Charlotte: Oh!
Peyton: Whoa, sh*t! It was like a weird wave of sound that just got up under ya'!
Charlotte: Like water.
*wheeze*
Umu: Okay, so there's this boy group called NCT and basically what they're known for Melissa: Non-Chord Tone!!!!!!
Umu: So basically NCT is known for having unlimited amount of members, they just keep adding members, but then they break into subunits.
So this is the NCT subunit called dream.
Umu: They're all 18 or under 18 years old and that's why they're called dream.
Umu: So this is a 2018 b-side track called Drippin', released on their second mini album called We Go Up.
Charlotte: I'm sorry, what's it called?
Umu: Drippin'.
Peyton: Drippin'! Charlotte: Drippin'! Umu: Drippin'!
Umu: This song is written by the songwriter Jan8 and the NCT member Mark.
Their song is about making someone fall in love slowly like water dripping until it overflows.
So it's basically comparing falling in love with someone to water.
Kevin: Hey, let me plug, I react to We Go Up with Umu. Go check it out, uh, uh, time to drip some drips!
Isaac: That was like... Umu: That was...
Isaac: That was cringey Umu: embarrassing
Peyton: *weird sound effect* 321 go
Charlotte: Ah! Sounds like dripping water. Peyton: Yeah
Stephen: Gotta have that "Uh, yeah". Seiji: Yeah.
Seiji: Whoa...
Melissa: I Like these like silences, on the like later beats in the measure
You expect the bass to be something solid, so it just starts bending from the beginning. That is like
Isaac: Arpeggio!!!!! Kevin: Sub zero gravity
astronaut space training machine.
Fiona: They grew up! Lindsey: They literally glowed up, so hard.
Charlotte: Oh, wow, this is sensual!
You'll be soaked before you realize, my God!
Charlotte: This must be the children Peyton: This must be about....love
Charlotte: Exactly
Peyton: Whoa
Seiji: I just love the bass in this song. Stephen: Yeah, dude. It's totally like, influenced by dubstep.
Seiji: Yeah
Charlotte: Oh! Peyton: Woo!
Elizabeth:That's so interesting they're making the rhythm out of that like, electronic chirping sound.
Melissa: Yeah.
Elizabeth: Now it just sounds like they're clucking their tongues.
Peyton: This would be a great way to start a concert.
Charlotte: Hello!
Peyton: Woo!
Charlotte: Where'd we go?
Peyton: Mark is Mr. Major.
Charlotte: It's just like sunshine!
Peyton: Major Mark
Kevin: So is the first section in e-flat minor?
Because that major sounded so Picardy-like. But we can't call it a Picardy, because it's a brand-new section. It's not a resolution.
Melissa: Well now it's minor again, right? This is minor.
Elizabeth: Yes Melissa: but it's not rapping Elizabeth: Chromaticism. There was a Non-Chord Tone.
Elizabeth: Wow!
There are so many NCTs in this NCT piece, I mean song.
Stephen: Oh, man. Seiji: How sweet.
Stephen: I like the patch that they're doing right now with that like aha, that's cool. That's something that I can hear like Skrillex do, you know? Sieji: Yeah, yeah.
Kevin: Ready?
Kevin: Wait. Wait a minute. It's not what I expected.
Fiona: We're fillin' up.
We're about to drown in this liquid.
Gotta get to the top.
Charlotte: Oh, hello, Mark!
Peyton: Oh, yeah.
Fiona: Mark is the hottie!
Fiona: Shout out, you Mark lovers. Lindsey: Mark is the one who like, wrote the song. Fiona: He's hot.
Charlotte: Ah!
Peyton: Whoa, sh*t!
That was like a weird wave of sound that just got up under ya'!
Charlotte: Like water.
Kevin: On the fourth beat--rare! Usually it's on the second beat when they do a delay.
Lindsey: Yeah, this is kind of like very rave-esque. Fiona: This song just sounds like a lot of mischief.
Kevin: It sounds like they're playing a major chord. (sings)
It's out of tune, but it sounds like a major chord with a slightly flat 5.
Charlotte: What a jam! Chromaticism,
throwing us off of when you're gonna bring back the beat Peyton: Yeah
Charlotte: Ooh.
Charlotte: Oof! Peyton: (laughter)
Oof!
I thought it was really dope. The moving bass under it, like a lot of dubsteksalala, uh, dubstep songs
Charlotte: (laughing, imitates mangled word) Peyton: (laughing) lalalala....songs
uh, tend to just kind of go like ahh, ahh, ahh Charlotte: ahh, ahh, ahh...
Peyton: And it's just like thank you, thank, thank you. You know, this one was like Both: (demonstrates)
Peyton: It was like more interesting, I don't know
And it's just like it was like you're on a roller coaster like a boat, you know.
Charlotte: A roller coaster..a boat!! Peyton: A boat! Charlotte: A tall boat!
Peyton: In the water of true love
Elizabeth: If someone wants me to fall in love with them, that would not be the song I would choose.
Melissa: That would be one hundred percent, like I would fall in love with someone from that song, yes. Umu: Oh
Melissa: But not these children.
Just like,
hypothetically, like that's a great song and I love it. It's like, it's like party music. But like, like if I could dance, I would
dance to that song, but I can't dance, so like Umu: So you would fall in love with this dance song,
Melissa: Yes Umu: but since it's a dance song, you wouldn't fall in love with it.
Melissa: Elizabeth, It's not like dancing
Okay, I love that like the baseline was so low, but so loud, and then like there was like, the really high accompaniment like open
spacing, that just makes literally everything lit. Like you can probably literally like just go over to the piano, and just play like the lowest
note and the highest note, and you'll be like, yeah, this sounds awesome. So that's basically what that song was.
ELizabeth: This one seems like it was definitely going for more like traditional
K-pop rap song, so they had like the the minor section with the very
like spoken word rap and then when the actual like
melodic singing came in it was in major instead of in minor, which I've heard a lot of times
reacting on this channel now, and then they had like the middle bridge section, where the accompaniment was higher than the vocal line,
so the bass like drops out and it feels like empty, musically empty.
Melissa: But in a cool way. Elizabeth: Yeah, in a cool way
Melissa: So the silences like kind of contributed to the musical emptiness, like it's not actually silence
It was like small, insignificant percussion when the bass line cut out and the vocals cut out at the same time, and that was so cool.
Kevin: It's very aggressive in the types of synth it uses. Feels like there is
dimension on the bass line at the beginning, like it's gnarly.
It doesn't sound like it's totally distorted to the point of no return. And it's the shock value of that is the bounced (mimics sound)
And then of course, I dropped my earbuds when I heard the crazy
What do you call that? That really,
high synth
it's just
very treble heavy, but it's a very percussive sounding thing, and it kinda is outlining this E-flat major
Isaak: (whistling) Kevin: Yeah, uh
arpeggio, that which is actually the home key of the piece.
So there's this weird, off-kilter quality, where like, you almost, it belongs to the song,
but because it's so different from everything else in the song, it
it stands out totally. And again, from the way it's mixed back and forth when it comes out and it's in full force,
it's just one of those weird syncopated things that you can't help but not even dance to, but just
twitch to.
Seiji: The first thing that kind of stood out to me was um, what was it?
There's an artist who did this, but I guess they're called
Soundscapes? Stephen: Oh, yeah
Seiji: And it kind of reminded me of that. You kind of had the patter-type of sound in the beginning kind, of high frequency.
That's the first thing that stood out to me. And then that, they kind of coupled that with, I guess a kind of trap-ish music,
and they moved around to the landing points to kind of throw people off, and
I guess make like the drop more exciting. Stephen: Maybe because of like, well, how slow the song is, and the pulse,
I guess maybe they were trying to use that to make it seem like water that was dripping, because it kind of edges along forward,
and you think of water, and it's like, you know
it's slow. When I'm in the shower and I watch the water drip cuz I'm bored, and like it goes off.
It doesn't happen all at once, so like it happens slowly,
so maybe that's what they were trying to do with the chorus. Like with the chorus but like na, na, na, kind of. Seiji: Yeah
Lindsey: They did a good job of using the background sounds to make it sound like dripping water.
Fiona: Yeah. Way to make me think of liquids. Lindsey: Yeah.
Fiona: There's so much descending chromaticism Lindsey: It's dripping
Fiona: And it's not like something drips and it's like
seven half steps--it's a perfect fit! It's like (sound of dripping water)
Elizabeth: Well, the, the actual like, little melodic fragment that repeats over and over is
(singing)
So it's so it's like, it goes up and then it falls back down to get to the downbeat Melissa: Just like water. Elizabeth: Yes.
Melissa: tat's the water trickle Elizabeth: So so so the contour of it is sort of like this dripping an idea
So we have this like leap, and then it falls back down,
stepwise.
And then you know they sing they were like, "Dripping, dripping, dripping",
so, you know, they really wanted you to know that things were dripping.
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