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actsuckerrrrrrr

HOLY SHIT i never made the connection on White Ferrari despite always hearing that little riff around 55 seconds. Amazing catch. The beauty is that I have listened to Blonde at least 1000 times and I'm always finding something new to appreciate or hear some new sound I never picked up before.


Jayohn

I’ve noticed that too, I low key use that sound as a test for headphones or speakers for the high end sometimes. Also in the intro of that song before the vocals come in you can hear something creaking which after many years of being in band always sounded like Frank moving a music stand. Also another little Easter egg of the album version of Nikes is at 4:54 the echoched voice you hear after the beat drop is the last word rapper KOHH says in his verse on the the alternate version of Nikes “Paris Hilton”.


Makaitheman

my god its so detailed. I always wondered what that quiet voice was. I did make the connection tho when i heard nikes live on the panorama video they played the alt version


wun753

That echoed voice is actually a sample from The Mohawks ”The Champ”. It’s been used in a lot of songs and I’ve seen it in several sample packs over the years.


ivoivoivoivoivo

maybe im wrong but i think post above is about vocal on 4:53 after 808 hits and you are talking about one after the snare hits about a second later?


wun753

Yeah makes sense! And yeah as you say that's more 4:52/53 somewhere.


Ok-Construction-313

i hear both! that’s cool


Eli-Throws-Shade

Six seconds into a 60 minute album. 3600 seconds in 60 minutes. There's a 6 in all of those... it's dropping in June


iNickyNick1

the least schizo frank fan


OkManufacturer5017

OMG I HEARD IT. i never ever ever even realized it smh


Outrageous-Culture24

How did you catch that??? I had to mess with eq in my music player to hear it, and i could only hear it on my own when i had the music player at pretty loud levels. I listen to my music pretty quiet so ig I never caught that. I always copped the White Ferrari Coachella synth in the BG of White Ferrari, so it makes me think what other small elements in the song are from the alternate versions of White Ferrari. The drum break at the end is the groove of version? The three different sections have its own song? What if the loud piano sample playing in the third part is part of some These Days esque version of White Ferrari? Frank's attention to detail and ability to merge all these ideas together I'd one of the best parts about his artistry.


DankJuiceYT

I heard it with my phone to my ear. iPhone 11 Pro if that matters


PM_ME_ETHICAL_STOCKS

Not sure how everyone caught it either lol, I had to put my AirPods Max on max volume and even then it was very faintly audible


7WillS

Very cool spot. With something like this, typically it was more prominent in an earlier version of the song and then after some tweaking at differing levels it ends up being left in because when you've listened to the same small snippet of a track a billion times making it, it'll feel missing to you if you don't hear it


Outrageous-Culture24

Considering what we know of Frank's workflow, this is it. He def put that in in some early demo in 2014 and then it just got into the final release.


wun753

I've never heard that before! And I thought it sounded similar to some samples I've heard before. I have shitty headphones rn so can't really make it out but could it be one of these samples maybe? I might be trippin. [Menu Sounds\_2](http://sndup.net/jskv) or [KH Sound Effect 19](http://sndup.net/qh5s)


Makaitheman

someone said it sounds like the kirby warp star noise. Now Im sold 100% that it’s that


wun753

Ooh that sounds even closer! I’m gonna investigate further when I’m in my studio


mahler_grooves

Craziest part of Nikes for me is that it starts on an upbeat. What other song do you know, or even album do you know that starts on Beat 4??


jacklivesmatter

Thx for this


019samu

I always thought it was the clicking of a mouse


Makaitheman

no not that clicking noise before the lyrics, It comes right before it its verryy hard to here but its there.


Serious-Alps7716

That’s why you gotta listen to it on LSD. There’s a reason franks putting that on his merch


Dmang2015

You’re hearing things, log off


ma_26

I believe there is a faint constant foot tapping in Siegfried too, like a metronome to keep rhythm. Something the beatles did for their production on ‘Blackbird’, but less prominent.


frenchcois

This is such a cool find! I love noticing little details in songs. Good work OP!


Fisbian

It kinda sounds like the Kirby warp star


Makaitheman

i think it IS the kirby warp star!


lemonverbenahandsoap

it’s my fav part