Sam: OH SHIIIII-
[Rossini's Semiramide Overture playing]
Umu: You are now reacting to the 6 member boy group P1Harmony
and their title track 'Scared'
off of their 2021 'Disharmony: Break Out' album.
Through the lyrics, "You are just you yourself,
even if other people would judge
don't be afraid of your answers",
P1Harmony tells their peers,
who are missing their true values and potential,
to believe in yourself, don't be scared and raise your voice.
They hope to give courage to their listeners
and strength for those who have given up
trying to break out of any oppression that there is against them.
Also I am loving the comment that I found from a fan under the MV,
they say:
"This is one of the most aggressive LOVE YOURSELVES you'll ever hear.
Cloud: It's like a "JUST DO IT!",
Cloud: but a "LOVE YOURSELF!" (Umu: Exactly!)
Umu: They took inspiration from the sport of football
and incorporated it into their choreography
because football is a sport in which a team has to come together
and work together to achieve something.
The song is composed by 한성호 (Han Seong Ho),
"TC" (Tiyon Mack), 김태성 (Tesung Kim), GIBUM and 문 킴 (Moon Kim)
while the P1Harmony members Jiung, Intak and Jongseob wrote the lyrics.
Henry: Don't. Be. Scared.
Henry: Is that backwards?
Cloud: OoOohH, distortion.
Stephanie: Oh, what's going on?
Leon: That's really scary.
Stephanie: Ooohh...
Sam: Oh wow.
Cloud: We are breaking sh*t already.
Henry: This is a really industrial sound. Sounds like-
Will: WoOo, that synth is crazy! Sam: Dang, that synth is crazy!
Jory: Wubwub action? Will: *Wub wub wub*
Henry: Scotch snaps! Cloud: Ohhh~
Raffi: That was such a contrast!
Jory: Love that percussion layer.
Liam: Hear that different like cymbal sounds? Rachel: Mhm.
Raffi: Wow, beautiful.
Henry: Wwow!
Liam: Uuhhh. Rachel: Oh my god!
Liam: Dude, that is nasty! Oh!
Liam: What are you scared of? Rachel: Wouwouw.
Kevin: Oh, a little, a little dorian 6, okay.
Stephanie: That's so interesting, like the chimes?
Leon: Yeah. Or a triangle? I don't know.
Liam: Mm~
Liam: That bass is punchy but it's got so much depth to it.
Henry: This is a really fast paced ... song.
Raffi: It's a good riff. Sam: Mhm.
Liam: I think the upper vocals were added in there.
Jory: That's my favorite chord right there. Will: That major, yeah, just major triad. I love it.
Owen: How do you make these sounds?
Huh.
Kevin: This reminds me of an A Tribe Called Quest song
from their Low End Theory album.
Liam: Ooohh~
Jory: Okay. Will: Whoo. Whoooo!
Sam: OH SHIIIII-
Liam: What was that modulation to?
Liam: Was it to like a ♭5?!? Rachel: Okay, we'll go back to that!
Liam: Yeah!
OOH!!
Frickin' belted that out, that was so nice.
Rachel: Get it! Liam: Sick moves.
Henry: Some screaming. Cloud: He's ready to throw hands.
Cloud: He's like: "Who are you scared of, I'll take care of him!"
Jory: And it's on fire now.
Liam: These gang vocals~
Liam: Ooh~ *imitates*
Oh, I love that there's a lot more syncopation in the vocals right now.
Jory: He's growlin'.
Is that a football?
Cloud: He just cracked the ground with that football.
Liam: Man...
Shut the lid on it. Love yourself.
Kevin: That's very interesting.
This is a very interesting song.
Cloud: "dirt had to be washed out", oh, threatening. Henry: Right, that was a LOT.
Liam: Yeah. That was bumpin', that was sweet.
Rachel: Wowow wowowow~ Liam: Yeah, I really like the last part of that song,
I think it got more rhythmically interesting with the vocals,
as they started adding in a lot more syncopation,
like that coming in on offbeats, 16th notes,
so like, we're just playing regular 16th notes, like:
like there, coming in on the e's and a's, you know?
Liam: Musician jargon, but... Rachel: Like those "ee's" and "aa's".
Umu: For non-musicians, can you please explain what e and a is?
Rachel: Well there's like a couple ways,
you can do "one-ta-te-ta" or you could do "one-e-and-a",
but "one-e-and-a" is way easier to say than "one-ta-te-ta two-ta-te-ta",
so you don't do that.
*And now it's time for "Silly Songs With Larry"*
Liam: If a beat is broken up into four notes,
you call those four notes 16th notes,
You call 1-e-&-a,
so the "e" and "a" are the second and fourth partials
of that grouping of four,
so yeah that...
haha, math.
*This has been "Silly Songs With Larry"*
*Tune in next time to hear Larry say:*
*Have I ever told you how I feel about-* (Rachel:) Triplets.
Liam: We love triplets. Rachel: ...make everything better.
Umu: Let's look at the bridge, you wanted to break down the harmony?
Rachel: Yes.
Liam: Yeah, it almost sounded like it- okay, so it's in E minor, right?
Liam: *plays F major* - Wait, no. Rachel: That was not E minor.
Leon: Originally it's in E minor.
Umu: And then we suddenly go to...
Stephanie: C major.
Leon: Which is really normal.
It's like a pivot chord, basically.
Umu: So this right now we're like:
"Okay, we've reached the bridge, it feels normal."
And then it's the next chord that is played that we're like: What? (Leon: Yeah. ...is shocking, yeah.)
Liam: Yeah, it goes... F7, I think?
Leon: It's F13.
Liam: And then that's B♭ major, it lands on that
Liam: So it modulates to the ♭5 of the original!
Rachel: Tritone!
Liam: Dang.
Leon: And then the next chord is what I'm confusing.
Liam: And then the... what?
It like almost tonicizes G minor for a second?
Rachel: It definitely was tonicizing G minor at the end. (Liam: Yeah)
Liam: And then it just goes right back into E minor. Rachel: Then it's just like boom(x3) and it goes back to the dance break.
Umu: What was your favorite section, I'm curious?
Henry: I don't know if it was a section...
I was more interested in their general soundscape,
like the use of those just metal percussion?
I don't- It's not even like percussion instruments,
it just sounds like metal percussion.
Owen: Yeah, I would love to see how they actually recorded it,
where the mics would be,
because they were clearly breaking things
in a sort of movie-esque way,
where you just take a glass,
throw into a trash can with paper bags,
and have the mic next to it and be able to record that sound.
What's the name for someone who does that for living?
Kevin: Foley Artist
Owen: Yes, the Foley artist.
I feel like they must have used a Foley artist on this song
to get all those sounds.
Kevin: Or they found a lot of Foley samples
Kevin: for hit movie franchises, that's possible. Owen: Right, there are a million of them out there.
Owen: But they were just so unique and super cool that I liked it.
Henry: Oh, the chorus...
Cloud: This is the timbre that I like the best,
Cloud: cuz it's very laid-back, very hip-hop. Henry: Yes, the bass though.
Cloud: Very wub wub wub. Henry: *mimics bass.*
Leon: I really like the chorus.
The sound design is really amazing.
Umu: Right?! Leon: Yeah.
Umu: It's so unique. Leon: Like that bass line, it's just amazing.
Umu: Hahaha, you seem like you're at a loss for words.
Stephanie: "That is amazing"
Leon: I was about to say f-, but...
Umu: Or I mean, I can just bleep it out if you wanna?
Leon: Oohh?
Stephanie: Bleep it! Umu: So f#%king amazing?
Leon: Yes, f#%king amazing!
Owen: That's fun, it's a surprisingly uplifting song with the lyrics,
it's like "don't be afraid, you're not small",
at least - maybe I only read a certain section of it, but it was-
it felt like it was encouraging someone to stand up for themselves
but also not have to fight, unless if they at all couldn't-
they all had a chance, if the had a chance on the fight, take that chance,
but don't be afraid.
I thought that was cool. I think that is a good message.
Kevin: I think, given the metallic nature of this song and...
when the song started I thought the message that they start off with
is something that I've heard a lot of times,
the, you know, "don't be afraid" and stuff,
but yeah, I agree, by the end of the song I did get a more uplifting...
Cuz it's easy to make it sound like super down and like "We gotta rebel!"
you know, but this song did give a different spin on it.
The thing is for me,
the chorus stands out so much more than the rest of the song
and every time the chorus is playing it feels right,
but then everything else I feel like it's searching for something,
and maybe that's what they're going for,
but for me, I could have just listened to that chorus all day,
but the problem about that is that when, at the end,
when they did make the chorus longer,
I was like: "okay, now where are you going?"
because they did set up sort of a different expectation
I'm like "okay, you're gonna do something in the end",
so even though I would have liked the whole song to be the chorus,
because of what they did I kinda wish they did more at the end.
Cloud: You know how you suddenly aggressively love yourself?
This gave me like older sibling energy, or like,
or like older friend, who is just so ready to throw hands
for like anyone that has upset you or done anything, they're like-
it's like that big sibling that doesn't really know how to be supportive
but they're doing their best and they're like:
"What are you scared of?" Like "Arrrgh!"
And they're like slapping you upside the head and they're like:
"Just do it!"
And you're like: *crying*
Henry: Yeah, I kinda get that, too.
Cloud: Like really aggressive older sibling. Henry: Yeah...
Cloud: And you're like: "I'm trying!" Henry: That kinda reflects the structure of the song, too,
Henry: it did not feel like four minutes,
Cloud: Yeah, big sib' energy. Henry: it felt like two.
Henry: This song moved so quickly,
and I think it was this just huge contrast betw-
like the non-transitional shift between the really fast paced *mimics*
and then *imitates metal percussion*,
with flat core,
and then just riffing like crazy and singing their hearts out,
was a little too stark of a clean cut for me
that it made it like I wasn't ready to process this new section yet,
and then they're right back!
For my own ease of listening this is not easy,
but it does create that kind of
really rushed feeling while listening to it,
so I can get how that-
it helps their narrative, I think,
it does promote that sense of like
"love yourself, stop being scared, you have nothing to worry about,
we got you, we are homies."
Raffi: I think they are really brilliantly combined
cuz what I meant by brash was, the voices were very
not flat in tonation, it was rapping,
but I mean like flat as in nasality, and very direct,
right, it wasn't like a-
In the modal voice we have the option to lift and make things different
but this was very much like... direct.
And combining that with the percussion that wasn't very spacious
or like tapping sound - I am not a percussionist, but - (Umu: Dry?)
Raffi: to me dry sounds, yeah,
it created very harsh elements that sharply transitioned into this
harmonious moment, and they were brief,
and so I think it was actually really brilliant watching it,
like, isn't that how we experience things?
We have these harsher dark moments into these brief moments of light,
and then those thoughts are kind of, can always be there,
like they come back, like...
It was an experience for me
which set in about half way through the song,
in the beginning I was just kind of feeling it,
but then, about halfway through, I was like...
to me that's what I mean we feel, so...
I mean, we feel something.
Sam: Wow, Raffi felt something.
Raffi: Which is very rare.
Keeho: Oh?
She's gonna pluck?
P1Harmony: Wow! Umu: Pizzicato!