Nightcore

I was wondering if there are any fellow Nightcore fans on here. For those who don't know, Nightcore is simply making a song faster and high-pitched. Yup. That's all.

I'm also getting kind of sick of people for bashing Nightcore for...being simple? I mean yeah everyone can do it, I fail to see the problem with that...and honestly, I have never ever seen a person calling themselves "talented" or even an artist at all for making Nightcore, I mean we're all aware that this doesn't even take 5 mins in audacity. But if I had a dollar for every time I saw somebody complain about that...

Kanye West was making Nightcore before Nightcore was cool.

On a serious note, I dislike how some people equate Vaporwave with Nightcore, as if all you're doing is slowing down a whole song. Vaporwave often involves slowing down sections of songs and then looping them and chopping them a bit. Nightcore is just speeding up a song.

That said, this did make me laugh.

Also there's a Nightcore album available to buy on iTunes, and presumably there are more just like it.

Well, if I remember correctly, Nightcore certainly used to be an actual remix (techno elements, I think), but somewhere along the line this information was lost, and the definition changed. But I wouldn't want to speak too firmly on the subject.

The use of anime images has always been baffling, but I guess there's no use trying to apply logic to traditions. Ah, it's probably just otaku bait.

edited 15th Sep '14 8:45:48 AM by d!zzzyzebra

Nightcore does sound like it should be a subgenre of Trance.

I'm not sure if you're trolling here because it's a wide known fact on the internet that many Nightcore fans (not me though) get mad if you call Nightcore Trance...Trance fans actually do call it Happy Hardcore as far as I know. I've never been to good with genres...

I was just going off Urban Dictionary (not the most reliable of sources, of course), which describes it as originating from Trance. For whatever that's worth. c[:

That said, Nightcore isn't what I'd usually call a genre, rather by my personal definitions a popular edit, so I wouldn't think of comparing it with genres or associating it with Trance. To me Nightcore songs are the genre of the original, albeit sped up.

edited 15th Sep '14 11:23:40 AM by d!zzzyzebra

True to that.

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Who's willing to bet that somewhere down the line someone will eventually release an album of nightcore vaporwave that's actually just a compilation of shitty 90s rnb and elevator music ?

I'd kinda like for that to not happen.

Anyways, I was talking about the name. From the name "Nightcore" I imagine a bunch of dark, fast-tempo Trance track with piano, strings, and saw waves everywhere, not... sped-up songs.

I kinda find Nightcore a guilty pleasure of mine. I only find it good for remixing mainstream pop songs though; anything else is more likely to sound worse than the original.

At some point, I dropped the guilty and just hoped that people wouldn't throw me in with some kids who think they're special or artsy for listening to Nightcore...

Question: what does Nightcore have to do with anime? All these Nightcore videos on YouTube have pictures of anime girls on them.

I have NO idea, I guess it just sort of started being a thing? Maybe because Nightcore sounds a bit like Vocaloids at times...

So, basically, there's a supposed subgenre that is based around what Neu! did on their second album?

Yeah, I don't see this kind of thing lasting long.

I dunno. I kinda like it. The anime pictures usually relate to the song, which is good.

It's been around for like 5 or more years already.

Besides, even its trope page says it's more of a phenomenon than a genre.

edited 17th Sep '14 4:23:46 PM by PhysicalStamina

Yeah, you can't really make a genre out of "fast and high-pitched" especially since this can range from "it sounds like someone with a rather high voice and it's sorta upbeat" over "is this a kid singing or is this Vocaloid" to "chipmunks sing along to a beat faster than you can count"

Nightcore started with Thomas S. Nilsen and Steffen Ojala Søderholm, who did a couple albums of the sped-up remixes as a 2002 school project under the name Nightcore. Someone came across them and uploaded their stuff online, it spread, and people started imitating it.

I like Nightcore =3

I've tried to get into Nightcore - you're always seeing people on Youtube drool over it and they always appear in my search results - but I just don't get it. How are they any different from all those "Chipmunked" songs? I've only heard one or two nightcore songs that I prefer over the original.

Nightcore = song is sped up. Chipmunk = song is pitched up, speed is unchanged.

'Not really hearing it. They sound slightly less chipmunky but the pitch is still noticeably changed.

Well, usually when you speed a song up the pitch changes automatically.