[Topp Dogg's "Amadeus" plays] Eddy: [look of confused anguish]
[Rossini's Semiramide Overture plays]
Eddy: [attempting to pronounce name] Minseo? Umu: Ooh la la!
Umu: Minseo is a 21-year-old solo artist under the entertainment sub-label called APOP.
It [the song "Is Who"] was released in 2018, and composed by Je Hwi. So this one…
…will offer a jazzy g***y sound. Eddy: Ooh.
Eddy: Oof.
Brett: Whoa…
Brett: He's a violinist! Eddy: Mm.
…Oohh!
Eddy: [mimics violin playing from video] [chuckles] Brett: [chuckles] Eddy: That was not awful at first.
When I listen to this, like, kinda chord progression, I just keep thinking about [sings] "uh oh!"
Brett: It's kinda creepy, in a way. Eddy: Yeah, like the puppets. Brett: Yeah.
E: [sings] uh oh!
Siri on phone: Head north on Victoria Street towards Queen Street east. E: [giggles]
B: Hello, Siri! Or Google Maps! Eddy, Brett, Umu: [laughter]
E: I'm enjoying the violin.
B: It's always so risky, putting a violin… (E: Yeah.) …the syncing part.
You know all the musicians are gonna: [imitates mocking laugh] …watching every bow stroke and fingering.
E: This is a solo girl? (B: This is cool.)
E: Yeah, I don't know much about singing, but…
It's, uh… refreshingly different. …I wanna see how many views this video got; I'm curious.
1.8 million… oh! Just came out four months ago. B: Hmmm…
Umu: Did you expect more, or less?
B: Hmmmm… E: I wasn't expecting — I was just curious. Umm…
I mean, if there's one thing you learn from doing YouTube, it's… you never know.
Umu: [laughing] Very true! E: Some of the…
dumbest things get a lot of views, and some of the best things get a lot of views, you never know.
B: I'm glad they didn't do too many shots of the violin guy playing with the music, 'cause it'll be really difficult to sync.
E: I liked it, actually. And that's coming from classical ears, which is like… typically judging.
B: But it fits it. (E: It does.) Fits, like, the whole… E: I like the kinda… glisses, the slides…
E: [imitates violin slide] B: And his tone quality kind of… suits the whole grungy jazz… (E: Yeah.)
B: [imitates violin timbre from song] …Was that one just about the jazz stuff?
U: Yeah… (B: Ahh…) It was just the fact… 'cause no pop music really has a soloing instrument.
B: That's true. U: So the fact that they let the fiddle solo is… B: Pretty cool.
U: Thank you. E: Is there K-Pop violin… is that a thing?
U: Well, there's JuNCurryAhn. Have you heard of him? E: Ah, yeah, I know him. U: Yeah, he does K-Pop violin…
E: But… no, he does covers. There should actually be, like, a group.
B: K-Pop violin. E: You can imagine, like… I don't know, like a… ensemble,
like a string ensemble, and they're just like:
[attempts to mime a combination of K-Pop dance and violin playing] U: Is it possible to dance and play at the same time?
E: Well, they need… (U: I saw your "DNA" cover…) …to be trained by Lindsey Stirling. And Lindsey will have… (B: They need training… yeah, Lindsey Stirling, your calling is here!)
E: Lindsey, train a K-Pop violin group! B: Teach them everything you know: how to play and dance, 'cause it's REALLY hard.
E: She actually does it, though. That's the… B: She actually does it. U: Mad respect.
B: Yeah, mad respect. U: Alright, so one of your favorite artists, Eddy: IU. (E: Mm-hm.) This is her 2011 release, where
it's a concept that she, as a 19-year-old girl, is trapped in a clock tower, where time is stopped, with a boy who's asleep.
Her… grandpa actually made it so that when she became an adult, the boy would wake up, they'd fall in love.
But, she eventually travels to the future, and saw this future, and she said "okay…
…when I turn adult, I'm gonna make a time machine, and I'm gonna travel to the future to make sure that this happened."
But… when she turns into adult, and she steps in the time machine, the boy wakes up and she leaves!
So… the question is: do they ever meet?
B: Noooooo… E: Time sci-fi… B: Ai-yah.
B: Whoa. Harry Potter. E: Ah… [attempting to count the song's rhythm] 2, 3… 1…
Both: [counting rhythm] 2, 3…
E: Whoa! This is like… Disney? B: Wingardium Leviosa! E: Kingdom Hearts. …Oh.
This sounds like a Disney film track. …Oh! Not any more.
B: Just so you know… E: I'm not gonna analyze; I'm just gonna enjoy IU. You do the analyzing.
B: There's like a string section going on. …Or… (E: Hmm.) …at least more than one violin. (E: Yeah.)
B: But do I hear any violas? Both: [focused listening]
B: Nah! E: Nah!
B: She keeps changing… outfits. E: Why does she keep changing… yeah. U: [laughter]
B: Dude, time… time doesn't… doesn't matter. You can do anything. E: Duuuude, that's so sick.
I wish I could clothes like that… B: So that means the music is outside of this place, because the music keeps going.
…She can't keep up. E: Maybe… she's in a simulation. E: Yeah.
E: And the clocks are, like, the computer.
B: See? The music's going on… but she has all the time that she wants. E: Yeah.
B: Can you hear cellos? E: Hmm? B: Can you hear cellos in it?
E: I can hear French horns! …Cymbals. [to Umu] Are you a French horn player? …Heh.
B: Ahh. E: Piano…
E: I wonder if it's an actual orchestra, or like, MIDI… like really well… MIDI… B: With the fade, and then… (E: Yeah.)
B: [switching his earbuds around] I couldn't hear the bass, 'cause the wrong ears. (E: Ah, alright.) That's why you heard the bass so clear, your left ear… (E: Yeah, I think I heard cello…)
B: It was was very orchestral. It was very minim— …mini— …bleh. Minimalistic, one place. E: Which bit?
B: Just the one shot… (E: Ah, yeah, yeah.) …the whole time. E: Visually, right? B: Yeah.
E: Compared to most K-Pop things, right? B: I liked it… U: Did I show you the performance version?
B: No. E: Ah, that was the performance version… (U: Was it?) …I think so.
U: Was there any story? E: Nah. U: [laughter]
Both: Oooohhhhhhhh… U: Multiple times, K-Pop music videos have, like, the actual story and stuff, and then they also release…
…just… the just dancing version. B: Oooohhhh… E: Oh, well, you meant to show us the performance version?
U: Yeah, I didn't mean to… B: Gives us more time to listen to the music… (U: Yeah!) …right? Don't get distracted as much. E: Ah, it still… it's pretty distracting, man.
E: It reminds me of… J-Pop. But I don't know if that's legit… maybe, maybe not. …Yeah, it was just the… the blend, with the orchestra and the…
…bass [imitates bass line from song] …and the singing was… interesting. B: That's the best way to put it. (E: Mm.)
U: Alright, well we are ending this lovely film session… with a song that includes multiple classical pieces in it.
So next up is a boy group called Topp Dogg that debuted in 2013.
This song is called "Amadeus," and is off their album called "Amadeus"… and is composed by Deez and Monitor Punch.
So this song is actually about a romance conveyed through music, and musical terms like crescendo, vivace, fermata, andante, and moderato…
…are used in the lyrics. (E: Oh, wow…) So I was unable to find, like, an existing… this doesn't have a music video, this is actually what's called a B-side track.
So usually fans post, like, a translated lyric video.
Umm… however, this group isn't that popular, so… none of them existed.
If you want the lyrics afterwards, I can give them to you. …So yeah, just try and name all the different classical pieces you hear. I think there's…
B: Classical pieces? U …Four. E: Ohh, it's one of these challenges so like… (B: Alright.) …let's do it.
B: Bring it. …You ready? E: Yeah.
E: Debussy "Clair de Lune"!
…Schoenberg "Verklärte Nacht".
E: This sounds like an "Epic Rap Battles". [laughter]
B: [sings along with strings in instrumental]
Both: [sing along with quote of Mozart's 40th Symphony in instrumental]
B: I swear, it got me before it started. E: [?????] [laughter] B: [laughter] Yeah.
B: It's Mahler.
E: Wait! [pauses music] Can I pause? U: Mm-hm!
E: [sings opening notes of song] Dvořák. …Is that Dvořák?
Both: [sing opening notes of song] U: Nine. [referring to Dvořák's 9th Symphony] E: So there's Dvořák and Mozart right now…
…that I've found. [un-pauses music]
E: [sings quote of Beethoven's "Für Elise" from instrumental] B: [sings next notes of "Für Elise"] E: Für Elise.
B: [hums notes from song]
B: [sings string line from instrumental] …what was that?
E: [gesticulates musically]
E: [dabs]
B: Here we go… gonna change. E: What? B: Ah no… it's the same.
B: Vivace! What's vivace?
[sings portion of instrumental]
B: Oh, there's…
E: I don't know piano pieces! B: [shrugs] We're not pianists!
E: [look of confused anguish]
B: [dances]
E: [to Umu] You said there were six? U: Three or four. E: Oh, right! I'm like "where's the other three?! I can't…"
B: [pauses music] It's only three or four…? U: Yes. B: Oh my god.
E: I… we found three. B: 'Cause they keep coming back, and I was, like, expecting something else… E: The last one was the piano thing, yeah. B: Yeah, yeah.
But we don't know the piano… well… U: Me neither. [laughter] E: So we found them all. B: 'Cause I keep listening for those things.
E: Yeah yeah yeah, same, I was like… B: It's like, I can't… I'm… I'm so dumb. Keep going! E: [un-pauses music]
B: Was that [sings rhythm of vocal part] … [sings opening notes of Beethoven's 5th Symphony, in the same rhythm]
E: Ahh…
U: [coughs] E: That's a far connection.
B: Damn. E: Yeah, I pick three… we found three.
U: Yeah, so what I'm curious about is: do you like combinations of classical music into pop… do you think that's a good thing? Or they should stop?
E: I'm all for people doing whatever they want. B: Yeah. And make it good! It's all good.
E: I would never tell someone to stop doing what they're doing. B: Yeah. That was cool. It was very subtle, though.
E: I mean, it's not the type of music I'll listen to… B: Mm, and if you didn't tell us to, like, listen carefully, I would've just… it would've gone past me.
Maybe the Mozart was pretty obvious… E: I think it's great that people do different things. …What do you think, Emma?
U: I think it's absolutely fantastic. Sometimes it's worth a laugh, 'cause it's kinda bad, but sometimes it's…
…really smartly integrated. (E: Mm.) This one, I think it's just so overwhelming that… just, like, the changes between all the different sections, it's kind of…
…delicious to hear, but also really… overwhelming. [chuckles] E: I think it's good. I think it's more that, umm…
That style of music is already… like I said in the beginning, already too upbeat for me.
U: Mm-hm. E: So it's not that fact that there was classical music in it, it was just… it was too upbeat.
U: Out of those three songs, which one was your favorite? E: IU.
B: Yeah, same. 'Cause… (E: Because I like IU.) I [gibberish] I love U. U: [giggles]
E: [forms a heart shape with his fingers] IU. U: And so… you guys have heard K-Pop before… (E: [whispers] Message me!) Has your…
…opinion changed on it at all, with these few listens, or… it's about the same? B: I don't have opinions.
E: [laughter] B: I just… go with the flow. E: He's very zen.
B: Yeah… I like them! I liked them before; I still like them. E: I think it's cool that in the industry, that they're…
…pushing for different styles, and genres, that it's not always the same. Which I guess is like…
Yeah, that's why I was curious about the views, right? Because that's like a… common…
B: This is an older one, right? E: Actually, I wanna see… uh… see, 'cause you said Topp Dogg didn't get… is not that popular.
B: Uh, what do you mean? E: Because, um… there's a common stereotype that all pop music do the same thing, and sound the same, and
whenever (B: yeah…) they try to DO something different…
It gets less views… [sighs] I mean, there's… there's an element to that where it's like… people know how to cater to mainstream tastes.
And unfortunately, sometimes that means everything's the same. But… I mean, I think… that's the beauty of the internet: you get a variety of things!
B: Yeah… do what you love, (E: Yeah.) listen to what you love! (E: Mm-hm.) The nice good…
E: So deep. U: Amen! …So thank you so much for… doing this today. Make sure to GO CHECK OUT THEIR CHANNEL, Y'ALL!
E: Yeah! [dabs] B: Yeah, check it out! U: [laughing] Link in the description…
B: Yeah… [laughter] I don't know what else to say!
[ZICO's "Yes or No" plays]