Henry: Ah, I like that hook a lot,
I'm gonna- that's gonna be stuck in my head.
[Rossini's Semiramide Overture playing]
Umu: You are now reacting to the rookie group IVE,
which stands for "I have",
meaning that the members are all ready to dazzle fans
with everything they have.
Henry: You've forgotten an apostrophe.
Cloud: Shut up.
Umu: When they were asked about what the meaning behind 'Eleven' is,
the member Rei answered that
just like how in soccer you have a best ___?
Raffi: Goalie?
Um...
Sam: IVE?
Raffi: Um...
Field?
Sports?
Ball?
Sam: Friend? Raffi: The best ball~
Umu: You said IVE, what is the title of this song?
Raffi: IVE?
Sam: 11?
Umu: Yeah!
Raffi: Wait, so what's an IVE?
Sam: No it's not...
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And now back to explaining what a "Best 11" is to Raffi's last brain cell.
There's a best 11, like the starting 11 players when it comes to soccer,
meaning they're the best of the best.
So they're also saying,
they wanna show that they're the best of the best,
that's why their title track is called 'Eleven'.
The lyrics of 'Eleven' sing about meeting someone who makes you feel 11/10.
Jason: Can I take a women's multivitamin?
Umu: Yyyyyyyes...?
Ju Young: *noises* Jason: It smells so good.
Umu: Yeah just eat, shove it in your mouth.
Jason: Oh this tastes so much better than like men's multivitamin.
Umu: Hehe, sucker!
Jason: The ones that I have taste like sh*t!
Umu: This song is composed by Peter Rycroft, Lauren Aquilina and Ryan S. Jhun [t/n: and Alawn]
Liam: 3 2 1-
Uuuhhh~
There's some phrygian?
Rachel: Yeah.
Henry: I love the syncopation.
Stephanie: Mmm~
Jory: The percussion is super rad.
Kevin: Nice tones.
Kevin: Excuse me?
Henry: That's just a rit[ardando]!? // Rachel: Okay... Liam: Ooh // Owen: Nice! //Stephanie: Oh?
Henry: How often do we hear a rit a tempo these days?
Henry: Ah, I like that hook a lot,
I'm gonna, that's gonna be stuck in my head.
Ju Young: Oooooh, that's a nice timbre, sis!
Jory: The lead vocals are super far in front.
Henry: The vocals are so isolated here.
Cloud: I love how they only have one glove.
Henry: It's very Michael Jackson, you know?
Kevin: I like the light, bouncy rhythm, that's kinda my thing.
Jason: Wow, that's cool!
They be goin'...
snail mode for a minute.
*Henry already singing along*
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7~"
Jason: How did she move so fast? (Ju Young: Huh?)
How did she just move her hip that fast?
Jason: My hip would like crack and break. Ju Young: I would dislocate everything.
Jason: Yeah.
Jory: That's a rad melody.
Rachel: Wait, was that SN- is that Girls' Generation?
Jason: I think the percussion is really interesting. Ju Young: The instr- yeah.
Ju Young: The percussion is very prominent in this.
Cloud: Catch it! Catch it!
There we go. That's fine.
Henry: Nah, she had a stand that broke it for her.
Liam: They kinda treat that riff differently each time it happens.
Rachel: Mhm.
*Kevin singing riff*
Kevin: Ends with a major 3, I really like that.
Henry: Wow, I really like that song!
I usually try to be able to part, like objective,
and just talk about the musical things,
but I just really, that one really clicked with me. Amazing.
Will: Sick!
Jory: Super cool.
Will: I like it.
I like the harmony.
It's like, it's simple but I just really love the
major switching to minor tonality,
and like that one, the line, the ending of the chorus, the like,
"You make me feel like eleven~"
and it goes to the major third
and a lot of the chorus is in the minor sound
and then it resolves to major, I don't know...
I thought that was sick.
Henry: They painted out a minor scale, *plays E-F♯-G-A-B-D-B-A* [notes are in Em scale]
and then: *B-E-E-B-E-E-A-G♯* [G♯ is 3rd third of E MAJOR scale]
*plays E major scale up to 5th*
I really like that, the contour of *ascending minor*
*leaping 5ths, 4th to major 3rd*
just that little playfulness of the,
you get some growth but then it gets to stop,
last word, and you end on like a nice-
It's a soft ending to me because the cadence doesn't end on like Do [E],
it ends on the Mi [G♯],
and then they end the whole song on a Mi too, Cloud: On a Mi.
I really like the contour of the melody in this.
Owen: How the melody works with the syllables is really satisfying.
Umu: Right?!
Owen: Like,
like it works exactly where you'd actually put that stress,
and obviously that's the goal, but like,
it was just perfectly, I think, with that.
Jason: The harmony in the chorus is interesting. Ju Young: Mm.
Jason: The bass is just going E,
or, E - C and like A - B,
so it's kind of like, um,
*Plays E5*
and then...
*Cmaj7add6*
*Asus2 - Asus2/B*
*E5*
Jason: I don't think that's correct, but it's close enough. Umu: Pretty similar to that.
Jason: Yeah, I think it was,
with the A and C, C and B,
that would be the lowered 6th scale degree chord.
Ju Young: Taste.
Umu: What kind of feeling or vibe do you feel like those harmonies give this song?
Jason: Woo~
Ju Young: These are definitely like heaven chords,
Jason: They're nice, yeah. Ju Young: like they were singing about heaven
Ju Young: and like in a room, and then that's very like, Jason: They were? Oh dang, I didn't read any of the words!
Ju Young: Very like ethereal. Jason: I forgot to read all the words! Sh*t!
Ju Young: It gave me Girls' Generation vibes,
Ju Young: for some- I think the- Umu: How so? 'Genie', maybe?
Ju Young: Yeah, 'Genie', a little bit of 'I Got A Boy'
because of the harmonies.
Something about the reverb, also,
I was hearing dissonance,
like even though there wasn't like a complete melodic line.
Owen: I mean the slowdown, that's the main focus for me at least.
The first time it was great.
It was just like brilliant,
I thought it really really worked
as far as the bow and arrow analogy that they were doing in the dance.
Also the dancing was great too,
I liked how they spun on top of the building,
like the timing of that, when one spun and the other one didn't,
like it was all very, very solid.
And playing with that sort of forward and back motion.
Kevin: I thought the second time it hit me the most,
I think that slight knowledge that it was gonna happen,
and then when it did it felt
a little more disorienting for some reason.
Kevin: But when it happened in the bridge... Owen: The third time was not great,
Kevin: Yeah, I wasn't... Owen: I didn't like it.
Umu: I think it's because it's slower.
Kevin: It's slower and it's the pickup of the scale, yeah, ugh... *Owen sings melody*
Owen: 1 2 3 4 5.
Kevin: It felt like it was trying to return to the tempo
but it was, they just kind of fudged it a little.
Owen: I mean you can only do that so much.
I think it was just pushed a little too far,
which I respect, they went to the boundary
and they really went for it.
Rachel: Cool. Liam: Yeah, that was the other thing I noticed,
Liam: something different happens at the tail end of that ritardando, to get us into the chorus,
It's kind of cool, like it doesn't make it feel gimmicky or tired.
Rachel: Mhm.
Liam: You see like that build into the ritardando,
there were two beat getting us into the new tempo
where each of the previous times it was just one beat, I think.
*1*
*2*
Rachel: I see.
Liam: And then, wait, I wanna go back to the other ones.
Rachel: Oh!
Liam: You see how there it was just one?
Let's see the other one...
Rachel: Oh, that's so cool!
Liam: And then it's eighth notes going into that one!
Ain't that fun?
Rachel: Fancy~
Sam: Well the vibe that I get is something that's very mysterious
but in a way where it's kind of navigating you through what emotions it wants you to feel.
Cuz the chorus clearly has a lot of positive valence,
there is just a very expressive and sprightly energy to it,
in my opinion.
I also think it's interesting that they did a slowdown right into the chorus,
so maybe the effect of that is emotional.
To me it kind of allowed it more time to stabilize E major as a tonic.
But I like songs like this cuz it makes me think and it sounds good.
During that reaction my face was probably in one thinking mode the entire time
because I was just like, "What the hell is going on?"
but no, that's honestly the vibe that I got, is,
it was kind of leaning you along
and it was in control of what emotions it wanted you to feel
because it had control of
whether it wanted to have the minor tonality show more
or the major tonality show more.
Stephanie: I feel like the texture was probably the number one thing for me,
It's not like *HNGNRRR*, like hard, like really intense all the time or anything,
it's just like easy to listen to,
easier to listen to, just to groove to,
but it's not like it was boring or anything,
just like...
good...
I don't know how to describe it
but just like,
the texture was easy to listen to is what I would say,
rather than like, "Oh, this is like super interesting"- kind of thing?
Kevin: I think it's just the idea that you don't need like a thick bass
to make something, make something rhythmically punchy.
And yeah, when-
I like it when there's a bit more treble in the percussion
and it also mixes well with the other instruments, I guess.
Yeah...
Owen: It was all about the articulation for sure. Kevin: It's a light, light bop, you know?
Kevin: You can bop your head to it but it's still light,
I like that, I like that medium space, it makes me feel good.
Rachel: That's their first song?
Liam: Nice.
Rachel: Impressive.
It sounds really like refined and well produced,
well executed, you know what I mean? (Liam: Oh yeah, the production is...)
Like it doesn't have that like... rookie feel to it.
They just all seem that they really know what they're doing, they look professional.
Umu: They made the record for fastest winning girl group,
so like, um, like,
on their first or second stage or something they won the show.
Rachel: That's impressive. I mean, but like,
I kind of understand why, honestly.
Like that was a very enjoyable song.
Umu: So why do you think
this song spread so easily and so quickly?
. . .
Jason: Purple hat.
Umu: Because of the purple hat?
Ju Young: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Jason: Need I say more?