Jarod: I see on the screen and it's F-X-X-K IT
Is that the name of the song like F'n kinda thing Umu: Yes
Yunyi: Or it could be fork it
Umu: Or funk it
Kevin: F- double cross it
*Rossini's Semiramide Overture plays*
Umu: Now you're reacting to a group called BIGBANG
Yunyi: I know BIGBANG (throwback to ms)
Umu: And they are like a hella big hit have you ever heard of bang bang bang
Or like Fantastic Baby
Davis: Oh my god yes that one
Jarod: Oh man I have not so this'll be a trip
Yunyi: Nice burrito bowl. That's some-
Umu: Dude stop eating you're gonna die Kevin: It was full Yunyi: Some gooey sh*t
Kevin: Yeah I'm dying. Jalapeno!
Let's react
3, 2, 1
Jarod: Liftoff
Lindsey: Woah
The colors!
Kevin: Lighting
Herny: Bruh
Yunyi: Saturation Kevin: Mhm
Henry: Hahaha (HIS FACE OMG XD)
Shimon: I like how long it's like
Herny: Dope ass camera angle
Lauren: Oh that guy's hair
Kevin: Dreadlocks?
Lauren: It looks like those pipecleaner things you know
Both: That hair
Yunyi: I dig it
Davis: That's an interesting hair choice actually
Yunyi: Nice, nice Kevin: XDXD
Lindsey: This is vibin'
Yunyi: Oh that hair
Davis: I think having this much space in the beat is what makes this so good
Yunyi: I know names. That's G-Dragon right
Lauren: Ooh that coat
Yunyi: I think
Shimon: Hahaa Lauren: Very, Very bright
Peyton: It's super duper duper duper duper
Jarod: I think these guys have the most swag out of all the kpop stars we've seen
Peyton: I can see why they're so popular for sure
Yunyi: It's got some reggae inspiration
Fiona: I like the twinkly ssshhh
Peyton: Very unique
and good lord those jackets
Kevin: It's very casual I like it I mean
Yunyi: Oh censors
Lidsey: Oh he was wearing Vans
Henry: The cinematography is very cool
Jarod: you know these guys just don't care you know they're just doing their thing
like look at that guitar he's holding it by the neck, both hands on the neck
you know who needs to strum when you can just choke the sound out of it
Fioan: Whenever they sing the word down it goes down
*Laughing*
That's what I'm gonna do with my trumpet know I'm just gonna shake it and be like play
Fioan: That's, what what is that called Henry: Bruh bars
Fiona: That's lyric
Davis: Heey
Fioan: Lyric tex- text painting?
Lindsey: Like that jawline
Peyton: Wow his voice is a lot deeper than I thought it was going to be
Shimon: Oh I remeber this rapper guy
Yunyi: That's T.O.P
*Kawaii Yunyi Appears*
Jarod: I like the pink hair with the black roots
Kevin: Staccato
Like the bass is all like dub dub dub dub
Yunyi: you know I actually tried to dye my hair this morning and if I succeeded it probably would've looked something like that
Jarod: This guy's like my favorite rapper. There's just I don't know, something about it
Peyton: This is their melodic guy that like comes in at the end
Fiona: I like this guy's voice
Herny: Ok I was like this is some sensory overload but there are so many colors
Fioan: His jacket it's-
Oh you know it's starting to build. It's building up
Fiona: We're going- Henry: It's because there's one track of synth in the background going Woooaaaaawwwwwiiii
Kevin: Oh my god that jacket
Yunyi: Oh I don't know his name
GUY'S SHOP
Jarod: Like do you see that jacket
Peyton: Yeah
Jarod: I would buy that so fast
Lindsey: I like this. Oh did you see him just playing the violin like this
Jarod: And then there's like that Suzuki violin kinda thing I don't know
Peyton: Yup
Peyton: I think they're effective cuz they have like a good balance of like people like
you know you got the front man that's like 'alright i can like basically rap'
and then you got the 'ima deep voice and ima like
try woo you with my nice jawline'
Davis: Everybody knows putting your finger over your ear helps you sing better Lindsey: Makes you a better singer
Jarod: What a falsetto level
Yunyi: Ooh harmonies
Jarod: Bring ya'll to tears
Umu: Are you liking the beat of this song
Shimon: surprisingly laid back
Shimon: I expected them to be more upbeat
Kevin: Ready
Davis: See all about the space Lindsey: That little break and then the beat comes back in
Peyton: Yeah man, use the silence Jarod: That drop
Jarod: I'll join
Yunyi: Melody was smooth. give it to me, Give it to me
Peyton: that reminds me, Thompson was talking about that and Mahler
Peyton: using the silence
Very powerful tool!
Jarod: I can see the paper right now. Comparing Kpop and Mahler??
Henry: I like the voices in the background
it's contrapuntal
and uh-
serves the melody well ;)
henry: Music plug!
Fiona: text painting!
Jarod: Oh crowd surfing it's lit
Peyton: Yup
Jarod: and those pants with the flowers on it, dude
Peyton: They know what they're doing
Yunyi: They're getting down Kevin: Haha
Kevin: I mean the way they added the down down just kind of like the more modern millennials swoop I guess
Davis: Makes me wanna get down
as the song said
Fiona: Cool that was nice, awesome, ok it's over Henry: Wow that was good. good job
Fioan: Musically it was chill. I could see how that could be a popular song it's really repetitive. Pop songs are repetitive Henry: Absolutely a pop song
Fioan: You know it's fun if you think of it like that
Umu: Did you enjoy that
Jarod: I did, not as much as I'm enjoying this add
Peyton: Ummm
Jarod: I think that's my favorite one that I've listened to so far. I could see why people like that
Jarod: I just like the beat man. Especially iot hooked me when they had that drop it was like it just cuts out and you're like
Peyton: Bewm
Jarod: Boom, and then I'm like I'm in. I'm in that's what sold me. At first I'm like wow this is groovy and that moment made the song for me
Cuz that silence was in time as well it wasn't just like a random amount of silence
Boom ah ooh
Yunyi: I realized that song was entirely in 2 plus 2 plus 4 phrase structure
Umu: Nice it's a sentence Kevin: 2 plus 2 plus 4? Yunyi: 2 plus 2 plus 4
Keivn: Why is it 2 plus 2 plus 4 Yunyi: Because it's in cut time. It really feels like it's in two Umu: Right
Yunyi: Instead of 4 because they emphasize beats 1 and 3 so strongly Umu: Yeah yeah
Yunyi: See it's way too slow to ????
Yunyi: No that doesn't make sense
Yunyi: Yeah see now you know where the downbeats are
Umu: Anyways we're gonna move on to the next one
Ash: Ok so Last dance
Both 5 Fiona: 4
Davis: One
Lindsey: 2
Davis: 4
Lindsey: 3
Jarod: Liftoff
Davis: 2 4 3 Lindsey: Hah
Fioan: oh my god I love polka dots
Jarod: That's quite the suit
Henry: Oh the way that the color comes into view is so dope
Fioan: I love pink
Lauren: What is he sitting on
Fioan: Ooh
Lauren: Kinda looked like a diving board Shimon: Yes
Lindsey: This is my new favorite group because they wear vans
Kevin: Man are they gonna show anyone right side up
Yunyi: Blackpink ( It is YG lol)
henry: 5 (V) fiona: nice piano
*frog voice* oooone (I)
Shimon: They're at an airport
Fiona Oh my god that beew sound
Yunyi: That muffled beat
Jarod: So we're at the airport or the train station
Kevin: Yeah I'm a fan
Lindsey: It's on one the whole time
Jarod: but he isn't going anywhere
Peyton: Are we really every going anywhere
Lindsey: Oh sorry that went to sev-
Back to one
Shimon: I can imagine this being played in the background of a convenience store on the radio
Lindsey: Maybe it was a 6 Umu: Fives
Shimon: You hear it but you don't realize that you hear it and then you hear it from somewhere else and you're like I've heard that from somewhere
Lauren: I love that you can hear the piano. It's not like overwhelming like with synthesizers
Fiona: Yeah this is a nice ballad. His voice is like intense yet the lyrics are so calm
kevin: there's the flat 6! yunyi: neopolitan?
kevin: no it's a flat 6!
flat 6, flat 7, 1 (b6, b7, I)
Jarod: That bass though
Peyton: It's got that nice ballad type of thing where it's like
Fiona: This could easily be a country song
Yunyi: Ooh I like that little growl
Kevin: I feel the sadness
Davis: Very 90's ballad
Kevin: I just think the cameraman is just having too much fun
There's no need to go this far
It's nice it's stylish
Oh that's the same chord, same chord exactly
Lauren: I was right it's a diving board right it looked like it
Jarod: The camera angles are throwing me off a little bit but
Shimon: Uuuhh Lauren: I think i'm right
Peyton: I could just imagine they're in college just like oh my god this is so beautiful
Jarod: I'm gettin' dizzy
Oh wow that makes sense now you know just cuz you move your head
Maybe it's their way of exercising their audience
Yunyi: Jason Mraz I'm yours
Kevin: It's the same chord progression
Shimon: That's not a diving board
Umu: Hehe
Shimon: That was not a diving board
Lauren: Ok I was wrong
Yunyi: There's the descending tetrachord again
shimon: they have bags on their heads???
Kevin: Aw what
Henry: What's written on the ground
Jarod: Like I feel like if kpopn had to have a Miley Cyrus The Climb kind of song I feel like this is it
Kevin: No it's not quite a descending tetrachord
It's a little different
It's 1 3 6
Shimon: Yeah it's not a diving board
kevin: flat 6....7
Yunyi: There's something to the sort of like descending-
Kevin: you can replace- exactly
Henry: The bridge. This song has a bridge!
I mentioned last time when we were recording that none of their songs have bridges there's just a rap section
Yunyi: Oh my god his chest voice gets me
Jarod: Alright just a note everybody listen to this song like you need to listen to this with good audio because you really want that low bass line
Like that's what's drawing me in right now
Davis: Is it gonna modulate
Yunyi: It's got to go up, it's got to go up
Kevin: Weird
Fioan: I love you your voice is really beautiful and this song has a lot of meaning
*Flurry of emotions*
Henry: Woah modulation!!
Henry: Up a half step what the f*** Fiona: This modulation it really intensifies what you say
Kevin: Why is the gr- Uh everything is upsidedown
Henry: Minor 6 to 5
Kevin: Wait in Korea is the red light at the bottom
(I believe they're sideways actually, I could be wrong)
Because there's a street light that's like green yellow red
Fiona: I love this guy's voice
Lindsey: Yeah
Yunyi: Falsetto
Get it
Shimon: his voice does not fit his face
Kevin: Oh I hear the crowd
Fiona: You hear people cheering
Davis: The colors
Lindsey: Yeah I like the blue
Kevin: Oh i just ends on- Yunyi: Is that how it ends *Yunyi's phone rings*
Yunyi: AAaahh!
Henry: That was very meaningful
Henry: That was great Fiona: That was sweet
Henry: That was really good I liked that
Good for them
Jarod: Wow
Peyton: It was classic
Jarod: Wow
Davis: I didn't- I didn't really- I didn't become invested in the words because I felt like the music video itself wasn't really portraying
Lindsey: It was too distracting
I think the video was- I feel like I would've thought differently of this song if I wasn't watching the video
Shimon: That was like pasta with oil (He didn't eat this video so he had to make a food reference)
Lauren: Everything is about food for you (yup)
Shimon: There's no like- It's just pasta Umu: No really extra flavor to it
Shimon: I don't know if there was like another section maybe? that was a little different? It felt like it was the same the entire time
Lauren: I mean I didn't think it was terrible, but I didn't like it either
This is not my style of music that I would go out of my way to listen to Umu: That's fine
Umu: I like the modulation
kevin: it's a trope that's exactly what-
Yunyi: Well usually you have 2 repetitions of the chorus and then you have the bridge and then the final statement of the chorus you go a halfstep higher
Kevin: Oh yeah
Yunyi: That's a huge trope in pop music. I mean personally I'm not too offended by it cuz its like Kevin: I'm not offended by it I'm just-
Yunyi: You sounded offended
Kevin: I just think for like a music video that wasn't that eventful for that to happen I think ok you're just really playing the tropes this time
Kevin: I don't know why I didn't like it
Yunyi: I mean cuz we're classical musicians and we're trained to like basically pick out pieces for like their definitive musical points
and this is everything about commercialized music that is done for the sake of attracting an audience
like I think there's an art form and I mean I was an econ major for a while so I'm really into this sh*t
Cuz it's like everything in this music video is designed in a way to make audiences like what they hear
It's got like pretty imagery, it's got a very comfortable chord progression and it's got astute vocals, it's got-
like there's something about the formula of like a descending melodic line in the song, accompanied by an occasional...occasional model mixture
thrown in there in this case a flat 6 and then that like, I call it the love on top modulation like something about that drama really attracts audiences to it
There's nothing really that uniquely special about this song but it does everything that everyone likes
Like in the general sense which is why I think we're predisposed to oppose it cuz it's like we're against commercialized music
I mean also cuz like we know the reasons why the song sounds comfortable, sounds generic and to us perhaps it may even sound pandering to our emotions
Or where as other people when they don't recognize it they'll just hear this and be like I like it I'm not sure why but I really like it and it's catchy
Umu: Ok which one did you like better
Lauren: I would say this one (Last Dance) because the other one was kinda crazy,it made me uncomfortable
*everyone laughs*
1/2 (of a vote) for both sounds terrific
Henry: I like this song better just purely like objectively just because the progression was far more interesting
Fiona: And it had a bridge! Henry: It had a bridge!
Henry: Yaaay
Both: The first one
Umu: Do you like FXXX IT better
Lindsey: Yeah
Henry: That was hype Lindsey: Hell yeah I liked that a lot
Big Bang 10/10