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Owen: oOooHoH SHIT
[Rossini's Semiramide Overtune plays]
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*sing song voice* Let's get to reacting~
Umu: You are now reacting to the 5 member boy group TXT and their release, "Fairy of Shampoo",
TXT's "Fairy of Shampoo" is actually a remake of the group Light & Salt's (빛과 소금) original song, released in the 90s
which we'll hear a snippet of first
The lyrics express the loneliness of a person and the connection they feel to a girl seen on TV in a shampoo commercial,
the lyrics go "gently approaching a silver fantasy, you are my little fairy, (Jamal: OooO alright~) in the early mist-
you come up to me with your wavy long hair, whispering a soft gentle smile,
I don't feel lonely when I see you, even the sad heart goes away after looking alone in a distance, you are always my dream"
Kevin: *sings Joni Mitchell's All I Want* "I wanna talk to you, I wanna shampoo you, I wanna re-*forgets lyrics*haskdjfkn"
Umu: sOOOOooO bLuEEEEE Kevin: So we're gonna listen to a snippet? How do we do the snippet?
Umu: Uh, like 1 minute and 45 seconds
Sam: Alright, 3, 2, 1
Sam: Oh?
Owen: Interesting panning, out- Kevin: Oh yeah!
Kevin: A little bit like uh- city-pop
Brianna: I love the electric guitar *imitates guitar ba-bap-bap*
Kevin: Some nice transition chords, nice R&B influence- ooh
Jamal: 90s- for sure, like 90s sounds for sure Rafael: Oh the piano patch too
Rafael: It grooves though Jamal: It definitely does
Kevin: YeaHHHHH How are they gonna change it? oHH
Brianna: ooOOO~
Kevin: A minor scale has never been so flavorful
Sam: I'm just imagining like watching TV and seeing this shampoo commercial, I'm trying to imagine what shampoo commercial-
it was that- (Raffi: haha Sudsy, it's gotta be sudsy) right? It's gotta be sudsy
Sam: oOo~
Owen: Nice
Kevin: I like it- Owen: I like that a lot, I liked the things that were panned wayy to the sides
Kevin: Yeah~ Owen: Like the guitar, and then there was like the *woooosh* and then also during-
right before the guitar solo, there was like a little tappy, tippy tap sort of thing that was going on way to the left and I was like-
but you know, it's always added dimension (Kevin: Mhm), so its cool
Umu: Do you have any thoughts just based off on-the original version right now?
Brianna: Ugh! This is such 80s dance vibes you know, how they're like with the poofy dresses,
and they're dancing like this- *imitates penguin wobbling dancing* I feel like I'm at prom in the 80s
Stephanie: Doesn't it sound like 80s Jpop? Leon: Yeahhh~
Umu: What elements? Stephanie: Hmm I think for me, the instrumentation sounds like, kind of sounds like *whaaaa*
the whole sound is-it's like (Leon: ohhhh) (Umu: it's like *whaaaaaat~*) for the- for the whole time
Umu: We'll move onto TXT's version now, You are now reacting to TXT's rendition of "Fairy of Shampoo"
which was released on their spring 2020 EP, "The Dream Chapter: Eternity"
In an interview, TXT's Yeonjun said,
that the original was loved for it's classy sound, but they wanted to present a different appeal
by reinterpreting it through their own style.
According to their music label, BigHit, the theme of the album that this song is from,
is about the experiences the boys encounter as they grow up
The song is composed by Jang Kiho and the rap- ooh
SPOILER THERE'S A RAP NOW
um- that wasn't (Brianna: They always need a rap) originally in the song was written by TXT's member Yeonjun
Kevin: 3, 2, 1, Fairy Sham-
(Owen: Nice)
Kay- Different key for sure (T/N: text on screen says *has perfect pitch*)
Sam: Wow, okay ambient vocals
Rafael: I like these pads a lot
Jamal: ooooOOO
Owen: Good bass yeah, I mean the other one had the- two rhythmic motifs that they were kinda going between the *vocalizes*
Sam & RaffI: Mhm~~ Sam: It's still very city-pop, like the guitar is so like shimmery- (RaffI: Right, yeah)
Jamal: OoH~
Leon: ugh~!
Kevin: It's more of a house track, there's more nightclub vibes
where the earlier song was like karaoke vibes
Sam: I also feel like the- the false- their falsetto is very different from the- from the 90s one,
it's a little bit more breathy but I think it goes well with the atmosphere of the shimmeriness of this production
Owen: Yeah- Kevin: Trumpet solo?
Kevin: Different... Owen: Is that a trumpet?
Owen: woahhhhuhoh- shit!
Stephanie: mmhm-hahaha
Cloud: haha- (Brianna: *repeats guitar part*) we just went to a beach haha did you hear that?
Brianna: Oh, it's like rap-singing kind of
Raffi: It's dreamy Sam: Yeah~
Sam: It's also so- there's so much reverb it's so like-
it literally sounds like we're in a bathroom right now *Raffi laughing*
Kevin: Ah~!
*feeling the vibes*
Kevin: Backing vocals add a nice texture
Kevin: Woah
Sam: woahhhhh~
Raffi: A little bit of solitude here like less instrumentation but now we're back Sam: Yeah
Raffi: It just jumped back haha Sam: Yeah, it was like ethereal for a- for a second,
the key distorted for a bit when it started and I was thinking-
where is this going Raffi: Haha
Jamal: Oooh~
Cloud: I love the improv solo sections, so good
Sam: I think it's very interesting also that this song is in a minor key, but its still is so light and shimmery
Raffi: Love is a mysterious thing- Sam: Love is so mysterious right! I don't understand it *Raffi laughing*
Umu: Let's dive more into that *laughing* Sam: of loVE?! I don't know if I want to do that hahaha (Raffi: Just profess to all-)
*static noise*
Umu: How are they able to paint out the mysterious and dream-dreaminess of love musically in this song?
Raffi: Mmmhm? Sam: They were able to do that by first of all, how they were using their voices,
they weren't like over pressing their voice, if anything they were giving just enough to like-
make it feel very light, so I felt like that contributed to this idea of like it's very shimmery,
it's very light, it's very fun, but it's also in the minor and there's some instrumentation-
like the trumpet for example, you wouldn't exactly expect in a city-pop song,
there's just (Umu: Mhm) a whole lot of elements that sort of are contradicting each other which I find very intriguing
Raffi: Um, I thought the text painting was really effective, what you were saying about the hush tone,
there's something kind of vulnerable about it (Sm: Oh) for any person in their falsetto
vulnerable is the word (Sm: That's a good word)
I thought that was really effective, and then there were moments where the text would speed up
Like I noticed at the beginning of the second verse, and its just like
It's- there's- you're overwhelmed with love, but it's also reserved a little bit
the bridge, the moment of like solitude we were talking about (Sm: Mhm)
Cl: I wanna like listen to more of it and just take a nap (U: Yeah) *whilst laughing*
I just wanna curl up like-like I wanna go over there, just curl up and take a nap...goodbye~
U: Wha-what musically creates that really chill, calming vibe? Cl: It's so dream like, it's almost a little too full,
texturally where it's like you almost can't hear the treble of the vocals and stuff,
because there's just so much and it's so packed, I don't know if you felt the same way (Br: Yeah) but it felt really full
Br: That's what I was gonna comment on, that's a common thing about like 80s music, it had like this texture of dreamy-
or just like sigh-y, cause I think they use a lot of roads, when you use like a roads' piano the timbre of it is just airy,
so it give you the (Cl: Mhm) sense of just like *breathes in and out*
Cl: Yeah, I really miss like airy, like a lot of reverb and stuff (Br: You know like the sighing- yeah, mhm)
Br: And it was like sighing, and I thought I kind of like the juxtaposition to the sigh-y stuff,
to like the trumpet, and the bass, and just like the hard rhythm section like-
syncopation, and I really liked how they changed the instrumentation from like electric guitar to now electric bass, and the soloist-
instead of the electric guitar, was the trumpet
Cl: I think it's interesting how-
because I expect, whenever I see like a 'remake' of a song or something (Br: Mhm) they'll completely change it more modern (Br: Mhm)
But I really loved all the nods (Br: Mhm) that it did to the original song, like the chord progression was pretty much the same (Br: Literally)
I want to say-I didn't notice any differences, that might just be me,
A lot of the 'mood' was the same, because usually they like totally switch up the mood and they're like oh it's spoopy now-
or like super dance heavy now, but the mood stayed the same, the timbres were different for each specific instrument, but again,
I think a lot of the overall timbres that they went for were supposed to evoke the older sounds,
and then like the trumpet (Br: Mhm), even though it's a completely different instrument,
it's (Br: Still the same, yeah) still like a nod to old time music and we're going back to like church (Br: Yeah)...early music
Le: Like there's one point I really like, but there's also another point that I don't like (St: Hmmmm) *wheezes*
U: Okay, let's do the don't like first and then like okay? Le: Ok
Le: The pad... (U: Oh like-) It's a little bit too loud and too like consistent, it doesn't have any dynamic change so-
What I would do is probably like add a side chain on some of the tracks (U: To like *woooo*) yeah to make it something like pumpy,
because that is like a little like interrupt with the vocals U: Right, and then what did you like about the track?
Le: The BASS! (St: YesSSSS, I felt the sameeee!) the bass is super solid St: And I like the melody it goes like *vocalizes*
St: First time, and then the second time it's you know- you just expect the same thing,
but then the last note is flattened the second time so it's like *vocalizing*
It's like oooohhhh (Le: Mhm) unexpected but then the last note is flattened the second time so it's like *vocalizing*
It's like oooohhhh (Le: Mhm) unexpected
Ow: The soundscape was-was all very, like 90s, early syn-the synthies,
you definitely hear more of like a moog sound-sound with the synthes-synths (K: Mhm)
K: I actually feel like the original song sounded more 80s, which is interesting-
Ow: I was thinking the same thing-(K: Yeah the yea-) when I think of the colors, I think of green and purple
K: Oh you're doing- you're the synesthesia thing Ow: Yeah, but you know those 80s jackets-that are like purple on the top and the-
that's kind of how the song felt a little bit to me (K: Hmm Okay~) but a bit more pastel-ly
K: That's funny because this album cover is purple and green...
K: HUH? Who knows (U: Maybe because you've been staring at that for the past 3 minutes HAHA) Ow: Because looking at that the entire time-
Ow: that's what I'm thinking K: I think this one feels more purple and green,
but (Ow & K: Yeah) I've also been staring at this (Ow: Right) for the past few minutes so...
K: I like the original more, I gotta say
The new song- it felt-
uh, the production was a bit more pop-y, it didn't feel as expansive and especially that last trumpet solo, it felt like-
a little too studio-y, it didn't have that blare that I like in a good trumpet solo,
and if they-they're gonna go all improvisation and jazzy, I want a more raw trumpet sound,
but maybe it's just that trumpet player doing the most polished tone ever, but still the way its mixed,
the whole thing, feels a bit more boxed in to me, but for the-the original song, it felt wide, and the panning, and just-
the way the, that guitar solo was like- it felt like it was like a layer up top, there were more layers in the original
Ow: I remember in high school, we had this one project that we were trying to define what made video games different from sports,
and the conclusion that I came to was that sports had like set rules that you couldn't do,
but then anything else you were totally able to do, you can do like a backflip on the pitch if you feel like it (K: Mhm)
but you can't pick up a soccer ball with your hands,
and video games, there's a set code that you have to play within, and so they're just like very strong rules,
so I think that's sort of translated with the first one, feeling like it was composed out of silence,
and there were placing whatever they want into it, um and the second one, it felt like it had these rules that could work within
that were (K: Yeah~~) sort of like set (U: That makes sense) and yeah-
K: That's super good, I like that
U: What did you think of this remake compared to the original song?
Rf: I liked it more Ja: They definitely expanded on it in a very cool way, and yeah the part that was like trumpet-
It was yeah- it was interesting that I heard that I guess It's like, they definitely made it better than like just add a trumpet in-
*all laughing* Rf: Yeah it was- U: I wOndER wHY tHaT iT waS bEttER yOU knOw mayBE beCaUsE iT hAs yoUr inStruMenT iN iT? I duNNO
Rf: Yeah, they definitely changed a lot of the song, like just as far as how they orchestrated it,
like they reharmed the melody um for the most part
Ja: Yeah, definitely a lot more lit like chords and like suspensions
Rf: That fact that they used more interesting harmony made the parts that they kept from the old song,
that seemed ham-fisted when that's all that we got, (U: Mhm) made uh feel more natural, so like the uh like 5 sus[pended] going to 5,7,
it's what went into the choru- U: Oh the prechorus? ah, ok gotcha
Rf: Um, the fact that they didn't do what that tendency- what that wants us to do, um it didn't go to 1,
they went- they modulated somewhere else, made it feel- (Ja: Deceptive) Yeah it was nice, it was deceptive resolution,
although I don't think it went to 6, it-it just it-but it wasn't-(U: As an-)(Ja: It wasn't a deceptive cadence) Yeah-
U: It was an adjective deceptive hahahaha Rf: Yeah, ok, this one went places-
Ja: Also, they just have a lot more sounds to like use like- Rf: A trumpet (U: Mhm) um-
Ja: What's the last line of- *both playing instruments* right? no?
Ja: You wanna just like, just like play the progression out like once? Or should we just hop right into it?
U: Whatever you want, but maybe like- Rf: Yeah, I can do that
Ja: Cause then you can like, you can kind of like fade it into- Rf: Sure (U: Sounds good)
*now playing 'Improv De Shampoo' by Jamal and Rafael*
*Umu clapping behind camera* U: Woahhhh~~
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Sm: I can't even think about who I was in love with in-when I was 12, I think-
Oh no-
I watched Avatar [the Last Airbender], and I was in love with Katara
U: OH MY GODDDD!!