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Day 29: A song that’s a mash-up
Wow Wow - A lot of songs... (Neil Cicierega)
Wow Wow - A lot of songs... (Neil Cicierega)
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Dang it, Chloe! Was just about to hit postDay 29: A song that’s a mash-up
Never Gonna Wake You Up
I had a couple different mash-ups in mind, came across this one, and loved the effort put into the matching dance sequences as well. Plus, this was just a fun one in general that made me giggle.
What are the fucking oddsDang it, Chloe! Was just about to hit post![]()
Oooh, can I change my song then? By your explanation I didn't pick a mashup.Day 29: A song that’s a mash-up
If you don't know what a mashup is (and there's no reason you should), I'm going to get a little explainy. There have been questions in the past about this prompt.
I have made a few of these back in the day( and all of them sucked, heh). To make a mashup, you take the samples of recorded music from one song and mash it together with samples from one or more other songs. So you take one song -- say from Metallica -- scrape the vocals out using audio software, then grab the instruments of a Bryan Adams song, and mash them together. Make some tweaks to speed and pitch so they flow together, come up with a funny title, and boom: mashup.
A mashup isn't using a sample in a song -- Fatboy Slim doesn't make mashups as they take samples and record original music around them. A cover isn't a mashup, nor is a song recorded in another style. Those are awesome, just not mashups. There should be no original music or rerecording -- a mashup is totally constructed from samples of other songs.
Mashups have been around forever (common meter for the win!), but they really blew up in the early 2000s. The hardest part used to be isolating a small part of the recording without taking other pieces, which means you lose some of what you are trying to keep, or it gets all muddy sounding. In the Aughts, they came out with software that was better at isolating individual parts of a song (though the best of those were truly expensive), but most importantly Guitar Hero and Rock Band, which had the files for the various instruments and vocals in separate files that could be sampled without all of the problems of trying to clean out the other sounds. Mashups blew up for a bit
Many were made for the novelty of putting two totally disparate songs together, and that is fun. But some are less a palimpsest and more a collage, making something entirely new completely from other pieces. Kill_mR_DJ works more than way, creating new song and stories. His videos are the same, mashups of other films and the original videos.
Pixies vs Eminem vs Faith No More vs CCR vs Kosheen - Not Afraid of Bad Moons," Kill_mR_DJ
You're the only person I've seen to link a Mac Glocky song, so noooo! Don't! He rulesOooh, can I change my song then? By your explanation I didn't pick a mashup.
I don't make the rules, nor am I am the genre police. I wasn't making comments on other people's choices, just explaining what a mashup is usually, because it is a little obscure and we have had questions before.Oooh, can I change my song then? By your explanation I didn't pick a mashup.