Merry Christmas... now that that's outta the way, I'd recommend their pre-debut mv Don't be happy. but be warned, they have a lot of mv's anyway.. after Mr. Ambiguous came Piano Man... then Um Oh Ah Yeh and Ahh! Oops.. 1cm/Taller Than You and Your The Best.. Dècalcomanie and came New York, Angel(sub-unit of Solar and Wheein) Dab Dab(sub-unit of Moonbyul and Hwasa).. then came Yes I Am, AZE Gag, and Love & Hate/ Worthless (Byul's Solo) .. then came Paint me.. Moon Wind Flower and Sun, Starry Night and (Hwasa's solo) Be Calm.. then came Egotistic and (Moonbyul's solo) Selfish.. then came Wind Flower.. then came Gogobebe and (Wheein's solo) 25.. then came Destiny(pre-release) and Hip... can't remember if your watched Dingga(pre-release) but that's next and off course Aya was last
A few of points of interest for you ... 1st, for rookies, they were considered extremely strong, surprisingly strong, so much so they were dubbed "Monster Rookies", and they won the "Rookie of the Year" award, less then a year after their debut. 2nd, MoonByul's voice didn't deepen, they tried to make her sing (rap) in a higher octave, that wasn't natural for her, trying to make her sound more like what was the "norm" for girl groups in kpop. She finally said no more, and started to sing in her natural voice, which is the voice you are use to. Also, at the same time, they were whitening Hwa Sa's skin, trying to make her fit into the beauty standards too, along with making all of them diet, and weighting them weekly. :( Truly a shame what they put these Beautiful, wonderful women through. and the 3rd, the woman towards the end that comes in and does the whole bit with them. She was an actress brought in to prank them, that is why she says she felt so bad coming in and saying those things. Also the man asking Solar, "Ms. Ji Young is really good at acting, right?" and Solar doesn't know what to think, and then the man off camera, and the rest starting laughing. Then Mamamoo starting laughing with them, and then they start to cry, because it was too much, and the woman goes over to hug them, and apologize, and try to make it better, because she felt bad. Hope this info helps, and Merry Christmas! Can't wait for the rest of the Mamamoo's MVs, oh and when you do the list, make sure not to miss their minor MVs too. So many people only do the major MVs and they miss some of Mamamoo's BEST! including their CFs, and OSTs! I will see if I can find that list you were asking about.
on the moonbyul rap part... that was, sadly, what was pretty much what was expected of female rappers at the time, so they had her try it. so glad she's able to comfortably use her voice now. and it's sad how many female artists still need to sing/rap so much higher than their actual ranges are just because it's what the agencies, the industry and the fans expect (...like people constantly praise the collab song "deep blue eyes" and i just wince so much at it... virtually everyone's singing so high it hurts)
The lady who critiques them is baek ji young. She is a senior singer, OST queen with a lot of drama tracks in ballad genre. And i think in this video they did like a hidden camera where they just like spontaneously shot in between and put it in the mv. Also, other people in the video are also artists and singers themselves.
All Mamamoo songs with MV in order 2014 Don't Be Happy (Predebut) Peppermint Chocolate (Predebut) Mr Ambiguous (Debut) Piano Man 2015 Ahh Oop (ft. eSNa) Um Oh Ah Yeh Girl Crush (Advertising song) 2016 Pride of 1cm You're The Best Recipe Woo Hoo (Advertising song) Angel (Live MV, Solar & Wheein) Dab Dab (Live MV, Moonbyul & Hwasa) New York Décalcomanie I Love Too (Live MV) 2017 Yes I Am Aze Gag Honey Bee (Solar of Mamamoo x Luna of f(x) x Hani of EXID) 2018 Paint Me Star Wind Flower Sun Starry Night Be Calm (Hwasa solo) Everyday (Advertising song) Don't (Hwasa x Loco) Egotistic Selfish ft. Seulgi of Red Velvet (Moonbyul solo) Easy ft. Sik-K (Wheein solo) Windflower 2019 Twit (Hwasa solo) Gogobebe 25 (Wheein solo) Goodbye (Wheein solo) Gleam (Advertising song) Hip Snow (Moonbyul solo) 2020 Eclipse (Moonbyul solo) Absence (Moonbyul solo) ILJIDO (Moonbyul solo) Spit It Out (Solar solo) María (Hwasa solo) LMM (Hwasa solo) Wanna Be Myself (Advertising song) Dingga Aya A Miracle 3 Days Ago (Moonbyul solo)
all mamamoo mv’s in order moomoos lmk if i missed anything and i’ll edit not including members official solo projects !! WATCH ALL ON MAMAMOOS OFFICIAL CHANNEL FOR ENGLISH SUBTITLES !! Don’t be happy (pre debut track) Mr. Ambiguous (title track) Piano man (title track) Ahh Oop (b-side) Um oh ah yeh (title track) Taller than you (1cm) b-side You’re the best (title track) Woohoo (CF) I love you too (b-side) Angel (b-side) Dab dab (b-side) Memory (b-side) New York (b-side) Decalcomanie (title track) Yes I am (title track) Aze gag (b-side) Paint me (b-side) Star Wind Flower Sun (b-side) Starry night (title track) Be Calm (hwasa solo) Everyday (b-side) Egotistic (title track) Selfish (moonbyul solo) Sky sky (b-side) Windflower (title track) Hello (solar solo) not a mv Gogobebe (title track) 25 (wheein solo) Gleam (promotional song) HIP (title track) Wanna be myself (CF) Dingga (b-side) Aya (title track)
All I can think of to add to that is 3. After Piano Man is AAh Oop with Esna, before Starry Night was Star Wind Flower Sun, and before Egotistic was Everyday.
The woman in on the prank is Baek Ji Young, a very well respected senior singer so the girls were nervous to meet her. Her voice is phenomenal I highly recommend taking a listen to some of her work. If you do please start with 'We' it's a duet with Ong Song Wu, their voices blend so well together.
First of all merry Christmas, i raccomend to see their debut stage even on your own because it's so good they don't seems like rookie at all 😂 there's a even more high pitched rap of Moonbyul in one of their pre release, don't be happy or peppermint chocolate i don't remember which one, the reason is the company told her to rap like that fortunately it changed 😅
on the name bit... the explanation you heard is actually kind of a backronym, though their name isn't short for anything. the real story is actually more interesting to me. before they debuted (and they were still a 5 member group), the girls got to perform a song called "mamamoo" that their ceo, kim dohoon, wrote for quincy jones. they performed it for jones himself, while he was in south korea, and there's actual (blurry) footage of the five of them performing it. the song was called "mamamoo" based on the adlibs used in it. mr jones wound up passing on the song, so it got reworked into "mr ememoho", "mr ambiguous" here, their debut song. and one of the staff suggested just calling the group after the adlib originally used in the song. so, mamamoo was born because they didn't expect people outside the music industry to find the real story of their name interesting, they came up with the 'music should be instinctual' bit since got asked about their name so much also, they kept doing that 'finger moustache' move because the korean word for 'ambiguous' sounds similar to 'mamamoo' (which is why they changed the lyrics of the song to it) and also the word for 'moustache', so they wound up doing a fair bit of playing around with that, even using plastic moustache rings in their live stages so they'd be wearing them in the parts where they put their fingers up to their faces i mentioned byul's voice in a reply to another comment, but... yeah, her voice didn't really deepen over time. back at the beginning, they were trying to find the 'sound' for each member and the agency was still falling into many of the traps set up by existing agencies, such as making their female artists sing or rap in higher pitch than is natural for them just because it was expected (they 'taught' the audience to like higher pitched, bubbly voices for women. which is based a lot on how many asians learn to speak their own languages. i live in a city with large asian populations... chinese, vietnamese, japanese, korean and more... and the change in pitch between their english speaking voices and the voices they use for their other language is just crazy. not all of them adjust to a higher pitch for their asian language but quite a few do). you'll see a lot of this in female kpop groups and it makes me wince virtually every time i hear it, esp in collab stages with multiple artists from multiple groups working together. everything just sounds so nasal and nearly ultrasonic... you'll hear it worst with byul's bit in "peppermint chocolate", one of the two pre-debut collabs they did (the other being "don't be happy" which is just solar/wheein singing but is still worth checking out) also, just want to say i'm so glad you're using the mv from mamamoo's official channel! that's the one with subs but it's much harder to find than the distributor one. which is part of the reason they use distributors, of course. both stone music entertainment and 1thek are music distributors that work out deals with smaller agencies that need the extra publicity. the small agencies can't reach big audiences on their own, since many people don't even know to look up artists from said agency, so music distributors will release the mvs for these artists on their own channels, as well, which have access to much wider audiences since so many people follow them because of artists from other small agencies being on them, as well. the artists from the agencies get more recognition and potentially more fans, the distributors get ad revenue from the mvs watched on their channel, so it's technically a win-win though feels heavily geared towards distributor favor... and the prank near the end seems to show two things... one, i love how their agency used it as an excuse to slip live vocals into the mv, showing 'hell yeah our girls really can sing, see'. and two, it shows the relationship between the girls and their agency/staff. to westerners, it seems weird that they're playing a prank like this, esp in the mv, but it's apparently quite common in korea, supposedly a way to relieve work tension or something. i don't begin to understand it. but mamamoo and their staff constantly try to prank each other (it's just the mamamoo girls are so bad at it they can really only prank each other, and even then not consistently. but they still try, esp for each other's birthdays)
their debut stage for this song is also so good. they sang live and had so much charisma for a rookie group. also only a small handful of people/family/friends came in the audience and when i say a handful like literally maybe five people. other than that there’s no indicator that it was their first stage.
I just realized you already reacted to "Eclipse". I'm new to this channel. I'm currently on a marathon on this playlist. Thanks for reacting to THEM. 😆
Moon-Byul did admit that, in their old songs, she had to strain her voice a lot to raise her pitch 'cause IT'S unusual for a girl group to have a deeper voice. 🤔💬
Looking at this MV after that episode in Boss in the mirror gave that whole prank scence a whole different meaning. To give you a background, recently Solar was in the variety show Boss in the mirror and in one of the episodes Solar said that before their debut, their CEO went around people he knew from the industry and introduced them as an upcoming girl group and to ask for support when they debut as is customary. As this was happening, the CEO was told that he would not succeed with this girl group he was forming, they are going to fail and that he made a “bad investment” on them so to speak. The girls heard from people that they were going to fail even before they debuted so for this lady to do the prank must have added to the pressure and that is why Solar broke down. But that has made their success so much sweeter. They were considered monster rookies and won an award for it. Not a lot of people mention this but, Mamamoo view RBW CEO Kim Do Hoon as their father. Not just because he formed the group but also because of the hardship they went through together. If not for his trust with the members and vice versa, we won’t have Mamamoo today.
Compiled a list for you! It's quite the list of course, this is me listing their primary MV's (solos/title tracks regarded as MooMoo musts. Have left some member solos out, not too familiar with those releases). Feel free to pick the ones you feel like people are requesting. I marked my personal favourites with an asterisk. Pre-debut: Don't Be Happy (primarily Solar and Wheein) Peppermint Chocolate (more so Mamamoo as a big feature on K.will’s track) 2014: Mr. Ambiguous *Piano Man 2015: Ahh Oop! ft. Esna *Um Oh Ah Yeh 2016: Taller Than You *You're the Best Woo Hoo *Décalcomanie 2017: Yes I Am 2018: Paint me Starry Night *EASY (Wheein’s solo) *SELFISH (Moonbyul’s solo ft. Red Velvet’s Seulgi) *Don't Give It To Me (Hwasa’s solo ft. Loco) Egotistic *Wind Flower 2019: Twit (Hwasa’s solo) gogobebe *Gleam (song + MV made as a commercial, they killed it) HIP 2020: Eclipse (Moonbyul’s solo) Spit it out (Solar’s solo) *Maria (Hwasa’s solo) *Wanna Be Myself *Dingga AYA Non-MV worthwhile mentions (performances I listen/watch to, a lot): Words don't come easy (uploaded by allie _v.v_) I miss you (uploaded by Mnet K-POP, the second one with less views for an un-interrupted viewing experience. Could be some copyright issues?) Delilah (uploaded by KBS World) Passion Flower (uploaded by KBS World) Mama 2018 (uploaded by Mnet K-POP, it's 7 minutes of WONDER)
You're awesome. You've definitely become one of my favorite Mamamoo reactors. Merry Christmas! Stay safe and healthy! Looking forward to more Mamamoo content!
Love that you’re doing it chronologically. Your reactions are A1!! I love how genuinely you react, your appreciation for music and how in tune your ears are with notes and everything
Moonbyul said during that time she used to make her voice sound higher to fit in with the others :( and now she’s up her owning it moonbyul has really improved so much
If you want a full chronological list of MAMAMOO's MVs, their Wikipedia page has a section just for their music videos en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamamoo_discography
The story you told about their name was probably invented by the PR dept at RBW. Mamamoo was the original title of Mr Ambiguous, which was written by RBW co-CEO for Quincy Jones. The girls performed it for QJ when he was in Seoul for a concert before they debuted or even had a group name. He passed on the song, which was then partially rewritten and retitled Mr Ememoho and the group was given the original song title as their name. Do you want all their MVs in chrono order or just the title tracks from the albums? What about solo and subunit songs? CF songs paid for by advertisers? Group and solo OST songs? Collaborations? Add in their 14 appearances on Immortal Songs 2, which is almost a parallel career as a mainstream girl group vs their kpop gg career, and it would take a couple months of daily MMM vids to get through them all. I'll give you a list of albums and title tracks to start with: Hello: Mr Ambiguous Piano Man: Piano Man Pink Funky: Um Oh Ah Yeah Melting: You're the Best Memory: Decalcomanie Purple: Yes I Am Yellow Flower: Starry Night Red Moon: Egotistic Blue;S: Wind Flower White Wind: Gogobebe reality in BLACK: Hip Travel: Aya
All "staff" is composed by big artists (some of them don't deserve our attention) but I'd recommend you to check the photographer's song "K.Will - 'Please Don't" (it's a must see to every kpop fan) and the chorus man's song "Bumkey [범키] - 'Attraction (feat.Dynamic Duo)." You won't be disappointed, I promise!!!
When you see them sing the same song Live at the time... It's Very different compared to the M/V. They seem to tone it down for the many of the M/V's... Especially early on.
Yes! I am so glad that you finally reacted to this, They all did so well and this is only their Debut Song! I seriously don't know who's Era this was I think it was everyone's Era to be Honest! And Sorry that I am late you posted this around Midnight where I live but that's ok! Anyways I can't wait for you to react to more Mamamoo such as more Music Videos, B - Sides, Live Performances, Covers, Dance Practices, Moments, and of course Ships! I can't wait for more Content from you and I hope that you are doing well and staying safe and healthy Linton, Also Merry Christmas and Happy New Years! P.S. If you ever need any good Videos I can totally help you out with that if you need it, also you should definitely check out some more Red Velvet they are such an amazing Group with Gorgeous Vocals and Visuals, especially Wendy her Vocals are insane and her Vocal Colors are Crazy she is one of the best (in my opinion the best K - Pop Vocalist) Vocalists of this Generation! And the other Members are Insanely Gorgeous and Talented as well Seulgi definitely would be the Main Vocalist in pretty much any other Group, Irene Is so Gorgeous and her Rapping skills are insane and her Vocals are amazing as well SM needs to let her sing more, Joy is so Hot and her Beutiful Disney Voice will kill you, and Yeri is so Adorable and Funny she is the Savage Maknae with super soft and beautiful Vocals and her Rapping is Amazing as well! You should also check out more of Twice, Blackpink, and get into (G) I-DLE, Loona, Momoland, GFriend, Dreamcatcher, also some Soloists like Sunmi and IU, plus many more!
MAMAMOO discography: 1 - Mr. Ambiguous 2 - Piano Man 3 - Um Oh Ah Yeh 4 - Taller than You (b-side track from the Melting album) 5 - You're the Best 6 - New York 7 - Décalcomanie 8 - Yes I Am 9 - Paint Me (introduced the Four Seasons, Four Colors project) 10 - Starry Night 11 - Be calm (HwaSa's music from the Yellow Flower album) 12 - Egotistic 13 - In my room (Moonbyul's music from the Red Moon album) 14 - Wind Flower 15 - Hello (Solar's music from the Blue;s album) 16 - Gogobebe 17 - 25 (Wheein's music from the White Wind album) 18 - Gleam (CF) 19 - HIP 20 - Wanna Be Myself (CF) 21 - Dingga 22 - AYA I put only the ones that have music video, but you should listen to their b-sides tracks too, I recommend the Reality in Black album, it's their second full album and one of the best ;)
You forgot their other CF "Woo Hoo." And even though you added only MV's, I highly recommend adding "I Miss You" performance since it is one of their best songs
When I was watching your video accidentally spilled all my coffee on my laptop, I hope it works, now I write this from my phone hahaha:(, merry christmas btw
Is it just me who never had difficulties identifying them from debut to now? I feel like the only thing changed from them are their hair and makeup, still the same face and all. 🤷♀️
Merry christmass!! Cheers from Argentina!! (I'll take this space to apologyse for my english, I'm not really used to speak or write english so much, so I'm hoping this will not be weird to read but I'll do my best!) First of all, I'm not such a big mamamoo's fan. My first listen to them was a few months ago but they amazed me. I really enjoy your videos and the community here in the comments, seriously i learned a lot of mamamoo just to watching you and comming here to read the comments xD. I'm in the ride to know more about this girls just as you are and (this might be creapy) I'm taking the trip right next to you. Waiting your next mamamoo reacion!! meanwhile I'll checking older content in your channel. Wish you all happy holidays to all of you (ppl in the comments section). I'm enjoying the videos and the same time having a great time spending time reading here. see you all in the next (and olders) videos!! Edit: Btw. I found about akmu thanks to you and became another of my favourite corean artists. So, I'll keep it short, THANK YOU!!
Merry Christmas everyone!!! leave your recommendations below
Better Than I Thought live
also MERRY CHRISTMAS
Merry Christmas...
now that that's outta the way, I'd recommend their pre-debut mv Don't be happy.
but be warned, they have a lot of mv's
anyway.. after Mr. Ambiguous came Piano Man... then Um Oh Ah Yeh and Ahh! Oops.. 1cm/Taller Than You and Your The Best.. Dècalcomanie and came New York, Angel(sub-unit of Solar and Wheein) Dab Dab(sub-unit of Moonbyul and Hwasa).. then came Yes I Am, AZE Gag, and Love & Hate/ Worthless (Byul's Solo) .. then came Paint me.. Moon Wind Flower and Sun, Starry Night and (Hwasa's solo) Be Calm.. then came Egotistic and (Moonbyul's solo) Selfish.. then came Wind Flower.. then came Gogobebe and (Wheein's solo) 25.. then came Destiny(pre-release) and Hip...
can't remember if your watched Dingga(pre-release) but that's next and off course Aya was last
Questionable behaviour when mamamoo is drunk!!
Please react to Moonbyul A miracle 3days ago she released it for her birthday 🙏🙏
A few of points of interest for you ... 1st, for rookies, they were considered extremely strong, surprisingly strong, so much so they were dubbed "Monster Rookies", and they won the "Rookie of the Year" award, less then a year after their debut. 2nd, MoonByul's voice didn't deepen, they tried to make her sing (rap) in a higher octave, that wasn't natural for her, trying to make her sound more like what was the "norm" for girl groups in kpop. She finally said no more, and started to sing in her natural voice, which is the voice you are use to.
Also, at the same time, they were whitening Hwa Sa's skin, trying to make her fit into the beauty standards too, along with making all of them diet, and weighting them weekly. :( Truly a shame what they put these Beautiful, wonderful women through.
and the 3rd, the woman towards the end that comes in and does the whole bit with them. She was an actress brought in to prank them, that is why she says she felt so bad coming in and saying those things. Also the man asking Solar, "Ms. Ji Young is really good at acting, right?" and Solar doesn't know what to think, and then the man off camera, and the rest starting laughing. Then Mamamoo starting laughing with them, and then they start to cry, because it was too much, and the woman goes over to hug them, and apologize, and try to make it better, because she felt bad.
Hope this info helps, and Merry Christmas! Can't wait for the rest of the Mamamoo's MVs, oh and when you do the list, make sure not to miss their minor MVs too. So many people only do the major MVs and they miss some of Mamamoo's BEST! including their CFs, and OSTs!
I will see if I can find that list you were asking about.
Just correcting, Baek Ji Young is a singer, not an actress.
on the moonbyul rap part... that was, sadly, what was pretty much what was expected of female rappers at the time, so they had her try it. so glad she's able to comfortably use her voice now. and it's sad how many female artists still need to sing/rap so much higher than their actual ranges are just because it's what the agencies, the industry and the fans expect
(...like people constantly praise the collab song "deep blue eyes" and i just wince so much at it... virtually everyone's singing so high it hurts)
I think dieting and weighing was only when they were trainees.
They stopped after they made their debut.
@@adara4635 Is so weird to me that people don't know Baek Jiyoung lol
The lady who critiques them is baek ji young. She is a senior singer, OST queen with a lot of drama tracks in ballad genre. And i think in this video they did like a hidden camera where they just like spontaneously shot in between and put it in the mv. Also, other people in the video are also artists and singers themselves.
All Mamamoo songs with MV in order
2014
Don't Be Happy (Predebut)
Peppermint Chocolate (Predebut)
Mr Ambiguous (Debut)
Piano Man
2015
Ahh Oop (ft. eSNa)
Um Oh Ah Yeh
Girl Crush (Advertising song)
2016
Pride of 1cm
You're The Best
Recipe
Woo Hoo (Advertising song)
Angel (Live MV, Solar & Wheein)
Dab Dab (Live MV, Moonbyul & Hwasa)
New York
Décalcomanie
I Love Too (Live MV)
2017
Yes I Am
Aze Gag
Honey Bee (Solar of Mamamoo x Luna of f(x) x Hani of EXID)
2018
Paint Me
Star Wind Flower Sun
Starry Night
Be Calm (Hwasa solo)
Everyday (Advertising song)
Don't (Hwasa x Loco)
Egotistic
Selfish ft. Seulgi of Red Velvet (Moonbyul solo)
Easy ft. Sik-K (Wheein solo)
Windflower
2019
Twit (Hwasa solo)
Gogobebe
25 (Wheein solo)
Goodbye (Wheein solo)
Gleam (Advertising song)
Hip
Snow (Moonbyul solo)
2020
Eclipse (Moonbyul solo)
Absence (Moonbyul solo)
ILJIDO (Moonbyul solo)
Spit It Out (Solar solo)
María (Hwasa solo)
LMM (Hwasa solo)
Wanna Be Myself (Advertising song)
Dingga
Aya
A Miracle 3 Days Ago (Moonbyul solo)
Moonbyul choreographed mamamoo debut song she made their signature movement too the mustache signature 😭
all mamamoo mv’s in order moomoos lmk if i missed anything and i’ll edit not including members official solo projects
!! WATCH ALL ON MAMAMOOS OFFICIAL CHANNEL FOR ENGLISH SUBTITLES !!
Don’t be happy (pre debut track)
Mr. Ambiguous (title track)
Piano man (title track)
Ahh Oop (b-side)
Um oh ah yeh (title track)
Taller than you (1cm) b-side
You’re the best (title track)
Woohoo (CF)
I love you too (b-side)
Angel (b-side)
Dab dab (b-side)
Memory (b-side)
New York (b-side)
Decalcomanie (title track)
Yes I am (title track)
Aze gag (b-side)
Paint me (b-side)
Star Wind Flower Sun (b-side)
Starry night (title track)
Be Calm (hwasa solo)
Everyday (b-side)
Egotistic (title track)
Selfish (moonbyul solo)
Sky sky (b-side)
Windflower (title track)
Hello (solar solo) not a mv
Gogobebe (title track)
25 (wheein solo)
Gleam (promotional song)
HIP (title track)
Wanna be myself (CF)
Dingga (b-side)
Aya (title track)
All I can think of to add to that is 3. After Piano Man is AAh Oop with Esna, before Starry Night was Star Wind Flower Sun, and before Egotistic was Everyday.
@@kalahdolman4783 thank you i’ll add these i was in a rush listing this so i knew i’d miss a lot 😩
New York aswell, but I don’t remember when it was released
Hope you also check Don’t Be Happy, a pre-debut track :)
it could also help to mention which are titles, bsides and solo but still thank you for commenting a list:)
The woman in on the prank is Baek Ji Young, a very well respected senior singer so the girls were nervous to meet her. Her voice is phenomenal I highly recommend taking a listen to some of her work. If you do please start with 'We' it's a duet with Ong Song Wu, their voices blend so well together.
First of all merry Christmas, i raccomend to see their debut stage even on your own because it's so good they don't seems like rookie at all 😂 there's a even more high pitched rap of Moonbyul in one of their pre release, don't be happy or peppermint chocolate i don't remember which one, the reason is the company told her to rap like that fortunately it changed 😅
Merry christmas Gonosoi! Also, thank you for clarifying 😄🙌🏾
Every single person in the video is famous in the korean music scene. It shows how much faith RBW had in their very first group...ever.
on the name bit... the explanation you heard is actually kind of a backronym, though their name isn't short for anything. the real story is actually more interesting to me. before they debuted (and they were still a 5 member group), the girls got to perform a song called "mamamoo" that their ceo, kim dohoon, wrote for quincy jones. they performed it for jones himself, while he was in south korea, and there's actual (blurry) footage of the five of them performing it. the song was called "mamamoo" based on the adlibs used in it. mr jones wound up passing on the song, so it got reworked into "mr ememoho", "mr ambiguous" here, their debut song. and one of the staff suggested just calling the group after the adlib originally used in the song. so, mamamoo was born
because they didn't expect people outside the music industry to find the real story of their name interesting, they came up with the 'music should be instinctual' bit since got asked about their name so much
also, they kept doing that 'finger moustache' move because the korean word for 'ambiguous' sounds similar to 'mamamoo' (which is why they changed the lyrics of the song to it) and also the word for 'moustache', so they wound up doing a fair bit of playing around with that, even using plastic moustache rings in their live stages so they'd be wearing them in the parts where they put their fingers up to their faces
i mentioned byul's voice in a reply to another comment, but... yeah, her voice didn't really deepen over time. back at the beginning, they were trying to find the 'sound' for each member and the agency was still falling into many of the traps set up by existing agencies, such as making their female artists sing or rap in higher pitch than is natural for them just because it was expected (they 'taught' the audience to like higher pitched, bubbly voices for women. which is based a lot on how many asians learn to speak their own languages. i live in a city with large asian populations... chinese, vietnamese, japanese, korean and more... and the change in pitch between their english speaking voices and the voices they use for their other language is just crazy. not all of them adjust to a higher pitch for their asian language but quite a few do). you'll see a lot of this in female kpop groups and it makes me wince virtually every time i hear it, esp in collab stages with multiple artists from multiple groups working together. everything just sounds so nasal and nearly ultrasonic...
you'll hear it worst with byul's bit in "peppermint chocolate", one of the two pre-debut collabs they did (the other being "don't be happy" which is just solar/wheein singing but is still worth checking out)
also, just want to say i'm so glad you're using the mv from mamamoo's official channel! that's the one with subs but it's much harder to find than the distributor one. which is part of the reason they use distributors, of course. both stone music entertainment and 1thek are music distributors that work out deals with smaller agencies that need the extra publicity. the small agencies can't reach big audiences on their own, since many people don't even know to look up artists from said agency, so music distributors will release the mvs for these artists on their own channels, as well, which have access to much wider audiences since so many people follow them because of artists from other small agencies being on them, as well. the artists from the agencies get more recognition and potentially more fans, the distributors get ad revenue from the mvs watched on their channel, so it's technically a win-win though feels heavily geared towards distributor favor...
and the prank near the end seems to show two things... one, i love how their agency used it as an excuse to slip live vocals into the mv, showing 'hell yeah our girls really can sing, see'. and two, it shows the relationship between the girls and their agency/staff. to westerners, it seems weird that they're playing a prank like this, esp in the mv, but it's apparently quite common in korea, supposedly a way to relieve work tension or something. i don't begin to understand it. but mamamoo and their staff constantly try to prank each other (it's just the mamamoo girls are so bad at it they can really only prank each other, and even then not consistently. but they still try, esp for each other's birthdays)
tell me why i started clapping in my room alone when you said to clap lmao & the new graphic in the intro 👌🏾
LOL, I'm glad you like it Dessi, Took a bit to draw out 🙏
their debut stage for this song is also so good. they sang live and had so much charisma for a rookie group. also only a small handful of people/family/friends came in the audience and when i say a handful like literally maybe five people. other than that there’s no indicator that it was their first stage.
I just realized you already
reacted to "Eclipse". I'm new to this
channel. I'm currently on
a marathon on this playlist. Thanks
for reacting to THEM. 😆
Moon-Byul did admit that,
in their old songs, she had to strain her
voice a lot to raise her pitch 'cause IT'S
unusual for a girl group to
have a deeper voice. 🤔💬
merry christmas to me!! what a gift 😭
Nice intro and a merry Christmas 🥰🥰🥰
i’m glad you noticed ❤️🙌🏾
That’s what I wanted to say too! ❤️
Looking at this MV after that episode in Boss in the mirror gave that whole prank scence a whole different meaning. To give you a background, recently Solar was in the variety show Boss in the mirror and in one of the episodes Solar said that before their debut, their CEO went around people he knew from the industry and introduced them as an upcoming girl group and to ask for support when they debut as is customary. As this was happening, the CEO was told that he would not succeed with this girl group he was forming, they are going to fail and that he made a “bad investment” on them so to speak. The girls heard from people that they were going to fail even before they debuted so for this lady to do the prank must have added to the pressure and that is why Solar broke down. But that has made their success so much sweeter. They were considered monster rookies and won an award for it. Not a lot of people mention this but, Mamamoo view RBW CEO Kim Do Hoon as their father. Not just because he formed the group but also because of the hardship they went through together. If not for his trust with the members and vice versa, we won’t have Mamamoo today.
Compiled a list for you!
It's quite the list of course, this is me listing their primary MV's (solos/title tracks regarded as MooMoo musts. Have left some member solos out, not too familiar with those releases). Feel free to pick the ones you feel like people are requesting. I marked my personal favourites with an asterisk.
Pre-debut:
Don't Be Happy (primarily Solar and Wheein)
Peppermint Chocolate (more so Mamamoo as a big feature on K.will’s track)
2014:
Mr. Ambiguous
*Piano Man
2015:
Ahh Oop! ft. Esna
*Um Oh Ah Yeh
2016:
Taller Than You
*You're the Best
Woo Hoo
*Décalcomanie
2017:
Yes I Am
2018:
Paint me
Starry Night
*EASY (Wheein’s solo)
*SELFISH (Moonbyul’s solo ft. Red Velvet’s Seulgi)
*Don't Give It To Me (Hwasa’s solo ft. Loco)
Egotistic
*Wind Flower
2019:
Twit (Hwasa’s solo)
gogobebe
*Gleam (song + MV made as a commercial, they killed it)
HIP
2020:
Eclipse (Moonbyul’s solo)
Spit it out (Solar’s solo)
*Maria (Hwasa’s solo)
*Wanna Be Myself
*Dingga
AYA
Non-MV worthwhile mentions (performances I listen/watch to, a lot):
Words don't come easy (uploaded by allie _v.v_)
I miss you (uploaded by Mnet K-POP, the second one with less views for an un-interrupted viewing experience. Could be some copyright issues?)
Delilah (uploaded by KBS World)
Passion Flower (uploaded by KBS World)
Mama 2018 (uploaded by Mnet K-POP, it's 7 minutes of WONDER)
+ Goodbye (wheein's solo)
LMM (also Hwasa solo)
Sky Sky!
...i denounce myself.
The lady at the end is a famous Korean Actress (she appears in kdramas like Korean Odyssey)
She's actually a very respected korean singer
You're awesome. You've definitely become one of my favorite Mamamoo reactors. Merry Christmas! Stay safe and healthy! Looking forward to more Mamamoo content!
WOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER love your channel and the whole vibe as always
Thank you for reaction my favorite groups- Mamamoo!! My pretty, my beautiful queens. Is my bias Solar, Moonbyul !)
I like it when you find their MV with English sub and try to understand the meaning of Korean lyrics in your reactions.
Love that you’re doing it chronologically. Your reactions are A1!! I love how genuinely you react, your appreciation for music and how in tune your ears are with notes and everything
I love how much you love MAMAMOO
Mr. Ambiguous is such a jam still! So old school sounding
Do whatever or anything from mamamoo im down for it tho😍🥰💕
I love ahh oop of esna with mamamoo and windflower✨
Mamamoo💓💓💓😍😍
Yessss on the Mamamoo train we go.
I clapped along with you
Best Christmas present
Thank you!
Merry Christmas!!🎄⛄💕
They've come so far 😭♡
Merry Christmas~
Moonbyul said during that time she used to make her voice sound higher to fit in with the others :( and now she’s up her owning it moonbyul has really improved so much
If you want a full chronological list of MAMAMOO's MVs, their Wikipedia page has a section just for their music videos
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamamoo_discography
YEESSS MORE MAMAMOO!
Happy Holidayy!!
The story you told about their name was probably invented by the PR dept at RBW. Mamamoo was the original title of Mr Ambiguous, which was written by RBW co-CEO for Quincy Jones. The girls performed it for QJ when he was in Seoul for a concert before they debuted or even had a group name. He passed on the song, which was then partially rewritten and retitled Mr Ememoho and the group was given the original song title as their name.
Do you want all their MVs in chrono order or just the title tracks from the albums? What about solo and subunit songs? CF songs paid for by advertisers? Group and solo OST songs? Collaborations? Add in their 14 appearances on Immortal Songs 2, which is almost a parallel career as a mainstream girl group vs their kpop gg career, and it would take a couple months of daily MMM vids to get through them all. I'll give you a list of albums and title tracks to start with:
Hello: Mr Ambiguous
Piano Man: Piano Man
Pink Funky: Um Oh Ah Yeah
Melting: You're the Best
Memory: Decalcomanie
Purple: Yes I Am
Yellow Flower: Starry Night
Red Moon: Egotistic
Blue;S: Wind Flower
White Wind: Gogobebe
reality in BLACK: Hip
Travel: Aya
These are people---
YOU ARE REALLY AMUSING hahahahhhahaha
Yayyyyyy mamamoo reaction again!!!! Lab your reaction LW💞 and merry Christmas to you 😊
Thank you for reacting! ✨
And Merry Christmas linton! ❄️
All "staff" is composed by big artists (some of them don't deserve our attention) but I'd recommend you to check the photographer's song "K.Will - 'Please Don't" (it's a must see to every kpop fan) and the chorus man's song "Bumkey [범키] - 'Attraction (feat.Dynamic Duo)." You won't be disappointed, I promise!!!
Ooo... Newww Introo
It think it is just a style because 2014 videos was still good even though it was 7 years ago
Please react to “Moonsun videos” and “taller than you”
Another reaction video from you! Merry Christmas! 💖
I am glad that you decided to react to them in chronological order! 💖💖💖
Hwasa invented confidence since debut.
Can't wait to see your reaction to decalcomanie,paint me, starry night, egotistic and more❤️
When you see them sing the same song Live at the time... It's Very different compared to the M/V.
They seem to tone it down for the many of the M/V's... Especially early on.
Welcome to the small percentage of male fans of Mamamoo.
OK FUCK NEVERMIND AS A VIDEO EDITOR MYSELF I LEARNED SOMETHING HAHAHAHAH
Yes! I am so glad that you finally reacted to this, They all did so well and this is only their Debut Song! I seriously don't know who's Era this was I think it was everyone's Era to be Honest! And Sorry that I am late you posted this around Midnight where I live but that's ok! Anyways I can't wait for you to react to more Mamamoo such as more Music Videos, B - Sides, Live Performances, Covers, Dance Practices, Moments, and of course Ships! I can't wait for more Content from you and I hope that you are doing well and staying safe and healthy Linton, Also Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!
P.S. If you ever need any good Videos I can totally help you out with that if you need it, also you should definitely check out some more Red Velvet they are such an amazing Group with Gorgeous Vocals and Visuals, especially Wendy her Vocals are insane and her Vocal Colors are Crazy she is one of the best (in my opinion the best K - Pop Vocalist) Vocalists of this Generation! And the other Members are Insanely Gorgeous and Talented as well Seulgi definitely would be the Main Vocalist in pretty much any other Group, Irene Is so Gorgeous and her Rapping skills are insane and her Vocals are amazing as well SM needs to let her sing more, Joy is so Hot and her Beutiful Disney Voice will kill you, and Yeri is so Adorable and Funny she is the Savage Maknae with super soft and beautiful Vocals and her Rapping is Amazing as well! You should also check out more of Twice, Blackpink, and get into (G) I-DLE, Loona, Momoland, GFriend, Dreamcatcher, also some Soloists like Sunmi and IU, plus many more!
MERRY CHRISTMAS LINTON WILSON! 🌲
The way you say "ememoho" was so cute hahaha it should be "eme-mo" not "em-em-ow"
Hii
I think you should react to 'kard' songs they are cool
Big Tiddie Gang
MAMAMOO discography:
1 - Mr. Ambiguous
2 - Piano Man
3 - Um Oh Ah Yeh
4 - Taller than You (b-side track from the Melting album)
5 - You're the Best
6 - New York
7 - Décalcomanie
8 - Yes I Am
9 - Paint Me (introduced the Four Seasons, Four Colors project)
10 - Starry Night
11 - Be calm (HwaSa's music from the Yellow Flower album)
12 - Egotistic
13 - In my room (Moonbyul's music from the Red Moon album)
14 - Wind Flower
15 - Hello (Solar's music from the Blue;s album)
16 - Gogobebe
17 - 25 (Wheein's music from the White Wind album)
18 - Gleam (CF)
19 - HIP
20 - Wanna Be Myself (CF)
21 - Dingga
22 - AYA
I put only the ones that have music video, but you should listen to their b-sides tracks too, I recommend the Reality in Black album, it's their second full album and one of the best ;)
You forgot their other CF "Woo Hoo." And even though you added only MV's, I highly recommend adding "I Miss You" performance since it is one of their best songs
When I was watching your video accidentally spilled all my coffee on my laptop, I hope it works, now I write this from my phone hahaha:(, merry christmas btw
Is it just me who never had difficulties identifying them from debut to now? I feel like the only thing changed from them are their hair and makeup, still the same face and all. 🤷♀️
Merry christmass!! Cheers from Argentina!! (I'll take this space to apologyse for my english, I'm not really used to speak or write english so much, so I'm hoping this will not be weird to read but I'll do my best!)
First of all, I'm not such a big mamamoo's fan. My first listen to them was a few months ago but they amazed me. I really enjoy your videos and the community here in the comments, seriously i learned a lot of mamamoo just to watching you and comming here to read the comments xD. I'm in the ride to know more about this girls just as you are and (this might be creapy) I'm taking the trip right next to you. Waiting your next mamamoo reacion!! meanwhile I'll checking older content in your channel.
Wish you all happy holidays to all of you (ppl in the comments section). I'm enjoying the videos and the same time having a great time spending time reading here. see you all in the next (and olders) videos!!
Edit: Btw. I found about akmu thanks to you and became another of my favourite corean artists. So, I'll keep it short, THANK YOU!!
That is wheein with short hair 😁
early-ish as promised 🤩🤟🏻
02:10 that was wheen lolol
Baek ji young is awesome. She's a fierce korean singer. Love her. Here's a recommendation from her catalog. ruclips.net/video/Stpp2XGMhuw/видео.html
2:09 is wheein
imma keep it a buck, i cant recommend whats next for u to listen cs good songs is the only thing they have. Btw Merry Xmas to u too my guy!!
Es gibt auch eine Moschee 🕌 jetzt in Zwickau für Shiiten weißt du ?
If u check bts plz check ot Black swan
react to dreamcatcher "scream" or "boca" they just too good!!
PLEASE react to BTOB i'll be your man
Whay dont you react to bts😩😓 they are my ultimate groupe
Any way l love mamamo and l love your eaction😍
#NoHatLinton
If y can React to dreamcatcher pls🤒💞
Plz reaction Hwasa live perfv Hands Clap in award
React to bts mor pleaz who ar agre with me gift me like
Yall no boddy rocomending him bts reactio?