Musics hottest new trend is the Chipmunk effect.
How did we get here?
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Simply put, the initial recording has been drastically sped up.
Its energetic, its lighter, it makes songs more enjoyable.
Or, more appropriately, Ross Bagdasarian, who recorded under the stage name David Seville.
Other approaches have emerged this way (bubbling, anyone?)
but the difference is, footworkbangs.
(In fact,severalsongswithpopularsped-uptakes havenightcoreversions.)
HARD, SOPHIE (2014)
For years, nightcore thrived underground.
Then, in the early 2010s, visionary producerSOPHIEand theA.G.
Cook-helmedPC Musictook it out into the sunlight.
Kim Petras) Sped Up.
Its almost reductive to even label Sophies work as sped-up music.
currently has seven million fewer streams than the official Tek It Sped Up).
The differences between the two are subtle.
And its the remix that ultimately got Cafune signed to Elektra Records in 2022.
In response, Walkers team went big, re-releasing the full mixtape entirely sped up.
Its also the most transparent ploy by a label to cash in on the craze (so far).
But it seemed to work: Karma was finally RIAA certified Gold in August.
The label asked me if I wanted to put out a sped-up version of Bad Habit for 69 cents.
I was, like: Ew, that sounds fucking gross.
But OK, sure Im No.
2 and I want to be No.
1, so go ahead.
Bad Habit, of course, did hit No.
1 back in October.
In this case, its a Disney one.
Boys a liar Pt.
But this redux of PinkPantheresss 2022 track is more than just a necessary cross-pond linkup.
In all of its jittery, ringtone-esque 2000s glory, Pt.
2 serves as a bridge between the hack-iness of sped-up trend hopping and genuine artistic needle-pushing.
And who better to usher in a new time-shifted era than the queen ofthe 18-minute album?
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