Henry: Nice....
wHaT iS tHIs?!?
Umu: So you are now reacting to the eight member boy group ATEEZ and their title track
'Wonderland' from their
2019 album called 'Treasure EP Fin: All to Action'
The song is like a call to arms for young people to conquer their dreams and live life to the fullest
the lyrics make references to Peter Pan and Jack Sparrow saying, "spread the wings
and start the dream immature forever like Peter" and
"Higher than Jack Sparrow, move move, I just hit without hesitation."
The percussion and brass feel like a marching band
Giving the group a beat to follow as they march towards the future
Isaac: You got a look at the deeper meaning of Peter Pan Kevin: At World's End?
Isaac: Don't be a man-child Kevin: at world's end?
Isaac: That's the whole story Kevin: what?
no, that's not the whole story
Isaac: Yeah it is
Umu: So the song is composed by EDEN, LEEZ, BUDDY, Ollounder
and the members hongjoong and Mingi contributed to writing lyrics
Brianna: Join with the formation. *laughs*
Fiona: He looks like he makes money.
Daniel: Oh
Fiona: look at this eyebrows!
Nick: I love those vocalizations. It's like very primal.
Aron: Yeah, Nick: the "HU"!
Aron: I was gonna say, they sound like dogs.
Owen: I feel like a superhero.
Elizabeth: I love how it's just this like crazy juxtaposition of what sounds like a pirate
singing song and
Like a fucking superhero bass beat like I just love it
Cloud: This is very like superhero transformation
Henry: TTRERER TI TERRR TI
Cloud: Nice
Henry: What is this?!
Cloud: huuuuwhaaaaaaaat
Aron: Oh Shit Nick: oh now we're in 12/8.
Aron: Yeah Nick: *sings triplet subdivisions*
James: WhoA
Ok dissonance
Brianna: Braaa bra
James: Horn
Aron: yeah
Aron: Marching band is so cool, guys!
Isaac: Sounds like a hiccup breath. Kevin: Ooh dudu
ooh nice! clang clang clang
Whoa
Aron: The orchestra they use like provides that full texture
get like the whole array of sounds.
Nick: Oh, that was really cool, the
*sings Wooyoung's part* that part is like uh
Three eighth notes against 4/4 time
and then they bring it into 12/8 later or earlier.
Aron: I Think they're gonna do again
Henry: Yo, Cloud: that's so like swaggy we're like 'guys, we gotta beat up the bad guy'
but also swaaag
Henry: I Love this tempo for this it's so
Cloud: it's flexible because you can like swag to it but you can also like
Henry: DADADADA
Aron: I'm living for this marching band
Aron: Whoa, let it out. Yess
Cloud: Ohhhhhhhh
That's so hype
Fiona: That is more double time than I thought it would be
Daniel: It doesn't feel like double time, it's just that
Fiona: every beat is on one, two- Daniel: the subdivisions are like equally emphasized.
Henry: I Love that- like that- Cloud: I wanna go fight something now
Henry: Is that their Logo? Oh
H: Man Cloud: call to action really though.
I'm like a little tired because I feel like I'm like
Cloud: *gasssssp* LESGO
Henry: DODODODODODO
Henry: Yeah, that was great Cloud: triplets are great man
Cloud: You just have tri-p-let dun tri-p-let dun
Triplet, triplet, triplet
and you're like... it's just like hitting you in the face
Owen: so.. I
wrote a pirate musical
Umu: WHAT?! Owen: *laughs*
Elizabeth: Would you like to elaborate on that? Umu: WHHHAT!
Owen: Okay uh it was called Get Hooked. It features the protagonist
Thelonious and the evil captain Magnus Gale and I did it with a couple friends
Junior year and put on the Minnesota Fringe fest
and so I spent a lot of time listening to
Pirate music in order to write the instrumentals and things to actually make it feel piratey. This this worked
It's it's very fiery. It works with a lot of things
Elizabeth: what makes a piratey in your expert opinion
Owen: in my opinion
Things feel piratey when 1) you have that one solo violin that works for me
2) Having things in compound meter of some sort definitely feels piratey
but there's also like modern pirate feel versus a
Shanty pirate feel because I feel like there's if you look up on YouTube and you look up 'epic pirate mix'
You're gonna find that some cliche but everybody's like, you know what that is.
Yeah. This was definitely an 'epic pirate mix'
boom boom boom bottom bottom bottom bottom ba do da
boom, it's also minor for some reason because pirates are minor
Elizabeth: I was like like so hype to listen to that last time I was
just like HUWA
Umu: You were tiredd
Elizabeth: Oh Yeah, I was very tired. I'm still very tired.
But like I got eight hours of sleep. So we're fine. Um, Owen: congratulations
Elizabeth: Thank I know first time in like a month. Um, I really like when the whole
instrumentation is moving in the same rhythm and that happens at the end of the chorus
and that's really effective because not only
does it
Feel very epic to have all of the backing instruments and all of the vocals moving at the same time
But you literally kind of feel it in your chest
I think so. It's very epic when that happens and the use of silence in between
That rhythm whenever you have silence in between lots of sound it just like you feel that push and pull really
Really intensely. I know I did notice a little bit more how priority it was
I mean if you think about like the yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me and
Owen: I was thinking yeah
Yo, yeah, run them down. do ba do ba do Elizabeth: Yeah that sort of lilting
It's very lilting. I think and a lot of them Owen: It feels like it would kind of go
Elizabeth: Yeah, a lot of Owen: in order to keep time with oars or whatever
Elizabeth: Yeah, I think I think that's part of it is it has to be rhythmic?
For the work that they're doing
And I think you get that sort of lilting feel and a lot of the melodies for those
Kevin: Wow. that was great Isaac: sounds like bolero
Kevin: It's the triplet drum it's there but it's a little far
Eb minor - C major, you know, you're not
Isaac: a bit far
Kevin: That's a bit far...
they keep on introducing new percussions and higher notes and weird
Electronic instruments and that weird drum fill after the first chorus was like, whoa
That's a way to kick it back in a not corny way, you know, I think all of it was really great
and yeah that last chorus like the bridge the last chorus felt like this big crescendo and
When you think you couldn't crescendo anymore, it
keeps on getting more rich more full but still being like a rather
Skeletal banger, you know, it's not full in a way
We're like, oh now we're gonna add strings and like, you know make it sound round. No, it does sound very
Jagged and angular because it's an angular song
You can see from their moves and everything
But it still manages to get fuller and fuller and more and more hard-hitting as it goes on at the end.
Isaac: Hmm
Daniel: I thought what was really interesting is that they had this like sea-songy
motive that was like it was just basically like
Scale degrees 1 through 5 in minor and it's just like, you know
and then after the drop
It came back again, but then the second iteration they harmonized it in a way that wasn't just like using those just like the minor
I chord tones, but it
Kind of went through other harmonic areas, too. I know it's cool
I was because you said this was like a very piratey sort of thing. (Umu: I said- I shouldn't have said thAT) I was just like
Umu: I don't know. I don't have my script yet for this
Yeah, so basically their theme is like treasure and going on an adventure with their fans Daniel: interesting
Umu: Will you follow us on this journey
Daniel: Oh I was like ohhh
This is going to be so cute.
It's gonna be like, let's go on an adventure and I'm like wow,
I'm so excited and
this guy is like "LET'S GO!"
I'm like, oh,
it's like we're gonna have fun. We're gonna have FUN Fiona: FOLLOW US
Fiona: ON OUR JOURNEY Daniel: YOU SEE ME
Daniel: WE'RE GONNA HAVE !!FUN!!
*Umu dying in the background* Daniel: LET'S GO
and you're like
Okay. Okay, I'll follow your equally accented beats, and I'll just like
Fiona: I'll be your music slave Daniel: follow along
in some kind of like scared giddiness
Daniel: you know like- I'm terrified
Daniel: Cool very cool
Daniel: I didn't know pirates could be so
Scary
and Korean and
good skin and
without scurvy and
handsome and attractive.
I mean be like, yeah, I think like a little aggressiveis kind of cool. It's like
Daniel: mmm want me to go? want me to go? Okay
and they're like "LET'S GO! Let's go!"
then I'll be like "I didn't sign up for this"
Daniel: you know what I mean like
like
This is a kink, you know, and I mean,
this is not a lifestyle
Dnaiel: HAHA I'M JOKING
HAHA DON'T PUT THAT IN THERE
Owen: We actually watched the first three seconds before pausing it...
you could say it was a tease (ba dum tsh)
Elizabeth: Okay