Justin Bieber 800% slower = Ambient Masterpiece

[-Samurai-]

So, traveling through the DC Wasteland while giving this a listen was absolutely amazing.

 

[Double A]

I... don't know what to say... well, I do, but I'll feel like a fangirl... damn, that was pretty awesome.

Wow. That was actually pretty interesting.

If they could take out his 4 year old girl sounding voice it would be perfect.

Beiber had a birthday?

 

[Red Albatross]

What is this I don't even...

Wow. My mind is officially blown.

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

Wait... What? Seriously, what the hell man?

This is insane.

 

[cerebus23]

this is great while imbibing mind altering substances.

 

[londelen]

Oh man I just listened to this before I saw the thread...creepy

 

[BonsaiK]

Yeah, my mind is blown.

http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower

Now, I'm normally not the one to share this kind of stuff but man.. This shit is pretty amazing.

What's really amazing about it is how many people believe it's really Justin Bieber slowed down. It's obviously not (I'm an audio engineer so I'm qualified to tell you this). I got to hand it to whoever wrote the song though - riding off the back of someone else's fame sure is a clever marketing gimmick to get people to listen to your stuff. It's good to see that The Escapist a.k.a. The Great Justin Bieber Free Advertising Machine can actually be used, via threads like this, to promote other artists too.

I just downloaded it and sped it up by 800%. You're wrong. IT IS the song slowed down 800%.

But... it's had a reverb applied to it and a phaser.

For once in your life, BonzaiK, your advice is wrong!

Riiiiight. Sorry but no. Firstly, there's no phaser, not sure what you think phaser sounds like but this isn't it. Secondly, yes there is a ton of reverb. Also, vocals come in (completely different vocals too, lets not ignore this crucial point) at 0:28 on the ambient version and at 0:10 on the original. If it was time-streched 8 times wouldn't the vocals come in at 1:20? Simple maths alone is enough to tell you that this isn't real. Also at 8 times slower you'd still be able to make out the words, it's wouldn't just be all ambient "aaaahhhh" and stuff, that's not what vocals sound like when slowed down.

At most, he's using snippets of the original song, time-stretching and then reverbing the shit out of them with some audio editing tool and then repatching it together to make a completely different track. But for them to say that if you slow down Justin Beiber's U Smile by a factor of 8 you get this - sorry, they are bullshiting. Prove it if you can, but you won't, because you can't, because it isn't true.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

Sigur Ros is better.

 

[BoosterGold]

Holy handgrenades that is absolutely beautiful, thank you

 

[Stickwell]

AHH!!! EARGASM!

He's secretly a genius? Or just lucky?

This is giving me chills....

I theorise that Justin Beiber is actually an amazing ambient composer, however no one would take him seriously. So in order to spread his musical message he simply sped his songs up 800% and became a [bad] pop star.

Fixed that for you.

OT: Weird shit.

I HIGHLY doubt that he writes his own music... Most child singers write anything on their own, Most don't even write their on lyrics.

 

[tombman888]

gah, the source is ruining it for me, but... EARGASM!!!

 

[FollowUp]

I'm very surprised at how good that was. But I don't think I could ever tell anyone I listened to a Beiber song in any context.

 

[Austichar]

Never expected to actually slightyl enjoy ANYTHING related to Justin Bieber. o.o

 

[Spinozaad]

Sigur Ros is better.

This, plus pretty much any other ambient artist around.

Still, doesn't sound half bad.

 

[NeoAC]

I.........I...I.....I don't know what to say. I...damn it. Now I can't say everything related to Justin Bieber sucks anymore. My world is shattered.

 

[SextusMaximus]

This is, just... GAH!

I hate the source material, but this is really calming and peaceful and epic.

 

[dlawnro]

This sounds like the most disturbing carnival ever. Which is saying something considering most carnivals are, in fact, carnivals (i.e. already the most disturbing thing ever)

 

[RandomWords]

That probably works for most songs though...I hope.