Fiona: This is so funky and confusing.
I think this genre is 'funkfusing'.
Umu: All right, Gfriend!
So-
Lindsey: Navillera?
Umu: (indignant) No!
So, we're reacting to their comeback called 'Fingertip'.
This one, they went for a little bit different of a vibe.
So the concept for this music video is consciousness, awakening, and lucid dream.
There's a fan theory about Orion:
do you guys know the Greek mythology story where Orion was like,
"Yo, Artemis, bet you can't shoot me."
And Artemis was like, "Haha, sucker *pewww*."
Henry: So Artemis just, like, kicked his ass.
Umu: Yeah.
Katie: Artemis is a bad bitch!
Jarod: (delayed) Yeah!
Umu: Well, basically, the fans' theory is that the members of this group represents different Greek gods,
and, like, in a dream,
they're all, like, fighting, and, like, the certain person's trying to kill the other one,
and they're trying to protect each other and stuff, so...
Kevin: Man, I'm gonna tap the spacebar with my fingertip!
Naoki: I like the contrast between the footsteps and the song.
Stephen: Yeah, it's nice.
Naoki: Yeah, especially how it echoed, it's just very nice.
Stephen: I like also how it's also, like, "what's going on?", the synth is muffled.
Naoki: Yeah.
Lindsey: Woah.
Henry: (hyped) Talk box!
Emiel: Yeah, woah.
Henry: Hell yeah!
Gwen: What is happening?
Rachel: No farts, if I could make that noise I would *wowowow sounds*
Gwen: This is sick!
Rachel: Yeah, girl. I love it!
Henry: Oh my god! Slap bass? Holy shit!
Lindsey: What??
Fiona: (hype noise)
Stephen: Oh, man, they've got slap bass, that's really dope!
Naoki: I don't know what that means!
Stephen: Like, with the bass - like you hear it, like in Bruno Mars,
and like, in this, and, like, in Earth Wind and Fire, and it's really sick!
Rachel: It's so good.
What a jam.
Gwen: You weren't lying when you said funk-orchestral!
Davis: But I told you - I see what you mean.
They're trying to be, like, a little darker, like - you know, they're dressed darkly,
but they're definitely not trying to be, like, edgy.
Peyton: Yeah, it's like sassy in, like, an 80's pop funk way.
Davis: They're sassy - they're going for sassy.
Naoki: This, like, vocal line is quite recitative-like.
(mentions a musical relation)
Stephen: Oh, snap!
Naoki: Yeah, it's like spoken speech - wait, or spoken song.
Davis: I'm just gonna say that that sounds like gunshots?
So that's an example of text painting.
Rachel: They always, like, blend super well, but it's just like the vocal quality is so similar.
Henry: This is trippy as hell - what?!
Emiel: The harmony has seemed a little basic, but...
kinda groovy, and it, like, really catches the ear.
Kevin: Good.
Yunyi: Good counterpoint in the instruments so far!
Keeping that as a consistent back there.
Gwen: I love that bass line!
Rachel: Yeah.
Gwen: I'm still into it.
Kevin: Nice little breather - I like it.
Yunyi: A little bit of air?
Kevin: Yeah.
Yunyi: Because it is quite instrumentally dense.
Stephen: Man, I was going to say-
with, like, all the effects and stuff like that, that you hear in the rhythm section,
it's kind of giving me, like-
it's something I would hear, like, Michael Jackson, or people from the 80s, or that time period do.
Fiona: They just kinda repeated like the same thing with four different endings.
Henry: You know what the big turn-off is for me?
It's a small thing, but it's very present, is the high string synths?
Emiel: Oh, yeah.
Henry: Those bug me.
It's - higher string quartet and mult (multi track) every track.
Rachel: I love how it's, like, tight harmony pretty much the whole time.
Gwen: Yeah, the harmonies are pretty solid.
Rachel: Not much, like, solo - like, some of them are featured, but...
Gwen: There's featured, but it's never a yell.
Kevin: Yeah!
Yunyi: I love that guitar - you know, that guitar feedback sound.
Peyton: This - this slap bass is taking me out!!!
Davis: They also (inaudible) on the bass.
(referring to the MV) Oh, she got your ass!
Naoki: Nice instrumental.
Stephen: Oh, yeah, and nice dancing!
Naoki: Yeah.
Henry: Yeah - no, they're getting down - oh, shit!
Emiel: I mean, it's pretty together.
Henry: That bass fill was tight!
Emiel: Yeah.
Henry: Damn!
(various disgruntled taken-aback Yunyi noises)
(Yunyi laughs)
Jarod: I like the little swell effects they've got going on, you feel - it's, like, subtle!
Katie: Oh, yeah!
(Jarod mimics the swell noises)
Stephen: And now it's, like, a different time, different tempo, and, like, different groove and stuff.
Naoki: Yeah.
Stephen: That's kind of like (named composer/piece).
Naoki: Sounds definitely more like Walter Reed.
Stephen: Oh, yeah!
Naoki: With the, like-
Stephen: -like, almost spacey too?
Naoki: Yeah!
Henry: (laughing) Woah, what was that all about?
Emiel: That was too sudden for me.
Henry: That was, uh-
Umu: (clarifying) Just for the music video.
Henry: (defeated) Oh, okay.
Henry: Oh, I thought this was the end of the song - okay, well, okay!
Now they're that - I think this song needs a break!
Like, this is way long.
(Katie and Jarod scream)
Davis: Oh sh-
Peyton: Oh no!
Davis: Oh, she can't die though, she's in a dream, we're good.
Peyton: Yeah, we're good, we're good.
Yunyi: Guitar solo!
Kind of.
Kevin: But then we see the voice blends with the guitar again!
Yunyi: Yeah, the guitar was, like, mixed into-
Kevin: Yeah.
Yunyi: -the background instrumentals.
Katie: Oh, was it all a dream?
Jarod: Yeah. Like - what - yeah, right?
(Jarod continues to mumble half-intelligibly)
Katie: (realizing) Lucid dreaming!
Or was it?
Jarod: (announcer voice) What was it?
(Jarod mimics a movie promo song)
Katie: We should have paid attention to the time.
Jarod: No, that's where it started, like, that's where the-
(shocked) It went b-
Katie: (shock noises) What?!
(Katie and Jarod make shocked noises)
Rachel: The gold t- there he is!
That's Orion!
Gwen: You're right, that is Orion.
Yunyi: This group - again, just the best instrumental countermelodies.
Kevin: Yep.
Fiona: This is so funky and confusing.
I think the genre is funk-fusing.
(Kevin mimics the funky synth)
Yunyi: That bass is so good!
Kevin: Wow.
(mimicking the synth again) Wow wow!
(laughing in synth mimicry)
(Yunyi mimics the funky synth)
Davis: Man, I was waiting for - for some consciousness and awakening to happen.
Umu: Well, she woke up at the end, didn't she?
Davis: I guess she woke up. I was expecting something more meta.
Stephen: That was really cool!
Naoki: Yeah.
Umu: Yes, other than that, what do you think of the song overall?
Naoki: It worked pretty well, it was interesting, it was captivating-
Stephen: Yeah.
Naoki: The melody was pretty strong for the most part...
Naoki: It grooved, yeah.
Stephen: Yeah, I thought it grooved great - man, there was a lot of sound effects.
Naoki: Yeah.
Stephen: Like...
Whether or not it's, like, pedals or things like that, or just different patches in the synthesizers,
just - not, like, over the top, but it was really, really nice!
Naoki: Yeah.
Lindsey: It was really bizarre.
It was just, like, all there,
and then it went away, and there was just, like, this whole other thing,
and then the other thing just came back.
And it was there again.
Fiona: It was like space and then it's, like, 80s discotheque.
Lindsey: (wearily) Yeah, and then we were back to the other thing, and then...
It was a lot.
Fiona: I really liked the space-
Lindsey: I liked it a lot,
I actually really enjoyed it, it was just, like, a little confusing.
Fiona: It's the space interlude.
I kind of wish, like, that was the song,
and then the rest of it was, like-
the funky groove was the shorter part.
I was kind of thrown off that they, like, were all singing in harmony together all the time.
Like, there wasn't ever a moment where it was just, like, one strong vocalist above all the others.
Lindsey: Yeah, it didn't-
Fiona: Because their voices just sound so similar.
Lindsey: It didn't really seem like they had, like, a lead singer.
Davis: You know, it was a fun song.
It's much more involved, but it really didn't do anything too, like,
aggressively complex theoretically, or, like, melodically, or something like that.
It was just, like, really good.
Peyton: It was just super funky.
I mean, whoever laid down that bass track, like, knew what they were doing, man, like,
Davis: Yeah.
Peyton: It was SO good!
Davis: No, it was good!
Peyton: It wasn't like - you know, it wasn't just like-
(Peyton improvs a general bass line)
Davis: And I'm still-
Peyton: It was like-
(Peyton improvs a FUNKY BASS LINE)
Davis: Yes.
It's always nice whenever you can tell the musicians are having fun with it too.
Especially the studio guys, they must get bored playing pretty easy stuff.
Henry: Um...
Emiel: Harmonically it was a little bit too basic, but at the same time, kind of caught the ear to a memorable...
point?
I just thought it was too poppy, it's still too cute for me.
Henry: Yeah, I mean, like, I can deal with a song that's, like, harmonically simple,
um,
as long as, like, the textures are nice,
but this was just, like...
very straightforward, and too much, like,
uhhh (imitates the main synth line)
happening, like at the end of the keyboard? Like, at the highest register possible?
Emiel: Yeah.
Henry: And then all the bass, and their voices were super high, and it just didn't feel full.
Or round. It felt thin?
I don't know, that's like musical texture, I suppose, but, um...
Actually the song itself just was, like, left a lot to be desired. For such, like, a cool concept!
Henry: You know?
Kevin: Well, first of all, the synth sound effect is pretty - like, it's a very thin timbre,
but they managed to mix it so that it's - it's still very prominent.
Yunyi: I feel like it might get repetitive after a couple listens? But-
Kevin: Yeah.
Yunyi: Definitely not at first impression.
Rachel: I loved it.
Gwen: It was GROOVY!
Rachel: It was awesome-
Gwen: I LOVED the bass line.
Rachel: Yeah, that's, like, such a genre choice.
Gwen: Yeah, it was great.
Rachel: Which was awesome.
Gwen: The singing was, like, mediocre, but really well blended, and full harmonies.
Rachel: Well yeah, if they had-
Gwen: I think none of their individual voices were like-
Rachel: If they had, like, stronger soloistic voices, it probably wouldn't have had such a good, like...
Gwen: Mhm.
Rachel: Very take down.
Gwen: Yeah.
Katie: (while Jarod sings) I loved the bass line!
That was groovy! That was like-
("you know" Katie gestures)
Jarod: I liked the ta - I liked the talk box stuff, and their decision - their use of different sounds.
Katie: Yeah, that was really interesting.
Jarod: 'Cause it - hence that outer space-y vibe, but not going too outer space-y, if that makes sense.
Emiel: Hey guys, thanks so much for watching, we hope you enjoyed the video.
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