Fiona: Those harmonies! She's SO good.
Lindsey: Okay, OKAY, okay, okay…
[Rossini's Semiramide Overture plays]
Rachel: [whispering] Hello. Hugo: [whispering] This is K-Pop react ASMR.
Rachel: [laughing] We're just like: [whispering] Wow. He's sharp.
Hugo: [whispering] Wow, the technique… (R: [laughter]) H: …they used there, for that particular motif.
It's really… fantastic.
Umu (off-camera): So now you're reacting to a female duet, called Davichi. "8282" is… (Collin: she's cute, man…)
Umu (cont'd): …from Davichi's first EP, "Davichi in Wonderland," released in 2009.
In Korean, the numbers 8282 are pronounced similarly to the Korean word for "quickly,"
and is used as text slang to tell someone to hurry. So, like, yeah. Fiona & Lindsey: Whoa!
Lindsey: That's really actually super interesting. (Fiona: I want to steal that…)
F: …and then everyone will be like "what?"
Umu: There is actually a music video, but it's actually… it's shot like an actual drama, so it's very distracting.
The story, and it will take your attention away from the music, so…
So we can focus on the music, you are reacting to a lyric video. James: Cool.
Fiona: Sounds like Christmas, with those violins. Lindsey: I just think it sounds like… it sounds like fairy…
…fairy land. You know what I mean? Like… Fiona: Yeah. Yeah.
Rachel: I always love the string… electro string sound. Hugo: Yep, the MIDI strings. Yep.
Rachel: They really brought it back for the verse. Hugo: Got a lot of breathiness in her voice.
R: Yeah. H: They both do.
H: Going for that emotional feel that, like… R: Wow, this language looks so cool transcripted.
Kevin: Ahh. Isaac: They have such similar timbres. Huh… Kevin: Yeah.
Melissa: Okay, it's very, like, piano has the chord progression, and it's all about this piano chord progression, but it's, like, repetitive.
Ooh, it changed. I love that it changes! James: Okay.
Melissa: Now we're at a dance party! James: We can work with that, okay! M: …does my hair flip yet?
H: Oh my god. R: Yeah, okay, this is just the most K-Pop thing ever.
H: I know, this is the most K-Pop song I've ever heard in my entire life.
L: It's not double time, it's just a COMPLETELY different tempo, we're just like [snaps fingers] (F: [imitating song] baby, baby…)
Collin: What? Dude, this is…
…actually really interesting.
Kevin: [singing along with instrumental] Isaac: [joins in singing]
K: [laughter]
R: It's not even like it's mixed meter. It's just… H: Nope.
R: …they don't try to do any constant anything. H: I know, it's just like [vocalization]
… back to the rock/pop ballad.
K: Even without the tempo change gimmick, the melodies are just great.
I: Yeah. K: It's catchy, it's not stale…
…and it's got that early-era K-Pop light production.
It's not like, you know, the overwhelming electronica type of production.
F: Ooh, yes, they're singing together! I like that.
L: Yeah, their harmonies are very nice. F: Her voice…
L: Ooh! F: How do you say her name? "Hay-ree?" L: "Hay-ree?" "High-ree?"
F: "High-ree?" "Harry?" She's great. L: "Harry?"
F: I really like her.
Collin: [laughter] Jarod: This went a direction that I had no idea was coming, but like, I am totally okay with.
J: Wow. C: Jesus.
C: This is, like, good DJ music. J: Yeah, I know, it's like…
R: I love the break. [sings, imitating song]
L: So this is the same tempo as the chorus was, it just feels slower. But it hasn't changed.
F: [singing along] Tell me… L: We're still moving at the same pulse, except it's just like…
F: Those harmonies! She's SO good.
Lindsey: Okay, OKAY, okay, okay…
H: That key change was so, like… R: It's so… it's so abrupt… everything about this.
H: See, now every time they say, like, "give me a call", I'm going to expect it to go up.
R: Yeah, you could make one of those meme videos.
"Gimme a call", but every time they say "call", it… speeds up and goes up a key.
Melissa & James: [bopping]
J: [imitates high note from song] M: I love… they sound good! (J: Yeah, yeah they do.)
M: Like, they can sing, man.
C: It's the usual ending, right? When they layer things on top of each other.
It's good, though! J: Yeah, I dig this! C: It's like, super entertaining, man.
M: Nice. J: Cool. M: That was so cute.
J: Mmkay. M: That was fun, and cute. J: So, there are people who can sing.
S-I-N-G. Then there are people… M: How do you spell that again?
J: S-I-N-G. M: Thank you.
J: Then, there are people who can SANG.
M: [laughs hysterically] J: s-A-n-g. These two verbs are very different.
M: [laughing] James… J: These two girls… participate in the latter.
M: [continues laughing] J: Just like listening to their voices, they're very seasoned vocalists. They know what they're doing.
[imitates vocals from song] That little… like I can't even… like, I can't do it. I'm a man.
M: [sings in faux-operatic style] …just kidding. [laughs] J: Not quite. Wrong genre.
M: Am I "sang-ing" yet? J: [laughs] But, like…
There was one bit when they had this little riff, where they were just, like, switching
in between chest and falsetto. And it was like SEAMLESS. It was so…
…so great. And then, like, the belting, y'know those really high notes… (M: Yeah!) …was really cool,
and their vibrato was great. There was a lot of power in their voices. They're… they're… they're great!
M: I could not think about vocal timbre until like the very last couple seconds of the song,
because I was just too SHOOK by those tempo changes!
H: Why? R: That was extremely produced.
But the vocals were not extremely produced. So I kind of enjoyed that part.
H: That juxtaposition of not-produced vocals against produced soundtrack.
R: The background is very, like, tinny, but… H: Very 2009.
R: …it worked for the [mimics beat of song] nature of the whole thing.
J: That was fun. C: That was a surprise… what else is new?
J: It was like a roller coaster, man. C: Yeah.
J: Ayy…
C: They combined it really well, yeah? Yeah, the like ballad thing was like…
…pretty trite, and you're like "oh, come on…" J: Yeah…
C: …but it actually was, like… actually, the lyrics were good. They lyrics were, like, better than usual, but umm… J: Yeah.
C: I don't, like… how did they come up with, like, those two different, like, genres? That's…
…THAT was really convincing, yeah. Wow. J: I mean, you almost picture like the composers being…
C: These composers are… they're strange, dude. So weird. J: It's like "hey, I bet you can't fuse this and that!"
C: [laughing] Yeah! J: And just like "I'll show you!"
C: And then they do this. J: And then we get things like this. It's AWESOME.
F: Their voices sound, like, mature to my ear, because… L: Yeah, no, I totally agree.
F: …because it's from earlier. It's from, like, the 2000s. So…
L: And their voices both sounded very mature though. So like when they were harmonizing, it just sounded…
…super pure. F: Yeah, very rich. In when they harmonized, it was like…
It was like a special treat. Like their voices are some of the best that I've probably heard in K-Pop.
I would have to say, like, it's just… (L: Well…) F: Their beautiful sound coming from their mouth.
L: I agree with that, in terms of, like, straight-up like pop purity, 'cause I mean we've heard a ton of
really incredible, like, jazz vocalists, but I feel like that's almost a whole different genre.
Like it's a whole different section, category.
Performing that live has to be such a challenge. And I know, like, we've seen it, so obviously they do it and it's possible…
But to get those tempo changes exact… (F: Yeah.) L: And to get like that modulation exact…
F: They know the song really well. L: Like that's… that's very challenging to make that kind of thing happen with more than one person.
I: Oh my goodness, that was so satisfying. Wowwwwwww.
K: So… I: It was like borderline, like, euro beats.
But like soft euro beats. K: Yeah. I: And the melodies, yeah, they're SO enjoyable.
'Cause it's just like very basic, and then they would just, umm, you have one inflection that's going up…
…for, like, just for suspension and just like ambiguity, and then the next one you come back down.
That heater is very loud. The second phrase would come down to resolve it,
so it's like very… very period-like, in classical form.
Man, the two times, it's like I never expect it, because the way they climb up with the synth that it's just like
the rising synthetic sound. You just don't know. 'Cause the… (K: Mm-hm.) At the moment,
you're not focusing on time with the beats, but then they come back for the two times.
First time I listened to it, I thought it was completely separate.
K: Uh-huh. I: But then as soon as I clicked it, I was like "wow… they're related. By two times. And that's it."
K: It's not really two times. (I: Is it?) No, no, no, it's a separate… yeah. Umu: No, it's completely… it's not double time.
I: It's not completely… K: No, it's a separate tempo completely.
I: Wow. Well, that being said, it's like… yeah, it's still like, it's still cohesive, and it's still nice.
K: Mm-hm. I: And it's just like, well, it has the two different character changes, and it still overall made it…
Very enjoyable to bop to.
K: So I gotta paint a story: I got… "Paint a story." I gotta tell a story.
So, we're at KCON LA 2018, night one, and Davichi was one of the featured guests.
We were sitting… standing up front, me and the producer from Form of Therapy.
And PD was like, "oh, are they gonna do '8282'?" Right as it started, they were like:
"I bet… Kevin, there has not been a single K-Pop song that sounds like this." And so I got the hype. I: That is…
And then, when it happened… it's like, the world just changed, and…
because it was live, the bass was so much heavier… I: Oh yeah.
K: …and it was just a complete bop, and the lighting was going crazy with the tempo changes… I: Epilepsy…
K: …and man, that was a great first experience. And listening to the track again,
that's when I picked up on how good the melody is, how good the… (I: Mm-hm.)
K: …just the song is beyond the tempo change and the key change, and so it's a great song.
Umu: Hello everyone, I'm Umu, ReacttotheK channel creator, and I'd like to thank you for watching this video.
I really hope you enjoyed or learned something from it.
If you'd like to support us or help ReacttotheK grow, you can do so by visiting our Patreon, and help us out by pledging any amount you can.
BIG tip of the hat to our Superstar Idol patrons — thanks for the love. 'Til next time.