its absurd yet inoffensive, and so are a good number of other jokes and memes similar to this one a concept that some comedians cannot grasp; humor that doesnt rely on punching down or attacking others
That's the music that plays in the background when you're running away from something during your nightmare but actually don't budge from your current position.
Because it goes out of pitch slightly sometimes, sometimes about a semi tone (100 cents sharp or flat). Chromaticism is used a lot with horror music because it sounds spooky
That could work for some horror movie. Hearing familiar songs twisted into a nightmarish version whenever the evil entity is near or as some red herring.
For real tho, after I commented that, I relistened to it several times to make sure it was actually microtonal. In the end my conclusion was that I *think* it is, but I'm not sure. Of course you might have better hearing for that, or may have checked the spectrum or have better understanding of the method used for the effect. I kind of assumed it was done by hand on this song
Don't forget they've repitched the entire song which includes all of the chords and harmonies. There's just no way to eliminate all of that, so there are plenty of other notes happening including the harmonics. There's also tons of dissonance from all the microtones that are happening as a result of whatever process they used. So yeah, lot's of dissonance, very dark and weird sounding. A lot of notes that we don't normally hear (or even consider as "notes") in western music.
@@twitch043 Microtones - what we would consider to be "out of tune" in standard western music but actually convey feelings all their own as we can hear in this bizarre manipulation
2:07 The chorus is the scariest sound I've ever heard and I'm 21. The harmonic dissonance in those creatures singing that shit is unsettling and terrifying. If that was in an actual horror movie soundtrack it would be nominated for the Oscars.
It's because notes aren't all C. It does fluctuate in pitch sometimes, hitting Bs and sometimes a few Ebs and Dbs here and there. In the "I don't know" part of the song, you can even hear a few Gs.
Annie is definitely not okay in this version, but scaried and depressed now the smooth criminal is coming to C her.. Edit: Thanks for thoses tips "Ruben" and "Groop" lol
Anyone who enjoys this version is far apart from humanity, ... standing on his armchair while having shoes on, looking away from the TV and be drinking food
Damn this thing hit me way too much deep in the soul, it is truly terrifying. There so much tension that comes out of it, I was not ready for that, it's like listening to a nightmare who come closer and closer forever but never reach you
![Diggy Graves - Red Vineyard [Official Lyric Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8Ro085T0mnQ/mqdefault.jpg)
This is what Michael must have heard during his nightmares.
LMAO!
Oh you b-
hahahaha XD
truly a cmooth criminal moment
literally
Sounds like that one scene where the radio acts weird in a horror movie.
I hate those scenes its like what business do you have
Na coom criminal
cassie v Fr, especially when I’m vibing w/ the song.
Like 1000
Fr
you can hear the song trying to escape and failing and I think that's hillarious
A true lol
This is one of the funniest comments ever. I can't stop laughing lol
this is it. this is the comment.
it's fkin frustrating :D
It makes it sound like the track is haunted.
This is so unsettling. There is so much unresolved tension in the song, and it just keeps going.
Annie is not ok 😢
unresolved tension... hahahhahaha
@@Majestic351that’s actually a musical term😂
More like unresolved tension in your guts, the cramps keep getting worse, you're desperately trying to fart but it just won't come out!
I never felt so unfulfilled listening to anything
that is the best way to describe this lmao
YOOO 666 LIKES
Lol
i cannot stop laughing at this.
ruclips.net/video/ZU5o6jINek4/видео.html
This isn’t smooth anymore this is criminal!
this is mooth criminal except it has beats
2:30 sMOOTH CRIMNAL
Nah this crooked criminal
@@deepinsidedeez4960 haha
No its Cccccc cccccccc
@@darkgolden3250 LMFAO WHY DOES IT SOUND LIKE THAT- THIS IS SO ILLEGAL
This feels like a sentence unfinished, but with a song.
A prison sentence?
It feels like Jordie Chandler suffering a PTSD episode.
youve hit by smooth
Isn't that what musical resolutions are all about?
my furniture just started floating
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK.
LMFAO
This sounds like what it feels like when you have to sneeze but it won’t come out
Such an accurate description 😭
AAH that just happened to me as I read the comment, and its accurate.
I've never physically felt a comment before
This makes me want to stare at a bright light just to force it out
Yes lol
The fact that RUclips recognised this as the official "2012 remaster" of Smooth Criminal is sending me
HEAHSJXEBZAJ
Why is there barely any replies?
@@biggamer145 RIGHT LMAO
Heh lmao
@@biggamer145 right lol
Paralysis demon trying to vibe.
😂😂😂😂
Lol
hell naw lol
You've been hit by...you've been struck by...a paralysis demon.
LOL HAAA HAAAE?????!!99???? EAIHHT BSLA ASDFKAE
this version sounds like he knows whether she's okay or not, and he done it
😄😄😄😄
why here he sounds like he is mocking her by asking if she's okay LIKE THAT😭😭😭😭
why is this a sense of humour I can get behind
I literally can’t stop laughing!
Kovu why are you on every video I watch lmao
its absurd yet inoffensive, and so are a good number of other jokes and memes similar to this one
a concept that some comedians cannot grasp; humor that doesnt rely on punching down or attacking others
Right with you
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING
i'm crying, but not because i'm laughing.
i cried reading this and it was because of laughing
this is horrifying though.
I am screaming, but not in laughter.
Literally crying blood rn
im laughing but not in joy
"CEE CEE" - Cicael Cackson
Cicael Caccson
Cicael CRACKson JAJAJ
CCC CCC CCCCCC CCCCCCC
STOPPP
ㅋㅋㅋ
Annie, RUN the heck away
0:00 when it's too late for annie.
save yourself.
Lmao 😂😂😂
Any Runtheheckawayoki
This is better than the original.....
That's the music that plays in the background when you're running away from something during your nightmare but actually don't budge from your current position.
That is such a clear and scarily accurate representation of what this song feels like
that is exactly what my first reaction was
BABY ARE YOU WALKING??!! (:
the accuracy
And then your stand won't come out
Plot twist: Michael originally wrote it like this, but the producers didn't think it would be catchy enough.
Lmao
they thought it was too creepy and robotic
Omg THOM
@@NixDarkLord 0
LOL
"Annie, are you okay?" sounds like a rhetorical question now and I'm not okay with that 😭
😭😭😭
Annie you are ok. You are ok. You are ok Annie.
Pissed myself 😂
And the verses in turn sound like actual questions now.
"So they came in through the outway? It was Sunday? What a black day?"
Annie is not oké.
That Bass C is haunting
FR
The beginning makes me wonder if I'm in a horror movie set😂
This sound like a theme of a horror movie
Yeah a 90s horror movie at that.
I think it sounds like if it was from a creepypasta game
Because it goes out of pitch slightly sometimes, sometimes about a semi tone (100 cents sharp or flat). Chromaticism is used a lot with horror music because it sounds spooky
@@DreQueary like Nightmare on Elm Street vibes
@@-amberrr-3521 a Smooth criminal on elm street
I guess you can call it *cmooth criminal* now
"cmooth" was way funnier than I would have thought
Now, it sounds like /kuhmooth kreeminuhl/.
cccccc cccccccc
HeE hEe
😂
Therapist: Robot Jackson isn't real, he won't hurt you.
Robot Jackson:
More like Demon Jackson
😂
🤖
@@adriangutierrez7860 yes 🔥🔥🔥❤️
@@adriangutierrez7860 you mean muzan
It's like a version of Smooth Criminal you'd hear in a Nightmare that you're awake in.
That could work for some horror movie. Hearing familiar songs twisted into a nightmarish version whenever the evil entity is near or as some red herring.
if pennywise could take form as a song I think this would be it
😂😂😂👏🏻
Fr
Omfg this got me crying 😭😭
Yes!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
this is what my entire band class sounds like while holding out concert b flat 👍
MINE TOOO LMAOOO
This song sounds like your profile picture
LMAOAO
so tru
This is what my entire band class sounds like while holding out concert b sharp
This is what killed Michael
this the last thing he heard
yet that a bad joke yo
@@darkgolden3250 you’re one and I didn’t laugh so.
@@Sonofcowbell509 what do you mean 'i didn't laugh so', the person saying it was a bad joke wasn't trying to be funny.
Jeez-
"You've been hit by, you've been struck by, a smOoOth criminal" 2:29
How about that squeal at 3:00 😂
I was just thinking about putting funny emojis to fit that part in a comment when I saw this lol
@@DasRaetsel3:05 it sounds like he said "ewww" LMAOOO 😂😂 like a squeaky toy
😅😅😅
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That microtonal bass is straight up evil
there is no microtonality in it. just straight C natural's and B natural's
* That bass in just C naturals and B naturals is straight up evil
For real tho, after I commented that, I relistened to it several times to make sure it was actually microtonal. In the end my conclusion was that I *think* it is, but I'm not sure. Of course you might have better hearing for that, or may have checked the spectrum or have better understanding of the method used for the effect. I kind of assumed it was done by hand on this song
It reminds me of Du Reichst So Gut by Rammstein.
@@bonjonbovi- If it's got B's then isn't the title wrong?
Actually sounds pretty cool. Sounds like a song that would play during the credits of an 80s scary movie
trueeee
if every song had a Halloween version i would always listen to them that would be great
HAHAHAH it actually does sound pretty cool.
yeah omg i agree
Or 80's cassette player and battery is almoust empty.
what the radio plays at 2 am
😂😂😂😂😂
🤣 😂😂
It plays criminal podcast always when I listen at this time
On AM frequencies
...and it isn't plugged in.
Smooth Criminal ❌
The Real Thriller✅
You've been hit by
You've been struck by
A rough criminal
More like you’ve been struck by a smooth demon
@@wildbillcustoms
H m m
rough cop?
@@belliongl4246 *any cop
good representation of what it feels like to have a sentence of a song's lyrics stuck in your head but with the whole song
YOOOOOOOOOO YESSSSSS
@@santipena3498 YOOOOOOOOOO YESSSSSS PENE
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
oh my god youre fucking right oh my gooooooooooooooood
thats relatable
That baseline is straight out of an '80s horror movie. The occasional synth string stings hit it, too. I love it.
The fact that you love it is terrifying actually 😭
@@melodydraw4511 it has potential, but sounds very bad here.
Sounds like an anti depressant I took once..
What's so weird is even though everything is C, it sounds like there's a lot of dissonance. So weird and hilarious and terrifying all at the same time
well it sounds like a lot of it is off by semitones and quarter tones, so it's not really all C
a lot of it is not actually C, but B natural
Yeah, it's more clustered around C than 100% C.
Don't forget they've repitched the entire song which includes all of the chords and harmonies. There's just no way to eliminate all of that, so there are plenty of other notes happening including the harmonics. There's also tons of dissonance from all the microtones that are happening as a result of whatever process they used. So yeah, lot's of dissonance, very dark and weird sounding. A lot of notes that we don't normally hear (or even consider as "notes") in western music.
@@twitch043 Microtones - what we would consider to be "out of tune" in standard western music but actually convey feelings all their own as we can hear in this bizarre manipulation
2:07 The chorus is the scariest sound I've ever heard and I'm 21. The harmonic dissonance in those creatures singing that shit is unsettling and terrifying. If that was in an actual horror movie soundtrack it would be nominated for the Oscars.
true
one note can't be dissonant
@@rivercastro9007 im talking about the harmonic dissonance of the sounds in the chorus
@@Rybz castlevania harmony of dissonance
I find it cool af🤩
Mike looks like he can feel our pain... and is mildly enjoying it.
Lol true🤣
Man this comment got me hard laughing 😂😂
Ear worm.
Literally, I can feel it digging into my medula oblongata.
0.75 speed is literally what hell sounds like.
okay now i'll have nightmares
Hell sounds like smooth criminal holy shit
I did it and it’s terrifying
2x speed sounds like my thought process when I’m on my adhd medication
Omg it does!!!!
I now know what a stroke feels like.
I now know what it sounds like… lol
0-0
The "I don't know" in the background sound demonic af 😭
fr 😭
This is an avant-garde masterpiece.
When the criminal's knife is blunt:
Criminal brought a fork instead
@@hverdagen8429 it's more like a spoon
the chorus is actually, genuinely terrifying imo
someone:
"What kind of music do you like"
me:
"I'ts complicated"
*meanwhile in my head :*
This comment is underrated
🤣🤣🤣
This song sounds like it’s threatening me
Anybody got sheet music for this?
The basic reprise is C-C-C-C-C
yo im doing one way harder rn
As a perfect pitch person, it's not all C, but also Db or half higher than C.
The notes are C, but it's a MJ song so the key is probably Am
@@ramahermawan4598 As A
This is like the musical version of having a dream where you're trying to run away from something but you're just running on the spot.
So true 😂😂😂
If it wasn't for the Internet I would forever think I was the only one that experienced that. And the slow punching. You're molasses in dreams 😂
or when your trying to run and you just fall
Im going to play this to a newborn and be like "this is his music" and let them believe that until theyre a grown ass adult
That's mean, lol
your a real life villain man.
what a monster you are
And few years later when they hear real thing "this sound out of tune"..
@@jannejohansson3383 thats the mind fuckery taking part
Smooth Criminal but he develops a sudden case of extreme anxiety.
i know its all c, but somehow it still sounds there's a melody going up and down. amazing
It's because notes aren't all C. It does fluctuate in pitch sometimes, hitting Bs and sometimes a few Ebs and Dbs here and there. In the "I don't know" part of the song, you can even hear a few Gs.
Yeah, this video title isn't accurate at all / is misleading. As clubbedsam says, many of the notes heard aren't C.
C sharp and flat
Yeah I noticed
It definitely switches between two notes in the melody, and the chords are still multiple different notes
Huh. This is awful, creepy, funny and cool at the same time.
This is like walking on a very thin line and the slight unbalance would cause a painful fall and death
Beautiful way to put it
That thumbnail image is pure nightmare fuel.
Annie is definitely not okay in this version, but scaried and depressed now the smooth criminal is coming to C her..
Edit: Thanks for thoses tips "Ruben" and "Groop" lol
To C her
@@The_Lion_that_Barks omg im dead
@Groopwo gotta say thats way more creative bro dang
The bass at 2:46 slaps so hard. I love it. Also this feels like a long lost NIN/Primus collab track.
🤔 I need to use my headphones later…
EDIT: I’m pretty sure that’s David Williams on a regular (possessed) guitar. He really knew how to make it bite!
Yes! That's the best way to describe that part lol
I hear music from a rather... weird video :/
Hahaha your right, also thanks for reminding me about Primus!
I was gonna say it sounds like some industrial stuff with psychotic singing on top of it.
Needless to say, Annie wasn't okay.
OMG!!!
😂
wow... this turned from a great song to the PERFECT horror movie villain soundtrack
When even the "You've been hit by, you've been struck by a smooth criminal" doesn't release you from this musical edging hell
Perfection description.
the "smooth" comes out very high-pitched, almost as if his voice had cracked, and I find it both terrifying and perfect
You've been hit by
You've been struck by
A Smooth *C*
1:01 👽👾âNnĮę äRé yØü ōRkĘh?👾👽ÂRė YöŪ øRKêH? 👹👾ÃNNIË👾👹
no
; ___________ ;
@@RandomResponses24 ┗|｀O′|┛
😭
@@RandomResponses24 nah fr shits cringe ☠️
2:31 "You've been hit by, you've been struck by a smOOthh criminal" 😭😂💀 the struggle with the vocals is real. 😅
Dude, this sounds like a song purely created by self-learning AI and it's slightly terrifying
Yessss!!!!!😂😂😂😂
I once made a comment saying that no matter what you do to this song, it would still sound like half of a song.
I take that back.
it sounds like a song but let me put it language you can understand
MOOTH CRIMINAL
@@darkgolden3250 ....what?
still vibveable tho i danced at this and loved it especially might suit for hello weeb
actually I genuinely think that it was pretty cool XD
@@julas3642 SAME
3:05 he sounds like he's possessed😭😭
he sounds like a dying cat
@@spacebeats737😂😂😂😂😂😂
pov : anne is not okay
This is pretty good, but I'd love to hear "Beat It" with all the notes as C. ^^
are you crazy? that would be insane.
it has been done
ceat it
@@b.luong2 where
@@b.luong2 where
This is what hell sounds like !
Omg this comment makes me want to go to hell
@Yi huang cause this is what hell sounds like
Nope, it's constant screaming.
@@lamargames3940 You don't, trust me.
68? My turn to shine
What in the ever loving hell is this
Cmooth criminal.
0:14 honest fart
*A N N I E T H E C R I M I N A L*
It's like when a loved one dies but they won't cross over to the afterlife, so now they're trying to communicate with you through your car radio.
Love the 2 year later recommendation because I know absolutely no one looked this up on purpose
Wait for it...
😂😂😂
me now
69 likes now, nice
Well, summer 2024. :D
I can’t listen to this in the car while the window’s down without my brain thinking it’s the original tone.
this is just how music sounds ,when you have an ear infection .
I have one right now.
LMAOOOOO
i've had ear problems twice and i can confirm, it's true
This sounds like something you would hear in boss levels in those old nes contra games
WORD! As an 80s baby who played the hell out of Contra, I agree 100%!
YES
Imagine running through a dark corridor, being chased by maneating horror clown, but you can run only in slowmotion, and this plays in the backround.
this is the music that starts to play when you misplace your vape
I love how the picture for the video actually matches the song so good
Michael Crackson
When a smooth criminal takes the other notes
I'M DEAD☠️
Anyone who enjoys this version is far apart from humanity, ... standing on his armchair while having shoes on, looking away from the TV and be drinking food
well, can't deny that's a perfect description of myself
It kinda slaps
bro im literally doing that rigth now
well uhh ig im far apart from humanity...cheers
LOL
This is what it feels like when a musician is singing directly to you and staring in your eyes
Damn this thing hit me way too much deep in the soul, it is truly terrifying. There so much tension that comes out of it, I was not ready for that, it's like listening to a nightmare who come closer and closer forever but never reach you
this must be what it sounds like when i'm tapping on the desk and what comes out in my mind is a perfectly formed song.
Finally something I can play on the piano
Real musicians get more than a laugh out of this
Yeah, can confirm
This sounds like horror vaporwave or something.. I kinda love it...
Really utilizing the richness of microtones within a c note
Played this while submitting an assignment. Set the mood perfectly
Perfect 😂
Litteraly Ayuwoki exiting Michael
If this was played faintly and had more static, it would fit perfectly into a horror game/movie.
Therapist: Nightmare Michael isnt real, he can’t hurt you
Nightmare Michael:
And when he says "Annie are you ok?" It sounds so creepy..😱😱😨😨
It sounds like Annie is screaming for help in the background
all the song sounds creepy
@@e5858 lol
this feels like when you block someone while they’re still typing
This sounds like pure evil, I LOVE IT!
this really helped me get through a tough time, thank you
When the demon under your bed is a moonwalker:
Good song for a psychopath in a horror movie