Katie: There's so much to analyze. like I can't- like I need sheet music
Umu: Okay, so we're starting off with a solo artist named Gain
She is actually the youngest member of a girl group called Brown Eyed Girls
We will be reacting to their music later on this year
Her solo work often comments on sexuality and gender and pushes the boundaries of convention
Gwen: so they into talking about sexuality and gender and
what was the other one?
Umu: Pushing the boundaries of convention
Gwen: You know! Rachel: good stuff,
Umu: but the concept of the songs that we will be reacting to
Isn't her usual style this very first video that we're gonna watch is a teaser for her comeback
So this is kind of like to hype the fans up and give them a little
snapshot of one of the songs in her album
So this is like half a song
Emiel: alright (3,2,1) bam Henry: smash that motherf*ckin' play button
Kevin: whoa, yeah different
Fiona: Trumpet! Lindsey: Yeah!
Khanh: I like the horns Kevin: love the horns
Katie: this is really like
innocent beat
Like I- this reminds me of like naive
Jarod: yeah, it's a cute little shuffle. (K:Yeah)
Emiel: The song is interesting in harmonics
Naoki: Oh that was a nice chord change...nice
Stephen: Really digging that tambourine action
Kevin: triplet triple- oh
Henry: oh seven chords
Also real bass playing
appreciate it
Naoki: those triplets man
Stephen: I like it
Naoki: Yeah, it's groovy Stephen: it's like a nice shuffle Naoki: oh, yeah
Jarod: She's got a voice
Kevin: Delayed delayed delayed delayed
Kevin: Still not resolved
Khanh: what? hang on a second
Naoki: these chords are thick
Stephen: Yeah, I just like the instrumentation Naoki: oh dude and then that riff on the piano
Naoki: ohhhhhhh
that was a
Nice
Stephen: that was good that was beautiful
Davis: that is a good teaser
Peyton: *sings riffs* (2020 misses you peyton)
Umu: are you pumped to watch-listen to the rest of the album-
Davis: actually kind of yeah, that was pretty cool
Peyton: that was kinda cool man
Davis: It's like I did like the acoustic instruments, but still electric bass like that was interesting
They had all these strings and brass, but then I was yeah electric bass interesting choice.
Stephen: I thought it was great
I really dug the vibe even though it sounded like from like your description. It was delving into really intense subject material
It was kind of just like a nice shuffle groove
Just kind of happy sun's out.
Naoki: No there was a lot of really cool chords in there, which I definitely made me listen
(Yeah) was not expecting some blues chord that knows pleasantly surprised
Stephen: or the instrumentation like this (yeah)
Naoki: that was very well crafted.
Stephen: Yep.
Lindsey: Yeah, just probably goes listening to like a Broadway singer sing with a pit orchestra
like but I mean, I like that a lot because that's not really something you hear in non
Show tune music
Kevin: good stuff is short. It's too short. (Yeah), Umu: I told you it's only a teaser
That's why I was able to fit it in we originally weren't planning on reacting to this
But someone was like by the way. This is a prequel
You should show the prequel and I was like oh hey
It's musically worth reacting to I could just squeeze it in and not like compared to the next one
But like squeeze it in dude.
Jarod: There's so many layers to that minute and a half. holy shitzel (K: Yeah)
Jarod: that was thick
Katie: the music most stylist was what was so interesting for me cuz like immediately?
I just like got an image of just like a young girl. Just like prancing around really naive
Just like the world is her oyster. Jarod: Just livin' life.
Katia: Yeah. Jarod: She's the pearl Katie: yeah
Umu: so did it-
Henry: that was f*cking sick
Emiel: I dig that
Umu: so now you wanna check out the rest of the song
Henry: I do I really do Emiel: I dig that
Umu: Yeah, this isn't her usual style
but the next song is also similar to this one so the next song is the full music video and
what happens it has the main song carnival the last day
and then it starts off with you know like it has an instrumental introduction and an ending that aren't in the
Original song but are there for the music video if you recognize the style music it's because it's written by the same composer who did
I use red shoes
This is her celebrating her life
Like when she was younger when she was in love and this is kind of like you know her reflecting back on when she was
young and now it's her funeral and she's
Gone. yep
Lindsey: Oh wow,
Fiona: I hope I do this in music video form that millions of people watch when I die
lindsey: what just pretend to die?
Fiona: I Should pretend to die and post a video about my life
i dunno
i don't know where i'm going with that
Fiona: It's really awesome (anyway) great concept!
Linsey: three two one.
Kevin: Oh here it comes oooo
Yunyi: Not sure I like that counterpoint
Henry: what Emiel: this is out
Henry: it's like Bartok, it's so weird
Emiel: With horns there too Henry: trombone yeah,
Davis: yeah, that's a pretty prominent trombone solo actually
Linsey: i dunno I can't-
Linsey: oop WHOAAAA... THAT'S HORN Fiona: OHHHH HORN horn!
Linsey: there she is!
I'm talking about the horn not the girl on the screen
Katie: It's a very interesting contrast. It's like the highest strings and like the lower brass
Henry: Yeah,
Katie: two very very contrasting Henry: sone french horn in the background
I hear
Fiona: it's tearing at your your heartstrings with the violin strings
Gwen: that was a shock
and i'm still even more confused now
Davis: Dude what if this is
I Feel like I'm watching like a musical right now like I'm listening to a Broadway soundtrack
Jarod: jazz hands
Katie: This is really interesting though because if this is is this her dead already
Jarod: oh a little harp whole tone- esk vibe
Rachel: I really don't know what genre yeah
it's ever falling into you it's like
Everything
Davis: Well you know it's like a it's like a New Orleans funeral (yeah) she's got the umbrella too
Kevin: Rarely does k-pops have the right feel where I feel like my ears need to adjust to this sound
Yunyi: yeah right
it's a little bit oddly
Kevin: But we're in the same key, so what's the point of that?
Rachel: Yeah, so the choruses sound pop
minus the marching band
Gwen: no yeah, it sounds like
Not necessarily like almost big jazz-inspired
Rachel: yeah
Linsey: Like I know we're not comparing this to the red shoes in this video, but like the rhythms are the same
her voice sounds, the melody lines are very similar
Is there someone singing like an octave lower than her there's like a male voice or?
Yunyi: the section the orchestral section is not blending very well, that's what it is
Katie: There's so much to analyze- I can't like I need sheet music
theory 101
Davis: When Bergeron Peyton: TRUMPET uHH
kevin: which one is Lydian stuff
Yunyi: I'm so confused
Emiel: I'm not sure what to quite think of the song yet
Actually, it's some pretty cool chords in it like a nice melody to it
Peyton: this is
like... this is kpop.
Gwen: It's just like it. It's
the most interesting thing happening, this is the video
Rachel: yeah, yeah,
Gwen: the dance... the music is is cool, but it's
Rachel: repetitive yeah
Emiel: There's nothing like standing out yet, there's no like
Something that like hits you right in the face. You know you
Henry: of like the music of the video
Emiel: no the music. Oh, there's nothing yet
That's like
It's all kind of like in the same tone like it's all still like this carnival
Loud like silly vibe, but there's nothing like
Going against that necessarily musically yet
Henry: It really feels like the ending cuts like the ending cutscene to like the end of a happy movie or whatever
Katie: jazz quintet it's my favorite thing in the world Jarod: clarinet!
Peyton: that's definitely new orleans cuz they do all the jazz
Davis: this is just like such a thematic like the music. It's just so
Davis: Good, Peyton: yeah
Jarod: This is not at all what I was expecting Katie: no
Katie: is it orchestral
I wasn't thinking this I was just thinking like
Some strings, but like still poppy
Stephen: this like a super involved song Naoki: yeah
Naoki: I can see this being like a finale like Stephen: no seriously. Yeah. Yeah, well like finale of your life
Katie: I thought this was gonna be sad. Jarod: I know I thought it was gonna be like pretty reflective
I mean this kind of celebration of her life like yeah, it's over and it's it was a good time
Katie: wow that is not how I
Maybe that says a lot about us
our outlook on life
Yeah, life's pretty fun
Henry: Man, I'd love to play like a student cover of this cuz this is probably just like whatever two cellos
(Yeah) we got like a crisp very condensed string section one tro like one trombone, tuba, trumpet, French horn
clarinet like bloody very small orchestration
It's so like full for the pop music vibe
Linsey: WHAT
Kevin: and it it ends in C
Yunyi: Minor kevin: yeah even though. It's deep the whole song isn't deep
Peyton: Yes, I'm dead Davis: such an extra ending... but I love it
Peyton: Yeah, I mean if you're gonna go out Davis: might as well go out with a bang
Okay, so this isn't a part of the song. Peyton: Yeah, this is the abstract
Linsey: it's like a fucking organ.
Linsey: oh this is her actual funeral Fiona: fire
Emiel: it's like it's juxtaposed again with the beginning cutscene, (yeah)
Linsey: what the actual fuck did I just watch
Naoki: Oh Man that's sad
What the hem man, it's just like oof
Stephen: kind of dark
(Yeah) kinda like dark vibes there at the end
Naoki: the hem just made it so much sadder.
Emiel: That was a good video
Henry: I'm absolutely astonished it touched on so many strange concepts, okay, so here's the concept that struck me the most
was there are some times in not fantasy necessarily
but in fiction there are characters that feel so
Larger than all life and one of the ways that they know that is that they're not only aware of their own mortality
But they know when it's gonna end and so they live
Every moment that they have like it's this one huge beautiful adventure
And they're just happy to be at any point in it whether it's the beginning or the end it's always happy
And I envy that and I wish that I could have a life like that and that's what it seems like
From my impression so far of this artist. That's how she seems to live her life this feels like
pure unadulterated
Just happy to be on this planet doing those things. Yeah, and the music reflected that which I thought was really cool
Like usually does it's sort of like okay
Music is one thing, but the video is another or like okay the message of the song is one thing
But the video is another this was like a perfect union in my opinion
emiel: I feel like it really stuck out in and of itself just to any other
kpop thing I've ever seen
Like hearing all those instruments and like that was a really well-thought-out kind of video for it, too
Yeah,
Henry: and the composition too of like the horn parts was amazing.
Emiel: I mean I loved it. Henry: This is really cool
Katie: WELL
Umu: yeah yeah so well musically what did you think of that
Katie: Honestly too much to analyze right now like I- Henry: too much in the best way possible
Katie: Yeah, like like this is like something. We would analyze in
music theory (yeah) it's so thick and
Jarod: always something going on
Katie: voicings and
You know themes that come through sequences everything the works
Jarod: so many instruments at work too which I think as far as
All the k-pop songs I listen to you like this is definitely the most active everything (yeah)
Gwen: I mean it wasn't bad like I wasn't mad at it. I just also wasn't invested in it at all
Rachel: Yeah
Gwen: Right like it was like good music to just like listen to but it doesn't really
pull you in (yeah) and so it's nothing that's like super repetitive or like not like (straightforward)
Yeah, it's just straightforward. Yeah
Rachel: And I feel like they tried to maybe enhance that through the instrumentation
Which is true but sometimes like I try to sing the nice little or I would record things on my piano
And then like use every different vocal track that there was like
Percussion on the guitar and then like a layer at all, and then you're just like
Gwen: then there's too much
Rachel: Yeah
Gwen: like I think they tried to like make it
unique by adding the instruments which I mean it did make it unique it certainly had a sound to that not
Not many k-pop groups have but it also didn't really fit.
Peyton: I feel like
Trying to describe it's like
Yeah, the broadway thing really stuck with me
(yeah) throughout all of that
Davis: like you kind of forget about that side of the music existing besides all the like
Electronics, and we're listening to like dance music like that was I was just kiddy- that was just wholesome
Peyton: yeah in like a drone shuffle
Davis: Yeah, yeah that was cool actually she like went through several different styles and that one thing you know like
Music even like incorporated a bunch of like different types of I guess orchestral music
I don't know how else you would describe it.
Yunyi: They need to hire a new producer
Kevin: Yeah, we could barely hear the string parts by the end,
Yunyi: I mean it also just sounds like kevin: it was just Brass
Yunyi: I mean the ensemble didn't sound like they were playing together very well,
Kevin: and the brass tambres don't mix together at all
(Yeah) by the end when there's actually a lot of brass and then some things that should you know add color
Turns- are so muted like like the muted trumpet, and there was like a part with chimes
And we could barely hear it and even the choir at the end if you want to be
That type of sappy and corny you gotta hit it you just gotta hit us with it hit us with those voices
But it took us like four measures later to realize oh wait
there's
There's a choir
Yunyi: a lot of the stuff was kind of just floating in the background and also it was just all bound so towards
The treble it was just like a lot of the tinny sounds came out like the scratching of strings on the violin
Hear that and you're not supposed to hear that like when the trumpets had the mute on it
Just sounded like it was like a fly buzzing my ear
it was just
That's really not recording that well, (Umu: okay) although thanks for using live instruments. I mean
Kevin: yeah
Naoki: dude, that was like a
Like a short film a short movie.
Stephen: Yeah, I was gonna say really really involved
(Yeah) looked like it yeah.
Naoki: like with the intro and then the song and then like conclusion
Stephen: Yeah, yeah, just even like how was orchestrated it literally like
Used so many different instruments and different sections and things like that and also just so many different emotional feelings that it was gained through
The different instruments that they use only at different tempos and pulses and even stuff like- (yeah)
Umu: overall
Lindsey: Wow Fiona: wow okay? Well there are a lot of instruments in there
Lindsey; like a LOTTA instruments
Fiona: Like a crap ton of insurance: a fan of that. there were times when like like at the end her voice was like sad
There were like trumpets. I'm like yeah. I know it was just like it made me uncomfortable
It's like what but it's fine because the video wasn't over like I thought it was over. Then I was like
why did it happen
It's like a deceptive thing it's like cadence but trumpence
Lindsey: Trumpence? Fiona: instead of cadence. Lindsey: Oh my god.
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