[fuseboxx]

...800% better.
 
Not sure if the crowd here is familiar with Bieber, but someone went and made a version of his song "U Smile" 800% slower... More or less in the same fashion that Hans Zimmer slowed-down that Edith Piaf song for Inception.
 
Anyway... it's glorious. Sort of like Sigur Ros-meets-Brian-Eno... the music you would hear on your way to meet God or something. Here's where it all started:
 
http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower
 
It's gone viral now and The AV Club has already made an article about it:
 
http://www.avclub.com/articles/great-job-internet-justin-bieber-sounds-amazing-wh,44254/

 

[earerror]

Almost fell asleep while listening to it. 

 

[Uncle Erik]

It's not the music, it's the whole teen-idol thing that grates with Bieber. I'm studiously ignoring him until his 15 minutes are up.

 

[IPodPJ]

This slowed down version is pretty cool.  I would never listen to his garbage at normal speed though.

 

[necropimp]

so it's a slowdown that was set to maintain the pitch of the original.... i was hoping for slow and low

 

[winma]

Since i read the thread title, i said...who cares about him? 

 

[logwed]

Quote:

so it's a slowdown that was set to maintain the pitch of the original.... i was hoping for slow and low

I was expecting the same thing, but I can dig this, sorta. Extremely relaxing.

 

[Deep Funk]

This sounds nicer than his mainstream 'stuff' that is hitting the Pop charts. For the soundscape experiencing music I prefer other artists though. Besides, who cares about 'his work' and is older than say fifteen?
 
Interesting enough for a quick listen...

 

[jilgiljongiljing]

wow, this is quite epic, would make a nice soundtrack for sure. Now we're gonna start seeing all sorts of artists and songs getting this treatment.

 

[sonance]

Haha - sounds like Sigur Ros scored the soundtrack to a Blade Runner anime sequel set underwater. Sadly, expanding the music this much shows the resolution limits of the original, I wonder what this would sound like off the original 24/192khz (or whatever) masters.

 

[classakg]

Even slower, it still sounds like crap. 

 

[MaZa]

Holy hell that actually sounds great ambient piece!
 
 
Now the question is, what the original song sounds like. Probaply nothing like ambient I guess. *edit* Gaaaah! My brains are bleeding out of my ears...

 

[omgitsoop]

i totally dig this, it immediately pulled out some sigur ros that i havent listened to in ages

 

[joelpearce]

So if you sped up Sigur Ros by 8 times, would it sound like Justin Bieber?
 
Edit: it actually sounds a bit like Bjork with the vocals removed.

 

[punkfloyd]

My first thought was Sigur Ros as well. Quite good.