Steve: Ooh
Henry: Saxophone!
Josh: Yeah
Ste: Yeah so uh *Josh laughs* just kidding
S: Before we jump into reacting to EXID *Josh laughs*
S: Before we jump into reacting to EXID *Josh laughs again*
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Umu: You are now reacting to the girl group EXID which stands for Exceed In Dreaming
and their 2017 release 'Night Rather Than Day' from their mini-album Eclipse
This girl group consists of five members, but during this comeback era
the leader Solji was taking a break and recovering from hyperthyroidism
the lyrics express the need to see their lover at night
the song talks about the day being for work and responsibilities
but the night is for relaxing and enjoying some chill time with a lover
Henry: Work hard play hard
U: The members said that the album was called Eclipse, because Solji's hiatus was like a brief period of darkness
that would pass, and the group would be whole again
The song was composed by Shinsadong Tiger, KeeBomb, and the rapper of the group, LE
Jason: Romeo (Ju Young: Damn this song-) Romeo where art thou Romeo
Ju: This song just called me single in like 50 different languages
Three, two, one
This color scheme (Ja: Mhm) yess Ja: Color gradient is pretty
Ju: Oohhh
Sam: Ooh
Kevin: I like the vibes
Owen: Mhm
K: Aw yeah O: The sound's gonna open up
Yeah
Jo: Yeahh
Ready?
Sam: The grooOoOove
Jo: Oh O: A little funk guitar in the background, yeah
K: Ba ba ba
Ste: Ooh
H: Saxophone!
Jo: Yeah, yeahhh Sam: Woowww
R: Ohhh
O: Mhm K: That's the EXID rap sound *Owen mimics the sax*
O: Oh they're- they're using so many different timbres in here, this is great
The string glisses~
K: Woah
Jo: Yah *laughs*
Ju: Oh my god she's slaying
K: What is she doing? She's waxing a key?
Am I too pure?
Oh, car keys, I see
R: Oh that food looks so good, sorry.
*R laughs* Sam: Yeah
Also it's very shimmery,
like the voice is very shimmery, (R: Yeah) the guitar is very,
just very sheen and chic...
glittery
Ju: Ahh this song makes me so happy, I don't know why
*H singing along*
H: Ooh! Went higher harmony this time
Stephanie: Yeah *laughs*
O: Same chord
K: wOAh the mixture (O: That was-) destroy me
Ju: Okay okay
R: I love the descant kinda soaring over
Sam: She's also- that's a nice soar
R: There's a lot of diversity in timbre (Sam: Yeah) Like I love the different so- like the different sounds Sam: That's true
K: Nice wind down
O: Yeah good bridge entrance
Ja: That was pretty cool Ju: I really like that
There was some type of like, I think some type of like modal mixture, it wasn't a modulation
it didn't sound like a modulation because it was so quick Ja: Yeah it was just a different key center Ju: Mhm
Leon: At the- at the chorus, when it modulates to like E major
it sounds so weird U: What-
L: It's not the trumpet, it's the chords that are just wrong
it's like, when it modulates to- modulates to like the B blah, E major
but it goes to- it goes to A major at that time, and then bass is like
just like going through this, but it's like
and then
like what the hell? U: Ohhh
it just doesn't sound good U: That is-
it felt weird to me
Ja: Um I think my favorite thing about this is the bass
U: Mm
Ja: Really creative bass Ju, confused: Like face? Like look? Like how they look?
U: BASS Ju: Oh *laughs*
I mean like yeah *U singing the bass part* I mean they're really pretty too so
Ja: A'ight I like it when a bass- so like, my favorite bass player is Paul McCartney
so Paul McCartney what he did, he revolutionized bass playing by making it actually like
rhythmically countering and also melodically countering the melody
so you have a song that's like super set in like C major, nice and normal
and then McCartney will be all over the place, like
his center will be G major and then he'll be jumpin to relative majors and parallel minors and stuff
he made like these really tasty melodic things and this bass
is doin a lot of like arpeggiation and falls, and going to six and then going to four, doing like a
*sings example*
and a lot of cool uh it just doesn't fo- it's like, it's almost like a counter melody
that's my favorite type of bass, is when you have like deep counter melodies
like rooting on very as McCartney calls it oobly parts of the chorus
so like on more of the seventh parts of the chords that make it really nice or the
I don't know what the Jazz kids said about what exact chords they were but like
the bass definitely rode on those aspects and I thought it was pretty interesting.
ST: Overall I liked how, I liked the movement of the bass- the bass line
and the rhythm that was put in the bass in one of the sections
again it was like more accents on the upbeat, like I felt more motion going from the downbeat to the upbeat
but then a few seconds later, like I was just expecting the same groove but then
they'd like stop that groove and then it kinda like changed- changed the groove a bit
it was like
yeah I think there was like one pause like instead of going like *gives example of first groove*
and then they just waited and then like have that again
so
yeah
L: Like stop time in Copenhagen ST: YeahHHH
early jazz L: Yeah
ST: And toward the very beginning, I think it only happened like once,
but in the vocal part they used some like swinging rhythms *sings rhythm*
yeah, I was like, oh that's kinda new
Ste: I like the horns (U: Mm) the horns were killing
It really sent me like, one of Mac Miller's albums, the Divine Feminine, (Jo: Mm) it really gave me that vibe
Jo: I though it was awesome.
I loved it U: What about it?
Jo: Just the vibe, I wanted to dance Ste: It was some Quincy stuff
Jo: Yeah, Michael Jackson vibe Ste: Yeah
Jo: They didn't sing in that style, but like the arrangement was like the vibe of that
Charlotte: I think it's really repetitive
the verses, like unless you're listening very very intently, you'll hear like some brass big band stuff in the back
but that's like the least excited I've ever been for a descant on the final chorus
H: I really didn't get a whole lot of like that sort of
excitement anxious duality of meeting up with someone at night
and like, getting to release the stresses of the day time working
Ch: I wasn't about it
I will say I do appreciate that they all have a very unique timbre to their voice
H: That adds good variety to the group
Ch: It does (H: Yeah) it does
the have the ability to do interesting things vocally, so I'm not surprised that their songs are heavily focused on balancing high to the voice
and the brass sounds being so far in the back
it would have been a very different vibe to the song (U: Mm, mhm) if they had brought up the instrumentals
to kind of almost meet where the voice was
but, again, that's probably not the vibe that they're going for, so
R: I love it Sam: Everyone's voice sounds completely different from each other
U: Which is actually quite interesting, because the leader, who didn't join this comeback
she's actually the vocal teacher, (R: Yeah)(Sam: That's amazing) so otherwise yeah they all have extremely different timbres
Sam: That's honestly really intr- that's really impressive
R: Yeah, 'cause they blend extremely well
U: Did you have any favorite moments of the track, other than the vocals
Sam: I- so I kinda mentioned the glitteryness, I don't know what the genre is, of kpop
it's like, very like, almost like city pop
where it's just so bright and shiny and you can't stop smiling when you hear it
and a lot of it has to do with how they sorta mix the- the instruments in the back
it just feel- it's not just necessarily that it's like a lot of reverb, but it's
very, I don't know what I'm trying to say, but it's something with how the song itself is constructed
where I am a very big fan
U: Mm, mhm of like where the instruments are
Sam: Yeah R: Yeah U: Where it like shines the most
Sam: Yeah, that wasn't a very coherent thought
R: No it wa- I-
Sam: It was something like that R: I was gonna say something similar
like I, what I loved at the beginning when there's just kind of a
a bed of harmony that you can sing on (Sam: Mm) I felt like the progression was pretty steady
and they were beautiful chords and then they were just able to kinda sing, sing over them
because of the steadiness of that like, of the chords and everything that was happening
it allowed for more of that idea of sorta vocal individuality to come through
Sam: Mm mhm R: Which I think was really awesome
K: it's familiar, especially ion the main hook (O: Mhm), but I definitely don't remember all of the cool
the cool harmonic things that happened
U: Mm
I like how they, it feels like, almost like a, I don't know, it wouldn't be a trampoline, just like a
like a very resilient sort of wall? I don't know, like they're trying to like
stretch it as much as possible (O: Mhm) and that's like the harmonic things (U: Mm) that's the metaphor I'm going for
and (O: Yeah)(U: Mm) and then they bounce back into the home key which is
O: I have no idea K: Okay, A flat O: Yeah, it's A flat, cool
Well I do like, I like how they had something that they can sort of stretch
like they- it- when they do that weird chord that we reacted to, it's interesting because we have a base
that we can like, travel outside of, and that's what makes it interesting K: Mhm
O: Yeah, I think they established that really well K: And the initial mixture, when they, the chord first
first odd chord hits (O: Mm) it's not an odd chord, like we've heard similar things
but I think it's what, when they start singing on top of it
O: Mm U: Yeah K: There are some notes
That are just (O: They're just) a little bit odd O: They're just yeah (K: Yeah) they're so sudden
K: It's very cool (O: Mhm, right) and then they go back
K: It's very nice O: For sure K: And it maintained- it maintains the
I would say the ethos of the song, like it's still a very cute song, it's still an easygoing song
and it's very impressive they were able to keep that (O: Mhm) despite being a little experimental
Jo: when is it too old to be into legos?
U: I mean there's people, who created legoland wasn't it people who were like super old
Ste: He was super old U: Yeah Jo: That's not the point
Ste: He built a magical place Jo: He did build a magical place
Ste: Where kids and adults alike can experience creativity and (Jo: Stop) bonding
Jo: We're not gonna do this here