This is way cool: An a cappella version -- sort of -- of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," courtesy of a Frenchie named François Macré. I say "sort of" because there is musical accompaniment, but it's all done by voice. Don't miss his rendition of the Vincent Price dialogue at 4:20.
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Notes from creator Macré on the vid's YouTube page, copied as is:
Here is a remake of the "Thriller" song that I've entirely recorded with my own voice, using 64 A'cappella tracks. There is therefore no instrument, synthetizer, beatbox, or even to sampler, but only the sound of my voice livened up with Reverb and slight Chorus on certain tracks.
Regarding looping parts, I've simply used the "looping" technique. Moreover, in the whole piece (which contains several thousand notes), I transposed 8 notes, which were impossible for me to sing in high-pitched. Because of my tessiture, I also must have resigned myself to sing certain parts in head voice, more particularly on the track corresponding to Michael Jackson's solo vocal.
I've accomplished this non-commercial project at home, only with a mobile PC, microphone, headphones and webcam - in nearly 350 hours. It's just an artistic challenge, accomplished during my hours of free time, whose purpose is to make smile my close circle and net surfers.
Nonetheless, I'll be happy to record in professional studio, original songs with this technique, if a label was interested to work with me on a SP or LP entirely based on this innovative concept of "Massively Multitracks A'cappella".
I hope you'll have as much pleasure to hear and watch it as I had to accomplish. Don't hesitate to leave me your comments or, for labels and composers, to contact me through my MySpace profile : http://www.myspace.com/francoismacre
«THRILLER» original song :
Lyrics and Music by Rod TEMPERTON
© RODSONGS
350 hours? Damn. That's like a few days, right?
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The original song sucks so bad I don't how could you make it any worse, but, he did. Good job!
Oh, if only I had that much time to waste on crap like this.
I miss those days. I remember saying all too often "I'm bored". No more.
I watched that whole thing with my mouth open. whoa...
Oh my goodness! 350 hours to make a just-under six minute video---that's not obsessive or anything, is it? Wow! I wonder what this guy does in his spare time. HA HA HA! And he wants a label to contact him so he can record for them. I doubt there are any labels that would want to pay him an hourly wage. :D
Dedicated or possessed---you make the call.
Color me impressed! Not Michael Jackson's color, no one's quite sure what the fuck that color(non-color) is. Those French people, eh, so talented and French. I busted out laughing, on reflex, when he did the Vincent Price laugh at the end.
Oh, and Cary, your caption under the mugshot of the day is absolutely priceless!
I wanted to comment about your sidebar too.
I think they ought to make that "Oh Crap" book required reading for every kid in America in about the 8th or 9th grade. Maybe that would cut down on some of the teen pregnancies that occur.
I agree with SupremeAntBee about Mr. Mugshot today too. Your caption hit it dead on, Cary. He looks like every cartoon character I've ever seen who was left holding a live explosive device in his hands. ha ha! :D
ha ha, thanks. That was my first impression when I saw it.. something exploded.
Sacré bleu!
Ha ha. Love the 'Oh Crap' book too. Daisy is definitely onto something.
What the hell? And I always liked in that song how V Price says,
"Y'alls" neighborhood.
I love thriller, and i couldn't even get through this because of the accent. impressive, but the accent made it suck.
Man, that stupid song has been going through my head all day...
Great. Almost as great as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A
(Thanks to YouTube's "Related videos")
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