U: Hi guys! This is... K: (a beat later) Hi!
U: Did you do that on purpose?
K: No, it was half... it was... it wasn't on purpose
U: Ok, hey guys! This is Umu from ReacttotheK, and this is...
K: Kevin from ReacttotheLOONA! Orbit for life!
U: Here we go! Our first time hearing Hi High, though I have to admit I watched the teaser,
I listened to the teaser, and I liked that sixteenth note synth that reminded me of Girl Front, so...
K: Spoilers, let's go!
U: Ready? K: No... (same tbh)
U: 3, 2 ...
K: No, I'm not ready for this
U: We're so ready
K: (sobs) It's time
K: Oh my god, it just hits
K: Oh yes
K: Oh this is so on Loona's wheel house
U: Girl! Wow! K: God...
K: There's some "Enter the Void" shit going on
K: *screams because Heejin* (same tbh)
U: The bias strikes
U: There's just...this sounds so much more (K: Awwww) Loona than favOriTe, if that makes any sense at all
K: Kim Lip!
U: Race! Let's go!
U: Ooh! K: Awesome
U: Whoooooo Ah!
K: Oh my god her makeup... (same tbh)
Both: Ok, ok. K: Half time, I like it.
U: Copy and pasting the melody but changing the groove to half time, now we're back to...
K: Alright
K: Oh, it's the running theme from Love & Live. It comes back.
U: Yeah, I love this synth
K: Oh my god! I just...yeah...
K: Oh, it's great! Oh yes, perfect. U: Oh!
U: Syncopated hits.
K: I like it. They do like a 2-bar and then they go into the next verse U: *gasps* Choerry!
U: Oh boy K: Wow
U: Does she have some sort of like... (umu is too shook to properly enunciate her words)
K: Oh my gosh... oh my god this video is epic
K: Oh my gosh
U: Well, like the lyrics, this has a lot of high in it and not much bass
U: There's uhh duhh duhhh *singing the bassline* K: There's more bass than Egoist
U: Well, ok, arguably...
U: Yikes!
K: Loona (Lunar), haha moon
U: Yeah, the lower synth is just running the eighth notes K: Mhmm
U: Yeah, I like that little break right there K: Aww they're having so much fun
K: I like this more than love4eva, but I don't think I like it more than their other subunit songs
K: Or the subunit leads. Singles
U: How can you say that before the song is over?? K: There you go. You're right
K: But cmon...
K: Oh! Now it's...big tonic! A big fat tonic halfway through the bridge
K: Ayy
K: Kim Lip!
K: Oh my god, more "Enter the Void"
K: Yes.
U: Oh my god that's so freaking high
U: Like I can't even...I can't go that high
U: Or head voice...head sing it...a note that high
K: It's actually not that high of a note *Umu tries to reach the note*
K: I think the instrumentals make it higher
K: Yeah, it's weird
K: Another, another! The second...second beat drop
U: And she flies! Oh my...oh my god she's flying
K: She's stepping. She's stepping, yup... U: She's stepping on air
K: I mean that was an adrenaline rush for sure U: Yeah
K: I feel like all the chords were within Loona's wheel house U: Mmm
K: Like there's nothing that really stood...
K: And we've heard...
K: I mean, the synths are even faster here
K: Like...yeah... *Umu sings the really fast synths*
U: What are those? Not sixteenth notes. More like thirty second notes.
K: They're sixteenth notes within this song.
*Both trying to work out the rhythm*
K: Oh no they're thirty second notes. You're right.
*Subdivision intensifies* K: Yeah.
K: Yeah
K: So I guess in a way they are kinda progressing
K: They're even... they're going even further
U: 'Cause like, wait, with Girl Front *sings motif* K: No, Odd Front
U: Ohhh right K: Odd Front is the one where the synths are REALLY loud *sings motif*
U: Right K: Yeah
U: I think those were sixteenth notes K: Yeah those were sixteenth
U: Now we're thirty seconds K: Yeah
U: We're speeding up K: Mmhmm
U: We're speeding up the running K: Getting higher and higher
U: Getting higher and higher in vocal range
K: Come on, sixty fourth notes! Where are they?? (or hemidemisemiquavers since this is British English)
K: Where are they?? Next comeback! U: Next! Next comeback!
U: Next comeback, sixty fourth notes! K: Next!
K: See, I think like... I feel like this is about the same tempo as love4eva
*Tapping out rhythm*
K: But like that one doesn't have the crazy synths
*Tapping out rhythm*
U: Yeah K: Yeah, so this one feels way more energetic
K: Even though, I think love4eva is pretty energetic too
U: Ok, are we going to give this a second listen?
K: I don't think we need to U: Ok
K: I think this is pretty straight forward
K: It's a straightforward Loona bop U: Yeah, it is a straightforward Loona bop
U: I don't think they went as mainstream as they could've
K: Right, which is good. They still kept the integrity, yeah U: The Loona sound, yeah
U: 'Cause like, definitely all the solos songs have such different sounds K: Mhmm
U: But in the end you can kinda tell when it is Loona K: Yeah
K: Yeah, with all the subunit songs, there is...
U: Like the usage of chords, harmonies, melodies, like just combined
U: Yeah, I guess combining the subunit sounds K: Mhmm
K: I'm hoping that the solo styles could like come back and like interplay
K: I'm hoping! I mean like I don't know what the rest of the album sounds like,
K: And we're going to listen to that at some point soon U: Mhmm
K: So I'm excited for that
K: I have a feeling that it's going to be quite similar to their subunit stuff, though
U: I think mainly because this mostly sounded like yyxy stuff
K: Yeah, yeah, for sure
K: It sounded like yyxy with a little bit of Mix & Match
K: No pun intended, because it's mixing and matching U: I see
U: Yeah, personally, I'm so craving the Loona 1/3 stuff
K: Really? You like the "go shipeo" U: Because that was the most out stuff
K: Wow U: Like chord wise and harmonically
K: But Loonatic was from Mix & Match
U: Very true, but that's your favourite song, not mine K: ...ok
U: Alright, so Hi High was nice and straighforward K: I think it's too straightforward (sTOP MUMBLING)
U: Still got that Loona flair, but yeah also like not the most complex thing we've ever heard K: I like it (but he's shaking his head?? idek)
U: Which it TOTALLY FINE K: No, on re-listens, I might like it more than Love & Live
U: Mmm, oooh! K: Yeah
U: Mmm K: I mean Love & Live's got the epic key change
K: And just the synth blast U: I like the vocal melody better with this one
K: Mmm U: And like the...I just can't get over the thirty second note synth
U: Because that makes the song for me K: Yeah
U: Otherwise I don't think I would like it as much if there weren't any
K: Well, that means...I think the thirty seconds then make it even more for me than it does for you
K: Because that's definitely the main thing that the song has going for it
K: But it makes it for me so much U: Some of the descending chords during the chorus were pretty nice
U: We were talking over most of it, but I caught some K: Ok
U: Some, like, tastiness
K: Is it worth a re-listen? Do you think U: *without any hesitation* Yes.
K: Alright, let's go. Let's go! U: HAHAHAHAHA
U: With that being said, we're going to listen to it a second time
U: And hopefully talk less over it because I wanna hear more...
U: I wanna listen to the...because I was only listening K: You're right
U: To the upper vocals and the upper synths and that's why I was like, "It's so high!" K: Uh huh, that's true
U: But then I was like, "Oh yeah, there are some lower things." K: I think the bass is pretty punchy. It's pretty punchy.
U: But the thing is like, it's just holding out notes and that's why it didn't pop out as much K: Mmm
U: Because we have so much moving rhythmically in the upper register, so that's where our attention is drawn K: Mhmm
U: But since the bass is just dummm like you know, moving slower and holding out notes K: Mhmm
U: You don't necessarily pay attention to it K: Yeah
U: love4eva! *smack*
K: It'll disappear (??)
K: Ahh
K: Yeah, I love that beginning!
K: It's like a half start *mimics beginning synths*
K: So sudden
U: *bwingg* I like how it hits and then it changes pitch K: This intro is fantastic
K: Oh my god.
U: This synth right here is different from the one they use in the chorus K: Mhmm
U: And then the synth sounds are very Love & Live
K: Yeah
K: *sings* Dun dun dudun...
K: *sings again* Whooo ah!
U: So we've got a pretty rhythmic bass along with percussion on top of that that isn't quite the...
K: Ah, now it's like... U: Ok wait, they changed it up
K: Vivi!
U: We still have...we have the 2 and 4, but we have some other percussion samples K: Yeah
U: Da da da, da da da *continues singing the rhythm*
K: Oh you're right
*both sing the rhythm*
U: They probably really emphasize that, like that hit in the choreography
K: There's a minor four over there *sings*
K: Ooh, goes straight to the second again
U: Oh that's so good! I love that moment so much! K: Yeah, yeah.
U: They're really...I think they're doing a really good job of conveying all the past Loona music video stories K: Mmm
U: Which, since you haven't seen all the music videos, you may not know yet. K: Yep.
U: Yep we've got this lower synth *sings* K: Yeah
U: But I'm not sure whether it was there before
U: It isn't there anymore during the half
U: It's there right now
U: Yeah, I thought she was going to get the chorus K: Yeah
U: Her vocal is just too good K: See, the vocal melody is actually pretty boring
K: But that's...if the vocal melody were super active,
K: Then the thirty second notes would just make it too cluttered
K: So I think the song works better because of it
K: Oh bridge.
K: Nice
K: There's a lot of move...gliding stuff
U: That's Chuu, right?
K: Huh? U: *singing Chuu's high note*
U: See I can only hit that in falsetto
U: I think that was Chuu K: That probably is Chuu
K: Awww they're together!
K: Did you hear this little *niuuuu*
K: Those little sliding chords. Like, chromatic planing
K: Oh, high high HIIGHH
U: Yeah yeah.
U: See they use the same melody at the "High High High"
U: But they change out the rhythm and the chords were different too K: Yeah
K: But it ended in a schmalzy minor four.
U: 'Cause I was almost gonna to complain like "Oh wow they're copy and pasting that chorus again as an outro" K: Mhmm
U: But as soon as they changed it up a bit, it varied a bit K: Yeah. I like it.
U: It did good. Yeah K: Mhmm
K: Man it lived up to the hype U: Yeah. Definitely yes. Yes.
U: I like this much better than favOriTe too
U: You ok?
K: FavOriTe's just, oh favOriTe was...yeah.
K: I can't believe it
U: Didn't hit me as hard. This hit me. This one... K: Yeah
U: Especially since I guess they played more on the story between each member too K: Mmm
U: Ok! So we'll be doing a first listen to the album
U: But it might not be out for a while because we're moving into our house
K: We have a lot of stuff going on U: Hella busy!
U: We have a lot of stuff going on in our life,
U: And I'm probably going to dump a lot of the video editing on my assistant editor, but he's got a lot of projects too.
U: So it'll get out eventually, but please look forward to it.
U: Yay! See you guys later K: Bye!