“Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
 Five hundred twenty five thousand moments so dear
 How do you measure, measure a year?
 In daylights and in sunsets
 In midnights and in cups of coffee
 In inches and in miles, in laughter and in strife
 Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
 How do you measure a year,
 A year in the life of a friend?
 Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
 How do you measure the life
  of a woman or a man?
 In truths that she learned
 Or in times that he cried
 In bridges he burned
 or the way that she died
 It’s time now, to sing out
 Though the story never ends
 Let’s celebrate
 Remember a year in the life of friends”

              -from “Rent”, on Broadway

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Happy New Year everyone!
Credits: Those are Filipino voices (literally, voices), on the  embedded soundcloud pod : a cover of the “Rent” song by Filipino singers Jherico Obar, Drexler Cruz, Bok Supleo, and Donna Ricafrente. The pod plays automatically… you should be hearing it right about now….

The video below the soundcloud clip is another cover. There are a hundred or so videos of this number rendered by professional singers on stages, studios, movie sets, etc. i chose this one  — microphone–less, amplifier–less, in an uncontrolled environment — the mall — and the singers were almost arrested or harassed by mall security:

you want your artists edgy, imaginative, and  to take risks while at the same time being in perfect pitch, right? here it is (click vid below)