Way To Go

[koganbot]

New Crayon Pop.

Advance single "Vroom Vroom"

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About perfect: Light splashy Italodisco, a boat ride past small islands. Writer and (I think) lead singer Way adds enough ache to give this a promise of passion, a hint of adventure.

Album teaser, Evolution Vol. 1

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First 8 tracks, I guess; 17 are due, 10 all new. Track 2 has interesting promise, as if

Comments

[belecrivain]

I definitely didn't realize how much is going on in "Doo Doom Chit" until the second listen. I do wish they hadn't given Ellin a rap, or at least hadn't encouraged her to rap it -- my recollection (from "FM") is she sounds pretty good low, and I wish I could hear it with her singing close to a speaking voice rather than rapping quickly, if that makes sense.

Am I right in thinking that the actual "doo doom chit" sequence only happens twice? It feels like they've split the chorus in half, with the hip-rotating / backwards-walking part being the real chorus and "doo doom chit" basically being the spot to let off tension.

(after listening to "The Eye" one too many times I'm kind of obsessed with song structure, for better or worse.)

[koganbot]

"Doo doom chit" happens three times, at 0:15, 1:17, and 2:49. And the location of the latter two does seem chorus-like; but its actual role feels more like "Official hook that we're supposed to remember" than "an actual chorus we release through and temporarily live in." Of course, later listenings can create changes in where one releases and lives.

I just got home from work and am not feeling analytically capable. There seem to be two or three segments later in the song that we only hear once but not all of which constitute "breaks." Unless this impression is just concocted by the loose functioning of my brain cells.

[belecrivain]

okay, thanks to the choreography video, I can try timestamps:

0:00-0:13 intro/C-R-A-Y-O-N POP! chant
0:14-0:28 "doo doom chit" #1
0:29-0:44 Soyul's verse, ending in "put your hands up!"
0:45-0:58 Way (I think; one of the YT commenters says Choa's the one wearing a skirt) and Gummi split a slightly faster verse (pre-chorus?) with a plunky, plinky (?) electronic sound in the background
0:59-1:16 "Woah-ah-oh-woah-ah-oh" / "I'm so fantastic girl" #1
1:17-1:30 "doo doom chit" #2
1:30-1:33 brief instrumental break, building of tension
1:34-1:48 Ellin raps while something altogether different is going on in the background, a much lower bass beat (here is where my musical vocabulary starts to fail me)
1:49-2:03 Choa/Soyul split the faster verse/prechorus with the return of the plinky sounds
2:04-2:18 "Woah-ah-oh-woah-ah-oh" / "I'm so fantastic girl" #2
2:19-2:33 with no break, immediately to some sort of bridge led by the twins, but there's no slowdown in music or verse; the words are sparser but they're happening at the same rhythm

[davidfrazer]

Here's the statement form Chrome about Soyul.

By the way, I'd failed to notice that they've been performing Vroom Vroom on music shows:

Arirang Simply K-Pop

MBC Show Champion

Note that ChoA gets a hand-held microphone but the other members have little headset mics.

I'd link to the post where you used the term if I could find it.

[davidfrazer]

Perfume are doing oral hygiene music. Literally.

Re: I'd link to the post where you used the term if I could find it.

[koganbot]

Oral hygiene music alive and bright in Korea (Dec. 1, 2012; Goo Hara's "Secret Love")