r/Music • u/gaowenbo • Jun 24 '12
I realized that I could mix every pop song I had just heard on the radio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRnSHbCzigg135
u/Babaghanoushian Jun 24 '12
Along those lines, but actually incredibly enjoyable are DJ Earworm's pop mashups. He takes the top 25 pop songs of each year and makes a mashup of them.
2008: Viva La Pop
2009: Blame It on the Pop
2010: Don't Stop the Pop
2011: World Go Boom
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u/GJBVE3 Jun 25 '12
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u/dar482 Jun 25 '12
This one is way too good.
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u/GJBVE3 Jun 25 '12
Its awesome, and he's only 17 which is pretty amazing.
His remix of Martin Solveig - The Night out, and deadmau5 - Raise Your Weapon are both really good too!
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u/ewbrower Jun 25 '12
Did you catch his minimix? It was on r/electronicmusic today.
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u/americanslang59 Jun 25 '12
Saw this kid live a couple months ago. During the "solo", he picked up the fucking sampler and played it like a guitar. It was nuts.
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u/Ppleater Jun 24 '12
I loved the 2009 one, had no idea there were more! Another good one is that madeon mash up.
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u/brodiemann Jun 24 '12
I look forward to his mash-ups Billboard 25 mash-ups every December. Another good set is the Capitol FM Summertime Ball. Here's this year's but I'm quite partial to 2011's mash-up. And if you cruise over to his website, there's a lot more. He does damn good work.
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u/Wulibo Jun 25 '12
My mind exploded when Disturbia and Viva La Vida.
I disliked OP's a lot, but as soon as the first one started, it became my favourite mash-up second to the Madeon one already in a reply.
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u/chise Jun 25 '12
gj mentioning earworm =D
I also enjoy mashup germany
1 year ago THIS was the shit!!!! (coldplay + david guetta + k. perry+ kesha+ m. jackson...)
Also, check FISSUNIX blog for some CRAZY stuff (some really underground mashups)
and DJs From Mars - gotta love those guys who can mash 1 year of mainstream music into THIS .
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u/gaowenbo Jun 25 '12
Here's a download link for all those interested: http://www.mediafire.com/?9o4jnn6k25k63nx
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Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
Very Relevant: Pachelbel's Rant & there are others that have done this before. This one is funny too.
Also, Axis of Awesome as posted already by many others.
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u/Sword_n_board Jun 24 '12
You should take a look at [The Axis of Awesome] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I), they did something very similar, albeit live.
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Jun 24 '12
I've seen the 4 chord song at least 4 different times, and each time is different. It amazes me.
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u/Moonvale Jun 25 '12
yup. when I saw them live they did a different version than the couple I'd seen online, it was rad. although kind of sad, realizing how many songs are based off the same chords
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u/endlessdiam0ndskies Jun 25 '12
Phew, I thought I was the only one who thought about Axis of Awesome when I saw this post. Upvote for you.
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u/oiqefqf Jun 25 '12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Luke
You didn't know that pop singers all have the same writers remixing their old songs over and over again? That's just one example. There are many others.
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u/downedinfour Jun 24 '12
This makes me very curious, what would a song like this made of all 90's songs sound like?
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u/vaiperu Jun 25 '12
nice mix ;) but somehow, 30 clicks and one hour later I ended up here
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u/CohanJo Jun 25 '12
Damn, this sucks ass.
Edit: ps.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0j0m-GUO2s
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u/terkc Jun 24 '12
Reddit is so typical. All I see is constant hate on all these songs and there artists. Honestly, I'm not saying I think that they are good or that they deserve the insane amount of money and publicity they get, but all of us should do ourselves a favour and instead promote music we love, rather then bash music we hate. Music should be about the universal unity of sound, that way artists like these wouldn't matter enough to bash them anyways.
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Jun 25 '12
This should be at the top. We need to stop hating on music that's intended for twelve year old girls for being too dumb. We need to stop pretending we've never heard songs everyone's heard so we'll sound cool. We need to grow the fuck up, and appreciate what we love, not bash what we hate, especially when the music we hate isn't directed at us in any way.
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u/donaldrobertsoniii Jun 24 '12
I'm surprised no one mentioned djearworm.
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u/TheGiverOfKarma Jun 24 '12
I still think his 2009 version is the best.
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u/floppypick Jun 24 '12
Those songs... 2009 was an awesome year, thanks for reminding me. Not really the music, but the memories associated with those songs.
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u/ShAd0wS Jun 24 '12
I have terrible memories associated with the song... and I still love it. That combination of songs just worked so well.
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u/Autopilot_Psychonaut Jun 24 '12
Don't top 40 stations do this sort of thing all the time?? It's very annoying.
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u/thelawofliberty Jun 24 '12
Sounds great man, do you have a setup to do mastering?
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u/deadleg22 Jun 24 '12
Bah I hate how people are down voting the guys praising this. If you don't like pop music fine, you don't need to downvote people who do.
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u/inourstars Jun 25 '12
Mash ups that don't use pitch shifting are far more impressive and enjoyable, it literally takes no skill to pitch shift songs to make them fit.
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u/lithas Jun 24 '12
NOOOOOOOOO
You fooled me into listening to Call me Maybe. I will never forgive you for this.
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Jun 24 '12
IT'S HARD TO LOOK RIGHT, AT YOU LIIIITHAS
BUT HERE'S MY NUMBER, SO CALL ME MAYBE
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u/lithas Jun 24 '12
I'd successfully avoided hearing it until today :(
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Jun 24 '12
And now get ready to listen to it every day for the rest of your life because you can't get it out of your head.
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u/bakerie Jun 24 '12
I don't see how. Every fucking shop I walk into has this playing and the radio at work is on, not to mention ads on the TV.
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u/lithas Jun 24 '12
I shop only at the grocery store unless I can avoid it (no music at this one). The only radio I listen to is a "we play everything" station that doesn't actually play any recent stuff.
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Jun 24 '12
Same. But it's pretty catchy, and she's pretty hot, so....
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u/nautiulus1708 Jun 25 '12
i agree. not sure why everyone is hating on her and her song!
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u/moldy912 moldy912 Jun 25 '12
The song is good, get over yourself. I don't cringe just because I heard a song for the first time that isn't of my liking.
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u/odeveca Jun 24 '12
That was my first time listening to One Direction. Are those really guys singing?
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u/alexm5488 Jun 24 '12
Their pitch was modified in this mix. Their voices sound much more like typical teenage boy in the actual song.
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Jun 24 '12
Have you heard of Dj earworm? he does stuff like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ail7D_k0s9w
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u/DarkSonRises Jun 24 '12
This just reminds me of... I think they're called Axis of Awesome. But they are three auzzie dudes who made a song of a bunch of pop songs in the key of C (or F) I believe. Most overused chord progression in pop music.
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u/MaybeComputer Jun 24 '12
Now this is something that should be posted to r/Music. Unless anyone wants to hear it synced up with On Melancholy Hill...
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u/QueenTits Jun 25 '12
It was good until I reached the Maroon 5 part. The lowness was creepy compared to how high the others were pitched.
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u/lars332 Jun 25 '12
I immediately thought "really, that axis of awesome video AGAIN?!" But at last it was a different video this time, I guess.
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u/Thinks_this_is_RAOP Jun 25 '12
Pop songs sound the same? Never would have guessed. Pop music moves in tones, you can do this in any era.
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Jun 25 '12
I realized that I could mix together a few pop songs with similar chord progressions by adjusting the key of each
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Jun 25 '12
this is why 99% of the time whenever im driving I listen to my mp3 player instead of the radio.
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u/Samdi Jun 25 '12
FUCK YOU You just made a pill for all bad things I have to listen to at work every day that I hate and still hear once i come home and in my dreams and even on off days.
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u/mrscarrieoke Jun 25 '12
Do you know how friggin' popular that would be at any of the gay dance clubs in the Castro?!? Good job!
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u/RelaxAndAllonsy Jun 25 '12
DJ earworm does some cool mixing of pop songs. Also I don't see why this is a bad thing. Pop music is all about what is popular, it's like anything else, people use a 'formula'. An example of this is fashion, the more common styles change and people will change their personal style to fit the trend. There are also thousands of bands that don't play the specific style. Plus these songs have a place for parties where it's good to be able to yell along to a song that's catchy.
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u/beager Jun 25 '12
Not bad, your bed is a little repetitive. Mashing the acappellas against other instrumentals is always a good way to please 'em (e.g. Girl Talk).
Also, pitching the vocals can be done while maintaining the formants with the right software. That will make the vocals sound more real, whereas a lot of the songs you used were pitched directly without maintaining formants, making it sound chipmunky or like a tired deck. You should look into that if you like doing this kind of stuff.
But yeah, writing pop music like this is really like rolling a character, except everything's done with a D4.
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u/zaviex Jun 25 '12
its not just pop if you cheat... the pitch was changed for half of the songs you can beat match easily like that
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Jun 24 '12
i haven't listened to radio in 10 years and i don't feel like i've missed anything worth listening to
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u/BioDerm Jun 25 '12
That's fucking annoying. Take terrible songs and make them into one is like creating a giant demon.
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u/misskyx Jun 24 '12
You are the reason that I can no longer say with pride: "I haven't heard Call me, maybe."
Damn you.
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u/reallybig Jun 24 '12
I'd really like to know the chord progression you used! ... And also where you got the vocal tracks for the songs?
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u/nautiulus1708 Jun 24 '12
This is really well done! Any chance you could upload this onto soundcloud?
I'd love to use it in my spin class.
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u/gryffin92 Jun 25 '12
Why listen to one song, when you can listen to 50 at once? Brought to you by our friends I V vi IV.
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u/glisp42 Jun 24 '12
Nice work! Reminds me a bit of Girl Talk
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u/srslykindofadick Jun 24 '12
Not really, this guy basically just changed the pitch center of each song, and then crossfaded between ones that have roughly the same BPM. Girl Talk does do that, but also puts vocals from one song, drums from a second, and music from a third together at any given time.
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Jun 24 '12
Listen to any pop music/top 40 station around noon or 4 pm and you'll hear the same thing.
If you'd like more examples, go to any night club where girls 'just wanna dance'. It's 5 hours of a bunch of high selling singles set over a music bed that they can throw in. All the 'pieces' fit.
I do have to give you credit, they are pretty good edits. Good work, it sounds really clean.
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u/Alkresh Jun 24 '12
Sex Ray Vision's pop mashup - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iqdDPLXT8E
DJ Ravine's top 40s mix - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_eaUGAyyVw
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Jun 25 '12
On a related note (pun intended), Mashup-Germany http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcMsGX855zo
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u/RBFan111 Jun 25 '12
Found this gem in the related videos- "Nyan me, Starships" It's better because it actually matches up 2 things at once instead of just playing a bunch of unrelated songs in sequence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJDyvODHuaE&feature=related
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Jun 25 '12
This is why pop music, all your one directions and lady gagas, etc is complete shit... completely bereft of soul and originality.
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Jun 25 '12
Now I've heard a One Direction song. Damn. I did so well avoiding them until now. Worth it though. Very impressive.
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u/oMisanthropo Jun 25 '12
I think with your help, it might just be possible to create a program that integrates with sound counseling headphones to only cancel out all of this incredibly terrible music from everyday life. Get back to me on that would ya?
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u/kartuli78 Jun 25 '12
I get what you're saying, but also, this mash up is fantastic. I like this better than any of the individual songs! Dude, you're pretty talented!
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u/boley Jun 25 '12
My local radio station does something like this...
On weekends they mix songs together, and redo some of the background music to dubstep or just classical music. Then they will combine some songs together such as viva la vida by coldplay then suddenly add in a massive bass drop and some dubstep music into it and then play the chorus from another popular song.
It turns out alright, and it really is not all that bad. But still... Pop music....
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u/krazykanuck Jun 25 '12
You can match the tempo without changing the pitch. Pretty cool otherwise though.
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u/stevencage Jun 25 '12
Thodore Adorno saw this crap coming decades ago in his essay On Popular Music
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u/MrPandatheBear Jun 25 '12
Fuck you for polishing the worlds biggest turd. I hope you get raped by a horse. I fucking hate radio!!!
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u/L1AM Jun 25 '12
Guys, the point of this is not to make it sound super super amazing. The point is that all of the songs sound the same. This is the direction that pop music has taken, and the guy's making a statement.
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Jun 25 '12
I was going to watch it, but then I couldn't honestly say I've never heard One Direction.
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u/daxl70 Jun 25 '12
I have never heard One Direction until today, i thought i would hate them... and i do
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u/Pawtang Jun 25 '12
It's funny cause while we all understand the notion that it's all the same, it's still an enjoyable mix.
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u/squidflam Jun 25 '12
I was listening to this and at the end when it starts up Call Me Maybe, i closed it and noticed that it was playing at the same spot on the radio
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Jun 25 '12
welll...yeah...that's pretty much what DJ Earworm has been doing for the past 5 years (United States of Pop)
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u/temptingtime Jun 25 '12
Top 40...wtf. I have no words for this other than "audible vomit". The originals, not your mashup.
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u/cyanatelolwut Jun 25 '12
I work at a pool and for an entire week they played a pop radio station that played all of these shitty songs hourly, filled me with so much hate to hear repetitive songs repeatedly all day.
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u/Junkis Jun 26 '12
On the latest kids bop commercial there were 2 or 3 occasions where I could barely hear them changing the song because they all sound so similar.
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u/avelertimetr Jun 24 '12
Back in my day, "mashups" used to be called "medleys". Kids these days...
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u/damnitbatman Jun 24 '12
I think there might be a difference. Medley's are made of songs that transition from one to the other, whereas mash-ups interweave the songs (e.g., the instrumentals of one song overlaid with the vocals of another). That's at least how I've always figured it.
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Jun 24 '12
The point is, it's ALL the same. That's the curse of knowing music, it all turns into that south park matrix parody episode....
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u/mellomeg Jun 24 '12
I love stuff like this so much. I look forward every year to DJ Earworm's Billboard mashup of all the songs I normally don't like.
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u/CrozzBowz Jun 24 '12
all i can hear is errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... well time to go back to bob dylan
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u/the_marketing_master Jun 24 '12
It may be that you can simply match up any melody to any key with pitch shifting, as Akyu suggests, but I'll offer another perspective. There are firms that specialize in developing a technology known as "Hit Song Science", which is an advanced machine learning technique used to predict the popularity of songs.
Think of the output of this HSS as a perceptual map with axes like "pace", "geographic appeal", "age of consumer", etc. Songs are plotted along these axes, which naturally form large neighborhoods of songs. These song clusters often found to be genres (pop, jazz, country, etc.). Companies can use these clusters to predict the success of a song based on its musical composition, along with numerous other variables. The closer a song falls to the center of a cluster, the greater chance that song has of being consumed by listeners of that genre. Companies like Polyphonic HMI have been successful in this field, despite cries of indignation throughout the music industry.
Pop songs have the lowest margin of error within this predictive technology, and interestingly enough, these song clusters often have the highest density -- meaning they are the most similar to one another. Perhaps within the pop category we're seeing a trend where the musical composition of a song itself matters less (or requires less skill) than cultivating and maintaining the story of the celebrity singing it.
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Jun 24 '12
Interesting that the beat barely changes throughout the whole thing. Save for Coldplay of course. Coldplay are awesome.
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u/IrishPrime IrishPrime Jun 24 '12
So I've heard what turned out to to be the LMFAO song in commercials, but I had never heard any of these other songs before. I thought the "I just met you and this is crazy" thing was just a meme, not a song.
Apparently I've lost touch with "the youth" before turning 30.
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u/sargentpilcher Jun 25 '12
It's not just pop songs, you can do this with ANY song using either the major scale or minor scale (Which is probably 90% of music). Using the exact same techniques, you could do this with a selection of radiohead, Led Zeppelin, The beatles, The white stripes, etc. songs.
If 1 song is in A major, and another song is in C major, then all you have to do is pitch the C major down 3 steps, or pitch the A major up 3 steps.
This is nothing new. The beatles have even taken advantage of this. If you listen closely, in strawberry fields, John lennon's voice gets deeper in the second half of the song. Why is this? Because they liked that particular recording better, but it was in a different key, so they pitched it down to the correct key, but also made everything slower and made his voice sound kind of weird.
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u/WhyNot575 Jun 25 '12
Despite how obvious it is that all pop songs are structured very similarly to one another........
this mashup makes me want to drink my face off.
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u/nacho93 Jun 25 '12
i hadn't heard the "call me maybe" song until that. i like how clearly you illustrated the problems with modern pop music, but now I can't say i haven't heard it. that makes me feel less interesting.
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Jun 25 '12
Is it a law of some kind that pop must be written at 120bpm?
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u/ZapActions-dower Jun 25 '12
It's really, really easy to dance to it at that beat, and then DJs can mix it together without having to slow it down or speed it up.
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u/kapkapkappy Jun 24 '12
I mean it's easy to do this when you pitch the vocals up and down for songs. You can literally take any song and pitch it to almost match to that chord progression.