#i love the concept and im grateful it gave us tiger

[bisexualdinahlance]

To this day I'm still amazed they fucked up a concept as fun as "dick grayson forced to go undercover as james bond". Whether you liked Grayson as a title or not (I have mixed feelings about it lol) you have to admit that the idea of having Dick or really any batfam member become a SPY is hilarious. There's so much they could've done with this concept but they fumbled it so hard. I will forever be bitter actually

[wickymicky]

i thought the “i love you like lalalala” sample in I Love You by EXID was really annoying and grating at first, and i havent fully come around on it yet, but i do think it makes more sense in the context of their discography and i’ve gotten more used to it. it serves the same function as the “ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo” sample in DDD, but this kind of thing in EXID songs isnt always samples. in Up&Down it was the “wi arae wi wi arae” thing, and in Ah Yeah its the “ah yeah ah yeah / a ye a ye” thing. in LIE, again, its the title. 

Shinsadong Tiger produced all of their songs (all of their title tracks at least), but I know that this isnt necessarily his style with other groups, so it’s clearly a conscious choice for EXID. with this group, he seems to tend to base the hook on a repeated vocal phrase, and over time began to do that more with samples than just with the members singing it in the song. since a sample is the same in every way each time it plays, it kind of functions as a piece of the instrumental, and not as a part of the vocal melodies of the song. i don’t know how he actually sits down and writes songs lol i dont know anything about him really, but i wouldnt be surprised if, when he sat down to write an EXID song, actually started with that repeated vocal line/sample and built from there with things that would compliment it. maybe he heard someone say something just casually or whatever, or hum to themselves or something, and he liked the melody of it, and built a song around it? that’s something you hear a lot from people who make beats, obviously especially from people who use sampling heavily, and especially especially from people who use unconventional samples like the sound of a car going by or the sound of a washing machine haha. that’s not what Shinsadong Tiger does with EXID, kpop isnt at the point yet where it would have avant garde sampling like that yet i dont think, though one of EXID’s songs did include a phone ringing as part of the song. 

so like, i thought the “i love you like lalalalalalala” thing was kind of off-putting, i wasnt sure what would possess a songwriter to do that... i kinda thought it was just trying really hard to emulate the most annoying american popstars when they do stuff like that. but now that i know that this is an intentional style that EXID has had basically since Up&Down and have only been incorporating and building off of more in the last couple years, it made a lot more sense. and as i gave the song another shot and told myself to just sit through it and see what the rest of the song has to offer, i came away from that knowing that there’s a lot more to the song than just that vocal sample. i thought it was going for sort of a girl crush love song vibe, trying to sound like... idk... for lack of a better term “slutty” (i mean that in a good way, like i thought it was trying to be that kind of sensual, seductive, “i know what i’m about” kind of sexuality)... but i thought it fell flat because the sample doesnt actually sound quite like that and i just chocked it up to me being a native english speaker and them not. but now that i know the song (or at least the video) deals with like drunkenness and hangovers, it actually fits that concept really well. it sounds kinda drunk and stuff, like someone is saying that to someone else because theyre drunk and not cause they mean it, its just kind of a thing theyre saying over and over, and theyre kinda hazy and they pass out and wake up and then vomit lol. so with all that, i am actually coming around on the song. i know why i didnt give it a chance before (i actually never made it past the first like 30 seconds of the song before lol, so i never knew that was the concept), but im glad i was able to come back with more context and better understand it.