Kevin: Ok, I- Umu: Hi everyone, my name is-
Kevin: I need a link.
K: I think I have a link to- U: Oh, link, LINK!
U: You don't even know the name of the song!
K: I could just look up Sam Kim, but what if it's the-
K: What if we just react to a different song the whole time... U: *wailing noises*
*more Umu sounds*
[Editor: I think we broke Umu]
K: 'The Juice?'
U: THE JUICE!
K: Nice-
U: Hi everyone, my name is Umu
K: Hi, I am Kevin
U: And I run the Classical and Jazz Musicians React series on this channel.
K: And I am a reactor from Classical Musicians React.
U: Awesome! Well, so,
Kevin and I have filmed duo reactions to Sam Kim's music before,
we reacted to 'It's You', and we also reacted to 'Make Up'
but then I lost the footage or something...
and then, eventually the full series reacted to 'Make Up'.
U: But today we are reacting to 'The Juice',
K: I GOT THE JUICE! U: which is written by Sam Kim-
U: You got the juice?
K: Yeah, it's another song called 'The Juice'.
U: Okay, I was about to ask what that reference was.
I'm sorry, I don't understand it,
but this is written by Sam Kim and Simon Petrén,
they have written some songs together before
but they were like unreleased songs,
just put up on Sam Kim's YouTube channel,
and you guys might also know Simon Petrén for writing for Lee Jin Ah
[Random]
if you are an Antenna...
...label stan.
But you also may know him for writing a few songs for
Seventeen, Pristin, SHINee, Red Velvet, NCT,
so he's just, he's, he's all over the place, he's...
he's got that K-pop stuff down and K-indie stuff down
and he writes for Dirty Loops, so he's the Jazz Man!
[t/n: WOOO!] and he writes for Dirty Loops, so he's the Jazz Man!
and he writes for Dirty Loops, so he's the Jazz Man!
K: Yeah.
U: YYEEAH!
U: So, uh, let's- K: I am excited, the cover with-
K: the thumbnail makes it look a little more pop-y,
a little more dance-y, so I am excited to see where he goes with it.
U: That is accurate, Sir Kevin,
if the viewers have watched Dive Studios,
his podcast with Eric Nam,
he said that his next song he wanted to be a little bit more K-pop,
you know, the lines,
I mean his last song was definitely more rhythmic,
[?????] it has a guitar and he raps a little bit in it,
and I forgot the name of it but...
this is the song I'm talking about,
but he did say on that podcast that he does want to do
something a little bit more dance-y!
K: Nice.
U: And unlike the slow R&B ballads that he's done before.
K: Mhm.
U: So we about - I'm just, I'm just crazy excited, cuz I really like both...
...both of theirs stuffs, Simon's and Sam Kim's discographies.
K: Sounds good, let's go! U: Before we - okay -
U: One more thing, one more thing,
make sure you guys stick to the very end of this video
cuz I have a pretty cool announcement,
like actually really cool, like super susususs-super cool.
Alright, let's go!
We ready for 'The Juice'? (K: Yeah)
3 2 1 'The Juice'!
K: Nice [in vocal fry]
K: Bossa!
Bossa?!
[t/n: Bossa nova - style of samba with jazz influences]
U: Are those snaps or claps?
K: Hey, we're on a zoom-call right now?
Oh, that's funny.
Facial acting.
U: Everything is sooo syncopated, uh!
K: Wooo, that was good.
[t/n: syncopation - putting rhythmic emphasis on offbeats or in between beats]
K: Wow.
That's super weird.
U: OOH! K: Wwoooww!
K: That was really good.
The piano didn't even sound like it was from the same song.
U: Yeah, we have a lot of very distinct sounds, instruments.
K: And the dynamic range, I am very impressed by it.
*Umu imitating hits*
K: Uh, nice, nice,
Gmaj7 [chord]
U: Oh, hello auto-tune.
K: Oh, I like how suddenly I could extract the keyboard sound,
but I couldn't before. (U: Mhm)
K: Oh wow, pan flute, yeah. U: The instrumental keeps changing.
K: Oh yeah, here it is again...
K: it's so faint
K: and the video supports that, too. U: It's like we have shrunk...
U: ...and then normal size again. (K: Yeah)
K: And I like the walls that close in,
I don't know how they do it cuz
it looks like the walls are actually closing in.
U: Right.
K: WOW!
But it's not a modulation, it's modal mixture! [t/n: modulation - changing the key]
Because right after the chord it goes back to the home key. [t/n: modal mixture ~ 'borrowing' chords from the parallel key]
U: We're-! K: Oh, nice, very cool,
K: Oh! U: Wait, I can't talk, I'm gonna miss something.
U: Oh my god...
K: So much for going K-pop, I disagree,
K: I think this is very K-indie... U: Okay.
K: ...and very creative, in a way that K-indie does.
K: Uh, the distortion.
U: Oh, we added some horns this last chorus?
U: Or maybe they were there before [?????] K: I think they're like sawtooth-waves.
U: Right, acting as the brass... K: Yeah, it's more synth- oohohoh, those things, yeah.
K: They're like pads
*Kevin mimicking sound*
K: I like the weird ad-libs, "I just had it" *Umu singing*
U: There were so many quirky elements (K: Yeah)
U: and so many times we expanded vertically and horizontally. K: There's a lot going on.
K: What do you mean by vertically and horizontally,
K: there are many ways to spin that. U: Okay, vertically meaning dynamically,
U: horizontally meaning rhythmically (K: Mm, okay)
U: because that bridge,
I felt like we running forward and then we slowed down
and then running forward and then we slowed down,
even though I don't think the tempo changed,
I think it was all just about syncopation
and drawing out the longer notes and then ending them on an off-beat.
K: Yeah.
U: Um, but nonono, that last chorus,
so I wasn't talking about the chord pads...
K: Hm, there was something, there were two things. U: They come in at 2:43.
U: But it might be sawtooth.
K: Yeah, there were two things that resembled brass,
K: but I think everything is like... generated from a keyboard. U: Yeah, they go like: *imitates 'brass'*
U: Horn-inspired sound, haha, K: Yes, yes.
U: if there was an acoustic version of this it would be a trumpet.
K: Yeah, absolutely.
U: Yeah. Ugh.
K: This is a lot, yeah.
U: UGH! K: This is a lot, yeah.
K: This is a lot, yeah.
K: My favorite part is the pre-chorus,
U: UGH! K: My favorite part is the pre-chorus,
K: My favorite part is the pre-chorus,
K: where everything goes faint,
and then the way the chorus is blasting in your ears is...
K: really really great. U: And then-
U: Yeah, and in the pre-chorus they almost have the
*vocalizes chromatic line* (K: Yeah)
U: Is it, was that tango?
No - flamenco?
K: Something samba, something - yeah. U: No, I do not know my Latin genres -
U: Latin!
K: I wanna say samba. U: They go Latin, so we start with the bossa, right?
U: We start, kind of, with the bossa nova rhythm, (K: Yeah)
U: and then we just go on full pop-k-indie... (K: Yeah,)
K: But the thing about the, I'm gonna call it the samba rhythm,
the *mimics* is that, the way he uses that, those notes,
is everything straightened out, there is no syncopation.
K: It's like *sings line with equal note lengths* U: Right, *joins in*
K: So it's more hypnotic and a little...
U: Right K: ...little, little tipsy, if you will?
U: Oh! From drinking The Juice,
U: Too much juice... K: Oh maybe, yeah, what does the juice mean in this song, I wonder?
U: Yeah, they don't have English subtitles up yet,
U: so we're gonna go *searching* "The Juice - lyrics"
please Genius tell me you have them uploaded.
K: I have been thinking about what he means in his ad-libs,
cuz I think they're so fascinating, he's like:
"I just got it- I just had it, I just had it!"
And I feel like it's a reference to recording multiple takes of a song,
and then he's going "I just had it", and then,
you actually get to hear, probably, the final take of the song,
and in the end he's like "I just had it"
where he literally just had it, and we heard it, you know?
It's like meta, it's super self aware...
and yeah, kind of, kind of mind bending, I think.
U: Right, could also relate to the songwriting process, right?
While writing a song, and you have a melody in your mind
U: and you're like: "Wait, I just had it, what was that, I just had it!"
K: Yeah, yeah right. U: and you're like: "Wait, I just had it, what was that, I just had it!"
K: There is also that, yeah, I think so.
U: The amount of sounds in this song... (K: Mhm)
U: I'd be down to do a second listen, if you would.
K: We can do a second listen
because I think the second verse is longer than the first verse
and I need to verify that.
U: Oh yeah, everything changes, the way he a- ugh,
the pre-chorus- oh my god, I love every section of this song.
Alright, now you can do the countdown.
K: Sure.
Oh wow, so nice...
3 2 1 'The Juice!'
K: Yeah, the beginning is so misleading.
Because once he starts singing
the syncopation is completely...
K: sorta changed... it might be the same, I'm not sure. U: I like the super syncopated claps that are super close to the mic.
K: Oh, they're the same syncopation.
And his enunciation is so cool, so snappy.
U: Right, everything is so snappy about this section, oh, until...
...the riffs start coming in.
K: Ugh, the B.
U: Uf, *drrr*, [?????] K: Yeah, first verse is super short!
K: And the way his voice crescendos into it,
K: he literally goes into a mumble and just...
U: Right K: he literally goes into a mumble and just...
K: he literally goes into a mumble and just...
K: shoots his falsetto through.
U: Ah, *sings bass line*
K: Yeah, there are extensions,
there are literal extensions on the chords, and then-
U: That editing on the voice, that *drrrrr*
K: Yeah yeah. U: That editing on the voice, that *drrrrr*
K: And this is the new section.
K: And then the pre-chorus. U: It's kinda fading.
U: And now we have the vocal layers with - pitched down.
U: Yeah, we're milking the blue notes.
[t/n: blue note - note is played lower than expected]
U: "I'm singing blues"!
K: "I'm singing blues" - and the notes were bluesy.
U: Yeah!
K: Uff
U: And it's so satisfying when the instrumental starts off very full.
K: Mhm, and the bridge just accentuates the energy
and makes it even more which - oh.
U: And we got some of the auto-tuned background riffs
where before they were very clean and clear...
I bet there's a deep meaning about that.
K: This is sort of like the outro. U: It's an outro.
U: And that's why they add in the...
U: "Brass" *laughing in synth* (K: Mhm)
K: Uh, nice, *sings bass line* [t/n: Yes, the bass in this is really noice]
U: "Oh, for real?"
K: Yeahyeahyeah...
K: Super cool. U: So that motif, that both of us keep going like: "Oh yeah"
U: throughout, I think that it appears in the chorus and the outro, the
*descending bass line*
is that just offbeat triplets?
K: Yeah, *both vocalizing*
U: But I think also Simon is probably laying a little bit back on the beat
U: so it sounds so groovy [?????] K: I think so, there was something that's different about it.
K: Mm, I caught up on some of the themes,
he's like begging his fans to-
(Umu: Wait, my camera turned off.) K: Oh. Can I say...
(U: Yeah, you can keep going.) K: Okay.
(U: I'll turn it back on while you talk)
K: Sure, sure.
Yeah, I noticed some of the themes,
especially in the second verse where he talks about how his fans are...
...kinda... a little too much, sometimes?,
and that, you know, he just wants to be left alone,
which, you know, I like that, it's very human, and, yeah...
(Umu: Or society in general) K: Yup.
(U: Like society in general can give you a lot of pressure sometimes)
K: Yeah, exactly.
Could be commentary, and yeah,
maybe the juice is like the energy,
the thing that keeps him in the industry
and wanting to make more music, and it's like:
"I need all my juice"
U: Is that the lyrics? "I need all my juice"? K: Creative juices.
U: What are the lyrics?
K: Oh, I heard "all my juice"
U: *reading* "Got me going crazy, blaming on my juice"
"I never wanna hold you back don't lean on me"
"Blame it on my juice"
Sometimes you just gotta
give yourself a ton of me-time and take care of yourself.
K: Yeah U: "Yeah you want to survive - Yeah you wanting to stay"
"Yeah you want to survive - Why keep running away"
"Blame it on my juice"
U: Of... I'm listening to the bridge right now.
K: Mhm.
U: Yeah, so there's the part where he goes "oh no",
and then he reaches forward and-
*ringtone*
U: Someone is calling my home phone. (K: What?)
U: And Simon programmed the synths to just go like:
*wwhhHOOOAAAHhhh!*
Which is...
So yeah, no, that was brilliant,
we will probably react to it with our full crew
when we get back in school (K: Yeah, absolutely)
it may be a bit delayed because we're already a few months behind schedule
cuz my tendinitis really slows down my editing process,
and I just keep having to delay things and I'm so sorry but
I don't wanna injure myself for life
by pushing myself to much.
But yeah, no, my exciting announcement is:
I will be interviewing Sam Kim and Simon Petrén on this release...
[t/n: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
U: ...don't know when, we have yet to schedule,
but I'm super excited to talk to them about
this brilliant, creative, fun to listen to song,
and so I hope you all stay tuned for that interview.
*Clap* WWOOooo!
K: Yey! U: Yey, thanks so much for watching, everyone,
U: let us know what you think of this song in the comment section below
and I look forward to reading all of your thoughts.
YEY!
Bye!
K: Wwew!
K: Bye! Keep your juices!
U: ???
*cracking up*