[subtitles by @angelade17 the SKZ dance tutorials guy]
HENRY: YO that's so cool!
[Rossini's Semiramide overture plays]
JU YOUNG: Since we are unable to monetize any of our content, it is our Patreon that... (JASON: *singing*)
JASON: I learned a dance! (JU YOUNG: Since we are unable to monetize any....)
JASON: *clears throat* Hmm.
JASON: Should we play characters?
JASON: Should we like really (JU YOUNG: No) Okay.
JASON: Before we jump into reacting to Stray Kids *thumbs up*
who we LOVE,
we wanted to let you know that we were able to- *Ju Young cracks up* oop.
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JU YOUNG: Since we are unable to monetize any of our react videos uploaded to this channel,
JU YOUNG: it is our Patreon that keeps us running, growing, and improving. UMU: Whoo!
JASON: Oh this is the one I had trouble with last time.
UMU: That's what you get when you're distracting your friends instead of memorizing your lines~
UMU: *sings a ditty* JU YOUNG: Go off Emma, go off! *laughs*
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JASON/JU YOUNG: Let's get to reacting!
UMU: You're now reacting to the 8-member boy group Stray Kids and their 2020 release, "Back Door".
"Back Door" is about unity and celebration.
The member Felix explains that the meaning of the song expresses that
anyone from anywhere who knocks on Stray Kids' back door are always welcome at any time.
CHARLOTTE: Wait hold up, they say that you can knock on their back door anytime.
Well my only question is, what is the address?
UMU: *laughs*
UMU: The album "Back Door" is from, called "IN LIFE",
paints out them realizing their true potential and facing the difficulties of life at their own pace and with their own style.
Now they hope to continue to challenge the world they live in, and spread their messages through their music even further.
UMU: The song is choreographed by...
KY: Sienna Lalau, Na Taehoon, Sim Kyujin, Park Kyeongseok. (?????not sure spelling of that last one???)
UMU: Yay! KY: Yeah.
UMU: This song was composed by HotSauce and three of the Stray Kids members, Changbin, Bang Chan, and Han, also known as 3RACHA.
JU YOUNG: *laughs* JASON: 3RACHA? Why is that funny?
UMU: Sriracha? Do you know the hot sauce Sriracha?
JASON: Oh that's really good! That's really funny. Sir-racha. 3RACHA. (JU YOUNG: [laughing] Oh my god. Whoo! Good job.)
JU YOUNG: Sorry wait, I don't know why-
That's like the best thing I've heard this WEEK!
SAM: 3 2 1.
SAM: Mmm.
JAMAL: Damn, his skin just looks so good!
CLOUD: Oh, that was interesting reverb.
BRIANNA: Oh!! CLOUD: I like that. BRIANNA: Okay?
BRIANNA: You better funk.
KY: Ooh! Alright.
RAFAEL: That's a pretty, pretty sick groove. JAMAL: Definitely.
HENRY: Triplets!!
JASON: Big ambience, on his voice.
JU YOUNG: Oh his voice is so sweet! Aww.
[t/n: hello the editing??? so smooth]
HENRY: YO that's so cool!!
JU YOUNG: Ohhh!
SAM: That was such a creative beat, beat drop.
SAM: Oh and the song is called "Back Door"! RAFFI: *laughs*
ARI: It's like a... KIANNA: Nice, traveling steps. ARI: Yep.
ARI: West Side Story. KIANNA: Uh huh.
JASON: There are a lot of um, like natural percussive sounds in the back.
JASON: Like clicking, kind of like non-diegetic sounding. (JU YOUNG: Oh my god, their flow.)
NJOE: Pretty.
RAFFI: Their voice is so smooth. SAM: Mm-hmm.
KEVIN: It's so relaxing with *sings*
JASON/JU YOUNG: *sings along* JASON: This is like, very classic um EDM.
KIANNA: Yay there's a door on the other side! ARI: Yeah, I never realized that, that they switch sides.
ARI: Damn. (KIANNA: Ah.)
BRIANNA: Ooh. Okay.
KEVIN: I like that he's sticking to the range of his voice.
I call that tasteful autotune, I know there might be different opinions.
JASON: Church bells!
JASON: Horns in the back. JU YOUNG: SIR who told you your voice could be that low...?
HENRY: YEAH!! *aggressively head bangs*
STEPHANIE: *laughs* Ayy.
[t/n I love this part, makes me miss live SKZ concerts ;_; ]
KEVIN: Ooh, finally the tambourine changes, that's excellent. (JU YOUNG: Oh. Oh. Oh! Oh!)
(JU YOUNG: Ay! Oh!) KY: Damn, that goes so hard. NJOE: Yeah, it's the energy for me.
KIANNA: There's so many like, traditional jazz steps in here. ARI: Yeah.
BRIANNA: Ooh. CLOUD: I'm really glad they brought that back.
SAM: Wow. I need to listen to more Stray Kids.
[t/n FACTS]
HENRY: Yes!! Yes! (CHARLOTTE: YES.)
SAM: Wowww. RAFFI: [whispers] I love it. I love it~
(UMU: What do you love?) SAM: That was SO good.
UMU: What maked it so good?
SAM: You wanna start?
RAFFI: Well you had me at the message, I mean unity and acceptance. That's what we're going for.
HENRY: Ahh it's- Stray Kids has such a unique sound! Oh my gosh.
CHARLOTTE: Also, can we please talk about this mullet?
I don't like mullets in general. I do like Felix.
Do I like mullets on Felix?
CHARLOTTE: I am torn. (HENRY: *laughs* Big question of 2020.)
HENRY: What would you say is the musical mullet of this piece? CHARLOTTE: *laughs*
CHARLOTTE: Musically it was rather interesting, I liked the layering that they had within the track (HENRY: Yes.) um each time,
CHARLOTTE: which I thought was really cool um how they build and take down things.
RAFFI: Oh my goodness. Well I know you talked a lot about the guitar, and I mean that was definite- I definitely love that.
The smoothness in the vocals, and I think it was like, I mean, I don't speak Korean,
but the um, not over-enunciating I guess, like some lines were definitely just more smooth, you know.
RAFFI: It wasn't- it's nice to listen to. Yeah. (SAM: Mm-hmm. Very nice to listen to.)
SAM: I, I get drawn so easily to good hooks.
I think the n- the best way to catch my attention or to catch my ear is to have a good hook and good energy. Those two things make great music.
And so there were so many moments of this song where my-
I was just bouncing to the, bouncing to the music just because the energy was driving so much and the hooks were SO catchy.
And- agh, I'm speechless, that was so good!
BRIANNA: So, the beginning, that electric bass like riff *sings* that really felt like 80's funk.
And then like there's this one scene where they're like in this alley, and they're all wearing like these leather jackets,
and it made me think of Michael Jackson "Bad", which I think is 80's,
but like, I felt like the visuals went along with like the beats themself,
because I feel like funk was a high like, it was mainstream in the 80's and like,
those were the things people were wearing, this was how they were dressing, and I really like that.
And I liked how THAT specific like funk beat was used throughout all of the verses and at the ending.
CLOUD: I love some good text painting, whether it's in dance or in the lyrics, I love text painting.
So there was the bridge section where he- uh, someone said like, "It's my fantasy" or whatever..
Whenever you bring that, like you take the bass wave and you make it more like echo-y or whatever, to me that's like fantasy-esque. So that works.
CLOUD: Um the knock knock knock, (BRIANNA: Ah yeah. I love that too.) I love that.
CLOUD: Uh I thought it was kinda funny, at one point you did say like "All I hear is fanfares".
And I was like boy I have not heard any trumpets or any fanfare.
Um "hear the bells" and you have bells ringing.
Like sometimes when you like, watch a dance and then you can literally put any song on top of it and it works, it makes me a little sad.
Like I want it to be like somehow unique to the song in a way, I just like that more.
Or like if you have lyrics, and like they're unique to what's going on in the music, that's really nice.
[clapping] ARI: Those moves! KIANNA: Very very nice!
ARI: Hit pause. UMU: Yeah just right off the bat, what moments would you say are your favorites?
KIANNA: I loved the, the rotating door that they had going on.
It was really creative, I haven't seen anything like that before. So like, very impressionable.
ARI: Yeah when you first see it, it makes you giggle, even.
Like it's almost funny, like it's like you know, they commit to this idea that it's like,
it could be so silly, like I could imagine like two friends being like, "Yo imagine if we were like rotating doors",
like, like seriously- and then they try-
ARI: And then putting that in like this song that is so full of swag, it just... KIANNA: Mm-hmm.
ARI: It's it's great, it's a great like "risky" idea to put in you know, (KIANNA: Yeah, I concur.) but they committed to it.
ARI: And so it's memorable and it really sticks with you and it's fun,
and you wanna try it, you're like "I wanna do that, like that looks fun", you know.
KY: Damn, I've- I have, that was my first time seeing it from top to bottom. *laughs*
Honestly for me, it's just me, but I find the *makes knocking move*
KY: that one, that part a bit cheesy and like, a bit funny. That's why I couldn't stop laughing. (NJOE: I love it.)
NJOE: I personally love this part. (KY: Yeah.) Because of, because of not-
KY: Just how aggressively that was. NJOE: But that's, that's like Stray Kids choreo like brand, like you have to be aggressive.
NJOE: They have to- they always match the energy of their songs, I feel. (KY: Right right.)
NJOE: I mean, I'm sure every group does that, but you know Stray Kids songs are very loud and very grr, very rawr, you know?
So it's very aggressive. But I love it, because every time they do that part, maybe except for the last one,
NJOE: there's like, there's so much going on. KY: Yeah yeah yeah.
NJOE: I love how every time they do this, the members switch. (KY: The formations were interesting, 'cause that's why-)
KY: I was watching so many covers where people are just doing it alone. (NJOE: Yes.) That's why I couldn't get like the full experience.
KY: But like, after seeing that like, I get, I get it now. *laughs*
NJOE: Like the swinging doors... KY: Yeah like, they had going through,
KY: different members holding up like the... (NJOE: Yes, and then spinning, I love that.) KY: Yeah, and then like,
KY: one by one kinda, going through like the tunnel and stuff like that.
UMU: You mention throughout, some things that you saw this choreography being inspired by.
What, what would you say are all the things and what moments specifically?
KIANNA: Oh yeah, there were um quite a few traditional jazz steps that were incorporated into the dance the whole time.
Uh I, I wish I could remember exactly what some of them were called.
There was like, the Suzie Q, um there was the-
Wait what's the, what's the one where you kick and you go back down. What's that one called? I forget.
ARI: Kick and go back down? KIANNA: Yeah or like-
ARI: Charleston? KIANNA: Oh yeah, the Charleston!
KIANNA: They threw, then they threw some like more current jazz steps in there, like more um athletic ones.
ARI: We had the finger wag. They would like jump on um you know, very important notes.
ARI: You know, they just like "Hey", just like Broadway kind of, you know. (KIANNA: Yeah it was very swanky.)
KIANNA: Very Fred Astaire, you know, so definitely took a lot of inspiration.
KIANNA: We saw some West Side Story-esque looking like, mambo moments (ARI: Yeah.) where they were facing off.
KIANNA: So it was really, it was really fun to watch, and the energy just kinda like swung the whole time.
NJOE: I really like this choreo because of like, the way things are just moving around, and it works for me.
KY: And the thing with them was their sub-units weren't like, half the people going off-screen,
KY: but like half of the people are actually still in the back doing subtle movements. (NJOE: Yes, doing something,)
KY: that, that like, don't clash with the people in the front doing like the main part. So that was pretty cool.
NJOE: And they, I feel like with the choreo, this choreo,
NJOE: they make you SEE the music. I don't know if that makes sense. KY: Yes!
NJOE: Like, the movements. (KY: Yes, like the funky parts? The funky parts.) Exactly.
KY: And the little jump-skip-hop... (NJOE: All the moves like hit the beats, hit the melody, hit everything.)
NJOE: You see them, you don't just hear the music, you SEE the music if that makes sense.
OWEN: I'm not gonna be able to get that motive out of my head, the *sings*
KEVIN: Oh that one? OWEN: Yeah.
KEVIN: Oh I actually, what really, yeah I'm not gonna get the *sings*
KEVIN: I think that texture, that timbre just got me. (OWEN: It's a really-) But yeah, the opening one is very good too.
OWEN: It's a good combination of sounds too,
I feel like there was like the bell sound and also the hit of it, combined to get a really nice like *sings* yeah.
KEVIN: It's also your instrument, so. OWEN: Yeah. So go bass. KEVIN: Yay, go bass
UMU: Yeah, what about that lick do you feel like made it so catchy? Was it the hit of it, the sound of it, or rhythm?
KEVIN: It's just kinda in your face, it just kinda, it just kinda starts out so strongly with that. (OWEN: Yeah.) Yeah.
OWEN: And I feel like the, the phrasing of it with, even though,
I mean there was syncopation I think built into the lick, jumping registers gives a syncopation to it even if it's not dynamic.
Like if I go *sings* like that one up there, definitely has a lot bigger hit than being on like the "e" of the beat.
Makes it kind of like hit out harder, and like *sings* you know,
you can still like make it groovy even if it's technically *sings* like, totally different.
HENRY: It- Stray Kids just has such a unique sound from everything else I hear, and I like that.
HENRY: I like that, that it's very unique. It doesn't kinda fit just in EDM for pop. CHARLOTTE: Yeah.
HENRY: I dunno, just the funky bass layered on.
HENRY: Funky bass is not new that we've heard, but like the rapping's so nice. (CHARLOTTE: Oh I did like the bass, the bass was cool.)
HENRY: Uh I especially like- I dunno who, was pink hair Felix?
UMU: That is Hyunjin. CHARLOTTE: NOOO.
HENRY: Cut, cut that part out. I dunno any of their names.
UMU: Hyunjin. HENRY: Hyunjin? Hyunjin.
HENRY: Yeah Hyunjin, I really like his, the timbre of his voice rapping.
It has a lot of energy, but it didn't seem like anything's forcing its way to be like unhealthy.
HENRY: It just sounds like he's just showing himself off. (CHARLOTTE: He has a lot of, he has a lot of rhythmic energy.)
HENRY: I love their little usage of the uh *creaks* chorus.
HENRY: Like *imitates prechorus* I mean like-
HENRY: That's just- in the light of a concert, that's just so hype, so hype. CHARLOTTE: I'm sorry, could you do that one more time for us Henry?
HENRY: *creaks, sings chorus*
Anyway "GO LIVE", they're all about spicy, spice right?
This one I wasn't really feeling the spice, it was more like flavor bomb of umami.
HENRY: Like a bunch of meaty just, ugh ugh. (CHARLOTTE: Umami!)
HENRY: You ever had like, roasted eel? CHARLOTTE: Yeahh.
HENRY: Oh my god, that's exactly like, this is- ah mm. Just like, buttery and exploding umami, the texture's just right.
Uh and it just makes you want to dance. I dunno, whenever I eat unagi, or when I eat eel, I want to dance like that.
[subtitles by twitter @angelade17 ~~ another great reaction to stray kids :) ]
JASON: *sings "The Duck Song"* JU YOUNG: *practicing lines*