James: Go off sis, I heard that riff again! Melissa: wig
James: who's doing that?!? who's practicing?!?!
Umu: So now you're reacting to Seventeen and their August
Single called Hit. The song is described as a high-energy
EDM anthem.
The lyrics express Seventeen's message of freedom from the things that control us
and the music video uses motifs from the Dead Poets Society
to underscore the idea of self-determination.
The song is composed by Woozi and Bumzu, and the member of Vernon contributed to the lyrics.
Henry: So is this supposed to be their idea of a hit song?
Cloud: If we name it Hit it'll be a hit! Umu: it's how it sounds- like it hits hard.
Henry: It hits hard
Henry: I have big expectations Cloud: WAKAWAKA bOOM BOOM
Kevin: Have you seen Dead Poets Society?
Isaac: ......Dead
....Pool?
Kevin: Dead Poets Society
Kevin: Ever heard of it? Isaac: No Umu: *dies of laughter*
Kevin: what? you haven't even heard of it (I: no) Robin Williams. Isaac: No
Umu: *still dying of laughter*
Kevin: I haven't seen it either. So, Hit
Elizabeth: Hey hey hey Umu....
Aju Nice!
Fiona: I Like that give Daniel: Yeah Fiona: give me some claps
Melissa: This rhythm is so lit
James: He has an interesting tone of voice
Elizabeth: There's so much like *woaw* happening in the bass
Henry: He's so pretty (rt Henry)
Melissa: That's like really high, James: oh
James: I heard that riff in the background... whoever that was
Daniel: It almost sounds like there is no pitch in the bass line
because of the way the Timbres are set up
Elizabeth: Eight million things are happening at all times right now
Fiona: That an eye contact that dancing though, Daniel: it's almost
Hyper-masculine (F: it is) how tough the music sounds and like this choreography too
Elizabeth: Oh and now we got like Owen: That was cool
a high synth ostinato, okay
Owen: They're such good dancers, Elizabeth: oh, okay
Kevin: Syncopation is pretty awesome
Henry: This is a different pretty boy (rt)
James: He got a high voice
Go off sis, I heard that riff again (wig) who's doing that who's doing that who's practicing?
Who's Good? who's gonna singing? I need to know give me their names
Owen: *singing bass part* 6....1.
Elizabeth: yeah, I just feel like a lot of lyrics in like Owen: 6.....1!
2019 kpop are sort of like like a lot of the Chorus lyrics- They're like super minimalist. Yeah
Owen: Instrumentals, yeah
Daniel: dude, their jaw lines are so
sharp they can like
Cut my fingers off. It's crazy
Cloud: How high are we going to go? I don't know!
Henry: TURNS DOWN FOR WHAT
Cloud: drop- the-bass Henry: Oh it didn't actually-
oh. that's kind of... that's different
in unison? I kinda like that
I don't hear a lot of unison chorus singing. I like it though.
Oh! Ah, hey that was pretty cool!
the: *wait, boom!*
Owen: 1!
That's all you need.
Elizabeth: does it say "hit sound" and then it like drops the bass? xD
E: what xD O: hit sound! E: what!? XD
Fiona: This is so....
what's the word...
hype? Daniel: yeah F: it is!
Well, THAT was a... hit!
Umu: did it hit you?
Fiona: It hit me hard!
Daniel: well, I mean going off of that this sounds like as I said before I'm just probably and repeating myself
Hyper-masculine in a word it's just like the masculinities are so present in the beats how fast-paced they are. How like
intense and like
Percussive everything sounds even though even the music the pitches to the point where like even the pitches sound
Distorted like they don't even sound like pitches like the tampers are just so like rough and edgy
I guess you can call it that. They're just really going for that like ruh
Daniel: You know Fiona: BEEF cake
daniel: Their voices at one point sounded like they're chanting like on a football field you have
that metaphor and then like there's that other time
Where like it sounded like Gregorian chants,, but in a way where it kind of reinforced the masculine kind of
Sonic tone. I don't know. It was just very like
HIT! the sound of hitting in a music form.
Kevin: it's really interesting how
You know usually in the pre-chorus the build up before the chorus if I were a composer slash singer
I would kind of save some energy because I know the chorus
Has to you know reach beyond that what when the pre-chorus here is reach and I'm like wow, they're really screaming them
Like, okay. How is this gonna
Live up to that. How is this gonna surpass it?
and you need to get this giant blast of sound in the chorus that
I'm never prepared for and I have heard the song before but I'm still not prepared for it and
The chorus does a very interesting thing where it alternates between F
Bass and A bass but because of how much sound I don't get that sort of
I don't know that colorful Association that I have with harmony not like a synesthesia way, but usually, you know
Like an F major chord makes me feel a different way than in a minor chord
but here because it's sort of just like a base switch and everything else is just this blast of sound the
I feel the same way despite the change of base and it really feel that way in music
And I think it works to the songs
Benefit because it's just so much it just hits so hard
Umu: Isaac what is your opinion?
Isaac: Well, I think it's for me it sounded very stock
because it just it followed the tropes of like an anthem type song
Where you there they're chanting for?
the buildups and you have
instrumentals that just slowly just rev up maybe it's just the intervals get tighter and tighter tighter and it's just bam
Kevin: In reference to your point about it being an anthem.
I like this chorus because it kind of reminds me of like
Early 2010's or late 2000s type of kpop anthem. Well, even like a little bit of C pop
I can hear a little bit of that. Oh
You know it just kind of relies on that but I haven't heard such a pure you know
almost innocent naive type of anthem
Chorus in a while and it really brought it hit home for me like something about it felt a little nostalgic in a way
but of course there's a new this new blasty sound that's associated with it that no old c pop song would ever have
so it's like I think it's bringing the old and
Turning into something new
Henry: at first. I was thinking this might be sounded like a lot of old 2PM
Songs but it incorporates a lot more
2015 onwards
dance party songs... sounds
Cloud: I was gonna say it's an interesting fusion of things like the dance party music, but then like the
Which reminds me of like that old like house music like little bop Henry: yeah, what do you think made
it sound so modern?
because I'm trying to think... like what in the music can we separate it from like older 2PM.
Cloud: It's a lot of the dancing at the flashing lights for me, you know? Henry: you think it's in the visuals?
Cloud: I don't- I mean some of it was in the visuals yeah
Henry: Yeah, I mean it's definitely different
Umu: I think there's more syncopation
Henry: H-h-hit sound...yeah
Cloud: they also did some like different stuff than just like plugging the bass the way that like early 2000s would
Where you know sometimes they take it out and then like... Henry: There's more layers, there's definitely lot more layers
as far as instrumentation goes and the form... just seems... I don't want to say cleaner?
but I give it that like a
like a
3 out of 5
Chimichangas,
I guess
Elizabeth: *kinda overwhelmed* *its been a long day* alright see okay. Here's the here's the here's the thing about Seventeen, right?
There's like a bunch of members and they like super high energy stuff
At least a stuff that I've heard is so high energy
and they're one of the groups that because like there's so many members like each member kind of has like
Their own little like style or thing happening
So then it's just this amalgamation of like a lot happening and not that that's like I'm not saying that's a bad thing
I mean like part of the appeal with kpop is the spectacle I think and having
Like your brain kind of frazzled by everything that's happening in thing. Owen: a million things
Elizabeth: Yeah. I enjoyed that
Owen: I've been like I have no idea what happened, but that was really cool
Elizabeth: Exactly!
Owen: I feel like just very simple things about kpop that make it so good
Like there's such simple things to a really high level like the dancing is... That dancing is not simple. Dancing is really
Complicated and hard, it seems really hard Umu: It's really hard
Owen: like the chord progression of it was really simple
It was one six four
Five two one six four five and then of course is just one six and it's like such a high production value of it
(Yeah) that it works for sure
Elizabeth: yeah, and that's that's also what I was saying before about how like
I think what's like really important to kpop is like texture style
changes within one song because like you're right the harmonic looping of like the poppy like k-pop songs like it's not
always the most complicated they don't use that many chords and
Sometimes you don't even notice because like all of the textural elements all of the layering and mixing of the different
Accompaniment instruments is just like so dense. And so
Complicated that it like keeps this energy through the song using you know not necessarily chords, but
through like rhythm (rhythm, texture, speed) and timbre
Owen: Yeah, Elizabeth: yeah, that's really what does it
What do you say when you're allergic to rodents?
Yunyi: ACHOO! mice >.<
(cuz aju nice rhymes with achoo! mice)