Kevin: AhhhhhhHHHHHHHHH
Umu: So now you're reacting to the nine member boy group Stray Kids
and their track called Miroh release in 2019
Fun fact: Miroh means maze in Korean
the music video from Miroh uses the imagery of the concrete jungle to imply that the maze is the city
one of the Stray Kids members Changbin says that the song is about gaining confidence
to face new challenges. This can be seen in the lyrics
"It's not hard in this rough jungle. It was me who ran into it
I'm okay" many of your viewers and critics have commented on the use of haka in the choreography
Haka is a traditional war dance for the Maori *SORRY FOR MISPRONUNCIATION* of New Zealand that displays pride strength and unity
Just having it in the choreography could symbolize the group strength and unity as they enter into new challenges?
The song was composed by 3Racha and Brian Atwood
Kevin: Shout out to all the Kiwis who watch us, wooo New Zealanders
Daniel: sweet shall we? Fiona: 3 2 1
Daniel: hmm
Fiona: Sounds like Christmas
Daniel: Oh what was going on
Is it a festival?
Daniel: *gasp* oh my god is that money? (F: it sounds so happy)
F: "is that money" Daniel: Oh my god I am THERE
Daniel: They're plotting something
Fiona: see, the music represents the happy normies
that don't know what's going on (D: they do not fit)
Cloud: It's like a flash mob. They're like just getting people
Henry: or it's just Hong Kong
Kevin: That sound like the Flintstones there was a little Flintstones theme in there.
did Siivagunner make this music video?
James: My god, is this an assassination
Seiji: *sarcastic* Yeah, there's no way this is gonna drop there's no way
Stephen: *also sarcastic* I don't believe in drops. Therefore, they do not exist.
Seiji: *the sarcasm continues* it's not gonna happen here
Henry: Oh that was cool. They lead up with a bass percussion and then just *foooo*
Kevin: Man the balance between the vocals and the instrumentals is really great.
I just like how those chords pop
Yeah!!!!
whoa, dance
Melissa: I like this
The whoa-oh thing is so catchy
Fiona: It's like major... and it's confusing
Stephen: That was cool. Do you notice
Right before the drop they're about to drop right here but like notice how they've dropped off like they
Yeah, okay so here you hear all the like low sounds and like low percussion
even though it's electronic drum set
It was really cool. How in the build,
They took that out for a second which highlighted another part of
The mix that you couldn't really have heard super well before just really cool.
*sponge bob* Meanwhile
Kevin: Okay, okay
ooooo Yes, yes
wwwoooOoOooooOoo
Henry: this goes real hard
Cloud: That's pretty boppin' though like
Henry: it's like Cloud: like this would go in like my workout playlist
Fiona: They're Stray Kids they're just doing what they want! they're taking over
Kevin: Everything about this works
Help
Nice (Isaac: wow) back to that great sound that I love
Cloud: Every time that piano goes is when the chords
or like the step that's doing that doo, doo
Henry: Oh yeah
Cloud: The third one always comes in like just a little bit sooner than I anticipate
and it like kinda throws me off a little bit like
Henry: Yeah
Fiona: That's so cool
and it's so repeatable Daniel: Aw they just took over!
Wait what Fiona: It's so repeatable like *sings line*
Fiona: I dunno it just like Daniel: Ahhhh
Fiona: It like runs into each other
Stephen: They dropped out the bass drum and then you know for the drop
Kevin: AaaaHHHhHhHhhh
Cloud: every time that roar I'm like hello
Henry: Oh, that was cool, they like pause, beat, putting it on the second beat makes you subvert your expectations
Kevin: Oh
Kevin: They're very resonant. Something smashing on something sound is pretty great too
Cloud: There's an occasional *roar* tiger roar
*rawr XD*
Henry: Again! Third time
I like that- I want that to come back more
Cloud: They're like hm one more time.
Henry: Oh I like the playout chords but like soft chord
Kevin: The vocal has just fade like a second faster than the instrumentals
Melissa: Do I stan Stray Kids
James: Stray Kids everywhere Melissa: do I stan them- James: wait
James: you make stray kids stay...?
Umu: Stay is the name of the fandom
Melissa: That's almost so cool like I like how they like layered it
like there were like
The distinct things were like the instrumental part and then there's like the whoa-oh part and then they were like the words of the chorus
I like how they like at one point
They layered like the whoa-oh and like the words over the top of it and that was like super lit
James: I'm trying to think of like a musical things say I just I really appreciate the political message too and the puns
So the name of this group is stray kids, right?
so they're like they come to this city like
Searching for opportunity like many do and then like they clearly show these like people in power these like politicians or whatever
They are like I don't know who they are and it's like they sort of show this like coup that they're organizing to like
overthrow them
like obviously there are people standing in the way of like them getting their goals and I'm like going and making their like
dreams come through and it's like sort of a
commentary on like
stray kid culture
It's like, you know
like the elites are up here and we're just like the guys down here and like we're trying to make our way and like find
Our way through this concrete jungle, you know, it's like I thought the political commentary was very cool
Like musicians have like voices and when they use it for for things like that
I really appreciate it
Stephen: this maybe you want to dance
and then it also was very musically interesting
I was too busy dancing to notice some of it but what I did notice it was just like really cool
How when they would add
or take away certain things like they take the bass drum out and then all of a sudden you get here that synth flying better
It was just really cool how they'd add and take away certain things to where sometimes it's not necessarily a matter of volume
But like the tone and timbre of an instrument will still take up like even if it's not super loud
It'll still take up the space of another instrument
It's just another way to mess with like mix that doesn't necessarily translate to like dynamics or volume
It's really cool
Seiji: like a lot of times with a drop like
Like in terms of like how many tracks you have on it, right?
so like
you see it like thin out a lot more but here even when it thins out you like, like you said, you see something
totally brand-new in it
(St: Yeah) which I guess it's probably there the whole time but you just don't really realize it
Stephen: right and they did it on purpose
But it's a really cool composition or like arranging technique to wear right Like what Seiji saying
Sometimes you don't have to like reinvent the wheel if there's something that's going on
you just like make it a little bit more pronounced and take something out and then all of a sudden it sounds like oh my
Goodness, it sounds amazing. (Se: Right) like, you know, (Se:Right)
Daniel: I think there's definitely I think, as you pointed out, there's that cyclical nature
This repetitive nature of this piece, you know in the melody and also the bass line. It just keeps going
(F: Yeah) going and there's like a stop. There's like to build up build ups and there's a stop and this guy's rapping
There's no bass line. There's like no more like harmonic support and it's just like dududu these beats.
Fiona: Yeah. It's very multuristic kind of Daniel: and just releases
It's like (Daniel: yeah) *weird sound*
Daniel: Definitely, there's like this level of like rhythmic intensity that kind of just like permeates
Fiona: True Daniel: Yeah
Fiona: and further on like- okay earlier
It happened a couple times where there's like this tiger like huh sound but then towards the end. He was like huuh
Like it was like, oh my god, I was getting serious.
Daniel: Yeah. I don't know if I'm recalling this correctly, but I think
Korea's
National animal is a tiger. Maybe it's speaking to
Something that's like nationalistic. I don't know. Fiona: yeah
Umu: They also have an eagle cry in it
Daniel: Oh Really? So like America plus Korea. We like fight together. All right, cool Fiona: AWWWG. I missed that one
*animal screeches*
Kevin: Yeah, the drop itself is great enough but what really surprised me about the drop is that usually
During the build-up the last few seconds. There's usually like, you know, the beat just goes away for a bit before the landing
But here it continues the percussion just keeps brrrrrrr and then drrrrrr
And then it drops, I think that was the ultimate subversion of expectation and it made me scream
*headphone warning* BUWABUFIBIUFB
Isaac: oh there's this one melody I wanted to bring up the
C Bb Eb D- Kevin: it might be C#. It might be C# or D, but I don't know
Isaac: *sings it* no, C# yeah
I Know Bach does this. So instead of just going straight down because there's only so much
So much room you have left with your instrument
What he does is he jumps back up and then continues the descending line. And in this case, it's a
Micro- it's a smaller version of it and
Kevin: it's almost an expanded version of Bach's name
Cuz Bach likes to spell his name in pieces.
Isaac: This was it Bb A C and- B
Kevin: Yes, (I: H was B) exactly yeah, so it's almost like an expanded version of that
But let's not get too carried away with the Bach parallels.
Isaac: It's something that you can oscillate for so long and you can
Overlay it with whatever you want in this case was dubstep and also very colorful melody- melodic lines
Even that drops Wow Kevin: Drops are great and the dances
It combines this really complex series of movements with a very the dance that like, you know, I could do right now
Umu: Do you want me to teach you the dance? It goes like-
Right, left Right Left
Kevin: Wait you have to mirror image it Isaac: okay, Umu: right, right
Left, left Them: *trying to copy*
Umu: And then leeeeeeft
Kevin: alright, Umu: I'm okay
Kevin: I see I didn't see that it's a slightly below Okay. it's like despite all of this
Revolting, you know that everything's gonna be okay at the end, but it's like it's like hidden
Isaac: assurance Kevin: Yes
Stephen: What's a drop song? Umu: *demonstrates strange sounds*
Seiji: Oh, yeah, we will. (S:Oh) No doubt
Stephen: I really like the way you explained that you're just like- *Headphone warnING*
*mimics Umu*