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Post by Harx on Jun 23, 2017 13:20:40 GMT -5
Can you think of songs that have a high or low pitched voice effects in them?
By low pitched voice I mean something like the sample in "Swish Swish" (they don't know what is what) and by high pitched voice I mean something like these "empty by bank account and buy The Boy With A Pipe" parts in "Slide" by Calvin Harris or the chorus of "How Low" by Ludacris.
There are lots of examples for this.
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Post by woods on Jun 23, 2017 13:35:22 GMT -5
"Dessert" was the first thing that I thought of.
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Post by Walking Contradiction on Jun 23, 2017 13:37:40 GMT -5
Vampire Weekend's "Diane Young" and "Ya Hey" have vocals shifted both up and down all over the place. "Step" has a pitched-down part at the end, too.
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Post by Unhinged on Jun 23, 2017 13:47:30 GMT -5
George Michael - "Hard Day"
Prince - "Housequake", "Strange Relationship", "U Got the Look" and "If I Was Your Girlfriend"
Michael Jackson - "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"
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Post by aerodynamite on Jun 23, 2017 13:48:32 GMT -5
otoh:
Pitched down:
Ludacris - "My Chick Bad"
Bryson Tiller - "Don't"
Swedish House Mafia, Tinie Tempah - "Miami 2 Ibiza"
Pitched up:
Kanye West - "Through the Wire", "Slow Jamz"
Black Eyed Peas - "Rock That Body"
Tove Lo - "Habits (Hippie Sabotage Remix)"
Many dubstep songs
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Post by Walking Contradiction on Jun 23, 2017 14:11:50 GMT -5
The Kanye West mentions made me think of a bunch of other rap songs from that era with pitched up vocals:
Styles P - "Good Times (I Get High)" [not the "I Get By" censored version]
M.O.P. - "Cold As Ice"
Cam'ron - "Oh Boy"
Mariah Carey - "Boy (I Need You)" [samples the above]
Jay-Z - "U Don't Know"
The Diplomats - "I'm Ready"
Timbaland - "Can't Nobody" ["Lil' Man" verse]
Also, Kesha's "We R Who We R" has a pitched down portion.
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Post by .It'sGriffin on Jun 23, 2017 14:13:37 GMT -5
From what I remember parts of "Fairly Local" by Tøp are pitched down, as well as "Strip That Down" by the 1D dude.
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Post by Dylan :) on Jun 23, 2017 18:12:50 GMT -5
Dark Horse ("there's no going back", pitch it up twelve semitones and it is Katy) and Stressed Out off the top of my head
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Post by lyhom on Jun 23, 2017 19:51:20 GMT -5
r3hab - "icarus"
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Post by ry4n on Jun 23, 2017 20:33:23 GMT -5
Madonna - Hollywood
I feel like the Black Eyed Peas did this a lot
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Jun 23, 2017 21:12:13 GMT -5
Major Lazer - "Lean On"
Beyonce - "***Flawless"
Nearly every Prince song done as "Camille"
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Post by Fat Ass Kelly Price on Jun 23, 2017 21:36:39 GMT -5
Miley "We Can't Stop"
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Post by Leigh on Jun 23, 2017 21:39:29 GMT -5
Mariah - You Got Me
Mariah - Your Girl
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Post by born on Jun 25, 2017 1:45:35 GMT -5
Power - Little Mix
Thunder - Imagine Dragons
Mama Said - Lukas Graham
Sober - Selena Gomez
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2017 3:39:08 GMT -5
This seems to be a very common thing within these past few years. Cake by Flo Rida, most TOP singles, a lot of Kendrick songs, Break My Heart by Hey Violet, Redbone by Childish Gambino (pretty much the whole song there), possibly Swang by Rae Sremmurd (I'm pretty sure that god-awful falsetto is pitched up somehow), and probably a lot more from just this year. I think a lot of EDM songs use those high-pitched voices in their drops too.
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Post by rainie on Jun 25, 2017 3:47:44 GMT -5
There are lots of songs that do this, but can you guys think of songs that have vocals pitched high AND vocals pitched low?
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Post by Harx on Jun 25, 2017 6:11:49 GMT -5
There are lots of songs that do this, but can you guys think of songs that have vocals pitched high AND vocals pitched low? This is actually a very good question, there are definetely many of these (especially in hip hop) but the only one I can think of right now is "Like a G6" |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2017 8:36:03 GMT -5
Bryson Tiller - Don't
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Post by jtd Thee Stallion on Jul 3, 2017 5:14:37 GMT -5
J Cole - Neighbors & Deja Vu
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Post by Harx on Jul 7, 2017 13:40:29 GMT -5
There are lots of songs that do this, but can you guys think of songs that have vocals pitched high AND vocals pitched low? Ok I finally got the obvious one that I was missing - "Power" by Little Mix. |
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Post by peacebone on Jul 7, 2017 14:07:02 GMT -5
Britney Spears - Piece of Me
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Post by ry4n on Jul 7, 2017 15:44:20 GMT -5
Alvin & The Chipmunks
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Post by leonagwen on Jul 9, 2017 12:21:34 GMT -5
The Bee Gees.
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Post by mamasaid on Jul 9, 2017 12:45:20 GMT -5
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Post by Harx on Jul 9, 2017 13:15:51 GMT -5
The thread is not about falsetto but about computer pitch.
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Post by mamasaid on Jul 9, 2017 13:20:32 GMT -5
Sad that the computer has to be used to fake talent.
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Post by Harx on Jul 9, 2017 14:13:13 GMT -5
Sad that the computer has to be used to fake talent. Since when does computer pitch gimmick have anything to do with being talented or not? This thread isn't about auto-tune either  |
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Post by mamasaid on Jul 9, 2017 18:33:06 GMT -5
Sad that the computer has to be used to fake talent. Since when does computer pitch gimmick have anything to do with being talented or not? This thread isn't about auto-tune either  If it can't be replicated without any of the current "tools"...then its an area where the artist lacks ability. |
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Post by Dylan :) on Jul 10, 2017 3:01:29 GMT -5
Since when does computer pitch gimmick have anything to do with being talented or not? This thread isn't about auto-tune either If it can't be replicated without any of the current "tools"...then its an area where the artist lacks ability. I think you are completely misunderstanding the point of this thread. The pitched vocal isn't supposed to be the actual person/a reflection of their singing abilities. It might not even be the singer. It is just part of a decent amount of popular songs now. Falsetto is a different thing entirely Stressed Out (2:27 and 3:12): Dark Horse (1:10): |
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Post by mamasaid on Jul 10, 2017 12:45:45 GMT -5
I am not missing the point. Apparently I'm just not a fan of 'techno' posing as music.
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