Davis: That's- This is like the kind of bass that I kind of want to hear whenever we're like driving in my car (Peyton: Yes)
Like, I want that rear view mirror to shake, like while I'm going down the road (Peyton: HAHAHAHAHA)
[Rossini's Semiramide Overture]
Umu: Okay, so the first group that will be reacting to is Gugudan
They are a girl group debuted in 2016 with nine members ranging ages 17 to 24
Fun fact: They're under the same company as VIXX and some of them are even actresses and some in VIXX's music videos, so we've literally-
Davis: So we've seen them!
Umu: Seen them physically before (Peyton: Oooooh!)
Umu: Yeah, so this is called "A Girl Like Me" and this is their second comeback and the music video has art history references and the
song is kind of about promoting self confidence and, umm, a little bit of narcism... too
(Henry: Oh, woah) ...narcissism
Emiel: Narcissism? (Umu: Narcissism) Okay
Jarod: All right
Katie: Rub... ber big baby buggy bumpers... okay [laughs]
(J: Three...) Katie: Three two one go!
Jarod: Ooh! (Katie: Wait, is that part....? of the video?) That- Like the descending synths
Kevin: The way the instruments- (Khanh: There we go!) The instruments doubled the voice
Hugo: I am already all about this Jeremy: Yeah, this is like, really cool (H: Oh fuck!)
Lindsey: Ladies! [smiles]
Fiona: Such a bouncy bass
Davis: That's- This is like the kind of bass that I kind of want to hear whenever we're like driving in my car (Peyton: Yes)
Like, I want that rear view mirror to shake, like while I'm going down the road (Peyton: HAHAHAHAHA)
Jarod: It's like cheese... that room is like cheese... good 'ol Swiss
Emiel: I like the vibe of this tune
I don't know how to describe it yet. That's nice
Stephen: It's almost funny with like the patches that they're using in
Like, instrumentation around (Naoki: Yeah) And then we take it more seriously than ju-
You know, than like some of the other songs (N: Yeah)
Fiona: It's kind of repetitive, but, like, it changes so often. It's so much... keeps you interested
Peyton: You got every electronic sound I love
Davis: Yeah, I feel like whenever songs like this are like mostly electronic
The rhythmic complexities when it interests me, like, most overall, because everything else is kind of just like a wash of sound
(Fiona: Then it repeats again. it's like a call and response) Lindsey: Oooh I like that kind of like, rhythmic thing, like
When they- (F: different....different)when they're doing the "da da da da" (F: same)
Whenever like it's- it's kind of rhythmically a little off from where you think it should be in (F: That's different)
Hugo: Oh, I wanted it to go up, I wanted it to go up right there (Jeremy: Mhmm)
I'm sure they will later though (J: Yeah)
Henry: This definitely reminds me of like different visual art mediums, it's interesting
Hugo: Those hands come out of the wall, it's creepy as fuck (Jeremy: Yeah)
Khanh: Oh yeah, that's, the- the- uh, like the steel drum kind of, except down several octaves (Kevin: Yeah)
Boom, boom, boom, boom, that one [laughs]
Hugo: Got that trap snare drum in there
Stephen: I'm just really loving the effects that they're doing 'cause it's not get in the way of like, it's not too much, you know
Naoki: Yeah, yeah absolutely Similarly more interesting than your cookie cutter song (J: Oh yeah)
Hugo: Holy fuck they're badass as fuck, like damn!
Henry: Woah, OH, halftime!
Jarod: But like, even the subtle sounds that aren't as like, forward, like you hear the bass first
Then they'll like layered behind it, you have like this, like little ringy sounds
Davis: Oh (Peyton: YEAAH!)
That was some sassin' I know, that was GOOD
Lindsey: Woaah (Fiona: It's like buuble sounds) I thought it was gonna hesitate like a bar but then it only waited an extra 2 beats and then it came in there
Stephen: I really like that course. It's just like really rhythmically interesting (Naoki: Yeah)
Naoki: Something's driving and it was just like, wooow
Kevin: 7 times 8 is not equal 49, girls
Lindsey: They just like have cold, sounding voices, like their vocal timbres when they talk or sing they're both really like
Like, they're cool
Hugo: Three times, but they lead it to it two times
That was dope
Umu: Yeah, so what do you think about that song overall musically?
Stephen: Well first off, like how loud the bass was, all their use of electronic sound effects
And even yeah, like if you were to take away the vocals, it- it almost sound like, not necessarily dubsteppy but like qualities of that kind of music
I really like that and to be honest too, like it's just really funny how, listening to something like that
I automatically can, like, take it way more seriously (Naoki: Than the normal K-pop song) Right, like
Some of the other songs that may be a little bit more cheesier like, more "innocent sounding" necessarily like even like that
I don't take it seriously, but here it's like, way more in-your-face
It's just a really cool effects on me that- (Naoki: Yeah) that's what I like about
Naoki: I really like the juxtaposition between the two styles
I just thought they actually mashed it really well in this case like, it would be possible to make it not work
But that jived in a good way [Stephen snaps and points at cam]
[Umu laughs] Stephen: Yeah, or just sound like overdone, but this- (Naoki: Yeah) was not too much at all
N: Yeah, they use the harmonies very well with their vocals and just kept it simple in the rest, which is like, whoah
S: Which is hard to do N: Yeah
Jeremy: I don't know, it was like weird, like, I like the vocals (H: Oh yeah) but I didn't like the track
I don't know why, like, it, they just didn't match to me
I feel like the- the vocals on some of the track didn't- it was all the same
Hugo: Yeah, it was interesting, there were some, definitely some really good parts about it
I liked the majority of it- that's a trap, drum was a little contrived, but- (J: Yeah)
Yeah and the vocals were fucking killer. They were SO dope and they own- they own the shit out of that song
P: Yeah, I really dig that D: Yeah, that was- that was- that was cool, yeah
It was very like, it was a fun song (Umu: Right) That isn't- that isn't one that I would sit down too intensely
Ponder over and analyze (P: Mmmm yeah)
Definitely wanted to just- to just turn on, whatever, I don't want to think about anything (P: Yes!)
That's OK, that's your- (P: Yeah!) That's your, like, niche in the uh, genre, then do it, and they did it, so (Umu: Right) Good stuff
Lindsey: It's just interesting to me that there's like, how many of them? 7?
Yeah, so that like, say there's like, seven of them. Their voices range about here
And if we're assuming that the entirety of a human vocal range
Like, from like, the highest pitched voice out there to the lowest pitched voice out there
It's like here and they're like this, but they're still able to have all these harmonies
Even when their voice isn't such like a small register F: Yeah, that was just really close together
E: I thought it was groovy. Edgy. Poppy. Henry: Yeah, no it definitely was like, a bop
You know, you'd hear it on, like, you know 101.1 but- E: Pretty good tune, actually
H: I- I was not much of a fan. Just 'cause like, it really was just like... [sings rhythm]
But like, it grooved and they did the halftime thing and I was like- [surprised face]
E: But that's only texture change, the beat was constant the whole time
H: There was just like a weird little rhythmic intro and there were like other weird rhythmic interjections that happened or like-
Not lined up on a strong downbeat rhythms, uh, that made it kind of like [makes gestures] "Where am I?"
But- I mean beyond that I was sort of like- [makes hand gestures]
Khanh: Dude! That! Wow! Kevin: Good stuff
Khanh: It's really harmonically repetitive, but the rhythmic drums (Kevin: It's the rhythm!) is what keeps it alive
Kevin: And it does- it does, melodic, da da da da da~ [Khanh sings the beats in the background]
[Kevin sings] You know? That's what- (Khanh: Yeah)
Khanh: The- the vocal line was really rhythmic which gave an interest. The lot of syncopation in the bass, I- I like that (K: And it's whap whap whap whap whap)
Even though- (K: That instrument) Even though the bass was- was like, super legato, it was like boom boom boom boom
But- but the- the rhythm was interesting so that's what I liked about it. It was like- it was like a steel drum pitched down (K: Yeah) It was pretty cool, yeah
J: The layering was really cool
And it's like, I know they say things like the texture was really cool and basically
Texture 101 is like, here's your, like let's say, here's your bass, then you have like the other synth sounds you can't put it here
And then you have like another set of sounds you put on top, you have all these cool, like, layers and like
The audio engineers will bring out certain things and it's really cool because that way it creates this-
This world, the scene. It's not like a two-dimensional line
It's like three-dimensional sound and then you have your vocalist which is the- the layer that's closest to you
Yeah, that's essentially texture. So that was really cool because they had lots of different sounds going on
K: It's- I think that's- it was pretty standard pop, but I- I thought it was interesting with the layers
It kind of remind me of like layers [J: *whispers* Shrek!] of, uh,
Ogre [laughs] I'm like a not- no, I'm just kidding [J: laughs] Um
It- It remind me of like, paintings because there's multiple layers and multiple, like, the thing that's absolutely closest to you
But then there's like a background and there's things, so like, with this like
Art... theme that they had, I thought that was pretty well-represented if they intended to do that
I don't know if they did but it was cool
Umu: Awesome, yeah, how do you feel the music represented the visuals and such?
J: I think Katie's nailed it right there, it was like the layering is like, you know, painting
L: Well, the visuals are good F: Yeah, I don't know [Lindsey laughs]
Umu: Okay, so you focus more on the music then (F: Yeah) L: I literally don't remember what the video was like (F: I feel like the music was like-)
L: Oh! Like all the arts stuff! (F: Yeah) Yeah, I know I like that I've been staring at this what's
F: There- there's so much- There's so much like pattern with all of the art that like (L: on the screen now for too long) I don't know, I feel
It's like eight bar phrase, eight bar phrase again
Like really similar then moves on, moves on, that it just like was formulated. You knew when it was gonna change, and it works
L: Except for when you didn't knew when it was gonna change
F: But it always changed though, right? Like when I thought. It was predictable
E: I think it was like, almost like, quirky in a good way, and they kind of went together with the edginess, the tune
H: This was more of like, um, the music seem like it was about the music video, not the music video was about the music
E: It's pretty amazing how, like, even a slightly off-putting music video can completely ruin the song while you're listening to it
H: It is really interesting, like there have been a couple songs that I listen to, uh, on Spotify just afterwards and I'm like,
"I like this more," and then I'm like, "I don't like this as much," [laughs] It's interesting to see it as a package
D: The music video was pretty weird
I was very intrigued, I've- kind of wish I had understood some of the stuff a little bit better
I think that it all kind of played in really good
I mean we saw some of the images visually that were like narcissism and, like, it's all about like taking selfies and like, getting on social media
Um- (P: And lots of mirrors) Yeah, and so that's- so that it creates like a lot of like
Easiness because you're always, like, in this, like, loop of like, technology and like, self validation
And the music kind of sound like that too
It was constant- constantly moving, there were no, like, really slow sections
Even when the music stopped because, you know, the drop was coming, you still like, the energy carried over
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