Nightcore: Chipmunks at a dance club

Nightcore, I first thought this was a band. In actuality, it's a type of music, a genre, that can be summed down into fast techno beats, anime girls, and chipmunk voices.

Nightcore is most commonly known as a band but Nightcore is really a branch of happyhardcore. It involves taking people's music that have meaningful lyrics and changing the tempo and changing the pitch. Anyone can really do it. 

So pretty much anyone can create a Nightcore tune. That can be really good, or really, really bad thing.

The first song I heard that was considered Nightcore:

There are great remakes, then there are horrible remakes.
Nightcore. I do not know where you come from, but you are mostly in the latter category.

How to be considered a Nightcore song:

The song!:
Songs that seem to do the best are songs that already have fast paced beat. Pop, hip-hop, and Techno songs are good genres for this type of music. Depending on the creator, they can make or break a song.
The Good:
Some songs are just so much catchier after they become a Nightcore. Or they become even better.
This one is Maklemore's "Thrift shop"

This one's interesting. It's a Nightcore version, of an english dub, of a remake of Japanese videogame song. It's called Bad Apple. So it's a remake, or a remake, of a remake! Regardless, I really like this one.

The not so good:
Most of the time, all that nightcore creators do is speed up the song and bringing the pitch up. No beat or techno. All based on the songs original tune and beat. It can make, but mostly break, a song.
Here's Gangam style, Nightcore style:

The WTH?:
Sometimes, there are songs that makes you go 'Really? you made this into nightcore?"

This is from Les Misrables, Castle in the Clouds. It's cute, different, but just sounds like a chipmunk/doll singing.

Length:
Apparently they like to do a lot of 1+ hour song mixes too:

How to make a Nightcore song:

What you need:
A song of choice
An anime image
Audio altering software (ex: Audacity)

The Name:
Nightcore songs usually have the name "Nightcore" somewhere in the song title of song description. It's to differentiate the original song from this 'remake'.

The look:
Mostly all of these have some sort of anime girl, or guy, featured in the video, mainly as a background picture. Why this is prevalent throughout the genre I don't know. If you wanna make a Nightcore song, find a picture of some anime characters, or make your own.

I'm so Nightcore now!

Programming:

The most simplest way to create a Nightcore song, is to tweak the pitch and speed of the song. That's it. The only free program that I know of that does this is Audacity.

So there you have it, now you can be one of the thousands of Nightcore creators!

Nightcore. Or more correctly; sped up, chipmunk sounding, remakes of songs that appeal to ravers and anime fans! Do you agree? Or maybe I'm wrong, comment below!