Waiting for a concert to start, half listening to the soundtrack between the opening bands setups.
This song comes on - not a song in any normal sense - more of spoken word over music, but even that overstates it. The voice was of a fitness instructor. It might have been a young Arnold Schwarzeneggar, without the classic exaggerated accent. While the music plays, the instructor speaks (no singing). First some preliminary instructions, but then nothing but “1…and Down, 2… and Down, 3… and Down” and so on forever. Then back to further instructions, then “1… and Up, 2… and Up…”
It went on for a long time and without my knowing it has burned itself into my brain. I wanna hear it again, but no amount of searching has led me to it. The headliners of the concert were Alice in Chains and Korn in Detroit (maybe you were there and heard it too?)
Adding this to my next dance party playlist, but this isn’t it.
Definitely a guy’s voice. It’s as if someone took the audio of a fitness video and put it on top of music. There was counting (1… Up, 2… Up… then later 1…Down 2…Down). The effect is bordline hypnotic (without being trance, as I understand trance).
Wow, didn’t realize there would be so many, um, songs so similar. I thought it was a one-off, but it looks as if I stumbled on a whole sub-genre
This is so hard… it is so clear in my head, but I don’t know how to provide enough distinguish clues. SDMB has never let me down in any of my “ID this” threads. I feel I’m letting you down.
Using this tempo tool the BPM is ~120
The counting part that repeats phrase “1… and Down… 2… and Down… 3… and Down” went on to at least 8 or 10, or maybe even 12. Then other spoken instructions, then “1… and Up… 2… and Up… 3… and Up” again up to 8/10/12.
Each “1… and Down” was a measure, with “1” on 1 and “Down” on 3. The “and” was a quarter note just before the “Down” At 120 BPM this felt kinda slow. I can’t imagine what exercise is happening (I wasn’t paying attention to the spoken instruction part). Whatever it was, there was a lot of Downs in a row, then a lot of Ups in a row. I don’t think it was up/down…up/down…up/down as some of the songs above have.
:smack: Of course I meant AIC… Joe Biden warmed up the crowd before Mitch McConnell opened with his cover of the famous song by Disturbed* “The Sounds of Silence”
Tagging on to the thread …
There’s two songs I’m trying to find again
A lady singing about escaping from an abusive husband, she can feel the pressure rising, sometimes deliberately triggers it, packs the kids into a friend’s pickup in the middle of the night.
The other - a graduation address about “not being special” - along the lines of, so what? You’re the valedictorian of 1 school out of xx in America out of xx in the world etc, yeah - it doesn’t mean the world owes you a living.
Nope…
The one I’m thinking goes along the lines of…
So what you’re the best in school?
There’s 500 schools in your state and 50 states and that’s onlky the US.
Don’t think you’re special…
