JAKARTA - Nicole Kujuk yang dikenal sebagai NIKI mendapat sorotan di Tanah Air dalam sebulan terakhir karena menjadi artis Indonesia pertama yang merai chart Top 20 Spotify Global. Yang menjadikannya unik, capaian tersebut tidak didapatkan lewat lagu-lagunya yang sudah mencapai puluhan hingga ratus juta stream, melainkan cover lagu You'll Be In My Heart milik Phil Collins.
Meanwhile, NIKI's version of 'You'll Be In My Heart' is part of Spotify Singles, a project with the concept of providing opportunities for several artists to re-record other artists' songs with different versions.
NIKI's version of 'You'll Be In My Heart' was launched on September 14, 2022, 23 years from the initial version performed by Phil Collins on June 5, 1999.
The NIKI version is clearly different from Collins, but the big question is what the differences are displayed, until finally NIKI deserves to be said to have succeeded in performing the song in its own way.
NIKI's version of 'You'll Be In My Heart' is played with a base note A, three notes higher than Collins' version played with the basic G(G-flat) tone. Instrumentation and arrangement in some parts are also different, although the base pattern still refers to the original version.
What makes the NIKI version so different lies in the addition of Javanese pelog ornaments. If you look closely, there has been a gamelan sample since the second verse, which plays the pelog barrel that has been implemented into the diatonic system.
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After the first chorus, the gamelan sample is coupled with backing vocals that occasionally use pelog barrels.
The Javanese pelog ornament is clearly not present in Phil Collins' original version of You'll Be In My Heart, even in other versions that have been recorded professionally.
NIKI and Jacob Ray, as producers working on the footage, seem to want to show how Phil Collins' classic works were combined with typical Indonesian ornaments.
For information, You'll Be In My Heart was first introduced as the soundtrack for the Walt Disney animated film "Tarzan".
It was Phil Collins who wrote this song, with the help of Rob Cavallo as a co-producer. Meanwhile, other musicians involved in the original version of the recording were Phil Collins (principal vocals, background vocals, drums), Rob Cavallo (acoustic guitar), Mark Goldenberg (electric guitar), Tim Pierce (electric guitar), Michael Thompson (electric guitar), Jamie Muhoberac (piano, keyboard), John Pierce (bass), Luis Conte (percussion), Kim Bullard (programming), Carmen] (programming), Will Donovan (additional percussion), and David Campbell (string arrangement).
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