Quer Estrelar Ao Lado Do Seu Músico Favorito No Seu Vídeo? Este Aplicativo Pode Te Ajudar

Want To Star Alongside Your Favorite Musician In Their Video? This App Can Get You Pretty Close.

First of all thanks to Hugh McIntyre for this article.

Have you ever watched a music video that accompanies one of your favorite songs and wished you could have been a part of the production? Perhaps you want to be closer to the artist fronting the visual, or maybe you’d change something about it if you could? Now there’s a startup that aims to put fans into the music videos they love...sort of.

After years of forging relationships with some of the biggest labels and artists in the world, Nashville-based startup VideoBomb has just recently launched on iOs, and the company is finally off and running. The app allows anyone to film themselves lipsyncing along to a beloved single and edit the clip to feature both them and the superstar who made the track a hit in the first place. The final product cuts back and forth between the professional treatment and the fan-made option, which is split up and inserted intermittently. 

The resulting new video is not as high quality or exciting as the company boasts it will be (the idea of inserting yourself into a music video from one of the biggest rockers or pop stars on the planet is certainly enticing), but it’s exactly the sort of thing that younger Millennials and Gen Z go crazy for. VideoBomb follows in the footsteps of Musical.Ly, which also doesn’t worry about high production values, focusing instead on letting kids have fun and share their creation with the world immediately.

The company launched its product at the CMA Festival earlier this year, where a number of high-profile artists joined in on the fun, including country superstar Hunter Hayes, who filmed himself singing along to a Brett Eldredge’s single. 

Users can download 15-second clips and upload them to social platforms for free, and after doing so at least three times, they will then be able to do so with 30-second short videos. Fans who opt not to pay will only be allowed to use the first minute of any song to record their version, but for $1.99, they can access the entire track. Right now, VideoBomb has a library of 47,000 music videos from two of the three major labels, and more should be coming soon.

The newly-available VideoBomb app is a fun first step into what could be a huge industry (fans of any form of content inserting themselves into the show, movie, or music video of their choice), though it is clear the technology still has a long way to go before most people would be willing to invest much time or money into it. If this startup can keep the lights on and the buzz going, perhaps it will be the one to further the tech, and one day, it can really, honestly look just like you’re singing right alongside your favorite musician in their most popular video, which would be a dream come true for millions of people around the world.