Henry: Oh wow Elizabeth: Ooooo...Wait what?
Umu: So now you're acting to the boy group NU'EST W (Aaron: oh I live them) and a song that was featured in our 2018 medley
So we'll be interesting for you guys to finally hear the original song that you played a short snippet of in an orchestral arrangement.
Help Me is about when your world is crumbling down and you feel as if you don't have a fate
The person who you are in love with will help you enter it all
this song is composed by BUMZU
and the NU'EST member Baekho.
Fiona: I have a guest that this will be like a sad song but upbeat. three two one
Henry: Woooooooooooooooow Elizabeth: oooooo...wait what
Henry: sick
Fiona: Okay. That was weird Daniel: oH. Do you hear that?
Fiona: It is upbeat. Daniel: It- It's the morse code is like it's the beat
Daniel: It's a pitched beat now. Fiona: I wonder if it means SOS
Daniel: Maybe I'm not gonna go to that research.
Cloud: I Really like that just like (H: yeah) that's down
James: I like that. Melissa: I think it's like do so la mi
Henry: that little synth in the back
Cloud: I like a little pop of strings Henry: *sings* Oh it's getting wild
Nick: It's so thick. I feel like I'm just kind of like swimming through the sound
Henry: This is this is sick as fuck so far. Also, I appreciate they go b7-b6
2-5-1 consists of a jump of a tritone, which is
Henry: *happy spazzes*
Daniel: Interesting Fiona: I love the weird displacement of rhythm makes it feel so like unbalanced
Nick: That's interesting because they just repeats the same they repeat the same thing and
three times and then the third one is different
(A: Yeah,) that's like the sentence structure and that's like super old. Mm-hmm. Like Mozart does that?
Kevin: Wow F ... Eb
James: Whoever's singing that is so good at vocal transitions.
Henry: I Like that It's really focal heavy. Elizabeth: Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Well like the there's like very little like bass beat
And then it like all comes back in here
So it's like really dramatic and whenever you have like an octave
leap, like driving into something, like that just it's really effective
Daniel: It's very harmonic
Fiona: I like that Daniel: feels like the harmonies driving the melody not all the way around
Kevin: Like the to melodic lines don't interfere because of the different dynamic levels.
Kevin: I like the non root chord the inverse inverted chord
Kevin: oh Wow half diminished as the first note of a progression
James: And they all have such unique voices
Melissa: oh he's like underwater
James: That's really fucking high
Elizabeth: Whoo, let's do the chorus but let's make it piano acoustic and not have anything
Henry: The delay is very nice
Fiona: Okay, so good Daniel: it's a resolution
Fiona: they tricked us!
Fiona and Daniel: *smh*
James: Such ASMR. Oh, that's cool.
Elizabeth: They like totally end without resolving Henry: they ended on 5
Elizabeth: But it's like a spicy 5 because it's like it's really high in the register and it feels like it's driving like they're doing an
ascending fright like harm harmony
so it's like going up in pitch and register and so it like you want it resolved so badly at the end and then it doesn't
ARG!!
James: Yeah, that was really good. They looked *ren's wow* good. Everything around them looks *ren's wow* good. They all sound (STAN NU'EST) good
Umu: HOW MANY F BOMBS ARE YOU GONNA DROP
James: Sorry
Umu: if we exceed more than one f word in a reaction video I'll bleep them all out
Melissa: Oh my god James: Okay cool
I'm trying to pinpoint like what was so good about it. It was just really really
*REN SCREAMS *
Good
It was really it was really good. All of their voices were so different
some of them had different skills that they were showcasing really wisely that one like
Seeing around the chorus who was like transitioning between head and chest like back and forth
I was like really good and like even the rapping parts
It was just it was good
Nick: some of the most interesting things that
They do has to do with like where the bass line is beginning and they do some cool chromatic things
But that's not something that you really consciously notice when you're listening to music unless you are looking
Specifically for it so it just makes the song seem more or feel more interesting
They also did the really cool thing with the piano coming in and then after the other-
Aaron: I was gonna say yuh
Yeah, Nick: and I I agree with you. I think they could have done more things that might like that
but I mean, there's definitely a place for songs that people kind of expect them to go a certain way and
You gotta have something to listen. Aaron: well I Yeah,
Nick: it's not just totally off the wall all the time
Aaron: I like it when they do something that we don't expect like when we're listening to because both of us or use
well
We all have like very tonal ears and so we hear harmonies
Resolve before they actually happen and then so when they do resolve in a different way that we don't expect anything
This is we have such an affinity for classical music. It's because that frequently happens
that's when I'm like
Oh my gosh
my ears like pick up and like I focus on what I'm listening to and I think that that's like a big
Thing about kpop music that I really enjoys that does frequently happen.
Daniel: Yeah. I thought it was I wasn't like too impressed to be quite honest Fiona: I-
Fiona: I really liked like the soaring melodies in the chorus
And I like kind of like the importance of the beat and
Like that kind of syncopation
was nice
Daniel: as I've said earlier just now that
that felt like the harmonies were driving the melodies and not the other way around so it felt like
There wasn't as much
Harmonic movement if that makes sense
It was just kind of like this one steady like this might sound super chicane and it's simplistic
But just like kind of like an extended one minor
chord, just like
And it was like duududududududu
DDUDUDUUD BOOM and then if there's like no resolves
Fiona: Is that the uh false drop?
Daniel: YEAH
uh uh and then UH uh (not a L.O.Λ.E)
and then it's like oh where's the resolution like where's them?
Where's the minor one, but just we're just cool
But it's like that's-
Fiona: but maybe that represents when people ask for help and they don't nothing happens and their life doesn't get better.
Daniel: oh wow that just got super dark
Henry: I like that they had a different approach to
construction in terms of like just physically what parts came after what parts I liked their
Their choice of bridge and not just their choice of rap break which often happens
Elizabeth: This is the k-pop boy man group. It's I I will watch 18 of these in a row, so
Elizabeth: iM HAppy
Yeah, I
Partially, I think it's because I've like played it. So I like know it and I'm like excited to hear it
I really like this group, too
So but yeah
I think that they like
They did some cool stuff with the pre-chorus
with like like 4ths that are like driving in and they're having the octave into the chorus was like
The bass drop I think
I'm a sucker for it.
Kevin: That bridge was really special with all the P- really well produced piano sounds
and the alternate harmonies
Yeah, and there were some throughout the song there were you know?
Like it's an eb minor
but occasionally it would start with the chord that I don't expect like a half diminished and then sometimes
Instead of using like a regular five one. It would use an inverted five to a one
then and when the bass has that chromatic motion, it's always sexy and angsty and
Help me.
Isaac: I thought the transfer of energy of
So they had three levels
At the very beginning just setting it up. You can faintly hear at the top and then I guess
from these headphones
I guess specifically I got to hear more of the mid and low low register and then I noticed that it's just all through More
very active but then once you transition to the first verse
The momentum was still there, which I actually really Kevin: the first verse?
Isaac: I think was the first verse
Kevin: Isn't that later? Isaac: Oh intro and then the first verse
Kevin: okay Isaac: Yeah
so I thought it was it was interesting how the energy just
Continued to just keep rolling and then even if there's a part where the instruments dissipate and they're just nowhere to be seen
And maybe there's just one click track with the vocal line. It's all very silent. So it grabs your attention
I thought it was interesting that this chorus was just well
they stand in the mid-range and it was just pleasant knowing that they maintained the integrity of
These different registers and then keeping that momentum it's just Wow.
Kevin: Well, I think it comes across as more sentimental and more emotional
When they do it in a slightly more subdued way
It's especially impressive because the song isn't particularly fast
But yeah, I definitely felt that same type of momentum that the whole song had it felt very cohesive
Despite the ending leaving me wanting a little more but
Isaac: it's always like that though, you know
Just they just end on an odd chord or just question mark
(K: Yeah,) listen to the rest of the album kind of (yeah,) Kevin: that was our live show
Isaac: That's a great way to promote
Nick: I also gotta say I love their hair
and don't be surprised if I should up with that color