THE VIDEO SHELF · slowed-down music
Jolene at 33 rpm
Dolly Parton's song Jolene, slowed down to 33 rpm so that it sounds deeper and more drawn out. The short clip is a well-known example of how pitch-shifting changes a song's mood.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN people point to it as a slowed-down song that sounds more plaintive and haunting.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Tom Berry
- Topic
- slowed-down music
- Format
- music
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Other slow music worth checking out, in some other genres: Jolene by Dolly Parton slowed down to 33rpm: [VIDEO] And some slow covers: Vanilla Fudge (they do a few like this): [LINK] Issac Hayes 18bmin cover of By The Time I get to Pheonix: [LINK] …
ZeroGravitas on Hacker News · 2019-10
In Show HN: SlowTube – Learn songs by ear by slowing them downIt's a great song. Hearing it at 33 rpm [0] is a different experience still: it's almost more plaintive, more haunting. Worth a listen IMO. 0: [VIDEO]
jihadjihad on Hacker News · 2023-11
In Sad clown paradox
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.