Umu: Have already reacted to the music videos

U: So we're about to watch a live performance

Umu: Kpop idols, after they release an album and a music video, they go onto different shows and compete to win each show

Umu: And it's voted on by their fans

Alexis: Oh, okay Umu: Yeah, so this is one of those shows

Umu: So Seventeen "Pretty U"

Jeremy: Woah, this is cool

Alexis: This is so-

Alexis: I enjoy this very much

Alexis: THIS IS SO ADORABLE

Jeremy: This is so, like, stereotypical

Jeremy: But I like it Hugo: I feel like it's musical chairs

Gwen: I wish we could film you doing these things

Alexis: I love it

Gwen: I think one of the lead singers of Seventeen has a very prepubescent sounding voice {JIHOON LMAO}

Hugo: I like his voice best so far

Jeremy: Yeah

Hugo: He's got the best line

H: Like continuity in his singing

U: Dude with the jacket- with the jean jacket? Hugo: What?

Umu: Jeans jacket dude? Hugo: Yeah

Rachel: There's so many bowl cuts

Jonathan: Yeah

Jonathan: I don't know where to focus, there's so much going on

Hugo: oOOOh that's nice falsetto Jeremy: Yeah

Jeremy: He has a very boy voice

Jeremy: Like, very boyish

Gwen: One of the most impressive things about kpop, especially live performances

G: We haven't been able to see it very much in music videos because, you know, it's lipsynced when they're actually filming it

Gwen: But, like, in live performances, they manage to dance whlie still having VERY consistent voices

Alexis: Yeah, and they don't sound exhausted

Gwen: No, which is Wildt™ because I would be sweating and out of breath

Alexis: Practice

Rachel: Their voices sound very young

Rachel: Kind of like boys, but it works

Jeremy: I like his voice a lot Hugo: What? J: Yeah, I do like his voice a lot

Jonathan: I wonder what the audition process is like for this Rachel: I know

Jonathan: "We want you to be superhumans"

Rachel: Please sing something Top 40

Rachel: I love the foot Jonathan: It looks like flailing fish

Umu: What do you think about, like, dancing while singing?

Hugo: It's intense. They're doing a really good job 'cause that takes a lot of breath Jeremy: I would not be able to sing like that

Jeremy: And dance

Hugo: They're doing a good job of giving the singers who are currently doing singing the main line stillness, which I think is playing into them getting these heavy breaths in their singing

Gwen: I can't imagine being the sound tech on shows like this. It must SUCK Alexis: This is so precious

Alexis: They have such baby faces

Gwen: Well, I guess they pass around solo mics so nevermind

Gwen: No, but he just-

U: some have mics, like, attached, and some have it

Gwen: They all have mics attached but if they're singing a big solo they sometimes have their own solo mic

Gwen: But not always

Hugo: Uh, get it

Jeremy+Hugo: OOOOOH

Rachel: [hitting seungkwan's note]

Rachel: Seventh

Jonathan: GET OUT

Hugo: Now THAT was good! That was some good shit Jeremy: Until the last one

Jeremy: That was good

Rachel: It's so cool, the audience is, like, right with them

Rachel: Ooh it's the breakdown

Alexis: I'm enjoying this very much

Alexis: It's just such an experience

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Gwen: I like this part of the song

Alexis: This song is not- oh my goodness

Alexis: I love it

Gwen: I love the screaming girls in the background. It think that really makes it better

Umu: Did you catch the high note?

Alexis: There was a high note? Gwen: No, where was it? At the end?

Alexis: Got that little pitch at the top

Gwen: Icky icky icky

U: Yeah, what happened?

Alexis: It started out, like... Gwen: It started out good then it was like, AHHHHHH

Alexis: It's okay Gwen: That's my impersonation

Gwen: That was mean, it was not that bad

Alexis: It started out strong and then it got... because rather than adjusting as you're going up

Alexis: He's, like, "I'm gonna take the exact thing I'm doing and push it higher. And then push it higher" And then it got to a point where it's just really really pitched

Gwen: I mean, you see singers, and the higher they get it's like [demonstrates]

Gwen: Like they have this massive space they make

Gwen: Okay, tell me you don't- Okay, you don't sing F#s anyway

Alexis: I'm a mezzo so that's...

Gwen: But- so, you need more space the higher you sing, and exactly what you were saying, he took [demonstrates]

Gwen: And at a certain point, there's not enough space for something to happen productively

G: So then you're just like, punching it into your vocal chords, and it's just icky

Alexis: I'm just surprised he didn't crack

Gwen: I'm sure Hugo and Jeremy had the same sort of reaction

Hugo: For singing and dancing, I think they did a really good job and his high notes were.. Jeremy: Yeah, his high notes were really great

Umu: And so what about the last one?

Jeremy: The highest one was like, it was very short, it was a little ohhhhh my god you're about to crack

Jeremy: Like, hanging on for dear life

Jeremy: But he made it through

Hugo: He did, and he did a good job with it

Jeremy: It was not really out of tune Hugo: No J: Except for the very beginning

Hugo: Yeah, the very beginning was just a little flat, and then it was fine

Jonathan: It was interesting, they were all very in sync, dancewise

J: I'm pretty sure they were lipsyncing otherwise that would Umu: oh really???

Jonathan: Oh, were they not?? U: I'm pretty sure they weren't on this one {mcountdown does allow prerecorded vocals im p sure so jonathan could b right, but idols, esp svt, can sing live + do choreo!}

U: Because I heard some, there were quite a few, uh.. Intonation errors at the beginning

Rachel: Maybe Jonathan: That could just be in the track, I mean, I don't know

Rachel: It was less vocally impressive than

Rachel: The two of them Umu: Chen and Baekhyun

Rachel: That was, like

Rachel: More vocally impressive. But this was entertainment factor a bazillion

Gwen: The thing about kpop is they all need to- they all value intonation and dancability over actual how pretty your voice sounds

Gwen: Because they have these groups they need the strength and the tight chords to be attractive

Gwen: So they have one of two people that have great voices

G: Just, like...

Gwen: In like, Alexis: Air G: Just like in, uh...

Gwen: In American pop, you have, like

G: You have people with great voices and then you line them up with people who are okay

G: But have really good intonation. So it's basically these groups are

G: If you took, like, a Lady Gaga song and you made her background part of the group, and made them have slightly more parts and be on stage with her

G: It would be that type of thing

Hugo: It was interesting to hear the different timbres. There were definitely people who were true fuckin tenors

H: And then there were people who were.. Jeremy: The really.. H: Tenor II's

J: There were some baritones, too

Hugo: It's interesting that all male groups, for the most part, from what I've seen, it's made up of tenors

H: Like, everyone in the group is a tenor, there's no

H: I've only encountered, there's one group that had a guy that was getting some hella low harmonies

H: He was doing a banging job of it

U: Oh, was it Hobi in BTS? H: I think so

Hugo: I'd actually like to see more of that