Umu: Yes this is- Kevin: Oh this is the 127 band Yunyi: What starts with F
Yunyi: And ends with uck (My life)
Umu: Ahaha Yunyi: Firetruck
*Rossini's Semiramide Overture plays*
Kevin: Fasion schmuck
Umu: Ahah what Yunyi: Forgotten buck
Umu: This is NCT 127, this is the second group to debut
And this is their debut song
Fiona: Firetruck in German is like
Fraggenwagon
Five
A four
a three a two
Fiona: A one Henry: A fraggenwagon
Jarod: Non Chord Tone 127 Peyton: This is 127
Gwen: Weewooweewoo Hugo: Oh my god shut the f*ck up
Gwen: I'm a firetruck (That rhymed)
Lindsey: Wohoat
Fiona: Oh shh
Shimon: What (It's a white person)
Davis: I'm not really sure- I'm not really sure what's happening in this video already Lindsey: This is weird
Kevin: Turn down for what Yunyi: Yeah exactly
Naoki: Although I never knew the difference between the sirens between firetrucks and police cars and stuff they all sound the same
Shimon: they're different in Japan Naoki: Oh really
Peyton: Really really bright colors
Jaord: That's true I do like, whatever kind of filter they're using ya know
Jarod: Like stra- Peyton: The water guns
Jarod: Straight out of instagram- you know these guys are kinda mean though
Fiona: This is awesome
Davis: Yeah, ok cool
Fiona: The bass is like- I'm feelin it
And the claps
Cuz Umu: You like claps
Kevin: Oh I thought they were still in tune- in pitch Yunyi: Yeah same
Yunyi: I thought they were gonna start singing Kevin: Yeah
Jarod: Music is pretty dirty like you know like some kind of- this is nightclub music
Peyton: most definitely
Yunyi: You know why I've heard this
Kevin: Why Yunyi: This bass before
Kevin: Why
Yunyi: It's in one of the LISA game fight soundtracks Kevin: Really
Yunyi: Dah dah dah duhduhduh
Yeah
Peyton: It's the classic riff in the back like alright
Jarod: Yeah these kids are a bunch of troublemakers (That's a different group)
Naoki: Yeah because they have the same bass line they can't do too much melodically
Doesn't give them that much freedom to really
Vary themselves
But allows for freestyle in their rapping kinda of stuff
Jarod: You know what's really throwing me off though is all these white people (Then exp would have you out of your seat lol)
I mean not to say there's anything wrong with it but i'm just like haha Peyton: hahaha
Jarod: I'm just like wait a minute
You're just so used to seeing these kpop videos being strictly kpop- like they're kor- ea- these Asian people
Naoki: The bass is just repeating it's like an ostinato
Shimon: Ostinato
Naoki: Fancy words Shimon: Ahahah
Jarod: Some pretty rock in here
Peyton: I like the
The electronic snares
Jarod: I also love-
I also love how they come into these very- you know very clean aesthetic
Very
Peyton: WOOP WOOP Jarod: Calm and orderly and then they come in and it's just like
*Explosion noise*
Hugo: Hey there's a firetruck
Peyton: WOOP WOOP
Kevin: What's with the hoses
Umu: FIRETRUCK
Yunyi: They're fire fighters (Gotta put out the fire in my pants)
Hugo: The first singing of the entire song Gwen: Yeah
Gwen: And it's good
Jarod: Oh floppy disk man
Yunyi: Floppy disk Kevin: My gosh
Henry: Is it just following that one girl through her life
Umu: I don't know (yes)
Yunyi: I'm gonna be completely honest, there's almost nothing to say about this melody
Umu: Uhuh
Yunyi: There's- everything just righ- right at the beginning Kevin: it's just i (tonic)
Yunyi: It's just i, sounds are incredibly generic Umu: Mhmhm
Yunyi: It's just-
Ivre-
Very typical trap music
Lindsey: Samantha Davis: Samancha?
Yunyi: Got some Shepard tone, right before the drop
Peyton: oh it's kinda got a rumba feel now
Jarod: All you need is some claaaveeee
Naoki: Can you imagine if they changed it right at the end though
Naoki: To like something major Shimon: That would be cool if they like modulated
Naoki: Oh yeah that would make it more interesting, like a half step
Hugo: Oh I wonder if it was the same person over and over again Gwen: Is she dead now
Naoki: Oh are they gonna steal that kid (Why would you steal responsibility)
Everyone: Hahahahha Naoki: Looks like it, they're like aaaooohahhoa
Shimon: WhAt!? "Are they going to steal the kid" Naoki: As he aggressively walking towards those kids
Naoki: Yeahahah
Fiona: I'm so confused though Henry: There were points in that video were I was like
Henry: Dee and there points in that video where I was like
I don't know how I feel about this
Umu: I remember hearing somewhere that there is a story behind this, it's just kinda like
No matter what age, no matter what situation you're in, if you're under pressure, if you're uncomfortable
Umu: Then be a firetruck, yeah haha Henry: Just F*** it (x2) (That's BigBang)
Henry: Just f*** literally everything (Ummmmnooo)
Just run wild
Just be like I don give a sh*t Fiona: Grab a goddamn hose
Fiona: Just spray everyone, just- Henry: Destroy everything (2 kinds of people)
Henry: Ok maybe I like that vibe
I almost felt like it was the backalley outside of a club and this you know teenager who's getting hit on by this creepy older dude
Umu: Mhm Henry: And I was like yeah I really don't know how I feel about that from a moral standpoint Fiona: But whati-
Fiona: But what if was like- I kind of thought of it like her boyfriend and she was just "I'm not taking your shit right now"
Henry: Maybe I don't know FIona: She was just like...
"Firetruck you!"
Umu: Hahaha Henry: Firetruck you OH wow actually that's pretty clever
Lindsey: I thought it was really cool. I liked how every time the beat dropped they said firetruck
and they like- I don't know why I liked that but I just did it was just fun- it was just really fun Umu: That's what I though about it too Davis: Pretty good
Lindsey: It was fun
Lindsey: That's what I though Davis: Yeah I like the sirens and everything, it was- it was pretty fun
Daivs: To listen to and notice all the little- Lindsey: The sirens cuz it's like a firetruck
Davis: Yeah exactly, it's good to catch the little uh extra things that they do in it
Naoki: This one was very similar, very plain Shimon: It was really repetitive
Naoki: Yeah
Gwen: Well can I just explain what we noticed
We noticed that all the girls in the video are the same girl
Hugo: Yeah like over a period of time Gwen: And it's like going through her life
Hugo: If you noticed, the first girl is a young girl, and then it kinda goes to preteen years
Both: And then it goes to like
Gwen: Teen like creepy boy looming over her years and then like- yeah work Hugo: Then work, where she's at the job
Hugo: Then family Gwen: And then- and then it's her.. old
in a chair
Umu: I thought it was just different ages
Like talking about
Gwen: No it looked like it was ll the same girl, she had the same hair color
What do you think that means
Gwen: Cuz I have no idea what that means Hugo: That song was weird
Hugo: It was cool- Gwen: Yeah I thought it was abu-idu- interesting
Hugo: But like
I don't know it's just it wasn't my vi- it wasn't my vibe. It was a cool song it was just not what I would normally listen to Gwen: If I was in a different mood I would've loved it
Hugo: Yeah exac- if I wasn't sick as f*** I probably would've been all about it
Umu: Ok so you're thoughts on this is that you've heard stuff like this before
Yunyi: Yeaahh
Umu: Ok so what do you mean by generic
Kevin: Like that bass line is something that
You know is very familiar
But then there's nothing else that makes it stand out I don't think
Yunyi: Yeah it really does feel that this um
This music plays with the genres more
Umu: mhm Yunyi: Um I don't get much group individuality from this group
Kevin: That's true
Umu: And this is- well I guess they are extremely recent debuts, they all debuted
At the end of 2016
So like these are their very first songs
Kevin: I guess it's a solid start if this is their debut I don't know Umu: Yeah this is their debut song
Yunyi: Exo Mama (DAMN F***CKIN RIGHT)
Umu: HAHAHAHA
Yunyi: I mean so far the 3 videos that we've seen- I mean the 3 songs that we've seen are all very
different genres Umu: Mhm
Yunyi: But they're all within the genre that they're playing in- I think perhaps they're trying to
Like first hit a bunch of target audiences Umu: mhm
Yunyi: And then Umu: That makes sense
Yunyi: Then go on to something else, I mean they're definitely versatile I'll give them that
Kevin: Maybe that's how they start, like when a group starts they don't even know what they're "voice" is yet or style
*Wait for it*
Oh gross
Kevin
Hugo: I liked their singing when they did actually get to it Gwen: Yeah when they actually sang it was- it was good
Hugo: Yeah like Umu: Yeah
Hugo: It was very
Piercing in a good way
Hugo: Resonant sound Gwen: Yeah, yeah no
Hugo: So I think that kind of like
rrrrappyy beat vibe I was like-
Gwen: Btbtbtbtbbt Firetruck tbbtbtbt woop wopp
Gwen: Just like constantly and I was like hello Hugo: That's exactly what it was like 100% like that
Umu: Are you ready for th- are you ready for their second one
Lindsey: That's a lot of red
Umu: Yes this is a lot of red. This is Limitless, this is the one that
Came out after Firetruck, still NCT 127
Umu: Also I put out a poll on twitter and I asked hey which version of this, because I had multiple versions of the music video
The most popular uh request was to show you the dance
Henry: Ok Umu: Of it, so this is the dance
Umu: Yeah Shimon: *Speaking Japanese?* it means
No limit- Naoki: Oh *japanese* that means uh target shimon: and then myself
Kevin: That's Chinese, why is it Chinese Yunyi: What does it say
*Both speak Chinese* (Damn those accents are good)
Kevin: Unlimited me
Limitless
Hugo: They can't count. It's not 127 it's 123 Gwen: Did that not
Originally hit you that that wasn't in order
Hugo: I was just like, their name's wrong
You know it's not 127 it's 123
Ok one two seven
Gwen: Haha that was funny
Fiona: Dude
Davis: Was that a dab
Was it just me or was that a dab
That was a very discreet like
Peyton: Wooo
Jarod: These guys have like shocks on their knees
Naoki: Very prominent bass line again
Yunyi: I like- I like the bass, it's groovy Kevin: Me too
Fiona: I love their bass lines
Peyton: Dude this is like
Aw man
I like it, I like it
Gwen: I'm the warehouse they rented out for this Hugo: That low note was dope as f*** it wasn't natural but it was dope
*Shook gwen*
Yeah
Fiona: Dab flat major
Gwen: Oh that's hella vocal fry but I love it
Lindsey: It's like the distorted synth in the background it like blends with the voice so- I think they did the fry as an effect afterwards
Yunyi: It's still very cool effects Kevin: It's very cool effect
Yunyi: You can do it Kevin: I can- yeah
Kevin: Barely
Gwen: That was like a-like a whip but like better haha
Kevin: Ooaahh
Yunyi: Ok this is what we're talkin about Kevin: Better than the last song
Jarod: Like there's whipping but these guys are just- these guys are
Kevin: Yeah
Kevin: Some nice chords, seventh chords
Lindsey: I don't know I have this thing where when I'm listening to music that just has stuff, like a potent beat
I don' focus on the chords and like the melodic stuff going on in the background as much I just wanna just ya know Umu: Beat
Lindsey: I just wanna vibe
Gwen: I can't get over that one low note though holy shit
Hugo: I want them to do it again
Kevin: Mhhm Yunyi: Ooaaahhh
Lindsey: It's minor
Jarod: I love em
Davis: That sounds like minor 5, is it- is there a minor 5 in there
Naoki: These contrasts are pretty good
Both: OOaahhh
Davis: It sounds like almost like a low note bass
Hugo: The low note's still there, now it's just in the instrumentals, it's not-
Kevin: That's a ninth chord (still talking about chorus chords)
Davis: But it definitely sounds like it goes minor 5 to or- 6
Henry: There's a diminished chord
Davis: To minor 5 to 1
Henry: It was uh GB flat and then it-a high E above it
Kevin: Yes Yunyi: Nicee
Yunyi: Nice
Yeah give me those dotted 32nds
Hugo: Yeah see I like this
Gwen: Got that fashion surgeon mask
Umu: Ok, singing, like the texture- the texture of the voice Hugo: Yeah I like their timbre
Hugo: I like the timbre of voices Gwen: I also like just the arrangement in general
Yunyi: Oh, where did this.. major
Kevin: This just goes places, this is going everywhere
Hugo: Well yeah I like it when they have the voice with the beat underneath
when they're just doing that sing songy rap with the beat it just gets kinda repeptitive after a while
And this really is- hearing the singing is like
It makes me actually get more into it
Than just hearing them just rap over the top of it because I feel like that's a trope that's been done before
Kevin: And then the next time they kinda slide into the 5
Peyton: Woho the club is raging
Kevin: Yeap, oh there's a syncopation that's why Yunyi: Oh yeah that's is so good
Duh duhhh
Gwen: Yeah like this part, the chords they have stacked up, they're stylin Hugo: Yeah their chords are f***in solid and there was a point where they were like just had hit chords
Gwen: Yeah that was awesome Hugo: They were really dope
Gwen: And they were
The good kind of straight tone
Peyton: ah, gotta get that 2-5-1
Fiona: They're so wiggly
In a good way
Like nice
Yunyi: It's really- Kevin: All the major vibes
Hugo: Yeah Gwen: You hear that
Gwen: There was someone way up
And it was like strong
Lindsey: I think this might be my favorite, guy group that you've shown us
Both: BRRUUHHH (Omg not this again)
Hugo: HAHAHA
Kevin: That's right
Jarod: See I think the highlight about this group is their dancing
Like their choreo- their choreography is tiight
Peyton: Yeah
and the camera angle is making it look way cooler
Jarod: Like they have a great beat, great cinematography
Kevin: This is a diminished 7, they swap it
It's not like a 5
Jarod: But like the music you know I don't know if I'd be able to listen to this without watching this that's the thing
Naoki: I like it when they sing the melody and then someone's just like
ornaments over the top
Shimon: Yeah
Jarod: Like but, watching these guys.. I'm entranced
Yunyi: Definitely got our fill of the descending 3rds today
Kevin: And then it- it ends with the same bass it started with
Yunyi: Yeah
Kevin: So it's like a palindrome
Davis: They just do it with so much like ungh ingh
Lindsey: So much pzzaaazz Davis: Almost like, deliberation
Jarod: But this is fun
This is fun rap
Gwen: When they sang Umu: uhuh
Gwen: Loved it Umu: Mhm
Gwen: They just didn't sing very much Umu: Mhm
Gwen: There was um, the vocal fry way down there in the first- like the first chunk of it
Hugo: That was- I think they took that down the octave. I think they sang that and they took that down the octave
In production
Gwen: You think- ok
Hugo: That's what I'm thinking
Gwen: So we think that they might've changed it- Hugo: Either that or maybe they went down, they had vocal fry
and then they edited in some instrumental- instrumentals to add some more power to that bass line. I don't- Gwen: Ok
Hugo: I just don't think that was a true bass note Gwen: Cuz then there's no way- yeah
Gwen: But it was- it was cool. It sounded cool *Hugo blows nose*
Gwen: It was l- it was a true vocal fry where it was like *Grudge noise*
Henry: This is like the kind of thing that I feel like someone would request to my 8th grade dance
Henry: I'm just gonna be that guy. I'm jus- ima- ima be that guy Fiona: That is like so accurate
Naoki: Oh yeah it was very similar to the third and the first one obviously
Shimon: Yeah Umu: No it wasn't
Shimon: I though it was s- I didn't see that much of a contrast other than the fact that there was maybe a melodic line
Naoki: Yeah little bit
It was a very prominent bass line again
Limited melody
But they did ornament the melody
Naoki: Over the top of it Shimon: There was a bit, yeah
Naoki: So that was different
Kevin: I'm o- I'm very
Cool with that
Yunyi: See this is- this is what we're talking about. This- this is the good stuff
Umu: So you felt- so this wasn't generic because it had like a bunch of really interesting musical things happening
Kevin: Musical things and s-
It was hard to pinpoint what it is stylistically
Cuz like halfway through the
The second verse is when the bubblegum kicked in
and the bridge was also kind of bubblegum
Yunyi: Yeah it just adds some
You know like endearing uniqueness to it when they cross some borders Kevin: Endearing uniqueness
Yunyi: You know like if- like the stuff they did it wasn't really even that- it wasn't you know thaat
Wild you know it wasn't umm *Kevin eats*
Umu: Classical music Yunyi: Whistle like a missile
Yunyi: You know it was a- it was a Umu: Ohohoh yeah yeah yeah
Yunyi: Blackpink
But it was still you know they blended
Some things so it just wasn't one color palette all the time
One color palette I am such a classical musician
Shimon: I still felt like the bass line was
Naoki: The driving force Shimon: The- yeah that made it move Umu: You liked the bass line?
Shimon: Sure
Naoki: Yeah Shimon: I mean I liked it- it- eh- it changed
Naoki: I mean like it's really hard for a bass Shimon: It's different every now and then
Umu: oh
Naoki: It's really hard for a bass line to be good I feel
Naoki: Sometime Shimon: Bass lines are like
Shimon: Theeee
Naoki: Foundations you build a house on
Shimon: It's like the unsung hero where you don't realize how good it is untiil
you realize
Naoki: Without it
Shimon: Yeah
Hugo: I really enjoyed the vocal moments I think that they're Gwen: *dab*
Hugo: Their voices actually are really good and I think
That the beats they used underneath those voices
Were actually really good when they used them with the voices
And also some like, gwen said at some of the chords they hit were just really like ungh
Good, they were good chords and they had the nice straight tone and they were lockin those chords really well
But the sing songy rap
over a beat
the same- that kind of beat
As I said is kind of a trope that's been done before
Like I think for their style of music they're good I would just like to hear them sing more
Cuz I think their arrangement is good and I think their voices are good but that's just you know my own personal opinion
Umu: Ok
Hugo: Yeah
Umu: Ok so which one did you like better, Firetruck or that
Lindsey: Firetruck Davis: Umm I still think firetruck though
Lndsey: Firetruck beeewwww.... VANS Davis: Even though I just said all of those really good about the video I think I liked Firetruck more
Naoki: I like the first one the best still Shimon: I think the second one
Fiona: I liked Firetruck more Henry: But like- yeah
Jarod: Song wise I think I almost liked the previous Peyton: Yeah probably this one, the second one
Gwen: This one
Gwen: Wha- what- yeah what's the second one called Hugo: Definitely the second one x2 Umu: Limitless
Gwen: I liked Limitless better Hugo: I liked Limitless better. It was simpler and I kinda liked that a little bit more
Umu: Ok so out of those two you liked this song better
Yunyi: Yeaah, this- this
Out of everything by NCT that you've shown us I think is- is better than others by like a good mile