So Vin Diesel is making music…and rather than ask the obvious question “why?” I’m going to try and answer a more interesting question: “how?”
How does a producer take a non-professional singer and craft a radio-ready pop song out of their vocals? This is what happened here with producer Petey Martin and Kygo. While Vin does a fine job, this song is a master class in taking a small amount of source material and crafting an entire composition from it. I take a look at some of the music theory and production techniques that they used to make Vin Diesel a pop star.
Specifically, I look at 4 different areas. The producer’s use of vocal chops and sampled vocals, the harmony (or lack thereof) in the song, the amount of instrumental sections, and the specific vocal production used to bury our main vocalist. All 4 of these techniques merge perfectly to create a danceable- albeit pretty boring- pop tune.
I think that movie stars and other non-singers get a pretty bad rep when they veer into music and try to make albums. I actually have no problem with it. I think that creating music is wonderful experience and honestly everyone should be able to have it. There’s definitely a business argument to be made that labels should spend more time and money investing in up and coming talent (ugh I hate that word) than celebrities who will sell to their fan base. But I don’t think celebrities like Mr. Diesel are to blame here.
0:00 Intro
1:01 Technique 1 - Vocal Chops
3:00 Technique 2 - Chord Progressions
6:19 Technique 3 - Dance Breaks
7:43 Technique 4 - Vocal Production
So what do you think? Did the techniques work? Does the song work? Let me know in the comments!
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