Do NOT Invite Moxxine to Your Party. Pro Opera Singer Reaction & ANALYSIS | Helluva Boss S2E4 & S2E5

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[00:00:00]Hi everyone, welcome back to the channel. Peter Barbie here, professional singer and music producer. And I just did three very fun musical and vocal breakdowns [music] from Hell of a Boss.

[00:00:09]We started off with What You Thinking About? Then we did Regular Joe and then we did Everybody Look at Me. It was really fun. Lot of variety here.

[00:00:17]Surprisingly, a number of things to talk about musically and vocally that probably no one else on the internet has talked about before cuz I'm kind of a psychopath when it comes to these things. Um, anyway, I hope you enjoy.

[00:00:29]So, sit back, relax, and I'll see you after.

[00:00:43]>> What you thinking about now? What you thinking about now? What you think is going to go down here? What you thinking about now?

[00:00:53]Real clear. Real clear.

[00:01:05]What you think about now? This feels very Striker coded from uh from what I remember from the Harvest Moon Festival.

[00:01:15]Now, I believe we have a new voice for Striker. I was just catching up a little bit on the wiki because I'm I'm doing the musical analysis for this season, but I'm not doing the full episode reactions. So, losing a bit of context there, of course. Um, I believe this is a different voice actor. I think we had who? Norman Reed for the Harvest Moon Festival. Now, we have a new a new feller in there. Um, and we'll see if we get any dialogue. But uh this is also an interesting kind of setting for a song because like how the sound design is mixed for this scene is very heavy on the fight scene and the action, right?

[00:01:50]And and they're being very true to the situation where like a little radio uh you know, a little speaker system just got shot and it kicked on a song. That's kind of how it actually sounds like listening to it cuz it's intentionally far away in the background. It has the low frequencies and the high frequencies sort of tapered off to give us a little bit of that like telephone feel to make it more realistic how a sound system like that would sound in this environment. We've got gunshots. We've got boxes breaking. So, it's really much more heavily on the sound effects of the scene than the song. So, we'll we'll kind of see what we can what we can pull out of it.

[00:02:32]>> A flat minor. Yeah. What you thinking about now?

[00:02:49]>> We have multiple voices. I wonder if just like in the lore of the show they have like these singers in the scene singing on this song. It sound a little bit like like one of the harmonies could have been Millie. It's so buried and and there's so much action happening, you really can't say. But that would be a cool little like I don't know, just a little kind of like meta thing to have the the characters fighting in the scene be the ones who actually recorded the song they're listening to.

[00:03:15][snorts and clears throat] Um a flat minor. Seven flats in that key signature. Don't play around with a flat minor.

[00:03:28]Part over.

[00:03:30]That's an A flat minor as well. [snorts] Probably the most probably the most popular song in A flat minor. It's got to be one of them. Uh anyway, well, let's keep going. I I I probably won't spend that much time on the musical analysis of this one if it stays like this, but I'm doing two more songs from the show in this in this recording session. So, let's go.

[00:04:02]So our Millie sounding person is in this high harmony.

[00:04:06][singing] Something like that.

[00:04:24]>> [screaming] >> Wait, was the first Hold on. Hold on.

[00:04:27]Hold on. Just give me one hot second.

[00:04:33]>> Okay. What you thinking about? So, and then there's another what you thinking about, but a very different style.

[00:04:45]Is it all the same? Is it like entirely the same lyrics?

[00:04:49]Oh, can you tell me what you're thinking about?

[00:05:01]>> Now we've gone full into like very very upbeat almost like drum and bass level. Look at this great shot here. Almost like drum and bass tempo pumping very pop candy pop forward. Um, and the vibe is totally shifted. They actually have, we don't get as much of that kind of radio sound now. It sounds more like soundtrack in this moment where the the song is a little more present. It's a little more clear.

[00:05:31][snorts] Oh, tell me what you're thinking about now.

[00:05:37][music] So, we've gone from a flat minor to C major.

[00:05:43]Thinking about thinking about now. Um, and yeah, I mean, just a total vibe shift, which is fun. We had kind of like a like kind of country western feel for the first one. Oh, what you thinking about now? Right. And this one's, oh, come on, tell me what you thinking about now. It's like total total shift. Um, that's funny though. I remember like back when when listening to radio was the most common thing like when I when I first got my license and um it was kind of amazing how you could just you could turn this tiny dial and you could go from something like a country western song straight into a candy pop song like like really really fast. Um, if you've ever walked down Broadway in Nashville, [snorts] uh, it's pretty amazing cuz all the bands that play there are so high quality, just really phenomenal musicians and singers. And so [snorts] you walk by one bar restaurant, it's playing a song almost like it's coming from the radio, like really high quality performance, and then you walk 10 more steps and it's a totally different song coming in. You can't even hear the previous one or the next one cuz there's so much noise. That's that's a very cool thing. It's almost like you're you're walking down the street like changing a radio. Anyway, [music] [screaming] >> I don't know what's happening here.

[00:07:10]>> All I would say is this doctor shouldn't mess with Luna. Cuz I got you [music] in my mind.

[00:07:21][music] >> Nice catch.

[00:07:28]>> What are they trying to do to Luna?

[00:07:30]That was never going to work. She's way too athletic. Come on. Come on, Blitz.

[00:07:40]>> All right. What's the next song? It's got to happen again.

[00:07:44]Nice cut with the cutting off the I mean, they're all athletes. Look at this. This is just phenomenal.

[00:07:49]Phenomenal athleticism here. Millie cutting off the cutting off the guns.

[00:07:57]That's nice with her battle axe.

[00:08:10]>> How do they get her down? Blitz could not hold I don't think Blitz could hold Luna down. Luna's a beast. [music] >> Wrecked. [screaming] [laughter] >> Oh, I hope we get one more style. Come on, give us another style.

[00:08:40]The sound design's great. So like they have to remember this is all animated, right? They have to manually create every sound effect you see, every footstep, every rope swinging, every gunshot. It's a huge part of the the audio mixing process to get the final version for these episodes. And it is it's an amazing it's an amazing thing they do. It would be so different experiencing this episode without the sound effects, even if you still had the dialogue, right? but without the sound effects. That's that's what makes animated shows are not supposed to be realistic. But um they're supposed to be believable, right? Whatever the reality is that's been set by this by this universe, you want to you want to believe it. You want to live in that world. And if something happens that feels like it doesn't belong in that reality, it kind of pulls you out of the drama. And a big part of that is having all the is having the sound design and the sound effects really locked in.

[00:09:43]like all that like even the there's the sound of like the of like the the wind from from one of these objects being like flown around >> that it's the battle axe [music] like it's really exceptional.

[00:10:10]>> [music] >> Wow. Okay. Yeah. You know, it's it's it's actually quite funny that people were like, "Hey, music guy, go go go make deep analysis to the show cuz almost every song in the show is like one minute. This was this was a minute 25. I think the next two I'm doing are like one minute. [laughter] They're so short." Uh, so I'm doing three in one here. I did manage to turn Stallas Sings into a 25minute analysis.

[00:10:42]Uh, there's a lot to talk about and if if you set me off my leash, my hellhound leash off into the rabbit hole of vocal analysis, I will continue running.

[00:10:51]Anyway, I'll see you back momentarily for the next part of this episode.

[00:10:58][music] All of these [singing] girls follow me around. I don't know [music] why or what could it be. I know. Will you take a selfie with me? Oh, I'm a [music] regular Joe.

[00:11:15]I want to know.

[00:11:19]I'm [music] simple and plain. Why do all these girls?

[00:11:25]>> It's really funny. It's actually it's it's pretty enjoyable to to listen to the songs out of context cuz it's I'm just like I don't know what's going on, but it makes it fun. I mean, and that I just I just got done doing the one for What You Thinking about this big battle scene and here we are in the next episode where Millie is like a some kind of undercover camp counselor. [laughter] [gasps] Uh yeah, I don't know. Anyway, let's uh let's let's run it back.

[00:11:55]every day. [music] This is nice. So instead of we get a a little shift in how the chords progress just makes it much more interesting than than having each chord go for four beats or one measure, however it's it's spread out. Uh is having that kind of like syncopated chord shift.

[00:12:24]Da da da. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 That's nice. That's just a just a a little songwriter tool to keep it a little more interesting.

[00:12:37][music] [singing] >> When I walk around camp, a flat major. So, we're in a flat minor at the start of the last song.

[00:12:54]Now, we're in a flat major.

[00:12:57]It sounds like Milliey's kind of like deepening her voice. I don't know if she's like trying to dress up like a like a boy here to be a boy camp counselor, but she calls herself a regular Joe.

[00:13:11]It's an expression, but like typically typically something a guy would call himself. Um anyway, [laughter] [music] >> yeah, she's totally totally rocking a different a different outfit here. No, than than what we've seen her in previously in the show. [snorts] She's just a regular Joe. And also this uh the vocal approach is very speech-like, right? The way the the words in the song is written, it's not, you know, we don't get these big sweeping. This is not a stolas song, right? This is very very different.

[00:13:45]Girls, follow [music and singing] me around.

[00:13:49]>> Okay, it's down to a flat three. So, we're h we're in the lower middle range.

[00:13:55]Lower middle. Nothing crazy. [music] >> Look at this handsome Squidward face.

[00:14:03][music] [laughter] >> Love this. We get this uh we get this nice uh running baseline here that that follows uh what the what the chords are doing. Really fills out the arrangement right as soon as a baseline comes in. [music] >> Hey, will you take a selfie with me?

[00:14:29]>> Oh my god. Foaming at the mouth. I'm a regular Joe.

[00:14:34]I want the world to know.

[00:14:37][music] Why do all these girls?

[00:14:44]>> It's really interesting. All the the the way the mixing is done is like the the background instrumentation is really like subdued and almost like lowfi feeling.

[00:14:53]Um lowfi not like the lowfi genre. I mean like low quality like it's it's very like sounds like like it was recorded on a really old system. The voices obviously are forward lead. We want that anyway but the background instrumentation is not like [snorts] full band professional mixing stereo image. It's like really really basic. Um obviously a choice they have access to exceptional mixing engineers.

[00:15:22]So, I always wonder when I hear this kind of thing, why why for this song?

[00:15:28]Maybe maybe it's a little more regular Joe feeling, I suppose, to have like a simpler done mix or simpler instrumentation. The chord progression is very simple, right? Aside from the the little bit of spice, but that adds to like the energy that we're getting here for this like happy camp counselor thing. Um, anyway, things to consider.

[00:15:50]>> [music] >> It sounds very mono. So in stereo, a stereo image is where you have sounds kind of laid out all the way left to right, all the way to your right ear, all the way to the left, not counting surround sound, which is a different a different more advanced kind of thing.

[00:16:04]It sounds very mono where like everything's just right down the middle.

[00:16:08]And just doing that can make a song lose a ton of its nuance and expansiveness because you're hearing everything right down the middle channel, which is typically supposed to be for like kick, snare, bass, lead vocals, and then you have pretty much everything else panned out. So you get this wide spectrum left to right of sound. And here it sounds very very mono. And that is one way to to immediately make the song lose quality. and clarity and make it much more simple and plain as we see here on the screen. Also, I like this little bouncing karaoke head. Um, so that's actually an interesting an interesting thing there.

[00:16:56]My name [screaming] >> Okay. Just an ordinary common dude. Got it. Got it. Got it. The full picture now.

[00:17:14]Wait, [laughter] is it Moxy?

[00:17:19]That's got to be Moxy. [gasps] That's fantastic.

[00:17:24]I'm like, >> I'm soinary, just a dude, but [music] they're all up in my DMs. They keep sending me [music] >> over here. I baked a cake for you.

[00:17:42]>> A little bit of action. We got some drum drum action here in the the second verse.

[00:17:47]I don't think we had Do we have >> first chorus we did first verse we did not have drums.

[00:18:01]>> Isn't this crazy?

[00:18:02]This little runup right before the this uh second verse.

[00:18:10]>> I'm soinary just a common dude. But they're all up in my DM.

[00:18:17]more complicated baseline.

[00:18:24]>> There's a little bit more movement and just kind of more uh more clarity to it as well. [snorts] >> This is this baseline.

[00:18:40]>> It's It's even more. There's another little jump in there.

[00:18:44]I'm soinary, just a common dude. But [music] they're all up in my DMs. They keep sending me.

[00:18:53]I'll tell you it's true.

[00:18:54]>> Miller over here. I baked a cake for you.

[00:19:03]>> Hubby flat. So, getting towards the top of the comfy chest range, but nothing crazy. This is these are some crazy stats. 4.7 mil views, 850,000 likes on a live stream. God, I don't have anyone.

[00:19:20]That's like a That's like Mr. Beast level live stream.

[00:19:23]>> Miller, over here. I baked a cake for you.

[00:19:27]>> Baked a cake. There we get a nice some nice voice acting here.

[00:19:31]>> Miller, over here. I baked a cake for you.

[00:19:33]>> Right. No melody. [music] >> [music] [music] >> So full. We got we some nice nice belting up here. Not crazy high. We get some nice belting here in this chorus.

[00:19:58][music] I love you, Miller.

[00:20:05]>> All right, [snorts] two down, one to go.

[00:20:08]We have one more song. I think it's like less than uh I think it's the other one from this episode. It's like less than a minute long. So, see you back in one moment.

[00:20:16]>> Oh, everybody look at me. I'm [music] plain to see.

[00:20:20]>> Oh, no.

[00:20:21]>> Losers wish that you could be like me, but you can't cuz I'm a work of art.

[00:20:27]Yeah, I'm hot So pretty and smart.

[00:20:29]Everybody take a look. [laughter] >> Well, that would be horrifying.

[00:20:35][gasps] Okay, so this is great. So, we got we got Moxy and Millie who have totally swapped swapped outfits and how they're portraying their genders. I guess [laughter] [gasps] this is great. Look at this. I thought it was I thought it was Moxy. I thought this was uh was Moxy earlier. I wasn't totally sure until like later in that last video, but yeah. Okay, so we got we got Millie on Banjo accompaniment. That's for real. That's actually happening. And we got in the scene. And then I think Moxy, it looks like is getting pretty jealous of the attention of our regular Joe here.

[00:21:21]>> This actually sounds so there's so much open space around them. You wouldn't you wouldn't get reverb or atmosphere when you sing outdoors unless you're uh has to be a kind of specific environment.

[00:21:32]But out in the open that's like as little reverb as you can get. You might if you really holler, you might be able to hear, you know, a reverb come back off this mountain, right? An echo. But, uh, sitting around the campfire, it's going to be a very dry vocal, meaning not a lot of effects on it. And we totally get that with Moxy here. It's a very, very dry signal. Wet signal means you've got you've got effects on it.

[00:21:54]reverb, delay, compression. It all depends what you're putting through the return tracks to make them wet. That's a whole other thing. Um, but uh this is a very dry signal. So, it's really and it's, you know, not tuned, you know, it's it's very very natural presentation. And it is just banjo and voice.

[00:22:18][music] >> We're in G major now. classic easy easy key for for pretty much any instrument that I'm aware of. At least I'm pretty sure for sure. Guitar, uh, uh, mandolin, ukulele, piano, probably banjo. My mom played I have a banjo right here, actually, that my mom gave me for Christmas that someday I'll learn how to play. Um, anyway, G major, easy work.

[00:22:48]>> Oh, look at me. I'm the greatest. It's plain to see that all you losers wish that you could be like me, but you can't cuz I'm a work of art. Yeah, I'm hot So pretty. And >> that's crazy. Jumps in the fire and the makeup starts melting. That would be absolutely horrific for these people.

[00:23:06]Everybody take a look at me.

[00:23:10]>> Look at me. [music] [singing] >> Moxine.

[00:23:17][music] >> High B. Okay, this is great. So, we've had Moxy actually sing higher than Millie. When Millie was doing all the belts in Regular Joe, that was getting up to B flat. And we have Moxine absolutely ripping up to a tenor high B.

[00:23:38][laughter] It's really high.

[00:23:40]>> Yeah, I'm hot So pretty and smart.

[00:23:43]Oh, everybody take a look at me. That's very very high. And that's chess voice. That's that's that's got that yell real yell quality to it.

[00:23:57]>> Everybody take a look at me.

[00:24:00]Look at me.

[00:24:06]>> What is this scene? See these background vocals just going >> teen.

[00:24:15][laughter] Oh yeah. Let's go. Banjo Kazouie.

[00:24:30]Absolutely ripping it. I love a banjo solo.

[00:24:36]Sounds very sampled though. I don't that don't It doesn't sound like a live banjo player.

[00:24:41]It's too clean.

[00:24:48][cheering] What is this? What is this going on under here? these these these uh added sub is this maybe from the person who posted this video. Epic banjo solo Millard is real cool.

[00:25:06]Oh a [cheering] Oh, forgive me. I thought it was 54 seconds. It was actually a 39 second song. [laughter] Crazy.

[00:25:22][gasps] Okay. Well, I'm glad I did three in this one because this would have been outrageously short. Uh, I hope you guys enjoyed these three musical breakdowns for Hell of a Boss. Um, I did the all full episodes for all of season 1, but I decided for season 2, I'm returning to my roots, what the channel is built on, where I can provide the most value, which is musical analysis. That's what I do, baby. plenty of reactions out there already. So, uh, breaking down the music and I'm going to keep going through.

[00:25:54]Early access to all of this as well as my other reactions will be on Patreon always. Um, hope to see you over there.

[00:26:00]Hope you enjoyed. Hope you learned something. Gained a little appreciation for, you know, what helps make this magic uh, musically and sound design and sound effects and all that stuff. And I'll see you next time. Bye-bye.