Stars of the Lid cover Justin Bieber’s “U Smile”

My apologies for the attention-grabbing headline. However, give Shamantis’ ultra-slow version of Bieber’s “U Smile” even just a cursory listen and tell me the thought doesn’t cross your mind. Using some software called PaulStretch, Shamantis slowed down Bieber’s track by 800%, turning the three minute pop single into a thirty-five minute piece of droney ambience, with Bieber’s voice transformed into a wordless angelic choir.

This isn’t the first time someone has used extreme time-stretching to completely alter a pop song: a couple of years ago, someone turned Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone” into a My Bloody Valentine-esque track using similar techniques (though in not so nearly an extreme fashion).