A new, but also not new, movement is happening. And I'm very confused 😵 What do YOU think of speeding up songs? Like the video, drop a comment, and vote in my community poll! ruclips.net/user/postUgkxqApiBaCiz9hbxKW24LVcvQ_LHUUmN0Gf
I used to like how funny or different certain soungs would sound if you changed the speed they played at.... I cant stand it now, because of how crazy its gotten, and because I've more than once accidentally found one of these songs believing it was some fun new song only to find nope somebody just fucked with the speed of something else
You have to wonder what the future holds for music. Right now Gen Z gets its music from TikTok & it is at its peak. We went from Albums to Singles to individual songs on ipod & itunes to streaming like Spotify to now Tiktok. Modern tech has really hurt the music. We know modern tech has crush independent artists. The question is what happens to music after TikTok?
i used to be pretty into nightcore when i was younger but not anymore, i appreciate slower songs now. i liked nightcore because it just made all the songs i liked even more energetic. i don't think this trend of sped up songs is that deep, i think kids and teens are just discovering how speeding up songs can give it a different vibe. a few years ago i fell in love with "slowed and reverb" songs on youtube as well as vaporwave because i loved how low, deep, moody, and somewhat trippy the songs sounded. it all just depends on what you like to hear in music! also, i don't think that artists are being ripped off, if you post a sped up/slowed down version of a song on youtube the copyright claim thing still applies and the original artists still gets paid.
Most good music is being thrown back to the underground. In general music is transitioning from full songs into just short jingles that can be used in Tik Tok. People advertising themselves on social media need their jingles just like any american TV ad does. Basically everything is becoming just ad music intended to generate a "buy" reaction.
@@jeremywaygay Sure have, in fact I realized now that I made a mistake in what I said, I wanted to say that it's been getting popular only recently, but yes, night ore has been over yt for a long time now, but this rubbish has been getting real popular only in the last year or so, so yeah
When I was younger I remember watching a lot of nightcore channels and being super into that music overall. It only took a year for me and most of my friends to grow out of it though, so for most people it’s definitely just a phase.
I think the whole sped up/pitch shifted phenomenon actually grew out from the 2000's Hip Hop with sampling... it was seen as a quirky yet interesting take on a sample of music to make it slightly different and its own thing. Think 'Akon' song 'Lonely'
The pervasiveness of sped up songs feels dystopian both from an attention perspective and copyright dodging. I figured a lot of times people wanted to use a track without being hit, but I suppose with TikTok and Instagram that's not as big of a concern as RUclips. It's almost a lazier take on remixing every song? The best sped up and remixed song I can think of off the top of my head is the Hippie Sabotage version of Tove Lo's Habits.
I agree with what you're saying, even as a zoomer myself. Taking a 33 record and making 45 or whatever does not sound good. Also the entire time I was watching the video I was watching the corner and seeing your little buddy in his ball was adorable.
Ultimate "Just cause you Could doesn't mean you Should" Music is meant to be savored! Also loved seeing your hamster rolling around in the background, so cute!
The craziest part of this trend for me is that House of Memories now has an *official* sped up version on Spotify because of how popular it got on Tik Tok
I remember my nightcore phase 🤣 granted i was really young, i grew out of it but some nightcores still slap, especially Wolf In Sheeps Clothing by Set It Off Still can't believe (but not surprised) Panic! Released a sped up version of house of memories lol
It took this comment to get me to realize what was happening lol. I thought Hannah was rolling a ball or something as a visual gag for those who watch the videos
I grow up with Nightcore in the 2000's but now the "speed up" movement or trend or to release a song 10 years ago or more and re release it now with the speed up version to please a younger generation or to please tiktok fan. Ex: Ellie Goulding - Lights. "We re release and old song but it's just a speed up version" Not even a remix or a new version of the song with a feature.
FINALLY! some other people that agree with me. As a mature zoomer, I really can't cope with all the annoying stuff of sped up songs, ranging from losing the sense and/or lyrics to ruining the beat of the song to shortening children's attention spans even more and a lot more shit. Thank you for uploading this.
As an older gen z I would guess it has to do with our shortened attention spans 🥴I literally get tiktok videos of south park clips with someone playing subway surfers on the bottom because I guess just the show isn't entertaining enough... lmao
I was neutral with nightcore but I loved one specific song (Rockefeller street) that was clearly one of my favorites that I heard in late 2019/early 2020. 2022: I was starting to listen to music and I don't know why but in all playlists automated by youtube it included 8 sped up songs every 10 songs and it made me hate even though I wasn't listening this kind of music. It was the theme song for subway surfers, macarena and others. I really didn't know it was all because of tik tok. I always thought it was "nightcore 2.0". Well 2023 arrived and I really didn't change my opinion about this kind of music much. There are some that were good but very few. An example is 'Why so serious?'.Basically tik tok "created" nightcore again and changed the name. Artists unlike nightcore, released songs and changed album orders because of a sped up version (example: the rainbow cassette) (I think I got the name wrong). Others simply released singles and other eps with these versions included. I remember never seeing an original artist post on a streaming service a nightcore version. Bottom line: I hate almost all sped ups and it's just nightcore 2.0. And it's all because tik tok teens can't handle a 4 minute song
Jon, I’m not gonna lie, I agree with your TikTok statement on ruining everything. I never listen to sped up music, as I don’t think it makes sense why. I also prefer the original version of songs anyway, although I will occasionally hear a couple songs slowed down every few months…
The final part is very important. I make my playlist with 2 to 3 first impressions to like them and then listen carefully to categorize them in my playlist... of course, I get driven to some pop songs... it's sad to see how music could change for a more basic or effortless work
It really gets under my skin when I hear sped up & slowed down crap. I didn't like it when I was in highschool & I don't now. If someones attention span is that short than that's an issue. They really do sound like Alvin and the chipmunks singing. 😹
For me, I 100% agree that sped up music (for the most part) bothers me. I remember having a Nightcore phase back in the 2010s and I don't miss it. I personally prefer to listen to either the original version or the slowed down version (for certain songs, the slowed version just gives a better vibes imo). The only exception is the Dolby Atmos Stems versions of Taylor Swift's songs bc those just hit different
I never got the whole “chopped ‘n’ screwed” scene that apparently started here in Houston (thankfully, DJ Screw realized that not all formats of music needed the treatment!), and I don’t think I ever will…same with the whole “sped up” thing going on now. It’s making everything sound like The Chipmunks backed by the Ramones on both Acid and Speed.
As someone who has been listening to Nightcore since the early days of Nightcore releasing Dam Da Di Doo in the late 2000's-Early 2010's this era of Nightcore resurgence has been wild lmao.
Slowing down/speeding up music has the same energy as taking somebody’s animation, plugging it into an AI smoother that bumps it up to 120 fps, and saying “I fixed your art, you’re welcome”.
its the same phenomenon of the fast-edited simplified videos that TikTok has, even without music, of people trying to fit in 10 seconds of trying to make an important point or 'educating people' really really fast. people's brains are being trained to squeeze everything into a few seconds, simplify it, and it seeps into many aspects of communication and culture and development. everyone's on aderall now and grew up with flashing screens and dont know how to let their brain exist without hyper-stimulation and know-it-all simplification these days.
I like the song's aesthetic in a slightly higher pitch, assuming it's not to the point it sounds like Chipmunks. The tempo side of sped-up versions doesn't appeal to me as much for some of the reasons you mention, but I don't mind it in some songs. It's really an acquired taste. And like you, I prefer the original songs over any altered speed version, and I don't see the appeal to the slowed and reverb side of things. But that's just my opinion, and as always, I respect yours!
This might be me having grown up with Nightcore but I feel like there is this different feeling between Nightcore and TikTok speed ups. You mention it a bit but the biggest part of the Nightcore craze often had its vibes in this internet electronica, same kind of group who listens to people like t+pazolite and Camellia. Obviously not all Nightcore was the same but that's the vibe I got from them. The thing I find about TikTok speed ups is it feels like a homogenization of any song that doesn't immediately sound like a TikTok song to be about the same speed as all those songs, see Evergreen by Omar Apollo or Kill Bill by SZA.
I’m a gen z but I personally dislike sped up songs A LOT, I feel like it js ruins the song most of the time🤷♀️ I honestly can’t stand it and don’t get it’s popularity
In the early days of RUclips (2008/09) I had a channel where I would just speed up popular RUclips videos. Channel was successful. My total video views reached over 1M. And my videos were even monetized for almost 2 years
I guess I'm technically a zoomer? I'm right on the edge of millennial and zoomer and started using the web outside of a school environment around 2007 so I saw the whole Nightcore thing explode and I hated it then and I hate it now, but I have a weird ironic nostalgia for the old Nightcore aesthetic. I feel speeding up songs dilutes the musicality of songs as well as strips the soul as you said. It's bizarre that stuff from the 1900s (I've heard stuff as far back as the 30s and 40s tampered with) onward are being sped up, too. Same with the whole slow and reverb trend. It's all awful. And the thing is, I love fast songs! I love slow songs with heavy reverb! But if it wasn't intended it feels tacky to tamper with it(sampling and remixing is different because with well done hip hop/RnB stuff, it still takes a lot of talent to do right)
One of the worst trends ever. I’ve always hated Nightcore but seeing this turn into a mainstream thing that artists do to their own songs made me hate the idea even more. I’m just tired of the constant need to shorten songs and make them faster turning them into something to be easily digested quickly and remove all artistic merit of it. I just can’t see how people can enjoy sped up songs if you’re not using it for TikTok. But I guess I’m just out of touch lol. Nightcore (oh sorry sped up) should stay on RUclips and fanmade the fact records labels are getting into it makes me depressed.
The lifelong musician in me has always hated Slowed/Sped up songs lol. 99% of the time it completely ruins the vibe of the song and makes it sound super derpy and wonky. We have basically reverted back to "Ringtone" era music, but with two paths. Your song either blows up because someones video trended with a snippet of your song in it. Or you get to have one of your songs ruined and sped up because its being used for the Trend of The Week on TikTok 💀.
The hip-hop scene brought "chopped and screwed" versions (which slows down the music and lyrics of a song. DJ Screw was credited for this introduction.
My partner can pretty much ONLY listen to songs if they're sped up. Not 'Nightcore' sped up, but he has his music players playback rate quite a lot higher. It drives me CRAZY. When I first asked him why, he said "because songs are just too slow." My first reaction was "But that's not what was intended to be heard by the artist. In fact, I would go so far as to say, the songs you've been listening to for years? You've never actually heard the songs." I, of course let him do what he wants, but as a music freak, and musician, I do quietly seeth while we're in the car 😂 And when my music is on, he can't stand it. Anything that has an intro, any kind of break in the middle, it's like he can't grasp it. Whatever he's hearing at any given time, in his mind, that's what the whole song is going to be the whole way through. "Ewww what's this garbage?" "IT'S THE FIRST 8 SECONDS OF THE SONG, IT'S NOT THE WHOLE THING OMG" This isn't me just ripping on my boyfriend, I think some people seriously just can't pay attention to some things unless it's repetitive, and /or moving at the same speed as their brain. (And my boyfriend is 46 years old, that's what makes me think it's just some people's brains wired differently, and not just a Gen Z thing.)
I love nightcore and have loved it since 2013-2014, but I have to say the newer varieties are lacking in something that I cannot pinpoint. I feel like certain elements of a song can be highlighted with different versions or remixs. BUT I do agree that artists having to release those versions themselves is counter intuitive and wrong.
personally I'm not on such a level of sensory neediness as to be able to enjoy the sped up songs, I've found that I really am having a hard time giving any closer attention to music that doesn't grip me after the first two listens. whereas when I was sixteeen it was an enticing thing to try and get into an album that doesn't exactly suit my tastes at the time - for example I'd had to listen through Blonde like five times over before it became one of my favorite records ever
This is my boomer moment. I get genuinely upset about all of these great songs being ruined, and when I think of the cultural damage this will have on the future of music and music consumption habits- I genuinely fear it.
Yeah, I always knew this style of music as "Nightcore". It's not really my thing and I'd probably never listen to it voluntarily. In fact, the only time it ever really came to my attention was when my brother showed it to me and told me how "cringe" it was. I thought for sure he'd like it considering he's Gen Z (and so am I, technically)... I suppose it could sound cool if you chose the right song to speed up (otherwise it'll probably sound like sonic garbage playing over a chipmunk festival). Speaking of which, anyone ever try speeding up a nightcore song?
Slightly off topic, but def notice a trend to slow down and reverb songs and give them more of a moody Lana Del Rey-esque feel and put them as the backdrop to movie trailers
I've never been a Nightcore fan as I don't like sped-up songs. However back in I think 2010 I came across one of "My Last Breath" by Evanescence. It wasn't as sped up as other songs so it sounds more like someone doing a cover than a chipmunk singing. It was the only time I truly enjoyed a nightcore song. I listened to it over and over before eventually losing interest and returning to the original.
The more digital music becomes, the less I feel it's "music". I think it has musical elements to it, but just because you program some sounds in a loop doesn't mean you've made a song. Some people do know how to use the new electronic technology as deftly as people played physical instruments in the past, but I feel the space between bad electronic and good electronic is worse than the space with guitars, etc. I'm not saying what I grew up with was definitely better than the current stuff, because some of that music is unlistenable now for a reason. But I have a hard time calling many of these people "artists" and their product "music" when an afternoon on a computer creates three variations of the same track. I get concerned that present music culture doesn't empower people to make quality but to make quantity, empowering mediocre product. I also feel it doesn't push the musicians to create high quality, memorable stuff.
I'm so tired of everything being TikTok-ified. Everything from music to news and everything in between now has to be fast and easily consumable. Deeply nuanced and complex topics now need to be condensed into short videos or comment sized paragraphs because people can't even be bothered to read things anymore. We've all seen the reports that all this short form TikTok-esque content is shortening peoples' attention spans. I'm honestly worried about my generation going forward.
Never understood the appeal behind nightcore. I just found it weird that all these songs getting sped and pitched up a bit, were sometimes more popular than the original track. Why listen to a sped up version when you can just listen to the original? Now hearing it return in a more commercial driven format and under a different name just seems worse. No, there isn't a problem with having music as a background thing, but I wish people on TikTok can learn to appreciate the music that they are listening to and not just focus on "getting to the chorus" because their attention spans are extremely short.
I mean I understand sped up songs for tiktok so you get more of the song in a shorter time. But for people to actually listen to these on their own is weird. Generally nightcore is more of a remix and these are just speeding up the song.
fast rhythm or 'speedy energy' can be fun and is timeless (lots of vivaldi? beethoven moonlight 3rd movement? or any fast hardcore dance music from the 90s? the Prodigy? hard core punk, ska revival and so on, etc).. a fast energetic piece of music has its place, but instead of writing a new one, taking random existing music and putting it to a sped up ADHD chipmunk formula is not neccessary to give that speedy energy. i think it has to do with the dwindling of attention span, the nature of TikTok being all about fast editing. Notice, even non-music TikTok vids are all fast paced edited words being thrown at you. and also its like a dumbed-down sense of humor, like a baby would laugh at a fast chipmonk voice for no reason. de-evolution.
I honestly really like this movement as a Gen Z young adult. I didn’t realize nightcore was a movement in the 2000s, so i’m glad i learned that here. I’ve always been obsessed with playing with the pitch and tempo of songs, so i have sought out sped up and slowed songs for maybe 7 years now. I thought my taste was niche because so many videos had maybe a few thousand views each, but it’s kind of a relief to see i’m not alone.
I don’t care for sped up songs like this at all. I don’t think they are good. I’m still very mad at the Bloody Mary sped up, because as a little monster since 09, I’m happy for her success and for the song but I don’t want them to ruin it like they did running up that hill.
This is a fad, music fads come and go the late nineties had those sped up versions of drum n bass hits it was mostly huge in the UK, the mid naughties had those high pitched vocals in every hip hop track especially during Kanye’s College Dropout and the mid twenty-teens had nothing but EDM drops in every single popular song had some sort of drop (so glad that trend is dead), regardless of all that we’ve seen these trends come and go this sped up one seems to be made specifically for TikTok which does alienate a good portion of listeners but it’s still just some dumb fad that’ll blow over.
I understand your concern, however I only see this being a problem for popular music. As in your acts that are the most mainstream. I don't see underground acts in different genres doing this because they still maintain their artistic integrity. They and their label aren't around to solely just make money. However, mainstream labels have to constantly make tons of money so they can keep producing more and more each year and also see a return on investment. (Yes it's soulless, but big business has no feelings, morals, or "forsaking things in the name of creating art.")
Ironically enough Steve Tyler was insecure about his voice on the first Aerosmith album so sang much lower in the other songs besides Dream On. Just know it could be so much worse lol
I used to really dislike sped up music cos I hadn’t heard an example I could really get into but theres something about the sped up version of miss you by Oliver tree (or south star- don’t get me started) that I just rlly love. It has this chaotic frantic energy that I find really endearing and honestly I prefer it to the original. It’s a rare example but still I’m open now to the idea that it’s not ALL bad
Maybe I’m just the odd one out in my generation, but I’m also not on tiktok. I cannot STAND this trend because it takes some songs that are so wonderful to listen to and just makes them sound horrendous. Can’t we just appreciate the songs how they were produced?
Maybe it’s the boomer in me but I feel Gen Z grew around an environment that didn’t gave them the patience nor the attention span to get a built up on their media consumption.
I don't care if I sound as a Boomer elitist or whatever, but I absolutely detest Sped Up songs, as well as Slowed + Reverb and I'm so glad my parents and uncles raised me on classic rock and heavy metal, because it made me truly appreciate music beyond the most superficial level.
A new, but also not new, movement is happening. And I'm very confused 😵
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I used to like how funny or different certain soungs would sound if you changed the speed they played at.... I cant stand it now, because of how crazy its gotten, and because I've more than once accidentally found one of these songs believing it was some fun new song only to find nope somebody just fucked with the speed of something else
What till you discover rev-head nightcore haha, sped up songs with car sounds added.
You have to wonder what the future holds for music. Right now Gen Z gets its music from TikTok & it is at its peak. We went from Albums to Singles to individual songs on ipod & itunes to streaming like Spotify to now Tiktok. Modern tech has really hurt the music. We know modern tech has crush independent artists. The question is what happens to music after TikTok?
Singles were a thing before Albums. Remember these very early vinyl record (like 78 RPM) or wax cylinder?
@@gx1tar1er Yeah the album actually came after singles
i used to be pretty into nightcore when i was younger but not anymore, i appreciate slower songs now. i liked nightcore because it just made all the songs i liked even more energetic. i don't think this trend of sped up songs is that deep, i think kids and teens are just discovering how speeding up songs can give it a different vibe. a few years ago i fell in love with "slowed and reverb" songs on youtube as well as vaporwave because i loved how low, deep, moody, and somewhat trippy the songs sounded. it all just depends on what you like to hear in music! also, i don't think that artists are being ripped off, if you post a sped up/slowed down version of a song on youtube the copyright claim thing still applies and the original artists still gets paid.
@@snail-teethpreach! Agreed
Most good music is being thrown back to the underground. In general music is transitioning from full songs into just short jingles that can be used in Tik Tok. People advertising themselves on social media need their jingles just like any american TV ad does. Basically everything is becoming just ad music intended to generate a "buy" reaction.
Imagine how frustrating it is to pour your heart and soul into a song just for someone on tik tok to ruin it by speeding it up.
exactly why i cant stand sped up music
eh its happened to most big songs for over a decade now, i dont get the sudden hatred for it now. its p easy to ignore 🤷🏽
@@jeremywaygay over a decade? Bro wake up, all this shit started just appearing last year
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@@thrax7550 lmao ever heard of nightcore? that has been all over youtube for a long time now.
@@jeremywaygay Sure have, in fact I realized now that I made a mistake in what I said, I wanted to say that it's been getting popular only recently, but yes, night ore has been over yt for a long time now, but this rubbish has been getting real popular only in the last year or so, so yeah
I’m so glad to have grown up when it was still called “nightcore”.
here here!
Me too lmao, and that slowed versions were called Daycore.
Me too
Just as dogshit tbh. Never understand the appeal
Sameeee
When I was younger I remember watching a lot of nightcore channels and being super into that music overall. It only took a year for me and most of my friends to grow out of it though, so for most people it’s definitely just a phase.
I think the whole sped up/pitch shifted phenomenon actually grew out from the 2000's Hip Hop with sampling... it was seen as a quirky yet interesting take on a sample of music to make it slightly different and its own thing. Think 'Akon' song 'Lonely'
Definitely a factor I could've mentioned but didn't think about
Or Kanye’s graduation trilogy as well
The pervasiveness of sped up songs feels dystopian both from an attention perspective and copyright dodging. I figured a lot of times people wanted to use a track without being hit, but I suppose with TikTok and Instagram that's not as big of a concern as RUclips. It's almost a lazier take on remixing every song? The best sped up and remixed song I can think of off the top of my head is the Hippie Sabotage version of Tove Lo's Habits.
Oh yeah, that one was huge back in what, 2014? I hated it and always sought out the original
I agree with what you're saying, even as a zoomer myself. Taking a 33 record and making 45 or whatever does not sound good. Also the entire time I was watching the video I was watching the corner and seeing your little buddy in his ball was adorable.
So Zoomers... like things that go fast? Guess the name really fits
I WANNA GO FAST
@@beyondartv GOTTA GO FAST!!!!
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the only ghost here is my hamster Marigold ghost-riding the whip
@@beyondartv xd
Ultimate "Just cause you Could doesn't mean you Should" Music is meant to be savored! Also loved seeing your hamster rolling around in the background, so cute!
Wait the labels are literally releasing official nightcore edits now??? Lmao wow, I am so far removed from modern pop music.
The craziest part of this trend for me is that House of Memories now has an *official* sped up version on Spotify because of how popular it got on Tik Tok
🤢
a lot of us grew up on early 2010’s and late 2000’s nightcore. So the resurgence just makes sense
I remember my nightcore phase 🤣 granted i was really young, i grew out of it but some nightcores still slap, especially Wolf In Sheeps Clothing by Set It Off
Still can't believe (but not surprised) Panic! Released a sped up version of house of memories lol
I remember it being called nightcore when i grew up then grew out of it a bit later
Also shoutout once AGAIN to the hamster in the background lol 🐹
It took this comment to get me to realize what was happening lol. I thought Hannah was rolling a ball or something as a visual gag for those who watch the videos
I grow up with Nightcore in the 2000's but now the "speed up" movement or trend or to release a song 10 years ago or more and re release it now with the speed up version to please a younger generation or to please tiktok fan.
Ex: Ellie Goulding - Lights.
"We re release and old song but it's just a speed up version" Not even a remix or a new version of the song with a feature.
god the original versions are always so much easier to listen to for me, i dont get the hype of slow+reverb or sped up at all
FINALLY! some other people that agree with me. As a mature zoomer, I really can't cope with all the annoying stuff of sped up songs, ranging from losing the sense and/or lyrics to ruining the beat of the song to shortening children's attention spans even more and a lot more shit. Thank you for uploading this.
As an older gen z I would guess it has to do with our shortened attention spans 🥴I literally get tiktok videos of south park clips with someone playing subway surfers on the bottom because I guess just the show isn't entertaining enough... lmao
I was neutral with nightcore but I loved one specific song (Rockefeller street) that was clearly one of my favorites that I heard in late 2019/early 2020.
2022: I was starting to listen to music and I don't know why but in all playlists automated by youtube it included 8 sped up songs every 10 songs and it made me hate even though I wasn't listening this kind of music. It was the theme song for subway surfers, macarena and others. I really didn't know it was all because of tik tok. I always thought it was "nightcore 2.0".
Well 2023 arrived and I really didn't change my opinion about this kind of music much. There are some that were good but very few. An example is 'Why so serious?'.Basically tik tok "created" nightcore again and changed the name. Artists unlike nightcore, released songs and changed album orders because of a sped up version (example: the rainbow cassette) (I think I got the name wrong). Others simply released singles and other eps with these versions included. I remember never seeing an original artist post on a streaming service a nightcore version.
Bottom line: I hate almost all sped ups and it's just nightcore 2.0. And it's all because tik tok teens can't handle a 4 minute song
Jon, I’m not gonna lie, I agree with your TikTok statement on ruining everything. I never listen to sped up music, as I don’t think it makes sense why. I also prefer the original version of songs anyway, although I will occasionally hear a couple songs slowed down every few months…
The final part is very important. I make my playlist with 2 to 3 first impressions to like them and then listen carefully to categorize them in my playlist... of course, I get driven to some pop songs... it's sad to see how music could change for a more basic or effortless work
It really gets under my skin when I hear sped up & slowed down crap. I didn't like it when I was in highschool & I don't now. If someones attention span is that short than that's an issue.
They really do sound like Alvin and the chipmunks singing. 😹
For me, I 100% agree that sped up music (for the most part) bothers me. I remember having a Nightcore phase back in the 2010s and I don't miss it.
I personally prefer to listen to either the original version or the slowed down version (for certain songs, the slowed version just gives a better vibes imo). The only exception is the Dolby Atmos Stems versions of Taylor Swift's songs bc those just hit different
We grew up with A LOT of nightcore and fast paced music, a lot of rap features in pop songs, electronic ...so I guess that the movement makes sense
Off topic but I like how your critter is rolling around in the room (is it a Guinea pig?)
Hamster! We have 3 currently, 2 boys and a girl. Bowie, Pluto, & Marigold.
I never got the whole “chopped ‘n’ screwed” scene that apparently started here in Houston (thankfully, DJ Screw realized that not all formats of music needed the treatment!), and I don’t think I ever will…same with the whole “sped up” thing going on now. It’s making everything sound like The Chipmunks backed by the Ramones on both Acid and Speed.
As someone who has been listening to Nightcore since the early days of Nightcore releasing Dam Da Di Doo in the late 2000's-Early 2010's this era of Nightcore resurgence has been wild lmao.
I thought sped up music was a joke. I heard it and just shook my head. What are people thinking.
Brimful of asha (fatboy slim remix) might be the only sped up song better than the original
I cringe thinking about my love for every-chipmunk-version-song in the late 2000s. 😂😁
Slowing down/speeding up music has the same energy as taking somebody’s animation, plugging it into an AI smoother that bumps it up to 120 fps, and saying “I fixed your art, you’re welcome”.
its the same phenomenon of the fast-edited simplified videos that TikTok has, even without music, of people trying to fit in 10 seconds of trying to make an important point or 'educating people' really really fast. people's brains are being trained to squeeze everything into a few seconds, simplify it, and it seeps into many aspects of communication and culture and development. everyone's on aderall now and grew up with flashing screens and dont know how to let their brain exist without hyper-stimulation and know-it-all simplification these days.
Holy crap the sped up Numb brought me back
I like the song's aesthetic in a slightly higher pitch, assuming it's not to the point it sounds like Chipmunks. The tempo side of sped-up versions doesn't appeal to me as much for some of the reasons you mention, but I don't mind it in some songs. It's really an acquired taste. And like you, I prefer the original songs over any altered speed version, and I don't see the appeal to the slowed and reverb side of things. But that's just my opinion, and as always, I respect yours!
This might be me having grown up with Nightcore but I feel like there is this different feeling between Nightcore and TikTok speed ups. You mention it a bit but the biggest part of the Nightcore craze often had its vibes in this internet electronica, same kind of group who listens to people like t+pazolite and Camellia. Obviously not all Nightcore was the same but that's the vibe I got from them. The thing I find about TikTok speed ups is it feels like a homogenization of any song that doesn't immediately sound like a TikTok song to be about the same speed as all those songs, see Evergreen by Omar Apollo or Kill Bill by SZA.
I’m a gen z but I personally dislike sped up songs A LOT, I feel like it js ruins the song most of the time🤷♀️ I honestly can’t stand it and don’t get it’s popularity
exactly! same here
In the early days of RUclips (2008/09) I had a channel where I would just speed up popular RUclips videos. Channel was successful. My total video views reached over 1M. And my videos were even monetized for almost 2 years
I guess I'm technically a zoomer? I'm right on the edge of millennial and zoomer and started using the web outside of a school environment around 2007 so I saw the whole Nightcore thing explode and I hated it then and I hate it now, but I have a weird ironic nostalgia for the old Nightcore aesthetic. I feel speeding up songs dilutes the musicality of songs as well as strips the soul as you said. It's bizarre that stuff from the 1900s (I've heard stuff as far back as the 30s and 40s tampered with) onward are being sped up, too. Same with the whole slow and reverb trend. It's all awful. And the thing is, I love fast songs! I love slow songs with heavy reverb! But if it wasn't intended it feels tacky to tamper with it(sampling and remixing is different because with well done hip hop/RnB stuff, it still takes a lot of talent to do right)
i dont listen to nightcore usually ever, but it did influence hyperpop so thats cool. (unless you hate hyperpop)
One of the worst trends ever. I’ve always hated Nightcore but seeing this turn into a mainstream thing that artists do to their own songs made me hate the idea even more. I’m just tired of the constant need to shorten songs and make them faster turning them into something to be easily digested quickly and remove all artistic merit of it.
I just can’t see how people can enjoy sped up songs if you’re not using it for TikTok. But I guess I’m just out of touch lol.
Nightcore (oh sorry sped up) should stay on RUclips and fanmade the fact records labels are getting into it makes me depressed.
Watched the whole vid on 1.5 and realised many of the song examples played are actually so much nicer to my ear when sped up!
The lifelong musician in me has always hated Slowed/Sped up songs lol. 99% of the time it completely ruins the vibe of the song and makes it sound super derpy and wonky. We have basically reverted back to "Ringtone" era music, but with two paths. Your song either blows up because someones video trended with a snippet of your song in it. Or you get to have one of your songs ruined and sped up because its being used for the Trend of The Week on TikTok 💀.
The hip-hop scene brought "chopped and screwed" versions (which slows down the music and lyrics of a song. DJ Screw was credited for this introduction.
My partner can pretty much ONLY listen to songs if they're sped up. Not 'Nightcore' sped up, but he has his music players playback rate quite a lot higher. It drives me CRAZY.
When I first asked him why, he said "because songs are just too slow."
My first reaction was "But that's not what was intended to be heard by the artist. In fact, I would go so far as to say, the songs you've been listening to for years? You've never actually heard the songs."
I, of course let him do what he wants, but as a music freak, and musician, I do quietly seeth while we're in the car 😂
And when my music is on, he can't stand it. Anything that has an intro, any kind of break in the middle, it's like he can't grasp it. Whatever he's hearing at any given time, in his mind, that's what the whole song is going to be the whole way through. "Ewww what's this garbage?" "IT'S THE FIRST 8 SECONDS OF THE SONG, IT'S NOT THE WHOLE THING OMG"
This isn't me just ripping on my boyfriend, I think some people seriously just can't pay attention to some things unless it's repetitive, and /or moving at the same speed as their brain.
(And my boyfriend is 46 years old, that's what makes me think it's just some people's brains wired differently, and not just a Gen Z thing.)
Sounds about meth
Your boyfriend is a weirdo
Awesome video, I completely agree.
I love nightcore and have loved it since 2013-2014, but I have to say the newer varieties are lacking in something that I cannot pinpoint.
I feel like certain elements of a song can be highlighted with different versions or remixs. BUT I do agree that artists having to release those versions themselves is counter intuitive and wrong.
personally I'm not on such a level of sensory neediness as to be able to enjoy the sped up songs, I've found that I really am having a hard time giving any closer attention to music that doesn't grip me after the first two listens. whereas when I was sixteeen it was an enticing thing to try and get into an album that doesn't exactly suit my tastes at the time - for example I'd had to listen through Blonde like five times over before it became one of my favorite records ever
Ah yes, my favorite artist on Spotify, sped up nightcore!
This is my boomer moment. I get genuinely upset about all of these great songs being ruined, and when I think of the cultural damage this will have on the future of music and music consumption habits- I genuinely fear it.
I’m a gen z but I honestly feel the same, there are tons of songs getting ruined
@@fav0ur1te_r3gret I share the same opinion. Also, it is awful when they do the "slow and reverb versions as well" why???
@@TheYoungKilljoy yeah. I see people do it to my mcr even and I’m like “why??😭😭”
Honestly, seeing Spotify recommending me a "new single" of the great Teddy Pendergrass when it's just a sped up version is so painful.
Yeah, I always knew this style of music as "Nightcore". It's not really my thing and I'd probably never listen to it voluntarily. In fact, the only time it ever really came to my attention was when my brother showed it to me and told me how "cringe" it was. I thought for sure he'd like it considering he's Gen Z (and so am I, technically)...
I suppose it could sound cool if you chose the right song to speed up (otherwise it'll probably sound like sonic garbage playing over a chipmunk festival). Speaking of which, anyone ever try speeding up a nightcore song?
I totally agree everything you said, Jon!!
back in my day we called this nightcore
Slightly off topic, but def notice a trend to slow down and reverb songs and give them more of a moody Lana Del Rey-esque feel and put them as the backdrop to movie trailers
I heard the linkin park nightcore and it almost made me laugh 🤣
I've never been a Nightcore fan as I don't like sped-up songs. However back in I think 2010 I came across one of "My Last Breath" by Evanescence. It wasn't as sped up as other songs so it sounds more like someone doing a cover than a chipmunk singing. It was the only time I truly enjoyed a nightcore song. I listened to it over and over before eventually losing interest and returning to the original.
Can u try to make one album that has every single green day album in it?
i cannot fucking tolerate sped up music for some reason i cannot explain
literally, it sounds so fake and without any emotion
The more digital music becomes, the less I feel it's "music". I think it has musical elements to it, but just because you program some sounds in a loop doesn't mean you've made a song.
Some people do know how to use the new electronic technology as deftly as people played physical instruments in the past, but I feel the space between bad electronic and good electronic is worse than the space with guitars, etc.
I'm not saying what I grew up with was definitely better than the current stuff, because some of that music is unlistenable now for a reason. But I have a hard time calling many of these people "artists" and their product "music" when an afternoon on a computer creates three variations of the same track. I get concerned that present music culture doesn't empower people to make quality but to make quantity, empowering mediocre product. I also feel it doesn't push the musicians to create high quality, memorable stuff.
I'm so tired of everything being TikTok-ified. Everything from music to news and everything in between now has to be fast and easily consumable. Deeply nuanced and complex topics now need to be condensed into short videos or comment sized paragraphs because people can't even be bothered to read things anymore. We've all seen the reports that all this short form TikTok-esque content is shortening peoples' attention spans. I'm honestly worried about my generation going forward.
This x1000
Never understood the appeal behind nightcore. I just found it weird that all these songs getting sped and pitched up a bit, were sometimes more popular than the original track. Why listen to a sped up version when you can just listen to the original?
Now hearing it return in a more commercial driven format and under a different name just seems worse. No, there isn't a problem with having music as a background thing, but I wish people on TikTok can learn to appreciate the music that they are listening to and not just focus on "getting to the chorus" because their attention spans are extremely short.
4:12: Jon is there a ghost in your house?
I mean I understand sped up songs for tiktok so you get more of the song in a shorter time. But for people to actually listen to these on their own is weird. Generally nightcore is more of a remix and these are just speeding up the song.
What i want to see happen is grindcore bands making sped up versions, and doom metal bands do slowed down ones 😆
4:11 How on Earth that ball moved
I've always felt the appeal of this had to do with younger people really enjoying the movement that comes from the speedy energy.
fast rhythm or 'speedy energy' can be fun and is timeless (lots of vivaldi? beethoven moonlight 3rd movement? or any fast hardcore dance music from the 90s? the Prodigy? hard core punk, ska revival and so on, etc).. a fast energetic piece of music has its place, but instead of writing a new one, taking random existing music and putting it to a sped up ADHD chipmunk formula is not neccessary to give that speedy energy. i think it has to do with the dwindling of attention span, the nature of TikTok being all about fast editing. Notice, even non-music TikTok vids are all fast paced edited words being thrown at you. and also its like a dumbed-down sense of humor, like a baby would laugh at a fast chipmonk voice for no reason. de-evolution.
I honestly really like this movement as a Gen Z young adult. I didn’t realize nightcore was a movement in the 2000s, so i’m glad i learned that here. I’ve always been obsessed with playing with the pitch and tempo of songs, so i have sought out sped up and slowed songs for maybe 7 years now. I thought my taste was niche because so many videos had maybe a few thousand views each, but it’s kind of a relief to see i’m not alone.
The reasom why sped up songs works is sure the vibe but the vibe can be recreated with just specific key scale
I am here for the hamster rolling in the background :)
When I was in college I loved listening to Metallica at fifty and 100% fast. But it's gotten out of hand.
I don’t care for sped up songs like this at all. I don’t think they are good. I’m still very mad at the Bloody Mary sped up, because as a little monster since 09, I’m happy for her success and for the song but I don’t want them to ruin it like they did running up that hill.
the red ball is screwing with me so hard
🔮
3:43 If this wasn't mentioned, i would totally make a comment about that era
I'll never understand the hype, tbh. I understand art is subjective, but that's something I will never be able to appreciate
This is a fad, music fads come and go the late nineties had those sped up versions of drum n bass hits it was mostly huge in the UK, the mid naughties had those high pitched vocals in every hip hop track especially during Kanye’s College Dropout and the mid twenty-teens had nothing but EDM drops in every single popular song had some sort of drop (so glad that trend is dead), regardless of all that we’ve seen these trends come and go this sped up one seems to be made specifically for TikTok which does alienate a good portion of listeners but it’s still just some dumb fad that’ll blow over.
the only perfect nightcore song is caramelldansen.
I think it's a reaction to the popularity of low-fi, the pendulum swings in the opposite direction as always
3:58 lol "back again" 😆😆😆 (Come now Jon, you know what band that is!)
I just used a random picture of a band I did chipmunk edits to, obviously wasn't said with anyone in mind in the moment lol
I'm 17 and hate what's happening to music since social media booming in popularity
I have to admit that Dream On sped up version was funny. 😂
See that’s the thing, I find myself laughing more than ever enjoying almost all of these versions 🤣
Nooooo I absolutely hate that oh my God 😰😰😰 it's annoying asf
Sped-up Goo Goo Muck is fire.
Why?
because there was no speed up button in gen z android app
Who's your little friend in the ball rolling around?
1 of our 3 hamsters, Marigold
I understand your concern, however I only see this being a problem for popular music. As in your acts that are the most mainstream. I don't see underground acts in different genres doing this because they still maintain their artistic integrity. They and their label aren't around to solely just make money. However, mainstream labels have to constantly make tons of money so they can keep producing more and more each year and also see a return on investment. (Yes it's soulless, but big business has no feelings, morals, or "forsaking things in the name of creating art.")
Ironically enough Steve Tyler was insecure about his voice on the first Aerosmith album so sang much lower in the other songs besides Dream On. Just know it could be so much worse lol
Yeah like just appreciate the song for how it is
Idk man lots of "old man yells at cloud" vibes here
Thank you!
3:08 your hamster in the ball 😂😂
What's up with the ball in the background 😱
Music being sped up while movies are 3 hours long and/or slow as fuck like an a24 film.
Don't forget the stupid edgy cringe anime pictures they add
I used to really dislike sped up music cos I hadn’t heard an example I could really get into but theres something about the sped up version of miss you by Oliver tree (or south star- don’t get me started) that I just rlly love. It has this chaotic frantic energy that I find really endearing and honestly I prefer it to the original. It’s a rare example but still I’m open now to the idea that it’s not ALL bad
Maybe I’m just the odd one out in my generation, but I’m also not on tiktok. I cannot STAND this trend because it takes some songs that are so wonderful to listen to and just makes them sound horrendous. Can’t we just appreciate the songs how they were produced?
I agree we should appreciate songs for how they are.
Not turn it into Alvin And The Chipmunks and then proceed to say sped up "sounds better"
Am I the only one who noticed the red ball moving by itself on the background on multiple sections of the video?
Hamster
Maybe it’s the boomer in me but I feel Gen Z grew around an environment that didn’t gave them the patience nor the attention span to get a built up on their media consumption.
I don't care if I sound as a Boomer elitist or whatever, but I absolutely detest Sped Up songs, as well as Slowed + Reverb and I'm so glad my parents and uncles raised me on classic rock and heavy metal, because it made me truly appreciate music beyond the most superficial level.
I like it but I respect your opinion.
Whats up with the red ball in the background?
Hamster
Love that sped up red balloon