&TEAM releases the 'Good Boy' music video, a song CORTIS helped make

In three lines

• &TEAM released the music video for 'Good Boy' at 6 p.m. today. It's the second track on their Korean 2nd mini album 'Mark on Me.'
• The producer is Johnny Goldstein. Bang Si-hyuk, Supreme Boi, Hiss noise and CORTIS all lent a hand on the song.
• Two days ago (the 22nd), a Japanese version came out as a single too.

A music video for an album track

'Mark on Me' is &TEAM's Korean 2nd mini album, released September 8. It has six songs, with 'Mark on Me' as the title track. 'Good Boy' is its second track, and 16 days after release it got a music video of its own. It went up on the HYBE LABELS channel at 6:02 p.m., directed by Beomjin of VM Project.

The music video features giant columns, layered door frames and chains wrapped around the members' bodies. Among them, the nine members dance in formation with a crowd of backup dancers.

The people behind the song

According to the album introduction, 'Good Boy' is a hip-hop track driven by "dynamic 808 beats and a rough, heavy low end." 808 comes from the Roland TR-808, an old drum machine, and refers to a heavy, long-ringing kick sound. Producer Johnny Goldstein has worked with the Black Eyed Peas and BTS's j-hope, among others, and Bang Si-hyuk, Supreme Boi, Hiss noise and CORTIS lent a hand.

On the 22nd, the Japanese version, 'Good Boy (Japanese ver.),' came out first as a single. The Japanese lyrics were written by Soma Genda and Kazuo Green.

That's the last of the numbers. Now, the music.

Right before the end, 0.75 seconds of silence

In the music video, from 2:40.5 the sound steps down like a staircase. Every 0.25 seconds it drops 7 to 8 dB, getting smaller in turn for 2.5 seconds, until at 2:43.5 it switches off completely. dB (decibels) is the unit of loudness, and 10 dB less sounds about half as loud.

Then there's a little over 0.75 seconds of no sound at all. At 2:44, the bass comes back first. The sound below 150 Hz enters taking up 59% of the whole, and within 1.5 seconds it climbs to the loudest sound of the song. Hz (hertz) is how many times the air vibrates per second, and below 150 Hz is where the bass and kick drum live. The loudest point is at 2:47.

The end of the CORTIS 'REDRED' music video we covered two days ago also had a complete silence of a little over 0.75 seconds. So in a song CORTIS helped make, we met a silence of the same length again.