Henry: Whoa-oh this is kinda out
Emiel: Yes, yeah Henry: Yeah, this is awesome actually
Emiel: This is what I've been waiting for Henry: YEAH!!
Umu: Okay Lindsey: Are you, are you full? Fiona: I'm full
Fiona: I need to poop
Umu: So Lee Jin Ah is a
jazz kind of R&B pop soloist
Umu: So she was actually signed to a record label and already produced a full album around the age of 23
But the release didn't go too well. Her label told her to go audition for a competition called Kpop Star
We've seen a few other groups who have gone through that.
Naoki: And she became famous through that? Umu: yes
Umu: So we'll be reacting to her very first song she released under Antenna Music called
"I'm full" which is a title track for her 2016 mini album called Appetizer, which is really
Fiona: AWWW! Lindsey: That's so cute!
That was her mini album right, while her full album that she released afterwards is called Main Dish
Fiona: -SQUEALS-
Umu: So this song was fully written, composed, and arranged by her and she's the pianist in the track.
The CEO of her company says that her imagination and voice are like those of a little girl
Which is why the melody she makes are kind of like children's songs, but underneath that the way her hands move on the piano is
unbelievable. He says I defy you to find any artist who can play and sing like that once.
Khanh: Alright 5 4 3 2 1 Kevin: I'm hungry!
Fiona: OoOOo I want some of that cake. I want some of that cake in that cake, you know that cake..there's a boy
Lindsey: Uh huh, I-I got it
Lindsey: Wait whoa, was that her saying 1 2 3?
Fiona: Ooh!
Katie: Ooh
Jarod: Very bluesy
Henry: I already like the way the drums are recorded actually
Khanh: Little organ
Kevin: What a voice Khanh: Yeah
Emiel: Wow, the voice I definitely get why it's
a little bit
tinny.
Her piano playing, it's good I dig it
Katie: How old is she?
Umu: 25 in this. It's her real voice.
Katie: I had a lower voice than her when I was like six
Fiona: I like that low piano bass
Linsey: It's good contrast to her voice Fiona: AWW
Jarod: It's like a total curve ball
because it's like a sound like you-you just don't hear
Stephen: I'm digging this harmony, it's like a mixture of like gospel kind-of
Henry: I almost always hate the cutesy voice because it just makes me cringe
This is the first exception.
Hugo: Like the brass Gwen: I like everything about this one except for her voice
Kevin: Yeah, oh man, yeah she's not always.. like really casual jazzness of it
Khanh: Yeah contemporary kinda, just a lot of 9ths and 13ths
Jarod: Her voice just floats over everything, you know like you have this huge big band bluesy sound
But like you know often times with the Korean R&B it can kinda be a little bit
Everything is built, built, and built where she's just like
floating~
-shOOk-
Kevin: What is.. Khanh: Not bad solo
Kevin: No, not bad at all
Naoki: That wasn't bad. Would have liked it a bit more articulate, a little bit more space in between the notes
Stephen: I mean, I just like the fact that she's like Naoki: she's riffing
Naoki: I mean, she can improvise so much better than me
Charlotte: PONY! OMG so many animals!
Peyton and Charlotte: OOOOOOH ASDFGHj
Khanh: I've heard this, you know these kinds of
jazz backgrounds, these instrumentals, but her voice
Kevin: Exactly, her voice and the music video
Khanh: It's just so, not what you're expecting. I'm not saying it's bad Kevin: No it's not bad
Peyton: It's yeah, it's like right down the middle between R&B and jazz
Fiona: Her voice is so smooth~
Fiona: Saxophone~
Henry: Yeah, okay, all right. Yeah, you really you totally took a chance with us on this one and it paid off very much
Umu: So what do you think about that song overall musically?
Naoki: One of the most interesting musically songs that we've listened to today I think
Stephen: It was great. I mean like it was definitely not your traditional Kpop song, not with just like the gospel
influenced harmony yeah
I'm like jazz influence harmonies and like her soul which had like a lot of Blues like
Material and stuff like that even though the tenor sax was like totally like a blues lick that he did
But I loved the groove
It was like not straight the sixteenth notes were swung in like the rhythm section in the drummer
And it was just like a really nice fat two and four backbeat, so it's like really really
Naoki: What is a fat two and four backbeat mean?
Stephen: Sure, well what it means is they're really emphasizing
Not just accenting to inform
but also like
how they're
subdividing that beat because
instead of feeling like with a lot of k-pop songs where it's just like eighth notes for example or just like a quarter note if
They're feeling the sixteenth note gives more weight to that quarter note
Okay, so where if it's slower kind of like this song
You really feel where the downbeat is and it's really, really cool from a drummer's perspective
Gwen: Everything having to do with the singing and the words made me uncomfortable.
Hugo: Yeah, that's kind of uncomfy Gwen: Everything else I loved, which is a weird combo
Hugo: Like the instrumentation was dope, it was awesome
Gwen: And knowing what you said about that she did the entire thing she played the piano she
like transcribed it, arranged it, like I don't feel as bad
saying that I didn't like her voice because
there was so much of it that I did like.
Henry: Yeah, that was great! I like, grooved. I thought her piano playing was awesome
like you never really see, I mean you know there are strong instrumentalists as well as vocalists in this field
but like maybe this was one of the strongest instrumentalists that we've seen
Katie: I don't know. I really like the song. I don't know if I liked her voice with it
I think she had a really cool voice and
Like in a different style. I think it would work really well
But I don't know how I felt about this. I just couldn't get like
Whitney Houston or like Beyoncé's voice out of my head and like I really wanted to hear something like a little more traditionally like
R&B with this or
Yeah, I don't know but I mean it was still a really cool song and I mean she did a great job
Lindsey: I don't really have any complaints. Fiona: I enjoyed the
BA BA BA bu ba buh badADAbadADA (lol how to cc this)
Umu: Yeah, so the bass line Fiona: Base line and the piano, it was nice
Lindsey: She's clearly very talented. Fiona: Yeah her voice it like
it sounded really good with all the instruments
Lindsey: I think it needed a little bit more like resonance, kind of
Lindsey: I think her voice was kind of thin-sounding
because the texture of the background with all of the different instruments
was so thick like there was so much- Fiona: I beg to differ, I think it's like a clarinet in the orchestra
It's just like it's there it like it shines through all everything going on
Fiona: It's not like an oboe but it's like clarinet
Lindsey: It's good that it's not like an oboe
Fiona: -whispers- I like oboe more than clarinet Umu: -whispers- same
Fiona: It's like the horn of the woodwinds
Khanh: So what that whole experience reminded me of...you go to like a fancy restaurant, alright
Kevin: Oh, man I'm getting flashbacks
Khanh: And you're sat down. You know it's really nice ambience and stuff like that
and then the waiter brings you out like some Mott's apple sauce
Khanh: And you're like what the f*ck, but I'll just try it anyway you try and it's really good
but it still doesn't change the fact that you're eating applesauce at this really fancy restaurant
like you're enjoying the whole experience
but it's like you know it's kind of unexpected. It's really enjoyable
But I felt like the whole time, I was like you know
I'm so used to hearing something and you know from the music from this idiom
I'm so used to hearing a much more mature vocal sound out of it, but you know it's not bad. I like it.
Umu: Now we'll be reacting to "Random", the title song for Main Dish 2017 album
This was composed and arranged by her and a Swedish music producer, pianist, mixing mastering engineer for dirty Loops named
Simon Petrén- Stephen: Oh My-
Do you know who the Dirty Loops band is? Oh my goodness?
Emiel: *dinosaur roar* (slo-mo)
Henry: Dirty Loops
Umu: so during her showcase to promote this song
She said 'I wrote 'random' to take away
Preconceptions because the title was random and just like the title the song's genre has many different ones in it.'
I'm not going to spoil which genre she uses- Charlotte: so we're gonna be thrown for a loop here.
Umu: Yes exactly
Peyton: Well we can play genre charades
Charlotte: -mystery noise-
Peyton: you wanna?
Charlotte: No, you're better at it
Peyton: How're you gonna get better at it?
Charlotte: Uh, I just let you do it
Peyton: cmon what kinda way is that to live?
Charlotte: -clears throat-
Peyton: FINE (lol)
Fiona: It's like I'm at a creepy carnival, but like acapella edition.
Khanh: Oh, yeah, I like that slide
Khanh: See this feels like it fits a lot better well then again, I'm hearing her voice
Right away instead of after an introduction. Kevin: Yeah, well. It's a music box sound so we're just...
Kevin: Woh!
Khanh: Yeeeeeah!
Henry: Whoa, oh this is kind of out!
Emiel: Yes
Emiel: Yeah, yeah
Henry: this is awesome, actually!
Emiel: this is what I've been waiting for
Henry: YEAH-HAHAHA!
Charlotte: You like can still hear her waltz sound from the beginning though, nice!
Peyton: wow, that's brilliant!
Charlotte: Sorry
Stephen: That was really nice
Went from like regular, to double time
Peyton: Little Phil, it's so like it's like almost like not like you saw what it's like modern jazz. It's actually pretty hip.
Henry: Very good drumming
Also that's definitely composed it sounds very random, but it's almost certainly composed
Naoki: It doesn't really sound like it fits in with the rest of the music notes. It's so
SO different and then it just stops, and then she starts again
Stephen: maybe that's the point if it's supposed to be random
Naoki: Yeah, I guess oh well. It came in there. Stephen:Yeah, so
Stephen: So maybe they're trying to like insert more for like continuities' sake Naoki: got some motifs
yeah yeah motific
Naoki: Just like died down, it's gonna pick up probably
Jarod: See I feel like, you know, I see what they're doing, but like I
Feel she needs to do something with a different voice
Katie: Yeah Jarod: because it sounds like the backgrounds are different, in a different style right now. It sounds like much she herself is doing
anything, like, y'know, extremely out of the zone
Henry: Wow all of these choices about this I feel like are spot-on...Last interlude!
Hugo: Sounds like my first station oral 3 composition...back to the waltz
Fiona: Rockapella animal Lindsey: chimes
Fiona: I Love this chorus
Lindsey: No, same. Fiona: Yeah, Lindsey: I like this one a lot better Fiona: this part.
F: There's that part where she gets her voice goes up really high and it sounds so effortless
F: THIS L: Yeah
Hugo: I like it when it goes up to that high note
Hugo: she just pops up there and pops back down
Khanh: Dewnew-just a high Hammond.
Oh, yeah
Hmm that was a tasty blues lick
Still has that kind of like high school
Kevin: Teedoro x3
Khanh: On the high Hammoned
-singing along-
Charlotte: Is that a tonal pattern?
Peyton: I think so
E: yeah Henry: Wow awesome. I loved it. Emiel: Why isn't every kpop tune this?
Yes, Oh My god, this is why wouldn't we're like oh my god, but everyone does that. THIS video
This music video, Emiel: I'll need to check out this H: -is why we're frustrated about that because this is so good. It's so raw
It's so human, and it's so personable, and it's so personal to her, and it's so it's so human E: It's so good
It's so human. It's so easy to relate to Emiel: yeah, and it's actually good sounding Henry: yes
It is so well produced and all of the choices are really good
And she's-every one of the rhythm section was strong instrumentalist like balanced well textured well
Mastered well engineered well recorded well E: Yeah, that's it.
(Emiel just gives up on talking lol)
Everything about it was perfect, and this was probably really expensive to do, but she's on a smaller label
So this was probably a big project for them yet they focused on the product instead of the profits
And it worked out so much in their favor because even though this video only has three hundred seventy-six thousand seventeen views
They have a fan for once like Emiel: Yeah
You know I'm never really
With the exception of this like maybe three or four artists who I've listened to on this whole Channel. I am 100% sold on this
F: Yeah L: That one was so fun
I really think like I liked the instrumentals in the first one
But I don't think they worked with her voice as well as this did like I think
She's meant to be in more like with the voice that she has it's meant for more of like a combo setting
So like three sometimes there was like a synth thrown in there adding like a fourth instrument including voice F: interesting
and I think that
that suits her like timbre and
Register better than the other one did Stephen: man
That was N: really really S: can't believe she's not famous these songs are like really catchy and really different like they stand out
N: They're Short and sweet, it's like perfect.
S: Yeah, N: bite sized
And yeah like stuffs stuffs happen and musically they're like really complex. N: Yeah S: like what is it? Yeah?
YEAH that was dope!
N: But yeah
I can see why it's not that famous in Korea because it's not very mainstream
kpop and if they're not used so like sure outside influences like classical jazz
bebop that kind of stuff then they'll be like I'm not sure what this is and yeah
S: I feel like it's also different for us even in the fact that like
We're like we're reacting to these videos
But right like we're N: we have such different backgrounds like you in the bits of mainstream S: right absolutely
And we've already listened to a lot of like a wide variety of music so when you hear something like this that's different
We're automatically drawn to it. Just because I think maybe that's what we're we're drawn to kind of in the first place, or just naturally
Umu: Yeah, so what do you think of this song overall?
Kevin: Oh man Khanh: great! Kevin: I like the French waltz
Khanh: It was really, really, really fun
Yeah, I like how she utilized all the you know. There's the waltz, there's the the funky vaporwave kind of bodadeeahgahgee
and then and then there is the
a melody
bum-clickclick-bumbum-clickclick
Kevin: And I feel like by inserting a little snippet of like the little weird, the weirder stuff
And if people discover this song first it might help the people get into her like
More out there songs because they're they're you know okay, this is a sound that she likes to do
Yeah, so now
I'm getting used to and then I hear again, but more yeah, they might just get into like crazy jazz stuff
Yeah, it's a nice window to like the music genre mm-hmm.
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