Charlotte: Sequence Both: .... WOAHHHH
Katie: ... I'm sorry what???
Umu: Next we'll be reacting to the second solo song of bts' wings album
Umu: This is Jimin's "Lie" this song was written and composed by Jimin himself, doc Skim,
Sumin, Pdogg and then Jimin wrote all the lyrics himself Fiona: Pdogg?
Umu: Pdogg, Yes. Jimin said he thought a lot about his past self when writing this song
Umu: He would blame himself for his own short falling by saying things like "I'm not good. I'm not good enough. I'm doing wrong, I'm Bad"
Umu: while writing he realized he was deep in lies in the past and that he blamed himself regardless of the truth
Umu: He would always think about his flaws and mistakes even if others didn't
James: Okay, I feel like this is going to be really really really really emotional Hugo: James want to take it away?
Hugo: It's BTS it's 95 percent of the time it may be really really emotion James: Am I gonna cry? All right let's go into it
*wtf James*
Lindsey: Well we got like an orchestra going right now
Fiona: It's a creepy haunted house, it's kind of twisted, it feels like an old record that's kind of sagging with pitches you know ?
Katie: cadential 6/4
Jarod: It's like funky beethoven
Fiona: I love the triple feel Lindsey: It's like a middle-eastern kinda sound right now
Fiona: That doesn't happen often enough in pop music. I don't notice it till I hear it Lindsey: I love triple meter
Lindsey: Oh man Fiona: feels really sneaky
Henry: I like this sort of alberti thing
Henry: he's got going on with that like almost like affected distorted Spanish guitar sound
Henry: Very interesting soundscape especially with the opening orchestra. I think it goes to like
Henry: It characterizes the sinister voice in your head, that's telling you you're doing wrong. I think it does that very well
Charlotte: Sequence
both: .. WOAHHHHH
Katie: I'm sorry what?!?! It's like an extreme Picardy third Jarod: I'm sorry, hello?? hello?!?!
Peyton: fat major chord P-H-A-T
Yunyi: The major is a lie
Yunyi: It's a lie cause it doesn't feel genuine when they move into it Kevin: Just a cake--- right exactly
Katie: that's more text painting
Katie: Because it's all in minor and the only time it goes to major is when he says 'caught in a lie'
Katie: Like he's lying about the key signature
Kevin: It's cool how he uses the third scale degree to do it
Kevin: So it sounds more jarring because you know that's the thing that determines whether it's major or minor
Lindsey: ooh I like that like pull out and then the fade- yeah Fiona: [demonstrates]
Hugo: [whips] i like that like white noise that was cool james: that was awesome
Peyton: oh yeahhh i like that
Peyton: Like that hard hitting bass it totally changes the vibe
Lindsey: his voice is so pure like
Lindsey: it is just SO pure sounding
Peyton: Man, that's just such an interesting choice Charlotte: I know
Peyton: Cause it's just like you really want to go into like this angsty part of your body
Peyton: where you're just like CAUGHT IN A LIE YEAH and you're just like [sings]
James: Why would he put that major Hugo: I don't know
James: if he's suffering ...? Hugo: well the major might be a lie in itself
James: [mindblown]
Kevin: Like it's also got like those classic R&B swinging like the slow three
Kevin: Like uh Otis Redding Yunyi: it's great use of like dramatic irony
Yunyi: like you know like this is-- almost parts of it almost sound like gospel Kevin: Yeah exactly
Katie: that perfect fifth
Kevin: This is really nice the percussion just stopped...and you hear strings
Jarod: It's like everything is good, but it's not Katie: but it's not
Jarod: Yeah, oh my god. Katie: Yeah, that's like that's really good text painting
Yunyi: yeah these lyrics Kevin: it's like falling thirds, there's some Brahms influence probably not but
Kevin: The strings are doing falling thirds Yunyi: nice
Yunyi: What... does this end like that Kevin: OH. what an end
Katie: that was amazing Jarod: that was incredible, that's like by far like one of the just like the sickest k-pop songs
Jarod: I've ever seen Katie: hands down that was awesome
Lindsey: I think it's over Fiona: wow Lindsey: that was like
Lindsey: Can I say something? so this probably is gonna like answer every question that you have for us
Lindsey: So I'm just gonna start talking
Lindsey: I think that
Lindsey: the fact that it was in a triple meter worked so well with the lyrics because it was like about being unable to escape and
Lindsey: being like caught, the music just like
Lindsey: didn't have a break and like when it did it was still the
Lindsey: vocals were going and also just like the triple meter makes it just feel like it's constantly like cycling
Lindsey: And there's no way to like break the cycle Fiona: it's like circle
Lindsey: Yeah, so it kind of made sense it was like I'm caught like there's no escape
Lindsey: I keep trying to run, but like I'm not getting anywhere I think it worked super well Fiona: That's a very good point
James: I don't think that really reflected the lyrics much at all Hugo: I think it did
James: What?
hugo: I do *while yawning*
Hugo: sorry James: you're talking about an upbeat song? That's an upbeat song Hugo: noooo
Hugo: I think that that major didn't fit and I think that they knew that I think that was part of like
Hugo: You know 'I'm living this lie' kind of this major idea of that like and when you listen to the chord progression
Hugo: [sings vocal line tho]
Hugo: Is part of a minor mode so I think that they made the main hit major
Hugo: But I think they kind of were hinting at the fact that it was minor
Hugo: And you would say, you would say you, would say you, would say well James: who likes modal mixture ? xD
Hugo: No, no, no one's doing that on purpose, of course not, but you have to remember--- This is BTS and BTS
Hugo: expressively does that on purpose because they are
Hugo: Melodramatic AF and that's why they're great--- mm-hmm James: well played BTS well played
Hugo: BTS one James zero
Peyton: I felt like it had a lot of colors
Charlotte: Yeah
Charlotte: I was just about to say the color changes in his voice that went along with what was underneath that were very nice
Charlotte: Like how the last chorus he just changed. I think he probably was using his head voice
Charlotte: It was a very nice color change Peyton: They also use a lot of sounds
Peyton: You know like it like obviously in the beginning it was like a kind of an orchestral vibe
Charlotte: Yeah, it switched and I was like whattt
Peyton: it's like just kidding it's a pop song
Yunyi: did they end on beat two of the measure
Kevin: four Yunyi: Yeah they end on beat 4. Ok alright that's interesting.
Kevin: That's cool I like it Yunyi: I don't even know where to begin Umu: okay
Yunyi: Um cause his vocals are beautiful first of all I love just the various
Yunyi: Instruments and just like how this goes straight into major..caught in a lie Kevin: but then immediately
Yunyi: Use of key changes very poetic
Yunyi: and it's just great affect again with the dramatic irony of the entire track Umu: go ahead and just...
Katie: word vomit? I may have to word vomit about it a little bit okay let's see
Katie: So I love the intro it felt like someone took like a sampling of a string quartet
Katie: And then like funkified it like a bit ---Vivaldi trap Lord. it's like one of my favorite things look it up. It's funny
Katie: Yeah, I mean and then it came up with a [sings]
Katie: it sounded like some kind of guitar or something that was super intense and like
Katie: Everything about it like the harmonies
Katie: the text painting with the lie
Katie: Everything about it, the vocals, It was just so engaging oh my god
Katie: That was so fun to listen to Jarod: like at the beginning you're like oh it's gonna be like one of those
Jarod: like orchestral kind of sappy pieces kind of thing and then all of a sudden you just get smacked by just the thickest
jarod: Beat you've seen just like like the is just so dirty katie: disgusting
Jarod: It was like it's like you know whenever that really hot guy from work
Jarod: You know takes his shirt off in the cubicle and it's just like Katie: does this happen frequently Jarod: all the time
Jarod: And it's just like super steamy, and you're just like fudge
Jarod: I'm not even gay, but I would totally bear children for that man
Jarod: You know and I can't even bear children like that's how I feel about this song
Jarod: I was like wow I just wanted him to take me right now. Sorry
Jarod: that's getting really out.. but it was just like so good ----two hours later----
Jarod: and you're just trying to contain your insides because sound is just like
Jarod: Spilling out of this computer and just getting all over the floor and making a big mess
Jarod: but it's fine, because like we're just flopping in the puddle on the ground because it's so good Katie: like fish
---Three hours later--- Jarod: and the song itself the meaning is like wow what a cry for help like it's crazy
Jarod: And it's like really deep yeah, that's just, it grabs your attention... the intensity like everything you know Katie: 10/10
Jarod: It's just like katie: that was really good
Jarod: 50 shades of BTS
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