Classical Musicians React: TXT (투모로우바이투게더) '하루에 하루만 더 (Stick With You)'

0:00 Whoa.

0:02 I like [music] [music] All right.

0:15 Today we're reacting to the boy group TXT or Tomorrow by Together.

0:19 Most recently, you two reacted to the TXT member Yonjun's solo work.

0:25 Yes.

0:26 Yonjun.

0:26 Yes.

0:26 And this is their title track, Stick with You, or the Korean title being Harum.

0:33 And this is the title track off of their seventh year,

0:35 A Moment of Stillness in the Thorns EP.

0:39 I remember the day they debuted with Crown.

0:43 Yeah, me too.

0:43 I was sitting in

0:45 Don't say it.

0:46 Seventh grade.

0:47 [laughter] One of the members says that they think Stick with You,

0:49 the song is a song that really shows how we

0:52 wanted to stick together and also stick with their fans.

0:54 It's exactly the message that we wanted to convey.

0:57 The song stems from their anxiety about the future.

0:59 Both the music video and lyrics capture themes of desperate attachment,

1:02 anxiety, and fear of loss.

1:04 The song is produced by Slow Rabbit and Jean Rabbit

1:08 along with Will You help me out with these people.

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1:35 [music]

1:37 It's giving such a voice.

1:41 [laughter] Yeah.

1:43 [crying]

1:46 Wow.

1:46 Plat.

1:46 [music]

1:50 Thank you so much to all of you who already support us.

1:53 We really couldn't keep doing this without you.

1:55 And now back to the video.

1:57 3 2 1 go.

2:01 Skin clearer than my future.

2:02 Yeah.

2:02 Oh my goodness.

2:09 Oh my god.

2:10 She's so pretty.

2:11 I know her.

2:12 Who's she?

2:13 She's an actor.

2:14 Oh, [laughter] what did she tell him?

2:21 That was a jump scare.

2:24 [music] Where is she?

2:29 [laughter] So bouncy.

2:34 Uhhuh.

2:35 [music] Oh, I love these little [music] You should totally ask.

2:47 [music] They have a very similar tone, but the rhythm of this is different.

2:57 Oh, wait.

2:58 She [music] caught it.

3:06 Wow.

3:08 [music] The synth is almost xylophone like

3:18 low trope.

3:19 Oh, I like hold on.

3:23 Are they in a time loop?

3:25 This is a really like just gorgeous like

3:27 soundsscape to them that they've made with the song.

3:28 I think I haven't heard this like low voice trope in a long time.

3:31 Yeah.

3:35 New guy.

3:35 Wait, what?

3:36 No.

3:38 I like how bouncy that [music] like 808 is.

3:41 Yeah.

3:41 It feels almost Tiffany like totally.

3:47 Is she Is are they a ghost?

3:49 Bro, she's saying no to Pumu.

3:51 [music] I'm saying yes to him.

3:53 [laughter]

3:55 That's funny how soft they play the singing is like really effortful.

4:00 It's It's interesting.

4:01 [music] I'm still trying to develop an opinion on it.

4:06 I'm invested.

4:08 That was a little crescendo there.

4:09 That was fun.

4:10 Oh, what?

4:16 [laughter] Okay.

4:23 Wow.

4:22 Is this not the best instrument?

4:24 Sing in the rain.

4:25 Looks like glitter.

4:26 H.

4:27 Oh.

4:28 Oh, wait.

4:28 They're all d Wait, they finally captured her.

4:32 Polygamy.

4:32 Yeah.

4:33 A They're dancing in the rain.

4:36 Major [music] sevenths of joy and reminiscence.

4:41 Oh, it was a fantasy.

4:43 Oh, they've reawaken.

4:44 Oh.

4:55 Oh.

4:55 Oh.

4:59 [music]

5:05 Oh, that's fun.

5:05 Coro.

5:07 Dang.

5:07 Oh, the dance moves are pretty unique.

5:12 [music] Wait, wait, no.

5:15 So that Wait, is it a dream?

5:17 Is it a dream?

5:20 Interesting.

5:20 Oh, I love the arpeggios in the background.

5:22 Those are fun.

5:27 No, let him go.

5:28 What's he going to beat?

5:41 Why is Tai going through it right now?

5:45 Oh, I don't want that.

5:50 Double hangers.

5:51 [music] Wait, I think I missed something really important.

5:59 I felt that in my fingers.

6:01 Yeah, I felt it on [laughter] my shoulder cuz he grabbed me.

6:05 Yeah.

6:05 Look at that.

6:06 Look at that.

6:06 Zumin.

6:07 Zumin.

6:07 They're both zumins.

6:09 Doppelgangers.

6:10 What is happening?

6:16 What?

6:16 Happy seven years.

6:17 TXT.

6:20 Yay.

6:19 Oh.

6:20 Oh.

6:24 Lore.

6:25 Lore.

6:25 Lore.

6:25 Lore.

6:32 Wow.

6:32 Okay.

6:33 [music] I like that.

6:35 Entrancing.

6:36 Wow.

6:37 I thought that was really unique.

6:39 Wait, is it low-key a time loop?

6:41 Before I spoil the story line, what are your like initial thoughts?

6:45 I see they're like dreaming to be with her.

6:49 That's why they're singing like one more date with trying to chase after her.

6:53 I don't even know.

6:54 I'm just making stuff up.

6:55 [laughter]

6:56 So, the girl represented the fans.

7:00 That's all I got.

7:04 [laughter]

7:03 Because the stick the stick is with you.

7:06 Maybe the stick is TXT.

7:08 So they were removing Wait, who was removing from who?

7:11 I don't think we're made for theory.

7:13 Uh, [laughter] do you have a theory for what that represents?

7:16 It's hard to tell.

7:19 Gross.

7:19 It represents nasty.

7:21 It represents I didn't want to watch that.

7:24 It's okay.

7:24 It represents I needed a trigger warning.

7:26 [laughter] Okay, I got it.

7:27 I got it.

7:27 Yeah.

7:28 Yeah.

7:28 Stick in the finger.

7:29 The stick is the anxiety and the stress moment

7:33 and so they're just unsure about their future.

7:36 They remove the stick.

7:37 They're together with the fans again.

7:38 Stick with you.

7:39 What's the lore?

7:40 Please

7:41 enlighten us on the lore.

7:42 Suben is seen as the main character

7:43 and the members are representing other versions of him.

7:46 Basically, they become anxious about their girlfriend

7:49 and they get a thorn in representation representing anxieties.

7:53 So in their mind they play the worst case scenarios over and over in their head

7:58 and they're overthinking of like is she

8:00 cheating on me like she's with another guy.

8:02 Okay, that's what they're seeing some things.

8:04 Okay, great.

8:05 And so every time in the sequence events when one of them becomes stuck,

8:09 the loop repeats and creates another scenario to overcome it.

8:12 So, it wasn't until Kai took the thorn out of his finger, right,

8:17 that they were able to reach the conclusion that the imagery

8:20 of the enemy they were creating in their mind was actually just himself.

8:24 Like it was just himself overthinking

8:27 and imagining someone else when it all along it was just him and she

8:31 was just planning she was just planning

8:32 his like surprise birthday party WITH HIS FRIENDS.

8:34 OH, THAT'S WHY MY [laughter] What captured your attention in the music?

8:46 Yeah.

8:45 I really like how like that rhythm like

8:48 of the melody really maintained [music] this drive

8:51 throughout everything and then was stacked with like

8:53 all these arpeggios and like really bouncy bass.

8:56 So, you just had this like boulder falling down a mountain feel.

8:59 I love the tambber of the synth.

9:00 It's like wooden in a way.

9:01 Like that's what I would say.

9:02 like it sounds um xylophone like xylophone.

9:05 The bass synth I think is very fun a part of the texture.

9:08 It's a pretty sparse texture though, isn't it?

9:10 Yeah.

9:10 So it's just bass drums and voiced.

9:13 There was the transition that I really liked.

9:15 Yeah.

9:15 Like it's just a dream and then the beat like starts dropping.

9:19 I'm like it's like such a like I don't think it's like a club music

9:23 but some kind of like this is a very overall I I'd say a very poppy form.

9:30 So, you know, just verse, precourse, chorus, verse, precourse, chorus

9:33 with post chorus,

9:34 which I mean are very like classic components and form of the song.

9:36 So, they didn't really mess with that general form,

9:38 but they instead added really interesting sounds

9:41 and textures to [music] fill out that form.

9:43 So, it still is very engaging and unique

9:46 even though it's like a very typical song form.

9:49 I really dug the kind the vibe that they got to eventually.

9:52 They kind of built this thing up from the bottom, right?

9:54 So, they had this [music] that kind of started in the beginning, right?

9:59 And that's kind of like they kind of build

10:00 up all the rest of the layers from that.

10:02 And I thought that by the time we get to like the chorus,

10:05 like we kind of end up with this [music] soundsscape that is so like filled,

10:09 you end up like filling like almost all of the space with sound.

10:12 And what kind of can sometimes tend to happen when you do that is that it kind

10:15 of loses it its rhythmic intensity if you

10:17 have too many sounds going on all the time.

10:19 Which is why I really liked what Olivia said.

10:21 You mentioned how the melody had a really rhythmic aspect to it.

10:25 It did.

10:25 like when there's all the sound going,

10:27 I think the voice the the melody just does

10:28 a really good job of propelling the momentum forward.

10:30 And I think that goes for all sections.

10:31 Parts of this would be really hard to sing.

10:33 I think that's such a nice vocal.

10:35 There's so many lovely vocal lines, too,

10:40 cuz you could easily just do like very stepwise motion,

10:44 but interesting that they're using the very

10:46 expressive downwards leaps [music] with the interval leaps.

10:53 That definitely adds some kind of emotion that I would

10:56 say was a little like longing or yearning that you said.

10:59 The chord is aren't changing very much,

11:01 but I think as a result, they rely on the vocal delivery,

11:04 which they have a lot of different opportunities [music]

11:06 and different like larger intervals to really like create expression.

11:10 The melody is very actually like surprisingly complex because it's it's

11:13 kind of consistent and like they're constantly changing the rhythm thing.

11:17 So, I think maybe the melody and this sort of like

11:19 simpler backdrop kind of creates more of like an intimate storytelling moment.

11:24 I will say also kind of contributing to this feeling of just wow,

11:28 we're in like a state of so much sound is the ambiguity of the harmony.

11:32 Aside from having this this [music] you kind of end

11:42 up with the same arpeggios being played over the entire thing.

11:46 It kind of removes the harmonic motion of the baseline and replaces it with just

11:50 this general vibe [music] of uncertainty which I

11:53 think is really kind of fits this piece.

11:54 What's the atmosphere?

11:55 How would you describe it?

11:56 hypnotic and conoto conerpetual motion because of thea

12:02 d and then the reverb that's added.

12:05 It creates [music] this heady sort of atmosphere,

12:08 but there's also these tinkling like major

12:11 7th type arpeggiations [music] in the higher frequency.

12:16 I think that creates like a very psychedelic atmosphere.

12:19 So, I think the whole point of this is to create

12:22 this, is this a dream atmosphere where you're kind of like,

12:25 I don't know if I'm awake or if this is real.

12:28 And that's exacerbated by extreme ranges in pitch and lots of reverb.

12:33 A lot of fans were feeling a lot of emotion listening to this.

12:37 What do you think in like the core

12:38 choice or instrumentation or vocal delivery created that?

12:41 I think they have a lot of opportunities

12:42 here with the difference between like head voice

12:45 and chest voice that it allows for a lot

12:48 of different kind of like densities of sound.

12:50 So like I think they have some more stuff [music] that's expressive and but then

12:53 I think they also like able to make it like a little bit more intimate.

12:57 I also thought the singing was in general across

13:01 the board very cool for the style of music.

13:04 there was like this brightness in the sound

13:07 and bounciness in all of their voices that no

13:09 one was over darkening [music] at all that really

13:12 uh provided this nice like driving forward momentum.

13:15 Thing that I'm interested about is like

13:17 there's often this kind of really just like

13:20 music that's not in the classical genre in general that tends to breathe a lot

13:24 in between lines and like it causes a lot of stamina issues because if you're

13:29 working your breath that much then it makes

13:31 it very hard to get through other lines.

13:33 I I I really dislike the idea that bell conto is the only way to sing.

13:38 In my own opinion, it doesn't matter what genre you're singing.

13:42 It doesn't matter how you're singing so long as it's healthy singing.

13:46 And so what that means to me is is proper foundation of support.

13:50 And it also means singing in a way that's not

13:53 going to damage your vocal cords in the short term.

13:56 The thing is is that whenever I say something is unhealthy,

13:59 it's not saying that I dislike the sound.

14:02 It's more so saying, "Oo,

14:04 that was a sound that I could hear was not supported." Pop music

14:08 in general kind of suffers from this issue where vocal coaches focus more

14:12 on trying to get you to feel where a belt locks in versus

14:17 trying to get you to approach the note in a way that is healthy.

14:21 Now, with that being said, they all have beautiful voices.

14:23 Don't get me wrong.

14:24 Their voices are are still very, very beautiful,

14:26 and there's still a lot of great singing going on.

14:27 I'm just noticing more towards the higher belty pitches,

14:30 there's a tendency to run flat and a tendency

14:32 not to approach the pitch in a correct way.

14:34 And there's stamina issues too with the phrase.

14:37 I think like if you want to have the the breathiness,

14:40 you have to take a really nice big breath and you

14:42 have to have like like still have the breathy onset,

14:45 but it still needs to come from a place of breath support.

14:48 What about that that that string section in the middle?

14:51 Yeah, that was wild.

14:52 This has to be a sample.

14:53 Is it a sample?

14:54 I think it's original soundtrack written for just

14:57 the music video because those sound midi to me.

15:00 H wait, you're right.

15:01 That is really MIDI.

15:03 Yeah, that's so fascinating.

15:05 Do we know who composed that middle?

15:06 That like No, I don't know.

15:08 Someone tell me C pedal.

15:14 Got it.

15:15 [laughter] How would you describe the style of the string arrangement here?

15:19 Very like dreamy.

15:21 H I don't know how to say it in English.

15:25 It's like [music] There's something just really offputting about it.

15:57 And I think that's intentional.

15:58 I think they want they they want it to be just a little bit [music] off-putting.

16:06 Like it's just like like random modal harmony out of nowhere.

16:09 It's beautiful in its imperfection.

16:11 There's a million ways to resolve from E minor to D

16:15 minor without like using that like uh that weird like modal stuff.

16:18 I just like I'm I'm surprised they did it.

16:20 I loved it.

16:21 Felt like that felt like a very intentional choice.

16:23 I thought it was very TXT kind of very earnest in a way.

16:27 Like I feel like it's very just being honest kind of song.

16:31 I just like those chords.

16:33 Not the chords of this [music] beautiful major 7.

16:35 Yeah.

16:35 And it's like Disney.

16:37 Yeah.

16:38 Romance.

16:42 But oh, I love the string drop there.

16:44 The flat six that come.

16:45 I will say that descending chord progression sick.

16:47 Love that.

16:48 I was listening to this.

16:49 I was like, "Oh, I'm feeling something." Like, it's just a dream.