Henry: Yeah
Henry: Kim Dong Ryul Umu: featuring the solo artist IU so there's gonna be two vocalists
Henry: Fairy tale
Cloud: aw I was so close
Umu: Fairytale is a track expressing the lack of magic that comes with growing up.
Fiona: Yes. Daniel: There are a lot more taxes
James: OOF
Melissa: James... Umu: our dreams were limitless filled with imagination and aiming for the stars
however, as people grow older
Imagination tends to take a backseat and in consequence they end up forgetting to dream
The track scenes are renewing our childlike instincts into dream at the end of the song
We are encouraged to find that sense of wonder again
The song is composed by Kim Dong Hyul and fun fact that inter part is recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Elizabeth: noooo really?
Owen: best film score orchestra in the world
Nick: i'm wow, I'm excited for life in black things an instrument
Aron: Christmas music came on the radio the other day and I felt like attacked
Nick: I was like you don't you don't like Mariah Carey? Aron: it's f-in' November!
Nick: It's Christmas.
Aron: It's November
Henry: merry christmas
Henry: Mm. Cloud: That's like a sigh
Cloud: Do you see the light turn on? That was so cute Henry: I see the light
turned on ohhhh man
Cloud: ohh man
henry: oo
Daniel: i feel like this sounds British
Fiona: British- the London Symphony Orchestra has such a taper beginning of everything
Everything's so like slimy
Fiona: Silky that's a better word Daniel: silky yeah okay
Owen: The LSO is known for having a really exact sound
Kevin: It does bring back all the Disney soundtrack memories Oh spit like the beginning was really Ghibli
But once the melody kicked in it sounded very Disney
Isaac: *laughs*
Isaac: Wow so stark
Kevin: Look the cheesy 80s the vibraphone thing is one thing but somehow this actually sounds inviting this song makes it sound inviting
Aron: I'm sorry
But you can really tell they did not record this at the same time
like because the London Symphony was on and then it kind of just like
Changed complete timbre. Nick: Yeah, this isn't the same song
Aron: It's it's not like the space changed as well that what they were recording in. Yeah
Kevin: key change.... Oh, I like his voice so much. A baritone, when do we hear a baritone in kpop
Henry: The melody's jumping around a lot. Cloud: Hmm.
Henry: I Love the art. Cloud: is this a cover or is this like an original?
Umu: original
Daniel: ya know It sounds weird because the balance mixes it sound
like the man is singing an octave higher than how you
Daniel: Works over here, but she's- she's under him (F: WHAt) in register.
Fiona: What?
Cloud: Okay,
Henry: are they dead
oh It was a dream. they're okay
James That's so beautiful Melissa: this is so beauitful James: oh my god
Melissa: It's just like such Disney vibes like it sounds like a Disney love duet but like sad love duet
James: Their harmony. Melissa: Yeah
Sad Disney love duet harmony. That's the scientific name for those chords
Cloud: That's pretty great
Henry: Yeah
It's a great key change
I love it when the violins play a really fast ascending scale doing
Cloud: and they perfectly timed it with the visuals. Henry: Yeah
James: I'm like so shook like actually so shook
James: Why isn't this- why isn't this in a Disney movie?
James: Like actually (M:I swear) no like
Melissa: like I think this is a Disney song
James: like this is perfect
Kevin: Deceptive... one more deceptive... c# minor
Elizabeth: Oh, you hear that wind chime in there can't be a Christmas song without a wind chime
Isaac: *sings*
Kevin: Now this slid into it it wasn't just a normal 1-1 it was a slow
Kevin: *tries to predict name*
Henry: Wasn't that beautiful though?
Owen: Good solid stuff. That's very good.
Elizabeth: Okay So how the hell did they get the London Symphony Orchestra,
how can I get the London Symphony Orchestra?
Dear Kim dong ryul and IU i'll see see IU you how the hell did you do this?
What's I?
Umu: YEah what parts o the song you like maybe talk about what makes a holiday song a holiday song
Elizabeth: Think whenever you have a full orchestra
Along with like baladi singing that's pretty indicative of Christmas songs
I mean if you think about the classic classic Christmas songs, like I'm thinking like Bing Crosby white Christmas and
That era, I mean they're usually was an orchestra playing behind them
So that sound of like classic Christmas where you have?
an orchestra playing kind of a small t-score and then have like a very
Lyrical singer on top of it. I mean that's just been like the
template for Christmas for so long
I mean my family puts on like the Bing Crosby album every year and
I think that is really indicative
Like if you want to write a Christmas song
Like they're really lucky that they got one of the best orchestras in the world to do it
But I think that was like a smart move for it
Owen: was having having that big warm sound definitely evokes the Christmas sort of feeling
There was a box video that was saying the secret chord that makes Christmas
songs sound so
And they I think I came up with the minor seven flat five is the secret chord if you just make your songs all might
Have seven flat five it'll sound like Christmas that's missing the point
It's sort of the minor seven flat five was a staple chord of a certain era of
composition that a lot of Christmas come from like in the 50s 40s and 30s and so
right, and so
Bringing you back that sort of style I think is what makes things sound. So Christmasy just because that's what we've associated with
Kevin: Music's nice. I like music. Isaac: It's it's very nice
just the wash of sound to create this vastness of a picture and
Other voices. Yeah
baritone that's very very rare
Kevin: It didn't feel like it stuck to a verse chorus verse chorus bridge chorus structure
It felt like they really
Were able to take the time during every section like we first introduced I used voice and then we changed the key and it reduces
Kim Dong Ryul voice and then you know by the by that point I already stopped analyzing the song
I mean, of course I paid attention to every key change because those were really nice. Mmm
But I didn't have to think k where's the bridge... the Bridge is gonna come... there was none of that
Um, I also appreciate how the orchestra sound at the beginning it sounded like a real Orchestra
I mean it was a real Orchestra, but usually for a pop song
They would
Neuter down the mixing a bit and make it sound a bit more
compressed and all that but here it didn't feel like way the oboe sounded like an
Oboe in a big studio/hall and the string section sounds like they recorded in like big open space
Which helps the openness of the song (I:yeah) as you said
Cloud: it's gonna bug me because I feel like I've heard this exact song before in like English and I just don't
Henry: I thought it was to- Cloud: like it sounds like like, you know like Prince of Egypt or like any other Disney movie
Where at the end, they'll take two really popular artists and have them do like a whole new world
But it's like a cover and it's got like more eighty since then the background or whatever like it sounds like that
Henry: Did you think that was like more cheesy than touching? Because I thought it would I thought it was wonderful
I was one better put a little'
cloud: a lil bit of both
Like I definitely did sound a little cheesy
but I also like I enjoyed it like yeah and
pouring their hearts out and Henry: you know like the tonic and like a 1 and a 3 still you own a 3 so classic
Cloud: and like the key change so classic but like, you know, I'm waiting for it
I'm like we're going we're going and there's the liftoff. Okay? Henry: Yeah, that key change was what was that?
They just went to like a big five. They did suddenly they went to the five of the next key the dominant
Henry and cloud: (roman numerals representing the chords) V-I
Henry: and then they get Into the next thing and it's great.
James: Okay. Sorry, every time I use the word shook
Before this I'm gonna rescind
Because I'm like shocked the two vocalists
Literally like Disney Prince and Princess like I swear to God
Like I'm I am crushed that this isn't a new Disney movie like it should be
Melissa: musical theater soprano- James: *pressed* Korean Disney get on this now like
Literally like this could be so good in a Disney movie and like- Melissa: but my criticism
Was it so Disney that it sounded like like it sounded like a lot of stuff I've heard before
Orchestra, but also there's like, you know, the steady beat with the drums and everything
musical theater soprano sound with like a dude who sounds like a Disney Prince the way it was like it was just
Tugging at your heart strings.
James: Yeah. I have no problem with that
Personally
Melissa: same but the visuals holy shit. That's amazing. james: And that's like that's part of the reason to that
I was like Disney because they sort of gave like visuals along with it
and then the medium like the color pencil medium tied and really well with like childhood their two voices were so distinct and
Beautiful on their own when they came together. It was like boom
It was just like so amazing and some of the harmonies that they chose to do
When she went into her really really upper register like that's movie music to me and that's like what I love
So I'm just like really really really down with that
Henry: oh it tot- it's a show it to the camera it totally fits yours better,
Cloud: I guess I have to switch