Jarod: See I like how like the background gets intense, but the voice...
Contrasts that with this very kinda floating element
Whereas there's like- whenever it chills out and then she gets intense, it's really cool
*cue iconic music*
Umu: So Sistar is a four-member girl group that debuted in
2010, and they disbanded in 2017 since their contract ended.
They are known for their summer bops so they are also called summer queens
We'll be reacting to one of their 2016 releases
this song is about a woman liking someone who isn't loyal to her
so the concept plays with mixed emotions of vulnerability and
Empowerment and you'll be able to see a little of that with like the plum blossom symbolism in the music video
Kevin: So what does plum blossom symbolize?
Umu: which represents a woman's strength and thriving and harsh conditions
Kevin: Oh I thought it was the word for fertility. Isaac: isn't there a word for that? Isn't that a word for that?
Kev: Usually- (Isc: wait) plums represent fertility! never mind.
Isc: Okay, three two one uh
Stephen: *makes noise* here we go! Naoki: I like that Stephen: *cool guy snap*
Naoki: *snaps back*
Isc: A dead alley. Kev: in the mood for love am I right?
Jarod: ooh It's like the beginning of like an action movie
J: *SNAP*
Charlotte: ohhh Peyton: *drumming* hit it, hit it hit it h
P: It's like jazz-rock pop
Na: wow this is out there- that drum. Stephen: yeh Na: so fast
Fiona: um jeez that real saxophone
Melissa: oh my god no F: no... it's not
Hugo: see they have high voices but they're not child-like
Gwen: mhm
And then yeah, they have a light voices they're just not thin
P: oh That's kinda cool. The sax is kind of like keeps outlining the same minor chord
Ch: I know, but it's like very angular sounding P: yeah C: ya
Na: There are repeated notes (S: yeah) in the bass line. S: well I like the instruments that they're using Na: oh...OH you get the swells!
S: yeah dude
Kev: oh that beat kicks in.. and we in- we in happy land
Emiel: I Actually kind of like their voices. their voices are actually pretty nice Henry: sequence!
P: oh half time! *drumming*
Kev: Nice little major
F: I feel like this song is a cake, but it's like it's not like a raspberry lemon cake you know like vanilla- whatever cake
This is like chocolate with peanut butter with raspberry with like it ju- like it doesn't M: it sounds
M: it's a confused F: sounds more like cake
M: I feels like it sounds more like fruit and not like chocolate.
F: Yeah, I feel like they're trying to combine the weird flavors
Isc: oh she's cutting her hair! Kev: Wait there are Chinese characters (Isc: oh I love her hair. It's nice.) and I can't read it
Isc: It's the rap! Kev: takes full rap. It's (Isc: OH) pretty good
S: the line that they're do- that like the base player is doing it's almost like it's not completely legato
But it's not completely staccato too. It's like right in between
P: Also, I love this like flowers theme. Ch: I just like the whole aesthetic (P: it's pretty different)
P: yeah it's just- it's just gorgeous-
Ch: they're like Sexy classy ladies P: yes
J: See I like how like the background gets intense, but the voice
Contrasts that with this very kinda floating element,
Whereas there's like- whenever it chills out and then she gets intense, it's really cool
S: it's got that early familiar like it's got the familiarity of like a
a summer bop ah god that cut (he means half) time is so good G: oh yeah we love the cut time
S: We're like you know like summer bop brings back common themes and their songs because that's what a summer bop is
But they use it well where they're not playing the same thing the entire time G: uhuh
Ch: You are fine P: work it work it work it work it work it (ch: kill it slay yes gurl work yes uh hit it)
P: feels like chilling out here (Ch: work yes shake my butt wOOO) like good
S: You can use predictability. Predictability can be used as a tool cause if you mess with it and it's great
Yes because not you wanted the chords to come back that was a great bridge
G: Also that top line is the top vocal line. I quite like it.
H: It sounds kinda like it's at the edge of their range which is cool
E: Yeah. H: So I dig that sort of like reaching, you know? E: I think I think it's pretty well produced as well
H: Yeah. E: like I can hear all the frequencies
J: See what's cool is like. This is like musically sexy and visually sexy you know what I'm saying?
Ch: oh P: then It goes back to minor
M: Ends with like an echo. oh my god wait it's still going- moving to...
Never mind F: I LIKE THAT
KD: That was really really cool. They had a lot of uh
like licks that appeared throughout the video over and over again that were really really fun to listen to
uh It was very driving like Jarod said it was rock influenced. It was just really like fun to listen to and to watch
S: it almost reminded me of like, if anything, of Linkin Park in a way and just kind of the aesthetic of it all
uh like musically just kinda make that alternative rock influence at the same time with like you know of course like the poly cat
Foundations in pop but it was really cool
It was just like the rhythms that they play the contrast and colors between the vocal
texture and the instrument
I was just like
It was just it was a lot to take in but it was like a great a lot like it was just like whoa
You get hit hard here. You know?
Umu: yeah, so what about that musically
Did you like overall or- F: well we mentioned the difference between?
H: predictability
And repetitiveness F: and that we liked that they brought back things that were familiar
And things that you could kind of like latch on to and be like oh hell yeah
H: But they added- (F: oh yeah) Nothing like they added on to it though. (F: mhm). F: yeah It was never
H: I never was like oh god again, Jesus. J: Yeah. H: like when the texture was like the first text but then they took it out
which was great, and then they added it back in later (G: yeah)
And it didn't it wasn't as bothersome to me when they added it back later because i was like okay (G: it was just okay now it fits) yeah.
G: we really I think I really like the bridge at least S: oh the bridge was dope because it made you like really anticipate and
Want the chorus to come next (G: and I like when they went into cut time I love the use of cut time almost all the time; There's never a bad time
Isc: the main triad is G minor. Like the saxophone always plays G D b-flat to outline this
the main key
And then the whole piece is just centered around it
Kev: yup. Isc: and I think you mentioned about like the slowdown of the beats. Kev: yup. Isc: Like in the beginning they started really fast
(Kev: *starts beat boxing*) He's doing a fast before. Here comes the two
And then it comes back to the middle and it slows down for like raps or like the parts where they're leading into the chorus
The pre-chorus, but if there's always like the synthetic noise that just like rises up
With the slow beat, so there's like this everlasting tension of like when is it going to happen? but I thought it was cool
Kev: lil bit of tension, there's a little Isc: there's a little but like yeah
S: I liked how
So for example like I like that just they wanted a phrase to reuse (Na: oh my god) modal exsis- yeah
like I don't know for me. I like that because not too
I'm not trying to sound like (Na: Oh you like that? wow.) yeah punny or anything
But it gives my ear something to latch on to. As a listener,
if I'm always being like
You know like if a lot of different things are going on as once- at once and it's, you know, they're always trying to change
Stuff it's hard for me to not just like kind of like latch on to the song and enjoy what's going on
But also in all honesty like remember it. That's one thing (Na: yeah) that I really like about this (Na: It's easier to resolve that way as well) yeah Na: for sure. S: absolutely
Umu: And how do you feel like the
Saxophone and like the beat of the music supported the- Na: Oh yeah! That was cool
S: It was- Na: I like how it interplayed with with the rest of the ensemble S: yeah
I mean especially with the saxophone. It wasn't like the saxophone
I think they used like strings are like a string patch at like the very beginning, so
stuff that we've heard in like other k-pop videos, but it's not
Stereotypical it's not like cliche. Maybe because they're like super sparing but
Even like for example that I've mentioned earlier with like the chorus how
like with the bass player the line that he was doing
It was more kind of staccato than legato to where like it almost made it feel
Airy like the bottom wasn't there even though it was if that makes sense yeah
I really really enjoyed that because that was just like really unique
Something I haven't heard a lot of other kpop songs
Do Na: yeah
P: It's pretty common for tunes that are in minor like a lot of pop songs in minor have a two five one
Into something that's major and like actually 2-5-1
it's like a way or like it's like a progression that will get you to another key. One being the new key, but
I wouldn't say it stays there long enough to be a (Ch: A modulation?)
Modulation it's just kind like a tonicization like hey major key!
Alright move back to mine. Ch: Yeah P: but yes, also like I thought the like where it started and where it went were like
Pretty different I think? Just because like they kind of introduced this action on it
It like slowly actually like faded out into the background. Ch: You Don't really notice until you're like: Oh, where is it? (P: Yeah) and it wasn't there
P: Which is a very nice touch
Umu: And how do you think the music and music video carried out that like feeling of like mixture of empowerment and vulnerability?
J: I mean the vulnerability like I definitely when I first kind in the
Robe comes down and are underneath can it's like
You know she's like laying on our armor, but the same time just the way they carry themselves
Very empowering that you see these women they're just like
They're Killing it cuz often times you see sexy videos and it's like them over some dude, or there's some dude in the picture
there's no men here because there's no men needed
J: *SNAPS*
G: The video, I think supported it (H: the video supported it really well) more than the actual music did
I thought there were a few times in the music where it did I thought G: yeah there were a few times were it like
One line it was kind of more of a very literal meaning one line
Everything dropped out in one line was feeling you know vulnerable or something like that
But I obviously not knowing necessarily the words a lot of the likes (H: yeah) more specific nuances
are lost on us
H: well, and if- let me put it this way: if they have certain emphasis on certain words fuck if we know G: yeah
H: Like, We wouldn't be able to tell whether they did or whether they didn't
And that's true for a lot of like America or english songs- in english in particular
That's just the way that the language works the way that we emphasize words is really important so of course
It's gonna matter a little bit more than singing in Korean
But still they're still going to be that element of emphasis
(G: oh absolutely) And word play that we're just- it's gonna be lost G: It even like
musically what happens on the music on a particular word means something even if it doesn't
necessarily get an accent in the actual pattern of speech (S: yeah)
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