As soon as I listen to a song, I can imagine it as an accelerated or slowed-down number," said Jamil Ahmed the director of the independent English label Kurate Music. "I have developed a kind of sixth sense for this. These include DJ Alan Walker's album of sped up covers of his hits Demi Lovato and her song "Cool for the Summer " and Michael Bublé and his version of "Sway," a track originally released in 2003 that has been resurrected by the TikTok trend. The phenomenon has caught the attention of the music industry and several artists have released official sped up versions of their hit tracks on TikTok.
Examples include the sped up remix of the aforementioned "Démons de Minuit" in a contest to win shower gel products, a cosplay video (people dressed up as anime or manga characters), or as a tribute to Eddie, one of the protagonists in the drama television series Stranger Things. The videos are often presented only with scrolling lyrics, and these are not made to be watched: They serve to disseminate their soundtracks and to be picked up by other Internet users for their own content. The video app, where audio is as important as image, hosts many accounts that make and post sped up versions of famous numbers. The remixes have a strong presence on Spotify (which even has a dedicated playlist for them), YouTube and especially TikTok, where the hashtag #spedup has already generated 9.9 billion views. The upbeat intro to "Everybody wants to rule the world," by Tears for Fears, for example, becomes almost nerve-racking, and the muscular synth of "Démons de Minuit" (a French hit from the 1980s) morphs into a techno track. Imagine your favorite song with high-pitched vocals and a tempo that blithely exceeds 150 BPM (beats per minute). To the uninitiated ear, sped up (also known as "speed songs") can be disturbing.
And when it is accelerated, it is called "sped up." When slowed down, it is called a "slowed reverb". Videos are often accompanied by well-known music but with a modified tempo. What the high-school student is sure of is that he has acquired a taste for it thanks to TikTok, the Chinese app, which is hugely popular with young Internet users. Maybe it puts him in a good mood, or maybe it just sounds better than slower tunes.
They are usually produced by amateurs the successors of an Internet 'do-it-yourself' tradition, but who are starting to inspire the music industry.Įwann likes fast-tempo music. In DepthAccelerated remixes of well-known songs are going viral on the video app. TikTok 'sped up': The extraordinary success of accelerated music By Lucie Ronfaut Published on Octoat 02h58, updated at 08h51 on October 12, 2022
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