Charlotte: oooh~ Peyton: and it's just like
<3 lemme talk to you girl real quick Charlotte: YAA HE WAS LIKE "I'M SEXY ;)'
use the smokey part of my voice beFORE I SING REALY HIGH FOR YA~
Umu: So Taehyung's Stigma is the third solo track of BTS's wings album-- you guys know what stigma is right?
Charlotte: AHAHA I'm sorry can you repeat all that
Umu: When given the chance to create his own solo song
Umu: Taehyung was excited to write a jazzy one, he composed and wrote the lyrics for the chorus and told his producers
Umu: 'I want it to have this kind of feeling' then the producers made the intro in the bridge based on it
Umu: So actually this solo song was your favorite when we did this
Peyton: it was yes
Umu: We'll see if you still like it, the personal meaning for the song is the most ambiguous
Umu: People think that maybe something happened in his past to cause the stigma
Umu: But the leader of the group mentioned in a video that looking back on Taehyung's character in a past series
Umu: He didn't have it easy, remember Taehyung was the guy who stabbed father? yeah
Peyton: yeah Charlotte: .. what!?!?
Umu: Yeah, his father was a
Umu: drunk (char: alcoholic?) who abused his
Umu: sister and mother. yeah, and so then one day when he was like beating his sister or mother he killed... his father. Charlotte: that's terrible
Umu: He's like I've had enough
Umu: So anyway the leader of this group believes that that
Umu: Character came into this song for a dramatic result and Taehyung probably did have a more personal secret reason for this writing the song
Umu: But we don't know- it's personal
Charlotte: .. okay
* sings "yes...I believe"*
Hugo: Yes, I believe I can dig some jazz funk fusion
Hugo: [whachachacha] Oh, yeah
Hugo: oh I'm a big fan
Jarod: I like the minimalist piano opening
Charlotte: I love that bass it's so deep
Peyton: Yeah, my fav- my favorite part about this is just like they leave so much space you know it's like
Peyton: [demonstrates] Charlotte: It's very simple
Peyton: Like no one's in anyone else's way you know Charlotte: yeah
Fiona: They're like taking some like subtle trap beats and making it smooth, yeah Lindsey: yeah, that's what makes it sound like R&B yeah
Lindsey: It's really like the high hat like very [budadada]
Kevin: Just something very spicy about that chord is it... there's an added 13th
Lindsey: Woah that's like a very synthesized trumpet Fiona: That's a very funky sound
Lindsey: It's a synth trumpet
Katie: oh I wish they'd use real trumpet
Jarod: Aight, I dig it Katie: Also is that like a bass trombone or a tuba
Emiel: Yeah, all these songs have like a half-time
Emiel: Bass feel which is important to note because that's like
Emiel: Since that's like the kind of underlying feel or style of the tune
Jarod: Space--- the final frontier of music Katie: space is underrated
Yunyi: He's singing really high--- Is it all in his falsetto?
Peyton: And it's just like 'oh let me talk to you girl real quick' Charlotte: Yeah sounds like kinda sexy
Peyton: Deep smokey part of my voice--- before sing it high like this
Lindsey: wow he has a very good like falsetto
Kevin: Like at the beginning the beat seemed so prominent
Kevin: andso hard hitting but then when the chorus comes the soothing trumpets kind of just take over and
Kevin: It's reduced to snaps and stuff, it's great
Kevin: Very rich chords, lots of 9ths, 11ths, 13ths
Hugo: Oh, d*mn James: I like the doubling
Peyton: Yeah, right like it's just like singing it all high up and then they're like brings them in and then like you know they're just like oh my god
Peyton: it's so cool that a guy can sing that high and it's really dope but like Charlotte: that's like the moment when women faint
Peyton: Yeah, then they hit you with that deep man voice like "yeah, but I'm still a man, girl" [squeals]
Jarod: The Ariana Grande of kpop? Katie: excuse me? sir?
*sings*
yunyi: geez
this is really dark
both: ooh
Kevin: All these songs
Yunyi: That was so hard hitting, I think it was just the right mix of
Yunyi: production and acoustic Kevin: oh yeah Umu: [agrees]
Kevin: Do you know when that low note is like a [broom] and then you hear the trumpet?
Kevin: The low n--- that low note it sounds like it has the tambor of a trumpet
Kevin: But it's like on the totally wrong register, trumpet has that twang and that bass note had that twang like [demonstrates]
Kevin: There's that very flat sound that only a trumpet can produce Yunyi: yeah
Kevin: So I don't know how that works Yunyi: there are moments in which like I was not sure whether it was like an acoustic instrument
Yunyi: that was then like pitched a story or if it was actually a produced like like a produced like wave with like heavy distortion
Yunyi: That made it similar to an instruments tambor, like also
Yunyi: The very filtered drums in the middle they filter it so it actually like the the filters were in the subdivision Kevin: yeah, yeah
Kevin: yeah they have this echo just Yunyi: so cool
Lindsey: If you think about the fact that the song sounds very like, it sounds kind of like a smooth like love song
Lindsey: Kind of thing like hey girl all that stuff Fio: Hey gurl
Lindsey: Yeah, like it
Lindsey: it really does sound like it should be that Fiona: hey boy
Lindsey: So like if we didn't have the lyrics on the screen because we don't
Lindsey: know any Korean it would just sound like a smooth song that you might hear like as like a slow dance song at
Lindsey: A club, but then when you see the lyrics you see that there's a lot, there's much deeper meaning to it
lindsey: And it's not that at all and it's talking very vaguely about his personal experiences and like
Lindsey: apologizing basically for the way he is it seems like and
Lindsey: That is so clever with the title stigma because the whole concept of a stigma is like something
Lindsey: That's just associated with something
Lindsey: But doesn't necessarily actually fit it so like there's a lot of negative stigma associated with like
Lindsey: Mental disorders say and like that doesn't mean that every person who has a mental disorder like
Lindsey: Has those characteristics that are associated with it. That's kind of like with this song like when you first hear it
Lindsey: There's like a lot more of deeper than the surface Umu: yeah, and otherwise musically so you thought maybe the melodies and harmonies were nice
Umu: but just.. the trumpet Lindsey: the trumpet was kinda annoying
Fiona: again like with BTS the fundamental like bass and like the groove of it is quite good linds: but it's fine though. they've like..got it down pat
Fiona: I just hated that little trumpet sound because like in the software I've used to compose stuff
Fiona: It's-- that's the sound for the trumpet and in the low register it just sounds like [demonstrates]
Lindsey: yeah like in the free version of noteflight where there's no horn and the only brass sounds are trumpet or trombone Umu: [can relate]
Peyton: I mean yeah, because its like... it would have been so easy to get a guy to come, you could have asked an American guy or anybody
Peyton: Who like knows
Peyton: relatively anything about jazz or R&B and plays the trumpet to like do all those lines like even into like an acapella setting where you
Peyton: Just like sit down with yourself and record over yourself and send them the track
Peyton: it would've been WAYYY better like idk
Peyton: It's like such a good groove with all the love of electric sounds cause all those electric sounds
Peyton: That's the way they function cause that's way we hear and it's like they try to like throw this acoustic sound in
Peyton: an electric vibe and that's just like no no I see what you're trying to do...like, kind of thing
Peyton: now still my favorite
Peyton: don't get me wrong it's still my favorite song
Peyton: But like they could have easily done that or like it didn't even have to be a really good trumpet player
Peyton: Preferably a really good trumpet player, but like hey, you know you don't even have to be that good, because none of that stuff was hard
Peyton: it was just like..[Charlotte: 2 Hours Later..] like it would've been like a feel thing, yeah i was just like... WHAT!!?!?!?!?
Peyton: i mean come on!!! like.. it was like...
Peyton: [demonstrates] they're real human beings who work really hard and sounded good, hire them
Umu: Hire him Peyton: or me!
Katie: I like the space I think that was my favorite part about the song
Katie: That's what they were emphasizing when there was no music Jarod: I liked the build up throughout because it started off pretty simple
Jarod: There was like a little beat and then the piano like very like sporadically kinda playing
Jarod: But then eventually it starts to sustain and more things come in and just builds and builds and builds
Jarod: Which I really liked and then yeah his voice is pretty pretty tasty. He's got that high range down
Umu: Okay, so what do you think of that overall musically and the fact that he sang most the song in falsetto
Hugo: I thought thank God he did cause I'm so tired of hearing middle voice trying to strain and hit notes
Hugo: that was a little harsh, but I thought it was very good, and I thought it was tasteful
Hugo: And I thought it fit the style and I thought it sounded dope as shit
James: yeah, i thought it was good. Hugo: You can put that on a t-shirt
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