Hi guys, this is Umu from ReacttotheK and today, I'll be rocking to Day6's B-Side track for their October comeback, "I Need Someone".
Now, someone tweeted me saying that this is something that Day6 has never done before, so I'm very excited.
uuuuuUUuUuUUUUUHHHH YEEEaaaaaaaahhhh
Okay, let's go! Oh-- I will not be reacting to a lyric video.
plz don't kill me ;A;
'Cause whenever there are lyrics on screen,
I get caught up in reading the lyrics, and then I don't pay attention to the music so...
*cute smile*
Le'go
Oo--
Okay, another feelsy song.
I really like the... he's really emphasizing the first beat, and then he's just backing off, decrescendo-ing.
Yep, they haven't done this... *thinking*... style before.
1- almost 100% ballad. They've done ballads before but it was more rock ballad. This, so far, sounds like a pop ballad.
But it's a very good pop ballad, and I'm really, really liking this so far.
Okay, so like, the piano is playing the same chord over and over, but because they're emphasizing...
...accenting different beats and really backing off and doing like-- OOH
I like that rhythm! OOH I LIKE THIS SO FAR!
vocal melody rhythm was cool. Yes, I really like that. I'm sorry, I keep talki--
*SHOOK*
Imagine Dragons, is this you??
It turned acoustic?!
Those vocal harmonies remind me of Imagine Dragons, that's why... or it's like Bastille or something...
*is amazed by this MASTERPIECE of a song*
Ooh~ I'm loving the drumset...
...beat with like a lot of the lower tones being used in the bass drum.
*flicks eyebrows in love of this M A S T E R P I E C E*
I like this a lot.
[It's] already much better than the main title track song.
OoOoOOo~ Someone sang really high and someone sang really low. I love when that happens.
Okay, there's an electric guitar?!
Oh my God, the textures they are creating with the instruments and, like I was talking about before, they're accenting--
*is taken aback by the little breakdown whistle thing followed by the rockin breakdown*
wHAt Is haPPEniNG iN ThIS SOnG?!!?!?!
OOH~ Oh, I really, really, really really, really, really, really, really like this song.
*heart eyes*
I don't wanna talk about it because I just want to listen! <3<3<3
I'll eventually finish my very first sentence that I st--
started this reaction off with.
I like the silence with the instrumentals that, like, "Duh Duh duh dUH."
*umu asks day6 answers*
And those, like, spastic--
*day6 answers her call yet again*
That--that's... cool.
WOW
*is transported into day6isawesomeland where jae, in a suprising turn of events, ISN'T chicken little in a human suit*
But anyway--
*day6 interupts her thoughts again*
THINGS KEEP HAPPENING; I CAN'T FINISH ANY OF MY THOUGHTS!!
aUGH, da duh duh duh Duh dUH.
'Cause the vocal--OH.
Oh, they prolonged that for a little bit.
ohHMyGOd THoSe DrUMs!
*doesn't know what to do with her body to handle this beauty of a song*
*settles upon being a cute lil umu*
*in awe*
Okay, so like... I don't think, like,
the vocal or instrumental melody
is that complex, but they're doing enough rhythmically
and with the textures of the different instrumentation, and like the introductions of...
the electric guitar, with the acoustic [guitar]
that it keeps you on your toes.
Oh my god. I love that so much. That was so fucking good.
I'm gonna--I'm getting emotional. *laughs*
WOO
Okay, okay, okay.
[The] first thing I was trying to talk about was that the piano was playing the same exact chords
and it would have just gotten boring if it was like eighth notes like, "duh, duh",
But it was like, "dAH duh duh dAH duh DAH!"
Like, they were accenting unexpected beats, so that's what really carried the song along.
And then of course, they did change up the chords a little bit, but it was, like, very small changes.
So it kept like the same exact feelsy aesthetic.
"Feelsy" is going to be the number one word of this reaction video.
I'm sorry, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
AND THEN, okay, that...
Bastille/Imagine Dragons harmonies during that chorus.
Holy shit, I love it.
I know we've talked about this so many times in our reaction videos,
but like, the consonants of the Korean language,
[they] just bring us so many cool rhythms and so this song had amazing vocal rhythms,
fantastic drum fills, great syncopation with the instrumentals that just, like, blew my mind.
This definitely going on the "Hey, Yunyiiiiiiii, am I flipping out too much? Should I put this on the To-React list?" playlist that I have for her.
sooo yeahh
That was-- oh my god. I'm gonna listen to that again.
*listens to it again to further A N A L Y Z E*
Yeah, so...
Also what I think helps create the feelsy aesthetic of the song is that they have, in the piano, the base notes...
...every downbeat, so it's just kind of... the whole notes...
*pauses video so she's not distracted by the aforementioned tour de force*
Whole notes in the left hand on the piano
So, you know, it fades over time. While in the right hand they do eighth notes where they accent it on the downbeat.
So it's like: big down beat and then
It just naturally fades in left hand but he, you know,
~ l i g h t l y ~
fades the eighth notes in the right hand.
So that just creates this, like, you know, almost
push-and-pull feel.
uGH- So, so good!~ Okay.
*appreciates+analyzes*
And they're using-- right now, they're using the same, um, "Duh duhduh, Duh duhduh, Duh Duh"
If you guys know AKMU's "Time and Fallen Leaves", when you first listen to it, you may think that it's in five
actually instead of common time because of the syncopation and accents are like
1, 1, 23, 4, 5 or something like that,
but it's actually--you know--just--for it-- it's just--
*DRUMS TABLE*SO NICE~ IT'S SO GOOD
wahhhhh<3<3<3<3<3
The contrast between
each section is so great because of the, you know,
changes between instrumentals, and I love--
OHMYGOD. The amount of frickin' reverb that they're using on that
guitar. That, like, just randomly seeps in and out,
*heart eyez*
Ugh, I love it.
And like the drum part right there, and then you expect it to go freaking hard, but it doesn't. So they, like--they change--
*GOES HARD*
They change up the pre-chorus very nicely and do some unexpected things.
You know what, S C R E W I T.
I'm going to post my reaction to this before I do, and post my reaction to the main title track song.
'Cause I'm way more excited about this one.
*chills*
*uses her body to convey the DUHDUHness of the song at the appropriate times*
That's really cool because they change up the rhythm electric guitar
[ inaudible ] or whatever it is.
And then they change the rhythm with this like this is a great last chorus, like...
When you have a third chorus, frickin' change it.
Don't always have polyphonic ending choruses.
'Cause with polyphonic ending courses... So you just, like, basically can copy->paste one of your first choruses and then
and then just riff around it. Like, that's the usual third chorus that all pop songs have.
but with this one, they change it up COMPLETELY, like, the rhythms.
And, they didn't change the melody, but they changed the rhythm
enough for it to sound completely different and now they have an outro.
It's frickin' awesome. Really, really well composed song
Like I said before:
Definitely one of my new favorite Day6 songs.
Holy shit. I'm gonna get so down to this...
at the Toronto concert.
Yeah, that was good. That was... that was good shit.
10/10
No, no, 15/10.
I love it. Okay. I'll release the main title track song reaction after this one. 'Cause....
YOLO?
Thanks for watching, bye~~~~~