![]() 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 October 12, 2022, at 2:58 am (Paris), updated on October 12, 2022, at 8:51 am
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