Kevin: Oh geez.
[Rossini's Semiramide]
Umu: Now you'll be reacting to the R&B... eh hem.
U: Now you'll be reacting to the R&B solo artist named Zion.T, who you actually have reacted to once before on this series.
U: So this song called 'Snow' was released in December 2017
U: and features a respected vocalist Lee Moonsae, who started his career in the late 70s.
U: There's a Korean saying that if you're out in the first snowfall with somebody you like, true love will blossom.
U: So in this song, Zion.T is wishing to wake up to snow and for his lover to stay by his side.
U: So I wasn't able to find a video with English subs,
U: so basically the meaning of the music video is that he and his lover, he made a promise to celebrate their anniversary
U: in the most expensive hotel room, but his lover died.
U: But he kept his promise and he went to get the most expensive hotel room.
Emiel: This is definitely the most interesting turn on I've ever heard...
Henry: Cue the waterworks.
E: for an anniversary. H: For real.
E: Three, two, one.
Seiji: What a cool suitcase, dang. Stephen: I dig that sticker with the camel.
Elizabeth: Wow, this sounds like John Cage. James: This is some ASMR.
Peyton: He looks sad.
James: Oh wow.
J: The ladies, oh.
J: He's so alone. Elizabeth: I relate.
Kevin:But hey, it's okay drama type of acting.
Isaac: Hello.
I: Oh you gotta have background music. K: Shh.
Peyton: Do you hear that piano?
Charlotte: It's like lobby piano P: Okay.
Kevin: Sounds like Bach.
K: It's a canon.
K: It's not Bach, but it's classical.
K: Sounds like Poulenc.
Henry: Did he tell him like it wasn't enough or something. Emiel: Yeah.
E: But, now it's enough? He only pulled out like one more... H: I know, he only pulled out like a little bit more.
Isaac: Did he, oh, so he got a room, oh he got up- he got a penthouse, boy he going up!
I: We're going up!
Isaac: Got minor, minor triad, that lamenting line.
Kevin: Oh, that's a chord. That's a 9th major 7.
Kevin: Oh geez.
Seiji: It's so heartfelt.
Stephen: Got that sizzle cymbal.
Elizabeth: There's a lot of consonants at the beginning of each syllable he says, which provides the rhythm instead of there being like...
James: A beat. E: Yeah.
Stephen: Guy's using brushes,
S: to get that you know sense of the sound.
Seji: Don't get the really pensive sound going, you know.
Henry: Nice bass playing. Emiel: Yup.
H: Nice soft articulation.
E: I like the way that this was like just recorded, the way it sounds.
Kevin: Oh yes, come on flat sev. Oh yes he's using the flat sev to pivot into a new key.
K: Oh my god.
K: It's the tritone leap, we go from E flat to A minor. I hear that a lot but my brain just can't wrap around it.
Peyton: Okay rhythm.
Charlotte: Sounds like they're improv-ing with their singing a little bit. P: Maybe.
P: Wouldn't be surprised.
P: Aw he's bowing.
Emiel: This is out. Henry: I know this is really sad.
H: This song it's really good too E: Yeah. H: It's like mixed really well and
H: it's like nice and interesting,
H: it's got nice little melodic lines. E: Jazz progressions are definitely...
E: inspired by it, American song book tunes,
E: which is nice. H: Nice piano playing.
Peyton: Okay, we have electric piano. Charlotte: Yeah, electric piano and real piano? P: Yeah, that's interesting.
P: Oh, okay, well now it's real.
Isaac: Cutaway?
James: Wow.
J: The dynamic at which they're singing is like
J: like I said, it's really personal and it's almost like indicative of
J: like maybe they're singing like to each other like very close... Elizabeth: Yeah, it's intimate.
J: like they're dancing and singing.
Emiel: It's kind of like floaty right now, I like it. Henry: Yeah. E: I like the texture.
Peyton: I love the nine.
P: Or is that a seven.
Henry: I like the sort of just like alberti
H: like keyboard thing that's going in the background,
H: really like keeps it moving with the rest of the texture is very sparse.
Elizabeth: And the musical texture is very sparse, which I think is
E: representative of how he is alone. He is not only...
E: like the soloist pretty much but there's not much else happening. James: Yeah.
E: This is really sad. Why are we watching this?
J: Forever alone. E: Oh my god. Now it's snowing. Are you kidding me?
J: I love the silence.
Elizabeth: Okay, so he like sings in this like dreamlike state where you're pretending everything's okay the night before any wakes up and then it's silent
E: because he's sad and alone.
James: Whoo!
Emiel: What does that note say at the end?
Umu: It... says...
U: "As we made a promise in 2001, it was snowing."
Henry: Sadness time.
Stephen: That got me in the feel, I'm like tearing up. Seiji: Yeah, that was pretty that was pretty tough. It was really effective,
S: it was really really touching.
S: I thought the song was was good
S: but I think what made it more effective was the fact that it was paired with a music video
S: so like you understand the meaning behind the song.
Umu: Awesome, and you were talking about sizzle cymbal? What is that?
S: So if you have a really big cymbal obviously cymbals are circular. In jazz, this is very common,
S: I don't think you do this really in any other style of music.
S: But in jazz, you can cut holes in them and then you'll place like they used to do way back when they used to
S: tape dimes and like quarters onto them
S: because now it's just like I have a sizzle cymbal and I've got to at the top here and basically it's like a small
S: rivet is what they call it. It's like a little thing you hook into the cymbal to where when you hit it
S: it vibrates really fast and because when you hit the cymbal right, it's vibrates
S: super fast to produce that sound
S: it rings these little sizzlers too, and it gives it this like... it sounds like sand like if you pouring out sand
S: it's really nice because it's like it's a really beautiful color
S: like over ballads and stuff like that and it gives I don't know like drums can be very harsh sometimes
S: it's a very warm sound like very inviting very sensitive, you know.
S: Yeah, that's what I was thinking too warm,
S: in winter.
Henry: Dang, that was really good. Emiel: Well, it was like a short film with a great soundtrack in the background.
Henry: Yeah, actually, this is exactly what it was, yeah.
James: I liked that. Again, it follows the theme of winter. It's very cozy.
J: I thought something like
J: stylistically that really added to that and and made that effect palpable was the fact that the two
J: vocalists like they stayed sort of like in the comfortable range of their voices like
J: didn't go too high, didn't go too low, and I think that paired with that percussive little metal brush thing
J: I don't know what those are called, and there were some likes like the strings and the soft, you know chords
J: I thought it was really really made a really nice atmosphere.
Elizabeth: Jazz like. J: Yeah.
Kevin: It's standard jazz, but come on it's so leisurely- Isaac: No no no, the instruments, the instruments.
K: It's a jazz standard, yeah yeah.
K: This is one where the video fits the song but not in a way I would have ever expected.
K: It's just very drawn out, a lot long periods of silence, so much that we felt the need to fill it up with
K: like weird references in humor, but like that just shows how
K: how stark the contrast is but I think at the end of the day, it works really well. You never expect when a major minor
K: chord, the the clashy chords would come out. It's always displaced,
K: it's always placed at a different spot and it's really great.
Isaac: I thought it's super nice how it started with a sequence because I was like mind blown,
I: I've never heard a piece start with a sequence. K: Can I tell your secret? I: Go for it.
K: Lots of jazz. I: Lots of jazz?
K: Yeah, it's the ii-V-I, is the most studied progression in jazz. So you go to ii-V-I-IV and just becomes a sequence.
I: Something else I noticed there's a triad but later... K: But it's over a G.
I: It's over to the G. K: So it's a G M7. I: But then later moves at the very end. It's a B diminished triad.
K: I guess.
I: It's really weird. It's like it's interesting how they just have this continuity that just
I: changes at the very last second and then
I: I guess it fits perfectly with the film because it's like that chord is almost like a question and that way it
leaves it and passes on to the film. K: Mm-hmm. These are the types of music videos
K: I like. They don't try to tell a story. They don't try too hard. It's just a mood and you get what the guy is feeling.
K: Just my personal taste.
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