There are cover versions, and then there is this. Here’s the Billboard Hot 100 #1 for 16 straight weeks, Luis Fonsi’s megahit Despacito, but played on a couple of musical calculators.
Why more pop songs should end with a fade out
The fade out is underrated. It should come back.
The fade out in music is one of those necessary tools in a record producers arsenal. But if you listen to today’s hits it’s much more likely you’ll hear a song that has a hard abrupt electronic ending. Bill Weir, wrote a great piece at Slate a few years ago tracking the rise and fall of the fade out in pop music: from one of the very first fade outs created by a literal wooden door to the epic 4 minute fade out of “Hey Jude.”
Jack Black Just Covered Nirvana’s “Polly”…From His Car
From behind the wheel of his car, Jack Black performed a brilliant a capella version of Nirvana’s Polly. I have no idea what he was singing, and I really don’t mind that I don’t know. Youtuber Bill Vapes took a stab at translating.
Lyrics
pehwn, shiga-flunu, tzuka flyny, m’bidu didu, daw.
flyny, ‘n, shuga flyny m’didu didu, daw.
Polly says her back hurts, shiga-flaow.
She just as bored as me, shiga-flaow.
She caught me on my guard, shiga-flaow.
Amazes me, the will, of instinct.
In me-e, uhh, I can never see-e, hmm.
Le m’éclair, ahm – I can nelly-weyhe-eehm.
I can – Let me take a raa-aa-aa, n’getchasayin’ aw. (gasp)
Once a meh-eh-awn’, I complete myseeh’-awwn.?
A Heavy Metal Cover of “Smooth” by Santana and Rob Thomas
Oltedal, Norway musician Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios created a heavy metal cover of the Grammy Award-winning Smooth by Santana and Matchbox Twenty vocalist Rob Thomas.
Hey, remember when it was a big deal for Marilyn Manson to cover Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This? And it exploded Marilyn’s career? Wonder what those times would have done for artists like Leo, when today you can find almost any hit song covered by any style.
Check Out This Self-Playing Orchestra with 17 Instruments
Welcome to the mechanical version of Alice in Wonderland! To open the lid on the Phillips Pianella Paganini is like opening a door to a magic mechanical wonderland.
Photo Gallery: Epica with Lacuna Coil at Toronto’s Opera House
All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
Want To Go To See Star Wars: The Last Jedi Premiere In December? Here’s How.
Following the global phenomenon of Force Friday in 2015, Disney and Lucasfilm today announced Find the Force, a global augmented reality (AR) event rolling out on Force Friday II (September 1) to commemorate the worldwide launch of new products inspired by Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
The pop-up AR treasure hunt aims to unite fans around the world in the battle against the dark side in a unique three-day event at over 20,000 retail locations across 30 countries. As fans turn up to take home new The Last Jedi products, they will have the opportunity to activate a unique augmented reality experience featuring Star Wars characters, including fan-favorites and new surprise additions from the film.
From September 1-3, retailers around the world will invite fans to Find the Force by taking part in an AR treasure hunt. Here’s how it works: first, download the Star Wars App, which is your one-stop-shop for all things Star Wars (those who already have the app will need to download the latest version). Then, visit any one of 20,000 participating retail locations to find a graphic that contains the Find the Force logo. When you scan the graphic using the Star Wars App, you’ll reveal a character, who through augmented reality, will appear in the room with you. You can then take photos, record videos, and share the experience on social media.
Fans can download the latest version of the Star Wars App (v. 2.3 or higher) beginning Aug. 24 for an early look at the new Porg characters in AR before the AR treasure hunt goes live at retail.
By sharing photos or videos featuring the in-store AR characters on Twitter or Instagram using #FindtheForce and #Sweepstakes throughout Force Friday II weekend, fans in select global markets can participate in a sweepstakes for the chance to win the ultimate fan experience: tickets to the Star Wars: The Last Jedi premiere in December.
I had a chance to check out the products at Fan Expo Canada 2017 with other very enthusiastic media and hardcore fans. We all know Disney and Lucasfilm stands for trustworthy, kid (and adult)-focused content of the highest quality, full of educational lessons, interactive items, and attention-grabbing media elements. The virtual playworld has just become that much smarter, and better, with Star Wars: The Last Jedi collection.
Check out what I posted on Instagram for more details about the new products!
St. Vincent Has A Thought About Music On Airplanes, And I’ve Never Noticed This Before
St. Vincent: You know what I find very strange? Airlines, like all airlines now, when you’re boarding the plane and when you land, they immediately turn on music. It’s a very strange idea to me that there would be some kind of music that pretty much everyone would like. I’m not a superstitious flier and I fly all the time and it doesn’t bother me at all, but it would really bum me out if a certain adult-contemporary song was the last song I heard before I went down in a blaze of glory.
What music is playing? This is why I wear headphones.
St. Vincent: It’s just aggressively middle-of-the-road. It’s weird and it just feels like capitalist propaganda. Even in airports now, there’s always music, although I will say Terminal 8 at JFK will put on some Tears for Fears. And JetBlue will actually have a song that you’re pretty psyched about hearing, ’80s hits.
Eighties hits have kinda crossed into the modern mainstream.
St. Vincent: Yeah, like, if the last song I heard was “Rich Girl” on an airplane, I’d be like “OK.” I get it, that’s a hilarious way to sum up my life.
Video: Listen to the world’s largest ukulele
Ukuleles are usually very small and light four-stringed instruments, but Lawrence Stump from the USA has created a tuneable and playable ukulele that is a giant 3.99 metres (13 ft 1.08 in) long.
His supersized musical instrument has entered the Guinness World Records 2017 Edition as the world’s Largest ukulele.
The body of the instrument is constructed of birch plywood, and the neck and head are of pine, as are all four tuning pegs.
The ukulele has the correct fret spacing required to produce notes separated by a semitone, as is the case on a normal-sized uke. In fact, it is an exact, to-scale replica of a commercially available Soprano ukulele – but 7.5 times larger.
Lawrence first got the idea to build the world’s largest ukulele after helping his son construct a regular-sized one for a science project at school.
The record was verified during an event in a music store in Lansing, Michigan, where Lawrence demonstrated his giant ukulele could really play, as required by the Guinness World Records rules for this title.
“Holding a Guinness World Records title is a distinct honour, knowing my instrument could meet the requirements I had to try,” said Lawrence.
Previously, the largest ukulele was 2.27 m (7.45 ft) long, 0.85 m (2.8 ft) wide and 0.25 m (0.83 ft) deep and was created by Xuri Musical Instruments Co. Ltd. (China) in Zhangzhou, Fujian, China, on in 2014.
Ice Cube Goes Undercover as ActuallyIceCube to Interact With Social Media Fans
Ice Cube goes undercover on the Internet and responds to real comments from Twitter, Reddit, Quora, YouTube, and more.