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Chipmunks Go Doom Metal: Slowed Music's Strange Calm
25 Apr
Summary
- Cartoon rodents' slowed pop songs offer an uncanny calm.
- Musician Brian Borcherdt created Chipmunks on 16 Speed.
- Slowed music trend reflects our overstimulated age.
A unique musical project, Chipmunks on 16 Speed, has captured a cult following by reinterpreting pop classics at a drastically slowed tempo. Musician Brian Borcherdt stumbled upon this sound when playing a Chipmunks album at 16rpm on an old turntable, which dramatically altered the instrumentation while retaining vocal pitches.
The project, a pun on the electroclash group Chicks on Speed, transforms familiar songs like "My Sharona" and "Heartbreaker" into something both menacing and ethereal. These slowed-down tracks have gained viral attention on platforms like TikTok and Twitter, with fans imagining the cartoon chipmunks as dark rock stars.
