Katie: This is like...
Katie: this isn't the like passionate lovemaking this is like
Umu: Agressive
Katie: this is like rip your clothes off kind of- Jarod: this is
Jarod: Pure lust Katie: I'm sorry
*Intro plays*
Umu: So *claps* we are starting today off with a boy group called EXO. They are made up of nine members however for this comeback
There's only eight because one of the members is actually from China
And he's a Youth Ambassador or like representative of his city and due to political reasons
He wasn't able to make it back for this this music video the filming of this music video or really promotion era
Henry: China and Korea aren't entirely friends right now.
Umu: Yeah, exactly.
Umu: Three of the members help write and produce lyrics and song so you know is it 100% company produced
Umu: And then also the concept of this music video is a
Continuation of mama. I asked fans on Twitter like yo what's happening in Kokobop music video
And I got like a bunch of different theories. Khanh: Wait.. Umu: EXO is from a planet called EXO planet, and they have different powers and they can control elements and stuff
Khanh: Cuteeee Kevin: Oh it's all coming back
Khanh: Awwwww
Umu: Yeah, So fans are basically telling me that this is EXO on earth whether it be the first time on earth or like after a while
and their powers were like becoming weak
so this music video has to do something with earth and powers and maybe not having powers and maybe drugs question mark
Khanh: *laugh*
Emiel: 3-2-1 bop
Henry: F**k Yeah,
Naoki: Interesting Stephen: Don't do drugs, but do kokobop (words of wisdom)
Stephen: Wow that's like a really nice laidback beat
Jarod: This is...I think...Sexy is the word?
Both: *Jamming* Emiel: Just like a very suave cool guy feel right here
Fiona: That just like, got a lot...bigger real fast. Lindsy: It's like uhhh, it's got a little bit of reggae feel. A little.
Khanh: I like the.. Kevin: woah that fluidity
Khanh: The guitar
Kevin: You're right
Khanh: It like has the old radio effect on it
Lindsey *shook at Chanyeol's rap* what?
Khanh: Oh woah...YES!
Khanh: That drop :D Kevin: I know what's funny? This is the same key as mama.
Khanh: Oh f**k
Fiona: This is like that rolling trap beats in the background too. Lindsey: everyone wanted us to react to this. He just jumped into the.. Fiona: oooh
Lindsey: What the?!
Fiona: What a good dance break. like all the perfect sounds going on.
Lindsey: *imitates the drop sound* Fiona: Ahhhh
Lindsey:WHAT It went up now.
Gwen: Usually there are not two drops. There's a first there's a drop between the verse and the chorus, but there's not usually a drop between the chorus and the verse. rachel;: DOUBLE DROP
Katie: I don't think you understand how hard, I would go, to this
Katie: *breaths heavily* Jarod: That syncopation
Gwen: That was a lot of triplets
Rachel: Oh yeah bitches love triplets
Katie: Triple, triple Jarod: The hemiolas
Fiona: Their voices sounds so good like so like seductive and silky....and then this
Damn
Davis: silence Peyton: Yeah
Peyton: It almost adds like, hard beach vibes. Davis: Yeah.
Katie: Like, I don't know if this is appropriate or not...but...I feel like this is the type of song that like...definitely like... ;) Umu: *chuckles suggestively*
Jarod: I love this break oh my god
Davis: Yeah, it's like the beat doesn't even change, but somehow like it's totally different.
Katie: This is like, this isn't like passionate lovemaking. This is like
Umu: aggressive
Katie: This is like...rip your clothes off kind of- Jarod: this is
Jarod: pure lust
Katie: I'm sorry. This is what's coming into my mind.
Fiona: Oh this part is so different.
Rachel: I like they're like change of lo-cal (location) Gwen: wait I really like this part
Rachel: I love when it's just bass, like highlighted bass...stuff.
Kevin: parallel major...sort of...yeah it is parallel major.
Gwen: Wait now the drop is happening at the same time as the chorus
Gwen: What?
Naoki: Like even that's more intense but it's still pretty chill. like it's not in your face, or in your ears. Stephen: which is really nice
Davis: dooooowwwwnnnnnnn
Davis: yeah. text painting. Hey: ~text painting~ Davis: Cause he's saying down, and the sound is going down
Davis: Yep, oh yeah the nice fat trombone hit at the end
Henry: That was fat. Emiel: That was definitely fat. Umu: p.h.a.t? Emil: ...sure...
Emiel: Will put it. phat. Umu: Yeah, would you think about that song overall musically? What stood out with didn't?
Emiel: It was grungy it was like a mix of like.. Henry: That was kinda like disgusting. I loved it.
Emiel: Yeah, it was like chill, sort of like poppy reggae. And then had like trap mixed into it. With like synth stuff.
Stuff going on in the chorus, it looks pretty cool Henry: it like went hard, but like it was low-key
I could have used like a really huge sub
Yeah, oh my god holy sh*t Emiel: if they put some more bass on it... this would have been like a bumping beat
Really, it really rhythmically complex melodically not so much
but it was really interesting to the ear and
had a lot of hemiola and triple on duple
Which is made for a really tight beat and the reggae oh
That's good. I like reggae that was tight like
Yeah, the complexity and rhythm was...what sold it.
and the structure was
Surprising. Yep. I don't know if it went anywhere there was no- Gwen: I didn't it just kind of kept looping
But no bridge. Well there was the when they were in the forest a little bit
Umu: when D.O sang Gwen: They just pulled out pulled out some of it
Yeah
but it was kind of the same as the verse Rachel: but like to me that was better instrumentation because
It was like Gone: cleaner Rachel: cleaner, and you weren't thinking about like why is our glockenspiel in the background
It just made sense so you can focus on those. I'm always asking myself. Why is our glockenspiel in the back, right?
I love the backgrounds like they just really made use of all the different synth noises
And like I don't know I don't know jack-shit about electronic kind of stuff so like good for them
I think like they took all of
What is kind of popular now like the baby voice they even through that in! baby voice...the trap beats, that *noise*
They even had like a guy going "HEY" in there
Lindsey: they had like everything Fiona: You know it's like...you just put in all the pop music things.
Even though there was like sometimes a lot going on yeah, it was nice and laid-back so it was never
In your face or anything like that Davis: like musically...?
reggae tronic
We've discovered a new a new genre Pey: you heard of here first Dav: sub-genre of kpop reggae tronic
Only when I was what I was trying to say during the actual video is like
It was like the they would do that and then it would do like the drop or whatever that would break
But like they would also incorporate the elements before that back into it like with the guitars and stuff
And I think that it like made it really seamless. It was like just going back and forth like
It was prepared and like you knew it was coming
But also at the same time like you kind of could just like not even think about it and just like go
Yeah, it didn't feel very chunky
Kevin: yeah it's 6. yeah, it's 6 duplets. Khanh: 6 over 2...123456 123456 1
Like yeah, instrumentally pretty fresh and the drops were continuously interesting
Melodies are simple, but you know what's perfect. I found it to be
relatively
Static in my opinion like you wouldn't like wait
You said already that was those a really good thing because like it starts off. You know like any song just...
Kevin: oh, but I like the... Khanh: And then like the intro and then once it hits the first once it exits the intro
Well no I guess it does build a little bit
Yeah, but from like whoops that's the new button
Umu: oh my! (currently reading kokobop lyrics and low key freaking out)
from about here...like the energy level stays about the same Kevin: you're right. that's a good point.
I think that the climax would be here or you know at 44 seconds and then it just...or 47... and it just keeps on staying at about this energy level
So like the
Overall the shape of the music is it's pretty much static from 44 all the way out
Kevin: I'm satisfied
Khanh: I'm not saying its a bad thing..Yeah personally, I don't know I'm kind of a sucker for those synths so I'm- Kevin: yeah, right, exactly.
Was there a specific musical moment that you liked or didn't? Jarod: I like the descending like laser beam sounds Katie: that was cool
I also just like the I think it must be the chorus when it's just like really really reggae, and I'm just like
Katie: groovin Jarod: head banging Katie: yeah Jarod: as they say bangin and headband
Any Fiona: personally, I could have done without
some of that
Her falling parts in the chorus that was just a little too much little too much contrast from the original kind of *demonstrates*
Like I loved that I wanted that to carry through the chorus more Davis: really like the drop yeah
I think the first time that it came in because like I said it like I guess it was building
But I wasn't thinking about a building to go to a drop because I thought like if the song had not dropped like
It would have been totally fine like ... It's cool that it did like it only enhanced it
But like that first time because I was just expecting it to be pretty chill all the time and it BAM
I thought that the the stuff they had in the drop was cool
They had that synthesizer kind of like wheeling its way up, and then it would wheel its way back down
and I thought that was interesting because it wasn't just
Straight up. It would like bounce a little bit on the way back up. Yeah, I think it's interesting that how like
Using just vowels and ayo and whoa and ahhh it's so like
effective Rachel: through all music genres. everyone's always like *sings*
Hey guys, thanks so much for watching we hope you enjoyed the video
If you want to see more of our kpop
Reactions check the link in the description below if you're curious about what songs we're going to react to that aren't on the schedule yet
Click right here, or check the description and of course
Thank you to all our wonderful
Patrons for making our contest much better if you want to support us by being a patreon check the description or click on this box
right here for more information
See you guys next time