K: Hello everyone, this is Kevin from ReacttotheK
and I am a pianist from "Classical Musicians React".
U: Hi everyone, my name is Umu and I am ReacttotheK's channel creator.
Welcome to our cignature ...
A... a-ri-song. Arisong!
[t/n: Umu struggling with Hangul. I can relate.] A... a-ri-song. Arisong!
A... a-ri-song. Arisong!
This is our first time reacting to them on the channel
but I have checked out all of their past releases, and ...
*Nu nu nanana - nanana nanana*
is possibly one of my favorites, if not my favorite debut from 2020,
and when it came out, I think I was just really overwhelmed with school work
or with the Covid thing, I can't remember when it came, but
sometimes I'm just not in the right mental state to appear
in front of the camera and react to things, but I absolutely loved that release,
or at least upon re-listens, maybe I didn't like it first listen, I don't know?
K: I know I might have heard their song 'Nun Nu Nan Na'
but I can't quite remember it.
You know what, let's do a five second flash reaction to that.
Huh. I dig this.
Okay great. Great. Yeah. So that's their sound,
but clearly in that MV they were not going for a school girl vibe, so
I'm excited to see what this song has in contrast to that, let's go.
U: THREE TWO ONE! ARISOOONG!!!
*mimicking the bell*
The day a pop song - oh?
K: Oh wow, nice. I hope that's part of the original song, that's cute.
U: If I'm going to school this is me, give me the energy that I need.
*imitating*
U: Didn't expect that low bass synth, scratchy synth.
K: The melodies are ... very different.
Little house, a little house going on.
We got some house in this house.
U: Ooh!
K: Is this PC Music? That sounds like PC Music.
U: Two - three - four - One.
I love the "HmmMMmMm" being part of the melody.
U: WWHHAAT? Please tell me that comes back for the bridge or something!
K: Why are we starting with that chord? U: WWHHAAT? Please tell me that comes back for the bridge or something!
U: WWHHAAT? Please tell me that comes back for the bridge or something!
U: I love the textural changes.
It's just so fun - WHAT THE?!
Oh my god, I'm not wearing my glasses
and I thought that was something other than hands.
K: She's eating the peel!
Oh, this is a PC Music section. And I like it.
Sounds like some, what is it, Easyfun?
Yeah, this sounds like an Easyfun thing, or like early Sophie.
U: What I love about them is, they are just so
confidently quirky, cute and energetic, like unapologetic, completely.
It comes so naturally to them.
Hello synth.
*WIOUW!*
K: I like how overwhelming the screaming is,
like it actually feels like screaming - Oh God distortion!
AAA! AAAA!
Oh nice, they didn't do the "HmMmmMm" this time. They went higher.
U: WHAT?!?!
You can't give us that beautiful harmonized ...
acapella-esque chord only two parts in this song and then leave us hangiiing!
Wait, does that go into the next song? What's the next song?
Oh my God, okay, wait, let me just buy 'Arisong' really quick, okay, it is bought.
So it ends beautifully and then:
NO! That doesn't transition into 'DALDALHAE' at all! Oh boy...
Kevin isn't saving his excitement for the Zoom...
I mean, same?!
Honestly? It feels so fresh amongst other releases,
like the trends that are happening nowadays, this song.
I really really love it, I'm gonna go in, listen a second time, and then we're gonna zoom Kevin.
Three - two - one
I was gonna say: I would love a pop song that takes this, you know,
the chime melody, and then develop it into like an actual pop song
but ... didn't realize it was actually part of the song.
There's so many layers of different things.
*imitating textures*
There is this synth that started getting louder and louder and louder,
and then this is total vibe change, cuz the groove changes, the bass comes in.
And then, in unison with the instruments
so it sounds like a really small transition section
but then it turns out to be the pre-chorus.
*mimicking rhythm*
HMmMMmmM!
That's so catchy!
Oh, it kinda happens in the instrumental,
the instrumental does a little pitch down.
*vocalizing the pitch down*
Oh they used the same little instrumental *dududu*
when they had the descending vocals.
Ah. "Yuhuu". This little word is so playful!
AAH! WHAT IS THAT THING?!?!?!
Oh, we have *imitating synth*, little synth things.
You can kinda hear the *P P P*, the pop of the "P".
*Headbanging intensifies*
Oh, that time it went like "M-m-m-mMHmm!
...
Oh well...
*Headbanging continues*
[t/n: Now playing: Umu's ASMR. Listen at your own risk only.]
We keep the sliding synth that we have,
have had throughout the track in the bridge.
*finding pitch*
This is awesome, these new ... ends to the bridge.
And because it's a scale up *sings E major triad upwards*
it's so satisfying when we go up.
What the hell???
WHOAT!
Oh my god, I love everything about that.
K: I really like this, let's ... let's discuss.
U: I loved everything about that, except one, I have one, one, one thing.
I want *singing*, I want the beautiful choral thing that came in twice more!
I wanted that to appear in the bridge so badly.
I thought it was such a beautiful texture change
that you wouldn't expect to see in this song,
and since we only had it like when we had it at the end, I think, of the first chorus
I was like: this would be a perfect, you know, calling to the bridge,
and making that connection there.
Like, I still love the bridge
but I would have loved for that texture to appear a few more times.
K: I thought that little bit appeared just the right amount of times,
U: Of course. K: it was just there as a little filler, it was just a little filler.
K: it was just there as a little filler, it was just a little filler.
And I think the fact that it's a little filler makes it even better.
U: Mhmmm.
K: Yeah, because the song is about just insanity, just ...
K: no, No, not like the subject matter, but like
U: It's about, yeah, being crazy, throwing a lot of ... things. K: no, No, not like the subject matter, but like
K: It's musical, it's musical craziness, it's ... U: It's about, yeah, being crazy, throwing a lot of ... things.
K: It actually reminds me, there is this pop label in the United States,
they might be UK, I don't know, but there is this pop music label called PC Music.
And they basically deconstruct pop, all the producers,
they totally break it down, and then they like create these super pop tracks,
it's really hard to explain, but they add like this crazy distortion,
K: and just lo- and this song feels basically like maybe PC's ...
U: The finished product of? K: and just lo- and this song feels basically like maybe PC's ...
K: PC Music's first sort of foray into K-pop, there's a bit of PC Music in this,
cuz the chorus is very house based, that bass, the *dundundun dun dun dun*
you know, but it's so devoted to that house
while adding so many instrumentals on top,
*Umu mimicking slidy synths* it feels like they are deliberately just kinda, I don't know,
it feels like they are deliberately just kinda, I don't know,
they're taking things in a very deliberate way that's very bold,
and that just reminds me of PC -
I'll play you some PC Music next time we see each other or something.
U: Having this, you know *singing bell melody*
and then in kind of bits and pieces sprinkled throughout the rest,
not only its actual synth sound
but, you know, the ascend, and then also all the little
*imitating slidy synths*
like little slidy, buzzy synths just everywhere, it was just -
this was a carnival.
Before, I would say: Oh this song, it has nice ear candy for musicians,
but this was like a frickin' carnival load of candy to me.
K: Yup. Absolutely.
U: Colors everywhere, sounds everywhere, so much energy, K: Yup. Absolutely.
U: Colors everywhere, sounds everywhere, so much energy,
I feel like I have been needing this type of track in, like you know,
just in 2020 so far I have really desperately been needing this,
'cause I feel like the group 'Nature' gave us that in 2019, with their songs
*singing 'Some (You'll Be Mine)' pre-chorus*
*Some&Love!*
*Heavy beat drop*
You know, that track? And also the: *brass from 'I'm so Pretty*, you know?
K: But, now we have Cig-Nature You know, that track? And also the: *brass from 'I'm so Pretty*, you know?
K: But, now we have Cig-Nature
U: Sssi... Cig Nature?
K: Yeah!
U: They're doing stuff that is so desperately needed,
at least I want it to happen in the music industry, which is
quirky, peppy, cute, unapologetically confident, youthful songs.
And I think we're also gonna get that with a new girl group 'Weeekly' as well,
they seem to bring that energy as well,
so I'm just happy to see the girl groups killing it, they're doing so good.
K: Yup. Yup. so I'm just happy to see the girl groups killing it, they're doing so good.
U: And I absolutely love what cignature has released so far. K: Yup. Yup.
U: And I absolutely love what cignature has released so far.
Bravo girls, and, yeah.
UAAAaARH!
K: New fan. U: We'll run this through the voting process that we have.
K: Oh oh oh! Um. Um. U: We'll run this through the voting process that we have.
K: Was it - It must have been like the second half of the verse -
well no, it's the pre-chorus,
there is a part that sounds like the Super Smash theme, the new one:
*singing melody*
The first three notes are like Super Smash Ultimate right there,
but then they change, so -
U: Is it the vocal melody?
K: Yeah.
U: Wow. I mean, I know, now that I'm getting to know more and more K-pop producers,
U: a lot of them are inspired by video game soundtracks, which is so fun.
K: Yeah exactly, exactly. There's a Smash section, U: a lot of them are inspired by video game soundtracks, which is so fun.
K: and then there is the little music box thing,
which especially reminded me of PC Music,
that is something that they would do,
and then the screaming section was great.
U: Yes, the shouting! *doing the shouting* K: I liked how overwhelming it is, it is so overwhelming, like,
K: You know, you have screaming sections in songs
but I don't think they are mixed in this way, where like
they are actually like in your face, you know,
and I really appreciated that.
U: I am fueled with energy and I can not wait to go listen to this song
K: Yeah. Yeah. U: another 100 times.
U: Okay, thanks so much for watching, everyone!
Both: Bye!