StarstruckIllusion 52,768 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Everyone complaining about pitched songs going viral have def missed the years long backstory. Ab 10 years ago, UMG started to get suuuper crazy with copyright. Youtube Creators started to lose revenue and get their vids deleted for uploading snippets of unpitched songs (not just Gaga ones) in their unrelated vids. As a reaction, this then popularized pitching audio tracks on the platform to avoid the copyright robot that would scan every vid for any copyrighted music. Years later, people started making the pitches cool ig (“Slowed + Reverb,” “Nightcore”), and now in current times, a lot of people like to incorporate that into their TikToks… possibly bc they think it sounds cooler, but also bc they may be afraid of getting their account suspended. In an alternative universe, since the Jenna scene is naturally faster than Bloody Mary’s tempo, we’d have just the OG song sped up where Gaga doesn’t sound like a chipmunk, and interscope would’nt have to play whackamole with sped up Bloody Marys going viral on streaming services… But… How to fix this: A software update. This trend isn’t going away so might as well adapt. Spotify/Apple Music need to build a pitch/tempo changer of all songs into their streaming apps, immediately. Make it real-time too, like Apple Music’s Sing. This is so labels don’t have to upload “Unholy (Slowed Remix)” and users can do the edits themselves. So yeah, that’s my rant/solution. Blame the higher ups at Interscope/UMG lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouCanSitWithUs 394 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 ADAPT. Yes. I like it. The future is bright! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatography 10,186 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 nightcore was popular before then was it not? i recall heading nightcore over a decade ago Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacs vs looser 4,259 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 That's very interesting, I never thought about how it all came about. I do agree as well, a pitch/tempo changer would be great, specially to help track streams. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScreamQueen007 415 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 How come on Facebook and Instagram regular versions of songs can be used on videos/reels? But on tiktok it’s all the high pitched stuff? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombiecat 16,679 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 it started before YT creators even got revenue didn't it? Pitching songs up at least 3 semitones to stop it getting blocked on youtube was happening in 2010-11 i think my instrumental remakes used to even get blocked and they contained no samples, then my account got deleted for my gaga remixes and my soundcloud did too for the same reasons Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
asfittingasmcqueen 2,007 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 such an interesting take. Definitely agree Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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