how a sampled sound bite can turn a dance track into an earworm
- Written by Timothy Byron, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Wollongong
“I’m looking for a man in finance,” the TikTok user, @girl_on_couch, says blandly, looking around the room and then into the camera. “Trust fund. 6'5. Blue eyes. Finance.” In the caption, she urges someone to turn her sound bite into “an actual song plz”.
From this little bit of spoken audio sprang the song...
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