Henry: Oh my god, it's so good!!
Umu: You are now reacting to a collaboration between Super Junior's Heechul, Shindong,
Eunhyuk, and Mamamoo's Solar for this SM Station 2 release.
In the video, the Super Junior members take on the personas of
famous Korean rappers who also appear in the music video.
The lyrics make fun of their impersonations, so it's really comedic,
and the song itself is about enjoying life regardless of what other people think or say.
The song is composed by 청담동, 박건우, and mr. cho.
Henry: Alright.
Fiona: Wow! Daniel: Oh my god.
Daniel: Cassette tapes? What are, like 2005?
Seiji: Wow!
Seiji: Speaking of aesthetic.
Stephen: Man! It's like throwback night, this is great!
Henry: Ooh!
Henry: Whoa...
Henry: I like the speak-y rap.
(Cloud: I like the brass!) It's rhythmic, but it's very natural.
Kevin: It's off-beat!
Kevin: It doesn't end!
Kevin: Mamamoo! (Isaac: It's not even...)
Daniel: I really like this bass line.
Fiona: I like this. (Daniel: It seems very adventurous.)
Fiona: Yes, Solar!
Owen: Mhmm. Elizabeth: Oooh!
Elizabeth: Okay, I liked that.
I like using that like...speed up, but with the sound of the last chord.
Owen: The chord? Yeah. Elizabeth: Yeah!
Elizabeth: So using like, something that was part of the song but like...not in a melodic way.
[Kevin laughing]
Isaac: What the heck?
Kevin: It's just so anti of what K-Pop is, the overt choreography.
But yet the music is very much that hype K-Pop.
Kevin: It's on beat! Isaac: There's some life
Henry: Oh my god, it's so good!!
Awgh!
Seiji: This is pretty wholesome. Stephen: Mmhmm.
Seiji: Oh, there's another one.
Henry: I didn't expect his voice to sound like that.
Cloud: Yeah.
Henry: He even raps with his teeth out.
Maybe that's what gives him that *bares teeth* sound.
Cloud: personality
Henry: Awgh!
Kevin: Aw these rappers are so...complex!
Henry: Aw I love that, the triplets!
Those are clean triplets, those are really clean triplets.
Cloud: [singing] Triplet, trip—
Fiona: It's so funny.
Fiona: This is such a good song and video combo.
Fiona: This is like such low effort but high effort...(Daniel: Yeah, really!) it's just so amazing.
Henry: I can totally do this!
Cloud: Oooh that saxophone just going off in the back!
Henry: Ooh, they added on a layer of like...
Nasality, I guess, that's the only way I can describe it.
Kevin: Awgh!
Isaac: Do you hear how fat that is, and how amazing that is?
Isaac: Wooow... Kevin: That's cool because at the end, I was—
Kevin: I was just beginning to have the thought of like,
"If I didn't watch this video, would I enjoy the song as much?"
And then that sick bass, just like the little epilogue,
I'm like, "Yeah, you know what? I think I would!"
Umu: So what elements made it fun?
Stephen: Tempo was great. The bassline was just really catchy. I have—
I really like bass lines that are melodic, like technically they all should be, but some are more so than others.
Something that's really interesting is...
how this rhythm like, [claps]
even though they played some rhythms before it, but they always like
[demonstrating rhythm]
It's just really interesting to me how you see that in like pop music, in Korean pop music,
American pop music. You see it in jazz, you see it also in like Central American music, South American music,
Afro-Cuban music. Literally that rhythm is like, everywhere!
And so it's just really interesting how like...
over what, like the past like almost 200 years?
We've just always gone back to it or alluded to it somehow.
But specifically like that grouping.
Henry: I feel like this could be if...
LMFAO's 'Party Rock Anthem' had a like a couple
like a decade more to mature (Cloud: Mhmmm)
and like throw in it a lot more like style to it.
(Cloud: [singing] Party rockers in the house tonight!) Yeah, yeah, because that gets that refrain gets a little stale but this was so cool.
It's so good, the rapping is so amazing! Oh my goodness, their flow!
Like those triplets were clean, they have a really good sense of momentum.
Cloud: And they still added stuff on to like the last refrain like you're supposed to.
They added the "Hey!" in the background like
"Hey!" like just in the—yeah. (Henry: Yeah)
Henry: A lot of swagger, a lot of swagger in this simple movements. Like, a lot of confidence in the
"Yeah, we are our rapping!" (Cloud: That's the thing, there wasn't—)
"We don't need to show off like...amazing rap moves." Cloud: Yeah
Henry: I think I like this because it's like it can stand alone as a non-meme song. I think.
But the meme level makes it that much more...
Enjoyable, I think. (Cloud: Can we make it a meme anyway?) because the quality is really good!
The quality is really good! But, there's that self-awareness of like the genre
and they don't take themselves too seriously. Not to say we don't love our other...
rap groups, we don't love our Stray Kids, but—
(Umu: We don't love our...?!) Henry: We do!
Cloud: "We don't love our Stray Kids"
Umu: DON'T- YOU WANNA- (Cloud: F*ck em!) Henry: In the context I said,
"Not to say we don't love her other rap groups, we don't love our Stray Kids."
Henry: Because we DO, we DO! Cloud: Not to say that we don't love our—
Isaac: Like the beginning, it has no coherence with the melody.
[both laughing]
Isaac: And it's just like, it's almost as if...
You're emulating a party where you're not thinking about the beats you're just like,
"Yeah, you know my cousin?
Yeah, he came he came and he crashed my car!"
And it's just going in the background.
Something like that, where you're going on a story
and then with total disregard to the music.
And in the way they're dancing it's just anti-climatic. (Kevin: Yeah.)
Isaac: But the music is—
Kevin: Ridiculously hype brass syncopation going on in the back.
Isaac: And it's—ah, I really enjoyed the female vocalist. This very expressive...
approach, the range. So once you're going up, it's not just going up.
It's like really showing, "I'm gonna go up and then bend to the top and then curbs the bottom." Versus just—
Very angular, just shooting up and down. So I was really enjoying every step of the moment.
Kevin: I really like the thumps near the end of the female vocalist section.
It's just enough build up, and then the screen obviously did that little trick but like even
musically, it just made us wait just enough for the "dun dun dun dun dun".
Henry: I'm iffy about it Cloud: There's something about a croissant that it's like... /croissant/