Getting a man has never been an easy task. Us women have tried every possible way to grab their attention, and so far, music seems to be a great way to do it. So what happens when you study the history of attracting men through song? You get a hilarious medley of classics by legends like Aretha Franklin, Madonna and Whitney Houston, with a few more recent pop hits from the likes of Britney Spears and Katy Perry.
Don’t get me wrong, I love all these ladies, but when you get right down to it no 60s girls were offering to be anyone’s “Slave”, and they definitely weren’t asking to see anyone’s “Peacock.” However, I don’t know if their tactics for wooing the opposite sex were much better than ours. Watch it and decide for yourself!
Previously they’ve put The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song through Google Languages and sang a rendition of misheard song lyrics.
Everyone has a few favourite songs they sing along to in the car despite have absolutely no idea what the lyrics are. Or if you’re me, you know bits and pieces of the chorus but when it gets to the actual verses you stumble along with a few gibberish words.
In Collective Cadenza‘s newest music experiment they mashed together some of the most misheard lyrics of all time and recreated them in a live version. CDZA wrote on YouTube they set out to create this challenging project a couple months ago. The montage spans over 70s years and includes tracks from The Beatles, Avril Lavigne, Outkast and Pink. Pleated Jeans made a similar montage only a couple weeks ago, though it’s not live.
Previously, CDZA has explored how to get kids to listen to classic music and how to turn NYC into a musical choir. Everything they produce is gold!
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An age old question: How do you get kids to listen to classical music when the radio exposes them to the likes of LMFAO , Justin Bieber and Ke$ha? Collective Cadenza had the brilliant idea to have kids sing the lyrics of their favourite pop songs over classics by Mozart, Beethoven and Bach.
They wrote on YouTube that these composers provide the building blocks of modern music and are necessary to a well-rounded musical education. CDZA recommends teachers who are having trouble teaching classics get their student’s attention through this exercise.
And while many pop lyrics are dismissed as being overly simple, CDZA wrote on YouTube: “they show how one can convey emotions and ideas in the fewest words possible.”
Plus, you’ve never quite heard Justin Bieber’s “Baby” until you’ve heard it over Haydn.
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Collective Cadenza took us on a musical tour of New York City today with their newest video experiment. The group performed songs from our favourite artists based on whatever street sign they were standing in front of. And damn, NYC streets sure as hell make a good soundtrack.
Music seems like a great way to pay tribute to NYC, especially considering they shot it on Sept. 11. They guys played Katy on “Perry,” Kanye on “West,” Santigold on “Gold,” and Jay-Z on “Jay” (obvs). On top of that, they played some of our older faves, including Pearl Jam, The Police and The Beach Boys.
This is the same group that brought us The Human Jukebox and The History of Wooing Women. Check out their video below and the playlist after the jump.
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I’m already OBSESSED with Collective Cadenza as it is. No really, the seed started with human whistling, sprouted with the seven dudes playing Kanye and Jay-Z and then fully blossomed with the slightly depressing but still fun history of wooing women.
I’m going to stop using gardening metaphors now but I really can’t praise CDZA enough, so I’m going to keep going on and on about them. Their latest experiment was The Human Jukebox, in which three musicians took donations for requests like Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson. The audience also controlled how fast or slow they played each song.
This video literally made my morning, not just because the money earned was all donated and because Bach won, but also because my faith in humanity is RESTORED.
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Do you wonder why women yearn for the fedora-wearing men of the 1950s, who presented fresh red roses at the beginning of dates and who whispered sweet nothings about eyes looking like moons and holding your hand?
Somewhere around 1994 it all went to hell when Boyz II Men started singing about making “love,” which promptly led to muchos songs about f*cking, licking you from head to toe and doing things that can only be described with undecipherable symbols like %$@*$-ing.
While there are definitely some romantic modern tracks out there that collectivecadenza is forgetting (try the James Blunt, Jason Mraz crew), I think they hit the nail on the head. Romance is dying.
It goes both ways though people! So if you’re opting for a homemade, candlelit dinner, forget about Enrique Iglesias “Tonight (I’m Fucking You)” and go for Justin Bieber’s “Die In Your Arms” instead. It will be appreciated.
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As if you don’t already know I’m OBSESSED with pianists covering songs (example one, two, three), here comes the piano cover of piano covers. These seven dapper gents perform Kanye West and Jay Z’s “Ni**as in Paris” on one piano and call it “Pianists in Paris.”
The video is from Collective Cadenza, which uploads musical video experiments every other Tuesday. You might remember them from their History of Whistling video.
“Pianists in Paris” goes through several styles, making the track sound classic, jazzy, soulful and then just plain mind-blowing.
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Forget carrying a tune, when I learned how to whistle a single note I was incredibly happy. That’s why I’m so jealz of this King of Whistling who does 26 songs from 98 years like it’s nothing. Collective Cadenza starts in 1914 with the Colonel Bogey March and goes all the way to 2012 with Maroon 5.
He includes some of my faves, like Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Foster the People and The Black Keys. It helps that they have a sense of humour too. During the Billy Joel tune the suited gent playing the piano pulls out a cigarette to really get in the zone.
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