Jarod: This is cool [sings bass line]
Katie: I like... are those fifths?
Umu: First we'll be reacting to a girl group called twice and they debuted in 2015 under JYP entertainment
And they're actually currently one of Korea's most popular girl groups. The very first song that we'll be reacting to was released in 2017
And as you can see on your screen, it is a fan-made lyric video for this b-side track. It was released on their
twice-a- gram album get it? cause instagram but
Twice? --- a gram??
katie: insta- *siiiiigh*
[weird laugh] this was composed by Pop Time and Kriz Lindsey: let's make a "W" Davis: sure put your mouth-
Umu: oh wow [lol] lindsey: did you get it Umu: i got it
Isaac: Wow
Olivia: sounds like the peanuts
Charlotte: i know i know Peyton: [sings along]
oh oh charlie brown charlie brown
Davis: ohhhh Lindsey: whattttt
Davis: that's really cool Lindsey: woah the beat is so cool
Davis: yeah yeah Lidnsey: it like started out very downbeat oriented and then quickly moved away from that
Olivia: they have Sax(ophone) in there now
people dont use Sax(ophone) enough, i like it
Davis: I like the different keyboard sounds (Lindsey: now we're moving) they're using they've already used so many different sounds
Olivia: ohhh that little piano part Aaron: that piano solo
Jarod: This is so like flirtatious and just very cute Katie: this is the definition of swanky
Katie: oh my god
Peyton: This is like got a weird like pop feel on like a boogie woogie, jazz Charlotte: yeah, funk
Peyton: yeah there's a funk thing into it
Jarod: ohhhh the syncopation though man! syn-co-pation
Kevin: wow manga reference
Kevin: that Sax is a real sax Olivia: I think
Olivia: I think if they thickened up the texture it would've been better
It's pretty thin right now, which is not necessarily a problem, but I think if it was a little thicker of a texture, it would be
nice
Kevin: yeah it's very light, like, even the drop is just like
Fluffy... fluffy drop
[imitating the lower wubwow synth]
Isaac: It's always the slow part Kevin: 2 -5 -1
Kevin: alright, a little minor
A little flat three mixture, not bad
Peyton: [sings and counts along]
Oh, yeah!
space is important people
Charlotte: stop time stop time yes uh
lindsey: [snaps] Davis: oh yeah get the snaps in there
cause you're going there one more time gotta
make it more interesting. It's probably almost over Lindsey: some harmonies yeah
Davis: oh yep there you go
LIndsey: oh wow that was really impressive
oh yeah that like really just ended
Charlotte: that was so cute Umu: yeah what'd you think about that song Charlotte: that was so cute
Very funk Peyton: they put a pop swing on it too like you still, you still felt like it was a pop song
But like not, I guess it was i don't know
It's kind of hard to put my finger on it because there are a lot of layers to it
You know? they have obviously there was a real pianist behind that like one like [sings]
And like just cause like you can't really get a midi thing just like make you feel like that, you know, cuz it'll just go
Yeah, they had a lot of really cool sounds in it and also there's like this one like moment was like [sings]
And then like i just thought that was like the coolest thing in the world
Just like you know it just stops and it's just like swinging like super hard for about 30 seconds
KEvin: so well mixed it's light and light. not a radio hit because it doesn't have that bass and the
over-the-top production for radio, but I like it a
Lot more than some of their hits Isaac: I thought it was like texture-wise, very bubbly
where just like the inflictions are very like they're going upwards
whoop Kevin: yeah
out of context if like I didn't know twice and I heard this song I'd still be like wow, this is really different because
It's a very interesting
synthesis of
synths
An acoustic instruments, that was not intentional. Um, it sounds kind of, it sounds organic
It doesn't sound very heavily produced. It's doesn't sound very digital and it's nice
It's light! nice light songs are needed
Most of the chords are normal
but then you get those little weird chords like a flat 3 in there and then the part where it's like
Oh We're gonna do F
And you're gonna think we're gonna go to B flat but we're not going to I think the bridge is just all over the place
But I liked it.
me Likey
Jarod: it was fun it was very fun to listen to because it's like it was like very blues inspired not necessarily following the strict blues form
But there's definitely some like some blue notes as you could call them Katie: ohhh blue notes
Katie: blue notes, I want to be a Blue Note for Halloween that would be---- Jarod: You want to be the Blue Note?
Katie: Flat three Olivia: bassline had its moments where it was pretty
Flat and then had like maybe two or three measures where they would throw in a little spice
Aaron: I mean, it wasn't simple but it was say--- we were going back into the the chorus or something and it wasn't suddenly like Oh
JK we're gonna do like a six or like a Picardy third or like surprise us or something. It was very like predictable
Oliva: I wish they did more with the instruments they added. Aaron: Yeah
Aaron: if they had a sax solo in there Olivia: tbh they added Sax but they didn't really use it a whole lot
they could have used it way more and they could have used it in a more interesting way Aaron: and the melody wasn't exactly the most
Interesting
Because like I you know like I saw a like through the video that every time like each different girl was singing
Like her picture lit up and they all kind of like sang the same
Melody it's the same melody yeah Davis: that one should it has the like surface-level to me
it was like oh this sounds like a really simple just like a little catchy tune, but
Lidnsey: that was so much Davis: Don't take it for granted. I think that was a lot like death and layers to that that can
Davis: Maybe be its own like enemy and make it like so that you just tune it out
it's just like a wash of sound but if you'd actually like listen and pick apart the different instruments and sit like
Keyboard sounds they were making and like all the different
percussion
Style changes that they were making Lidnsey: so many
Davis: Yeah, you can it adds it like it stacks up...the lyrics were weird. Lindsey: I wanted there to be like heavier drums and bass and stuff
yeah, especially towards some of the beginning parts but it just felt like so catchy and it like
I'm so glad that they didn't do it though because it like added tension
It was like it added tension and then when the like when it didn't pick up I was like yeah
This is what I wanted. But like I think it worked Umu: so the next one called
Eye eye eyes was also released in 2017 on their album called signal. This was composed by Katie: Lise Kristin Kvenseth,
Katie: Erlend Elvesveen
Jo Svarre Sande, Tone Ravna Bjornstad, Rune Helmersen, and Elizaveta Vassilieva
Umu: and then two of the twice members
Jihyo and Chaeyoung wrote the lyrics. Kevin: Alrighty
Kevin: TWICE, tell me What is Love with your Eye Eye Eyes
Peyton: wow Charlotte: what
Kevin: This is a lot
Aaron: i feel like it modulated to the dominant Olivia: We went to a completely different song and I'm really confused
:O What?
Jarod: this is cool [sings]
Katie: i like---- are those fifths?
lindsey: woo!
Davis: was what that...like a shimmering... that was weird
Peyton: ohhh flat seven
Charlotte: it's a very floaty voice Peyton: Yeah
Olivia They're really changing it up there's like Aaron: I like that, wow that was very jazzy. I don't know. there must been like some flat 6 in there or some sh*t
Lindsey: i think it started on a pickup cause it's like 1,2,3,4,5 pause 6, 7,8,9
Lindsey: i'm also uninterested in men
Davis: same
Lindsey: I think puberty came late to me Davis: not same
Lidnsey: oh my god these lyrics are so cute
Peyton: Just like a tambourine sound back there Charlotte: I'm so confused
Charlotte: Like what is this modal mixture what is happening?
Olivia: each verse is completely different Aaron: they're really different
Olivia: they're really different it's like completely different in terms of bassline
and just like, yeah aaron: even like octaves of the bass line
CHarlotte: What Peyton: this is like a tran- it's like over a pedal
oh
uhhh
Kevin: They still keep it fresh they keep it instrumentally fresh too in slow sections so [click] , you know it's like sonata form
There's always a development
Kevin: [sings along] fast swing
Katie: "your heart is ice and i'll melt you"
you'd fit right in with Rochester. Sorry, it's currently
April 16th
and still snowing.
Jarod: I like how the beat kinda follows the melody, you know pretty sick
KEvin: i like the Dominant seventh thing
it's pretty awesome
Kevin: it ends on the dominant seventh of course
Olivia: i've ben bamboozled! my ears have been
bamboozled
I definitely would have to listen to it multiple times to be like alright, I kind of grasp what's going on. Aaron: They stretch out like
The melody, I guess. Yeah with like
prolonging
Dominant Olivia: sections are like different styles. Completely different styles.
Aaron: and then you got like some in between the sections like you
Got some jazz chords of some kind that I thought was interesting
Kevin: It's great. I like both of these
Isaac: Both very soft in texture. So this is nice to just relax and just listen to it
But this one particularly. It's like it's a nice track. Like the bassline is very interesting the vocal line..
I don't know for some reason. I think it's like nine people
Kind of just takes away the whole
For me if I can't really pin down like what their sound is like.
I feel like for me it's a little bit more difficult to manage
nine people cause like, some people I want to hear more some people I'm just like
Kevin: I think we got to see music video with them in action like TT because I think it's very well balanced
I really like the way their voices are distributed, but but it's true. Like I don't know it's who's singing what in these?
Isaac: Well, they show it (Kevin: Ik they show it) but--- it's a bit confusing sometimes but it's still really good for a b-side song
Kevin: But this one got the you know, the fast swinging like [sings] which is really catchy
But then every section kind of switches up the beat like both these songs like every section feels like it's distinct little world
And I like it. It's like traveling. you're traveling through places in this song kind like cheer up cheer up
has that a little bit of that but it's much more mainstream and it's not as
It doesn't pop out as much as this
Katie: I think that their songs don't have a lot of harmonic substance
but they're really fun to listen to and bouncy and fun and something you would jam out like we just did but I don't
Think it's the most musically interesting thing. jarod: Ooh, I disagreeeeeeee
J: WOAAHHHHHHH K: DUDUUDUDUDUDUDU
fight fight fight
Jarod: what I thought this did a really good job of is the beat kinda follows the melody. cuz often times
you catch some k-pop songs where it's like, a consistent beat throughout the melody changes
But it's just the same kind of like, you know
You could just picture them on their audio software. Just copy paste copy paste copy paste
whereas like this is like it's a little bit more interactive and it's like I felt like maybe the
Harmonically they didn't smack you all at once but I felt like you can hear like spelling different things individual notes
if that make sense? So it's not like some of the stuff or it's like boom
Here's a big fat chord all at once
it was like
interlace kind of like like a cute little line because I think that
The aesthetic that this group was going for is obviously very cute
Very like playful child esque, you know
The little chimes that they use like the the the tes- the tessitura the type of the color of their voices
Very lends itself to that kind of- (katie: colour) the colour lends itself to being very, um, very like young, you know
And that's what I feel like the vibe they are going for so it's like a little bit more minimalistic-ish
But not minimal not true minimalism. Peyton: they really used that tritone there though
flat seven to the three Charlotte: I think my favorite part was when we went into
to halftime. that feel was really nice and how they just both
I mean it was everything like normally what I expected but it was so nice
I'm very confused in the whole counting section whenever that keeps coming back with what they're playing with there
like I definitely want to say a major key, but like there's some moments where I'm like nopeeee
Peyton: Harmonically I thought they just kinda it was just like kind of broken up into like sections like I thought it was a major but just
Cuz like all the like the biggest moments and the longest stretches charlotte: and the choruses were all major
Yeah, and it ends in major so it's like there's enough major evidence to be like ha! major Charlotte: Yeah
Yeah
the one section that was pretty confusing was just like I'm like like they were just kind of like doing the upper extensions over a pedal
you know and then it usually makes everyone go like [EEAAA!!!!??]
Charlotte: like I did
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