get to know you better",
which is like: Wow, hear throb.
But I like to, my theory is that they just made such a banger
that they made the entire universe climax
H: ...and destroy the earth. J: Hm, hm.
J: Okay, I like that one. Better than my theory *lol*
U: To end this video, did you guys have a favorite section of this song,
or a favorite instrumental or a vocal moment?
H: I... J: Mine has to be- oh my god, you go, sorry.
J: Discord is [?????] H: Nono, I would just say chorus,
H: I really, I think it's really catchy, the chorus...
no, it's just really funky, the beat,
I can't, somehow, get the melody stuck in my head right now,
but I'm s- I wanna listen to it again, cuz I really liked the pathing.
J: Mine has to be when Taecyeon sings that whole part at 2:48,
J: at a lower octave, I think it's the chorus that they're singing. (H: 2:48...)
H: Oooooh, right in his chest voice? That was sexyyy! J: That, yeah, I-
J: I am a sucker for deep voices, like... H: That's the chorus, but it's soft.
J: I just...
J: I think [?????] H: Oh my god, he's even, that's even got like,
H: he's got that like "oppa at the locker moment"
[t/n: lol Ju Young] H: he's got that like "oppa at the locker moment"
H: where he's like hands above, that's such a cliche... J: Okay I wasn't talking about any of that, hold on! [?????]
J: Damn.
H: I do like that sound, though,
it's especially after they have that big build up, right beforehand,
and instead of dropping right back into the chorus
they peel back...
yeah, that does...
oh man.
J: I am not going to be able to get that out of my head tonight.
U: He's serenading you.
H: It breaks your expectation.
Cuz you expect it to drop into the chorus
right after that big build up and have like a drop,
or even like take the beat away for a second and then come back in,
but then to jump right into the same melody, the chorus,
but with a solo voice, kinda slightly tamer instrumentation
besides that trumpet hit,
and listening to a deeper chest voice singing that chorus
H: is very sexy, very sexy moment. (J: Mhm)
H: This is a good song, big banger. (U: Very sexy.)