Since the turn of the millennium, movie, television, and video game trailers have all relied on slowed-down versions of pop songs to get their point across. The point: This is very, very important and ...

Hard-charging reworks of popular singles have been thriving on the social media platform, and labels are leaning into the trend. By Elias Leight Thundercat‘s “Them Changes” is steeped in funk history, ...

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Fan-made sped-up versions of RAYE’s single Escapism helped the artist climb the charts Some music fans now know 15-second sped up snippets of songs better than the real thing. It’s thanks to an ...

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On TikTok, one of the latest music trends is speeding up popular songs. And now, fans are demanding that artists comply with their expectations for speedy sounds. In one recent controversy, ...

Songs take on new life when artists play them live hundreds of times, and in the case of “The Recluse” from Cursive‘s classic 2003 album The Ugly Organ, there are two different versions of “The ...

I’m not going to pretend I know a lot about the music industry, but the basic strategy seems pretty straightforward: You record a collection of songs, release a few of them on streaming and radio as ...