Classical & Jazz Musicians React: BLACKPINK 'Shut Down' 

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@@shaqueena6894 New Jeans is next… watch the end of the video first

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Yeah I agree, that was so appropriate, and since they mentioned the "intricacies of music" which arguably is a natural characteristic of classical compositions, the way Blacklabel producers composed this piece is their way of intricate. Everybody's reaction was really fun to watch.

I'd thought the same thing and when I realized Jason was going to say that I freaked out--I feel like it's something reactors/reviewers/critics rarely keep in mind. While intricacy or complexity is not bad per se, it's not always good either. A song like this is trying to do something very different than a classical piece like La Campanella, and they both do what they are meant to do very well.

@SonderDAze X I disagree. It's definitely HARDER to appeal to the mass audience because just like what he said, even if you did the most complicated thing, and people don't even realize it, what's the point?

put on point.. yep

@SonderDAze X if it's easier to appeal to a mass audience, why do big name artists often fail to put out another huge hit? why do so many fairly well known artists with all the resources in the world so often fail to really hit it big? creating something that cements itself into the public consciousness is incredibly difficult. sometimes artists get lucky and there is a degree of "right time right place" involved, but to consistently achieve that level of popular appeal is not a simple task.

Yeah - he is on point 👏🏻

True, Blackpink succeeded in catering to their target audience with how the song was portrayed, whereas Feel My Rhythm in comparison, was really good musically, but kinda failed catering to people who doesn’t really listen to classical music, like myself 😅 kinda sucks that I only realized how good Feel My Rhythm was AFTER watching their reaction

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Yeah he was sooo on point! He respects the creative freedom from other producers & criticise professionally

Exactly!! Go off Jason!!

I kind of fell in love with him when he did that

@@stellaxcadentex umm... Gurl you have to be in Line.. Lmao 🤭

Same! I want him to do a full verison

@@himaririku9254 ummm.... 🙄 Ok cool...

samme 😂😂 he cracked his knuckle then casually grab his violin 😂 so freaking hot

@@himaririku9254 bruh u cringe asf

My favorite part of this reaction video hahaha omg

that was my exact reaction

Whats the meaning of the reaction tho?

what did he say?? , i cant hear 😅

@@wildnyoung it just caught him off guard bcs the host didn't tell him that bp is sampling classical violin piece (he is a violinist) in the music.

Yup

​@@himaririku9254??

@@kimsomi748 that person is troll

Shut Down is a tooootally different thing than Feel my rhythm - and sadly that some ppl always tend to COMPARE to the the 1st example of something they heard which is kind of WRONG, cause other things can be quite different even if using the same or simmilar idea. If it's about comparing with other k-pop songs made with sampling classical pieces, it would be Cherry Bullet - Hands Up which sampled Fur Elise, the closest one, most simmilar in terms of vibe and choice of piece and mixing. Now> 1) Shut Down is supposed to be Dancy / Catchy / Repeat ON song, with the vibe ''I wanna jump to it all day and feel badass". For such songs u can't use many sections of one calssical piece, if sampling, since the vibe will be lost and song can become draggy losing it's purpose. 2) it's HIP HOP based song, while Feel my rhythm was opposite. Shut Down just made most amazing thing - bringing together very well blended Hip Hop vibe, Glamorous fire on of a classical piece like La Campanellea, and k-pop feel which totally could be felt here (and probably because> 1) composers/producers were Korean artists only, 2) Korean lyrics were as much important as English parts). 3) IDEA - this time idea was using just a motif, and even - part of a motif, actually! But how to use it to not be boring? yea loop. but not enough. So what's done here? It is the right choice of cut in the motif which will be used, well blended with key change for a half tone to point out macabre savage feel - what concept of song and lyrics suggests. Not only that the cut was done at the right time, but after putting loop it kinda drives you wanting to hear it more and more time - why? you EXPECT RESOLUTIONN - which comes finally before chorus. 4) rhythm + meter! - yeah they slowed it down a bit to fit lyrics, and it did win the vibe. 6/8 is hard actually to make into a pop song and especially into a upbeat badass catchy dansy and darky song. Slowing down 6/8 It made the motif even more stand out crossing with hip-hop korean style tune. 5) ACCENTS! - this is now rlly interesting. Cause actually well choice of words from Korean and English made it like lyrics flowing with the beat, it felt like it came of with those strong accents on every 3rd point of 6/8. And words chosen have similarity with ends and starts - it is like blend of sound of words in both languages. 6) use of sound effects layers etc - done without overdoing whole sound image. Even highest tones in instrumental werent killing ears. Violin was on point cause the sound depicts like recorded LIVE sound. 7) interesting work on background sound - despite motif repetition all the time, you can hear use of various violin techniques (pizzicato effect, ricoshe, etc) 8) image of popularity but badass and devilishnes - Paganini was popular star at his era, and he was loved as much as he was despised and cursed. He was made for entertainment and touring, much more maybe than Liszt - as one popular star back then too, in field of piano. Blackpink kinda relates to it. Also / when we say classical music we actually forget that it was popular music before / only after romanticism started to be divided into high class art music cutting ties with popular music. 9) I have much more to say about Shut Down and it's unique quality, but i rlly don't have time, maybe later I'll edit comment since this was written in hurry ... have a nice day~ and enjoy SHUT DOWn

100% agree what you said about YG label. I too understand why they choose a looped piece. The song makes more sense. Even the non vocal part really pops out.

the difference is old yg songs were actually good, this is extremely mediocre even for yg

YESSSS, YG always like to keep it clean and straight-forward with their instrumentals. That's just their brand. SM is the most experimental one, and that is their musical branding. I think Shut Down being a little different to their other tracks is the statement itself. And that's why, in a musical standpoint, it'd really look like there is really nothing much to it. It really is simple compared to the other titles and they actually did not have a switch-up moment in here, which they are known for. Heck, they don't even have a bombastic outro on this one.

@oceana311 mediocre?! What😬 a long time ygstan I disagree. Look at the history of yg music. There are many different genres and mixed genres. YG doesn't play by the rule. They make music that caters to the style YG artists have. To say this is mediocre based on taste is sad to hear.

Same I also thought about their channel the first time I heard it

SAMEEEE

SAMEEEE! i kept on checking my notification and their channel XD

Same

Same and always checking thier yt channel.. waiting for this reaction.

And they both do art appropriation in their videos. It’s very cool.

Very true! However, them 2 tracks are at different levels tho lol, FMR just hit so hard but so elegantly at the same time, it was extremely well packaged and the girls' jobs at the studio for recording were absolutely fantastic. And this is thing, RV's music was never to be only flawless, and soft or something but also kinda 'dark' (hiddenly), and it was the other way around, even their 'dark side' or 'badass side' have got that elegance and charming. They have done all those things delicately, they just do it so differently :)i mean, it's Red Velvet. BP is a bit more about commercial and towarding to the public, the way they made their music was just the same over the years (both the company and the girls), anyways, their songs always make ppl hum and dance to very easily, which is kinda amazing. Hope that BP can learn more, try more and and do more in the future, they have enough fame rn lol.

@@avani5907 References. I feel we had enough of throwing the A word at any single sht now.

@@avani5907 girlie learned the word appropriation and run with it🤡

@@sensorbitaccount5222 art appropriation is the actual term for it though

red velvet did it really well tho

@@banana-xz2nw they're genre is way too different to compare

@@banana-xz2nw two different pieces

@@banana-xz2nw red velvet has a two style theme like Blackpink but instead Blackpink's is STRICTLY concept wise (black being their badass side pink being their pretty side) versus Red Velvet is majorly about their music's KEY difference (Red being their pop side and velvet going into more mature songs). It's not accurate to say Blackpink did it worse than Red Velvet (I'm aware you didn't say that) because they're so different musically. Rap music in general use consistent beats that repeat themselves overwhelmingly with slight beat changes, contrary to Feel My Rhythm having this mature and soft in nature type of song, its not rap after rap, just some really cool vocal song. They embody such different styles of music. I loved both takes.

@@banana-xz2nw cus the genre they were going for fits the piece

he's so smart huhu

@SonderDAze X they're the voldemort of kpop. idk why other fandoms just collectively hate them, for being marketed the way they are, the 'ig models' and not being self-produced group, the long hiatus and short comeback, ah and also the big three privilege. It's supposedly blinks' problem but somehow other ppl had a problem with it too, I say they're just too obsessed and giving closeted blink.

@@amygdala3659 SLAYY, facts were spoken. People might hate your comment too because they hate Blackpink, but keep spreading the message!

@@amygdala3659 you spilled! every fandoms inside the kpop world being a “music experts” when it comes to BP’s music i mean it’s fine to criticise but where’s that energy for other groups? why is it only when it comes to BP? u can really tell that they just hate the girls.

@@persephonevids Because blackpink is sadly held to a higher standard than other (girl) groups. They (haters) want them to be perfect, but also not too perfect. They want BP to be musical geniuses and participants in producing their music, while knowing YG is heavily misogynistic towards their female artists AND knowing that BP does participate in some of the lyrics. They want blackpink to change things up, but when they do it's not good enough (see what happened to Pink Venom). They want things to be kept the same, but also not TOO similar or else they will call it (blank) 2.0 again. They want more songs from blackpink even though they will just hate on them anyway. They want more diversity in their songs, but also called Born Pink "non-cohesive". Whatever blackpink does, they can't win. At this point their problem isn't blackpinks music, but blackpink and the success they have.

FINALLY someone mentions this! I love that song but at the same time I don't listen to classical music enough to dislike the fact that they repeat the sample over and over. Same goes for hands up. Thank you for saying this!!

Thanks for "reminding me " she has a utube channel. I discovered her thru her work w/Dear Jazz Orchestra when they collab'd w/SWJA and Shinae An. I'm still going thru that stuff and Echae en Route? songs,

@@bobansak2583 I didn’t go through other people but I first got into her through in SoundCloud with the song Get into and just us I think that’s what it was called and after I just listened to her MV songs.

@@sarahkhairi928 👌

yeah. Feel my rhythm really set the bar high. I too like shutdown but feel my rhythm is just amazing!

don't compare cause they have different theme and YGE is a hip-hop rap base 🤦‍♀️

Yes, feel my rhythm, shutdown, and another one by Brave Girls during Queendom 2, they remix their songs "Red Sun" with Canon in D, if i remember correctly, and it turns out to be good too. I really like when kpop doing this kind of thing ❤️✨

but I feel shut down is more pleasing to listen who doesn't even know about classical music. More general public will love it.

​@@leandrebonsaint153 yeah, but if you know the message the pinks are trying to convey, with their music videos recycling some shots and same vibes with their previous songs (because of some antis saying their MVs are similar with one another), you'll get just why they went with that type of musical structure.

SHOULD'VE BEEN RELEASED FIRST INSTEAD OF PINK VENOM

@@aliensprstr9595 Nah. I get why they released Pink Venom first, because with a group like Blackpink comes lots of hate and criticism simply because they had a long hiatus. They need a song to direct the hate first so Shut Down will be a peaceful comeback. I simply think that is smart. It's the same thing with HYLT and Lovesick Girls

@@naufalnim Yup

Mine is tally

@@aliensprstr9595 it's literally a pre release

in contrast, i thought it was the best classical music-k hip hop fusion, because they used classical music to amplify their rap verses. from a hip hop point of view, the repeated sample brought out the best in the verses

@ no name I don't understand why the opinions of others drive you crazy, about something you don't think is so. It is good to understand the different perspectives, because for other classical music critics it is also one of the best fusions and we must always have the openness to love music and respect the tastes of others, because if for others it is the best it is their opinion, and we are nobody to make your opinion less.

For me is the best classical music - kpop fusion song. What’s wrong with accepting other people opinions?

@@beixval6619 maybe im just unlucky to have stumbled upon the toxic part of the fandom but ive seen many who put down other groups and refuse to listen to any critiques on this song which is why i was waiting for reacttothek to make a video because the cast gives their objective opinions on the song without being blinded by bias. if you truly love the song then by all means keep enjoying it

I know. I love this song but the overhyping and the over defensive comments from the commenters made me sick of the song, unfortunately

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THIS IS RIGHT 👍

Lol are you even in twitter? The younger people keep on dragging down the already dead man who's in the 6th feet under the ground because they want to own the 2 bars of the piece. So no, it is not a better song if they let their fans disrespect the legends.

100 agree on your opinion 👍 whenever I want to study or sleep I used to listen FMR and when I go outside while in public transportation or dance time I always listen shut down lol, both using classical sample but with different genre and I love it.