[Subtitles by youtube @anisian] Raffi: whATTTT
[Rossini's Semiramide Overtune plays]
Umu: So you are now reacting to Winner's Mino and his 2020 release, "Run Away"
Not only did he take part of writing the song and the lyrics, but he also participated in directing this music video
The lyrics describe a post-breakup alcohol binge to erase the memories of the relationship and to run away from the pain
Cloud: That's how we deal with our problems haha Umu: woOOOOoOOO
Umu: The music video paints out the sense of emptiness felt inside and the struggle to move forward as well
Henry: Oof...
Umu: Sorry (Henry: Relatable) Charlotte: Haha I think we both feel personally attacked
Umu: This song is composed by Kang Uk Jin (강욱진), Diggy and Mino himself
Jason: that made me sad
Henry: Run-A-Way
Love the sound so far
Charlotte: Ah yes, the classic running away from your feelings
Sam: Something's approaching him
Kevin: oH
Owen: Major chord!
Cloud: Wow...
Kevin: Ugh... like all the tones are pleasant,
but you know... that it's just an illusion
Jason: Triplet! *da-da-da-da*
That makes it-
Oh DAMN, animation WHAT
that's kinda fire
Kevin: Augmented chord!!!
Raffi: WhaAAAaaTT
Henry: *chefs kiss*
Brianna: His cadences are crazy
His flow is so interesting
Henry: Oh, so clean
Kevin: I like the world that this song portrays-
that it paints
Henry: Love that lower harmony
Sam: Dang, I feel like I watched like a movie just now...
goodness gracious
Raffi: Hahaha (Umu: You good?) yeah, that was a lot to... wow
wow, you know when you're like experiencing excellence?
When you're just like I'm watching charisma right now?
Like (S: Yeahhhh) which is something that you can't really teach, or be taught
It's just within you (S: Yeahhhhh) I feel like that was it
S: Of all the songs that we've listened to, that has been the one that has the most like textual depth in it I feel like,
Because there were just so many layers of what he was saying (Rf: Mhm)
H: It's very- It's a very...I don't know like the-the videography of it and kind of like his use of tone feels like a very-
kind of 'this is a man' dealing with breakup kind of thing, I don't know if you felt that way
Ch: Uh, no
H: No? Ch: I did not...
H: Maybe it's just related to him Ch: Uh... probably
Ch: Ahh I'm looking at the lyrics right now because there's a couple in there that like- were like woOOO
Uh... he says "Bipolar waves are rising further up and down,
I grasp in my hand deepening whiskey on the rocks,
I goggle at your mysterious SNS post,
my eyes are on fire trying to act like an archaeologist,
Ok, ok, I'll run away first, along the torn shapes before sadness takes place and I harden up"
like...
Ow...haha H: Thoughtful lyrics
Ch: uhh like that's (H: With... like-) highly relatable in all honesty like, that is-
like post breakup, you think you're okay and then you're like oh wait nah,
and all it takes is like one night where you're like okay, I'm gonna go look and see what they're doing,
I wanna know what they're doing cause you still care about them,
and then you go and see them on social media, and you're like,
I don't get it, like this person was my whole life for a long time and now they're absolutely not part of it and,
you think everything he says just kind of like perfectly sums that up
H: Added on his musicianship, and lyricality with saying those words is amazing,
little like timbrel thing in diction, that the word run, having that sound on 'ga',
that kind of bright sound is really visceral hearing that repeated,
*sings ga ga-ga-ga-ga-ga* Its- It feels very outpour-y as opposed to like a warmer vowel,
like 'oo' or 'ah', I really like how kinda bright, and brassy it sounds,
*sings ga ga-ga-ga-ga-ga* it just feels really...
painful, in a good way, like it evokes a good emotion, it evokes a good emotion-
This is a great song (Ch: Yeah) This is a great song Ch: Beautifully written
K: I like happy sad music, this is a very good example of that
O: Do you listen to a lot of 'The Cure'? (K: Yes! Ayeee "Sing Street"? yeaHHHH) not surprised yeah
K: Wow O: I was curious, that's great, I love this music video
O: Like whoever directed this music video is very talented, very creative (K: Totally), it's fantastic
O: Co-directed? (U: Yes K: Mhm) Mino co-directed? Good for those- that duo, like they're fantastic
It felt like a lot of their creative choices were risks and they all paid off
Like they just-(K: Mhm) they were super open just trusted their instincts, I thought that worked really well
K: I feel like when approaching this video they knew that the song was like really short,
so they just wanted to pack as much as possible within it
and make it more of like just a-
a psychedelic trip, loaded with imagery and I think it was good,
nothing really lingere- like it turned into animation so fluidly (O: Yes, I thought it was incredible) and-and came out of it so fluidly
O: Yeah
K: I-it begs rewatching, his is the type of video that begs rewatching, even more so than the song,
the song is great to relisten to, but I think this video is just so dense with imagery
Gotta pause and go frame by frame (U: Hahaha)
You know, do that youtube trick [',' & '.' for frame by frame] Where you just look at it-
U: Or just watch half speed- K: Oh that's true (O: Or half speed)
B: No, there's a really big spider right there
Cl: It's on the music stand- B: It's really-*rip headphone users* AHHHHHHH
*spongebob time card '5 minutes later'*
U: It's passed onto the afterlife, you're good
It's under my boot, girl there's nothing there I promise, I'll let you know (B: Okay), I'll keep an eye on it
B: I kinda liked how it was really expressive with the sounds, I noticed like whenever the-
rhythm of the melody would like speed up like specifically with the rap he would stop and do the *deep breaths*
and it was kinda mimicking somebody who would like,
whenever they're running super fast and like right after they're done, they're just like catching their breath,
and I just felt like that was really expressive and it conveyed a feeling and like a scenery as well,
along with their emotion behind it and I kinda liked how throughout,
the piece, I felt like the rhythm section wasn't really changing, but I noticed this a lot like specifically in the rapping section,
that his cadences would constantly be transitioning, like he would be going from,
fast to slow, then fast and back and forth and it was really nice, or he would just constantly building up to it,
had a lot of variety, even though I didn't really know what he was saying, I kind of could understand the rhythm behind it and,
the musicianship behind it, it was just really musical, yeah
Cl: There was- I was gonna comment on the breath too cause (B: Mhm) there was one spot where he like,
stood up from like this sunflower like field thing like in the subway train, and it was around like 2 minutes or something,
Um, and it was just like the heavy breathing (B: Mhm) and then immediate melodic singing,
and I was like, that is really cool, (B: Expressive, yeah) and I just really really like the breath sound,
I was like, that's a really really cool sound (B: Mhm) I don't know why I liked it so much (B: Mhm) but it was cool
U: He's already second listening O: I'm already-
So I was just trying to figure out, was the last chord like a minor three?
O: How did it get back to one *vocalizing*
Cause it had the flat six, it had the minor three
K: Okay, so he's singing in B major, which is the key O: I-I just yeah- so it's got-
K: Yeah (O: *vocalizing*) But the chord was actually a flat six maj- so-so the root is the flat six of the scale,
so it's G major, so the key is B major and the last chord is G major
O: The key is B maj- B flat major K: B major
O: The key is B major K: I think the key is B major!!
K: Yeah?...
Yeah... *checks with piano* Yeah key is B major
So it's- (O: Yeah) so it's a spin on your usual minor fou- is it-is it piano time?
K: *plays on piano* and then you do that,
but we're used to these types of songs and ballads going into *piano*
You know, that's a very familiar type of sounds like oh it's the-
it's sort of like a fallen, sort of melancholy sad minor four sound *piano*
But if you do the relative major of that, suddenly it's happier, but it's also more alien
So let-let's see uh *piano*
But then at the end he like sings with- *piano*
So-so we have the here and there's a- *piano*
His singing which was very flexible the whole time,
still brushes on that D sharp instead of the D natural
The reason I made that connection was because when my ears heard that special chord,
I-I went through you know it's like past experiences, all the songs I've listened to,
and it sounded like a minor four, but then my brain told me, wait it's different,
It's the relative major of that usual minor chord that we hear (U: Okay, okay)
So they-it shares some notes
H: So it was relatable, that could uh-that could do really well in the states,
I feel like that's got a lot of Post Malone, Joji vibes that are-that fits well Ch: I was gonna say Kid Cudi
H: Kid Cudi-Yeahhh "Day 'n' Night" Ch: That threw me way back, that opening intro was Kid Cudi to me
H: I think part of it is his singable range,
he's singing in his lower chest range, (Ch: Yeah, yeah, yeah) and it's not just like "I'M A TENOR" right,
like "I'm a pop star", he's just singing, he's singing,
I- that's why I thought of Joji too, cause he just sings in a comfortable range,
Post sometimes, but it just felt very easy, it felt like he was kind of monologuing,
but also he-you also have that trap flow with the 808 in the background that really makes it feel like a modern pop slash hiphop song,
which is why I thought this could do really well in the states,
and then his flow is amazing, (Ch: Mhm) his use of rhythm and variety,
he goes really freely between triplets and REALLY CLEAN TRIPLETS too (Ch: Yup), with great articulation,
to different um mixes of rhythm and division like 16th note divisions which,
like the musicianship is really clean, and his articulation with his-with his words is really clean,
so I thought it was spectacular, I thought it was spectacular
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K: But anyway, yeah the chord is-*piano* the chord is that *piano*
Which is a half step from *piano sounds like mac bootup sfx*