Comment on Birds are just Nightcore remixes of Dinosaurs
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 days agoDon’t forget that adding anime tiddies to the cover art and/or thumbnail is also mandatory these days.
I don’t trust the official history of this sort of thing. I maintain that this whole thing got popularized by the Caramelldansen debacle. In the good old days, if a DJ wanted to speed up a track to make it up-tempo for dance floor use it was also mandatory to add some drum and bass elements, and if you had access to the split tracks probably just reinvent the bassline, hook, and melody altogether. You know, things that took actual effort.
Nowadays anybody can open an .mp3 in Audacity and speed it up by 30% and call it a “remix.”
LoreSoong@startrek.website 3 days ago
Thats sad if they actually consider what they are doing art. Ive been out of the loop for a while but when I saw people making this stuff 15 years ago, it seemed like a thing a niche community was doing. I dont think anyone took it seriously. I still find songs that sound better sped up like this one is very funny try this one at 1.5 or 1.75 speed. Game changer kinda hits like rapgod from eminem
youtu.be/4c82n0dex0k
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Second verse slapped harder than expected.
And on the topic of nightcore being art or not; who cares? Art doesn’t have to be this totally involved thing for every person’s every project. Making minor alterations to other people’s work is its own style and form of creative exploration and, if encouraged and engaged with sufficiently, can easily grow into something with more luster and prestige. And besides that, some songs do just be sounding better when played faster and higher than intended. Artists or not, good on em for playing around and finding the ones work.
LoreSoong@startrek.website 2 days ago
True. But at the same time If little to no effort it being put in it does ride the line of being fair use. So if they are monitizing it which i dont think they were doing 15 years ago If find that kind of scummy. but other than that i look at it as the same thing as those AMVs back in the day. Just something someone made for the love of the source material.
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I am of the opinion that once a piece of art is shared with the world, it stops belonging solely to the creator and instead becomes the property of the community. I also know how hard it can be to just barely scrape by, so I don’t personally have a problem with people making low effort money in this way. It is a bit scummy to piggyback on people doing actual skilled work, but at the same time, so is much of the world in far more direct and brutal ways.
Other than that; agreed. It feels like one of a few next logical steps for that sort of og YouTube fandom energy. If it inspires joy and isn’t hurting people, I say let em at it