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Umu: So, you are now reacting to the six member boygroup: Oneus
And two of their 2020 releases which you will be comparing back to back
Except they will be released as two separate videos because
it's harder to compare things nowdays in one video without it being like 30-40 minutes long
First, you'll be reacting to Come Back Home
which was originally released during the final round of the competition show called: "Road to Kingdom"
There's a TON of different layers and theories that could be deduced from music video
but the story all seems to center around Oneus as 6 -possibly vampire- Monarchs
getting tainted as the sky turns red,
struggling to protect a young boy
Victoria from Seoulbeats summarizes:
Six monarchs waited for a child to be born on day of an eclipse
Eventually the monarchs won the war and protected the child
but as the monarchs tried to cut the neck of the last person trying to attack them
It says that: When the red moon comes again, I will come back for the child.
And then the sky turned red.
[T/N: Charlotte and Henry's name tags are switched] And fun fact, they released this music video on the same day as the quarter moon,
[T/N: Charlotte and Henry's name tags are switched] with the full moon quickly approaching on August 4th
Typically, new moons are viewed as a gateway between other worlds and supernatural events.
This song is composed by RBW producers:
Kim Dohoon, Park Woosang , Lee Sangho, Inner Child (Monotree).
The members Ravn and Leedo contributed to writing the lyrics
Sam: So that's in four- this four minute song? Umu: Yup, yup
Sam: Oh my gosh
R: Well, four minutes and 16 seconds. U: Yeah
U: You have to be precise
R: That 16 seconds may do it.
J: Wait, sorry, I just wanna know like the theories U: SO its FANTASY
J: Okay so it's fantasy, vampire U: The kpop boys be protecting a boy, a younger boy
And like this bad guys try to take that boy from them
J: Okay so like the bad guys are like the Volturi
And the vampires are the Cullens
and then the boy is Bella
That's the only way I will be able to understand this story
Cloud: 3, 2, 1
B: Ohh!
C: Awwww H: HAHAH little boy
Cloud: The percussion said "it's war time"
Henry: Oh that's really cool
Stephen: The guy's got a nice timbre, his voice
B: I really like- how like, they're doing the chords on the beats, and like leaving a lot of space
K: This dancing is something
Owen: I like how they shift to the other dancers. That was cool.
K: Oh woooooooo
Stephen: Uhhhhhh
Ju: OOoHUhh
O: It's a long chorus,
right off the bat too
R: So I'm just gonna belt a note up here for you and move on
like nothing happened
J: His voice is so dEEEp
Jason: Cool strings
Henry: A lot of BDE here
S: UuuhH Man that chorus is powerful
Ju: It doesn't go back to 1,
it's *sings*
Space
S: The drum set beat it's not like a total trap beat, but it totally has like that influence
cause like- yeah, that diggadiggadiggada
Like the sixtuplet stuff on the hi-hat
Cloud: OMG I totally forgot about the kid
H: Uhh, nice harmonic variation in the bridge
higher range in the second part of it
Jason: EEEEEE
Jason: ahaha I didn't see that coming!
Ju: Wuuuu Jason: Sorry, neighbors!
C: OKAY I thought this the first time he went but-
His voice is so cool
B: Uhhh
I just really like the sycopation
K: ANd nOW yOU FAst RegGaeton??
Ju: Oh this is different now
K: This last section- it's a lot
S: DOPE
OOoooHHhhhH SNAP
Was not expecting that
Steve: They got the little boy back!
Stephen: little boy is like
"I'M A BOSS"
Sam: That was CRAZY
Raffi: Oh my goodness
S: I'm still tryna process what I just watched
Oh my gosh
U: Vocals?
S: Vocals, production, storytelling really
R: Yeaah
S: Just- just spectacular
R: Captivating S: Yeah
Stephen: That chorus was SIIICK
I feel like, you know there comes a point where you listen to certain commercial music
and it can kinda of sound a little bit formulaic
which is why it's really nice when- I don't know you just have things that it will surprise you
because obviously you want the choruses to be the most intense part
cuz that's really what people are going to remember
and it's really cool cause usually that means that you either get louder or there's like the most activity or, you know
here they actually take everything- they deconstruct everything, which is cool because you're not expecting it
and actually leaves you way more of a -like impact on you than if they just done the regular route
That was cool
U: Steve you paid a lot of attention to the video
Steve: I've paid a lot of attention to the video U: YEah, haha
S: I was along for the ride
S: They show that one dude, and I was like: "that's not a vampire, that's like a goblin troll"
It kind of looks like a- like a bull but he's a goblin
and he has the little boy
U: Yeah S: That's what summarized from that video
J: Yeah, the kid was just crying the whole time, what the hell?
You could just run away like-
I DON'T GET when in like movies
Like, CLEARLY there's space around you to run but they just don't run
They just stand there
U: You know, it's like the fight or flight and like you freeze up
Jason: Yeah, have you been like in the mist of a like a vampire- Ju: I RUN. I run- like
Jason: Are you SURE? Ju: I RUN
Jason: A lot of people say that
Ju: Okay, sorry, can we talk about the music now?
Jason: Okay so I'll talk about the rhythm in the music Umu: Yeaah
Jason: It was sooo heavy on triplets
Even in like in like the chorus there's demonstrates so it goes
And even before it went demonstrates
And then demonstrates
So it was just like triplets, triplets, triplets
Cloud: I thought it was cool how the rhythm of the refrains were so open
cause like- yeah
cause we had (the) bwaaaa and then you have like- just like that was it
and the subdivision was more in the dancing than in the music
versus in the verses....
U: Yeah C: Yeah
It was more like- like they would give you the beats and the rhythms and stuff like that
I don't know- I'm like trynna collect all this.
B: I really like their percussion beats sounds
Like, it had a nice like variation between subdivisions and just kind of not riding it up but just syncopation I feel like
They left a lot of space and it felt like the meter was changing in a sense
Even though it stayed constant basically, it's just the way they kind of interacted or like played off of the meter change
Like they were going to the chorus and kind of be- you would think it was slowing down but it just wasn't
The rhythm itself just was slowing down but not the meter or time
I think that was really exciting and just their energy
They also showcased their voices like at the ending, you know, the powerful belt as they should
But I think there was a lot of elements like within the music too that I'm probably missing
but I think they use the same chords throughout
maybe I'm crazy but
Cloud: I feel like the chords were pretty B: Similar?
Cloud: Cycle B: Repetitive
U: Yeah it's the rhythms that variate, so like harmonic rhythm is sometimes changed but it's they same C: They would have like a
C: Yeah, they would have like a interruption
where- it still stayed in 4, wasn't like "oh random bar of 3"
I think but it would be like demonstrates
And do the scale stuff
but it was cool
I did like- yeah, I did like the rhythm switching up
and like also when they added just like triplets when you're in four
that's great
Do that
K: I definitely feel like the ending was interesting
It felt both very full but yet kind of empty as well
There's something about it that feels like
you know we talk about how- when something comes together in the end it feels meaningful
somehow this didn't hit that meaningful
it's like "Oh this is really cool" but it's equivalent to like a fast but fluffy piece on the piano versus like a fast but
but ANGSTY
O: Yeah K: Piece on the piano
O: I think when you're composing
Like to have something that's simple and can stand on it's own like, even just a vocal line and harmony
when something is good by itself then you can add all the bells and whistles and make it amazing
this feels like it was just a lot of bells and whistles without structure
K: And where there is structure it actually felt like the music settled a little bit
Yeah, it didn't go super far
I liked the rap
there was one guy who rapped in a like a lower register
that kind of clashed with the instruments
that was cool
but yeah, the stuff with the end- we hear a hint of dubstep and then the next second we are in reggaeton territory
O: It's just K: Yeah,
it was a lot
O: it was like "Let's throw this set in. No? Let's try this"
K: The concept of having the first two choruses be a half-time and the last chorus like, double time or like regular time (if the other one was half)
That's a great concept but I think, you know they gave us a satisfaction but then they went too far, there was too much going on
K: yeah, if they had done just like, the same energy as in the verses, cause the verses had a certain expectations
they finally delivered the energy that the verses had
I think I would've liked this song- yeah, more
Henry: They- I think they have a really good intuitive sense of
changing up the feel
The rhythmic feel between verses and chorus
Cause like- the halftime feel in the chorus was really nice
later they- after the bridge they added a- in kind of a faster section in the second part of the chorus to kind of bring up the energy till we amped it up in the end
So they had a good sense of like energy flow through it all
There was a lot of woop woop to the hole thing
but I like the use of it, like it creates a lot of tension and release with the demonstrates
The halftime in the chorus sounds really nice
This was like a theatrical experience, gotta say
Like a lot of that- mouth sounds it really elevated each other
cinema to the music and then back and forth
It was pretty nice
Raffi: Who's the bass?
U: The rapper dude?
Raffi: Yeah he was like Sam: The bass hahaha
Raffi: He was like yo
S: What a vocalist thing of you to say, Raffi
R: Totally S: Who's the bass
R: That was insane
The sound it's so
spacious? Can I say that? Spacious?
Lifted? Caramel?
S: Something like that R: Yeah
S: Primal R: Primal?
U: So that was either Leedo -okay that looks like a Leedo-
Let me see if there's like a low voice compilations, cause I'm sure
S: Welp, it exists
R: It makes sense to mee,
Like
It's an amazing sound!
I get it
Wow
U: Is that your favorite part of the song
R: One of them, yeah, one of them
Just like every timbre it's so good
I felt like it was really giving people what they want, you know?
Like, so much contrast
S: THE WHISPER
R: I did like the whisper, I love the whisper
S: It was so out of nowhere and I was thinking:
Woooooooooooow
That was cool
Charlotte: TO BE or NOT to BE
H: Are we gonna- are we gonna do this?
C: No, we're not doing it
H: no?
C: No, I'm really not, no
H: But you were a theater kid
C: I was a theater kid, but no
H: You don't want to?
C: No I'm not gonna subject these people to that
C: Absolutely not, Henry and I'm not
C:NO, HENRY DEAN H: To be
Or not to be
HENRY
HENRY DEAN
H: That is the question
C: Don't make me get up from this chair Henry Dean
H: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer C: HENRY DEAN
H:The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Hey you know what-