Collin: Whoa, okay.
Whoa, what?
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Aaron: That said, let's move on the the reaction part of this video.
Umu: So, now you're reacting to the brother/sister duo AKMU, Collin: Oh, they're back. Umu: and a b-side track from their 2017 'Winter' album.
If you guys remember, they did Chocolady and- Jarod: I love AKMU. Collin: Yeah, they're great. Jarod: I think AKMU'S becoming my favorite group.
Umu: YES!! Join the club!
Umu: Chanhyuk wrote 'Will Last Forever'
when he remembered a time during his elementary school days when the whole class took group photos and wrote below their dreams of what they wanted
to be when they got older. Melissa: Aww.
Umu: Chanhyuk wrote "firefighter" just like others, without any specific reason, and as he grew up, he became curious as to what his friends had become.
Did they achieve their dream that they had written down, or did they go down a totally different path?
The Korean title 'Will Last Forever' literally translates to "children from before". In this song,
AKMU reflect on their childhood friendships, and how they went their separate ways as they grew older. Stephen: Ohh.
Umu: Even though they're all older and are experiencing the reality of adult life, Fiona: Ugh! Umu: they hope their friends were able to hold tight to their innocent childhood dreams.
Kevin: Man, AKMU deliverin' the the young existential stuff.
Underrated.
Both them and that topic.
Oh, this is not what I expected.
Okay, there we go.
Isaac: We're movin'. Kevin: The opening just threw me off.
Melissa: I feel like the simplicity of this line, and the fact that it's in unison and very quiet,
with very simple piano accompaniment, sort of evokes childhood memory kinds of sounds, you know?
James: Mmm.
Stephen: You know it's gonna be a deep song when it's in 6/8.
Seiji: I was thinkin' the same thing. Stephen: yeah dude
Seiji: It's either a power ballad or like, gonna be really touching. Stephen: Yeah, absolutely.
Fiona: They split the harmony after being in unison, and it was like, ohhhh!
Stop!
But don't!
Killin' me.
Kevin: Oh!
Yes!
Octaves.
Wow.
Are we going duple?
Isaac: Wow.
Kevin: Yes.
Collin: Oh, this is really touching.
Oh!
Jarod: Yeah. Love it.
Collin: (singing)
Fiona: This is a nice interlude. Aaron: We had like a...yeah, we had a meter change.
Fiona: One two three, one two three...
Aaron: We should be dancing.
Fiona: Would you like to waltz? Aaron: I kind of know how to waltz.
Kevin: Ahh!
And then it just disappears, for the piano to play a little solo.
Henry: I totally thought they were gonna modulate.
Elizabeth: But isn't that like... Henry: this whole time. Elizabeth: I feel like it didn't modulate there though, because they're trying to hold on to what they had before,
instead of change. Henry: Yeah, that could be a reason.
Kevin: We scatter down to sing in octave unison.
Isaac: Picking up the pace.
Kevin: And of course when they sing "colorful" there has to be chords and intervals.
Collin: Whoa, okay.
Whoa, what?
Collin: They just turned it around. That was cool.
That was so short. Jarod: The suspension there was tasty. Collin: Shhh.
Collin: She's got a nice timbre in her voice.
Melissa: Nice.
James: Oh! Melissa: Ooh, new key! Ooh!
That was like, in your face new key. Ooh! We didn't modulate, we MODULATED.
Elizabeth: See, they're moving on now. See, they were thinking about trying to hold on to that key, and now they've changed key. Henry: ?????????????. Never mind.
Sorry
Fiona: Her voice matters so much here. Aaron: Yeah. She was a nice voice.
Fiona: It's like ASMR.
Stephen: Interesting that they switch. Now it's happened twice, into 4/4, you know?
And then back to 6/8, but only for like a few bars.
Aaron: Butterfly. Oh! Fiona: It's so intimate. It's like they're singing to you, right here.
Jarod: No, we don't need that.
Elizabeth: They actually resolved that at the end. It feels like the kind of song where they wouldn't have a
cadential resolution, and they would have kind of left you hanging, but I guess that's sort of like hopeful,
Henry: Yeah. Elizabeth: in a way like, you know, they've changed, they're moving on, but
it doesn't mean they let go of that part of who they used to be. Henry: I don't know.
I thought was great. Also, thanks for hiring musicians.
And also thanks for using different meters. Appreciate ya'. Elizabeth: Yeah, that was super cool.
I also, I just I really liked how it changed meters in there.
Henry: Yeah. I dug it. Elizabeth: I feel like it was weird for them - or not weird, but out of the ordinary - to use
compound meter, which is when the beat is subdivided into three parts,
over what everybody usually uses, which is simple meter, where the beat is divided into two,
but then to not only start in compound meter, but
to Henry: Transition. Elizabeth: transition into simple meter. It made us pause for a second, like to have to rethink
how we listen to the song.
And I think that's also kind of indicative of like when you reach a point in your life and you have to rethink
who you are, and what you want, and where you want to go, and
you know, is the person that I grew up the person that I always wanted to be, or do I wanna
change and find something new, so.
Melissa: I liked the song, but I also in some ways did not like the song. So, mixed feelings about the song.
I think that it has a lot of the things like sort of cliches that are like, okay,
we want to make our audience cry. So what are we gonna do? We're gonna
start with really soft voice and piano.
we're gonna end that way too, and in the middle, we're gonna throw in like, you know, drum set, strings,
wind chimes, like, you know, the "We want to make you cry" kind of instrumentation.
So I heard at the beginning like, yeah, you're supposed to cry by the end of this.
It was like it was well-executed. It was just like, it felt very much,
I know what I'm supposed to be feeling right now. James: Mm-hmm. I mean I think cliches are cliches for a reason.
Melissa: Yeah, it works really well. James: Yeah. Because it works, and it'll reach a wider audience that way. I personally really enjoyed the song.
I thought it was very uplifting. Not only the message, but the way they use tempo, too. It was very kind of
relaxed at the beginning, like childhood
innocence, and then we got a little more minor melodic stuff happening and
flat 6 stuff happening when the turmoil starts to happen when you realize oh, you know,
will I be able to pursue these dreams, will it work out in the end? And then
they sang the chorus, you know, the final time, and it was like, the drum set was in full swing,
it was very like, ballad, but it was very uplifting. It was very uplifting at the end. They were singing the same words though.
So to me, that indicated that at least for them, things were working out, and even though you know, life can sometimes throw you
for a loop and you might not end up where you expected things usually
tend to work out in your favor if you have the right mindset.
So I really enjoyed that. And then just the way they ended quietly. I don't know, I just, I really enjoyed it.
I think it's a really good message .
Isaac: Wow.
Henry: Good, good stuff? Isaac: Yeah, they're so good. Every time I listen to them, it's just like, it's always a good experience.
I thought it was quite, quite nice.
Quite, quite nice.
Because it's like, man, I haven't heard a major 7 in a long time--da-da-dee-dum.
Kevin: Oh, like a laid-out major 7. Okay, okay. Isaac: Yeah, yeah. It was like, wow, that's rare for me.
it's like this is an occurence that hasn't happened in a while. So I thought it was nice.
It's so passionately sung out, and having the brother sit in the background and just hover and
harmonize with the sister, it really created an effect of just like,
longing and tenderness. I thought that was really nice.
Kevin: Um-hmm.
Kevin: I liked this song.
Collin: I'm gonna go first, so stop humming. So...
Okay. Yeah, so that was...first of all, their phrase links were really cool, especially towards the end.
That's something I actually want to go look at their chord chart, or whatever,
because their interruptions were unexpected, and really effective.
Yeah, also very honest, and super genuine. Jarod: I think AKMU, I think they got...
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and say I think they've got
my favorite, they're my favorite voices to listen to, I think. Collin: Yeah, definitely complimentary. Jarod: Because it's like,
it's really, yeah, their individual, individually, they sound phenomenal, and together
they sound even more phenomenal. And it's really great, you know, that they write their own stuff. I just really liked the
the build-up, the progression--how it started off the two of them, and it built up, and then they had some individual moments,
but then towards like, you know, three-quarters of the way through, you have this almost choir-esque feel, you know, Collin: Yeah.
I think they built it up really well,
but the same time, it wasn't like too in-your-face.
Collin: It also wasn't trite.
Jarod: Right. Collin: It was actually, I mean, I kind of...you know,
there was a point in the middle where the texture just, or the instrumentation, just like doubles, right?
Like there's bass, the vocals, er, not kids,
it's just the choir. Jarod: Right.
Collin: But it was well executed, because you expected it, but then they played on it
Jarod: Mm-hmm. Collin: in a manner that you didn't expect.
Jarod: It was, yeah, it felt natural in the flow. Collin: Yeah, exactly. Jarod: Yeah, it just, the song flowed.
It had a really good sense of flow, you know, melodically,
texturally. It was just great, man. They just, you know, they knocked another one out of the park. Collin: Yeah, they're good. Jarod: They're good.
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