A while back I saw this viral video of Amber Wagner giving a motivational speech in her car. As you can tell from the video’s title, she uses extremely NSFW language.
Beyond its inspirational value, Amber’s speech is appealingly musical. I grabbed the audio and filed it away. Then during my morning commute this week, I was making a beat using using samples of my kids splashing around in the bath. I tried out Amber’s speech on top and it fit well, so I pulled a non-sweary excerpt and looped it up. Here’s the result:
I processed Amber’s voice with iZotope Nectar and Ableton’s vocoder. I also filled out the harmony with bass sampled from “Haitian Fight Song” by Charles Mingus and piano from “Thelonious” by Thelonious Monk.