Getting tired of those regular text emojis you’re using during your Skype conversations? Well, coming soon in time for Valentine’s Day, the company will offer the first ever “audio-mojis,” composed and recorded by none other than Paul McCartney. The prolific singer/songwriter who has penned some of the most endearing cuts of the past half-century has recorded 10 different love-themed mojis “using a variety of different instruments including guitars, keyboards, drums, xylophone and his voice.” These new, unique emojis will “allow Skype users to use this medium to convey love through music in a new and original way.”
Says McCartney in a statement, “It turned out to be a great laugh at the same time as challenging because you suddenly realise you’ve got to compress a musical interpretation of an expression into less than five seconds. It was like doing a huge crossword puzzle and coming up with all these solutions. And at the same time it was musical so it was great practise for me in the studio.”
Take a look at some behind-the-scenes footage of McCartney’s emoji recording sessions:
[H/T Consequence of Sound]