Whatchu got, Lumpens? And you know what else GDW have that Lumpens don’t? remember the foo stomping in Not Today and how awesome it was and it enhanced the song? This time around, they add an explosion to the mixing table! They’re the ones making videos that blow us away, you can find sappy plots in kdramas.įind me someone who was not impressed by that special effect. It’s not even just because of the theory crap. I now know I prefer BTS with GDW than Lumpens. So it seems Lumpens are in charge of all the plot-centric, theory-making videos, while GDW focus on choreography, good close-ups of the idols. They previously took the reigns in making the MV for Not Today. The directing team this time around is GDW rather than Lumpens (a GDW member would be the Director of Photography in that situation). I’ve pretty much covered covered the music (I’d rather save my thoughts on the original song for a future album ranking), now for the video. I’m sensing a pattern in my taste of chord progressions. I wouldn’t call it the best ending riff in K-Pop, but it’s much better than one static note fading to silence. If not, then you can definitely hear it at the end. You can almost hear it multiple times in the chorus. In the remix, however, there’s this little riff he sticks in the song. That’s a big reason why it’s not my number one favorite song on the EP. I always thought that was a very anticlimactic move when you have that breakdown preceding it. In the original, the song just fades with one note as Suga drops his mic. There is, shockingly, one improvement in the remix the ending. Yes that’s the first example I could think of. Now you hear it, don’t you? Steve stripped the original riff to be a static, repetitive beat sans breakdown (and technically the pre-chorus, but the pre-chorus was always one chord throughout). Notice how there’s a little piano-esque riff missing in the remix? Or how the key changes every eight measures in the original, while it’s the same chord in Steve’s version? No? Okay, try listening to the choruses back to back. Listen to both versions back to back starting from the beginning to before J-Hope’s verse. The verses and chorus do no have a chord change while they do in the original. Moving on to changes I don’t like, I have to bring up the elephant in the room. While I miss those booming sounds, I’m glad that’s the most drastic change. I’d say the most notable difference musically is the breakdown (starting from RM’s “Haters gonna hate” to the end).

But with Mic Drop, Steve was a lot more faithful to the source material. While the source material can be a bit repetitive, the remix, like most remixes in general, tend to go their own way and underplay what made their song a hit in the first place. If you listen to his remix of hit reggaeton song Mi Gente, good chunks of that version either sounds nothing like the original, or overproduced renditions of the original parts of the song. Now onto “ Uncle Steve’s” contribution: I am happy Steve didn’t stray too far away from the original to make it his own. Why else is the majority of rap I listen to in Korean? Tag yourself I’m Jungkook Like, why is he talking about chicken all of a sudden? And that whole apple sauce thing? Maybe that’s just not my style of hip hop. There are a lot of brief pauses, his rhymes are elementary, and his lyrics aren’t quite coherent. I may not kow much about rap, but I’m pretty sure Desiigner isn’t the reincarnation of The Notorious B.I.G based on his rap here. While we’re talking about Desiigner, I’d rather get that out in the open first before focusing on Steve’s work.

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