The Internet never fails to surprise you, and sometimes those surprises include someone recreating the song “Levels” by Avicii exclusively out of sound bites from iconic NBC NFL announcer Cris Collinsworth saying “here’s a guy.”
In a TikTok video published this week, a content creator who goes by the name “Bobby Peacock” shared his recreation of the iconic 2010s dance hit “Levels” by Avicii in a rather sly way, claiming Spotify had changed how the track sounds.
“Why does Spotify keep changing old songs?” he asked the camera. “Listen to what ‘Levels’ by Avicii sounds like now.”
He then played a track that sounded unmistakably like the 2010s dance hit, but something felt just a bit off. That’s when he revealed his ruse.
“Sounds different, right?” he asked. “Maybe that’s because you just got Collinsworth’d!”
@peacockbobbyMy parents wanted me to be a doctor♬ original sound – Bobby Peacock
Bobby Peacock went on to explain and demonstrate how he edited Collinsworth’s iconic “here’s a guy” phrase into the instruments that make up the song.
“That’s right, you just listened to the world’s first song where every instrument is Cris Collinsworth saying ‘here’s a guy,'” he said.
“Send this to someone you’ve always wanted to Collinsworth,” he said at the end of the video.
The only complaint is that the song doesn’t sound quite enough like Collinsworth for someone to pick out his voice, even when you’ve been let in on the joke. The voice is edited and distorted so much that it sounds like a perfectly believable cover of the song with a real synth rather than Collinsworth’s voice in different tones (which, to be fair, was his goal).
Based on the way he edited it, he could hypothetically do this with virtually any song and any iconic soundbite – which might be more of a suggestion than a criticism.
Perhaps he just created a new genre of music, and we all got “Collinsworth’d.”
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