I'm down for anything Britney, but this is horrible. There has to be someone, somewhere that can make an acceptable version of this. It should work... just not this one.
Totally! I recognize where this comes from. A station in Alternate Universe, which goes by the codename, X0048188 had this song playing on the radio a month or so ago. It was called ‘Salubrious’ by Arrow Swiszney.
This makes me imagine a dimension hopper from our universe in said parallel universe and finding a "Reverse Harmony" version of that realm's Toxic, only to discover its just regular Toxic
@@cake0214 There is an original demo recording by Cathy Dennis. She and other producers wrote it together with Tina Turner in mind, though it was instead offered to Kylie Minogue who declined.
This song is more than a guilty pleasure, there are so many creative covers of it... The structure, the chords progression, and the arrangement (despite its excesses) make people find it interesting even if they hate the rest of Spears' output.
@@TheSeptuagint by Katy Perry? That one sounds more fun and adventurous, and it sounds more like a successful love story. This version of "Toxic" has more angst and "libido" which is usually what accompanies infatuation during puberty.
as a non musician passerby I mention another commenter's take on it; it's mostly in major keys (major keys = uplifting music sounds in those typical cheerful feel good songs).
Still learning about negative harmony myself, but iirc the negative of a dominant seventh chord is a m7b5 chord, which is very similar (the same notes, in fact) to a m6 chord built from the third: D - F - Ab - C (Dm7b5) F - Ab - C - D (Fm6) So it happens that a lot of cadences with a full dominant chord resolving to a minor tonic (V7, in this example G7) are going to be replaced with - not only a minor plagal cadence - but a very Beatlesque ivm6 cadence (or, iim7b5 cadence). That is, G7 - Cm would become Fm6 - C. Can anyone confirm if my thinking is correct?
@@GuyDude-hk8uy That's exactly true. Though I think it's worth noting that this isn't just true of what is currently referred to as Negative Harmony, but of symmetry in general: geometrically, the symmetrical image of a shape (in musical terms, a musical structure such as a chord, melody, scale, or even a whole piece) is always the same regardless of where the axis of symmetry is located relative to the shape, albeit in a different position (key or just key of reference) depending on where that axis is. That's just how axial symmetry works, there is always only one image in the absolute for any shape. Negative Harmony is symmetry about a very specific axis which results in the image being diatonic to the parallel minor or parallel major, keys a minor third away from the original key. But as it turns out, the diatonic scale is already symmetrical around the second degree of the ionian mode (D in C major for example), and finding the image of a musical structure around that specific axis will result in that image being diatonic to the same key as that original structure. For example the image of C-G-Am-F, which is I-V-vi-IV in the key of C, about the axis of C (which passes through D and Ab) is Am-Dm-C-Em, which is vi-ii-I-iii also in the key of C; however, the image of that same progression about the axis of D half-flat (which passes through E half-flat and A half-sharp) is Cm-Fm-Eb-Gm, which is _also_ vi-ii-I-iii but this time in the key of Eb (which is the parallel minor of C). That first image was the diatonic image while the second was what's currently called Negative Harmony.
@@althealligator1467 The chord change, yes, but also the bright acoustic, the plaintive strings in the background that lead to a little hook, the falsetto-esque vocals, etc.
This has been in my head literally all day. It feels actually a bit more sinister than the original. The dark lyrics combined with a mostly major key song makes them stand out. Like she knows it's wrong, but she almost doesnt care. Its super catchy too. I cant remember properly what the original sounds like 😂
this whole vibe is just unsettling and creepy and I’m not just talking about the robotic re-tuned vocals it’s like something you’d hear if your evil doppelganger trapped you in a mirror dimension, where everything is familiar but completely opposite of what you know
Probably a weird idea, but.. I would love to hear a negative harmony of something from Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. Thunderchild comes to mind, of course, but honestly any would be very interesting to hear. Such a strange soundtrack already, can only imagine what it could be like.
i need some music genius to explain with smart words to me why this is the most amazing sounding thing ive ever heard like the notes and pitch is so perfect
it's so dreamy and romantic. sounds like nothing i have ever heard. sounds like it is from a completely different place in space and time. it's absolutely beautiful, far better than the original arrangement.
Glad that you’ve been dedicating your whole channel to my long standing opinion that music is just better in minor to my ears lol. Hearing them swapped is always so cool, I love your channel
I don''t know why but this just made me laugh. Why it induced that laughter I just don't knw. I'd love to see the creative process of how you create these. The result is jus incredibly good.
Dude ive been binging your work and im addicted to negative harmony remixes now lol May i request for a negatuve harmony version of uprising by muse? Im so intrigued in what it'll sound like!
It is major key so happy or bright sounding, but the musical phrases are left hanging, they don't resolve. Western music tends to have question and answer style phrasing in music, tension and release, but this (though bright) is just tension tension tension that just winds up and doesn't really give that release, which gives it an anxiety edge.
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Suddenly middle eastern
The sample that makes up the string riff on the original is actually lifted from an Indian movie
The og sample is from a indian movie, this version is less middle eastern imo hahah
That was my exact first thought. 🤣🤣🤣
I'm down for anything Britney, but this is horrible. There has to be someone, somewhere that can make an acceptable version of this. It should work... just not this one.
But the original sounded middle eastern too...
Now it's a black eyed peas song
That's kinda what I was thinking, lol.
haha that’s exactly what it is no way
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Omg
hey. mind ur business.
Britney Shamshir, real name Malika Abadi, is an Emirati singer born December 2nd, 1981. She achieved worldwide fame for her song Toxic.
Lol
This song is called ‘Nutritious’
@@danielwiriadinata575 because it was originally written by Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick about his girlfriend Cathy Dennis's cooking...
“Britney Shamshir” is brilliant
@@danielwiriadinata575😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Literally sounds like something you would hear on an alternate universe's radio
Very true
Like something you'd hear in a movie taking place 100yrs into the future, like a party/club scene with music.
@@BootyWizard420I love your name lmfao
Totally! I recognize where this comes from. A station in Alternate Universe, which goes by the codename, X0048188 had this song playing on the radio a month or so ago. It was called ‘Salubrious’ by Arrow Swiszney.
This makes me imagine a dimension hopper from our universe in said parallel universe and finding a "Reverse Harmony" version of that realm's Toxic, only to discover its just regular Toxic
The fact that it’s mostly in a major key but still sounds this unnerving
Nine inch nails moment
Ahahaha best comment 😂
It's because of the mode.
It feels like it never resolves on the tonic note
Why is that?
Ah yes, anxiety in musical form. Most exquisite.
Cheerful in creepy way...
It's a bag of 50 candies. 49 without drugs.
@norai.5826 A bag of 50s candy is so oddly specific, yet so Fing accurate...
it’s like the music form of le bonheur
first 14 seconds got me petrified, frozen in fear, shivering my timbers.
it makes me so happy this is the least anxiety inducing thijg ive ever heard and i have crippling chronic anxiety 😂
When the toxin is actually a good one and you start hearing colors
when its just dopamine lol
This sounds like how my brain would remember a song in my dreams.
The original mixing of this song is actually really interesting. Lots of middle eastern and other influences as well
There's a different version of toxic?
@@cake0214 There is an original demo recording by Cathy Dennis. She and other producers wrote it together with Tina Turner in mind, though it was instead offered to Kylie Minogue who declined.
This song is more than a guilty pleasure, there are so many creative covers of it... The structure, the chords progression, and the arrangement (despite its excesses) make people find it interesting even if they hate the rest of Spears' output.
@@Qw3rtypopreally? I always heard it was written for Pink, but got to her when her then-current album was basically done, so she passed on it
That's because the samples are taken from an Indian song.
The original is a trip, this is the hangover.
I really prefer this one!
The way this actually sounds so happy and dreamy. It's like if "teenage crushes" was a song.
Complete with the anxious undertones of having a crush too!
There’s already Teenage Dream
@@TheSeptuagint by Katy Perry? That one sounds more fun and adventurous, and it sounds more like a successful love story. This version of "Toxic" has more angst and "libido" which is usually what accompanies infatuation during puberty.
@@basketoffruit4485 Yes!
@@foreign_objective2855Described it perfectly!! Lol
Sounds like a western take on Indian music
Well, the violin part of the song was already sampled from a bollywood movie
Why does it sound PRETTY GOOD THOUGH
Because the original song is good lol
Because negative harmony is still harmony. It's just different, not bad.
as a non musician passerby I mention another commenter's take on it; it's mostly in major keys (major keys = uplifting music sounds in those typical cheerful feel good songs).
it's like music from sims when you choose a hairstyle for your character
That movement from 0:34 - 0:40 is VERY Electric Light Orchestra
The... iv chord? It's also very Beatles, very Radiohead, very Queen, etc
Still learning about negative harmony myself, but iirc the negative of a dominant seventh chord is a m7b5 chord, which is very similar (the same notes, in fact) to a m6 chord built from the third:
D - F - Ab - C (Dm7b5)
F - Ab - C - D (Fm6)
So it happens that a lot of cadences with a full dominant chord resolving to a minor tonic (V7, in this example G7) are going to be replaced with - not only a minor plagal cadence - but a very Beatlesque ivm6 cadence (or, iim7b5 cadence). That is, G7 - Cm would become Fm6 - C.
Can anyone confirm if my thinking is correct?
@@GuyDude-hk8uy That's exactly true.
Though I think it's worth noting that this isn't just true of what is currently referred to as Negative Harmony, but of symmetry in general: geometrically, the symmetrical image of a shape (in musical terms, a musical structure such as a chord, melody, scale, or even a whole piece) is always the same regardless of where the axis of symmetry is located relative to the shape, albeit in a different position (key or just key of reference) depending on where that axis is. That's just how axial symmetry works, there is always only one image in the absolute for any shape.
Negative Harmony is symmetry about a very specific axis which results in the image being diatonic to the parallel minor or parallel major, keys a minor third away from the original key.
But as it turns out, the diatonic scale is already symmetrical around the second degree of the ionian mode (D in C major for example), and finding the image of a musical structure around that specific axis will result in that image being diatonic to the same key as that original structure. For example the image of C-G-Am-F, which is I-V-vi-IV in the key of C, about the axis of C (which passes through D and Ab) is Am-Dm-C-Em, which is vi-ii-I-iii also in the key of C; however, the image of that same progression about the axis of D half-flat (which passes through E half-flat and A half-sharp) is Cm-Fm-Eb-Gm, which is _also_ vi-ii-I-iii but this time in the key of Eb (which is the parallel minor of C). That first image was the diatonic image while the second was what's currently called Negative Harmony.
Oh my god. Yes!
@@althealligator1467 The chord change, yes, but also the bright acoustic, the plaintive strings in the background that lead to a little hook, the falsetto-esque vocals, etc.
When my friends ask whats with it sounding weird I just tell them it was the russian release
different markets n stuff, you know localised sounds n what not
A joke not about Australia? Gosh darn it, you're the first
@@em_the_bee Leave my Oz-Trailer Park alone. 😄
as a russian, i approve
Ты чертовски прав, братишка
I'm going to unironically listen to this
It's too good
i AM unironically listening to this gem. in fact I've been listening to it 3 times in a row now since i clicked on this video. it's tewww good
@@beatsme3146doesnt the song kinda feel like being obsessed with someone you have a crush on omg
wdym you *would*? You would unironically listen to this if what?
I didn't know the song, so it's my first time listening to it, and it sounds great!
Same
I'm so happy Australia will finally get to enjoy this song
are you from Australia?
Sounds like a Mario desert level. But better
💀💀💀
True. I can kinda hear it lol.
Why does this sound like a song that would play in some random ass animal crossing villager's house 😭
IT DOES 😭😭😭😭😭
This is so specific yet so accurate
Some parts of this gives Paul McCartney energy (specifically that really nice major to minor string section part at 0:20)
Fr!
I can hear some Temporary Secretary at 1:01 - 1:05 now that you mention it!
Riiiightt
The fact that this could be the original in an alternate universe...
Maybe
This is lowkey calming… it’s like 2010’s indie pop kinda
This has been in my head literally all day. It feels actually a bit more sinister than the original. The dark lyrics combined with a mostly major key song makes them stand out. Like she knows it's wrong, but she almost doesnt care. Its super catchy too. I cant remember properly what the original sounds like 😂
this whole vibe is just unsettling and creepy
and I’m not just talking about the robotic re-tuned vocals
it’s like something you’d hear if your evil doppelganger trapped you in a mirror dimension, where everything is familiar but completely opposite of what you know
That’s so scary omg :0
Oddly specific but yes
Yessss!!
Black lodge vibes
I'm obsessed with this, it's actually good, like a new song
This sounds like the song in a romcom about 2 obsessive people lol
I love how we all get completely different feelings from this song
really brings out the brilliant line “I need a hit / baby give me it”
It’s a weirdly amazing version 😮
Me desintoxiqué con este tema 😁
Yo también xd 😅
It's incredible. Reminds me of this band Jockstrap.
Yes I can definitely hear that!
Hell yeah
Sooo jockstrap
Holy shit i love jockstrap
Something from MGMT would be interesting. Kids, Time to Pretend, or even some of their newer stuff like Flash Delirium or Alien Days.
Flash delirium new stuff??
1:10 the guitars slap here
It's very 1950s, if you've ever listened to Sleepwalk by Santo & Johnny.
I am loving it. 0:20 0:56 1:13 1:37 1:43
Yes, it's really -toxic- addictive now!
I think this song officially marks me finally going completely insane.
I no joke love this. So interesting! Obviously could be polished to sound smoother but the general vibe of this is immaculate 👏
It's because she has so many effects on her voice, the digital artifacts are very obvious and hard to remove. Maybe AI could help somehow.
Probably a weird idea, but.. I would love to hear a negative harmony of something from Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. Thunderchild comes to mind, of course, but honestly any would be very interesting to hear. Such a strange soundtrack already, can only imagine what it could be like.
i need some music genius to explain with smart words to me why this is the most amazing sounding thing ive ever heard like the notes and pitch is so perfect
I love this. Would love just an instrumental version too
okay no this is really good. it sounds like something that would be on the radio now as pop music
it's so dreamy and romantic. sounds like nothing i have ever heard. sounds like it is from a completely different place in space and time. it's absolutely beautiful, far better than the original arrangement.
I actually love this version
1:35 sounds like the original song
yeah, that part in the original was switched to negative harmony
It’s a St. Vincent song now ❤
It's like a mirror image. Brilliant!
Jesus loves you ❤️
Loving the resulting chords!
All these versions are amazing. A few chord changes here are actually very inspiring
1:17 THIS PART 💗💗🙈
2:21 this part genuinely sounds like it’s straight out of a Bollywood movie
How is that verse so fire??? And, like, all the rest of it, too, but especially that verse!!
I like it! Love the surreal, dreamy sound. Kinda sweet but there's something uncanny about it.
Glad that you’ve been dedicating your whole channel to my long standing opinion that music is just better in minor to my ears lol. Hearing them swapped is always so cool, I love your channel
its not in minor
Absolutely brilliant! 😮 I’m stunned by what an arrestingly palatable piece of music this is! The original was great, but the inversion is genius! 🤯
Alternate Universe where her name is Amethyst Javelin and the song's name is beneficial, the opposite of toxic.
I loved when they played this in Madame Web.
this specifically.
Рили, неплохой перевёртыш! А отличие от большинства песен с негативной гармонией, это самая слушабельная!
Mario kart dessert track theme
I've never even new the lyrics until now. I like them.
This is honestly pretty on par with the original. 😮 Amazing
I don''t know why but this just made me laugh. Why it induced that laughter I just don't knw. I'd love to see the creative process of how you create these. The result is jus incredibly good.
I like it. It adds a complete new freshness to it.
i actually love the melody
Dude ive been binging your work and im addicted to negative harmony remixes now lol
May i request for a negatuve harmony version of uprising by muse? Im so intrigued in what it'll sound like!
The gurls and I going for shawarma brunch with a head-splitting hangover
Why does this work so well!
Sedap niiii music dgr lgi best...😮😮😮😍😍😍
Request: Negative Harmony Cover - Drunk In Love
Omg i dreamed of this kind of sound for so much time and I never could name it cause I know nothing about music. Thank you so much
Great song!
i knew this one would be good, love it. tyvm
Everyone's saying it's creepy
Is it just me who thinks it just sounds happier??
It is major key so happy or bright sounding, but the musical phrases are left hanging, they don't resolve. Western music tends to have question and answer style phrasing in music, tension and release, but this (though bright) is just tension tension tension that just winds up and doesn't really give that release, which gives it an anxiety edge.
Safe to Eat by Britney Swords
Or Frenchelbow Swords
Beautiful song! My favorite song perfect relationship by brianna knife!
I need an instrumental of this shit. this is too good.
and an acapella too.
this shit is fire.
also. 327.
This is so cursed. xD
I wanna hear this with Aaliyah’s “More than a woman” I feel like it would sound interesting
This is delightful!
Bro, this legit slaps! More danceable than the original.
this is actually amazing
I find this so fascinating- it’s just so camp wow
It was strange to hear at first, but now I am obsessed
Wow, thank you so much! This is mad 🫶
Heaven in my ears
what the hell is happening here and why is it making me so happy?
This sounds like something Lily Allen would make
I love this 💖
somewhat reminds me of rina sawayama - xs
I hear it haha
I would jam to this song, this goes hard
Im surprised at how much I like this
This IS BRUTAL!! 💃
I'M OBSESSED
this sounds so much better lol
This is genuinely great music ❤
This is so addicting!
This actually sounds pretty good it’s just the vocal bends in some places are so unserious 😂😂👑
Omg some parts sounds totally great, I would definitely copy this.
I love it!
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This is how the music sounds in my dreams