Collin: Oh…
Oh, shit!
[Rossini's Semiramide Overture plays]
Jordan: [plays My Neighbor Totoro theme song]
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Jordan: [plays single 'G' note on euphonium]
Isaac: So you must be wondering: why is Jordan holding a G?
Because we're moving on to GFRIEND… love is in the air! [laughter]
Jordan: So first you're reacting to "Love in the Air" by GFRIEND.
The lyrics are about the affection one feels for their romantic partner when they're together.
The singer can tell that "love is in the air", and it feels magical to them.
Umu: When they're feeling down, love makes them feel better. They feel as if they're in heaven.
Jordan: And the song is composed by Andreas Oberg… Isaac: [whispers] Yes! Jordan: Darren Smith, Sean Alexander, No Joohwon.
Collin: It's in the air. Jarod: I have some, like, pretty high expectations for this now…
Umu: Why are your expectations high? 'Cause love is in the air?
Jarod: Because I know what that feeling is like.
Don't just throw words at me… throw feelings at me. Collin: Let's find out!
Jarod: Let's find out! 3, 2, 1… [plays song]
Jarod: Oh yeah. Got me with the wind chimes already. Collin: It was… (J: Ah, the…) the air is coming.
Jarod: Synth strings kinda thing happening right here.
Collin: Oh, what?
Fiona: That's… way more upbeat than I was expecting.
Kevin: Alright. The most subtle ♭VI I've ever heard.
Elizabeth: That was interesting, having like the… the, like, electric guitar hang over?
James: Yeah, mm-hm.
Collin & Jarod: [giggling]
C: Somebody's just hitting keys… J: Makes me think of like a… like, a Mario Kart level.
C: Yeah… [laughter] Yeah! Exactly. The synth strings are great.
Elizabeth: Her voice is much lower… like, it's less… melodic, and it's more just like, husky…
James: Mm-hm. Elizabeth: That's cool. James: Yeah. Their voices are… a lot lower.
Aaron: Is that, like… I think that's a motif… of the… second verse.
Fiona: [imitates sliding motif from vocals] …yeah!
Aaron: "I'm uselessly in a good mood"… I like that. Fiona: Goals.
Kevin: I like the picardy [imitates portion of song]
Isaac: The bassline is just… (K: Yeah.) …aahh!
F: I like that triplet vibe!
J: Yeah, that's like a cool use of that… (C: Yeah!) …[imitates record scratch sound]
C: The scratch, yeah. J: I like it.
C: [subtle gasp]
The guitar?
J: That electric guitar is really nice.
E: Whoa, yes! Suspension and (J: Mm-hm.) resolution! J: Yeah…
K: Oh, I like those synth sounds. I: Wow! Yerin has a very good… ve—…
[sighs] What a great voice. K: Little rap [sings rhythm of vocal part]
C: Something interesting… I think, uh, this… I think they wanted, like, a really big sound world…
…which is why they used all these, like, little… drips and drops.
'Cause it feels like it's like a plane, right?
J: Yeah! Yeah yeah yeah yeah. C: It… it's like… it just… there's a lot of space.
That's really interesting.
F: [begins to bop]
A: [laughter] I know, I feel like doing this the whole time… just like… [bops with Fiona]
Both: [continue to bop]
C: Oh…
Oh, shit!
K: THIS is the string break?
Some sirens, you know?
I: In the air! K: 'Cause love is forbidden?
C: I didn't see it coming.
J: Ooh, that's some cool… dissonance! It's cool harmony that they're doing.
A: That was a… I think that was a 7th to the (F: Ooh…) 9th chord? I don't know.
F: I like that. A: It was cool.
K: Interesting plays between major and minor, admittedly.
E: I feel like they're really good at trading off between the different… singers.
J: Yeah. E: Like, all of them get represented a lot, but they…
And they, like, seamlessly transition between each people singing.
A: Like… F: I love this part! Love this girl.
F: [singing] Love in the, la la love!
J: The descant's pretty cool! C: Yeah.
J: Oh yeah! Oh yeah! [sings last measure of song] Ah, yeah!
C: We won the race. J: Oh yeah. Ya did it. C: Level complete.
J: Level complete. Umu: So did you feel like love was in the air?
J: I don't know if I would call it that. BUT… but… I… I like that. I had fun with that.
C: Wow. J: I really liked… towards the end of it, how there's like… the… if you will…
…counterpoint within the voices. How… 'cause oftentimes, what you see in these groups…
…everybody is rather singing solo, or when the group is singing together, they're singing always the same thing.
Whereas what I liked here is like… you know…
I'm not even gonna try and say their names, but Person A will be doing one line, while Person B
is also (at the same time) singing other things that are complementary, and it works, and I really like that layering.
Or like, Person C will start singing something, and then Person D and E will like, have a thing at the tail end,
and kind of… like… so it's not just… there's not, like… just a singular line.
There's like multiple, like… yeah, just that… the counterpoint, happening with the voices.
I thought it was really cool. And then yeah, as Collin was saying, the sound world: all the little…
…sprinkles of… and spices… (C: [giggles]) Not even spices, just like…
Like, it was a… this is like a sprinkles-and-glitter kinda song. (C: [chuckles]) Just all that stuff…
C: It's true, yeah… J: …creating something… yeah! C: It's true.
J: It was… it was cool! C: It actually created, like, a space. But like, a very consistent space, which is interesting.
A: That was… more upbeat than I thought it was going to be.
But, then again… F: Like, did you think it was gonna be… positive yet chill?
'Cause that's what I thought. (A: Yeah.) I thought it was gonna be more like… zen.
A: Well you know, like, it's like… all the happy emotions that go along with love…
…is what I kinda was feeling throughout that, and not really, like… any of, like, the heartbreak that could come, or arise from it.
Or like how, you know, like, the tribulations that people go through in their relationships.
F: Yeah. A: Maybe that's just a little too deep. F: Yeah, this song… no, that's true.
This song was just like the pure… like, happy kinda honeymoon feeling.
A: Yeah. F: …that you get, like at the beginning of a relationship…
And throughout, like, there's moments where it's like "Wow! Amazing!"
And… all the other times don't matter. Or, all the bad times are worth that, like,
"Ahh" moment. And I think they captured that (A: Yeah.) kind of, like, isolated chunk of time in this song.
[singing] La-la-love in the air!
[sings low note]
J: The timbres of their voices are very similar. Not only the timbre, but also where all their voices were resting:
it was kind of lower, like, we… established the beginning.
So yeah, like, the way they could, like, weave in and out… we could see who was singing what when…
But it really (E: Yeah.) sounded kind of like a unified whole, which is really cool.
'Cause a lot of the times, all comments say "wow, this person's voice sounds really distinct",
or "this person's voice didn't", but…
We're kind of, like, on the opposite end of the spectrum now, where…
…all of their voices sound very similar, but that actually helps them out in a certain way, which I thought was kinda cool.
K: I have to admit: I wasn't the biggest fan of it.
I: How dare you…
[laughter] Sorry! K: It's just… it felt a bit like B-side.
It felt like, you know, there were influences, but it…
I could point out what influences were going on: like there's the urban vibe, back in the early 2000s…
There's like, a more synth-y vibe. But everything feels kinda middle ground to me. And I like my…
I like my songs cut and dry. And a lot of the times, GFRIEND's does sound cut and dry.
But this… does sound more like a B-side to me, so…
I: Yeah… everything kinda blends. (K: Yeah.) So it's not… there's no, um…
K: Yeah, it's (I: …clear cuts.) a good time! But… it's not…
…as defined as I would usually like my tracks. I: Hmm.
I mean, I always listen to the songs without… the indicators… of who's singing.
It's just… wow! I'm starting to realize, like, each one of these vocalists…
Damn! I didn't know Sowon… sung like that. It was really… very… enlightening.
To be able to associate the voice with… who's singing… 'cause it's just… they're so talented together, and they're able to…
…shuffle the order of the vocalists, but yet keep this continuity of just…
…the beats, the sensation, and also the energy, at the same time.
And it's just like… yeah, but it's… some really weird stuff.
I think when I… this one… a few of my favorite… K: Subtly weird stuff.
I: Few of my favorite B-sides… 'cause it's just like… why would you put that there? Then it's like… hey, why not?
K: Again, I said earlier there was like a subtle ♭VI… I: Hmm.
K: And so… putting that very overt ♭VI at the end, just…
…just kinda makes sense, y'know? I: [sings last measure of song]
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