I’ve been feeling especially manic these last few months, for perhaps obvious reasons: the sky outside my apartment is blood red, ash and smog are choking the L.A ...

Thomas S. Nilsen and Steffen Ojala Soderholm made songs with superfast tempos and high-pitched vocals for a school project. They were shocked to learn their “nightcore” sound had gone global. By ...

It’s not completely unheard of for a trend in the music industry to take time to ignite, but nobody could have expected the touchpaper on nightcore to burst into flames over 20 years after its ...

If you spend any time on TikTok, you've probably heard snippets of songs that sound like an alien consuming helium. This is called "nightcore" music and it's only getting more popular. Nightcore is ...

Sped-up versions of existing songs are becoming more popular than the original versions. But who’s behind the trend? I’m listening to the accelerated, chipmunk voice of the British singer Raye on ...

This post was updated March 5 at 8:23 p.m. Thanks to social media, nightcore’s proliferation has sped up significantly in recent years. Sped-up versions of popular songs dominate TikTok audios, driven ...