![]() Meet Dirty Loops - They are longtime friends and music school classmates Jonah Nilsson (vocals/keyboards), Henrik Linder (bass), and Aron Mellergardh (drums) who hail from Stockholm, Sweden and have made name for themselves with their twisted pop covers beginning with their take on Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance.” That video, which was made in the winter 2010 while the three band members attended Royal College of Music in Stockholm, became wildly successful with over 100,000 YouTube views and 10,000 Facebook shares in the first two month’s of release… without any promotion or social media savvy. The group’s videos have now garnered a total of 19 million YouTube views to date, and their first original single, “Hit Me,” has just entered theTop 10 in Japan.ĭirty Loops’ viral covers – which also include Justin Bieber’s “Baby,” Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep,” Britney Spears’ “Circus,” Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack,” and Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” (re-imagined as “Prude Girl”) – drew the attention of some of the biggest names in music today. Swedish producer/songwriter Andreas Carlsson signed the group to a management deal producer/songwriter David Foster signed the group to his Verve Records and brought them on his tour of Asia in 2012 and the group has a long list of famous fans that includes Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Adam Levine, Dallas Austin, Rodney Jerkins, Brian McKnight, and Avicii. “The reason we initially started Dirty Loops was just for fun and for a creative outlet. We were doing a lot of session work and we were creatively bored. We started doing covers just as a fun creative outlet for ourselves. It felt like freedom to us,” explains Henrik, a session bass player since age 16, of Dirty Loops’ beginnings in 2008. ![]() It wasn’t just Dirty Loops’ clever choice of covers or exemplary musicianship (R&B/pop superstar Brian McKnight even called them “the most musical” band he’s heard) that sent the band on their rising musical trajectory. There is some grit and sweat missing there.Rather, it was their distinctive approach to taking a pop song, and, well, “loopifying” it that resonated with everyone. But if every note is put to mathematically correct place, then music usually sounds bad to me. But if they published a "live" video that too (I suspect) has that extreme correction going on, I can't stay silent. ![]() Without that "sound check" video I would let this all be, and just say that different strokes for different folks. I mean, why publish a soundcheck video, when even that is corrected? To me it sounds as machine like as their other videos, and I highly suspect that there is serious computer correction in that video too. Everything is close miced, so there is nothing that you can really tell as live. From 3:54 you can see some bass drum hits, but can't hear anything.Īlso, total absence of room sound is another weird thing. Well, there are clearly even some missing drum hits that you can see, but can't hear. And maybe originally the group wanted to post is with the same intention. Someone posted to that forum a soundcheck video of this group, meaning to prove that these guys are as tight live as in their videos. What is left for me is nice fusion-y arrangements of cover songs. I'm not saying that computer correcting is wrong in anyway, hey, it's just music! But when those guys can clearly play really well (they couldn't come up with those arrangements without serious playing skills), why they just can't trust that it's enough? Why they take correcting to extreme, which takes the life away from the music? The whole point of this group is to be this super group, and to me this quantisizing and autotuning takes away most of the appeal. ![]() Also vocals are way too autotuned to my taste, making them sound like robots singing. And that that makes the music sound too plastic-y and lifeless to me.ĭon't get me wrong! I love tightness, for instance I absolutely love Justice's latest cd (French electro-group), and I'm sure thera are very lillte live playing in that cd.Īlso some of the fills the drummer plays sound way too "full on", meaning that every hit sounds like a forcefully hit sample, which in middle of superfast 32-note fill sound artificial and weird to me. You start to recognise that sound whan working with midi, and those quantisation options. I work with midi and quantisation almost every day as a songwriter when I work with Logic Pro, and to me this group sounds like that every single note that they play is put to "grid". There is actually a debate going on in another (Finnish) forum about this group with same kind of polarized opinions.Īs much as I would like to like this group and the music, it just sounds too machine-like to my ears.
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