Auditory Illusions: Hearing Lyrics Where There Are None

[@songalong7680]

This sounds like the music from one of those cards you get for your birthday but it was sitting on a desk for two months.

[@LouisianaGirly]

This

[@meowthtroplaysvideogames]

So i was listening to the pokemon one and it was as if it was speaking spanish dude... this is a new way of linguistics and communication.

[@lolidontknowagoodname9572]

Or for 2 seconds

[@ab-qt5hk]

@@meowthtroplaysvideogames i grew up in brazil so i know the lyrics both in portuguese and english, and i heard kind of a mixture of both languages ???? like, the gotta catch 'em all was in English but the rest was in my native language (i got so confused)

[@meowthtroplaysvideogames]

@@ab-qt5hk this is the new method of communication with society

[@-_-3315]

it sounds like you trapped someone inside a piano and this is a call for help

[@3lueDemon]

Yeah....."The Piano Man".....😐

[@yahir7ev]

@@3lueDemon ah very clever

[@jususcrust7694]

-_- this made me chuckle

[@jesket6783]

Lol.. This makes a good plot..

[@heavysaber9431]

This sounds creepy

[@frankiematosmusic]

What's fun about Piano Man is that, with the vocals coming from the midi piano, it's literally a Piano Man

[@stoprighttherecriminalscum8148]

He's become more piano than man now.. Twisted and absolutely terrifying to talk to...

[@firetarrasque4667]

That makes it so much worse, I hate you

[@BitcoinIsGoingToZero]

The lyrics are in there though. It's hard to hear them because of the additional noises piano makes beyond the pure tone.

[@mojn4249]

Despite never hearing the song till this tom-fuckery. I could still hear words. NO idea what they were XD But they were words. Just goes to show how good the brain is at filling blanks.

[@wesleykoch550]

Lmao

[@boredyoutubeuser]

It's cool how we can discern human speech from sounds that don't have any at all, pretty neat!

[@research417]

Human speech is just sounds after all lol

[@JonBrase]

The speech is actually there, it's just mangled by a bunch of piano noise. If you used an instrument that played a pure sine wave for each note, instead of a piano, it would be much clearer.

[@calebbean1384]

Paredolia

[@JonBrase]

@@calebbean1384 Nope. Not pareidolia. The speech is actually in there, there's just a bunch of noise on top because of the instrument used in the midi file. If you used an instrument that gave a pure sine wave, it would be quite clear.

[@andrewtr001]

I mean, if you want to get super technical, if you increased the refresh rate of it a tiny bit, this is pretty close to how old speech synthesizers worked. Feed a bunch of ultra specific garbage through a synth that sounds very close to speech.

[@MarionRelics]

When you get used to the piano version and then it switches to the real song it feels like you’re hearing music for the first time.

[@thomassudbury9174]

You got nearly 800 likes on this btw

[@recession.2024]

@@thomassudbury9174 wow

[@csturgis]

congrats on 1k likes.

[@jaguar_8344]

Azn Ninja homophobia much?

[@nunchucktaylor3488]

Agreed. The revelation actually makes some of these songs enjoyable for the first time in their existence.

[@Bloopadoops]

When he says "whuguguhfuhnughdjgg staying alive" it really hits me hard

[@dnishhh1591]

yo felt that too broo

[@Shrike10]

hit me like a piano to the face

[@larrywithbraces4744]

Those are the key words Get it🤣🤣

[@anonymousaxolotl1757]

yeah, it really brought me back

[@bobasaursquared1633]

Bloopadoops same bro. Hits like the keys to the face

[@palomer_27]

When you don’t know the lyrics, you can hear them, but they sound like a mess of vowels that just seems like some demonic chant

[@lisachiappetti6092]

I mean, yeah. I don't know the entire Pokemon song, so the parts that I don't know sound really weird

[@brennanherring9059]

So basically grindcore

[@welcometoreality437]

@@brennanherring9059 May I know what that is?

[@dennysoto1236]

@@welcometoreality437 A mess of vowels that just seems like some demonic chant 😂

[@sincerecinnamon]

Yeah, in some of these I barely knew so it sounded like a mix between that and words

[@ElvenSailor_Main]

The voice sounds like a concert only you're in a bathroom throwing up and having a panic attack but can still hear the performance

[@younscrafter7372]

Read that as backrooms

[@cessnacitation-x]

​@@younscrafter7372 That works too.

[@emilyhousley2947]

incredibly accurate

[@somnambulist83]

no, this sounds like the orchestra is throwing up and playing the song at the same time

[@byebyeoldusername]

yesss the instrument shakes through the venue but the voice is off

[@maladaptvs]

“stayin’ alive while being brutally tortured”

[@FishCatsu]

I bet he wish he wasn’t staying alive

[@LUFCLiving]

Monroe “staying alive while slowly not staying alive”

[@MLG_Kitten]

More like barely alive

[@zerrothewolf8316]

The sequel to "FunkyTown"

[@CShoe-fm2tk]

Fish Cat 🎼“I wish I wasn’t stayin’ alive, ive, ive, ive ”🎼

[@caronstout354]

This is the vocal equivalent of trying to overhear conversations in an extremely crowded meeting room and only getting random words and phrases.

[@awkwardsity]

This is basically how I hear 24/7 (hard of hearing) except usually I can speech read a bit to help out... but you can’t read lips if there are no lips to read

[@raesnothome]

im autistic and this is a non-problem. I just hear what everyone is saying in the room, all of the time, and can’t tune it out, even if I want to. it’s hell on my ears, but atleast I can eavesdrop

[@awkwardsity]

@@raesnothome we are opposite ends of hearing. You hear it all and can understand what’s being said I can hear it all but it’s just a muddled mess...

[@kenzie1256]

@@raesnothome I have ADHD and I hear everything all at once but my brain struggles to separate so I’ll be hearing 10 conversations at once but not processing a single one fully lol which really sucks when the person directly in front of me is saying words that are 90% just jumbled noise

[@raesnothome]

@@kenzie1256 rip!! I get that if it’s too loud/too many people, it’s just noise at that point

[@ClassicMiddleton]

If a horror movie used this music technique in a murder chase scene, I'd be fucking terrified

[@Rainbow0015]

**distorted all star plays as kill chases and murders**

[@ClassicMiddleton]

@@Rainbow0015 🎵 "Hey now, it's a murder get your shoes on, run far. Hey now, you're a target He's right behind you, don't stop. All that screaming is gold Only dead bodies, do what they're told~"🎵

[@Rainbow0015]

@@ClassicMiddleton YESSSSSSSSSS

[@hiracoverband]

next halloween: *michael myers chasing down his last family member as an aggressive all star by smash mouth plays*

[@MrGuialbuquerque]

Lol

[@AquaComputerVR]

this is so uncanny. Hearing the sound and recognizing it as human without hearing the words is very eerie

[@thezyreick4289]

oh just wait until you learn about what the brain does with color. your peripheral vision for example, physically speaking, you have basically no cones at all able to detect color in the peripherals, yet your brain fills it in. Most people also are unable to see their nose on their face without trying to deliberately, despite being so much in the way of peripherals, the brain just says "na fam, we dont need that, lets crop it out" The same thing happens with lots of other things. Take road signs for example. Over time of seeing them repeatedly, you will grow accustomed to them and be able to read them from further and further away, not because you are better at seeing, but because your brain is filling in the details since it already knows what it is. This also happens with lots of other things your brain does its best to just automate things as much as possible and synthesize them to not rely on perception as that takes more energy, and it has a goal to reduce energy spent

[@AquaComputerVR]

@@thezyreick4289 that's really cool!

[@alexdoorn234]

@@thezyreick4289 Pretty cool! Unfortunately I am one of those people that always sees their nose lmao

[@PersonausdemAll]

​@@thezyreick4289i have a nose? 😮

[@mikewrack3]

@@thezyreick4289 this is so cool. thank you for sharing!!

[@Sophieclark-d7z]

“So uh where do I put my 84th finger?”

[@jupiin9633]

LMAO

[@apollo8155]

every porn character with tentacles

[@kairitkolk6641]

Spam Spam ha

[@klbzplb]

nowhere. Full size piano has 80 keys

[@glox_]

@@klbzplb no 88 key

[@tosic4097]

It's so fucking creepy when you can hear this drained out electronic voice, would be great for a horror scene or something.

[@Bren_tendo]

Yeah, along with the creepy piano smashing

[@angelartiyalvt9574]

Jack Meoff just do this with "tiptoe through the tulips"

[@oliviamyerssecondchannel-d1810]

Jack Meoff It reminds me of the kind of thing in FNaF.

[@imaducky2617]

fuck the pokemon one

[@lorddestrustor8828]

I'd actually be interested in hearing a straight-up voice clip given this treatment.

[@EzraEpic]

This video is once again being recommended to people again

[@Skipper-w6b]

Indeed it is indeed being recommended again again indeed

[@drakordarkstar]

correct

[@ApplesOfEpicness]

It’s funny because I used to do this to a lot of MP3’s/midis before this video came out to transcribe them better. I always found it interesting how the program would try to convert lyrics, and how it sounded pretty convincing/close. Ah, seeing this video again makes me want to go back and finish my projects.

[@sasvkeee._]

im not disappointed though

[@this-is-my-youtube-account]

yep

[@2gourd]

friend giving me the aux chord: “you better not play trash” me:

[@GrumpyOrangeCat]

snufkin pic?

[@bigman5823]

Did you have to give the aux chord back?

[@ji8154]

snufkin!

[@justme-ix3je]

snufkin!!!

[@stowikmusic9478]

Snufkinnnnn

[@xpoofa38]

“You can hear lyrics” more like hell is unraveling in my phone speaker

[@wesleystevenson7431]

Why doesn't this have more likes

[@gioliv5636]

This got a good laugh out of me 🤣

[@Jtheartnerd]

Good

[@memesforeveryone157]

Android?

[@taylorackerson2607]

Ikr! Nice and refreshing isn't it?

[@blumelein6332]

Imagine a ghost trying to talk to you by possessing an old piano and doing this shit

[@PrettyMaker3D]

I would commit cri and breakdown as soon as I hear it talking.

[@hehen-t]

Well it didn't stay alive

[@llleau]

F*** I’m out.

[@misticalnebs2222]

There’s one real piano on KZbin that does this

[@user-df4zw7yb4v]

@@misticalnebs2222 where

[@nameismetatoo4591]

Technically not an illusion, but rather a great demonstration of the Fourier series. Any sound, no matter how complex, can be represented by a combination of pure sine waves. The more sine waves, the closer to the original. These audio-to-midi programs just find a sum of sine waves to approximate the input audio, then each of those sine waves is mapped to a piano note.

[@stu1701E]

I reckon it could be made to sound even more like the vocals if the converter used piano tone waveforms as basis functions as opposed to the Fourier basis.

[@Sentient_Blob]

This is kinda what I was thinking, but I couldn’t put the idea into words. Great explanation!

[@Ironpecker]

Kinda yes but I think it's our patter recognition brain that is doing the heavy lifting

[@dekatonkheir]

What you're saying is true, but it's still an illusion as you are hearing voice where there is none; much like optical illusions where you see faces where there are none

[@landsgevaer]

Short-term Fourier Transform

[@gamertime1994]

I think they took Piano Man too literally

[@bostinobaddog2040]

Id like thecomment but u have 69

[@dominikweber4305]

@@bostinobaddog2040 now it's save

[@BrassMaster84]

You win, sir...

[@makotoyuki345]

This is why you don’t drink too many piano mans (a type of drink btw) And Yes I do play too much VA11-HA11A

[@helioskrillgaming3236]

999th to like this comment

[@faith9196]

The “ah ah ah ah” part of staying alive sounded wayyy to real for comfort

[@xeonn2056]

Ha ha ha ha*

[@p0xygen]

Because it is... It's faked

[@xdYama]

Well Then lol, you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about. These notes are placed to resemble the vocals. It’s not fake, you’re just way too sceptical (idk if i wrote that right) to believe this is true, go watch some videos on this topic explaining it

[@faith9196]

xd Yama You’re not wrong actually. I don’t care about this stuff but that part sounded a lot better and more real than the rest ya feel me.

[@xdYama]

@@faith9196 that is because you know that part of the song better. I can hear the entire song

[@hyppoh5294]

Imagine someone in the mall sits down at the piano then suddenly plays what sounds like nonsense at first, then realise it's all star including the lyrics

[@TheBoysArchived]

Hyppoh 666 likes

[@carmine1592]

I would be terrified that his finger are fast enough to hit multiple different keys milliseconds apart

[@exocakes4587]

Or rick roll

[@Astrafell]

Steven Quartz Universe thats part of the magic 😂

[@joshw6631]

If you could do that you would literally be the best player ever

[@BowlOSoup6661]

I love how you can literally hear the inflection. Not just the lyrics

[@coolswag33]

It’s like the voices are muffeled inside the piano

[@matieskiart5990]

Its the screaming voices of the stolen wishing to be released from their grand stringed prision, begging to see the light of day, singing their legacy in the hopes of once again breathing the fresh, non musky air of earth.

[@josukeeight]

Matieski Art oh God no...

[@matieskiart5990]

(:

[@keiraazzopardi6298]

Matieski Art are you ok?.....

[@matieskiart5990]

Bold of one to assume this mind is 'okay'

[@BananaGalaxy]

I don’t know much of Stayin’ Alive but when it got to the “AH AH AH AH” part I heard it clear as day so really this only works if you know the words

[@AnnikaSB]

Ikr

[@reaper_is_unavailable]

well i didn't know the words of piano man but I heard lyrics

[@dilliard9647]

Dude I heard the entire pokemon theme clear as day, but that's probably because I love that song so much

[@invaderspencer]

Yup

[@urboijimmyjohns7271]

We could test this theory if they were less popular songs, because I'm sure like 80% of the audience knows most of the words for these

[@user-slayer]

My brain when I can’t remember the full lyrics:

[@theatrekidwithinternetacce704]

True

[@alexmerka9833]

this is way too accurate what the heck

[@emmersw347]

OMG

[@spookuly]

This deserves more likes

[@expiredmilk5435]

@@spookuly spoopy

[@anotherday-anotherslay]

the pokemon theme is ASTOUNDINGLY clear, and i'm sure it's because i always hear it in the background when my brother watches TV. i don't even know all the lyrics, but i could hear every single word, that's so wild!

[@Meela9088]

Well what words did you hear? I know the Pokémon theme so maybe I can see if you have the right lyrics lol

[@anotherday-anotherslay]

@@Meela9088 i wanna be the very best, like no one ever was; to catch them is my real test, to train them is my guard. i will travel across the land, searchin far and wide, teach pokemon to understand the power thats inside--pokemon! its you and me, i know its my destiny...etc etc

[@has2give]

@@anotherday-anotherslay to traim them is my cause not guard 😭

[@sirendrawsstuff]

I’m uncomfortable with how quickly I was able to pick up on “All Star”

[@pndaMobby]

Same

[@lukevanginkel7380]

For real 😂

[@skylarnewport822]

Honestlyy thoo im scared now

[@expresso4thedeppresso]

Lol me too-

[@moonknight5743]

Piano man 3 sec in i knew it

[@LunchlyLover6969]

Trying to hear the words in a song you dont know is like trying to remember a dream

[@Kai-iy3kk]

So . . . easy then.

[@generalkenobi8374]

Yeah I knew all of em except sonic so I had no idea what was going on

[@jacob1983runner]

Just skip to after, then back you'll hear it

[@certified_geek7536]

Terrifyingly accurate

[@loontjet3385]

I don’t know the lyrics but somehow my brain does.

[@giovanneledezma2724]

Same

[@damobeck1]

That’s what the brain does. It translates things it knows without you even knowing. This is why you can be damn sure someone said one thing, when they claim they said something else.

[@someweirdkid8584]

I could understand the piano better than the actual song

[@LoreLikesFoodisdead]

Same

[@Vysair]

@@damobeck1 which is why sometimes you can imagined thing like seeing words that doesnt even exist or incorrectly seeing or read them.

[@TrashPanda-2112]

Can we get a room with 20 pianists trying this "for science".

[@itzam3thyst]

Petition is up🔥🔥🔥

[@cass9929]

When you forget the lyrics mid performance so the pianist has to cover for you

[@vincentfreddoyle7555]

Lol made me wheeze 😆

[@user-xw7jq]

funny

[@maddieward6911]

I've been laughing about this for a couple minutes now 🤣

[@walls_of_skulls6061]

I would watch pianists if they could produce rock music as a midi with full vocals

[@meowcow21]

The weirdest thing is having heard the song before but not remembering the lyrics so you effectively hear how the song sounds in your head when you don't remember the lyrics but the tune and sound of them.

[@bellemiranda4081]

YES I WAS JUST THINKING THIS

[@s3ven_six322]

I just did this, but then finally remembered the song at the AH AH AH AH part

[@inky3944]

with piano man i could hear and understand that there were word but understanding them was a nightmare. All star was the easiest though just because i know the lyrics

[@ahirbhattacharjee2352]

This happened to me in piano man

[@robothippie943]

well, you don't ever forget stuff, it's still in your brain, so prolly that our brains take that one bit at the back and try to connect it with the "illusion" that has the piano singing

[@moontheraisin6444]

I don't know all the words, so I hear brain stabbibg noise and then suddenly AH AH AH AH STAYIN' ALIVE

[@josemreyes6059]

Ikr

[@LL-tr5et]

i dont know the words but i know the way the words sound and the chord progression and i could discern that from the other instruments

[@PulchritudinousMinx]

Ikrrr

[@bennorman2381]

EXACTLY right. lol

[@Sonicthehedgeho4]

I am the 1000th person to like your comment Now its 1k instead of 999

[@greenlizard4208]

it sounds like it's coming out of a radio that barely survived a zombie apocalypse, but i can still hear it, that's pretty cool man!

[@AtypicalDC]

"Oh, you listen to piano? What kind of genre?" "You wouldn't get it."

[@RainbowAJ]

LOL

[@jackmclean6374]

I was your 1000th like ..your welcome

[@smnthatj]

Jack Mclean I was their 1,100th like

[@giornogiovanna4140]

Insert joker meme here

[@kadesitton5762]

“Like, man, it’s got lyrics, but it don’t got lyrics man. Spiritual stuff.”

[@brynnaenae]

The scariest part was when my hearing switched from hearing a bad piano to hearing words.

[@allozabd]

Same

[@sailorcandy6633]

The scariest part is hearing the lyrics to bad piano noises

[@judyahmed4290]

even tho idk the words :|

[@tsjaadnicholson728]

You hear words?

[@sparky3801]

The scary part is when you remove your headphones and still hear the singing

[@ImPDK]

It just sounds like the singers’ souls have been trapped in their respective songs Kinda scary tbh

[@kek3324]

Same, to me, this is ridiculously creepy

[@brodydotson6281]

Stop u givin me the creeps

[@hush3956]

@@kek3324 how is it creepy it's awesome how our mind does that

[@liamwhite1719]

The strange noises are their trapped souls screaming for release from their eternal agony

[@morganadaltress9036]

Quite the opposite actually, I find that beautiful. It just means that they have imparted a part of themselves to create something beautiful.

[@desynchroneyes]

When sound is created by voice or instruments it is not actually a single hertz soundwave. There are overtones that create a more complicated mix of soundwaves from a single source. This is what gives different sounds their unique.. sound. From the note display it looks like a lot of overtones got converted into their own notes, as we see clusters of notes together that were obviously not part of the original track. The distribution of overtones is also more dense at the high end of the overtone group, which is why the clusters are more dense at the high end of the piano. It is also possible for our ears to pick out individual tones or even groups of tones from other sounds. That is why we can distinguish vocals from guitars to begin with even if they are playing the same note. Their overtone groups are different for each sound and we naturally learn how to identify the differences. I believe this is part of why we are able to pick out vocals from this. We are already familiar with the overtone groups that make up the vocals of the songs, and the overtones are preserved in the midi, thus our ears can pick out the same groups of overtones that make up the vocals. Happy birthday Tim!

[@jonathanaguirre6508]

It stranges me that this is the only comment i could find that acknowledged the overtones

[@alexandrashvydun8726]

@@jonathanaguirre6508 not many people are knowledgeable in acoustics lol

[@ChrisRichmond]

Just a thought... How would this sound played only using a sine wave sound..? 👀

[@em7dim9]

I believe the voice is still there but 'vocoded' or 'granularized' by the algorithm. One of the songs I've never heard before i could clearly understand the words. I don't think the experiment works in the way the channel owner thinks.

[@MassivePonyFan]

Got a TLDR?

[@torilinncwanek1096]

Alternative Title: _Stayin Alive but I'm also falling down 47 flights of stairs_

[@frustratid1230]

Far too underrated comment....

[@torilinncwanek1096]

@@frustratid1230 aw thanks!

[@zarramorgan3390]

Torilinn Cwanek for a second this great comment had 69 likes (Edit) it might still, but every time I look in the replies it says 70

[@torilinncwanek1096]

@@zarramorgan3390 We shall cherish the sacred yet fleeting moment fondly

[@poisonrosetheneko5213]

It's called falling down every staircase in the world and living

[@jl1992]

The creepy part is, I heard lyrics that *I had forgotten*

[@icedtea3645]

Same xD

[@kumidigital]

ME TO-

[@IHeartYuga]

Uh....I just listened to the song then I clicked on the video.. coincidence?

[@cilantroso53]

well, i heard lyrics that i didnt knew that existed so i think its ok

[@Sp00kq]

The creepy part is that I heard lyrics that *I DIDN'T KNOW*

[@mmmyes3930]

“Hey I learned how to play all star on the piano!” *smashes face onto keyboard*

[@AlexLopez0506]

Bro I'm dead. 😂😂😂

[@monstaircase]

Smashmouth

[@Therebesquare]

I guess you could say you have a smashed mouth

[@dcaruss3959]

With the shape of an L on your forehead

[@austt121]

*Nice song*

[@margaretthemagnificent]

“All Star” is legit nightmare fuel.

[@DudeGuy360]

I think it's a good song

[@Butteredprawns]

It’s not about that dude guy, it’s about how clear the voice is

[@DudeGuy360]

@@Butteredprawns my mistake, thanks for the explanation

[@gg0r3z.wur1d]

The actual song is sang completely by piano, they just cleaned up the background piano noises.

[@janTasita]

It's interesting how the sibilants are almost completely inaudible but the rest of the lyrics are quite clear.

[@dangasp23]

*Alternative title: the spirits I've trapped in my piano over the years*

[@robinhowat826]

his piano is my basement

[@yeontanssugadaddy]

Kinda cruel to make them sing staying alive

[@Finn-qx2ft]

That should be the title XD btw I love you pfp

[@heskiel5115]

@@Finn-qx2ft wait r u supposed to be with jirou

[@Finn-qx2ft]

Heskiel Lumbantoruan I’m watching this with her :D

[@erich_ika]

"lol there is no lyrics in the piano are you crazy?" piano: "A A A A Stayin Alive, Stayin Alive"

[@filmandfirearms]

I think he's got a point that you kind of have to know the song to understand it, because it was at the exact second I realized it was Stayin' Alive that I could understand it

[@butterfly_queen234]

@@filmandfirearms I didn't even know the song yet I heard it 😳

[@mekaflory394]

It converts some of the vocals but not all of them so when you recognize the song your brain is able to fill in the rest of the lyrics

[@HereComesThe-Sun]

@@butterfly_queen234 me too its creepy imo

[@mr.swiggles9679]

really sounds like its saying that since its will to live is non existant

[@marie-vy4mc]

The “ah, ah, ah, ah, staying alive” part was horribly uncanny.

[@havoc.foul.legacy]

Shush Hidgens

[@blastoid37]

I kept hearing Stena Line

[@jacob1514]

AH AH AH AH staying alive

[@stephmetc53]

slow it down he added music bro i swear whats that beating noise he had to add music

[@aaronbailey1406]

@@stephmetc53 no

[@bearfeet.]

Ok, but the dripping in my faucet timed exactly with the all star piano. They’re consorting with each other, I tell you

[@fluffsquirrel]

Somebody once told me your faucet's gonna drop beats It ain't the nicest sound in the washroom

[@twg6732]

This illusion is literally just the sound of someone with terrible wifi when they’re on a call lol

[@dabbi827]

TWG Lmao

[@kur0_m1i]

no its when the bank puts u on hold

[@goodday3185]

No one Zoom’s audio quality:

[@diegolunahernandez796]

666 likes

[@twg6732]

Guess this video is getting recommended again cause of the influx of likes on my comment lol

[@vamppanic]

the “voices” sound exactly like if tHiS TyPiNg sTyLe cOuLd Be sPoKeN oUt LoUd

[@lionberryofskyclan]

yEs ThAt WoUlD bE aCcUrAtE

[@clueless2528]

NoT LyInG

[@rivereatswords]

breer JbSlLkHGdFg LiTeRaLlY oMg

[@sunny-k3r]

WoAh Im ReAdIng iT lIkE ThIs

[@amfro4276]

bRo I tHoUgHt ThE sAmE tHiNg

[@owmystomachhurts]

Therapist: Piano Voice isn't real, he can't hurt you. Piano Voice:

[@mtravolto7734]

I fear no man. But that thing... It scares me.

[@MrShanePike]

Why did I read it has the rapist

[@axiel4519]

MrShanePike ah another intellectual

[@3vilSm1ley1995]

It’s especially funny when you only remember certain parts of a song. It goes from “omg I can hear the lyrics” to “ I’m having a mildly melodic stroke”.

[@yeaaaaaaaaaaahff]

For me it goes from not hearing the song at the beginning, my mind not comprehending the "music" i hear, to being able to hear the song in it's entirety when I listen to it a bit more, I guess it's because I've heard these songs a lot so I know how they go a bit more

[@BlueShellshock]

Right? I never fully memorized Smash Mouth, but I know at least the chorus; it immediately switches from a caucophony of madness to "wait, there's really not someone singing there?" I wonder if this kind of thing can't be used as an elaborate passcode -- as in, only someone who had heard the words before would be able to decipher what's being "said".

[@RK-xh8pr]

When you don't know any of the words so it sounds like a demon speaking a foreign language

[@rhennsacara]

yea my brain was like OH YEA "ah ah ah staying alive" to "djdjfhnv aiQWY HD2Kfd34 sdhjdfh 23j)7" *send help~

[@mreggs3731]

you know what's crazy, the piano version sounds like if the actual songs were recorded on a broken CD

[@stefanbozic8880]

When he said “I wAaAAaAanaA bEeE the vEery bEEest” i really felt that.

[@AnnikaSB]

Ikr!

[@mattimations]

gOTtA caTcH Em AaaAlLll

[@Pikachu-sc1yc]

Oh fucc-

[@endertobias1908]

But ge didnt say that

[@MyPieIsE]

I wAnnA BeE tHe VeRy BeSt

[@kodschiec5614]

I don't know why this is so scary. We know that our brains like to fill in the gaps. But combined with the horrible piano noises it's just terrifying

[@ellarree]

Kodschie c yeah it’s very noticeable in entr’actes in musicals where the music is almost entirely made of the instrumentals from the first act

[@RyanTosh]

Maybe caused by some sort of uncanny valley effect?

[@sibr2805]

Nobody: KZbinrs avoiding copyright:

[@sl5vix995]

The most accurate comment I've read in years

[@recrc]

Oh yeeeee

[@recrc]

Makes sense

[@zhaofanyu2838]

Underrated

[@aaronsanceda2786]

Brutally simple

[@Chuusuisetsujojutsu]

The Pokémon theme sounds clear enough that I could listen to this to remember the lyrics

[@elvearryn]

So _this_ is what plays when you enter hell.

[@Mike-739]

Nah, probably a lowering Shepard’s tone

[@evelynbell2459]

pretty much

[@laurags199]

hey, don't be mean! Satan is just learning how to do it right

[@jeff_theman2562]

Nah he straight up playing mick gordon doom music

[@trash-lol]

*heaven

[@xKomer]

Imagine this Video gets copyright striked

[@pavkin]

Komer it did

[@pavkin]

HereC0mesR0m4n Thats literally what i just said?

[@tez6477]

Komer 😂

[@YoutubePizzer]

Jacob F great, no one cares

[@eyxnos5192]

@@KZbinPizzer it's no one asked

[@Kapin05]

"Hey teacher, I learned Piano Man!" _attacks keyboard in a way that sounds exactly like Billy Joel's voice_

[@SwizzleDrizzl]

teacher: *he's learned the language of the gods-*

[@stevemc01]

@@SwizzleDrizzl Student: "He is god."

[@Jon19p]

He has become God himself.

[@---RAVEN---]

They have ascended way beyond a mere god

[@pianoman5259]

Now I must do this

[@angus80w]

I remember doing this with two voice lines from a show and no matter what instrument I changed it to, I could still hear the voices in it even though there are none

[@dahuntre]

“More disturbing than the unknown is a distortion of the familiar.” - Fleshmad Steed, mtg

[@Hypnostedon]

Magic The Gathering 4 life ❣️

[@EdiblePlutonium]

I got actual boosegumps reading this.

[@FoxRodhes]

This is the trick Junji Ito loves to use

[@_b_moll]

Gotta say, the flavor text is real unnerving a lot of the time

[@zawarudo3582]

Bdg

[@toadwithahat4514]

" son, talking pianos aren't a real thing, they can't hurt you. " talking pianos :

[@KatzeKei]

I think the weirdest part of this is not *just* hearing the lyrics, but hearing it in the vocalist's exact tone and voice.

[@Acetheauthor]

Yeah! But like.. Underwater

[@DeviantAngel]

i agree with your comment, but not the other person

[@LucyWest370]

@@Acetheauthor it sounds like Daft Punk if the robots had bad internet

[@---ub1fn]

To me I heard like a choir chorus singing it

[@itscaptaingamerplays1419]

@@Acetheauthor yep

[@CMDRJakob]

Imagine if this somehow was the only record of a human voice that aliens or otherwise beings in the future find, they'd think our vocal cords would be so weird, trying to figure out what it means, haha.

[@gme_5_958]

Everybody gangsta until the piano start talking

[@minky7421]

Δημητρης Παυλακης best comment

[@user-mh9dx7nz2r]

300th like

[@chaosareyouokay]

Honestly

[@gracebruhmoment]

So true

[@Fivvos]

Ελληνες;

[@bonecanoe86]

It's crazy how Billy Joel's New York accent comes through so clearly on the piano version.

[@robertrobertson4181]

He's a piano man

[@scottowens398]

If he's from the city, then it's exclusive accent from the city. There's only a tiny bit of city compared to the rest of the state, and they have a very different accent there. The city part is shortened to NYC, which you may have heard. The rest is NYS, meaning New York State. Very different places.

[@plonk8394]

@@scottowens398 ok

[@fatherfountain1906]

@@scottowens398 shut up

[@scottowens398]

@@fatherfountain1906 And why should I?

[@thefbi3350]

The "ah ah ah ah stayin' alive" didn't sound like he was stayin' alive wtf

[@iteratedofficial]

🤣🤣🤣🤣☠️☠️☠️

[@longbow6416]

You again? Tell the AFT I still dont have a dog!

[@God-js7go]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH OMG I SAW THIS COMMENT AND BURST INTO LAUGHTER

[@yeaaaaaaaaaaahff]

"staying alive" more like "slayed alive"

[@boredyoutubeuser]

Actually, the reason the midi sounds so much like voices is because it's basically replicating our vocal cords! We basically have instruments in our throats.

[@mekoooo]

imagine your piano rick rolling you

[@AnnikaSB]

OH NO

[@gimygaming8655]

Don't give them ideas 👀

[@Brtt4849]

@@gimygaming8655 it’s to late

[@-Solidwater]

Sorry, but your Ink pfp is forcing me to say that I love it

[@water8355]

What have u done

[@nostalgicrubber]

Therapist: talking pianos don’t exist they can’t hurt you Talking pianos:

[@Cton9573]

* Super Mario 64 would like to know your location *

[@kipzo10]

LOL

[@sirlimesauyce8021]

how original

[@daviddavis]

its the piano man

[@rainkissedyt9628]

@@sirlimesauyce8021 This is literally no different than any other meme that uses a format? Are you prepared to criticize most of the memes that exist??

[@fangeroni4996]

Sounds like something you’d hear seconds before being brutally murdered

[@speznaslordtachanka1064]

Jumpshot Fangs for real it‘s like the fucking creepy version of these songs like a demon just took possession of the piano and is about to rip your head off

[@fangeroni4996]

SpezNas Lord Tachanka *girl from the ring comes out of your screen*

[@airotciv0762]

I snorted and it hurt man

[@ella7042]

XHZDYMDTGN

[@Leonardo-fv4vu]

The all stars version just before Shrek gets you.

[@eitakou]

At first I didn't really understand what everyone meant with the "despite the distortion you still somehow feel like you end up hearing a human in there" thing when I heard the first few songs (since I wasnt entirely familiar with them) UNTIL I heard All Star and wow that is crazy

[@guesswho2778]

Yep, thats the one that sounded most intact for me. You need to know the song for it to work well

[@theempireofthepeople]

Easy piano tutorials be like:

[@mackins7728]

People who player simply piano for 10 seconds

[@jamesstephenson3733]

I just had the power to make this comment go from 1.9k to 2k. Genuinely made my day

[@mackins7728]

Damn yesterday the comment had 943 liked

[@Pitta999]

@@mackins7728 underrated

[@theempireofthepeople]

@@jamesstephenson3733So you are the chosen one..... Interesting

[@Jack_Dawlia]

It’s even worse when you only vaguely know the words and you can hear a human like sound but can’t make anything out

[@myleswashere6636]

LMAO THIS COMMENT HAS ME DYING THIS IS MEEE 😭💀💀 (sorry its 3:00 am-)

[@AndieZ4U2]

@@myleswashere6636 😆🤣🙃U funny

[@AndieZ4U2]

@@myleswashere6636 either weird aigo syncs, just plain coincidence, or sum 1z jerkin my yerkin. I wrote a little fiction comment several hours ago about someone crying and dying at 3 am.................😳

[@AndieZ4U2]

Question: Feel free to answer w/ the question left lumps do once in the hotseat..... do you think technoidz now make nano trolls that crawl up your butt?

[@lvlupproductions2480]

@@AndieZ4U2 are you in crack head hours?! I legit can’t even begin to understand this.

[@OldGrumpyDude]

Me hand raised: "I'll have what the piano is smoking, thank you!"

[@igmonke5774]

You ruined my childhood.

[@gobyivvivilvaq]

@@igmonke5774 i hate you why did you have to make a pun about his name

[@igmonke5774]

@@gobyivvivilvaq Happy?

[@gobyivvivilvaq]

@@igmonke5774 yes'nt

[@igmonke5774]

@@gobyivvivilvaq c'mon i edited the comment

[@ascellaplays]

i really like this because it explains why sometimes when we hear a noise, we connect to a voice, even when there's not one there. Your brain automatically makes millions of assumptions, connecting information in a way that makes sense, even if it freaks you out sometimes.

[@loveuskeletonne]

Half of me loves this but the other half is having a panic attack

[@sixtrifectaking618]

Same

[@RoxxyFly]

If you hide in the comments and just kisten its not so bad but i feel the same when I look at it.

[@yuh3310]

IKR I don’t understand y tho

[@non-binaryeugene733]

This shit lowkey sounds like some scary shite

[@itsashane1552]

badabing badaboom *piano attack*

[@فاطمه-ض5م7ب]

friends: what kind of music do you listen to? me: *_..it’s complicated_*

[@shen1891]

Cult music made to summon the souls of dead musical artists

[@yourtherapist1370]

@@shen1891 *yes*

[@nabentoes]

Nowahwatermelon ? lit

[@typeglace6608]

Songs that are made out of a piano not from earth to make wonderful pieces of art that you can hear lyrics in when there isn't any.

[@kirirariri]

Black Death industrial pornogrind kvlt metal

[@sauceyeti4381]

Nobody: That one classmate with a bad mic:

[@greatestgrasshopper9210]

somebody has to make a script that turns your audio to midi realtime then outputs it like that lol

[@brrttaa]

Stop talking about me

[@klusher5556]

2 years ago that wasn't a issue

[@MARSHLAND_YT]

​@@greatestgrasshopper9210bet gimme a eyar

[@KingScrubMaster]

The funniest part of this is that when you convert an audio signal to digital, it's essentially like pixels because we have to chop it up to store it as bytes. In a sense, converting a sound into a midi file is doing the same thing, but at a much lower resolution, so in theory, if you were able to make notes that were much much shorter, you could make a higher resolution version of the piano midi so it wouldn't sound as "garbled" or "fuzzy" the same way that a lower resolution picture muddles the quality of the information being displayed

[@XxLast_of-all_KingsxX]

Can we just appreciate how this man/woman took like 5 copyright claims from 7 different companies just to bring us this piece of knowledge?

[@louisbelleperche8527]

Creeper, aww man

[@lealuv2334]

Makes me wanna go watch and like the rest of their vids

[@exosisyphus]

Claims*

[@XxLast_of-all_KingsxX]

@@exosisyphus thx random stranger, i'll go edit it correctly

[@Dankschon]

Creeper, AW man

[@greatestgrasshopper9210]

The words aren't even the worst part, I totally thought there were drums in all of these songs.

[@catastrophicivy]

All star deffinetly had guitars Same with the pokemon theme

[@matthewsawczyn6592]

Staying Alive has high hats in it right? So kind of... Or am I also crazy?

[@bertcompton]

@@catastrophicivy yes but in the video, all the songs only have piano. It's the whole point of the video

[@cookyking]

Same

[@fgcorp]

I'm hearing the city escape almost perfectly normal

[@avianivy0775]

It sounds like a parrot trying to scream while stomping on a piano. I like it.

[@jeIIyjam]

Do you think you might need more lemon or maybe some lime?

[@dalemon9894]

I’m just a lemon lmao

[@therealunslimshady471]

well

[@yxllugly4865]

why is there so many lemons here

[@onepurpleflower5718]

Life is giving you lemons. What shall you do?

[@sleeplessgames1677]

This is like a way more in-depth version of how when you hear a melody line, your mind fills in the lyrics

[@catsnchess]

I’ve never heard Sonic. I heard the lyrics. I didn’t even know Sonic HAD lyrics??

[@edumolinaprincipe951]

Me: I don't hear a shit The demon in my bedroom: Turn it up man

[@xcaluhbration]

Paralysis Demons got all the tabs for this.

[@johnweber4504]

Nah, that’s just Steven

[@Jeffreydefinitelynotdahmer]

Edu Molina Principe bro im dead

[@kayagorzan]

@John Weber Can I call him Steve?

[@johnweber4504]

@@kayagorzan idk, ask him!

[@gloom2261]

Nobody: The $10 Airpods I got from Wish:

[@adr_x1114]

💀💀💀💀😂omg im crying rn

[@AsianKvDE]

You get an originality award

[@paddlesaddlelad1881]

i have used 6 dollar airpods

[@jaredmars4349]

LMAO, you made my day, you deserve a cookie. 🍪

[@H1PP1E88]

you can get good airpods clones at dollar general for $10

[@theyloveoe7189]

*me trying to get a job* boss: are you multi lingual? me: yes boss: what do you speak? me: piano

[@peppidesu]

I speak 20khz sine wave aka EARRAPE DOG WISTLE

[@a_businessman]

*opens mouth* *demonic piano All Star plays*

[@kingroyal5189]

YOU ARE HIRED

[@RomalexC]

giorno giovanni wants to know your location

[@freshbeans2]

Its BILINGUAL

[@Z4n3yB01]

ok so out of curiosity i decided to have a go around without looking at the lyrics for Stayin' Alive or the OG MP3. i only recognized the "ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive, stayin' alive" part of the chorus. then, i looked up the lyrics and tried to follow along with the MIDI. i heard every word, phrase, vocal flaw, and more. just for giggles, i had one last listen without lyrics again, and i picked up a little more, but not nearly as much as with the lyrics, but more than i did before looking at the lyrics at all.

[@randomfallingstuff]

For the other songs I was like “wow that’s kinda cool I guess” then I heard All Star and was like “THE PIANO CAN SPEAK”

[@olivia-gm4ce]

Random Falling Stuff dude i know right

[@Jyudee]

For me it was Pokémon

[@thecheezoftheweek1370]

Same

[@Daniel-qf9cf]

sOMeBodY oNce tOlD mE ThE wOrLd WaS gOnnA RuIn mE (did i got the lyrics?)

[@randomfallingstuff]

ITHACA HOLMES “Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me”

[@leahwernisch8130]

Can’t tell if I’m having a mental breakdown or a stroke.

[@sora1498]

prolly both

[@AnhThuNguyen-zz2hm]

uh both

[@lukejames3039]

Neither

[@emmarussell4311]

Leah Wernisch HEHEHAHAHAHA!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@jacobw1780]

Both 2

[@GabHowDoI]

Lets admit it we can all hear *"All star"* even if its not played on an instrument

[@notmanyideas]

It is played with the sharpest tool in the shed

[@chubby_milkman]

💀💀💀 so right tho

[@Ghost-iy2ug]

Yep

[@madmalkavian3857]

I figured it out ont the first note, which shows how damn iconic it is.

[@ahdhdhhxhs383]

DeadMistake IM THE FUCKING 666th LIKE

[@SmartyPants_nxt-in7kz]

The fact that I still got goosebumps from the Pokemon theme really says a lot

[@prim16]

Everyone gangsta until they listen to All Star and hear the lyrics perfectly

[@JustNekoHere]

exactly

[@cidercake4373]

Yeh

[@cidercake4373]

Oh I also got pokemon :>

[@prim16]

Ah, hello people from 2 months in the future. Is this video being recommended again?

[@1ittleFawn02]

@@prim16 indeed!

[@freshpinkapples7618]

BRUH, at first I heard nothing in the piano mess and just thought yikes. THEN I JUST RANDOMLY STARTED HEARING "staying alive! staying alive!" AND I WAS LIKE, "WHAAAAT?!"

[@nieljacobpatawe9501]

I know right i was shocked aswell

[@siliasporter4424]

Same i was watching this over and over again then i heard words and started to freak out like there was a ghost speaking

[@kiyoshi5430]

Same lol

[@BasicRock123]

This really fucks you up when you realize you can’t unhear the lyrics

[@cancel568]

I KNOW RIGHT?!!

[@hannahjohnston450]

Therapist: the piano voices can’t hurt you The piano voices:

[@boghund]

@@youthanasia7748 no you didn't

[@youthanasia7748]

@@boghund ok boomer

[@tomphimester9039]

@@Her1825 ok boomer

[@youthanasia7748]

@@Her1825 ok boomer

[@epilepticdog5009]

@@youthanasia7748 omg I wanted to comment the exact same thing. Also read the rapist

[@breadtheloaf-tr1lo]

“Follow the rainbow” was remarkably clear

[@santiagoestebanforerosuare6559]

Plot twist: The original singer of the song was secretly a piano, and used a different technology to encode its piano voice to a human one.

[@marivina8819]

omg ur a genius

[@MatthiCTW]

I wish I had that much brain power

[@doyoumine3186]

Watch church Sunday/Wednesday to learn about the one true God.

[@jackkirwan8146]

@@doyoumine3186 I'm an atheist :)

[@doyoumine3186]

Abby Kirwan that’s why I said learn

[@gavinscarborough4207]

when theres a school dance in the auditorium and you went to the bathroom.

[@unknowncreature-0069]

Why is this true. Bathrooms during school events are like a different dimension

[@aphyTTR]

@@unknowncreature-0069 I literally can't emphasize your comment enough

[@Rtmmms]

One of the most accurate comments of all time

[@unknowncreature-0069]

@@aphyTTR oh good I just thought I was crazy ._.

[@teajace]

The piano literally sings better than me wtf

[@thekittycat64]

ChiefTJ ACE 😂

[@Cheryskul]

Lol

[@josephthegod3514]

Not funny at all

[@teajace]

Joseph Vernon You right

[@damianstephen113]

i’m messing around thinking if i should give you 1k likes or not

[@fisch37]

The secret of how this works is actually very simple: There's functionally no difference between instruments. When any instrument (including voice) plays a note (read: frequency), it's really playing a bunch of other frequencies with it. Even better: All (tuned) instruments share the same prominent frequencies for a note. The Midi Converter just picks the most likely frequencies using something called a Fourier transform. So when you play it back sure the piano inserts some other weird frequencies, but the core frequencies are still the same so it kinda sounds the same too.