Peyton: *imitating drums*
Charlotte & Peyton:OHH!
Charlotte: It's like stop time!
[Dinosaur calling sounds]
Umu: Ka--ra! All right, so Kara is a girl group that..
[Dinosaur calling sounds]
Umu: So they were one of the first few girl groups that led the first modern/2000s
Hallyu wave and were extremely popular in Japan for their joy and natural appeal.
Hallyu wave means the popularity of kpop spreading into other places.
Gwen: OH!! I understand Hugo: Particularly the West?
Umu: Yeah the West and like Japan and China and so they became extremely popular Gwen: Other places than..
Hugo: Korea? Gwen: Korea
Umu: They're known for their 1980 style synth pop or disco sound with ultra catchy hooks that got them viral
Charlotte: Thought you're gonna say 'Ultra cat'
And I was like: "YAAAAAS"
U: The next two songs that you're about to react to were produced by the hit maker Sweet Tune (Hugo:Hit!)
Hugo: Go ahead go for it Gwen. Gwen: One, two, three.
H: I'm already down.
G: I like it.
Peyton: It's like underwater sounds like... *Peyton sounds*
Charlotte: There's the water! Peyton: Oh and there's the water!
[Peyton sounds]
[Peyton sounds] C: Oh I love that chair.
C: Oh it's not a cat.
C: False alarm. It was not a cat in a box.
H: Oh!
G: That is rhythmic stuff that we love!
Lindsey: What IS this? Ta-da Ta-da-da. like it's.. What kind..
Katie: It's like the Middle Eastern kind of.. Somebody's .. You know? Jarod: Octatonic.
Katie: Oct- Is that what it is? Jarod: Yeah.
[Katie humming]
Jarod: Kind of. Maybe. Katie: Yeah!
Katie: And it has elements of that -- Is what we're trying to say.
Jarod: And the use of half steps.
Kevin: Wow the chords are still going down. Oh, whoa something just happened.
We need to talk about it after the video.
Peyton: Well I guess the.. It's super duple and then like the lead-in to the drop is like..
P: Uh! Chi pa pa ba ba ba
C: Yeah
Kevin: Nice brass
pretty pretty sweet
Charlotte: Ah!
Peyton: Yes wardrobe change and the cat-Walk! Work it, honey!
H: Well because they have the wider rhythms they have more rhythmic variances amid them
and then the melodies are different rhythms too
Which is great. Not everything is the same. It's not homophonic.
Hugo: Homophonic? Gwen: I also.. *Chuckles* Homophonic.
G: Homophonic? Oh my God. (H: Shh..)
Naoki: Yeah, this is so upbeat. It's like I can like fake shit.
Naoki: You cannot listen to this and be sad. Stephen: Or just out like, groove. (N:Yeah)
Henry: Yeah, and there.. their vocal tambours.
Emiel: Yeah, everything.. Henry: It also looks very the same. You know?
Emiel: It sounds really. Everything is super brittle and bright.
Henry: It feels like. Emiel: Even bass feels like stiff.
Fiona: There's the strings. Lindsey: There's also a trumpet.
But it's like really subtle and then it comes out in the chorus. It's but it's there in the verse.
It's just like.. It's kind of cool.
Naoki: They definitely rely on the instrumentals,
Naoki: to like.. keep the flow going you're gonna see these sections
Naoki: It's working really well. Stephen: Yeah, I mean there's a lot going on.
S: I.. Oh this is a cool part.
Naoki: Oh! Change one! Da-da-da-da.
Hugo: I love it before the bridge that they just kept it going full volume, and they just turn the throttle up. (G: I loved that)
Fiona: Building! Uh! Uh!
Peyton: Uh.. Stooka-dooga-boo
C&P: Oh!!
Kevin: *NerdyMusicks sounds
Lindsey: I knew it was gonna delay a bar. (F:Yeah) But they delayed another beat and it threw me off.
Kevin: Ooh. Nice. Major-minor Major-minor beats.
Like major and minor, you know?
Charlotte: I don't know that descending line just makes it more like badass
Peyton: Yeah.
C: Oh! P: Yes rock and roll.
L: Yeah the vocals came in when we thought they would (F:Yeah) but everything else was delayed. So it's like..
F: That's why it was strange.
L: Dang. This is kind of.. F: Yaay. (L: I... I'm a fan)
F: I like the whole like overall aesthetic of the video.
Umu: Yeah, so what about the song melodically. Lindsey: It's pretty up there.
Fiona: I loved this one. Lindsey: Pa-dap Pa-dap pa
Fiona: I loved the crazy guitar whenever. It was like. It's working. We're getting crazy
F: We're gonna spice it up in here, and then they're like.. Uh!
F: Guitar! Hair flip! I like that.
L: They were just like some badass. F: Fierce.
F: Badass in a very feminine, future way.
Gwen: I think my favorite part of that by far was the bridge.
Hugo: It's like they just turn.
H: Like most most songs are like this. They take the bridge and then they like.. G: The bridge is like sad piano.
H: Yeah they like. They bring the way fuck down, and they're like.. Umm..
G: They're like no.. We'll just.. H: Let's turn this shit up to 12 out of 10
G: We'll just change it.
G: It obviously wasn't. I said heavy metal guitar it obviously wasn't like.
H: It was a new style of them
G: Yeah, well it's it's.. they took a kind of that trope of like bum bum bum bum... bum bum bum bum
Like that that (H: Triplests) yeah that triplet rhythm
G: With like especially on the rhythm guitar like that is so so common especially in hard rock heavy metal..
stuff like that and
That was awesome
H: It was dope.
H: And then that off-beat hit.
H: one-two-three-four-AH! G--
G: We like we said we like it when we're wrong. H: it's good
Stephen: My goodness it was like.. So upbeat. Naoki: Yeah that was so intense.
Stephen: Yeah! Thank you. So intense.
N: But in a good way.
S: Oh yeah, in a great way. Not..
S: Not necessarily in a way where you feel tired listening to it
But it's like it was just so upbeat from obviously like drumset part at the tempo
You know all the different effects. How arranged it was. Like they threw everything in there, which is great
I thought I was all used in a tasteful way like for example there were times where you'd hear like strings patches
S: Yeah for like awesome. N: We'll just stay solo.. It's kind of cliche, but (S: I mean) it's fine
S: I guess like for my for my taste. It didn't sound super cliche. I mean like listening to stuff like that
I'm like oh, I've heard a lot of other k-pop songs
And so I'm like I kind of expected with this like kind of girl group sort of vibe, but yeah
I I thought it was great.
Isaac: Each time there was a verse, it would descend chromatically (K: uh-huh) so I just want. It's just like
I: There's an E (D#, C, C#) K: And the melody did it for the first half, but then
[Isaac giggles] K: Yeah
K: But then it was left for the bass to finish so the melody and the bass would kind of in-parallel.
K: da-da-da-da....
K: But then the melody start doing other stuff all the bass is doing
da-da-da-da-da-da
da-da-da-da-da-da. And then it ends on a sharp for...
Going into five so. that's. it. Chorus syncopation! syncopation!
Umu: Okay, well the next one is even more badass because they're going on some dates, and then their dates are shit.
U: And then they're like.. Oh yeah well,
I'm gonna dress like a man and key over. Okay, anyways so this is called damaged lady in this convention 2013
F: She's just like subtly explains it (U: And this is also..) Anyways, you'll see for yourself.
H: So this was a later release by them?
U: Yes, but it was composed by the exact same composers. (H: Damaged lady. Me!)
K: Damaged lady! [Giggles] U: Did it work?
H: Oh!
H: Oh shit, I'm down.
G: Oh gross break up with that, man. He's flirting with the waitresses.
H: Oh! Her eyes. Wow.
G: I'm captivated by her eyes
L: We're just right in with this one. (F: yeah) they're just going for it.
F: I like the beginning how it was so subtle. L: I like that it's all black.
Peyton: That's a modulation. P & C: Oh!!
P: Rock and roll.
N: And it's huge contrast now.
S: I like that ostinato rhythmic thing they got going on with the piano
G: I like this part the best. I think.. I think I was overloaded with the last section.
I think there was too much happening, too many genres in one.
K: That was cool. She was singing that and the synth did it together
[mimic sounds]
G: See, like this makes much more sense now that the other part has happened.
The fact that they open with this was strange to me.
H: They're gonna rock made this but they are
K: Taking it third come on man. Gotta. Gotta.
K: I mean it's subtle enough. Actually kinda cool.
K: Oh! Ooh ooh. I: Ooh!
Isaac: Okay. Kevin: leading tone man. A well-placed leading tone can suffocate me.
K: No- No- Now it feels.. It's a different feel It was like.. Before it was like..
Du-dudu- Du-dudu- Dudu-Dudu-Du-Dudu.. And um..
For a second it just went. Du--duDududu-dudu....
F: Ooh, I like that.
L: They're like, who needs boys when we can just be boys.
Stephen: Although it's cool they go between like a time, just like regular (N: yeah) regular feel.. You know?
Henry: That synths just gave me ear cancer.
H: Ahhh!! Again! E: Dude that sounds like when someone like literally is rubbing like.. Ss..
H: It sounds like pieces of scrap-metal being scraped against each other. (E: Sounds like)
L: It's like the screechy sounds in the background just give it so much more like push.
just more like.. more like..draw
K: This is in 2013?
K: They were f-- killing it in 2013.
J: Man, where are we Man? American pop Suu--x
I: Is that a gong? K: I have no clue what her eyebrows look like.
K: Oh my gosh. wow.
F: I want someone to shove a muffin into my mouth.
L: [Wheezing] F: Like an actual muffin. Not like anything creepy.
F: Like a muffin (L: I'll do it.) F: Okay.
Peyton: And then it's like, techno rock yea - pow- Uh-huh! We're-all. beau-tiful. Wo-men-in-Ko-re-a. Uh-hu-uh-hu-uh-hu!
Naoki: It's like, all those m_____ part Stephen: Oh yeah.
N: Apart from the sound of their voice. (S: Yeah)
N: And this is pop-py as hell. (S:Yeah)
J: See this is cool about this song is like you can really use this now and it would.. probably hit really hard.
Isaac: Wait I like that one. What!
K: What! I like it actually. I: Wait, why did they disband?
I: That's not fair. U: because when your contract is over
They had like a 10-year contract
So how k-pop works is once you debut in a group you have a contract saying how long you'll be together?
And then once it's over you can either re-sign to continue or to disband.
I: But what! They were so good.
K: Hey being.. Being stars ain't easy man. (I:That's true.)
U: Yeah. What'd you think about this one overall? K: It was... It was very busy musically
between like singing, sounds, rhythmic components.
I like the change of like.. meter.. halfway through. I commented on it
It wasn't even like meter. like, it's always been in like either fast forward like.. slow too
But. The- like accented beats changed. It was like du-dudu-du-dudu-du. And then it was like du-Du-du-Du-du-
U: Okay, can you talk about like what you didn't like about the beat was that this sound or was it just the fact
U: that it was like one-two-three-four-one-two-three-four.
E: That and the tambor. Every single sound they put into that song was like.
Oh yeah, that's what I wanted to show. World's hardest game
U: Oh my God! I remember that game! Oh my God that was high school! (H&E: Yeah)
E: Okay, cool. Look at this
E: That synths right there. It's what reminded me. It's just like that.. Uh!!
like, wow..
Except it was like even higher pitched than that. That is exactly what this sounded.
There that synth right there!
H: Absolutely groove's completely right actually. E: That is the exact same synth as the impossible game.
Stephen: It had.. I really like the beginning because it had such a different vibe,
But then they just totally by the time they got the chorus. We're just like yeah nah screw it
We're just gonna like do what we did at the last time. So I mean,
I thought it was still a really good song and they look like they went from like cut time to regular time then to double time
And then back to like regular time then cut time again, so like I thought that was really cool
And I had a lot of great things going on. I just kind of wish that
It had maybe stayed with like the original theme that had brought up in the very beginning
Whereas just laidback, mellow. And just kind of.. You know maybe seeing what they could do with that.
L: I would. Okay here's what I have to say about this. I would listen to this like I would put it on a playlist
L: But I feel like the song needs the video. Like the video just enhance it so much. That like..
Like I love the song in itself. But like I feel like listening to it without the video is like a sin. (F:Yeah)
F: I loved how everything was like so chromatic and then it was just so.. I don't know it made it like all slinky
I really loved the beginning how it was just pretty empty like just the cool like bass and the drums.
and then all of a sudden it sounds like.. Wham! We're gonna hit you with the trunk of sass and sound and Feminine power.
U: Compared to the 2012 Kara song, How do you think they've developed like musically?
So is this one a little bit more complex with the change of rhythms or is it about the same?
J: I think it was diversity. You know? I think there's a little bit more, um..
Different colors and different.. Like kind of scenes happening within this that make this so unique
I: Actually (brass band playing)
I: Brass bands are just so unique. I like the second song. I don't know the first one was like. I don't know. I could predict
I think it was like because I could predict where it was going it was like oh descending motion was like..
oh pew pew pow with the beats
I: But for the second one it was like overall, wow spontaneous with like
K: I think the first one was pretty spontaneous. I: spontaneous really?
K: I don't know it was.. It was a little edgy. It was well produced. It was danceable.
Umu: I think he was talking about spontaneous in the ways of like not being able to predict melodically what was hapening next.
K: Yeah, I don't know the first one. I guess I guess the second one's a bit more spontaneous. Yeah
Charlotte: I like both of them.
C: I think they definitely have like a techno-poppy sound (P: yeah)
C: But they kind of mix like more edgy things into it that kind of creates this unique sound.
Like particularly in like this one you could hear like the more rock and roll.. I don't know what do I call it?
C: Metallica [guitar sounds] I don't know maybe like Led Zeppelin or something. (P: Yeah)
Naoki: So obviously this one had a lot more contrast and shifted between styles a lot more (S: Oh my gosh)
N: What? (S: No, I agree with you) Yeah
N: I don't know I think it works. But I..
Prefer the first one where it was just so in-your-face. I'm just like: "this is us you're gonna enjoy. If you don't fuck you guys" like
N: Yeah
S: Yeah, I mean it was still a really really good song
I just. Would've liked maybe more of a contrast from the first song.
But they.. they.. like you know. Since like all their songs were upbeat they do it really really well
It's really enjoyable to listen to.
L: This was a lot more powerful. I thought like in terms of all the different elements that they incorporated into the music
Both of the songs that we listened to had a lot of them
But I feel like this one made everything in the background more compact. (F: Yes, compact)
L: So there was like more, But it took up less like ear space F: yeah, and it made the vocals stronger
F: Yeah, like it was debts. (L: Yes)
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