Kevin: I didn't expect the chords to continue with their syllables.
Woah-
[Rossini Semiramide Overture]
Umu: You are now reacting to the rookie girl group Kep1er
and their b-side song 'MVSK' off of their debut album 'First Impact'.
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The group consists of the final winners of Mnet's idol competition program called Girls Planet 999.
The name Kep1er puts together "kep", the verb meaning...?
Owen: What?
Kianna: I thought Kepler was like a planet?
Or a star or something to do with space.
[t/n: Kepler also had his opinions on music, by the way.]
Umu: Hh-
Kianna: Can I get the the country of origin please?
Kevin: What does "kep" mean?
Owen: Catch, catch!
Umu: Yeah(x3), it means to catch!
Owen: Okay.
the name Kep1er puts together "kep",
which is the verb meaning to catch,
and the number "1" to embody their group's goal to catch their dreams and become the best.
Kevin: It's not a Catch-22 it's a Catch-1-er.
Owen: Catch-1. Kevin: It's not a Catch-22 it's a Catch-1-er.
Kevin: w o w .
Umu: The lyrics for this song encourages another
to not have to put on a mask when they're together,
once they take off their mask Kep1er sing that
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Now to finish our 'MVSK' reaction intro script.
The song is produced and written by 정호현 (Jeong Ho Hyeon) from E.one
and choreographed by... Mihawkback,
Umu: Juhee and Eunjoo from Team AURA. Ky: Oh, Mihawkback, okay.
Njoe: I thought she said "choreographed by me",
I was like, no way!
Jory: And a 3 and a 2 and a 1.
Jory: It's good. Umu: Guys, you're not plugged in!
Jory: I like it.
Ky: Okay, 3 2 1!
Ky: The studio...
Kianna: *In an English accent* in the studio~
Kevin: Okay, wow.
Rachel: Man, it just like, started.
Like there was nothing-
Jory: There's like four different bass sounds.
Will: Yeah, a little like, a little slap in there too.
Owen: Slappy slap.
Will: Oh
Rachel: It sounded like we started like halfway through the first verse.
Liam: Boy I really love the rhythmic contour in the vocals.
I didn't expect the chords to continue with their syllables.
Woah-
Kevin: OH! Owen: Wow, this is cool.
Rachel: Wow, the panning, the panning on their voices.
Leon & Liam: That reminds me of Jacob Collier.
Stephanie: Hoooo-
Kevin: Oh nice~
I like they say "understand", I like the way they emphasize that.
Njoe: Oooh, it's like strut- Ky: Okay, it's giving vogue.
Njoe: Yeah, it's giving vogue. Ky: It is giving vogue.
Both: Ooooh
Ky: Oh my god, I got chills.
Owen: I love how they use silence and dynamics in this song.
Kevin: WOoOow! *Bøm bøm...*
Ari: I kinda wish I had two earbuds to hear this.
alright, soft.
Liam: Mm, a little synth riff, that's sick.
Ari: Nice.
Kianna: Ah!
Ky: That- oh
Dancers: OOOOOOOOOO!!! Okay!
Kianna: That was really pretty.
Leon: Mm~ Stephanie: Ah!
Stephanie: Does not get old.
Kianna: Ah, these angles are killer.
Kianna: Like I love the angles that they're making with their bodies are so pretty.
Rachel: I love it, they do like half-time feel and then they go straight back in.
Liam: Yeah!
Njoe: It's just strutting music, you know, like,
Kianna: Mm, Mm, runway, let's go...
*HYPE*
Kevin: Consider me IM PAC TED.
Owen: Minor.
Rachel&Liam: They used the triplet!
Liam: OoooOOoH!
Kevin: This blows my mask straight off! Owen: I like it.
Kevin: WoOow!
Rachel: Oh my god!
Liam: Dude, I can't, I can't stop smiling.
Liam: Mm!
Yeah, a little bit of major, that's really subtle.
It's a nice color change though.
Owen: Major.
Kevin: They don't go down!
Stephanie: Woow.
Ky: Oh-
Ky: It's ending like that. Njoe: Nice.
Will: YEAH!
Jory: That was pretty sick.
Liam: That went SO hard!
Rachel: It did.
Liam: Holy sh*t!
Rachel: What the-
Owen: Great!
Kevin: That was great! Owen: It was awesome.
Owen: That was fun.
Kevin: Is it a b side?
Owen: It's definitely a b side. Kevin: Man...
Umu: But it's promoted with the title track.
Owen: Cool Kevin: Oh good, good.
Kevin: Good, it's like the- yeah, it's literally,
Kevin: it's like a classic b side. Owen: Classic b side, absolutely.
Owen: Yeah, it was so much fun, I- the-
like all the rhythm stuff, that was the main goal,
and that's what made it vibe so hard
they could do anything they wanted
because it had such a solid pulse that when you're dancing,
you're dancing on time,
so then they can just syncopate it a million ways
and it always works because you're going like this...
and it's great.
*subtle Kevin chuckle*
Owen: Right?
Umu: But the way that you've positioned your arms?
Kevin: Exactly, what's that? Owen: That's how everybody dances, isn't it?
Owen: No, am I wrong?
Ky: That was interesting, that was very clean.
Njoe: Yeah. Ky: Wow.
Kianna: So pretty. Wow.
Ari: Searching for the words to describe what I just saw.
(Ari: Searching for it...) Kianna: I mean, I really liked this because
the choreography really allowed you to see all of the angles,
like within their own bodies,
like a lot of the formations were pretty spread out,
except for maybe like the circle, um...
but uh they kept a lot of formations pretty simple *distant alarm sounds*
so you could kind of see- *alarm sounds grow louder*
[NCT: Firetruck]
so you could see all of the angles that they were making with their body
which I really liked seeing.
Ky: ...and then, yeah... Njoe: And it's just all in the arms,
Both: It's all in arms.
Ky: It's giving hand performance.
Njoe: Like right in the beginning you also had like that... Ky: Yeah right!
Njoe: In the beginning, yeah. Ky: The figure 8, yeah(x3)
[Lyrics: Are you sure?]
Kianna: Yeah, I'm sure.
[Lyrics: Are you serious?]
Kianna: I'm quite serious.
Ha, ha, first walk, yes, yes.
Ari: Clap clap.
[?????] [t/n: I don't know enough dancer jargon to interpret these sounds]
Kianna: A lot of the movements on the downbeat.
Like feet on the downbeat, hands on the lyrics.
Ari: Yeah, true.
Ky: Yeah, it's more of the tutting, the lines, the- these things, and stuff like that,
that's very hand performance in the vogue dance genre, so...
Ari: Since the song is called 'MVSK',
so obviously they're going to accentuate like their face you know cover and all that stuff,
without being too heavy-handed like you know...
"mask", like it wasn't too...
they made sure that it stayed pretty
which is always, which is good so, you know...
Kianna: Yeah you could still always see their face,
they weren't they weren't too intense on like covering their face,
maybe to contrast that, Pixy will cover their face completely a lot
like that's something that they like doing,
this was kind of the opposite of that
where they were just like only,
only clear pretty lines without distorting any features or anything like that.
Will: Groove was sick,
fantastic balance of doing what makes sense and is expected,
but also subverting your expectations.
I mean like the first chorus,
where it like drops and everything sucks out and then it's like- (*Umu busy replicating chorus sounds*)
Will: Yeah, then it's like, Jory: I love those vocals too.
Will: Everything cuts out, like totally dry,
and then there's like that *woø0op* kinda thing,
and it goes reverb out and then the reverb automates
and like kinda goes and then it goes *whuüsh*
and then like kinda cuts out and it's just like this whole-
I don't know, it sounds so sick.
It reminds me of Ian Kirkpatrick's producing style
with like Dua Lipa stuff, like 'New Rules',
you know the way that song has all kinds of stuff like that
where it's chopped up and reverb gets cut off
and there's like, you know,
going into the chorus everything cuts out
and there's like a super dry drum fill, and like, you know...
I mean it's great.
Also the 12/8 thing was sick!
Ky: Oh, I absolutely love that whole... Njoe: Yeah, that-
Ky: That whole bridge.
Kianna: Yes! This part, this part, come on dancer, come on.
Ari: Uh, uh, punch, yeah, yeah, yeah
Njoe: Oh, that's the,
Ky: Yo, they're hitting everything.
Kianna: For me partially because like I said before all the formations were pretty simple
they're actually pretty flat and by flat I mean depth wise, like you had like maybe two lines for most of it
and a lot of it was very like frontal, there wasn't too much turning to the side necessarily
unless they were like turning around or like accenting something with their foot,
but the depth of the bridge was very deep
and so, and you could see that like it looked like water,
it looked like a giant wave when they were like whacking all in a canon.
You visually suddenly understood another dimension, if that makes sense.
Ari: That's true.
Kianna: Yeah.
(Rachel: Oh my god.) Liam: Man, everything just worked.
Liam: Everything flowed so well,
it was just such a creative use of transitions.
Ari: That moment where she was just the, where the rest of the, uh
her members were like holding her, like the girl,
when she was like leaning out she had her line (Kianna: That was beautiful)
and they pulled her back in and just transferred the energy across.
In a formation straight across, you're like,
hey, it's like a rubber band, you know, snap. (Kianna: Yeah(x3))
Njoe: I always love a good like falling moment...
Ky: Cuz if you don't do it properly you'll literally like...
dislocate your shoulder.
Kianna: Yeah but it was just really pretty because she just like suddenly like emerged like,
like a majestic whale.
Kianna: Not a whale, like a dolphin. Ari: Wow, a whale.
Kianna: Well whales are- whatever, a majestic sea creature- Ari: Whales are nice.
Kianna: A mermaid even, like just suddenly rising out of the water,
and then like making a ripple immediately afterwards,
like that's what it reminded me of,
it was just like, wow that's so pretty, what does it remind me of?
Something blue, something enya, something...
Ari: Enya?
Kianna: Um...
Ari: Yeah, so like it was a cool illusion,
cuz you didn't really know who was holding her.
Kianna: Yeah... Ari: That's also pretty cool. So yeah.
Kianna: It was fire. It was fire, I loved it from beginning to end. (Umu: Great)
Rachel: Dude I loved when they when they, like you go into the chorus complete silence
and you have this kind of half-time feel happening with...
with the the vocal line
and then all of a sudden you just get, like straight quarters
Will: Oh!
Jory: Yeah. *Blipeouuwhop!*
Jory: I love the little ping pong vocals. Will: Great, it sounds so good.
Jory: Yeah so like the second half of the first chorus,
you think "okay finally it's gonna be four on the floor again"
and it's another measure of like cut time, it's like
*Intense half-time vocal percussion*
Will: Yeah, I love that. So good. Jory: And it's like, it just keeps playing with what you're expecting.
Owen: Also they went silent,
they actually had no sound for a small part of the song,
they had no sound at all
and then they used that sound
to have little mountains that they could create,
Owen: *Ladadedebedebedada* Kevin: "Mountains..."
Owen: and then bring it back, and then they went *Dabababda!*
and then they brought it in,
and that's something that nobody does!
Kevin: From the mountains to the valley. Owen: It's super cool!
Liam: I frickin- how they used the little triplet kick pattern
that they used to get into the second verse,
how they used that as a meter switch vehicle,
like that was so cool.
Rachel: Yeah
Liam: And then it just- Rachel: But then...
Rachel: On the second time that it did that it went straight into the-
Owen: - triplet time!
And they could play with *tri-p-let*
and just a million different subdivisions of the triplets, it was great.
Rachel: Yeah, and it used the kick as a transition into a new feel.
Jory: There's like no warning either.
Will: I know!
Oooh~
Liam: Oh my god it is so SICK!
Rachel: And then after it went into the triplet feel
it goes back into the chorus with the space.
Will: This!
Jory: That's super cool.
Liam: YEAH!
Rachel: So much space,
and then back to the quarters.
Liam: Yeah, that little-
Just the amount of space,
it makes that transition back into the 16th note feel from the triplet feel, like, (Rachel: Lush), yeah, so smooth!
Kevin: I think the way they used the vocal harmonies was very memorable,
there's a, you know, cuz,
they do that and they kind of slide down the harmonic minor,
but then later on, during the chorus,
which arguably should be a more dense part,
they use a lot of just fifths,
and I think that's so cool, there's like actual...
It feels like there's a pulse, almost like a harmonic pulse,
it's like sometimes my ears can rest a bit,
sometimes it's a bit more lush,
and it's all really really cool.
Yeah, the part that I tried to sing but totally fell flat at the end,
(Owen: Major!) Kevin: They don't go down, the *somewhat flat singing*
- was when they resolved on 2,
and I thought it was gonna be *5-4-3-2... 1!*,
you know, do that standard thing,
but they just did *2.......*
and then they just got off of it, it was so great,
and I think the bigger thing was, it wasn't like a-
you know, we've heard like movies and - oh gosh - and stuff,
we've heard things end with like, on 2,
but with big lush, like *demonstrates*,
like okay, sure it's not a tonic, bit it's a good ending.
But this one, it felt like the harmonies where just the open fifth,
so it seemed like they really wanted to slide down, *5-4-3-2.....*
and there was stuff going on here [below], obviously,
but the fact that they left it at that sort of barren...
Bärenpark? - No. No!
Umu: Nooooo! Stop! Kevin: Stop. Stop!
Yeah, they leave it at this barren, open fifth sort of texture
and didn't go down, that was kind of, that was kind of different.
Fan!
Liam: Oh my god.
Dude, that's like on of my favorite songs I've reacted to here.
Liam: That was SO sick. Umu: Yeah, that was like maybe one of the most exciting reactions I've ever gotten from you.
Kianna: I love that part so much. Ari: Oh, here, when it-
Kianna: Oh then they pull her in and there's a ripple!
Kianna: Oh that's so nice. Ari: A- a what?
Kianna: It's like water.
Ari: It's happened again, the shoulder thing!