high-pitched voices in pop songs

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Search:
The Firm 'Star Trekkin'
Technohead 'I Wanna Be A Hippy'
Daft Punk 'Technologic'
some happy hardcore tracks

Destroy:
Pinky & Perky (tho their cover of 'Pump Up The Jam' was cute)
Blue Man Group's 'I Hear A New World'
Akon/Sweetie The Chick (same diff.)
Alvin, Simon. Theodore. I think they had a record out.
other happy hardcore tracks

I'm not sure exactly why I love the former and hate the latter but perhaps it's to do with what else is going on around the helium-induced mania.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

some happy hardcore tracks?

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Can anyone recommend any UN-happy hardcore tracks that use these, it used to be quite a spooky effect.

S: ORVILLE.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Are you talking about artifically high-pitched voices? Cuz otherwise, I mean, Jackson Five, Another Bad Creation, Jordy, Amerie, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Eazy E

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Yes, artificial/unnaturally high - so you can tell it's been pitched up considerably.

Babylon Zoo 'Spaceman' - I'm undecided on personally, I think I like it now though I didn't at the time.

So what is the appeal of this technique? Why do people respond to it so strongly, either way? Was Akon's 'Lonely' as big in the US as it was in the UK? I figured that without the similarity to Sweetie The Chick it wouldn't have done as well as there was nothing recent for people to associate it with, but that could be wrong. I'm wondering why it bothers me so much but why it delights others so.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

"Lonely" got to #4, I think.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

(In the U.S.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

It's doing Ok here (I'm not claiming doing well in NZ means shit obv), w/nothing to be reminded of. Most singles seem to do Ok here tho.

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Time upon a once
There was a boy named Camille
Now this boy named Camille didn't know how 2 feel.
Sometimes he was lonely
sometimes he was sad
but most times
he just took 4 granted
all the nice things that he had.

Some people said they loved him
but Camille said
"Contempt!
Winter, Spring,
Summer, or Fall,
love is no good
unless it's felt by all"

So, naive & terrifically in need
Camille started looking for answers
His paintbrush the questioner,
his canvas the arena,
Camille set out to silence his critics.
"No longer daring" - his enemies laughed.
"No longer glam, his funk is half-assed...
one leg is much shorter
than the other one is weak.
His strokes are tepid,
his colors are meek."

So Camille found a new color.
The color black:
strongest hue of them all.
He painted a picture called Le Grind --
hittin' so tall.
And then Cindy C --
THE vogue fantasy.
Horns & vocals 2 die 4.
Lollipops -- in yours!

Search : shockadelica, if i was your girlfriend.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Also note we're not talking about falsetto here. Oddly I think i like falsetto more than artificially high-pitched, maybe because I can't help thinking of Pinky & Perky with the latter. The rare exception of animals (puppets) wearing clothes but it not being amusing?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

I had never heard Sweetie The Chick before Akon's single!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

"Oddly I think i like falsetto more than artificially high-pitched"

I honestly can't see at all why this seems odd to you. Falsetto rules.

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Tom surely you watched Popstars: The Rivals in 2003? That was basically the same chick on those 'sponsored by Vodafone' ads.

But as you said you haven't bought Akon - most of the people who have I would SUSPECT know the little yellow fecker.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

I think the Vodafone chicks were from the 2002 Pop Idol actually.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

More imptly falsettos don't have much to do w/spedup samples

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

That was my point.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Destroy: "Through The Wire"

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Why'd you say it was odd then? Not that it matters.

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Well sonically they both use the high end of the musical scale - pehaps where the similarity ends. But people annoyed by both might cite this same reason, something about high pitch frequencies maybe - it reminds them of squeaky wheels thus annoying?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Jimmy Somerville - classic for "Smalltown Boy," "Why?" and "There's More To Love Than Boy Meets Girl".

Feargal Sharkey - dud.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

that's falsetto.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

http://webzoom.freewebs.com/tombakerornormal/Klaus%20Nomi.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Search:
Neil Young - Computer Age, Needle and The Damage Done (is that pop or not?) or Touch The Night.
Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever.
Fischer Z - So Long
Ultra Vox - Vienna

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Search- Jennifer Gentle "I Do Dream You"

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Destroy - Spandeau Ballet especially True.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Since when are Spandau Ballet high-pitched?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Annie from Norway (I'm not sure if she'd be search or destroy, as I wouldn't do either)

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

S: Sparks
D: Mariah Carey

― wtin, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

David Bowie, The Laughing Gnome
The Kinks, Phenomenal Cat
Pink Floyd, Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Groovin' With a Pict

... what's not to like?

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Search:
David Bowie: Scream Like a Baby
Yarborough & Peoples: Don't Stop The Music

Destroy:
Anything by the Smurfs

A bit certain whether to search or destroy "Woodpeckers From Space". Nostalgia reasons makes me want to say search while common sense makes me want to say destroy.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Destroy:
- She Drives Me Crazy (Fine Young Cannibals)
Search:
- Emotional Rescue (The Stones)
- Rough Riders (The Pastels, featuring Mighty Flashlight)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/GhaleonReborn/Chipmunks20-20Chipmunk20Punk201.jpg

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Was "Woodpeckers from Space" a hit in UK/US, by the way?

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

Well... It hit UK #72 ;)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 9 June 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

your search and destroys are completely the wrong way round, stevem

including the happy hardcore ones probably

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 9 June 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

I really hate the high-pitched voice in Big Mouth Strikes Again.

― joygoat (joygoat), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

S:
We Live For Love - Pat Benetar
Words - Missing Persons

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

There was that Housemartin's song where it ends and glasses shatter and dogs shelter under chairs.

― Hunter (Hunter), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

TINY TIM!
The man's a genius. A dead genius.

― Eric, Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Daniel Smith's entire career.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 10 June 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

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