Umu: T
by T.
Right? Cause tomorrow together... it isn't txt.
Kevin: Oh U: Will people get mad? K: T times T? (U: Is it- no, no) Tea time? (U: No, no)
U: Cause I always pronounce it txt in my head
Um. But yeah, tomorrow together. Let's go- have you- you've heard their recent songs, right? [Kevin shakes head] You haven't?!
K: I don't recall that like they're-
Yeah doesn't ring a bell U: Quick break, quick break because I think you should get- you should know what their sound is.
Y- their debut song
[sings the melody of crown but in weird noises]
We covered this at um
K: Oh, wow not BTS (U: Kcon), huh? U: Yes, BigHit has grown, my friend. [both laugh]
K: What a dance! U: Oh no, their dances are amazing... they're really entertaining to watch
K: Okay, I can get behind this, this is my kinda (U: Yeah, we'll go to the chorus), yeah very much my kind of style
U: It's just it's it sounds bright and youthful. K: Yeah, reminds me a little of Charli XCX.
U: Yeah, see? K: This is my jam, (U: Okay) yeah.
U: You got their vibe (K: Very). You should check out their- I'll send you their (K: Okay) songs on their album too.
So this is their first comeback and it's 9 and 3/4 (Run Away) so Harry Potter reference. K: Yeah
U: And I checked out a tiny bit of it and it seemed really fun!
K: It's long (U: So). I wonder if there's like a skit- sketch or something.
U: I'm sure there's gonna be a short story to it. K: Unless this is 5 minutes!
U: FIVE MINUTE POP SONG QUESTION MARK?!?! 3 2 1!
[singsong-y] Never change your logo BigHit we love it.
K: Yeah, there's so much nostalgia now. U: Yeah.
U: Oh there's gonna be a story. K: Yeah
Wow, how do you casually just paint a field straight like that? Reliable machine.
U: Compound meter.
[counting the meter] 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
But is this soundtrack, or is this the actual song? K: I think it's the actual song, it sounds like it's settling in.
Wait what if it's not? Oh wow clever!
[Umu clapping] K: Yeah
I'm not even mad that I was wrong because of how they took, yeah, how they took it off of the video
But the synth- U: Oh my!
K: I like it but their synth sounds- it still sounds like them in a weird way.
U: I love the scratchy [scratches the air] K: Mm
U: Oh! It's appearing more often now.
K: Yeah U: And it like fades in, fades out, (K: Yeah) so it doesn't last like the whole-
K: Ooh, nice delay U: Four counts
K: Wow
Yeah, this is the type of shuffle beat that I can- U: Chromaticism!!
K: Okay U: Oh, with the bell, which is Hedwig's Theme
K: Ooh I like the drum. mM!
There's some like real drums going on.
U: Nice.
K: Yeah, I like it when all the instruments are crisp like this.
U: I like how we doubled the scratchy bass line with guitar K: Uh-huh
Is this the post-chorus...
This part's, you know, a little weaker, but. U: We back.
Wait, where... whERE did we go?
K: Meter didn't change just-
WOAH
Yeah okay, okay [mimics the beat]
Just drastic style change and drastic... (U: No rhythmic-) emphasis.
U: Yeah, (K: Yeah) 'cause we lost our (K: Exactly) one Two three Four.
Which, you know, we can bob our heads to we're like wait h-how, 'cause the instrumental was syncopated.
K: Again. Alright.
Here we go [snaps the rhythm]. But because we have background music-
K: Wow socks in the pool. Ooh Gosh. U: Boy, what you doing?
Synchronized swimming! Ready, go!
K: Uhhh
Wow.
U: I like that little, "HEy!"
K: Oh my god...
U: Cool. Yeah, the chromatic figured that keeps re-pearing-
I said re-prearing- Appearing makes the more diatonic...
Major sections fresh every single time they come back. K: Hmm, okay.
U: Okay, so we're going to story time instead of bridge K: This reminds me of so many horror movies that take place in pools.
U: [soullessly] boo.
Oh my god, oh
K: Oh wow
U: Forbidden forest? K: Never mind. This doesn't remind me of anything anymore.
[K laughs]
This is out there. U: -into Akmu's Dinosaur music video
K: Whaaaaaat
Crossover.
[whispers] Watch it's gonna be-
So now they- they're gonna get from another door.
[Umu is very shook] [so is Kevin]
U: This is a good bridge. 'Cause we've changed the feel.
K: Whaat? (U: Nice.) What does it mean?
U: Can we listen to that bridge part again? (K: Sure) After this.
I wanna try and get a grasp on it.
Did they set the school on fire? K: Fire and water. Lots of fire and water.
U: I think they set their school on fire.
He's healed! K: Wooow
U: [whispers] Magic.
Cool! Oh.
K: Yeah, what?
And cut?
U: Wait why are they- oh. Is he- mm.
[whispers] Is he a ghost?
What. K: What? (U: Whaaaat?) Is that a voodoo-
What is that? (U: Did that appear before-) Chewbacca.
U: In the film? K: I've never seen that.
That's weird, thats creepy. U: Are they starting a storyline?
K: Yep, it looks like it.
U: Well that was by far my favorite TX- TX- T by T song.
K: Okay. I see- I can see that I like their- their debut more
U: Okay K: Was that their debut? The other one we heard. (U: Yeah) Okay. Yeah, I like their debut more.
For me this one, that post-chorus did get a bit repetitive. U: The- [K sings the post chorus]
U: wasn't that the chorus? K: I think the course is the section right before that.
U: Okay. K: Yeah. U: Yeah.
K: But everything other than that, yeah, it was nice.
Um...
Yeah, all the instruments were interesting [whispers] up until that little point. [laughs]
U: Right K: Yeah, yeah, I do like the bridge a lot. It felt like that little
music box thing, the music box instrument was doing its own thing and it didn't always line up,
but it still made sense U: Mhm.
Yeah, and I love it when that happens. I think I've been hearing it more in kpop recently.
Just one or two instruments that don't really line up.
Yeah. U: Yeah. Like I said, in my BTS Micro cosmos reaction anything that is upbeat,
major, and in compound meter, I'll like it.
And that's what the song is, plus with some dashes of chromaticism, and some
not knowing where the beat is, and
I love the change of feel when we do have the-
Would you- it wouldn't necessarily be minor?
It's just chromatic because they changed the ?? to dark- K: I still,
So you mentioned that when it turns chromatic keeps the major very fresh U: Mhm
see I hear that chromatic part as still being in the major
because what they do is they go from the major third to the one, so
[singing what he means] Three~ one~ (U: Yeah) So I still hear is as major. Also,
this is a personal preference,.
Whenever there's a chromatic line that sounds circus-y. (U: Mhm) I treat that as a gimmick
U: Ohhh. K: So that automatically makes me, you know, dock like a few points from this song.
They still use it pretty well, I think.
U: I see why you don't like it. K: So when they're saying magic land bibbidi-bobbidi-boo I'm like, okay this is this thing.
That's- that's very personal preference. U: I like it a lot.
Okay. Well, I mean I also heard it in major by automatically
see a lot of- if there's a lot of chromaticism going on then I see it just...
As a darker feel, I experience it as a darker and therefore I associate that with like "the minor"
K: Sure, that makes absolute sense.
U: And especially since like the bell part, or xylophone, or music box (K: Mhm), whatever we're calling it...
Um, all the instrumentation drops out (K: Mm) and so it's like this spacious-
and I'm definitely imagining it with the music video where it's like, nighttime and a dark scene.
Anyways, let's go back to that bridge 'cause I was like "what is happening?"
I feel like the weird chords happened- K: Oh it's- it's when they're walking U: Did I skip it?
K: You might have skipped the beginning of it, but I'm not sure.
Okay, great perfect. Wow. U: Door open.
Dinosaur, oo OO~ [Akmu's Dinosaur]
K: Oh, you probably didn't skip it. Yeah you- it's just silence.
See (U: See!) some of the notes! They don't line up- U: Yeah
K: The chords are very cool.
U: I guess it's also because there's the vocal, uhh...
[whispers] What was it called? Vocoder, on the vocals which also helps the eerie vibe.
K: Uh-huh K: That it's that [makes vocoder noise]
sound that kind of shifts the pitch. Yeah, I love that and
we don't have the triplet subdivisions, (K: Mhm) you can still feel it from before
But (K: Oh.) therefore it makes me feel that section in a different way. K: I have a theory!
U: Yeeess? K: I think the vocal line is in 6/8, (U: Uh-huh) but the bell line, or the music box line (U: Is in four?) is in 3/4.
U: Oh three four. So basically, it's very si- so, so
Both meters are the same number of eighth notes they're b- all six eighth notes
It's just where the emphasis is. 3/4 goes [demonstrates where the emphasis is]
U: Yeah, One two three K: and then the vocal line is [demonstrates where the emphasis for the vocals]
U: Okay. K: Yeah. U: I can hear that, (K: Yeah) I can hear that.
Yeah, this was really fun. Can't wait to buy it and listen to it some more.
Thanks for watching! Bye~ K: Bye~