{"id":61,"date":"2022-04-15T13:04:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2022-04-25T22:32:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T02:32:24","slug":"bringing-higher-love-into-the-edm-genre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/kygos-higher-love-remix\/bringing-higher-love-into-the-edm-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing &#8220;Higher Love&#8221; into the EDM genre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kygo succeeds in keeping the original version intact, while adding EDM elements. He allows Whitney Houston\u2019s vocals to be the focus of the song, but enhances it to bring it into the EDM genre. In his own words, Kygo says, &#8220;I wanted to be respectful of the original song while still adding my touches and letting her vocals shine&#8221; (LeDonne). Kygo uses vocal chopping to \u201cchop\u201d up a portion of Houston\u2019s vocal and make it a \u2018sample instrument on his production program. In this way, he uses her vocals, along with piano, drums, and synths, to create a more prominent climactic drop in the song, which is a common element in EDM tracks. A drop is a point in the song that consists of a sudden change in rhythm in which the harmonies find cadence. This element of the song would not be possible if it weren\u2019t for new programs and vocal chopping technologies.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Making Of: Higher Love (Kygo, Whitney Houston) #1\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OCe-6UprFGo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Kygo explaining his creative process for creating &#8220;Higher Love&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kygo succeeds in keeping the original version intact, while adding EDM elements. He allows Whitney Houston\u2019s vocals to be the focus of the song, but enhances it to bring it into the EDM genre. In his own words, Kygo says, &#8220;I wanted to be respectful of the original song while still adding my touches and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/kygos-higher-love-remix\/bringing-higher-love-into-the-edm-genre\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bringing &#8220;Higher Love&#8221; into the EDM genre<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5140,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[211898],"class_list":["post-61","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/159"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}