Some of the most recent musical hits that we know thanks to social networks would not be if it were not for the fact that their accelerated versions exist. The songs ‘sped up‘ They arrived years ago, but they have become more popular than ever in 2023 and now it seems that the music industry considers them indispensable.
The Internet and especially social networks like TikTok or Instagram have been filled with topics that sound like WhatsApp audio notes in 2x. At first it was funny, but now we realize that it is a clear reflection of the society in which we live. Music increases its playback speed because life also seems to go at a dizzying pace.
Impatience has invaded us to the point of not being able to enjoy even the three minutes that a song can last, now we want to discover what the chorus of a song sounds like at the same moment that the first notes begin to sound. Likewise, we feel the urge to move on to the next song after listening to the first minute without needing to know how it ends.
This phenomenon serves as a mirror of our daily lives. We want it all now because it seems like we can’t waste a single second of our lives. But, paradoxically, what we are doing is losing quality time and being able to enjoy.
Fans were the first creators of ‘sped up’, but now artists are taking their place
It is no longer the Internet users who create the ‘sped up’ versions, now it is the artists themselves who release the music in this way. Knowing that some anonymous person will do this work and they do not obtain any benefit in return, the paradigm has changed and they have begun to publish all kinds of versions of the same song themselves. We are no longer satisfied with the normal one and its remixes, now we have the ‘sped up’ and also the ‘extended’, in case all that seemed not enough to us.
It has become clear that now we love to get to the chorus as quickly as possible and be able to move on to the next song right away. That is why, as we said, singers have also become the creators of their modified music. The last to do so was Ana Mena Even though Madrid City was published last September, he has just released a new EP just for this song in its different versions.
- https://los40.com/2024/03/01/ana-mena-sigue-conquistando-la-capital-con-el-lanzamiento-de-tres-nuevos-remixes-de-madrid-city/
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Other artists like Tate McRae with Greedy, Inigo Quintero with If you are not, Rosa Linn with SNAP either Troy Sivan with One Of Your Girls They also did the same as the malagueña, and all this because unofficial and accelerated versions of these same songs had become popular on social networks. In response, the artists published their respective songs ‘sped up’ on platforms such as Spotify, this time officially and with which they could directly obtain benefits.
It is probably too early to say that we are witnessing the death of songs longer than three minutes, but what we can say is that we are facing a true revolution within music, and all due to the influence of social networks.
