Celebrities Singing ‘Imagine’: UPDATED
*THIS IS NOT THE ORIGINAL VIDEO! I took the original and "updated" it to this version with a backing track and added myself.*
Recently, some celebrities got together to make a cover of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’. I watched and listened to it and thought to myself, “I bet I could make this better.” Mind you, not the BEST, just better.
If you’ve watched it, you know that the timing and key is all over the place, something that makes me cringe as a musician (and as a person for those who know how particular I can be at times). I appreciated the effort of the idea but I decided to take it upon myself to fit it to the original song and got to work.
Simply put, I created the instrumental track, aligned them in order, tweaked their vocals as best I could in Melodyne, did some video editing, inserted myself into a verse (the original video for some reason just glossed over a whole verse) and put it all together into this video.
I want to explicitly state this was not created to be mean-spirited. It was simply an exercise for myself to learn how to use Melodyne (something I still have a lot to learn about) and have some fun fixing things up. I’m also aware some vocals are NOT flattering since I had to shift some people who were very far away from the key of C.
I hope you all enjoy it!