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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 69 points 8 months ago

I once worked a 12 hour shift at a MarketPro computer show booth where, I shit you not, the booth next to us was selling computer speakers and the guy running it let his child play Around The World on repeat all day.

No other songs

No break

No reprieve

Just almost 12 straight hours of Around The World.

I loved that song, but to this day I can't tolerate hearing it without triggering something akin to PTSD

[–] nebula42@lemmy.today 67 points 8 months ago

144 times on the album version, 80 on the radio edit.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 8 months ago

That shit still slaps when it comes on at the club

[–] ULS@lemmy.ml 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Around the world around the whiirrlled.

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 7 points 8 months ago

Visualize whirled peas

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Brilliant song indeed, but where’s the praise for Michel Gondry’s iconic videoclip?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wasnt even robotic, just a synth on top of human voice.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They used a talkbox, so technically it's the voice modulating the synth carrier.

[–] TheOakTree 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well technically, it's not a voice modulating the synth but rather the shape of your mouth. It's not your voice if you aren't producing your own sound, I'd argue.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure, it's not a voice, just the shape of a voice, so to speak.

Anyway my point was that its not a synth on top of a voice, which would indicate an addition of sounds. It works more like a subtractive filter, which again actually works by multiplication. It's physical though, so no math is actually done to carry it out and there's no resolution on the effect, since it was done on analogue equipment.

[–] TheOakTree 2 points 8 months ago

I know, I just wanted to "technically" your "technically" to be silly :P

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago

Thanks, now I have it stuck in my head (though it's not a bad track, so I'll take it lol)

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago
[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

It also led to the most brutally sarcastic lyrics page on all of Genius

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 5 points 8 months ago
[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

As someone into lyrics and complex songs, that song bored me to tears. The repetitiveness is a right turn off for me. Even a monkey can be learned to copy and paste, but the real musical talent is in transitioning into new melodies.

It is the same as with the "Push me, and then just touch me" song.

I can't listen to either of them without getting irritated to how little effort was put in them.

[–] THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 2 points 8 months ago

This seems to be one of the things i am too young to understand. So can any one of you boomers explain ?