Lindsey: WAAAAAAAAA Fiona: That was a cute opening! That was so cute!!!!!
Umu: Golden Child is a boy group, newly debuted in 2017, with 11 members
U: Ranging ages 17 to 24 years old (L: that looks pretty good)
U: You guys remember Infinite?
Lindsey: Do I remember Infinite?
U: The leader of this group is the younger brother of a member from Infinite , and they're also under the same company as Infinite L: nice. Talented families for the win.
Naoki: Wait, so they're new? Umu: Uh-huh. This is their first song Stephen: Cool
Stephen: Let the judging begin
Davis: Ahhhhhhhh
Lindsey: WHAAAAAAAAA Fiona: That was a cute opening! That was so cute!!!!
Davis: This is the only way you can do a song with the title DamDaDi
Davis: It has to sound like this
Davis: Like its just required- Oh baseball!
Henry: I really like this so far! Everything about it I think is dank, but also...
Henry: Damn daddy
Henry: It's so fucking wrong
Naoki: I mean, it seems like they've already taken the motif of the damdadi, and they're already started elaborating on it
Henry: The choreography is spectacular! And also, they just keep saying damn daddy
Umu: its damdadi! h: NOOO ITS NOT! listen to the song!
Kevin: Alright
Khanh: okay, that was tonic to the- Kev: Listen to the baseline
Kevin: It's a flat III. Flat III mixture
Fiona: But it still has the in time layers Lindsey: Right but it's like, half time in the background, now here we are, we're back up, we're back up to speed now
Emiel: It's a good tune, it's just you have to be really hype to listen to this
Jarod: This guy's spitting!!!
Katie: TRIPLET TRIPLET BITCHES LOVE TRIPLETS ROUND 2!!!! HA!
Davis: It also kinda has some of those same sort of 80s vibes, but it's more like a Huey Lewis sorta thing
Davis: Like, I don't know why, this is just making me think of that
Lindsey: This is very predictable, but it's awesome
Lindsey: Except for a couple times, they have random blue notes in there, almost.
Fiona: yEaaah niCE
Khanh: I like the way they layered that, the tonic on top
Stephen: I like that even though it's a boyband, it doesn't sound super pop-y, at least to me, with the instrumentation that they're using
Davis: I definitely felt my breath kind of taken away for the first 30 seconds where I was just like "woaahh we're in this right now"
D: But now I feel like I'm a little more comfortable
D: Like, it wasn't 0-100, it started at 100
Emiel: Their voices are really nice, I think they're really.. it's not too mastered, their vocal tracks
Henry: The fact that there's so many of them is actually really helping them
Emiel: They blend really well with one another
Khanh: The high is a little bit more- Kevin: LAMENT BASS
Kevin: For some reason????
Khanh: I want that to come out a little bit more
Jarod: This is such an experience and it's so much fun
Henry: Wow, there's like, there's a place in the chorus where there's a crunchy, well-tuned major 2nd
Henry: Hidden in their harmony, it's a dominant but opposed to keeping it open, they put them close together
H: It's good writing
Lindsey: Damn daddy damn daddy damn daddy
Fiona: The drums just, like, double a lot
Fiona: It's back to open then it's like LKFJDSKLFS
Jarod: It's a blues-y chorus but at the same time, it's so upbeat
Henry: So much damn daddy, god dammit
Emiel: AHH and he oHMYOGD
Emiel: One of the guys DABBED in the middle of the air, did you see that???
Henry: amazing. no, but I need to now
Henry: OH MY GOD Emiel: Look at that dude!!! He is GOING
Emiel: That dude is dabbing HARD in this music video Henry: GET OUT x 2
Henry: I can't dab anymore, he ruined it
Emiel: Look at that guy!
Emiel: What a pro
Henry: It's time to fucking TAKEOFF
Davis: How did he jump that high??
Peyton: You can't let Jarod see that
Davis: This man has HOPS
Jarod: Show me?
Jarod: yooodfsdlfksjAAHHHHH MY GUY MY GUUYYYY
Jarod: MY GUYYY
J: GSSSFSDFSDFUH
Katie: You've created a monster
Katie: WHAT HAVE YOU DOOOONNEEEEEEEEEEEE
Naoki: That was pretty groovy Stephen: That was great
U: What did you think of that song overall, musically?
Stephen: I loved how it always transitioned between just regular cut time groove and then it would go into half time
Stephen: Especially when it did that on the bridge, it's really nice
Naoki: Do you want to explain what that means?
Stephen: SURE so like, if the beat is like, 1 2 3 4, something like that
Stephen: Then half time would be like 1 2 3 4 , 1 2 3 4 {the speed the song is going is cut in half}
S: So the pulse is still the same but what they're accenting differs, gives it a different feeling
Davis: You know, if this is your debut into a genre of music where you're heavily criticized and under a lot of pressure to perform, you gotta do it like this
Davis: You gotta come out of the gate and be like, kicking the door, be like, "I DONT GIVE A SHIT" Peyton: DAMDADI BITCH
Davis: And I think they did that. They definitely were having fun, it wasn't very serious, it was playful, so you know, it's something people are like "oh yeah this is so good, this is new and fresh"
Davis: It was fresh. That's the word
Emiel: I thought it was good, but it didn't really stick out to me as something that I could really remember in the future
Henry: I thought it was Emiel: Which is what I look for in tunes that are my favorite. It's like, songs that I can remember a while after
Henry: I thought it was pretty close to the center of the bell curve for me
H: It was, like, these guys are pretty good. I thought their voices worked well together, they had interesting harmonies in their background vocals
H: Background vocals were a little much in my opinion. I dunno, they kind of distracted
H: It really didn't stray much from chorus-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-verse-rap-chorus-verse-chorus-verse, like that kind of thing
H: Obviously there weren't that many choruses and verses, but you know what I mean
U: A solid debut song?
H: Oh, this is the debut- I forgot this was the debut song. Oh, yeah, this is an awesome debut song! This is a good way to come onto the scene
H: It's not too much of, like, a
H: It's not too much of like, a distrupt- you know, you're not pulling anyone's roots up, but at the same time you're putting your foot down, like "here we fuckin are"
Khanh: I liked that musically, I liked the chords they used
K: I don't, I don't have the vocabulary to describe them. What did you say? Kevin: Flat III mixture
Khanh: That was when it went to like, the, when the colors started Kevin: [2 THE PIANO]
Khanh: I feel like they.. they look like they've been singing, I mean, they sound like they've been singing together for a long time
Lindsey: It was so happy!
Lindsey: I needed that
Fiona: It was nice. It was totally upbeat the whole time
Fiona: The percussion changed while there was this constant DADADADAADAA
Lindsey: I liked the occassional drum all of a sudden going into a half time feel while the vocals didn't change at all so it was kind of like this..
Fiona: It was spacious Lindsey: It was a little bit more flowing
Lindsey: It kinda felt like the voices were floating on top
Lindsey: If they were a straight line, and then the drum was coming and like, every once in a while
Lindsey: They were kinda floating, being propelled
Jarod: That was fffffffffff Katie: That was really cool
Katie: I definitely got a high school musical vibe
K: That's not a bad thing
K: That's just, characterization
K: But, I loooooooved the half time. It's so fun
Jarod: Dude, they really swang for the fences
Jarod: On that one and it was really good Katie: Ayyyyy batta batta J: Cause of baseball
J: If you're gonna have debut song, that was killin.
Katie: "that was killin" Jarod: That was killin K: Killin dude
J: It was really good because it was super high energy the entire time, they really kept you engaged
J: And they did the half time stuff
J: The perfect amount of time where it kept it fresh each time, it was really awesome, the way they planned it out
J: The driving beat, you know, something as simple as DamDaDi or
J: Something simple- a simple lyric that everybody can grab onto
J: And it's very tuneful, so it's like people will be like, when they hear this name, "oh, that's ___"
J: They're gonna recognize it and that's really really strong, having that hook
J: That was just really really awesome, a lot of fun [DAB]
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