Lindsey: Also, there's so much modal mixture going on.| Fiona: Ooh!
Lindsey: What?!
Umu: Yes, now you'll be reacting to the boy group Got7's
2018 release called 'Lullaby', which is composed by Glory Face,
Jake K, and Jinli.
'Lullaby' was released in Korean, English, Chinese, and Spanish on their present new album. And the lyrics describe the feeling of serenity we
experience hearing the voice of the person we're in love with.
Elizabeth. Okay. Three, two, one.
Elizabeth: Crickets. Melissa: Birds
Elizabeth: ooo boy
Melissa: (mimicking synth)
What is that? It's a synthesizer, but it like, it scoops into all of the notes.
Stephan: That was a nice intro. I liked that. that was catchy.
Seiji: Man, I swear, every single one of these just has really good synths. Stephen: Yeah. I was gonna say the same thing.
Lindsey: Well, I think the music feels a lot more like serious and structured. Fiona: Um, hmm.
Lindsey: But their color scheme is just very like pastel and peppy. Fiona: but, listen to the *sounds*
Lindsey: Oh, I'm enjoying this a lot. Don't get me wrong.
Fiona: I think it matches Lindsey: Also, there's so much modal mixture going on. Fiona: Ooh!
Lindsey: What?!
Fiona: Oh, my gosh. I love his voice. Lindsey: I love this... the vocal quality right there. Fiona: The rhythm?
Lindsey: Yeah.
Fiona: (singing)
Fiona: Like that is so cool.
Hugo: Like the slap bass.
That teddy bear is weird as f*ck.
Jeremy: They put a lot of like energy and effort into this video. Hugo: Why do I feel like this is a music video about them getting high?
That's my conspiracy theory. I figured it out
Kevin: Like it's not the most memorable melody, but it goes all over the place, and I really love that.
And by the time you get the ay, ay, ays, you're like, yeah, this feels like it should be here.
Fiona: This is so dreamy. Lindsey: There's so much mixture. There is so much mixture.
Like, it definitely feels more minor to me, but there is so much mixture that I can't even tell. Fiona: Yeah.
Stephen: Aww, man. That's like, really groovy!
Really catchy.
Seiji: bassline's really good.
Stephen: Yeah, man.
Jarod: See, the pads have like, this rhythm to it.
Collin: They're what? Jarod: It's like pulsated, these little background synth things. It's pretty neat. That's a little more rhythmic ????????.
Seiji: It's so intricate. My gosh.
Collin: This part is actually way more melodic than the rest of it. Like it's much more bare-bones. It's interesting. It has a good effect
The contrast is good.
Cuz otherwise, the texture is like really dense up to that point. Jarod: Right.
Collin: It's a pretty unique chorus.
Stephen: And I like how it's not
any chords or anything like that?
They're not necessarily sustained, they're more like punches. Seiji: Yeah.
Stephen: It's like a really nice texture. Like everything is rhythmic.
Seiji: But still like, the sound is big.
Stephen: Yeah. But they're not holding like whole notes throughout the whole thing. Seiji: Right. Yeah
Kevin: It's like every instrument's playing at a different syncopation and
it just works together.
Elizabeth: There's so many different
like,
pre-recorded drumbeats happening. Melissa: Yeah Elizabeth: that they change
for every part of the song, like the verse
leading up to the chorus, the chorus, the bridge, like everything. It's all a different pace beat.
Melissa: But I feel like we've heard all of them before, you know, like these are all very standard pop... Elizabeth: Oh no, no, they're totally like samples.
Yeah, like, but like there isn't one consistent one through the whole piece. Melissa: Yeah.
Fiona: The cricket sounds!
What?
Lindsey: Whoa. Fiona: What? Lindsey: Oh, my God, it's all like in the person's eye.
Fiona: It was all a dream.
What?
Lindsey: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Fiona: That's why it's called 'Lullaby'. Okay, so that had to do with the loved one you hear speaking.
So like, maybe that's the mind of him hearing someone he loves speak.
It's like, pow! Chemicals. Lindsey: Yeah Fiona: Brain chemicals.
Hormones!
Lindsey: I thought they did a really cool job using all the mixture, and there were so many sounds, Fiona: Um, hmm
but they all kind of functioned as like instruments or percussion, because it was very light. Like, there were not a lot of actual
instruments, like in instrumentals. I think they used a lot of synth sounds instead.
But I think that worked with, I don't know, I mean the whole overall weirdness Fiona: Yes Lindsey: that was all of this.
Fiona: It was quirky and dreamlike. Lindsey: Yes, quirky! Quirky. That is the perfect word.
Fiona: I was like, why is it beginning with crickets? And then it ended with crickets. And then I was like, oh, it's called 'Lullaby'. So, like that
signifies night time, you know? Lindsey: It's nighttime and you think about- yeah
Hugo: See, I'm tellin' you, like they're trippin' crazy balls. Jeremy: Yeah, that was, okay, also not a lullaby.
Can confirm.
I did like it a lot. But it was not a lullaby. Hugo: Yeah, it was great.
Hugo: It felt like a mixture of R&B and club music. It started off with a really R&B feel, starting it off with the rap, which was a really cool choice, I thought. Jeremy: Yeah
Hugo: That was like, awesome.
Jeremy: Yeah. Hugo: But then like once the beat really came in, it really went real club. Not like, you know,
dubstep Club, but just like dance club.
Jeremy: Yeah. Also, like, the video was so cool, how they were like, switching between all the sets. Hugo: It was so cool. Okay,
so--here's where I think they're just like completely just
Umu: You know this stuff happens in dreams, too?
Hugo: Okay, yeah, but look, there was that one point where in the choreography they went like this, and then they all flicked it away Umu: It's a kiss!
Hugo: Yeah, okay. Okay
Jeremy: Dreaming
But then like, everything started flying out of the refrigerator as he was...he had the munchies,
he went to the fridge to go get a snack, and then
all the food started flying at him and he couldn't handle it. Jeremy: Okay, anyway...
Jarod: It definitely had like a lot of texture.
I think I would have liked to have seen
a little bit more of the contrast you were talking about, because there was like a little bit of it,
but it kind of seemed that the texture was kind of like all in from the beginning.
Collin: Well, that seemed to kind of be the point of this. Jarod: That's true. Collin: Like semi-club music.
Collin: But yeah, like what they did, the texture with like--well, it wasn't the chorus, but when they looked like
you know, Maroon 5 dancing, you know? Jarod: Um, hmm. Collin: With the like, black and white? Jarod: Right, right.
Collin: That part? That was good, because it was mostly like a melodic line, and then everything else, instead of there
just being this like pulsating thing behind it and everything, and all the textures with that,
there's really just the voice, and that actually worked well. And it wasn't too different, either. Jatod: That's true. That's true. Collin: Contextually, it worked. Yeah.
Isaac: You know, it was pretty repetitive, I think. Kevin: Oh
Isaac: Yeah, I kind of have the thing against like having this like, just that sound just continuously go on. It felt like I was gonna
fall asleep, actually.
It sounded like
techno-funk. So you have like these like,
synthetic sounds
that go forward into your earphones and come back into the background, back and forth, and you have the flares of, whup, whup,
just floating around. Their vocals are really good. There's that one vocalist who said, I think it was like,
"I want"--something Kevin: (singing) "I want it, I want it"
Isaac: Yeah. Very good voice. But just like, man, it felt like the texture was like very much
similar, and then having that continuous bass line--like the rhythms changed it for sure,
but then it didn't hit me as much for some reason. Kevin: Oh Isaac: Yeah, it's weird.
It's like, it's the same type of the quality when it's played out, but then it's just changed in different rhythms.
But that didn't that wasn't enough for me. Kevin: Huh. My view is it operates on a smaller box,
like it doesn't go full out with its stylistic changes, Isaac: Yeah
but within that small box that they set up, there's a solid amount of variety, so, respectfully, you know,
respectfully disagree. Yeah. Both: (pretending to cry)
Kevin: I mean, I like the song. I've reacted to it already, but like hearing it again actually
cemented my love for it. It just feels like it doesn't try too hard.
Isaac: That's one thing. Kevin: But it still manages to be super funky, and the vocal range goes all over the place.
It's a good
banger.
Elizabeth: That was not a lullaby. Melissa: Yeah. Okay, so we should compare this to the most famous lullaby--Brahms Lullaby.
Just kidding.
They're very different
Elizabeth: How are they very different?
Melissa: Okay, so Brahms didn't write as much for synth and drumbeats.
He also primarily wrote his music in German, as opposed to Korean. Those are the main differences.
Elizabeth: I was thinking more that it was very high-energy,
Elizabeth: I mean, Melissa: Yeah Elizabeth: the tempo was quite fast, which when you think of lullabies, usually they're either slow or they
like, get slower.
Melissa: I thought this was gonna be like a ballad. Elizabeth: Yeah, it makes you like feel sleepy and quiet, and so
the fast tempo, the constantly changing
drum samples, the
high-energy
dancing that was happening, I mean, none of it really spoke as a lullaby to me,
which, I'm sure they have their reasons for why they did that. Melissa: You know that American song
that's like, "I just want to be part of symphony" or whatever, like the one--it's called like, 'Symphony',
but it's not a symphony, it's a pop song.
That's exactly like that. Elizabeth: Yeah, I was thinking that this was maybe commentary on how
like, love ballads are a thing, and you speak about like these intense emotions you're feeling,
but it's done in a very like relaxed, and soft, and gentle
environment, but to them, it's like, exciting.
Elizabeth: I mean, Melissa: Yeah Elizabeth: you know, love is often considered a drug, and it makes you feel just like super energized and
super alive, and maybe it's commentary,
and sort of subverting and trying to change this idea that love songs have to be a lullaby.
Elizabeth: They don't. I mean,
Melissa: Yeah Elizabeth: sometimes, love makes you want to get up and dance. Melissa: Yeah, exactly.
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