Classical Musicians React - Btob 'i'll be your man' vs 'movie'

Hugo: uh, yeah! oh f*ck wow Umu: Okay, so BTOB is a seven member boy group that debuted in 2012~ This very first song that we're about to react to "I'll be your man" is actually their first comeback after they had released a 100% ballad trilogy where they really focused on like showcasing their vocals So this one they're like, yeah, the rapper's can shine again This song is composed by the BTOB member Hyunsik and the songwriters Eden and Nathan "I'll be your man" is about not being able to forget a past love and praying to be with Her again. However, the music video may have a plot twist~ James: May? Umu: it may James: it... (Hugo: It's gaaaaaaaay) won't? okay Hugo: un, deux, trois Isaac: Oh shoot ISaac: ohhh we got a sniper on the roof-- K: jeez KEvin: No scope, oh no, here it comes, here it comes. Oh Isaac: English. Kevin: Yeah, hella half diminished action, come on Peyton: This sounds like some tough-guy soft music Peyton: Just like-- yeah Charlotte: nice little violin solo oh Peyton: oh yeah Lindsey: that was weird the intro like ended on a leading tone but then it didn't keep going in that key Isaac: aww Kevin: love that, that little guitar thing that's like at--- the sort of the background. Come on Peyton: He's definitely like the emotion of the group Charlotte: This is sexy, (PEyton: yeah, it's like) the music is sexy. This is like something you would put on like your getting it on playlist Olivia: *** about to go down. you have to have something to drive you to the chorus Might as well have it be the beat if you're not going to have it be the harmony Aaron: oo that sexy jacket Peyton: See there's a nice balance of like tough guys and like guys who are in-touch with their feelings Hugo: awww y eah Oh, f*ck wow holy sh*t Aaron: I like how the bassline descends Olivia: He just like flew up there Lindsey: I like this guy's voice it's like very strong and the harmonies Kevin: It's gonna go 5, yeah ahh! WAS THAT A 6?!?!??! Was that deceptive!??! Hugo: oh *** James: woah the octave well I mean it's just the deep voice Lindsey: that was a nice contrast. the little rap section Fiona: i want like this song to be like all of that, i love that Olivia: every time you hear that, they're setting up for the chorus Aaron: This is a pre-chorus Olivia: pre-chorus Kevin: Good rapping. yeah!!! yeah! no triplets. No triplets, just straight duple Lindsey: he's like- leading into the chorus, the guitar goes like [makes sound] Kevin: I love that, that octave leap, it's so good, all of them- Isaac: oh confession time Peyton: Very conventional harmonies like and like but like not in a boring way James: wait now--- I'm just realizing the church theme! what the heck Kevin: Nice it's cliche, but it's effective Fiona: Piano equals sentiment in this. Lindsey: Yeah, I definitely agree James: Wait, so it's a war zone. There's a church James: Now we're in purgatory, I don't know Peyton: yeah and now they're slowly bringing it back Charlotte: oh what the heck!!! Charlotte: this video though.. Pwyton: wow this has taken a left turn Charlotte: oh she Peyton: OH So--- C: --- whattttt P: HEY Lindsey: Is she having him killed? oh he really is gonna be her man, but not in that sense James dying: whhhaat James: *big inhale* What!?!?! Lindsey: This is interesting Wait I like how they have like the rap going with the singing like they're like combining everything at the end KEvin: like anything the instrumentals lack, the vocals totally deliver it, including the rapping Hugo: damn. Im all about- James: this is so good Hugo: oh sh*t James: OMG Hugo: I'm all about that song. I don't know what we thought of them before, but that *** was tight JAmes: Such good music such a good video. oh my god Umu: yeah So what aspects of the music and music video together did you think was your favorite Hugo: they totally played with our anticipation of what they were Gonna do musically, there was enough rhythmic variety that it really was interesting and a blast, but it wasn't so much that it was Eclectic. you weren't like having trouble following the music It was so good Like in the beginning, it builds up like it was about to be a drop and then it got really quiet And you had like James said you had the drum on two and four James: there was--- There was a variation on everything which is what I love variation of timbre variation of rhythm good equal balance both on the highest Say for the the the vocalist part that one high note was phenomenal Hugo: oh my god I want to go back and find the kind of god f*cking d*mn that sh*t was wOO James: good mixing too Hugo: Like what Hugo: He just goes up. He's just like Oh God Olivia: I like the range yeah Olivia: like his little leaps Aaron: his little little like [demonstrates] to the stratosphere! Aaron: It was like very emotional--- i was like preach Olivia: yeah it was like it had to do with like you know Oh when we talk about like text painting where like the lyrics reflect are reflected in the music and like, when every time there was like a really dramatic moment He just like his voice shot up like 10 million octaves Aaron: 10 million octaves! O: you know i'm being- A: 10 million- Olivia: its a hyperbole Fiona: It got pretty layered and intense whenever like it built to when he was kind of hanging upside down F: and gna die Lindsey: I think it was kind of Awesome. There were like a bunch of different sections throughout the beginning I mean there was like the chorus and then there was like Different types of verse I guess and then when it got towards the end and the plot was thickening and it got more Like "what the ***?" uh Sorry. *"what the mmm?" Then they like took everything and put it on top of each other, but it all worked together Isaac: They introduced a lamenting qua-- a lamenting bass and then sometimes when when they want to bring it up to Climax instead of going like they would start going down but then start climbing up and it would hit like an "E" a High E and- *kevin interrupting*: yeah, deceptive isaac: oh okay, you're gonna go to high F but instead they dropped to the low F and it goes into a whole like either their chorus or another verse. I don't know. It was very straightforward like when it got faster the beats got faster and Then when it dropped out of tempo it usu- usually-- is replaced with slow and soft piano line Yeah Umu: okay, and then you shouted something while-- Kevin: oh deceptive Umu: Yeah So what's what's up with Kevin: so right after the first chorus it goes in it's a all the instruments hush and there was a big intense 5 the [sings] right? the voice goes up to 1, but then the bass goes up to 6 and But but it's so subtle because the instrumentals all die and you're just like [whispers] you're like...woah it's not over Whoa, I want to keep on listening Umu: ready to move on? Both: Yeah Umu: okay. So next one is also a BTOB release. This is their 2017 comeback called movie it was composed by the member named Ilhoon and the songwriter IL Movie is about how they want to have a relationship with a girl like a movie even though it might be cliche They still want to live their life like it. This has plenty of movie references I'm guessing you don't want me to spoil any of them. kevin: Of course not Isaac: definitely no umu: Okay. then go ahead KEvin: Feel em Lindsey: feel em It's like me but backwards ooh Olivia: oooooo, Jazzy, chromatic Kevin: nice those are some good chords, those are i dont even know what's happening it's too R&b for me the soft piano kevin: major 7, minor 3 Lindsey: the synth did a weird thing and there was like--- rEWrW Fiona: sounded like a cat that got stepped on its tail L: it really did hugo: Oh that bass oh James: oh pulp fiction! olivia: they're really putting that bass IN there A: is it- is it glee? I like when they put bass heavy things Fiona: he's wearing tails Lindsey: oh is this suicide squad is the dj the one in the suicide squad one with the red hair and the face tattoo Kevin: oh his awww! Bruce Lee/Kill Bill. I'm not sure which one L: I like this it's like- Lindsey: it's like pre-chorus (F: YAS QUEEN) that's like a long pre-chorus it feels like cause it's all definitely building Peyton: I like the synth horn sounds they're using KEvin: oh see, in the chorus the harmonies are more simple, but it's-but the beat aw man, little slap bass. Come on. I'm a sucker for slap bass Peyton: see, synth horn is fine, midi horn is sacrilidge Hugo: oh! loving the auto-tune on their voices J: I like the effect Lindsey: I'm getting like T-Pain vibes Fiona: yeah its fun like they're---- LIndsey: this is 08 mile fiona: the switch from um.. Lindsey: mom's spaghetti The switch from English to Korean is fun KEvin: And it's a rap verse, my mind is blown KEvin: oh it's so- oh that piano line ! Kevin: Master piece! hey the song just might be that James: what are you... Hugo: James Bond? Peyton: Oh man got the Michael Jackson moves Charlotte: yeah they got some very michael jackson esque dancing vibes OH kill bill kill bill, yellow jumpsuit kill bill LIdnsey: like.. it's a lot of just the piano line Fiona: yeah they bubble tea place we liek to go to has music that sounds like this Lindsey: Yeah Fiona: background like weird smooth jazz, but this is the better pop version Lindsey: but they're doing cool stuff over it though So it's kind of cool Keivn: aw man this piano. This piano just knows me this piano sinks deep Fiona: Snap, snap represents the seconds left in his life before he explodes LIndsey: Yeah James: Oh no Hugo: Boom boom *** fiona: yayyyyy lindsey: they saved him I think. I like the random trumpets hugo: yaaaas Hugo: Is that the lady and the ***? James: how do they get so high so easily? oh my god Except they are pushing though Fiona: i like this part LIndsey: the autotune part? *sings* i''ll be your man Kevin: I'll be your man!?!? cross referencing songs Olivia: this is definitely more harmonically interesting A: yeah I like it had a little bit of jazz elements in there sevenths~ ohh defuse that bomb Aaron: oh wait, wait aaron: ohhhh Fiona: what? what? Lindsey: That was cool. Umu: Yeah, so what do you think of that song musically Fiona: i'll be your man. I like robot guy. Lindsey: I thought it was cool how they like used the auto-tune in there because everything about it was so like Like there were so many different things happening in the video And then the music wasn't as like diverse I think as the last song was but then they had that like robotic Auto-tune section and I think it worked really well with the rest of it Umu: So for those who don't know what MIDI versus synth trumpets are or brass Can you explain? Peyton: Midi trumpet is kind of-- or MIDI like Sounds in general are kind of like of the sounds you would get from like notation software Whenever you're writing music on like anything like one programs finale another one's Sibelius (who is also a composer) But yeah, whenever you play the what you wroke back, that's like the sound you hear like that. It's kind of like uh like- Charlotte: That's midi Peyton: Yeah Peyton: That's midi Charlotte: an then synth is when you have like a keyboard and like and the electronics they can actually switch sounds so you can like press a button or select a setting that is like Trumpet sound and then you can just play it on the keyboard and that's what that sounds like. Umu: So it's less painful to musicians Charlotte: Yes, because the really high-end keyboards get pretty close. It's like if you auto-tune a trumpet you would get the synth sound trumpet KEvin: I think with this one the instrumentals definitely reign supreme But also rapping over the free, the piano line that like basically doesn't have rhythm Like all of the improv is free and rubato-y while the beat is strict and the rapping strict. It's a very cool effect Isaac: I don't know. It just doesn't really hit me too hard with a lot of different things. It sounds very similar to Umu: typical kpop? Isaac: I can't say typical kpop- Kevin: it does sound like typical kpop but it's still a good iteration of it I thi- I guess it focused on the references more than the music Kevin: It's so interesting that through these movie related music videos we get to see which western movies permeate into Korean culture like in China Pulp Fiction is like what--- What's that? But in Korea, it seems like people really like pulp fiction hugo: Musically, it was dope their vocals again were dope, they were pushing a little bit as James said but Overall pretty great. james: Yeah Umu: and what do you mean by pushing technically? James: He's still very much in chest voice when he's singing in those high notes And so that puts a lot of strain on your larynx When you don't try and transition to head voice and go through your passadgio, and so that's bad umu: *wheezes* Umu: Okay, and what do you think of movie's music compared to I'll be your man's? Kevin: I like I'll be your man more Just because it it has that extra thing like the the spark that Isaac talks about for me the rap verses in in I'll be your man hits it more and Movies just uh, it's a chill- It's more chill surprisingly even with the funk yeah movie sounded very very bland in terms of like different characters or colors Umu: but it used okay chords? Kevin: very Okay chords, very good chords as a matter of fact Charlotte: they both followed like the same form Peyton: if I had to pick one honestly, probably the movie just because it's a little happier, you know And I need more like just random happy songs in my rep You know Umu: what do you think of this song compared to I'll be your man since it was released like only a few months apart Olivia: there's more going on Aaron: But then the other one was like sexy this one was like fun A: but the other one was- Olivia: this one was fun, but like I would like to listen to it more Aaron: the other one was sexy though Lindsey: they were kind of similar you could tell that this group kind of has a style Fiona: I liked this one more if it matters because I don't know. It's something about the last one about the chorus I didn't really like like I didn't like the guitar or like something about the voice with this one It just was a lot more like groovy and chill better vibe for me Lidnsey: I like the first one better because I like how they layered all the different styles. I thought that was cool. Umu: Hello, everyone Welcome to our channel. If you're new I'm the channel runner and producer of this series Thanks for watching this video if you enjoyed it, don't forget to subscribe also If you're curious to see what else we're going to react to in the future Go ahead and check the description for a bunch of links that I have two playlists and schedules also Please check our patreon If you want to support us patrons get access to unedited full-length reaction videos access to exclusive content As well as early access to all the videos posted on here and more So, thank you so much, and I hope you have a wonderful day