Teenage Angst (Lady Gaga, Charice, et al)

...a.k.a "The Rachel Berry Theme Song". Five young women break up with their partners because they're being held back from their dreams. Two are happy about it, thinking about their freedom. Two are sad, trying to let their Others down gently. And one is just...well, does Lady Gaga ever make sense?

Substrates:
Don't Cry (Park Bom)
Firework (Katy Perry)
The Edge of Glory (Lady Gaga)

Samples:
Louder (Charice)
Hair (Lady Gaga)
My Moment (Rebecca Black)

Tools:
Audacity — vocal isolation, vocal removal, tempo change, pitch matching
Soundtrack Pro — cutting, splicing, fades
Final Cut Pro — video editing

Charice is one of my few celebrity crushes, because of how much she looks like she enjoys her music, but "Louder" is a confusing mix of imagery that combines endings and beginnings. But it's catchy for sure.

Originally this was going to be a usual mix for me, like "The Reception" -- a series of half-verses linked by common instrumentals. The seed for this mix was actually the repeated "head, head, head" in "Louder", which I matched up mentally with the "hair, hair, ha-a-a-air" in Lady Gaga's "Hair". But the allure of "This is my moment, baby, please don't cry" was too much for me to resist...even my small lyric manipulations in "One Night Stand" gave me a rush of feeling that "regular" mashups didn't have, "My Moment" is basically Rebecca Black saying "F*** you, internet" (which I respect even if I thought "Friday" was horrible), and all the great mashup artists (DJ Earworm, Norwegian Recycling, etc) have managed to create /new/ songs out of old ones. I could at least give it a try.

The nail in the coffin was that the only "Hair" a cappella I could find was a live performance, which didn't have the characteristic line to match "Louder". So it was set...for the first time, I would take existing lyrics, and put them together to make a new song. (With the now-familiar challenge of "Hair" not actually having a music video.) I think even with the drastic pitch bends it was a success.


A number of vocal tracks in this mashup came from ACAPELLAS4U.

As usual, I do not have copyright for any of these songs and encourage you to go buy them from iTunes, Amazon MP3, or elsewhere.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• mashup
• remix
• park
• bom
• don't
• cry
• katy
• perry
• firework
• edge
• of
• glory
• charice
• louder
• hair
• my
• moment
• rebecca
• black

[musicheals091]

your are knowledgeable of computer graphics merging wow, my salute to you.

[undefeated29]

Hey great mash-up!