Umu: So now you're acting to the girl group Dreamcatcher

who are known for having nightmare-themed concepts

James: Night- ooo

Umu: For their 2019 Raid of Dream mini-album,

They are collaborating with the RPG

videogame King's Raid by depicting themes of the game like doubt,

confusion and twist in their music video the song itself conveys emotions

Like darkness loss breakdown and rage that you may feel while playing the King's Raid game.

The song is composed by LEEZ and Ollounder

Elizabeth: You ready for this?

Fiona: ok, three two one *click* Daniel: mmm

Daniel: It really fits the aesthetic, (F: Yeah) the music and like walking the castle

F: and it

Their reverb on it makes it sound like the piano's there.

D: Yeah, and they have like that beat that just dropped

Isaac: Wow seeping darkness

Kevin: Wow already up to iv. It's already a twist!

Isaac: and a change in timbre

James: Oh shit

J: Good unisons. not unisons- they were octaves, but they're in tune.

Henry: Oh, I liked that

Cloud: I liked it too, but I was more liking the aesthetic of a girl holding

a sword

Aaron: Yeah, that's synth orchestra

Nick: I feel like I should have expected that with the whole medieval thing that we would get like a nice Orchestra

But it's interesting because all the strings are

Synthesized or at least heavily autotuned

H: OH! A little Picardy third

Cl: on "fallen now"

H: Yeah, that's- interesting on that text?

Kev: wow it ends in iv.

The phrase continues because there's not really a cadence.

very cool

Elizabeth: Yeah, they have a very like cool vibe

I think like they can be like intense and the like climactic moments

but like in these sort of verse moments that like kind of what you're saying like it's reserved and like

It's just really cool. Owen: Yeah

Aaron: I Think the

Harmony, and melodic lines fit well together like this piano

Interlude stuff as we like get more about the story from the vocal line

Fiona: It sounded like the music did a rewind and like the plot rewinded too

(D: Ohhh) Like the dejavu trope was apparent in the music. (D: Mmm)

Cloud: Yeah, I felt like they added more instruments to the lead in that time

Kev: Ends on iv

K: ooooo

Nice dominant

James: The contrast is so good.

Ohhh

Melissa: whoa That's like Lord of the Rings. This is like everything

Henry: Oh oOOOOOh Cloud: Oh Whoa

Kev: Wait

They modulated a minor third up

And then they went back to the home key.

of course because of the relative major/minor relationship

Pretty inventive

Owen: There's so many secondary dominants in that last sequence, like it's

*sings* gettin here going here- going here

Owen: *ultra deep* Celloooo

It's not a bass, but it's a cello

Aron: *Sings ending* Nick: I think that's my favorite music video. You showed me

Umu: It was- yeah! how did you feel the music supported what's going on in this story?

Nick: Well, you definitely have kind of that like light side with the orchestral and then the dark side

it's like what evil demons that are gonna fight all the

Good guys I don't actually know- Aron: All they needed to do but throw in some screamo

Nick: I Think it would have been... Aron: It would've fit! Nick: Been good in this song

Nick: Which is kind of crazy if you hear the introduction to this song, I would never expect it but after hearing this

Especially in the bridge they could have used that in the bridge

Daniel: The intro or like the first at least like 30 seconds to a minute

Had that same like piano

Voice duo and so I was kind of expecting something a little bit more like melodically or harmonically or rhythmically complex

From the start because we've been listening to this kind of music.

Fiona: But I kind of liked that

Kpop has a lot of saturation with the themes and it's very generous with like all the fun ideas and stuff

I think it was okay to have just kind of an aesthetic layout of what was happening

Daniel: Yeah

There was this one part where Fiona mentioned that it sounded like choral music and in some ways it did but to me

because of the balance of the melodic lines and also the harmony it sounded really like homophonous and

and it sounded like there were a lot of parallel fits or like perfect fifths going on and

It fits with the theme in that you see like they're in a church or like some kind of Cathedral... They're-

Doing they're having all these like crazy

swords stuff

But it reminded me of the music that we studied in the church like Gregorian chants were like where a lot of perfect fifths were

kind of seen as holy and used like almost for everything

Kevin: in the first and second chorus, there was this Picardy third and it

To me. I was like, oh they're just singing da da da da da da and then the last time they go picardy

I'm like, huh? I wonder if there's any method behind this, you know this rather simplistic

thing and then in the final chorus it modulates up and then because we're now in

a-flat minor the pickety third is now a flat major which

Enables the song to go back to the home key

So the f major before was foreshadowing that moment the entire time, which is pretty solid

compositional

Technique I felt like the melodic lines in the verse. Were a little- they kind of just drifted around a bit

There wasn't as much direction like the harmonies know their the chords actually changed quite a bit

There was no solid sequence. That was too repetitive

but the melody the melodic line doesn't have that type of drive that I

Like in certain quieter sections like once the chorus hits like yes

I'm with this but during the verses it got a little lost for me

James: The contrast is perfect and they kept like capitalizing on that over and over again

Intimate voices, piano, that's it. And then

James: DUNDUNDUNDUNDUN

Just like the difference we've seen that like really lit rock section and then just like the really tone down

innocent sounding

like breathy high

Parts, I thought it was really really cool. And I just thought it was like a good song overall

Umu: So now you are reacting to a bside release from

The Raid of Dreams album called Silent Night

Fancier writes that Silent Night falls into the twist theme of King's Raid. The lyrics say a blade pointed at someone eventually returns

I don't want to see your blood and it expresses a hope to break free from the cycle of violence

The song is once again composed by LEEZ and Ollounder.

Kevin: well *speaks the Christmas carol* round yon virgin's mother and child. Let's listen to this!

Elizabeth: Whoa

Kind of feels like it's a triple meter, you know, like compound meter. One, two, three, one, two, three one two, three, but I assume

Yeah, and then it comes in, in 4/4

H: I Thought it was like descending triples de do du de do du but it's not Cl: it's not

H: It's kind of like syncopated Cl: yeah

Cl: you can say it's more of a duple feel H: Hey that's a

H: Yeah, that's a cool choice

Kev: This has like as an industrial vibe like the Iron Man 1 soundtrack

when Iron Man's walking with the explosion behind

Jame: I love that that keyboard like synth sound. Melissa: Yes. I love that

El: oh, that's a low voice. Holy crap. Owen: I know

O: and this is a girl group so El: OOOOOO wait

Daniel: Oh my god, this makes me like

Fiona: now it's like- Daniel: I wanna move my butt

I just wanna like Twerk it or something man this is a feel! Umu and Fiona: *dying of laughter*

J: Whoa Mel: I love the like-

J: Yeah, I just got chills Mel: it's like staccato

which is unusual J: whoa

Aron: yoooo so dope

Melissa: Her voice... J: it's low. Mel: Yeah

But like it's more than that it's like it's like cool it's got like swag, I don't know

H: I like that

Contrasted to each other with like the really low voice for the rapping and then right into head voice singing

El: Yeah, even like the vocal line in the pre-chorus here it's like syncopated it's not on the beat

Mel: That vocal countermelody

J: Who's Doing that high shit in the background Mel: Yeah the like

J: who's doing it? Mel: descant or whatever. You heard.

J: That's so good

Fiona: And it's back it's combining the twerk theme and the 88 theme!

D: yeah

Cl: It's like surprisingly quiet, you know like you drop and like... it's like going but it's like really like

Really really in there, you know

J: off beats

What's happening?

El: Ooo None of those piano chords were on a downbeat

Owen: no except for the very last moment. I think

Owen and Cl: *surprised yells*

Henry: Hello

this is like

It's not like- I'm just gonna listen for a second

*Claudia might cry this isn't a drill*

Nick: I don't know why Aron: this is such a transition like from

where we were this is like we're completely different water right now

Nick: feels like arpeggiated chords, there's something

Both medieval and like video game music about it

Owen: No keep going!!!

El: That's so strange. It ended there. I don't think the like actual subdivision is any faster

I just think the grouping of the notes makes it feel faster.

Owen: I s- do you think so?

I wonder how the last bit was related rhythmically to the to the

Previous bit was it just like separateness goes from where it was to immediately just like dada.

El: wait okay All right. Hold on 1 2 3 4

1 2 3 4

See the piano is like not on the downbeat. So they're like using this whole like post chorus section to confuse us

Owen: I think that's that's definitely speeding up

El: It's like Owen: I just don't know

El: I think It's just a completely different tempo, (O: yeah)

I think this is compound meter just in a completely different tempo

I don't know what the metric modulation to get there is and I'm not sure if it's like exact. (O: Yeah)

Owen: Who knows? (El: It's cool though.) Yeah

Daniel: AYyyy that was so good F: Nice ending!

F: I like that ending D: Sooo good F: Silent Night starts now!

D: Wut?

F: of the Silence

F: I liked how there were three intense

beat feels of the rhythm and

Fiona: *aggressive beat mimicking*

F: and the *even more beat mimicking*

D: Yeah, I thought so too because there's that metric irregularity which is like one two three one two three

one two- one, two, three, one, two, three, one two

and then there was like the establishing du du du that was on every like it's like a simple kind of

Simple as in like a duple meter

Organization and then at the end you pointed this out which was the metric acceleration and it just goes faster and faster

Right and that reminded me of do you remember recite this music theory? Should we be studied that with a Clipping video?

J: *mimicking counting that I could never do-*

and you're like OOOOO

Cl: That was stanky

H: This is nothing to do with the music but it kind of does.

there are different moments where I need different kinds of music

Yes, sometimes I want to hear

Flows fighting dreamers or go rather but it's yes the Naruto intro because I need the hype to get me to like

Really get through a tough spot and running right, but there's other times where I just need a nice driving beat

But also something sort of calming to remind me that I need to focus on my breathing and focus on my form

Those are equally as important and I think this one fits that ladder you need is like oh, you know what?

I need that driving beat, but this is making me like it's very in words

It's very very in words, and then there's that last bit where after you've rested for like two solid minutes

There's some hype at the end so we can go hard Cl: *mimicking hype*

J: the synth noises using the like vocal lick

Melismas like in the background. Like that's the way I wish more people would use like vocoders

sampling like intentionally like changing the human lights because you know

Sometimes you'll hear like vocoders over a voice or like MIDI sounds or whatnot, you know

Like oh that sounds cheesy sounds fake or whatever

But this was like it fit the style perfectly and the even before that like raves section happened

I was thinking like this is rave music

I just I thought it was really cool and they're all so talented you can tell because they

understand like each member's strengths and they showcase it like the lower voices have their moments higher voices have their moments some

Trifling ass hoe was doing crazy shirt in the background like wut I came

Yeah

Like it's like it's like crazy stuff. It was really good.