Classical Musicians React: GIRLSET 'TWEAK'

0:00 All right, folks.

0:00 Today we're reacting to the one and only international girl group, Girl Set.

0:08 Yes,

0:07 this is Girls Set and their song Tweak.

0:10 So, in an interview,

0:11 the members described the song as a stupid

0:13 boy anthem about standing your ground,

0:15 setting boundaries, and keeping yourself in check.

0:17 Boy anthem.

0:20 Okay.

0:19 It centers on empowerment, maintaining nonchalants.

0:23 Oh, your nonchalant complacency.

0:26 Flashback.

0:26 What do you think about the nonchalant complacency?

0:31 Nonchalant complacency.

0:33 I need that spanous expression.

0:37 End of flashback.

0:38 Are they spontaneous

0:42 and maintaining nonchalants in chaotic situations and staying

0:45 real with yourself while navigating emotional frustrating situations?

0:48 They really rectify their personal duress.

0:51 They're short.

0:52 This song is composed by JY Park, Diego,

0:55 A or A, Brian, Alexander, Morgan, Ro, and Fei.

1:00 And I actually I actually watched their uh idol show

1:03 when it was me and my mom watched it together.

1:06 So, I saw their from the start with the with the OG

1:09 Va members sending them our best, of course.

1:13 Three, two, one.

1:16 They got stunning makeup.

1:19 Stunning.

1:20 Wow.

1:22 The Palace Theater, bro.

1:25 Was this filmed in Syracuse?

1:26 This looks like

1:46 Yes, girl.

1:47 This is a very specific energy.

1:49 Oo, she sound like Ariana Grande.

1:51 Like OG like R&B like Y2K9.

1:53 Oh yeah, the vocal the the rhythm of the lyrics was rather

2:00 Ariish.

2:00 The girls are coming to save her.

2:02 Don't leave your phone.

2:05 She just left her phone.

2:08 Yeah.

2:10 Oh, this is great.

2:11 This I feel like they're finally leading into like

2:18 their vocal styles like a little bit more.

2:20 I think that this particular genre works well for their vocals.

2:26 I feel like this is such a lowkey song and the visuals are like assaulting me.

2:32 Yes, queen.

2:35 Fantastic.

2:34 That's my girl.

2:36 Oh yeah.

2:42 I the song's pretty minimal,

2:45 which I feel like doesn't entirely come across

2:47 with the music video because there's so much going on there.

2:49 She has a very K-pop voice.

2:51 Yeah.

2:52 Yeah.

2:52 Kendall,

2:53 it's like a a ripoff of the Jersey sort of with the bum bum bum syncopation.

3:01 It's so dreamy.

3:03 Their their struts kind of eat though, like they know how to strut.

3:10 Absolutely.

3:09 Oh, that was that was cool.

3:14 This is fun.

3:15 I'm so confused by the visuals.

3:17 Why is it so loud?

3:27 Where did we go?

3:28 Wait, I I vibe with that.

3:29 I

3:30 Huh.

3:31 Brand new.

3:32 Where did we go?

3:34 Cameo.

3:37 Oh, I love the vocal layering.

3:39 Oh, these dreamy piano and strings.

3:55 Yeah, I feel like that guy.

3:57 Stupid boys had to leave her date to go on a little

3:59 to go on a little dance number with the girlies.

4:02 I swear the Palace Theater that looks just like that.

4:05 That's in Syracuse.

4:06 Syracuse is the landmark theater, but it's literally on a street just like that.

4:10 It looks like that.

4:11 It literally is just like that.

4:12 Anyway, sorry.

4:12 We We go gig there sometimes.

4:14 So,

4:15 I like I like I like I like I think it was very unique vibe.

4:18 Honestly, all the music they've been releasing is like exactly the genre

4:21 that like I tend to gravitate towards

4:23 like outside of reacting and classical music.

4:26 I do love like the R&B.

4:28 I love a good R&B moment.

4:29 Slow jam.

4:30 And especially this is specifically like very I feel like it's 2000's R&B.

4:34 Like they're incorporating a lot of like the Y2K elements,

4:36 but the sound actually reflects that too, which is really nice.

4:40 I feel like a lot of times like either they're

4:42 using like the visual identity like or the sound concept,

4:45 but like people don't do both.

4:47 But I feel like this is

4:48 they're hitting both.

4:49 They're hitting both.

4:49 And it's a very like new modern take on it.

4:51 Well, I love the vocal style that's kind of that kind of comes with that.

4:55 Um, just because I feel like it demonstrates

4:57 what they can do so well and I think

4:59 the rest of the track like allows that to be

5:01 there cuz it's pretty minimal for the most part.

5:03 What does Taya think?

5:06 Tell us some facial expressions.

5:07 So, that was the first one.

5:09 That's the second one.

5:12 The third one.

5:13 Okay.

5:13 So, it doesn't seem like you enjoyed it.

5:15 I feel like I need to listen to it again without the video.

5:18 The video was like I was hearing a lot of stuff through my eyes.

5:23 I was making a tweak.

5:24 How about we just do this lyric?

5:27 Yeah.

5:27 Now, now she can focus.

5:28 Yeah, now I can focus

5:36 cuz now we're going faster.

5:46 Yeah.

5:46 Tempo change from the very beginning.

5:53 Hey, I think I enjoy this now.

5:55 Yeah, I knew she was going to say that.

5:57 I knew it.

5:59 I really love Camila's voice followed by Savannah's

6:02 because she has the coolest cool girl voice ever.

6:05 Yeah, she does.

6:06 Also, her vocals improved so much if you watch ATK.

6:10 Like, wow.

6:11 Some of the vocal lines reminded me a lot of like Siza's music with like

6:16 she has like a very specific way

6:18 of like navigating sort of embellishing a melody.

6:21 She's or like that's bad.

6:24 I'm so sorry.

6:26 She kind of like falls off notes.

6:27 She falls off notes and it's like so controlled and it's so beautiful.

6:30 And there's plenty of like famous examples that I'm sure your editors

6:34 can find and and you can put it over me going Yes.

6:40 Oh yes.

6:40 Yeah.

6:41 So I think like a lot of the riffs

6:42 that they were going for here had that similar

6:44 sort of kind of like statement and then sort of fall off sort of quality to it.

6:48 Kendall especially has that very um it's like nasely but in a good way.

6:55 It's she has a very like high voice.

6:57 It's bright.

6:58 That's a better word.

6:59 It's bright.

7:00 She has a very bright voice.

7:01 But I think that works well in contrast with

7:04 with the other three have very darker voices.

7:07 So the three So the four of them kind of had this nice blend.

7:13 That was cool.

7:13 So what they do with the violin there?

7:22 And I think also the way they lead into it

7:24 creates a sort of sense that we're going higher.

7:27 So we're So five 6 7 1.

7:35 Yeah.

7:38 So, we're still we're still in F.

7:44 Okay.

7:44 Yeah.

7:44 251 C.

7:48 Oh, down to G C D.

7:57 Wait, well, it was B minor 7, but like Yeah.

8:01 So, because they end in D.

8:04 Yeah.

8:04 So it's almost like this ninth chord if you prolong

8:08 this it resolves to just with a scale in between.

8:13 So cute.

8:25 Is that JP?

8:27 Um so we go a whole full step whole step up.

8:30 Wait, JP wasn't there?

8:31 He's playing the piano.

8:32 What?

8:33 Huh?

8:39 What is that?

8:44 One of Ivy's mashups with Tweak.

8:47 Tweak Exfoli.

8:57 I was drifting because it's in I can just play a G

9:00 major scale and I could play over the changes and it sounds good.

9:04 And then I was like excerpt a famous flute.

9:06 This is bolier.

9:09 Yes.

9:08 Yeah.

9:08 So it's basically in G.

9:10 So we move a whole whole step up

9:12 and the the lead in is very fun because you have like

9:15 the the rush of the bass going in which I think

9:19 was foreshadowed earlier going into the bridge but it didn't happen yet.

9:23 So even though you had that rush in the bass where it's like boom boom

9:26 boom boom it's it's two two five to F which is just I think it

9:30 sounds so different just because we're focusing

9:32 on different chords than we were in the previous

9:34 section which was just 5 6 5 6 5 6 and allegedly goes to one.

9:40 The one feels like a sus chord.

9:41 So the one doesn't feel like home until the bridge.

9:44 And then once we feel like one is home,

9:46 they're like, "No, we're going to go UP UP.

9:49 TAKE IT UP A whole step." We're vibing.

9:53 It's chill.

9:53 I I don't know if I love the key change.

9:56 I usually associate that with ballads when they're trying

9:59 to get a few extra tears out of you.

10:02 So I think it feels a little bit weird in this setting.

10:05 Yeah.

10:05 I want to hear some different lyrics, too.

10:08 I think the lyrics are the same a bit American pop style.

10:14 The way they keep the lyrics generally the same other than the verses.

10:18 I do like this like idea of modulations in the final chorus

10:23 of a song like really having to have some kind of narrative meaning behind it.

10:27 I feel like it's really easy to just input the modulation in there

10:30 and a lot of people do do that for impact I feel like.

10:32 But to if you really have a reason why you did.

10:35 So either the lyrics change or the buildup

10:38 in the bridge leads to a heightening and emotional intensity.

10:41 I think that's what makes the modulation really worth it.

10:44 Or else it should probably be saved.

10:46 And I think they chose the right person for the modulation though.

10:48 Like Kendall's voice suited that like new key bright sound.

10:53 Anyway, there we go.

10:55 That was a vibe.

10:55 I loved it.

10:56 Thank you.

10:57 Oh yeah.

10:58 Like the little the little blips.

11:01 Eight bit blips.

11:02 Yeah, this is kind of Queen Cardi.

11:07 What a groovy band.

11:08 I love them.

11:14 Wow, she took a risk with that.