Is anyone sick of mashups?

[jimk]

i'm laid up on the couch with an injury for the last 2 days. it's given me a lot of time to catch up on listening to backlogged shows. i'm struck with one negative thhought after my mini-marathon:

i think i hate mashups.

it was bad enough when pop went the way of nothing but samples. i think we can all agree that puffy diddydaddy is a joke. what make
mashup "artists" any better?

also i kind of feel like it's boring. it was novel at some point but the bloom is off that rose, IMHO.

now i could be alone here...so tell me why i'm wrong.

p.s. posted through a haze of tramadol and with a pocket pc. apologies for bad grammar, spelling or typos!

[pwfenton]

now i could be alone here...so tell me why i'm wrong.


You are NOT wrong. You really don't like mashups.

[JohnnyWB]

I don't get the whole mashup thing either.

I'm sure they are difficult to produce but it's just not my thing.

My motto = to each his own.

I've always wondered how Adam Curry can play mashups on the Delta Sierra Charlie. The songs aren't podsafe and there are at least two playing at once. It's like double or triple the crime in one act.

My .02 /dollar.

[FX]

I still like some mash ups, but yeah, the novelty of them has worn off.

[Hittman]

A couple of weeks ago I was watching the DVD of the Phantom of The Opera with my wife and kids. (It’s not as bad as the critics said.*) When they got to “The Music of The Night� I was struck by inspiration, and started singing the Rocky Horror’s “Touch Me� along with it, at which point I was struck by popcorn, flung by the women in the room, who didn’t appreciate my inspiration.

I had never done a mashup before, so decided to give it a try. I loaded both songs on different tracks in Audition and started playing with pitch and speed and thinking about how I’d put them together. “Music of The Night/Creature of the night� fit perfectly. Janet’s lines, “I’ll put up no resistance, I want to go the distance, I’ve got an itch to scratch, I need assistance� fit nicely into one of the maudlin, drawn out musical interludes. But about a half hour into it I realized it was going to take way, way too long to make it work. I was already getting bored with the process, so abandoned it.

Yeah, sometimes they’re interesting. Once. And usually for half a song or less. “Gee, I never would have thought of putting those together. Hey, what’s for dinner?� I’ve never heard a mash up that was worth repeated listenings.

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* It’s worse.

[Craig]

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