Rachel: oHwLwR- OHMYGOD-
[Rossini's Semiramide Overtune plays // Subtitles by youtube @anisian]
Umu: You are now reacting to the 7 member rookie boy group, ENHYPEN
and their 2021 release, "Drunk-Dazed" Raffi: hA- Me everyday of the week HAHAHA (Sam: oiH? fff wuoahh godembuh(?))
*beep sfx* and their 2021 release, "Drunk-Dazed" Raffi: hA- Me everyday of the week HAHAHA (Sam: oiH? fff wuoahh godembuh(?))
*beep sfx*
Owen: What's Enhyphen?- WHAT? Umu: ENHYPEN- Kevin: Good question
Umu: ENHYPEN derives their name from the symbol, hyphen,
similar to how a hyphen connects different words to discover new meanings,
ENHYPEN aims to connect, discover, and grow together to create a new act
So about this song- (Jason: PUMPKIN) This music video covers the story of blood drinking beings,
That use parties to lure in their prey- Jason: Did she say blood drinking beans? (Ju Young: Yes...wait no)
Umu: Blood drinking beings yes, Jason: Oh I thought you said beans haha
*beep sfx*
Jason: I would've LOVED that haha
Umu: And the lyrics are about bring trapped in a loop or carnival from which there is no escape,
They sing 'Honestly I'm scared my reflection in the mirror is unfamiliar, but I can never escape'
As time passes, the addiction to that carnival grows and the need to escape fades
Jory: It's the funnel cakes man, like I'm addicted to that
Umu: So the song is composed by Wonderkid, LIL 27 CLUB, "hitman" bang,
Melanie Joy Fontana and Michel "Lindgren" Schulz
Ju Young: Ok, Ready, 3, 2, 1
Jason: Young love...
Nevermind...
Umu: Maybe? (Ju Young: whAt?) Jason: maYBE?
Kevin: I love this has ballad written all over it at the beginning,
Oh I'm about to listen to this great ballad
Will: Birthday party huh?...oH bloody birthday party woahhh (Umu: Mhm)
Will: Oh shit Jory: What the fuck
Ju Young: This is why I don't go out (Jason: AH) at night...guys-
Jason: Professor Lupin????
Henry: oOh~
Liam: Clubbing bass
Kevin: So the bass and the melody are in parallel except for the last note,
Where the melody goes into A, bass goes to F
Cloud: They're establishing drunk and dazed very well already wow
Liam: Bass drops off Rachel: ahHh...oH?
Rachel: oHwLwR- OHMYGOD-
Raffi: Background vocals very effective
Stephanie: OoOOh~
Owen: Nice, I like that it falls down to half step, it didn't need to happen,
But it's a good embellishment
Rachel: They are going off
Liam: A little falling chromaticism that they keep using, it's nice
Jory: Nice
Jory: I think it's major, it's a major one chord on the verses in the chorus, on the chorus its a minor
Jason: Hey he drinking blood? His own blood?!
Cloud: No, ew, gross...
Umu: HAHAHA
Jason: I'm really liking those harmonies that are on the right and left that are panned
Raffi: I love the instrumentation, it's really smooth (Sam: Yeah) and warm
Sam: Very glossy..Yeah~ mmhm Raffi: Glosssssy~ Word of the day, glossy
Raffi: You know what else is glossy? (Sam: What?) Sam's blood
Sam:...Yeah?
Jason: oOh- Where's he walking...aHH
Jason: AH...AHH...AHH
Liam: BOOM...BOOM haha It's kinda interesting Rachel: Is that their leader?
Rachel: All hail...haha I don't know who that is
Will: That's an insane synth
Jory: Yeah, it's like so distorted
Raffi: *gasp* YOU STAINED THE CARPET- Your mother's gonna be upset with you~ Sam: How could you do that on the WHITE CARPET
Stephanie: Ooo? What-
Jason: A freaky waltz, this is in three four time
Rachel: You hear that bass drum? Liam: Yeah this is like concert percussion sounds
Leon & Stephanie: woAoAH~
Jory: Ah yeah~ That Stephen King action Stephanie: aHHAhhHHh-
Leon: Oh my god that's so dope...woAH~ Stephanie: Oh...I wish that were chocolate
Umu: CHOCOLATE- HAHAHA Leon: Blood rain!!!
Raffi: Okay, now that's a lot, like that's- that's- Sam: haaHAHaHa
Liam: And we're back yeah~ Rachel: Yeah, love it!
Sam: Hahahaha- Raffi: I like the lyrics, 'can't control my body'
Raffi: That's how I feel listening to this you know Sam: Yeah-
Jason: What the fuck just happened, was that like- is this like an epilogue?
Kevin: This last- this is so- this last part comes out of nowhere *vocalizing*
So like hints at an A-flat major
Liam: Oooh~ Super resonant bass at the end Rachel: Yes...oH-
Owen: Cool
Rachel: You gonna drink your blood again? No? Okay... haha
Stephanie: Oh nooo~ oH wOW-
Will: Oh yeah- (Umu: Haha) Jory: Why is is still going-
Will: It's still going? huh- bonus track~ bonus traaack~ Jory: Bonus traaaack~ bonus traaack~
Raffi: ...whAT?!
Owen: She's going to a party?- She was really late Kevin: I mean she was- she was really late
Kevin: She was really late to the party Owen: Yeah
Will: Wait. woAH. whAt? hoW- wOah- what?? Jory: She picked up that book and then wanted to go to that bloody birthday party
Jory: And then just completely missed it (Will: Bummer) Rookie mistake
Will: She missed a pretty fat hang it looks like Jory: That was a good hang (Umu: Hahaha)
Hr: I think sonically, they really captured that feeling of- (Cl: Drunk daze-) being...
Hr: Blasted out of your mind at a party where the music is too loud
Let's paint a picture for a typical college... dorm- not dorm-
Cl: They're at a frat party? Doesn't have to be a frat party- Hr: Frathouse party right-
Hr: Maybe 2 floors, some bedrooms upstairs, the main party is downstairs,
You need to go to the bathroom, if you've had a lot of drinks and you're not- you're feeling really nauseous
And you're like really not okay, you go upstairs, you hear the bass from below going *boomboom*
But you can't really make out exactly the sound
And you feel like your head's in all the fuzz, that's that sound that I think we got throughout a lot of it,
Especially in the chorus with the *vocalizing*
U: Yeah, a lot of the reactors commented on feeling like a lot of the music felt like it was in the other room,
As if you were in a party and hearing the party downstairs (Jr: Mhm)
U: Is that mainly just some sort of distortion effect,
Or do you know what they did to the synth to make it sound like that?
Wl: That kind of effect is basically just like a high cut EQ /NJr: Just a high cut
Wl: Because high frequencies don't translate through walls and ceilings- (Jr: But we do) as well as low frequencies
Wl: Um... Jr: Nobody got my ghost joke...
Wl: We- we- we translate through walls haha yeah
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Wl: I think there were- I mean- I think like on the distorted synth thing,
There was a little bit of a high cut for sure Jr: Definitely, at least in the bridge
Wl: And then having the sub-bass be really clean, helps create that vibe too of just like-
Because when you hear something through a wall it's like- kind of sounds like warmer,
And you get only those low frequencies isolated, and that's just what a sub-bass is,
It's just like only the lows, there's no upper harmonics
Hr: That part of the chorus, right beforehand, is all a big anacrusis, its all a big pickup *vocalizing*
Because when the first time you hear it, the beat doesn't drop until 'Daze'
So, it's part of the pre-chorus like bar- like meters where it goes *vocalizing*
And that's like 2, 3, 4- 1 *vocalizing* it's 3 whole beats, just 1 beat is missing from that bar of an anacrusis
Which is really long for a pickup, usually you just have the *vocalizing* but to have 3 whole beats,
At this tempo, and its noodley too, *vocalizing*
It was very literal daze as they sang 'daze, daze, daze' cause they were just going, 'dAze~ dAze~ daZE~'
There was a little bit of- what's the like colloquial term- (Cl: Slide? A gliss?) Slide, oh yeah slides
Like little slides, (Cl: A little gliss down?) like little glissando, little slides down *vocalizing* from do ti to do
Which gives that kind of dazey, woozy nauseous feeling that comes with inebriation,
Cl: I was thinking instead of nauseous qualities, I was thinking that it was just a lot of the-
The like- (Hr: Instability? Not instability) jerky- not jerky but like- it's not lopsided...
It's like uh... I think it's like your whole world is just a little lopsided
Hr: Right, so it's just kind of floaty...maybe
Lm: I kinda like the vibe of the carnival part, how the...
I dunno, it just sounded super open and washy, like you were lost in like a kind of fun house,
Just how resonant like the snare and the bass drum were, like the *vocalizing*
And it was just like, you're kind of floating in this atmosphere that they created
I think the strings in that part, they kind of echoed what the vocals were doing,
In the bumpin sections, like with that *piano* that 5 sharp, 4, 5
[ENHYPEN's 'Drunk-Dazed' plays // Subtitles by youtube @anisian]
Lm: Like they used a bit of that in there
Rf: Something that stood out to me, is the shift from like the heart of the song,
To like this orchestral place, when the blood started to appear,
And I dunno, I just feel like it fit that kind of bowing in the strings and stuff like,
It just flowed, drops of blood could be represented with like the pizzicato in the strings you know like,
I think- I dunno, I think it worked
Wl: I like this Jr: That like europop like *vocalizing*
Jr: Like another- one of my favorite drum grooves, and I really liked how like,
Most of the heavy lifting was done by that synth, cause like if you get too much information-
Like you put like a real bass guitar in, you've got like fret noise, you've got finger noise,
And it just adds clutter I think to your mix, and that can be,
You know that's like the organic addition to your song if you want it to be,
But wouldn't you just put like clean sub into the mix and then let-
Like your synths be super driven and gritty, it just opens up a lot of space in your mind when you're listening to it
I like the vocals a lot, I think the performances was really tight
U: What are your thoughts Will? Wl: hM?
U: wHaT arE yOuR thOuGhTS wiLL? Wl: Haha Sorry, I'm sorry haha my noise is so cancelled right now
All: HahHAHhaHA
*beep sfx*
Wl: Yeah, I liked the track, that- the chorus bumps (Jr: Chorus bumps) Nice sidechain,
Sidechain compression on the synth line *vocalizing*
So like automatically makes everything groove really hard when you put sidechain on it haha
I love it, yeah
K: Owen mentioned the fact that most of the chords in the song have the F as- (Ow: Like- *whistling*)
K: *piano*
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K: So we have D, which has an F, *piano* which has an F, and then we have *piano* slash *piano* which has an F
Ow: But the thing is they also- over the D flat major- was it the D flat major? The had *vocalizing*
Ow: Like that, I really like that K: Yeah, yeah, yeah that was really cool
Ow: Because it's the sharp 9 sort of K: So like a bit of vagueness,
K: But when they get into the prechorus, suddenly you have *piano* which doesn't feature this at all
But, but yeah *piano* but this feels so refreshing in the pre-chorus because of how everything is F, F, F, F, F, F, F-
And then you get to- Ow: And then you get to A flat, and E flat world
K: And then the female voices which, sadly Owen did not hear *vocalizing*
Ow: I didn't hear that as different, there was the part where it was like- hAW~
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K: *piano* hAW Ow: Yeah the D flat and the C
K: *piano* yeah it's actually- yeah it's a- *piano*
And then in the end they kind of hint at it which was the *piano*
That was really interesting, like they all make sense in the F chord *piano*
But when you hear that in the outro, it sounds like it almost has an A flat sort of hint so-
I dunno if it's like textpainting, probably not, but it's still cool to hear,
Still cool theory, and stuff
U: When this song first came out, people messaged me saying, I can't stop listening to this song,
I keep returning to it, why do you think this is so addicting? Why do people keep returning to it?
Ra: Cause it's bumpin~ hahaha Li: Like it's super catchy
Le: The chorus melody is just too perfect- (U: HAHAHA) wayyy too perfect
Le: For level 1 melody writers, it's like oh they'll write down tonic and then it doesn't really make sense,
And then level 2 is like they'll write in diatonic and it makes sense and it's really catchy
But like the highest is that they will use some chromatic notes, but it makes sense, and it is catchy
That's like the hardest thing St: And that leap *vocalizing*
St: You know, I connected it to like a lot of what I hear from my like professors,
They're like, repeat an idea like 2 times, but the 3rd time do something different (Le: Yeah~) and they did exactly that
They did something like super cool, like the leap thing twice, and then the third time,
You're thinking hmm what are they gonna do the 3rd time,
And then they use another really cool thing with that chromatic-
*vocalizing* the half step Le: Oh that half step thing
St: So it's like, you know the first 2 times they did something cool, and then the 3rd time they didn't like-
They didn't let us down!
Cl: For me, there are 2 different kinds of like cycles in this song,
Or things to make the music sounds cyclical or round or like repetitive like you're going in- like you're stuck in a cycle
And the one way is the typical carnival sounds, that you get when you break down the middle,
Where it's just the *vocalizing* there's something about that, that always sounds very circular
But for the 'daze~' that sounds like you're running into a wall,
Bouncing off and then running into it again, just over and- U: So that's- that's why it's addicting?
Cl: Haha So that's like the repeating- no cause it just- it feels like you're stuck in a cycle
Like you just keep, like going and it's just very- I dunno- it gets really stuck in my head
And it gives you that like sinking kind of lurching feeling-
U: Then whY dO peOpLe wAnT tO reTuRn tO thiS sO oFten?!
Cl: Oh I love that feeling, it's great, it's like- U: Oh ok, so it gives you a unique feeling-
Cl: Right when you're on the edge of a rollercoaster and you're like- in anticipation of like going down or I dunno-
It's just one of those songs that proves its points so well, like it just sounds exactly how you would want it to sound
Not even how you expect it to sound, but you're like, oh let me listen to a song called 'Drunk-Dazed'
And then you're like, this sounds like drunk daze, damn good job
[BGM: P1Harmony - 'Scared' // Subtitles by youtube @anisian]
Wl: I'm doing good *deep breathing* U: You doing ok? You need to like...get some air in there?
Jr: A little circulation haha U: haHA