{"id":494592,"date":"2020-04-01T14:16:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T20:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=976741"},"modified":"2020-04-01T14:16:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T20:16:04","slug":"alesso-and-liam-payne-are-crowdsourcing-your-vocals-for-their-next-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/alesso-and-liam-payne-are-crowdsourcing-your-vocals-for-their-next-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Alesso and Liam Payne Are Crowdsourcing Your Vocals for Their Next Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On April 8th, DJ Alesso<\/a> is releasing a new dance\/pop song called \u201cMidnight\u201d with former One Direction member and pop artist Liam Payne. Before that happens, the pair is enlisting the help of their social media followers \u2014 asking fans to send in recordings of themselves singing part of the song. One winner will be placed on the official remix.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need help with this song I\u2019ve been working on during these quarantine times,\u201d Alesso said in a video that was tweeted out by his music publisher<\/a> Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG<\/a>). \u201cIt\u2019s called \u2018Midnight.\u2019 I\u2019m gonna play you a small snippet of it, and then, hopefully, whoever is interested and has the time can cut it can send it to me, tag me, DM me \u2014 whatever works best for you.\u201d In the clip, Alesso then plays a guitar part and some keys via software Logic Pro, before going straight into that vocal part. Fans are encouraged to submit their videos using the hashtag #AlessoMidnight.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust like everyone else, we\u2019re trying to figure out a way to finish this song and video,\u201d he continued in another video. \u201cWe came up with this idea for fans to be a part of the official remix\u2026 We never thought there were gonna be so many people submitting, which makes this super, super exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a smart way to encourage fans to stream the song more than they might have otherwise. Music streaming as a whole is down<\/a> in the time of coronavirus-related self-quarantining \u2014 possibly because of the elimination of the work commute, where many Americans do the bulk of their music listening. Moreover, the execution is a good example of social-distancing adaptation, as the involved parties avoid congregating in a studio space.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSomeone is definitely going to be joining me,\u201d Payne added. \u201cYep, you\u2019ll be singing along with me\u201d \u2014 a dream come true for One Direction fans, who are known for their extremely active and engaged presence on social media.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear if the final vocalist will be given any royalties \u2014 i.e. money typically received by a song\u2019s creative contributors each time it is played or used in an instance that generates revenue. UMPG did not immediately respond when Rolling Stone<\/em> reached out for comment.<\/p>\n

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On April 8th, DJ Alesso is releasing a new dance\/pop song called \u201cMidnight\u201d with former One Direction member and pop artist Liam Payne. Before that happens, the pair is enlisting the help of their social media followers \u2014 asking fans to send in recordings of themselves singing part of the song. One winner will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-494592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 11:45:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}