Ju Young: This moti-
[Rossini's Semiramide Overture playing]
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Liam: Oh, Ateez.
Rachel: Oh yes.
Liam: They're pirate boys. Rachel: Yes please.
Umu: Yay, I didn't even have to remind you!
They're the pirate boys!
So you are now reacting to the 8 member boy group Ateez
and their 2022 release called 'Guerrilla'
released off of their album 'The World - Movement'
Guerrilla, aka the members of Ateez's movement
are on a mission to wake up the world.
Ateez's story line takes place in a dystopian world
where the government has brainwashed their citizens,
banned art, and deprived them of emotion,
because in the government's mind,
No emotion equals perfection.
So in this song Ateez aim to wake up the world through their music
by helping those people feel emotion again
and give them the freedom of expression and choice.
And so this music video continues that concept
and basically the members of Ateez are gonna come together
to stage a coup against the city's authorities.
The song is composed by BUDDY, EDEN (이든), LEEZ, Maddox, Ollounder,
and the members Hongjoong and Mingi participated in writing the lyrics.
They are the rappers.
Adam: Oooooh. Kayla: Oh nice.
Umu: Yeah!
Jason: I really like this comment, somebody wrote:
"I don't care what anyone says.
Jongho [ate] his plate, made his food,
ate and left no crumbs
and then DID THE DISHES!!!!"
That's so funny!
I've never heard anybody say that.
Umu: If you hear anyone singing high notes, that's Jongho.
Both: Jongho.
Umu: Yeah.
Brian: So he's doing the dishes?
Jason: He's doing the damn dishes.
I have to do dishes when I get back-
Umu: So let's go to war, people.
Ali: I'm expecting aggression. Ju Young: These dudes make...
Ju Young: ...Killer ASMR!
Adam: Here we go!
~whooosh~
Thrrree.
A two.
A one.
Oh I like it!
Rachel: Fancy intros, man.
Oh?
Umu: "The disease is human emotion?"
Oh hi Hongjoong.
Ju Young: That's kinda scary.
Ju Young: Like I was- Ali: It's very dystopian.
Adam: The blimps have spikes.
Kevin: Goodness.
Jason: Oh, what? That's crazy! Owen: I thought my computer died.
Kevin: That's a good- That's a GOOD bass line.
Kayla: Oh I like that. Adam: Oh-
Kevin: Wow! Owen: Here we go, I wanted that.
Kevin: Uhu
Henry: They added in a layer! Umu: Oh we are stacking!
Kevin: Hho!
Ju Young: Wwwwoow!
I like that transition.
Alright, gimme the chorus!
Henry: They added in an extra bar for that.
Owen: Wow, they kept the synth on the same chord?
Jory: That's kinda cool.
Owen: And then-
*Hums A* and then keeping it, *A*
Kevin: What?!
Adam: Oh~
Ju Young: AAH HA HA HA!
Rachel: Oh my god, is that guitar?
That- that- oh!
Jory: Yeah!
Adam: Oh!
Rachel: Ohhhh~ I love the complete silence before that.
Liam: Dude, I love the hi-hat pattern
and like the little moments of panning they do with it, it's great.
Umu: What?
What??
Oh???
Ju Young: This...
This motion-
Owen: Wow! Kevin: I love that dorian [mode].
Kevin: Where did this section come from? Owen: I love it! (Kevin: Yeah)
Kevin: And then we go back to that, it's so nice.
I like the feeling of the minor v.
Ju Young: What?
Kevin: Mission Impossible style.
Rachel: Oh I love that in the chorus, my goodness,
like the synth in the back!?
Jason: Common tone, kind of, melody going on, because...
*G♯-A-G♯-A-...*, it's just doing that, but the harmony is changing underneath it.
I love that type of stuff.
It changes the atmosphere of the same note, so I think it's very cool.
Umu: TAKE MY SOUL!!!
Jory: That's a nasty guitar.
Rachel: wOw!
Liam: New bass sound? Rachel: It's like-
Ju Young: The bass is popping!
OOOOHh!
wow . wow
wow . wöw
wow~ ~wow
wow WOW
Wow woW
wow w0w
Woahahahahahahahow!!
Adam: No!
Ju Young: AHAHAAAAA!
Rachel: Oh mY gOd!
Ju Young: oHo...
I'm so happy right now.
Kayla: Okay.
No tongue tension.
Rachel: Goddamn!
Umu: yEaH, HahAaha, wWwohwowhhoah!
Henry: You turned into a gorilla.
[t/n: Here we see a strong silverback displaying competitive ability]
Umu: That was just me trying to catch my breath, but I was like,
[t/n: Do we call that a Gumurilla?]
Henry: That was insane. Umu: That was- wait, there's still stuff left.
Owen: I- Kevin: IT'S NOT DONE! (x3)
Kevin: There's an outro!
Umu: 3 2 1
Henry: There's like so many seconds left.
Kevin: Pfff- Owen: Who is the old guy?
Jason: It's the giver! Brian: Oh there's some more?
Jason: Maybe?
Liam: They're breaking out!
Umu: Is that a kid?
Owen: "Prestige Academy" Kevin: I get what they are going for.
Kevin: I like that bell tone at the end, thank you.
Kayla: Yeah, that's a standing o.
Adam: Woooo!
Rachel: He- I'm pretty sure he hit an E♮.
That's f#%king insane, that's like really high.
Like that's high for a female, that's really high for a guy.
Kevin: I really like this song, wow!
Umu: I was so tense that whole time, I was just like:
Umu: HHHHNHNGN LET'S GO! Henry: Yeah that was really cool.
Henry: I love how they played with their rhythmic speed,
you know, in just their percussion.
And like the ostinati?
Rachel: I mean it's like powerful but it's very-
like they utilized space really well.
Brian: That low, like gritty riff that kept coming back,
yeah, it made me feel like somebody was gonna like...
beat somebody up.
And that's what I liked about it, I was like:
"Oh, somebody is gonna get it!"
Liam: That main bass synth line is so interesting, like timbrally,
it seems like some of the notes go like down the octave.
And they harmonize it, it's so nice.
That like kind of alarm thing that they're going for,
right before the pre-chorus.
Henry: And then I think in the pre-chorus
they added a bar or two, or an extra bar of one,
to just like subvert your expectations for that bass drop.
Yeah, they add an extra two...
That full pre-chorus was just...
I'm beating time like:
That's one bar, it might be in 2,
so you could call that a bar of eight, or I'm counting it a little slower,
and then it was 1, 2, Boom!
Umu: I see it like an additional bar of 2/4.
It's what we've heard in WayV's 'Kick Back'.
Umu: It helps build that tension just a little bit more. Henry: It does, yeah, it's-
Umu: And then we drop. Henry: It's like, you think you're gonna-
Henry: Your body is gonna predict that movement of 4,
like that bar 4, and you're ready for it,
and then they give you that extra bar, you're like:
"Oh I have to, like-"
It's like at the edge of the roller coaster,
where you're like you think it's gonna drop
and it keeps you for just that second longer
and then: *Boom!*
Which is really cool.
(Adam: I feel like- yeah.) Kayla: Okay, of course they are speaking.
(Adam: Yeah, it like-) Kayla: Yeah, it's that *mimics*.
Adam: Like the singing kind of intensified and then led into-
Kayla: Having like those long sustained notes
leading into something that's gonna be like very rhythmic
is like, it just sets up your voice for success,
like having that ease into something that's probably like more...
I don't know, tense for your voice.
Liam: Like the shift with the common tone A in the top.
Liam: Like from the F major to the A minor. Rachel: I love that synth.
Rachel: I just like how it sounds.
Umu: How did they audially support what was happening in the music video?
Jason: Well what I said in like the chorus,
where they had this like common tone thing happening
where the harmony changed underneath,
and I think that's a bit symbolic of like-
cuz it was *vocalizes*
and it was just going back between those two in a half step.
And I think that's kind of like a constancy of like
what you see and what is there, what's given,
melodically like, what's given on the surface in a society,
but then the harmony is changing underneath that,
and so within that society there are people at power,
changing things underneath even though you're seeing something,
it's like given to you, so...
I think in a sense that could be like some type of microcosm of like,
there is a consistency of what we're seeing
but there is things changing underneath.
And it's like things at power that make it something audibly different.
I don't know.
Kevin: The chorus starts in E
and it's like, okay, we're gonna stay in E.
But then near the end they do this thing,
which reminds me of maybe a Mahler symphony,
but it's like *E dominant 7*
You know, when you hear that it's suddenly, the context of the whole thing changes,
It's like: *E7 - Am [V - i]*
You know, it sounds like it's gonna go down to A,
when I used the word tonicize it means- Owen: I thought the entire time it was in A.
Kevin: Uh? Really?
Well see, for me it's like constantly shifting, right?
And I think it was purposefully playing with that expectation
where it's like:
[t/n: We hear E7 and clearly want to resolve]
*E* [t/n: Does not need to resolve as much]
You know, like okay great, so we're in, we're back in E,
that's how they resolve it, so like, okay,
but then they don't let up because the next chord they play is D minor.
Which makes me feel like it's the iv of A again,
so it continues the tension, and I just want it to go here.
Owen: The only time I thought it could be in E was
when they did the blues scale and had the B♭.
Kevin: Really?
Owen: That's gotta, that was definitely a ♭5 or ♯4 at that point.
Kevin: Aha.
Owen: The rest of it I felt like it was in A.
Kevin: It's more interesting in my head if they-
It feels like they were deliberately not giving the A tonic. Owen: Oh for sure, yeah.
Kevin: And then it just forces you back to E.
Owen: It's good tension. Kevin: Yeah.
Kevin: Yeah, I like, because yeah, the first time the chorus hit I was like:
"It's alright, it goes pretty hard, it's alright."
But then hearing that ending I'm like, "Oh I want to hear that chorus again!"
And so the whole chorus transformed into something more exciting for me.
Rachel: I think what makes the chorus so effective is because,
like this is, in comparison, like bare.
Liam: Yeah no, it's really punchy. Rachel: Cuz they, it's just cuz they have those like
Rachel: block chords that happen in the chorus.
Jory: And they were doing lots of really cool shit in the vocals too.
Jason: Yeah, yeah that was really good.
But I'm just confused at where, what that means.
It was like a moment of introspection musically and lyrically.
Especially like it's good to have a softer moment when you ask a question.
"Doesn't it mean anything to you?" Is what he's saying.
When it comes to dystopian stuff there is always that breakdown
of you know when people are going through it,
like the lead characters are fighting through it
and they always have that moment where it's just like,
"Yo, wait a minute..."
They have like a very quiet introspective, like,
"Does anything mean anything, actually?
Why not just stay f#%ked up?
If this is gonna cause pain and death to fight against it?
So does anything mean anything?"
Then existentialism.
So that was kind of nice to have that little break
where it's almost like, I didn't even realize it happened.
Cuz that happens in novels like that.
Will: Yeah that's great. I like that.
It has one of my favorite chords in it.
It's like a...
Jory: Like that suspended one?
Will: Like a, you can call it like sus add3 or triad add4 or something?
Umu: What? Please demonstrate.
Will: Okay.
Will: Oooah~
Jory: The second chord is suspended too.
Will: So like,
*C to E(add4)*
Will: Something like that, I think it's that one. Jory: It's just an A in the E (chord), that's cool, yeah.
Will: Yeah, I think that's just what it is, it's just that.
Jory: And then it goes to a C~
Will: So it's like: *A minor - E(add4) - C*
Ah yeah, *C* and then *D*
Jory: Yeah that's it. Umu: Ooooh.
Will: Yeah that's really hip.
And then yeah, so every chord is like:
*A-G♯-G♮-F♯*
Yeah~
Owen: I initially thought their voices were synths.
Kevin: Ah?
Owen: The repeated notes, the duo.
(Kevin: Mhm.) Owen: And it was just a duo, wasn't it?
Like the rest of the notes were in instrumentals, I think.
The voices were just a duet,
and it's super cool, and then obviously the melody,
Kevin: Ah, yeahyeahyeah. Owen: It's going *vocalizes*
Owen: But those two together were beautiful. Kevin: There's definitely some instrumentals in there, yeah.
Owen: Like just perfect together, the sound and the-
maybe they even messed with intonation
so that it actually rubbed together in a nice, in the perfect way.
Kevin: Mhm. Owen: Like it was just absolute perfect.
Kevin: Like it just feels like...
a very...
a very determined...
a very determined BANGER.
And with very clever musical decisions
and yeah, some clever harmonic stuff and tonality stuff, in my opinion,
but also a few moments of just ingenuity...
Brian: That was, you know that was giving to me,
that was giving Hot Topic.
I felt like I was in a Hot Topic for some reason.
Cuz it was angsty, it was like Hot Topic,
the Hot Topic kind of angsty.
It seems like the kind of music they would play on Hot Topic like way too loud
where you can like feel it like in your rib cage
as you're like looking for your shirt or whatever you're in there for.
But I like that.
Sometimes that's what you need, sometimes you need some-
You need a Hot Topic vibe.
Umu: Dude I want to live in this song.
Henry: You want to live in this song?
I was gonna say like this could be like a really good trailer
for like a TV series, you know?
You know how like a lot of anime openings or TV openings,
they'll kind of go through the whole season
of like different scenes that you might encounter in the show.
They had a lot of different scenes in here
like the guy in the computer room, running, and like taking off masks,
Umu: It's so many different... Henry: It really seemed to set up like a whole world.
Umu: ...tones of like charisma and energy.
And that's why I want to live in this song
because it seems a little bit scary,
like they're having to like fight people or overthrow people
and I'm, like I'm not the most forward of people,
but like the confidence that they give me,
through the rhythms, through the textures that they chose for the instrumental,
I'm like,
"Yeah I wanna do that too!"
Like they successfully converted me to *Gumurilla* (Henry: To live there, yeah.)
Ali: Doesn't like guerrilla warfare imply like,
it was like a new kind of warfare where,
like when they used to have wars and stuff it's like,
"Here's my army in nice little lines,
and they're gonna fight this other army,
in nice little lines but in a different color,"
and they go baam!
But then guerrilla warfare was like,
"Nah I'm gonna play spar,
I'm gonna hide behind trees and sh*t!"
So it was like a new form of like warfare, was I right?
Umu: Small independent group taking part in irregular fighting.
Ali: By saying like guerrilla I feel like they're being like,
"Oh we're gonna show you something you haven't seen before!"
Jason: Oh this was also a lot of screamo,
that was something I forgot to mention.
Lot's of screamo.
And screamo is just full of political rage, societal rage and anger.
Ju Young: I love screamo.
Like I said before when we listen to H.O.T.
like the punk, the rock,
it's not very popular and people are not attracted to it as much we are here in America.
But like the new thing I guess that they showed was screamo.
And I really like screamo, towards the end too.
Wow, that was spectacular, beautiful.
Ju Young: Say it!
Ali: A-tease?
Ju Young: Say it again!
Ali: Ah-teez? Ju Young: Again!
Ali: How to you say it? Umu: Third try!
Ali: Atteess?
Umu: YOU JUST GOT WORSE AND WORSE!!!