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"Surround Sound" is a song by American rapper JID featuring Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage and fellow American rapper Baby Tate, released on January 14, 2022 as the lead single from the former's third studio album The Forever Story (2022). Produced by DJ Scheme, Christo, and Nuri, it contains a sample of "One Step Ahead" by Aretha Franklin. In late 2023, the song gained a viral resurgence on the video app TikTok after a trend named the "Ceiling Challenge" was created. As a result, more than 57,000 videos were made using the song. The trend caused the song to peak at number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 2023, almost two years after its original release.[1]
A few days before the song was released, JID previewed the music video on Instagram.[2] In a later post, he revealed the inspiration behind the song was from focusing on the environmental sounds and noises around him as a child, to find an escape from his chaotic home life.[3][4]
The song received generally positive reviews from critics. Tom Breihan of Stereogum wrote that the song "makes it clear, once again, that J.I.D is a masterful technical rapper who can also write a serious hook."[8] Chris DeVille of Stereogum wrote, "As for the track's leading man, he's switching up flows like it's nothing and toying with the English language on a level most rappers can't approach." Deville also noted JID's "marvelous flurry of syllables" and "sketching out a whole mural's worth of imagery in a single sentence fragment".[4] DeVille praised 21 Savage's verse as well, writing that he "once again shows off his mastery of this kind of soul loop" and comparing it to his song "A Lot".[4]
The official music video was released alongside the single. Directed by Mac Grant and Chad Tennies, the video opens with JID going into an older model vehicle. He starts rapping as he is driving, with women in the passenger seats of the car.[9] In a garage, he raps while surrounded by women, and is seen atop a car.[7][9] 21 Savage performs his verse standing next to JID. Baby Tate sings while lying on top of a car.[9] When the beat switches, the video transitions to black and white. The scene changes to that of an "eerie" house, where JID raps the last verse. Multiple clones of him are also seen in the house.[9][10]
I'm trying to mix my songs and I noticed it sounds narrow and not spread out in my car, I have a plug in that makes it wider but it sill sounds constricted like the sound isn't surrounding you like other music does. Any tips on how to make it more surround you?
3. All these soundbars on the market try to reduce the complexity of a decent setup so the average Joe can handle it ... but I tend to call this "fake Atmos surround" using heaps of psychoacoustic trickery. I doubt we would have to do full-blown Atmos productions to achieve that.
As a simple example ... you want to produce a song that is not intended for publishing on streaming platforms, it's just for family and friends or maybe just for yourself. You'll have a hard time with Atmos while stereo is easy.
I believe '"stereo" is a vast improvement over mono with music. With movies, 5.1 surround sound is a vast improvement over stereo. I have not heard music mixed directly for 5.1 yet (most movie tracks still leave the music in stereo and only the sound effects go to the 5.1), I still hope to hear some surround music though to see if I like it more.
In my experience, artists desperately want their recordings to sound the very best they can. A while back I was playing bowls on the grass with one of our foremost singer songwriters Kate Bush. She for instance has re-recorded many of her vocals on digital recordings using mature analogue technologies, then transferring them to digital. Her studio is adjacent to our family estate and she has brilliant technical chops.
LÉON stated that before writing the song, she and Wrabel "spent hours dissecting [her] state of mind." She recalled being "tired of being sad and writing sad songs."[3] Though the rest of the project is contains "sad" songs, "Surround Me," LÉON noted, is the only one that is not inherently "sad."[4] On being in the studio with Wrabel, LÉON said: "We played around on a grand piano and just jammed. The song was finished in like, an hour. Or maybe I blacked out during it."[3]
What a golden sentence! The man is encircled in song, surrounded by dancing mercies, all of them proclaiming the triumphs of grace. There is no breach in the circle, it completely rings him round; on all sides he hears music.
Philipsz took inspiration from the heightened presence of the human voice in Elizabethan London, where the cries of street traders enthused composers of popular song such as Thomas Ravenscroft to write canons where one voice follows the other in a round. She was similarly interested in the madrigal, a song form which emerged in Italy before flowering as the English Madrigal School in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
I wanted to make a work with Artangel that was specifically for London. When I came over initially to look for locations I was struck by the silence in the financial district at the weekends. There are over 350,000 people who work there during the week but at the weekends the city becomes an empty and silent place. I thought it would be interesting for others to experience this eery silence which led me to think about the idea of a song cycle that would lead people through the city. Each of the works animates its surrounding architecture with sound so the audience can experience the city in a new way.
As the rain came down in heavy sheets, I sheltered from the downpour in the porch of an office block at the junction with Russia Row and listened. The quality of the sound was so sharp, so three dimensional, it became almost sculptural. The sky; a thick, dark grey mass of cloud, cast itself back in the wet pavement below. The beautiful instrumental music moved around the alley, reflecting off the deep blue glass windows of the building opposite, vibrating puddles on the ground, at moments disappearing, as if it had been sucked into the heavy concrete pillars or thick ancient stone of the surrounding architecture.
Turner Prize winner Philipsz's work is inextricably of a time and place. Recognising the elusive nature of the sound installations, this book gathers a range of material which informed the conception and shaping of each work in turn, together with the lyrics of the songs and photographs of each place.
The challenge, which sees TikTok users taping their phones to a ceiling object to find the best twerking angle, has re-entered JID's 2022 single "Surround Sound" on the Billboard Hot 100. Featuring 21 Savage and Baby Tate, the song is currently at No. 95, ahead of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's "Bongos" (No. 97) and Drake and 21 Savage's "Calling for You" (No. 99), the latter which is also a re-entry.
The song was included on JID's third studio album, The Forever Story, which dropped last January. "Surround Sound" heavily samples Yasiin Bey's 1999 hit "Ms. Fat Booty," which, in turn, sampled Aretha Franklin's "One Step Ahead."
But in the late 1960s, the two were struggling songwriters living in a basement apartment on Q Street NW in Georgetown. Their first gigs were at house parties before taking the stage at the short-lived Emergency Club on M Street.
Denver was looking for more material for an upcoming record for RCA. After the fourth night at the Cellar Door, Denver, the Danoffs and a few friends planned to meet back at the couple's basement to try out some new songs.
As for the inspiration for the lyrics, Danoff confirms Clopper Road, which runs through Montgomery County, played a significant role. However, Danoff puts to rest the myth that the song was originally called "Take Me Home, Clopper Road."
Same as the standard stereo Avocet II A, but with full 5.1 surround support. The result of two years of research, the Crane Song Avocet II A improves on the original design and features a brand new Quantum D/A. The result is an extremely low jitter combined with unique analogue and digital reconstruction filters ensure a pristine sound with far more detail, focus and superior imaging.
The remote on the Avocet II A has also been upgraded offering further workflow improvements. First of all, most switches have now multiple functions which are accessible via a Shift button. Speaker selection buttons can be used to setup surround setup more efficiently. In additional speaker selection buttons can now be selected simultaneously. The Mute button now overrides all functions including talkback. The Mic gain on Talk back is now controlled via the main level switch.
Trippers and askers surround me,
People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I live in, or the nation,
The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new,
My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues,
The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
The sickness of one of my folks or of myself or ill-doing or loss or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations,
Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events;
These come to me days and nights and go from me again,
But they are not the Me myself.
"Surround Sound" by JID (Ft. 21 Savage) is a song about the hustling lifestyle of a street criminal. JID and 21 Savage rap about their hard-earned money, fast cars, and guns. They talk about living in the dangerous and fast-paced lifestyle filled with violence and shady deals. The chorus of the song emphasizes the use of weapons, with references to "packing a package" and "breaking a kilo" - slang language to refer to drug trafficking, and carrying a firearm with the "strap" to "shoot". The song paints an image of hustlers pursuing the easy life of money, women, and the flashy things, while taking risks and dealing with the consequences.
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