Liam: That slide is so sick.
Rachel: Their vocals are just like insane.
[Rossini's Semiramide Overture playing]
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Now it's time to start the video.
So you are now reacting to the 4 member girl group Mamamoo
and their b-side track '1,2,3, Eoi!'
Liam: Wow.
Umu: -Off of their 2022 'Mic On' Single EP.
This track is named after their pre-performance battle cry,
they go "하나, 둘, 셋, [1,2,3] Eoi!",
you know, like to get amped up to go on stage.
Do you guys have a cheer before you go on stage?
To get pumped for, like, performing opera?
Kayla Rae: During Calisto, do you remember when we did...
Both: Peace! Love! Unity! Have a great show!
Jacob: Have a great show...
Umu: I love that!
This track includes an incredible amount of references to their past releases and group inside jokes,
including quoting their introductory saying or introductory tag,
~Mama Mamamoo~
in which all four members harmonize and introduce themselves saying "Hello, we are Mamamoo" afterwards.
Like, what would be the Bourbon Chai one?
Jory: No, I don't think we would do that.
Umu: You are disappointing a lot of people.
Jory: What would it be?
Will: I don't know.
Jory: That's so lame.
Umu: ~Bour-Bour-Bourbon Chai~ *In ascending major chord*
Jory: Jesus Christ...
Jory: Yeah, that's why we don't have one.
Jory: ~Bour-Bour-Bourbon Chai~
Umu: After 16 months since their last album, you could say this is a song that yells:
"Mamamoo is back, babyyyy!"
A lot of fans have been commenting on this song, calling it one of the most Mamamoo songs ever,
and even the leader of the group said: "This song is Mamamoo's identity."
So I thought it might be interesting,
the fact that we have so many new reactors, who haven't reacted to Mamamoo before,
be introduced to them through this song, so you kind of know "Oh, this is Mamamoo".
Jacob: This is the Mamamoo sound.
Umu: This is the Mamamoo sound.
A YouTube commenter, JuLee Moo, says:
This song represents Mamamoo being carefree,
not minding haters and others, being cute,
and living their life happily as Mamamoo.
The song is composed by 김도훈 (Kim Do Hoon), 김민기 (Kim Min Gi),
Inner Child, and the Mamamoo member Moonbyul,
who you have actually reacted to before.
Adam: Ooooh~ Umu: She was like on that show where it was like, can rappers sing?
Adam: Yeah yeah yeah!
Oh~
Brian: 1, 2, 3,
Go!
Oh~
Liam: T- hohuh.
Adam: Ooooohhh!
Rachel: Hell yeah!
Brian: I like this bass.
Jory: It's kind of a fun little rhythm.
Rachel: Mm~
Liam: Alright, so horns in, some agogo bells.
Jory: Blues progression?
Rachel: It sounds like a muted cowbell in the back, on two and four - huh? Liam: the sub-bass almost sounds sharp
Rachel: Oh yeah!
Adam: Oh, I like this.
Mm~
Mooo~
Stephanie: *Chuckles* I agree.
Leon: Yeah, that's cute.
Stephanie: Yeah, cat's cute too.
Jason: Oh, oh, oh, that was cool! Brian: I like their...
Brian: I like their airy timbre.
Owen: That sounded very Prince-like.
Kevin: Mhm, yes it did.
Owen: That was Prince.
Kevin: Yes.
Kayla Rae: It's a low voice.
Jacob: Mmmm~
Jason: I like the bass.
I like how it's a very acoustic kind of thing going on,
like these are real instrumentalists playing,
it's not just...
Brian: Yeah, real instruments?!
Jason: Yeah.
Jory: I like that little sax sample.
Will: Hmhm, yeah.
Jory: That is a CRAZY vocal.
Rachel: I love these, like chromatic, *vocalizes*.
Adam: ~Moooooooooo~
Liam: Man, that slide is so sick.
Rachel: Their vocals are just like insane.
Jory: I really like that bass sound.
Rachel: I like the bell.
Kayla: Yeees! Adam: Eoi!
Kayla: YEEESSS!
Both: EOI!
Ali: Good vibes.
Jason: It was good.
Very funk-influenced.
I liked that.
Brian: Mama- Mamamooooo~ Jason: That was a lot to take in though.
Jason: That was definitely a lot of stuff.
But it was actually paced really well cuz it didn't start out too intense and then it slowly built,
I thought that that was good.
Brian: I wanna listen to it again, like the whole thing.
Jason: I kinda wanna listen a little too.
Brian: I like it.
Uh!
Bam bam bah!
Uh uh UH!
Kayla Rae: I liked that there were like different musical motifs that I liked,
I liked the *vocalizes*, the sequence.
And then there was like the "Mamamoo" when they sang.
Umu: ~Mama- Mamamoo~ Jacob: Mamamoo. // Kayla Rae: Yeah.
Kayla Rae: I liked ~Mama-Mama↘moo~, I liked that.
Umu&Jacob: Mhm~
Jacob: It was very chill but it still had like a really high energy,
I think because like, they weren't like belting,
it wasn't like a belty song but like, there was still a lot of mixing going on
and it was like, had like a nice vibe.
Kayla Rae: I thought it was very, yeah, good vibes.
Kayla: I feel like, when they are all together, the blend is nice.
I feel like they had a coach just like,
"During these parts you all need to blend"
and then they successfully did that, it feels like one voice,
but then, when they have their solo parts,
it's very evident that they are totally different people,
but the one with the jean boots...
She's giving.
Kayla: She's giving Fenty, she's giving Rihanna. Adam: Oh, the one with the little-
Jason: I wanna take shots with them.
I wanna drink tequila with them, that would be so fun.
They look like a lot of fun to party with.
Umu: What did you find so fun about this overall,
like, why did you go in for a second listen?
Brian: I just couldn't resist.
I really couldn't.
Especially like the beginning,
the way they start to layer things on top of the funky bass
and the way they transition into everybody's little solo moment
and how everybody's voices work so well together
but they also have their own unique qualities.
I liked that a lot.
Ali: But also there is like this one synth,
like the first synth that comes in is like
kind of like harsh in tone, it's like kind of scratchy,
but like in comparison to their voice,
their voices are like so smooth,
so it's like a nice contrast.
Brian: My favorite part happens at a minute and 40 seconds.
*Bam bam bam bam bam bam!*
Jason: God, I wanna party with them so badly.
I think there was a lot of moments too, in the production, where they would like,
like what they just did there, Brian's part,
they like build it up and then when it hits like the drop,
which they did in the last chorus, it hits the drop and then it kind of like,
as opposed to opening up it kind of closes in
and it gets a little quiet but it's still got a nice rhythmic groove to it.
So the second time I listened I understood what they were doing pacing-wise with genre
and kind of the mixing of sound, which was really cool
because it was a progression from beginning to end of this like,
we're starting electric, kind of electronic techno-funk-ish,
but then we're going into like acoustic funk,
but it was so slowly integrated and so intertwined
that you didn't even realize it on the first go-through,
and then by the end you're like thinking about that funk bass that was going on,
but that wasn't even in there, like, at the beginning,
it slowly just kind of weaves together into this tapestry of funk and techno,
so I liked that a lot.
Umu: You were very zeroed in on the bass.
Ali: I'm so zeroed in on the bass.
I mean it starts in with like a track pad bass, kind of,
and just like the click for percussion, which I thought was nice,
but there is like this acoustic, like fingerstyle slap bass
that was really fun to listen to.
I just think like, especially in pop music,
when you put in all the sounds into like a program,
it's nice to have like an acoustic element,
like, oh someone actually like played that part and it wasn't just like a machine.
Jason: Props to the producers, it sounds good.
And they're fun!
Umu: They're fun, they're so fµcĸ̣̣ing fun. Jason: I wanted to have- I wanna take tequila shots with them,
Jason: That would be so fun.
Rachel: Yeah, there was a lot of like,
like some of the backing rhythmic stuff was all just like accessory instruments,
like cowbell on 2 and 4 and there was like triangle...
Liam: There was triangle, there was agogo bells, there was (Both:) claves,
it was a lot of nice Latin percussion stuff added to the groove.
Rachel: I think it added like a nice mid-range to it,
cuz like, bass -
and then all of these accessory instruments just kind of add a more interesting texture to a pretty simplistic song.
Liam: The groove was so good, it reminded me- Rachel: The groove was really good!
Liam: It reminded me a lot of like Prince's 80s stuff,
just like super tight riffing over a set groove
like the sub too, kind of helped with that, the bass.
Kevin: Yeah, it's great.
It's a great throwback to a Prince style of, yeah, 70s music,
it's a different approach to throwback,
and a very authentic one too, which is incredible.
(Owen: Yeah!) and a very authentic one too, which is incredible.
The rhythm section feels very vibrant in a way that some of the best tracks back then sounded
and yeah, then their fun energy makes it completely their own.
Owen: I think that the line that really feels connected to Prince,
is the *vocalizes*
*Kevin joins in*
Owen: Like, it's just quintessential. Kevin: Yeah cuz while, Prince, you know,
Kevin: Prince sings in falsetto a lot,
Owen: That's true. High up there. Kevin: He would actually sing those notes high up.
Umu: Did you have any favorite moments in the track itself, the instrumental?
Leon: Yeah!
Leon: It's like when they go to *vocalizes*, that. (Stephanie: Mmh)
Like, not only do they change the chord and the color,
because it was like kind of like a minor blues scale-ish sound,
and then suddenly it goes to like II-dominant, which makes the sound really bright,
but they just like took out all the guitar and all instrumentals,
only the bass and drums [remain],
so it makes it like really clear and light up there,
and then back at *vocalizes*, yeah, back to normal again.
Rachel, yeah, major II to major I. [t/n: In A major]
But then their little "Mamamoo" thing is:
*G-A-G-A-C - G-A-G-A-E* [t/n: notes from the A minor scale]
Rachel: Yeah no, it works so well. Liam: It's such a great melody.
Rachel: It's like so clever too, that they kept it in minor cuz they have to, you know, it's always been that way,
but like, I think it worked really well, it didn't feel like off, you know?
Like, it was just, I think that they utilized it in a really good way, like harmonically.
Umu: So let's break down blues!
What makes a blues scale, what makes a blues form,
and what did you hear in here?
Will: It was a twelve bar form... Jory: I'm pretty sure.
Will: And it goes to the IV chord in the fifth bar,
it's like, at that point it's a blues, pretty, like, essentially.
They did some kind of interesting substitutions (Jory: Yeah)
They went to a II dominant chord, I think? Jory: Was that the prechorus?
Jory: Oh no, that was the *vocalizes* Will: Yeah, exactly.
*figuring out*
*EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE* [not working]
Will: EEEHH!
Jory: It's really like sparse,
but like, there is that synth in the beginning that tells you it's in major.
*A(7)* [I, "stable" tonic in blues]
Will: And then it goes to the:
*D(7)* [IV]
And then we go to the, this is the weird one:
*B7* [II7]
And then I think it's just a normal, like V(7) *E7*
*Bass E still not working*
*Up the octave*
*Back to I*
I mean like, that sounds like a, just a, I don't know, you know,
You know, I don't know,
And then, like this common, the standard thing to do would be to go V to IV to I,
that's kind of like the normal blues thing.
Instead of V-IV, they go II-V, but it's a II major. [→V/V (dominant of the dominant chord)]
Yeah, so I mean...
Jory: Yeah. That's it. Will: You know, sounds like the blues.
Umu: What kind of colors of vibe does having this blues progression add to the song?
Will: You know, it's called the blues, so it has that kind of connotation,
but I think in this context and the way those chords are,
it's a pretty happy sound, I think.
Jory: Felt mischievous.
Will: Yeah!
*Jory whistling melody*
Umu: That major II is probably what lifted, like made it more happy, more gentle,
Will: Yeah, definitely, it definitely has that cuz it's a brighter sound,
you're going outside of the key in a sharp direction
yeah, which is, at least I kind of perceive that as brightness.
Owen: That's what I'm coming back to, this song entirely feels vibrant.
There's not a single note that's boring.
Everything has like a little articulation here that makes it unique, a little bit of a dynamic thing, like,
all of it has just this, something extra to it.
But not even "extra", it's like, it's just...
Owen: It's just right. Kevin: Just right.
Owen: It's just right.
Kayla Rae: Oh, I'm really interested to see what their other music sounds like
because you said that they said that this is like their identity,
so I'm curious what their other music sounds like. Umu: I'll add them to your playlist~
Kayla: Cool!