Nick: ...wide Aaron: *fan boying* [stan onf] this is so cool Nick: I dunno what it is- [their talent]
Umu: You're now reacting to the boy group ONF and first you'll be reacting to the title track of (their) Go Live
2019 album. The lyrics ask why a person loves someone who makes them feel broken.
They don't understand the attraction they feel but the person they are attracted to is the center of their world
They are willing to carry the scar that they caused because of their love but they don't know why
the song is composed by Hwangkyun from monotree and the onf member MK
James: ya know you're like in love with a toxic person basically
yike-
Brianna: so my instrument
*le gasp*
James: onf~!
oh I like that footsteps
huh
Brianna: *copying the synth*
I like how it sounds like it's in the distance *mimics synth*
James: "ulge" I like that
it was like a glottal attack that he did there
Henry: Whoa, I like the "wha wha" Cloud: like tremolos
Elizabeth: ooh I like that... Owen: it's a good chord, the beat? Elizabeth: the pause and then the like
Elizabeth: UUWAH Owen: tonic
minor,
Elizabeth: yeah you get like the bass, you get all of the voices. It's just like a very effective hit i think.
Nick: I love the glissando sound of *synth noise*
Aaron: Yeah, it's so sing-songy like... Nick: It's like swagger
Aaron: It's a really cool sound too
Isaac: They're on an island Kevin: the the winding down after the chorus is very successful
I think, coming back to that more intimate sound with the poppy percussion
Owen: It's kind of a cool synth sound, the bum bum bum... the arpeggiation. Sounds like string-ish but
That's off in a cool way
aw they use the same tremolo at the beginning
Elizabeth: oooh this is a cool section
There's something about the like bwuaaa it's just so wide
Aaron: aaaaaaaaaa this is so cool Nick: I dunno what it is [PLEASE STAN ONF]
Kevin: yeah the applied chords are pretty, pretty cool I admit it's pretty...
It's oddly satisfying even though it's something I've heard before
Kevin: This video was all over the place there's like human cloning????
it's like every movie cliche
[well it's a part 2 of a story line kevin i'd see why it's confusing especially because the fandom is also confused]
Elizabeth: It's like- it's like in...It's like Superboy Cadmus labs
I'm really into Young Justice
James: Hmm
Brianna: I really like their pre-chorus it always kind of accelerates a little bit *adds subdivisions, there's no real tempo change
And so when you get to the chorus, you feel like a settle on the beat
Kevin: the h- the strongest part is the fast swing
That kind of interchanges in the chorus
In Inception now, we're in Inception/ Doctor Strange territory
Cloud: It does kind of alternate between like heavy and light
Kevin: Oh
Yeah, that's pretty cool
yeah, I thought that was the end like it's it's a nice little bonus
James: Interesting
*discuss-sing what note it ends at*
Brianna: 4~
3~
I think it was b6
b6 5 4 3 2 1
Brianna: *done with herself*
Okay
James: mm-hmm *when you're right*
Nick: I really love the ending
Aaron: *singing hook* nick: vuuuuuuooom
Like with a big wide vibrato
Aaron: it's like this new what new-age funky
Techno type... type music
Nick: yeah
Umu: yeah- *reminding Nick to talk about static
Nick: static... I absolutely loved how about the beginning of the song and then I think it came back later
They use a static instead of like a snare
And it just give it a really cool grunge-ish vibe
I just love it. [me too]
Aaron: I think my favorite part about the song was *sings*
It was just like so
Strange or like strange
In this whole like heavy low bass sharp
well
it's like low, sharp, clear sounding bass and then all of these other like rhythmical elements and then we have this like
*hook*
(N:Yeah) but it just all kind of
Which is all kind of like seemed to contradict itself, but I did-
I, I did like it, like I think it had a good drive and like a good beat and like
Yeah,
Henry: I want to find that *pause* bum because you know, I like that, you know, I like that
You know like when they subvert my- subver my *dies a little*
Yeah, okay I thought that was like out of time but no it was this right there
Cloud: Just hold the break Henry: one beat one off. I like that
Yeah, they had a lot of ideas in there
they had a lot of ideas.
Cloud: Okay, the little motif that they started in the very beginning Henry: *sings hook*
Cloud: nononono that- see that one i liked
Henry: you liked that?!
Cloud: i do like that
Henry: I wasn't a fan Cloud: I- okay
I didn't like how much they used it but it kind of reminds me of like
Some AJR songs, I listened to but (Is that even the name of the band)
Where they just like- it's just something really catchy
and i'm like... I can dance to this
this is great!
Cloud: *sings*
Henry: It's got that kind of chill summer pop song vibe
Cloud: but it's like a little just a little out of tune
Henry: yeah cloud: or like you know
Like the way that they echo it, it like rings
Cloud: Like a little out of tune Henry: does that bug you?
Cloud: And that does bug me Henry: does that bug you in other contexts?
Cloud: it feels like I'm playing a false harmonic, you know
Like where you don't want it to and then it just goes dead and I'm like nOOOO
I feel like the more I heard it just the more
C: I disliked it Henry: I think it really helps in certain contexts
But the rest of this was a clean sound clean like summer pop
I don't know how to describe it except for clean like just freshly mopped.
Cloud: It was very summer-y
I was almost expecting to hear like a steel drum
C: somewhere in there Henry: ha ha ha
Cloud: i don't think i did,,, henry: no
Cloud: but like i was kinda expecting it henry: my gripe with this song...
Is the trumpet
*the hook*
Umu: that's a synth.. Henry: it's- i know
It is it's not a trumpet it's a really like modified sound
But it kind of evoke it's in that range of a trumpet and it sounds a little brassy and what it immediately jump to is
the trumpet MIDI sounds that you hear
in Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire
Cloud: dude i love those old game boy tracks
Henry: It has a lot of nostalgia too but I-. Cloud: I love that
Henry: I wish you either went full electronic or full brass
cloud: interesting
Henry: it felt like kind of uncanny valley to me uncanny valley, you know, like when robots look kind of human but
You can still tell they're robots. Cloud: I agree with that to the string part
like there's a lot of like swells and tremolo. So I was kind of like, you know, like I wish you would either make it
more...
String sounding or more electronic sounding
[WE FILMED THIS LONG BEFORE COVID] Henry: they also had a lot of other like weird
Structural ideas through there and like there was one point where there's like a rap section,
that was only like two to four bars
Cloud: I liked what we had though Henry: and it grew right away.
I almost wish they milked it more (C: his voice was really cool) like really milk that low voice
build up
You know to build up that tension, but it went it zoomed by
Kevin: so most of the song is one two three
four one two three, four dun dun...
Dun dun and and yeah for a song yeah, it sounds like that should- that's the smallest unit of
of music and and usually when we hear this type, we think of it in straight
so if we were to subdivide that more it would be
*singing it but with a visual representation*
Yeah, except they actually divided that that that main beat I was I was doing into threes so we'll be
Dun dun dun dun
So suddenly there's like- and the I don't know if it's an accordion or if it's a synth or something else
but the accordion sound oddly fits
Because it does sound like some weird Paris Cafe
Isaac: That's true Kevin: that type of fast. Yeah
So, I don't know it works, it's cool
I'm a fan
There are some good other cool moments in it. like the last note is not anywhere in the in the main scale. It's a
V of
VI
Which is a choice that I enjoy
Isaac: it didn't feel repetitive due to a couple of things because of the way the
Rhythm just transforms and mutates and keeps growing and growing
So when you hit the *hook*
It's almost a release from this development to *hook*
And then you can start a new one bah bah bah bah bum da bum da bum bum and then release
So it wasn't- it was a repetitive, but it didn't feel boring
Kevin: it's got other tropes too like the beginning of the *cloud's hated synth*
Dada which by the way is in duple that's da da da da
Dum da du dum, you know most songs
Yeah, I'd I would I would say most pop songs when they find something catchy like that
they use the entire rest of the song to
Exploit the heck out of that da da da dun like every section used to have da da da dun as an echo
but no they kind of move on right away into other cooler things and it feels like there are things that should be
gimmicks? if they're used in other songs, but this song makes everything sound
fresh and Genuinely musically interesting [describe any onf song in one sec go:^]
Umu: Anything else you wanna talk about?
U: Maybe (Seiji: no) rhythmically switching between Duple to the *fast swung beat?
Stephen: I'll be totally honest.
I wasn't paying attention to that.
I saw some dudes back light up and I was like
wow looked kinda cool [okay me too]