If You Slow Down The Chipmunks They Still Sound Awful
Someone has taken the song "Bad Day" from 2007's Alvin and the Chipmunks, starring David Cross and Jason Lee, and slowed it down so you can hear the actual voices singing. Wow, very bad at it!
Yikes. How embarrassing for Justin Long (Alvin). That's him, right? I'm sure everyone involved with that movie is glad that it has come back up in the national conversation*. Let's keep it going, y'all. Easter eggs for the superfans, indeed. Although, to be fair to whoever sings this so awfully, and to everyone involved with 2007's Alvin and the Chipmunks, starring David Cross and Jason Lee, there is no version of "Bad Day" that doesn't sound awful. (Via Vulture.)
*This is the national conversation now.
Posted by Gabe at 10:30 AM in Animals On Film, Music Related Content
Tags: Alvin And The Chipmunks | Autotune
I'm going to be an optimist and believe that it's just because of the way it was slowed down, or that they told him to sing like that to make the fast version sound better.
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I don't think that's Justin Long. I think it's an Auto-tuned Justin Long-bot. His love is real, but he is not.
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they auto-tuned (had to?) Justin Long for a song they knew they'd speed up, thus making the original singing irrelevant, anyway?
they need to release the normal, slowed down version (as a 2nd soundtrack, if need to be for a first one in the first place) for the sequel. it could be huge.
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Yeah, that doesn't sound like Mac.
Also, Jesse McCartney sounds terrible, too, and he's a professional singer.
(I never wanted to know this much about this movie, but my child loves it and I love my child...so I've seen it many times.)
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Haha Patton Oswalt
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I only know this song because of Patton Oswalt, but then I started to hear it everywhere. Thanks, Patton.
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I love it, in a bizarre, trippy kind of way. Really, this is the most listenable version of this song i have heard. It may be bad, but its intriguingly so.
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Could the next Chipmunks related post be about why they are always wearing dresses, or monk-robe things or whatever? Because that really creeps me the fuck out.
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It sounds like a shitty Kanye parody.
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Yikes! Autotuning!
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Actually, and I'm not sure why/how I know this, but neither Justin Long nor Jesse McCartney sing any of the songs, they just do the voices. They have different terrible people for the singing parts.
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It honestly did not cross my mind that they used 'real,' known actors for any of the chipmunks. I mean, what the hell was the point?
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Because when Justin Long signed the Hollywood contract, they made it so he had to be in everything.
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