Umu: Rum pum pum pum
Naoki: Is that like Tchaikovsky or something? I feel like it's...
Ben: Rum pum pum pum?
Naoki: Oh no it's a Christmas carol Ben: Yeah
Ben: Pft Naoki: I was like why... yeah
Umu: Are you ready for some Amber Yunyiiiiiiii?
Yunyi: YAAAAS I am so ready for Amber Kevin: Wait but nothing changed
Umu: Yeah she hasn't done her hair yet
Umu: So this is another girl group they are called f(x) and they are made up of...
Umu: 5 members, they've been around for quite a while and actually one of the girls is from LA
Jarod: Oh! LA girl I'm movin' out there in two years
Umu: And she is also the girl who did shake that brass
Jarod: Hey I need a roommate ...
Umu and Peyton: ... what?!?!? BOI?!?!?
Ben: F(x) (Reads the korean) Naoki: Does it say Rum pum pum pum
Ben: I don't think so Naoki: Do they even use that motif?
Ben: We'll find out Umu: We'll see
Ben: Oh wait you should do it Naoki: Does it matter?
Ben: Yeah Naoki: Why
Henry: Lemme put this in Fiona: Woah
Fiona: Oooh hella fine~
Both:
Ben: So far so good
Gwen: I'm so into this
Lindsey: Well that is an outfit
Hugo: diggin the chromaticism
Fiona: I like this, the kinda snake charm you fee
Ben: I like this cause it's edgy you know?
Ben: Not totally sure where about the harmonic content Naoki: ... where it's going ... yeah
Both:
Fiona: I like the ostinato background, I'm a fan
Gwen: I just can't get over the like, high bass line
Lindsey: Oooh, those harmonies are so good
Kevin: What a trippy song
Yunyi: Yeah idk what's happening right now
Lindsey: It's like that drum part is cool
Yunyi: The melody only been singing thirds and semitones Kevin: Exactly
Yunyi: Just like, idek what the he*l is going on
Lindsey: Oh wow
Lindsey: Whoo
Naoki: I see they're going for a Scottish vibe
Hugo: I'm digging their harmonies
Lindsey: What happened Davis: It's lit
Lindsey: Their voices are just so good together
Yunyi: This is like... phrygian but major
Hugo: I'm diggin' how they have polyrhythmic harmonies how they sing in different lines at the same time to make harmonies
Jarod: This definitely has like a very different vibe to it
Umu: what, in what way
Jarod: Like...
Naoki: I'm not a huge fan of this song to be honest, nothing's happening
Ben: Yeah they use too much of the same... like it's really good when they have like the edgy kind of sound going for it
Yunyi: Hey... It's Amber XD Kevin: ... oh yeah
Hugo: Also this girl is bad*ss as f*ck
Kevin: Oooh triplet rapping man
Kevin: I never resist
Ben: Okay the rap is sick, the rap is really good
Peyton: Okay oooh that's pretty cool, I see I see Jarod: I dig that sound
Yunyi: That's ... really high Kevin: Sounds like do a bass on the minor third and then just go straight into major... Good Job!
Peyton: Got that flat vi out there Jarod: I can't think of the --- I'm thinking
Peyton: V, vi, vii 6/5, I
Yunyi: Looks like such a sweet quality, oh that that's pretty cool Kevin: Oh I'm so happy, yeah
Jarod: See like the audio engineers and the instrumentalists in the background like they're getting really creative with these synth sounds, and that's what I really appreciate about this
Kevin: What a song, what a video
Henry: Video editing is really good
Hugo: I feel like that was a slight play on the Christmas version like I think that was them playing on the fact that it's called Rum Pum Pum Pum cause that harmony was very
Kevin: This is frigiem you are exactly right Yunyi: It is frigiem but it's like major
Gwen: Oh they're doing the costume thing too
Gwen: Not quite as well as dreamcatcher but I like it
Ben: Just because like most of it sounds like more like minory idk like the rampant major tagging like
Naoki: I mean it has contrast so it's not very effective Ben: It's a really good idea
Gwen: That's like the most like diatonic part of the entire song
Hugo: I love it
Peyton: Rum Pum Pum PUM~
Hugo: Well that was dope as sh*t Gwen: I love it I love it I love it I love it
Gwen: I love it Hugo: Stop it
Peyton: mmmmmm Jarod: I dig I dig
Lindsey: Their harmonies that they do with like their voices are so cool like they really like make good chords
Davis: They make good chords Lindsey: I mean they're not just like singing it, they're --- and la di da
Lindsey: They might be up there for me
Umu: Nice Lindsey: Honestly, not gonna lie
Fiona: SO I highkey got like little drummer boy vibes from that the whole time
Umu: I think... Amber! Fiona: I like the rappy girl, she was cool her voice was good
Henry: She seemed a little bit Oh yeah! Fiona: That was Amber? Umu: Yeah!
Fiona: That's Amber! Henry: She always seemed a little bit like all that group, all of them are kinda girly, she was like the least girly, I kinda dug that it was so like not super fem
Fiona: If she were lip singer butch she would be butch and it was cool
Umu: So you said it had more of an Eastern feel to it and then there was this part where you guys were like wait what?!?! What happened there? Was it the bridge?
Jarod: Yeah it was, it just changes Peyton: It was like a flicky 6 bar bridge
Jarod: Just sounded different, catches you off guard which is cool cause that's just what music's all about Peyton: Just sounded weirder
Jarod: It's like taking you one direction and then just dropping you off on the other side
Naoki: Eh Ben: EHHHh
Naoki: I'm not gonna listen to that again I'm sorry Umu: Okay, but you started off liking it
Ben: yeah I thought it was gonna be like super cool cause like I was like Naoki: But yeah, but then it was just the same thing over and over again
Naoki: Nothing happened just got old
Ben: Like they added more like instruments into it and that was cool but like the main like Naoki: It was... yeah
Ben: The bass line like... we got it, like I understand that's what you're playing like I get it
Ben: The rap parts were definitely highlights, yeah completely different Naoki: Yeah completely different
Ben: When they went to the major like a while like towards the end at that bridge part that was cool
Ben: When they added that tag Rum pum pum pum at the end of their choruses that was cool, I feel like it didnt go far enough in its vision
Naoki: Yeah because they wouldn't be kpop if they too far in Umu: so like Ben: yeah
Ben: I feel like someone had a great idea and the producer was like okay but we have to like tone it down
Ben: And I think that was a bad idea, I think they should've gone... Naoki: Well if they went too far maybe they would lose all their fans
Naoki: They'd be like what are they doing Ben: Yeah but I feel like for the sake of art they should try to go
Ben: Like musically ehh.... I wish they had done more
Gwen: LOVE IT
Hugo: When she likes it....
*whispers* she interrupts more
Kevin: Rum pum pum in frigion weird a*s
Yunyi: Like you kinda you know listen to it for like 30 sec and you know like the scope of what the harmonic language is gonna be
Umu: Alright we're ready to move onto Red light, this is f(x) red light and I believe this came out a year later
Kevin: Function F(x) g-g-g-g-g-go
Kevin: (lol) Yunyi: You can't go it's a red light
Kevin:
Lindsey: This is very dark
Henry: Is this the Krusty Krab Fiona: Why is it on fire, I'm done
Jarod: cat with two eye Peyton: How many cats do you know that got one eye?
Jarod: I meant like with two different colors
Hugo: OOOoh Both:
Henry: That bass just changed my life Fiona: Her eyes are different
Ben: This is cool, I feel like they have great sounds Naoki: kay
Yunyi: oH it's a dirty synthesized base Kevin: I love it
Both: Jammin
Both: ... ASKDJHFKJSFD WHAT?!?!??! Yunyi: THat was so sick!!!
Yunyi: But like, they just jumped from what they thought tonic was
Lindsey: Oh my Goddddd I like this
Henry: I just love it when the bass goes from like a note but then down to frequencies that you just can not detect
Lindsey: This is like bad*ss female like empower pop like rap, hip hop cool good stuff
Yunyi: What?!?! Okay! Alright!
Hugo: That totally did not go where I expected Gwen: I know I LOVE IT
Ben:
Peyton: Alright this is really like EDM like dubstep like Jarod:
Ben: OH, okay Naoki: Interesting
Yunyi: just planing XD
nao: interesting Ben: That was really good
Yunyi: I love this I LOVE THIS SO MUCH WOW Kevin: This chorus, I like the verse more than the chorus
Ben: They uh progressively got up by half steps Naoki: And it was crunchy as well
Lindsey: This, you know what I like about this? I literally can't compare it to anything like this is so unique
Hugo: All the boy bands are like little b*tches when it compared to these girls Gwen: Absolutely
Fiona: OOOohhh Henry: This is a super super out vibe I really dig it
Gwen: THat I like that harmony it was almost medieval
Yunyi: It's kind of like Kevin: This transition, this transition is my jam
Gwen: It's so cool, it doesn't go at all where you want it!
aND THEY DON'T APOLOGIZE FOR IT THEY JUST KEEP DOING IT!
kev: it just changes styles too jarringly for me
nao: this just sounds...so different
pey: yo there's some like...some really cool model mixture stuff going on
like there's
some really like interesting majors chords in there that are just like.... mmm<3
hugo: I love that!
gwen: those choords!
yun: this is just a post tonal aesthetic it's-
post Romanticism
harmonic functions here
linds: it just keeps building
hugo: awww f**k
gwen: aaawwwhwhw
kev: great bridge
fio: wait I like this right now it's like we're in a creepy tunnel- we're about to come out of a secret water under ground layer
hen: oh the reversed explosion is fkkin cool
kev: ugh no yun: I LOVE THAT! kev: no
kev: no yun: no? kev: nope
kev: everything but the chorus yun: seriously?! kev: yes
fio: this is just- this part is just a little too lit for me?
hen: yeah like- fio: but I love the rest of it
yun: I feel like it's very rare that we actually disagree
umu: this is like...yeah
umu: this is new
linds: ugh<3
yay amber
you tell em girl<3
hugo: mhhmm
ben: yeah! that's really cool!
LOL
gwen: tag yourself i'm the teeny tiny cat meow at the end
fio: mew
wait that is such a classic cat-
meow like you hear it on every hen: that's like
fio: that's the hen: yeah
classic cat meow I had that as my ringtone
gwen: can we have like a 5 minute re group session?
hugo: ok I say we end it there for the day cuz that- that was good gwen: that took a lot out of me
kev: the edm thing goes...and then I have an expectation for the drop but then it kind of just- not only
tonally but also like- the way it jumps
like instrumentally...it doesn't really connect to the drop? umu: yeah
connect to the bridge?
i don't like- i- yeah
not my cup of tea
i apprecate the experimentalism tho
yeah the out-there-ism
yun: i actually thought there was just enough connection for it to like- the bass
and the- not the bass, the
the beat was consistent pretty much throughout and like...
like when they moved it wasn't just like suddenly away like it was pretty close like there were usually
chromatic relationships between the two areas it wasn't too far off
it seemed like they just moved
according to the halfstep or according to the common tone so umu: cool
yun: I actually thought it was really great
umu: so overall thoughts is that you guys liked the halftime part?
hen: yeah the part that was like- yea halftime
where the bass just went *sings*
fio: I think- so I liked the non-chorus part more than the chorus
fio: that's ok
*sings again*
umu: so, thoughts on that song?
jar: it was pretty, pretty- it can be summed up in
3 words
peyton: oh god
jar: it was dank
umu: PFFT
jar: i had to come with 3 words i don't- i just kinda said before i thought
and then
i kinda put myself in a place where I had to speak
pey: it was pretty dope! i mean like
the initial beat was like
unng it was like
really dirty like
umu: ohho
pey: like- I mean just like
jar: like a good kind of dirty
pey: yes jarod, a good kind of dirty jar: like you eatin
lasagna with yo hands
pey: anyway,
then they got down to the edm part and i was like
alright now you bringing it back into the kpop scene where it's like we're in the club...
with a lot of people who may or may not know how to dance but they just want to jump around and stuff you know
and that's great for that but yeah I mean I thought it was really cool
and yeah there was some model mixture in there
i don't know...some freaky major chords after a lot of minor
ben: I really liked it like-
i'm all about chromatisism i think that's super dope
naoki: i mean you like your mahler right ben: i like my mahler
linds: this is like overload like really awesome tho...i like this a lot
umu: alright so what did you like about this song?
linds: everything
i like how there was constant build up
like- and then it dropped and then there was still like there was just like very high energy and it even built up from there and it was just like
can i make a bold statement?
wait so this is called f(x)?
blackpink (her UB)
f(x) (now bias wrecking)
davis: ooh gottem
umu: called it I just tweeted about them being your bias wrecking group
hugo: i will say- it was really cool in the beginning how it was just rhythm section- literally just drums- I would have liked for them to bring that back
gwen: yeah it wouldve been cool to end like that hugo: like to have just drumset- to make it really like
realllyyy i don't know wanna say quiet
but just really clean?
gwen: yeahyeahyeah hugo: so when they built it back up it was- it could be more powerful
but that being said,
what they did was fkkin dope
so
yeah umu: so
vocals?
gwen: perfect for the song
hugo; yeah perfec- gwen: the chords were so tight
and so i mean
hugo: it's a heavily produced type of vocals
hugo: but it's soooooo well! gwen: it's done well, it's done well
hugo: it's like gwen: it's so well? hugo: it's so well
it'sso well ;-;
umu: ok which one do you like better? rum pum pum or red light gwen: see I don't actually have a
i- they're equal
i like them both, i love them both
hugo: i liked-
i actually like rum pum pum a little bit better
like i like this song
i like rum pum pum a little better because it's more diverse of a song
hugo: they have little bit more- gwen: yeah this is a very very hype song
hugo: they had a few more themes going on
in rum pum pum pum
which I liked. it kept things interesting kept things going
not that this wasn't interesting
I just like the other one more
umu: rum pum pum or red light?
both: this one!
hen: but purely because I like less not because I actually like this one
umu: so which one do you like better?
jar: this one pey: this one was very dope
it was very dope i like all the lights
the camera, and the action
umu: bust specifically, song?
jar: song-wise, the beat was- i like the beat a lot like thicker in this one
I was really deeply rooted into it
umu: so both of you like this one better than rum pum pum pum? ben: oh
ben: yeah nao: yeah
nao: it was definitely more- ben: it was more interesting, there were more things happening nao: yeah definitely
ben: things that were different where youw ould expect it nao: there was a style
ben: yeah- you could tell they were going for more like grungy
and that
was cool
umu: so you like red light better?
dude i loved it. that was probably one of my favorite..
favorites.
and kevin?
kev: definitely the other one
umu: ok rum pum pum? kev: rum pum pum more
umu: ok so, which one do you like better?
both: 2nd one!
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