You guys are now reacting to the four member girl group aespa and their title track,

Drama, off of their 2023 mini album of the same name.

They sing about having total confidence in themselves and the strength they feel with support from each other and from their fans.

aespa use this power to bring drama and break trauma.

Dang.

But they are more than just the main characters of this drama, they are also the writers.

They sing,

You and I, together we write this story, pass hurdles no more, push boundaries every day,

I'ma make it my way.

The song is composed by NoIdentity, Waker, EJ, and Charlotte Wilson.

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I think Trick or Trick is one of those tracks where like,

I still think it's probably the best one in the album.

When I first heard it, yes, I think it was very fun to discover the journey that this song had.

We also started a new series where we'll be ranking every song in an artist's discography every month.

I'm surprised it's not God Tier for you, I was pretty sure a***** was like amazing for you.

It is, but I'm being sparing with God Tiers.

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Let's go.

Are we ready for the drama?

Yeah, yup, yup.

3, 2, 1.

Welcome to the drama. Please follow rules.

Wait, can we pause this and read the rules?

Welcome to drama. Please follow four rules.

Look back immediately when you feel a presence in the dark.

Are we in the dark yet, though?

It's opposite day, so yes.

Okay, then I'll look forward.

Oh.

It's opposite day.

It's because we're, yeah, we're looking, okay, okay, right, right.

If your reflection tries to shake your hand, don't let it.

That's crazy.

Let it.

Yes, we let it.

Light can blind your eyes.

Run away at full speed.

Run to the light.

All of the above is false.

Oh, yeah.

The only way to escape is by doing the opposite.

Okay.

Yeah, you were right.

It is opposite day.

I had not read that far.

Me neither.

I called it.

Let's get it.

3, 2, 1.

Great scary music.

This is scary.

Sounded like an eggshell.

Great noises.

Yeah, yeah.

Whoa.

Yeah.

Oh.

Wow.

I love that percussive instrument.

Those triplets.

I like the mix in their flow.

There's that major.

Ooh.

Wow.

That's traumatic.

Ooh.

The bass.

Silking that really dark heavy sound in the pre-chorus.

Yeah.

That organ.

Yeah.

That was a nice-

Look at that.

That was a nice use of triplets actually.

Damn.

Was that the reflection?

Ooh.

Wow.

Wow.

Whoa.

I like that.

That was a nice subversion.

I didn't think that's where I was going at all.

Okay.

Nice little line.

Now major third.

This feels so like, lead-coded, you know?

Mm.

Mm.

Was she counting all the off-beats?

Nice.

That's super nice, yeah.

Oh, this is cool.

Really glad that they're bringing in this new melodic motif in the second verse.

Is that Gucci?

The bass drum is cool.

Yeah.

Gucci's so powerful.

Ding-ding rap, that's unusual.

There's a lot of counting in this song.

Wow.

4 to 1.

What?

What is going on?

Whoa.

Yeah.

Nice.

That one measure where they drop everything out.

Yeah.

Variety is important.

Whoa.

Where did this come from?

Kardashians are cowering right now.

Hmm, interesting.

Whoa.

It's like using the- the b2 chord as the pivot chord.

God, the vocal harmonies are so thick.

Mm.

Dance break?

I want a dance break, please.

Oh!

High note.

She's still going.

And ad-libs.

Sick.

That was sick, yeah.

You're still hanging?

That's hella like upper body strength.

I want a little outro.

Oh!

Whoa.

This is so interesting.

Intense.

It's really intense.

Oh, nice.

I love that.

The texture of that sound is really nice.

That was so satisfying.

I like how they brought back the talking, like the kind of rap thing at the end.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's like close harmony.

Did you hear that?

Ooh, some of their vocal harmony there is really cool.

It's close, the timbre is so similar that it just really sounds like one chord, not like a couple voices at the same time.

That sounds out to me as like, that probably the most like musically exciting and interesting thing for this.

And then the drama vocal fries also stands out like, oh, that's unique.

All in all, I think it's a pretty good song.

I don't really know why it's not like resonating with me as much yet.

Maybe I'm just too full from Thanksgiving dinner.

Very beginning and very end were my favorite.

Yeah.

Ooh, I think I like it when like things sound like atonal or like when you, when there's sounds, but I can't really hear the exact pitch.

The pitch, yeah.

Yeah, I like that effect a lot.

If you listen to at the end of the song.

Oh, the sound develops.

Yeah, like it's much more clean.

What I'm guessing, again, this is speculation on the production methods.

If you run a sound like a transient through a resonator, but then you can turn it where the harmonics aren't, like you have the harmonics lined up and that'll tend to give you something like kind of like a string pluck or lined up another way.

It'll give you kind of like a clean, like tuned metal sound.

But if you turn them to like weird, like not clean fractions, you'll get this sort of bizarre, like metallic sound.

There's like, it's hard often to even hear what the fundamental is.

And I'm guessing that's how this is done is running a transient through a resonator that's set someplace weird.

And maybe even like, given how some of these sound, the harmonics or partials of a sort are moving contrary to where the note is, it might even be like randomizing or just like resetting where it is each time they do a new note.

Future K-pop producer people.

Hopefully.

How do you feel listening to that song?

It's definitely giving drama.

How do you feel like their vocal delivery added to the drama?

It was very like bold.