Hi guys, this is Umu from React to the K
This is Kevin who does not use Rosetta Stone, even though he should to learn some more languages such as Korean
Because you aren't learning Korean, it'll create cacophony in...
our lives.
Wow
It kind of worked
kiiinda worked
anyways so I found this artist because
I cannot remember
Whether some recommended this to me or whether it popped up in my feed
But anyways, I heard a tiny bit of the song. I was like
we. need. to. react. to. it.
let's go.
Rosetta~
Interesting
If she went [sings theme of another song]
I was going to say that-
Okay four one
first three notes reminded me of Avatar [the Last Airbender] theme
Oh yeah
Wow what a voice Yeah
The pure synth vibe too
It's a combo you don't really hear
Decrescendo on the piano
That's an echo that-
you can't create such perfect decrescendo
So you think that was post-
Yes
WHAT
That was the moment where I paused and said "Let's react to this"
There was an extra beat
Not this time
There might not have an extra beat
Oh my god Dang we going
This still looks like it's based on a true story
I wonder
Oh that's not a true story
I love this backwards Grainy lo-fi
Of course
That's- of course those are the notes you put
Was that a trombone?
It might have been a low trumpet
Oh my god no
No I can't look at that
I'm triggered by a certain movie
Umu: No, that's a trombone Kevin: It sounds like a low trumpet
Umu: No, it's a trombone(might not idk) What
That's a trombone I don't believe it
Honey I'm a brass player(who could be wrong) I don't believe it
I haven't heard enough high trombones in my life. That's for sure
But the- but the-
This song is brilliant, by the way for those who don't know that is not in the key
and the second time it comes it's not even in the right rhythm
Well, it's playing by its own rhythm
and I like how it's not a perfectly even piano passage. It's very clunky
We have like some-
Things weaving in and out to create instability
there was not an extra beat
I lied Yeah
Wow
Destroy that te-
Of course
Oh man, that's a real choir
No that is not a real choir No it's not
That is not- that is a keyboard choir. That's not it's not
but still weird change of vibes
Let's keep supporting this artist and buying her music until it can be a real choir
Real choirs cost money
Wow now it's the- yeah
What now
All right
Oh, but it's different
No crazy piano
And it's more sparse- the vocals
This is a bizarre music video
bizarre song with a bizarre music video
at- oh in the beginning
I wonder if it's a mother burying her child if that's what the story is
Oh, that's a good one. That I ca-
Oh my gosh that's an angle
That is an angle Wow
She's burying us
Yay
Right at the end I moved to tears because that was I
Another- sometimes when you hear a song from an artist you know that they're just creating music
They're creating the music that they want to and they don't give a shit about
Mainstream audiences giving views.
Because that was just so real. That was so real. And so amazing
I think that might be the comment-
Just a guess that that could be what the song is about because she throws the TV
into the garbage and then when she's burying
something it cuts to us be buried so it's like her burying like sort of like
That K-pop media
type of you know-
fan interaction. Maybe she's saying how she doesn't want that. She wants to be more true to herself.
If so, I mean- just
Yeah, amazing theory, I love it
I like her name
Cacophony, because
The music is arguably calm but there's so much
craziness within it that it's almost unsettling
So the chords are very very held out and smooth and connected and then her voice is just very angelic
She has- she can have a very deep voice when not singing in her falsetto
But she's choosing to use that to create this very gentle calm vibe
like you said and yet we're throwing in this atonal shit like the backwards synth in the middle of the
chorus(?) and also the piano
16th note? I think 32nd note?
It's not- it's in its own rhythm
No these aren't duplets
These are like seven by six ratio or something like that
So just some really really weird shit and then like when the trombone(or flugal horn) came in notes did not belong in the key
When the choir came in that was just complete shift of vibe-
Did that change keys?
Yes Okay
Change keys!
There- it's just-
instability within a calm stable
song
it's brilliant. It feels like it's about to explode at any time like-
combine with the music video and just some of
the more shocking images in it
Man there's just- I feel so angsty
and I think the cacophony is very much inside her and maybe
as she goes on- I don't know how long of an artist she's- how long she's been an artist Me neither
Maybe at some point she's gonna explode and
let everything out
but I don't think that's the intention of her music thus far
I'm really interested to hear her other stuff Very interested
which we will listen to right now
Yes
So now we are moving on to her October 19th release
'Breath'
I'm so ready to be blown away yet again. Yeah, yeah
One two three [breathes]
Her voice is just so special.
It's so fragile
But I'm feeling if she's-
Beautiful chord
Oh nice
PERSONA
Ingmar Bergman film
Not the game
Right now she's really gently singing breathy, but I have a feeling if she sings out then it'll sound more stable but right now-
it seems woah
I don't think she wants it to sound more stable. Oh, yeah, but I'm saying that her voice is very flexible
Wow, I love that percussion
I love the piano line
It's very soundtrack It's like almost tambourine but it's just bells
Oh my gosh
That flip into su-
Dorian
Are we gonna go more Dorian?
No
Flip into falsetto
Perfect
And also inverted root is very effectively used
Nice
I'm being really moved by this. I don't want to talk about it
It's perfect in every way
Now we're developing the very first
Section
Has this been a one take this whole time?
Possibly
and the piano is crossing hands to play that- that's actually played by one piano. I was confused
but
That's really awesome
I wonder which words she's choosing to sing-
Yes
Did she just do a trill
Is it vibrato I don't think it's intentional
It might be just some vibrato
It's very intense the- yeah the long take
Also major
WHAT
NO
Okay, okay this ain't the end
Wow Is this the same song
We're back in the classical era
Except the cores are very pop-y
Mozart would never write like that.
That's the dissonance here
There's that trill
Yes
This video is godlike
The song is godlike
It's gonna resolve, it's gonna resolve
No, it's gonna go back to the chorus key
That's it
oh my god no
no wait but there's still
I want to know what that means.
What does that mean?
It's probably something really really devastating
and I almost don't want to know
That's horrifying
Why is it staying for so long
Why is it staying for so long No
Is this the end?
I'm getting very unsettled
I'm getting very unsettled Is she ok
Are we ok?
Do we have comments- we have to-
Oh my gosh
No
This is insanity
nO
Like- JOhN cAgE
Somewhere in me says jump scare but 40 seconds
Do you think there's gonna be a jump scare There's gotta be something at the end
Ooh the heat goes off
The heater goes off
This is terrifying
I'm gonna- I'm gonna do the
Oh my god
That's it
This is so much
What if I take a picture of this and send it to my Korean friend?
Is there a comm- can we read the comments?
They might all be in Korean
That is possible
My goodness.
Oh my god.
WHAT
Oh, man, few videos have just made me feel so uneasy
Especially with that prolonged ending. That's the stuff that gets me
And it ends on the leading tone
It's all in English- the comments
But what does it say?
So scary Okay
Well, let's talk about this wonderful song while I wait to hear back from my Korean friend
I wonder if the track has that classical Mozart-ian passage.
Oh, I wonder if it actually ended maybe when she stopped singing
Yeah, that's possible.
Well, I'm buying that anyways
It says
"I'm breathing your breath"
or
"I'm breathing on behalf of you"
Yikes
Oh gosh, that's just got into my skin
Holy sh- crap
I need to like go off camera and cry
So let's talk about the song
She's queen- Oh, she's so good at
You know what? This song didn't have the crazy atonal stuff the other one did
but you still
just notice everything that's different about- for example the percussion near the beginning that sounded like
like dress shoes stomping on
a reverb-y floor.
It's like- for me that's what it's sounded like
and even the piano writing
Like I said at first I thought
Could this be more than one piano?
But no there-
she's deliberate writing in a way where the middle voice
stays the same and there's bass and there's top and even that is something- just the dedication to
creating that vibe throughout is something I haven't heard
Her voice is so special
we've heard one more acoustic track in this one
and one more synth-y track in the other one and I'm really curious to-
just hear her voice work with everything
because I feel like with her creativity she can create some new sounds that just have not
occurred in music before
yes, there are some artists where it takes more than two tracks to win me over
I'm like, maybe there'll be a favorite
This is- heard the very first song, 'Rosetta'
I was like
I'm into her, I'm gonna buy her music, I'm gonna search her up like- watch all of her life performances
I wanna learn everything about her
because her musicality and the way she develops her musical ideas and
her instrumentation
Just nothing that I've ever heard before. Mm-hmm.
I really hope she is on iTunes. Please please please please please
YES
Now we are testing to see if 'Breath' ends with the Mozart-esque sound.
Okay. Let's see if I- I think-
Yes IT DOES
Now I want to know if it bleeds into the next track.
Wanna do a first listen?
Maybe not right now
Also, she has a song that's something something fish. Look forward to our first listen of this wonderful artist
It will happen because
You better not preview.
Yeah don't preview this one.
You want to react, right? ok yes I do
If you want the best video content to support this artist you cannot preview this
It'll be a first first first listen for both Kevin and I
So yeah before this video gets too long
Thanks for watching
New favorite artist for me
I'm yeah, it's a little hard to win me over but this is very creative and very-
unsettling stuff. Yeah, I really dig that. Alright. Thanks for watching guys. Bye