Jory: whAt?
[Rossini's Semiramide Overtune plays // Subtitles by youtube @anisian]
Umu: Are you guys ready to Whee-IN? Jason: I am
Jason: Very much ready to Whee-in Umu: Once you Whee-in you can't Whee-out
Jason: Don't they always say that Brian: Is this a contract?
Umu: haHA Jason: I need my legal team here haha
*beep sfx*
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Alright, so you're now reacting to the solo artist, Wheein
From the girl group MAMAMOO!
And her comeback, 'Make Me Happy' off of her 2022 album 'WHEE'
All: whEEEE~
Umu: The title 'WHEE' has a double meaning, it is both part of Wheein's name
And the sound of a brushing breeze
Jason: ...Sorry- Brian: Jason are we-
Jason: We're getting into a fight hahaha Brian: Jason always tried to fight me
Brian: But I have a black belt in Taekwondo Jason: No- hahaha that's actually true
Jason: I always- Umu: Why do you even try Jason?
Jason: Because- hurgh- I have it in me! Like I wanna fight him
But then I realize...
Emotionality takes over logistics sometimes
Umu: This song expresses the allure of getting to know a lover
The feeling of going back and forth with someone almost like playing ping-pong
Wheein commented that this song has a similar vibe to 'Alice in Wonderland'
Because, in it, she tumbles down a rabbit hole into a whole new universe
Chasing after a butterfly
About the symbol of butterfly, Wheein says, "My mother was the first to give me
This idea of the butterfly as someone she saw as a part of me"
A butterfly flies freely, but surely towards a destination with determination
This song is composed by Ravi, Xydo, PUFF, Sam Klempner, Asia Whiteacre, and Jon Eyden
Kevin: Make me happy, make me happy~ Don't you~ *tune of 'Make 'Em Laugh' from Singin' In The Rain*
*beep sfx* Owen: How does he move his nose
Owen: That's what I'm curious about Kevin: Oh- yeah hmm
*beep sfx*
Raffi: Ready? Sam: Yeah
Raffi: 3, 2, 1 click~
Raffi: Love the major 7ths Sam: Yeah right!
Ju Young: It's cute~ Ali: That 2-5-1 though~
Jason: *clapping to beat*
Ali: I like her voice Ju Young: Mmhm
Raffi: Love her timbre! Sam: Yeah
Kevin: Oh- there it is! That's the part I was waiting for
The flat 9- Jason: aHHH!
Kevin: hugh~! Jason: auGHH~!
Kevin: That's not what I was expecting
Ju Young: It's just like- Ali: A slow build
Ali: Look at those tiles though!
Leon: oOooh~
Jory: wHAt?!
Will: wOoo~
Jory: Love the bass sound!
Sam: That bass line oh my gosh! Raffi: It makes you want to like dance
Raffi: But it's also so smooth
Like you just wanna listen and chill
Rachel: Low register, yeah~
Raffi: *vocalizing*
That is good writing!
Ju Young: Like there's a new motive now since it's like the second verse
Jason: Oh it's totally new synth patch now in the back, that makes it really-
Ju Young: *vocalizing*
Jason: Yeah~
Jory: Is that a different chord progression?- Will: Oooh~
Jason: Strings, sustained strings, holding the emotion out
Kevin: The muted piano is very nice
Jason: Oh and then we get another new synth! *vocalizing* oh ya 5x
Kevin: wheeeee~
Raffi: Love the kind of floaty synths in the background, it's very gentle Sam: Yeah
Rachel: Ooh? That's kind of crunchy
Kevin: Oh nice, we didn't hear the arpeggio to the low note
Owen: Hey we got to G Major finally
Jason: Now it's a snap with a lot of reverb as opposed to just-
Yeah this is great
Raffi: Really good instrumentation
Jory: I love how like overdriven the fills are
That little hint of guitar
Jason: Yeah the rhythm guitar on the right panned ear is so great now that it's added in
Will: ehh~!
Ali: I like that part the most Ju young: Right?
Raffi: So pretty!
Jory: *singing ~come around~ (6x)* Will: Cool guitar line in the left channel
Will: *mouth guitar noises*
Jason: That was very (5x) good
Will: Yeah! Jory: Dude that was rad
Leon: That makes me happy! Umu: Good!
Umu: Why? Leon: That's so beautiful Stephanie: Yeah
Sam: I dunno, I just had a smile on my face the entire time
St: I just really liked that, like it's a perfect balance of peaceful or like calm
Just good vibes
And like more upbeat, wanting to just like kinda of dance to it
Ra: It's one of those songs that you're like walking down the street
Looking at the pretty flowers
And listening to 'Make me Happy'
Br: Yeah, butterflies are a symbol of this song and I feel like
With butterflies, it's kind of the same way where
You can tell where they're trying to land
But like with their path, 7 they kind of just like-
Do you know what I mean? Js: Yeah, I do know what you mean
Br: Like they don't fly in a straight line like a fly or a bee
They kind of go- they flutter Js: That's very true
And this song made me feel like I was fluttering
Her sound is very eerie and ethereal, /Nit was almost like a flute
It reminded me of a flute
If she were an instrument, I would say she would be a flute
And that definitely played in her favor for this song
JY: Like the way her voice lifts at the end a lot
It's like- it's like oh it's a butterfly flying~
Or like- haha
I think like her vocals match really well to the theme overall of this song
Li: Especially in the chorus, just like how the melody falls
Rf: *vocalizing*
JY: It's so pleasing to listen to
Rf: It's fun, it's flirty, it's bouncy yaknow~
It has direction
JY: It's like everything feels like it's going up,
And it's like lifting, but
Then her voice is going down and it's like-
agHHHH
Rc: It kind of sounds like effortless I feel like
The way that the chorus was written too
It's not like super extraneous
And it's not really trying to be
It's like really well within her register and she's kind of just repeating phrases
It's like speak singing in a way almost
Al: I think as a solo song, it showcased a lot of her voice
Like when you have the 'come around' part it has the more like head voice-y part
And then in the verses she can go pretty like in the alto range
Jr: It was like really paced well
It wasn't like out the gate, super energetic
You know like that first bit of groove really completely surprised us
It's like oH shiT~
Jumpy~
And then just like the way that it keeps building throughout
And adding more and more things without feeling cluttered
JY: I was really listening to like what the instruments were doing
And I was paying attention to like the layering of what happened
I like songs that have like one single voice
And then as the music progresses, there's just like more things layered on top
But like it just- it like balances out really well
Js: That's a really important thing in classical music
There's certain orchestras and certain conductors
Somebody like a Bernanrd Haitink, let's say like a Beethoven Symphony
When you play it with him, you'd get there and it's like-
This is Intense, but it's not as intense as it usually is
And then when you actually reach the place in the 4th movement
When sh*t hits the fan
It hits so good!
Because he paces dynamics, he paced the phrasing, he paced the tempo
He paced the robato, and then it's a masterpiece
And here, the pacing of instrumentation and adding of-
The layering of it and how it slowly expands and gets thicker
And you know, rhythm guitar adds a little bit here, and a little there
And then you get a different synth sound, thats a little more articulate
And then but the piano is still acoustic and separated chords
So it's not just fully legato
And then string synths, things that just slowly expanded
Al: It was- it was nice that it was a slow build in the beginning
Like what you were saying, but then after that I felt
Like it kind of just stayed there and never went back down
Or like went back up
Ow: I think they could have had maybe
Different groupings of instruments instead of like bass, piano
And then adding more stuff until it becomes larger
They could've gone, adding stuff, and then different grouping
And then B and then they get A+B U: Mmhm
Ow: Is that not a happy thing for you?
U: No-haha I liked it
Ow: Fair enough, I- what happened for me is that
It was building nicely, and then once it got enough that it was a full sound
It plateaued for the rest of the song U: That makes sense, okay
Al: Harmonically, it is like a lot of the same things
Where it's 2-5-1
Wi: 2- *piano*
Al: And sometimes they add this other chord, I don't know what it is
Wi: Cool, cool little move to the flat 7? Right?
Jr: In the pre-chorus?
Wi: The yeah- so it- 2-5-b7-4-
Jr: 4- which is fun Wi: 1
Jr: And it kind of messes with you,
Because like the 4-2 feels like you're in a different key for a little bit
Wi: Yeah
Jr: It could be in like G and we just got fooled
Jr: *vocalizing* What is that, G?
Wi: *piano* U: *vocalizing G*
Jr: Yeah, it's a G Wi: *piano*
Jr: See, we got fooled by the se- the 4-2!
Wi: Yeah, we got fooled Jr: We got GOT
Wi: So yeah, it's really nice, 2- *piano*
And it's like *thunks on key* it's like dark U: Press it harder
Wi: *thumps on key* aH!
*more thumping*
Yeah, we have E but only fortissimo
U: haHAHaha Jr: Love this song haha
Wi: Haha *light thunks* Jr: E *sustained singing*
Wi: Or you could do that one- Jr: Nice
*beep sfx*
Wi: But yeah, and then in the-
Jr: The prechorus? Wi: Yeah, the- it's like *piano*
Wi: The same like 2-5 *piano*
And then it goes to this chord, F *piano* going to C
Jr: *vocalizing F-C* Wi: Going to C and it's a triad
Jr: To A minor, yeah that's cool though
Wi: And then it goes to A minor, that's really cool I love that
It's like a cycle, it's like a cyclical chord progression you know?
This thing- *piano*
And then sometimes it- it's kind of the same
And then *piano* goes there instead, and it's like ~woah~
Ow: It was like they had a
Main theme, which was the 2-5-1-G
And it sometimes happened, but usually didn't
And usually the other one went to the darker world
Which was going to F and then C
Which is in the dark side of the circle of fifths
Or it went around to the light side of the circle of fifths
When she did an E major chord instead
K: *piano* right?
And then some of it goes here *piano* And then they go a little-
Hey do this clever thing where you're not sure whether it's major or minor
They do that, but then they- kinda go down, right that's pretty cool?
I like *piano* this is very cool!
I don't think the chords I played were correct though
There's something missing, it's- Ow: No, it was that
K: Ok, I guess we're missing Wheein's voice, yeah
Ow: *vocalizing* U: Omg Owen-
[BGM: AKMU - "전쟁터 (Hey kid, Close your eyes)" /N Subtitles by youtube @anisian]
Br: It was very butterfly like- I feel like I was just floating-
Js: *singing* Butterflies in the sky~ [BGM: Reading Rainbow Theme Song]
Br: *singing* Butterfly in the sky, I can fly twice as high~ Js: Come on, come on!
Take a look, *rhythmic claps* it's in a book~ *rhythmic claps*
Both: Reading Rainbow~~
Br: I can go anywhere~ Anyway- we're done Js: Sorry