[subtitles by twitter @angelade17]
RAFFI: *whistles*
[Rossini's Semiramide overture plays]
UMU: Carats! Yo what's up! JU YOUNG: Cheers!
UMU: So I would like to introduce to you to a music streaming site/app that you may have not heard of.
It is called Primephonic and it is specifically for classical music.
Now you may be wondering, "Ehh I dunno, classical music is kinda hard to get into,
or like I'm kinda interested but I don't know where to start."
OR you're, you're already a classical musician and you listen to classical music every day but you kinda wish that Spotify or Apple Music just had the recordings that you really really want them to have.
And I have fantastic news for you!
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So I have gotten quite a few messages from K-pop fans saying that they do want to get more into classical music, but they just don't know where to start.
Well I'm gonna pretend to be you. Let's explore this streaming site together.
I'm interested in classical music and I want to learn more.
What kind of classical music do you enjoy listening to? Ooh.
[sped up] Joyful, melancholic, energetic.
Which of these composers do you like?
Yeah that's *laugh* I like him most.
What I love about this app is they have SO many playlists that you can go to. They even have a Christmas playlist.
JU YOUNG: There's a lot of options. Wait, I really want to listen to some Christmas essentials.
I'm-a listen to one of the playlists that they have. Okay.
Oh, Boston Pops Orchestra.
UMU: Merry Christmas, everyone.
Ooh, film music! We love some film music.
Oh they have the Fox Fanfare? Oh my god.
Since you're about to watch our reaction to a song that is more influenced by jazz than classical music,
I want to try and find a song on this app, even though it IS classical music-oriented, that has the same instrumentation as Seventeen's songs.
And I'm sure on this app- it lists they have multiple ensemble options or instrumental options for you to search.
I'm gonna see if they have some more modern music.
Let's see, Slava.
Oh my god they have it!
Oh look at all these recordings. 21 recordings of Slava!
So Slava is for the wind ensemble, and basically it has some moments that you could kinda categorize as Big Band, like some moments in Seventeen's "HOME;RUN".
And so I thought I would pick this song and show a little bit of it to you guys,
so you can see just like the range of different kinds of songs that you would find on this classical music streaming app.
So if you wanna learn more about classical music, or just wanna listen to it in general,
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and I really hope you enjoy your time listening to amazing music on this app.
Now without further ado, [sings] "HOME;RUN"!
Is that the right key?
[singing] "HOME;RUN", oh I was a half-step off!
UMU: You're now reacting- okay, so there's 13 members, not 17 members, 13 members.
*laughs* 'Cause people always ask and I'm like, let me clarify right now.
Do you guys know what subunits are?
RAFFI: Do they perform in smaller groups? UMU: Yes, yeah so they split into smaller groups.
UMU: So they have a performance team, vocal team, and hip-hop team.
UMU: And then they're one team overall, so 13+3+1, 17! JU YOUNG: Oh my god.
Bro why are they so extra like this?
UMU: So you're now reacting to Seventeen and their 2020 comeback called "HOME;RUN" released on their album called Semicolon.
The lyrics compare life to a game of baseball. We're all just batters on the mound waiting for the pitch.
When life is good, it feels like we hit a home run,
but baseball is a long game so we need time to rest and relax if we want to win in the end.
JASON: May I make a comment?
Yeah it is, the journey is life because the destination is never gonna be reached until you die.
I mean, everybody keeps on saying that they'll be happy WHEN, but if you can't be happy now you'll never be happy when.
So you have to work on your present moment. Um...
Can I just say, baseball's so boring.
UMU: The song is composed by BUMZU and PRISMFILTER, plus the Seventeen member Woozi.
Oh, the reason why- okay,
the reason why the music video starts off with a crashed car is because the music video they released before this one,
called "Left & Right",
they shot their leader up in a car into the sky and the car came crashing down.
But they're saying like, even if you crash and burn things will be okay, that was the message of that song.
So they're starting off with that car that he was in,
and he's gonna get out and he's gonna party.
*laughter*
JASON: What were they trying to accomplish?
JASON: The car to fly? UMU: Yeah!
JASON: *laughs*
What?
[Transition card text: It's a metaphor I think]
JU YOUNG: 3 2 1.
JASON: That's cool though, now we have a background context.
JASON: Did he just like crash? JU YOUNG: Oh my god his drip!
JASON: Wow that's funny, yeah he's pretty- oh ow! Baseballs are hard.
HENRY: Funky, I like it. Ooh is that a bari sax? Yes!
RAFFI: This is classy! SAM: Yeah.
SAM: I like this a lot.
BRIANNA: Oh!
JAMAL: Yeah.
RAFAEL: That, that's like almost like a (Red Hot) Chili Pepper's quote.
LEON: Mm, yeah. (STEPHANIE: Oh! Ayy.)
JU YOUNG: Bro, this retro like, I'm about this. This is why I'm here. JASON: Kind of a lounge vibe.
JU YOUNG: Oh! (JASON: Wow.) Oh my god, harmony.
RAFAEL: It's kinda jazzy, they got like the swing- JAMAL: Yeah it's like, it's like kinda jazzy but not.
RAFAEL: The swing beat, the bass instrument is playing quarter notes.
RAFFI: That's a high belt. That's a very high belt, just saying. SAM: Yeah!
SAM: I also like the organ right now.
JU YOUNG: Oh- what?! (JASON: Yeah this is like James Bond yo, now they jumping off trains!)
JASON: Ooh, nice.
HENRY: Jazz! *laughs*
LEON: Mm.
JASON: Nice. JU YOUNG: Is this the bridge? This is the bridge!
HENRY: Ooh! That was clean.
(JU YOUNG: Wow.) JASON: Yeah he's cool, he's good. Really good.
UMU: That's my bias!
JU YOUNG: Is he gonna go up? Is he gonna go up?
No? Oh!
RAFAEL: Wow. Now they've got like a big band, like a- like a jazz big band.
STEPHANIE: Oh. Yeah! *laughs* Bad-ass.
BRIANNA: This reminds me of like, the "Sing Sing" like, background.
This is like, prime like swing era.
LEON: Mmm. STEPHANIE: Ohh.
JU YOUNG: Damn.
JU YOUNG: Oh! Okay not done. JASON: Okay, this makes it. This ending, with the credits and everything? That makes it.
JU YOUNG: I love when they just put in like the instrumentals so that you can like actually hear what's like going on. (JASON: Yeah, that's cool.)
RAFFI: I really enjoyed it. You know when you're just like watching something and you're like, "This is awesome, like really high energy."
I mean, I was of course listening to the music. The choreography is insane.
UMU: Oh yeah, they're crazy. (RAFFI: Flawless! Like, flawless.)
UMU: You were laughing throughout, were you enjoying the music video? (CHARLOTTE: Oh, I think I just enjoyed the fact-)
CHARLOTTE: Like after seeing them live and like understanding that they're gonna have that same energy when they you know, do get back to performing,
I think that's, that's what I like. And it just kinda brought back those memories of being at KCON LA and like having like the chance to see them.
And the fact they are so stinking energetic, because they were- I think they were the, the featured ones. So they were one of the big names um to come.
So that was just really cool that they have that same energy and that same happiness.
I feel like there's so many boy groups that have like the dark vibe, which obviously like I love, but I feel like they bring something a little different.
Yeah, so I think that's what I just liked about it.
UMU/STEPHANIE/LEON: Jazz???
STEPHANIE: Jazz. *laughter*
JAMAL: I felt like it got more jazz as the tune progressed.
I felt like it opened up with more pop harmonic progressions, then as it like evolved, I felt like I could slowly start to hear like horns.
By the end of it, it was like ay big band!
RAFAEL: They do start it with like that piano riff from like, riff and like there's like a snap.
JAMAL: No I thought it was like that, but like that's it, it's like we're hinting at jazz but we're not really doing it.
JAMAL: All of that, that sounds jazzy but it's not really jazz. RAFAEL: No.
JAMAL: But then at the end of the line, alright but we have all these horns. Alright.
RAFAEL: They do these like chromatic dominants at one point.
JAMAL: Yeah, I thought that's when it like, it started seeming a lot more like jazz.
RAFAEL: 2:07, something like that, the *sings* those half-step dominants,
those hits, I've played something like that in big band many times.
I thought it was interesting that the jazz that they chose to take influence from was like kinda New Orleans-y jazz almost?
(JAMAL: Kinda.) RAFAEL: Like *sings* like they had that, that beat in there at one point.
RAFAEL: Like kinda, kinda. Kind of. JAMAL: Like, -esque.
RAFAEL: But they chose to go with that more than other kinds of jazz, but I always think of New York as the forefront of like modern jazz,
like it's where stuff is happening today. And the jazz that's going on there sounds nothing like this.
JAMAL: This is just like using a lot of just older things, but those older ways of playing are more, generally more accessible. So like, it makes sense.
LEON: It sounds a little bit like I dunno, like Bruno Mars style.
Like I hear a lot of "Uptown Funk" riff and also like the, the scene of the, the movie, movie theater scene looks really like "24 Carat".
STEPHANIE: Also I remember they were playing, they had the horn lines, like sax.
That sounded more like funk, yeah. Or that's definitely different from that swing, the other jazzy section.
LEON: I think that's also like a stereotype of like people- what people (STEPHANIE: Think of jazz?) think of jazz, yeah.
STEPHANIE: True yeah, I thought of it as kind of like jazzy, but not like exactly.
LEON: Like the "Swing Kids", I dunno if I'm- It's a Korean movie.
LEON: There's like the ending part, there's like a big band playing. And that's something like this. STEPHANIE: Ahh.
UMU: Is that what D.O. was in? Do they have tap in it, "Swing Kids"? LEON: Yes, the tap dancing. UMU: Okay okay, I've always wanted to see that movie!
LEON: That movie is SO phenomenal. (UMU: Aggh.)
It's so great, like the *spoiler* at the end is- *spoiler*
UMU: Oh my god, okay, don't say anymore! *laughter*
STEPHANIE: First half, I really loved. And I like the clapping, like *claps*
But I noticed like the second half, it kind of felt too repetitive to me.
What I, what I really liked about this in the first half, it's the eighth note subdivision.
'Cause you always hear the, like you constantly hear that subdivision first.
But the clapping, and then I was just really paying attention to that, and then it just never stopped, the subdivision.
And that is what made this so groovy to me, and I just really loved it.
But probably because I was paying attention to that so much, and it was there the whole time throughout the whole thing, it got kind of tiring.
I was like, okay I got enough of that. So I wanted like a break from that.
BRIANNA: Uh I really enjoyed the song and just like the stylistic shifts.
It went from, now I'm like blanking, but it definitely went from like swing to a little bit of church.
Yeah, I just liked how it really connected throughout the song, and I felt like the foundation throughout the song was jazz.
And it definitely reflected in their movements as well, because they did a lot of like tapping stuff, like especially at the ending,
and I felt like that jazz tap, really whenever they do jazz tap it's like 20's like swing tap,
and then it reflected also in the instrumentation where you had a lot of, you had a rhythm section of course, but like there was some saxophones, some trumpets,
really like brass-heavy, sax-heavy like low sounds, but like the trumpet just like, the brass sound really piercing through as well.
And their voices did also like stand out, 'cause I noticed like with the past songs that we've listened to,
it's like whenever the rhythm section and the instrumentation is really really good, the voices tend to be just okay, like they're not really at the forefront,
but I think they did showcase their voice as much, like I felt range.
I heard range. I'm not sure where, but I heard somebody go, like at the end of the chorus, *sings* yeah, like something like that.
SAM: It was just so much fun to watch. And it was so much fun to listen to.
They are all so wonderful vocalists. Their voices are REALLY good.
SAM: You were talking about that high belt. I'm still processing that high belt (RAFFI: Yeah I know right, *laughs*) when you mentioned it, I was like oh my goodness.
CLOUD: I like I think it's really cool to have an instrument break, let them do some solo shit,
CLOUD: like let the sax and the trumpet go off, and then like do a little scatting thing. Like that could go off. (BRIANNA: That could have been a good at the ending-)
BRIANNA: Like at the end there could have been a trumpet just *sings* or something like that at the end. (CLOUD: Yeah.)
BRIANNA: That would have been nice as like an outro or something, you know.
CLOUD: We're the worst, that's the problem, you give us jazz and we're like, "Oh but there's so much MORE you could do!" BRIANNA: Yeah.
(BRIANNA: It was nice) CLOUD: Like ah, you've opened the door.
CLOUD: There was an ascending bass line that got me everytime. I was like okay like, standard, but it works, and it worked well.
UMU: Was it the chromatic in the chorus? The *sings* (CLOUD: I think- yeah, yeah.)
UMU: Yes!! BRIANNA: There was a lot of chromaticism yeah. CLOUD: I think- I only heard it at least like two times, and like everytime i was like yeah that works.)
SAM: I think the moment that stood out to me the most was the percussion fills.
Just 'cause I love paying attention to how different people fill space,
so being able to use that space to draw my attention in more and to make me anticipate the next section, is something that I always look forward to.
SAM: Um I mentioned it when we did the Stray Kids uh, in actually the Stray Kids um- UMU: "Back Door" right?
SAM: Yeah "Back Door" with the *sings*, that was UNREAL for me and that's-
This is, that kind of had the same energy for me. I just love how different people fill the space.
JU YOUNG: It's not really music related, but like when you were talking about like the subunits, like they're- they're really good.
When they first start dancing, that was so slick. It just seemed natural.
Like I love when like people make things sound and like look natural, and like that's what appeals to me. And yeah they're really talented.
JASON: Yeah that's true mastery in when you make something- when you can make something look super simple, and it's actually difficult. (JU YOUNG: Yeah.)
JASON: Like that's when you know you mastered a craft. To a certain extent. (JU YOUNG: Yeah.)
JU YOUNG: And then just the vocals and the bridges, I dunno who they are but like they're going off!
JASON: The bridge, Ju, is at... JU YOUNG: The dude with the tan, sorry tan blazer. I like his voice.
JASON: I liked the red blazer.
UMU: Red blazer is DK. JASON: I like him.
UMU: 2:23, that's Seungkwan. Those are literally the two main vocalists of the group.
JASON: 2:10 is kinda where the bridge starts right? When the homie's playing the piano? JU YOUNG: Yeah when the- when there's like the diner-)
JASON: That's my favorite part of the song. Yeah that guy's got such a good voice!
No, but I think that they brought all musical elements together that they were kind of like jumping between, and 'til the end where it's just like a culmination of everything.
JASON: Thought it was good. (JU YOUNG: Yeah. It was lit!) Really good use of music. And the guy in the red blazer is great!
UMU: Yeah!!
[subs by @angelade17 ~]
[Back to the beginning of the video...] UMU: But they're saying that even if you crash and burn, things will be okay. That was the message of that song.
So they're starting off with the car that he was in and he's going to get out and party
CLOUD: Oh my what??
What are these concepts?? Who comes up with theeeese???
UMU: K-POP, BABYYYYY!