The Most Frustrating Gimmick In Pop Music

[@goonsdirge3464]

this is the "live action movie adaptation" for the music world

[@lukeshioshio]

It's just shitty remakes and reboots that nobody remembers over the original

[@ForestFire369]

It has the same energy as fanart made by 12 year olds, only it's being produced and marketed by professionals... It's a very confusing experience

[@article10]

True, without a doubt. All "cinematic glamour" but not worth to the ear.

[@paperplate09]

@SusNation90 what would you post?

[@InaneBlatherPodcast]

💯💯💯💯

[@megan-mr9vk]

interpolation can be fun and playful but this is downright lazy. it’s almost like the disney remakes. all they do is remind of the better thing you could be enjoying instead

[@aleksc700]

This is EXACTLY what I was thinking

[@frozenweevil4022]

idk cuz like some r really good and better than the original like fantasy but others r just so lazy

[@noranizaazmi6523]

@ville__yo mama

[@caseys2698]

@ville__you fuckin wish 🤣

[@ArbitraryOutcome]

Honestly I'd rather we see more interpolation from more out-there source material. It would be really funny if, say, we saw interpolations of Touhou music in pop tracks.

[@whoacoolhandle]

Someone on Twitter said that a lot of these interpolations sound like they’re trying to be Weird Al parodies, and now I can’t stop hearing it.

[@Quesoquantum]

They're trying and failing, none of it in a good way

[@BTMZ]

Don't disrespect Al Yankovic with this garbage

[@anzahanifathallah]

the difference between Weird Al and Bebe Rexha is that Weird Al is actually a good artist zing!

[@Quesoquantum]

@@anzahanifathallah bazigha

[@Opionatedhomosexual]

@@Quesoquantumzoinks

[@BigOwl51]

David Guetta went from making some of the best dance music of the early 2000s, to making some of the least creative, most annoying slop the genre has ever seen in its entire existence. He really devolved as an artist overtime

[@OlikGer]

All his recent songs and remixes sound exactly the same

[@jakeemchism7257]

Calvin Harris fell into the same trap. I often say David Harris or Calvin Guetta because they haven’t made interesting music… ever … I think

[@msdd7610]

@@jakeemchism7257 They used to have interesting stuff tbf

[@SabreFaux]

My boss listens to this genre of music and it seems like a good portion of the songs follow the exact same melody but with a different phrase said over and over and over. I used to listen to electronic music growing up. The genre doesn't make me feel the way it used to.

[@TheEmbessyNetwork]

But didn't David Guetta end racism?

[@julieblair7472]

The Megan Trainor "bum bum bum" mr sandman in "i am your mother" made me want to throw my phone in the trash and never come back.

[@shuriflwrs]

no boomerang phone 😔

[@joelle4226]

I didn’t enjoy that either

[@AirborneAshes]

megan trainor's entire gimmick is she writes pop songs like they're jingles. it's smart because it gets stuck in people's heads and makes her a lot of money (plus it's always the most ad friendly songwriting). saccharine but leaves a bad taste in your mouth. but got to give her props for her business instincts

[@Lucas-fl6py]

​@@AirborneAshesin particular she uses like 50's era doo wop style progressions with lots of trumpet and saxophone to evoke that music and sort of combine doo wop with early jazz. I honestly generally like her music because it's really catchy but then I just listen to actual older music instead of her imitation of it

[@fishkid1177]

that made me so goddamn angry

[@abigaill]

I work at a place that uses a radio station where the I'm Blue interpolation gets played way too many times (like once a day) and I CANNOT stand it anymore, this phenomenon is so annoying

[@raicrush]

The only good thing about that song is people putting the song over videos of them laying in bed during new years instead of partying

[@Squashwhack]

Me too it's driving me fuckign insane

[@greenthinggg]

Which is a shame because the original lowkey slaps but all these remixes ruin it for me

[@lametho]

I feel it’s in my soul! I’m hearing it in my sleep at this point

[@v496K]

That shit plays like twice an hour at my retail job it drives me fucking nuts

[@yepitsjilly]

Speed Drive by Charli XCX is a GOOD example of this imo. like she uses the "oh mickey you're so fine" rhyme but it's so brief and refreshed that it becomes its own thing, while still making the listener go like "oh i know this one" ! idk if that made sense

[@riley2243]

that and the song itself is basically nothing about mickey so it’s just a sample and not like a parody

[@moonziez]

i love that song so much. and esp with the theme of the barbie movie it definitely comes across as like a respectful and endearing nod to hey mickey that hypes toni basil up

[@luciusisdead]

i LOVE that fucking song it’s such a good nod to the original bc IT DOESNT RELY ON THE NOSTALGIA !!

[@naraw.456]

how i feel about first class by jack harlow... it has the singing out of the "glamorous" but is a completely different song

[@usernamesmatter]

Same with Endless Fashion by lil Uzi Vert bc i realized it’s a im blue remake on the third listen lol

[@Pichael0621]

There's an even worse feeling when a rap song sounds really good, the verses are incredible and the beat slaps, and then the chorus is a nursery rhyme interpolation.

[@thatoneguy9582]

callout to specifically eminem - offended

[@mikehunt5926]

nas almost did this with street dreams, the whole song is so good and the chorus almost ruins it imo

[@federicomadden9236]

Rae Sremmurd - Community Dick

[@swagmundfreud666]

It can be done well but most of the examples I think of come from the 80s and are basically dancehall rhymes over hiphop beats which yknow makes it a whole different thing. Cutty Ranks and early Boogie Down Production comes to mind.

[@medhanshtripathi1488]

This reminds of that Bo burnham bit (the ba ba blacksheep one)

[@Cheezus]

I think it's more noticable now because it's finally tapping into OUR nostalgia so we know this stuff from our childhood.

[@jenkinsjrjenkins]

Thank you, yes!! Right Round was literally years ago but no one in our age group ever acknowledged it was an interpretation (bc You Spin Me was from the 80s). This has been going on for forever, people are only just now acknowledging it bc its music from our childhood.

[@Unlikely_Neutral]

​​@@jenkinsjrjenkins​ legit! My favourite example is the song 'Something good' by Utah Saints it has been remixed twice over from the 90's to the 2000's and the backing beat and vocal hook of "ooo I just know that something good is gonna happen" comes from a popular song from the 80's by Kate Bush called Cloudbusting. A whole journey from 1985 to 2008 😂

[@CloutKamui]

@@jenkinsjrjenkinswhen I found out right round was a spin on the original song I was like “oh, that’s so cool!” But none of these recent songs give me that same feeling

[@ChryslerPTCruiser]

100%. a huge proportion of Jason Derulo's biggest hits are samples (watcha say, dont wanna go home.. probably more) that I had no idea were samples when i was vibing with them at the age of 12, but these are things my parents would have recognized. Same thing in the 70s: Eric carmen's all by myself samples rachmaninoff's piano concerto number 2 HEAVILY which is something my dad wouldn't have noticed hearing it as a kid, but HIS dad would.

[@BS-bv5sh]

This is literally the process of folk music, but with payouts to the estates of dead artists because of copyright law. You ever wondered why so many old songs have the same melody? Same-same. Someone came up with a cool melody and then people fucked around with it.

[@matrixodlum4969]

speaking of barbie…. ava max’s “im not your barbie girl im living in my own world” PISSES me off. it sounds so bad. by contrast i think the nicki and ice spice “barbie world” is fun. it’s a sample, not a mockery. you can tell they respect the source material. same with speed drive

[@somethingyoudontknow5788]

Barbie world is drill rap type song and drill is known for having a high pitched sample in the background. Pretty much the basics

[@Quesoquantum]

Ava Max's song is so annoying. Nicki and Ice made something fun and creative using the rhythm instead of the rhyme scheme in a way I really like. Ava Max did nothing with it and just changed the lyrics to something dumb, the tone of the lyrics she wrote just make it worse considering how the original song is peppy and fun

[@piper2257]

Also the original barbie girl is already a social critique in a way, the lyrics aren't kid friendly and I feel like Ava Max just didn't listen in closely and did whatever she thought was edgy

[@joshraid1550]

@@piper2257Also the whole “you can’t touch my body unless I say so” is such a stupid line to add in a twist on the OG because the OG already made it clear that her whole deal with this guy was fully consensual. The original literally went “you can touch me there” as in giving him permission, or asking him to do things. No consent issues exist here. Unless the point is her wanting to say “you can’t rape me” or something and it’s like… no shit… this isn’t a real commentary on anything. It’s almost like saying “you can’t murder me” and thinking you just made some interesting point on something. Yeah I don’t like Avamax and I can count on one hand the amount of feminist pop I actually liked, or even feminist music at all that I liked and wasn’t riot girl-ish in nature. (Destroy boys deserves to be much more famous than avamax honestly.)

[@zozodioz]

Memento mori

[@pasta2469]

Thank you for talking about this Dev. It feels like some artists recently are trying to feed off the popularity of original, popular tracks. I wouldn’t even call it sampling, its just stealing

[@MayvaAva]

I mean, it’s still sampling sometimes, like Baby Tate’s version of Hey Mickey, or Gym Class Heroes’s version of Cupid’s Chokehold/Breakfast in America, even Kanye’s version of Harder Better Faster Stronger, like there are definitely looser versions of sampling, like for the munster’s theme in Uma Thurman by Fall Out Boy or the sample from Toms Diner that they used in Centuries, but sampling has always walked that line, ultimately it comes to what they add to it, that said, it’s definitely a quicker and easier way to push out a guaranteed popular song, and it makes the song feel kinda lazy

[@jodikirsh]

How do you feel about tracks like "Helter Stupid" by Negativland?

[@lukeshioshio]

​@@MayvaAva Kanye's Stronger doesn't actually work in this context because it's literally a collab between Kanye and Daft Punk. Basically Daft Punk remixed their own song with Kanye for his album

[@MayvaAva]

@@lukeshioshio I remember that happening very differently, with Kanye himself calling it sampling, and his producer at First being concerned with sampling what was at the time a recent song, but I don’t like Kanye enough to know every little aspect of his lore so u could also be right

[@lukeshioshio]

@@MayvaAva Kanye worked on the song with Daft Punk if my memory is right. Could've started as a sample but it turned into a collab

[@theevillemon]

Nothing is worse then thinking you are hearing Blue by Eiffel 65 only for it to turn into some American party girl song.

[@Quesoquantum]

Like they turned our fun little weird roller rink song into a stupid 2010 raver song.

[@nessisok]

blue by eiffel 65 has so much charm and fun and weirdness to it while the new one is just so goddamn generic. why.

[@nellobarto]

Same when you think you're listening to Take on Me or You spin me right Round and it's just pitbull or Bebe rhexa EVERY TIME

[@thegaz-man]

​@@nellobartooh pls don't tell me someone messed with Take On Me Who do I gotta fight to protect Morten Harket's honour?

[@PedroBenolielBonito]

Thinking you're about to listen to one of the best mainstream rap songs of all time, only for it to turn into just 'Thank You' by Dido.

[@Natalie-hg3gh]

With tv it's often the networks. Saw a tweet someone was like "congrats ig on getting this thing made but why aren't you making new shit." And the writer replied, "I pitched 16 original ideas to Netflix and they were all rejected."

[@thth3589]

that was the powerpuff girls writer for context

[@misspoppyp]

This only stands to show that it's not the artists and writers faults that this stuff is happening, it's the big companies who are scared of taking chances and killing artists. This is one of the #1 reasons, from a consumer's perspective, on why we need to supports writers during their strike.

[@James-ud3ns]

thats depressing

[@Vesperad0]

​@@misspoppypor we can bring back guillotines for nostalgia's sake, since the corporations can only focus on making money rather than something good 👍

[@Lord-Radish2895]

This was Craig McCracken, speaking specifically about Netflix. He announced a Powerpuff Girls reboot, someone asked him why he'd revisit them after so long and he said the thing about 16 rejected pitches. Like here's the thing, it's not just networks - it's companies like Netflix.

[@_ramm]

That “I’m good” song has been tormenting my life

[@fwurbz]

ahh same if i hear it one more time!!!!!!!!!

[@_ramm]

@@fwurbzi will go insane istg it’s so AWFUL!!!!!!! GGRAAAHHHHHHHHH

[@Quesoquantum]

It feels like a kids bop song that didn't wanna be offensive to colorblind people

[@Pukeprincess]

All I would listen to a few years ago was the original I’m blue song and then I heard this and it makes me want to RIP MY BRAIN OUT

[@ladyteebugluv]

@@fwurbz lmaoo 💀I love your pfp!!🤭

[@AbbeeRambles]

The thing about 7 Rings is that Ari ended up having to give like 90% of the royalties to the original writers, but she really did just want to use that song from Sound of Music (she's known for being a Theatre Kid) so she did it anyway. So much more respectable than I'm Good and all this other nonsense.

[@FadeAwayGab]

Yeah people have been doing this a while, but Nicki really showed everyone with anaconda how big they can get and it feels like every year since the amount of songs that use this equation doubles every year

[@renatal.129]

anaconda is from another song???

[@dovelynight]

@@renatal.129 yep! baby got back by sir mix a lot !

[@colvynharris9138]

Kanye originally popularized it but the way he did was tasteful and creative. Examples: Stronger, Through the Wire, and etc.

[@frankiechu6862]

@@colvynharris9138 I feel like with Kanye he took less massive songs and put his own twist on it with his unique production, whereas now I feel like its just tasteless 'sampling' where artists take a massive song from a few decades earlier and make it modern

[@renatal.129]

@@dovelynight WHAT?? HOW DID I NEVER NOTICED IT I USED TO DANCE BABY GOT BACK 24/7 ON DANCE CENTRAL 2.

[@Μικολέδες]

Yes, I have noticed it. It’s not just happening in the music industry though. It’s happening in all major arts and entertainment forms right now. So many movies that are just reboots. So many things that are just a live action version of the original. I’m not exactly sure why this is happening in the entertainment sphere right now, but if I know anything about history, that means that there is going to be a change, and a breakthrough soon within the next few decades or so, in regards to how entertainment is consumed. I really wish it would stop though, I’m tired of them ruining all of my favorite original things!

[@acesupyoursleeve_]

someone said it!! you phrased it better than i ever could. like is creativity really that dead that NOBODY wants to create or watch something new?? it annoys me so much. i find people just dragging things in media to the ground

[@kit4616]

@@acesupyoursleeve_It’s because when you boil it down, a lot of music and general media is produced by maybe 8 to 10 different companies maximum. Anything else is generally considered too small to be worth putting in mainstream radio or television, so these companies control what comes out. These reboots and rehashes aren’t just a sign of no creativity, but actually a sign of a larger problem: No respect for the artists. The actual musicians, artists, actors, and most importantly, the writers are being left to the wolves in the name of profit. They don’t want to take a chance on something new because it would mean paying an actual author what they’re worth, and all these companies are worried about is how much money it will make them. In their eyes, putting out a worse product with a guaranteed profit is better than putting out something objectively good that will stand the test of time. It’s only going to get worse (for Hollywood especially) as long as the strikes continue- As it should. There will be no good media without proper compensation for the people making it.

[@Helenasrevenge]

People got bored and ran out of ideas

[@prettyrat.]

We all died in 2012 and the matrix is running out of new material to keep us from realising

[@prettyrat.]

/j in case anyone suffers from paranoia or smth idk

[@isabelfitzgerald]

i think that making a tv show where the character are babies is very strange. total drama rama is the best example of this.

[@bellamcfaul8259]

@aliceviens7they started off as babies tho so it’s not the same

[@Generalized615]

Muppets babies were the start of this iirc

[@bad_revecula]

At least the reboot is good & back to the original style 😭

[@cosmicowmix7154]

Fr and whats so annoying is that whenever I try to say total drama island, I say total drama rama because it rolls of the tongue better 😭

[@juliesnoot2818]

nah baby looney tunes where bomb

[@ceecide]

coi leray is a menace when it comes to this. i know you mentioned like 3 songs off her album but theres actually 8/16 songs on there that do this. she interpolated rich girl by darl hall & john oates, pump up the jam by technotronic, the message by grandmaster flash, its my party by lesley gore, lets get loud by jennifer lopez, technologic by daft punk, show me love by robin s, and its a mans world by james brown

[@acesupyoursleeve_]

jesus christ girl. oh my lord... can she like..... not.

[@leix7]

I feel like the Girls is Players Too song was good, a lot of songs sample the message, it's a nice beat. The same way people sample the "she's homeless" beat. But the Bitch Girl and It's My Body ones just feel like parodies

[@D4e1n]

And she’s so talented too if you listen to her on the spiderverse soundtrack with self love she’s amazing on that track there’s sm potential with her music

[@user-kw7mr6xt9n]

@@leix7 "My Body" feels SO lazy and meaningless, like it's being shocking just to be shocking and nothing else😭

[@b19wing]

Coi is basically a remix album at this point lol

[@raicrush]

An example of this being used RIGHT is Dua Lipa’s physical. She sampled the OG but changed the tempo and other aspects of the song and now it’s my favorite song of all time.

[@raicrush]

Also Melanie Martinez’s “Pity Party” does the same where she takes the main line “it’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to” and changed the rest of the song. Not her best song but at least she did a good job referencing an old classic and making it her own

[@aliaaaafr]

@@raicrush yesss I thought melanie did such a good and unique job with it!

[@b19wing]

Yessssss I love Physical and Dua definitely makes it her own

[@jewelxiat]

Same with her song "Love Again", I can't recall what the sample actually is, but I knew it was a sample from the jump but it still felt so brand new and refreshing.

[@b19wing]

@@jewelxiat Yup exactly

[@thatsnotgabi]

i think this is why i hated flowers when it came out. besides being overplayed, it’s not really that bad of a song and imo it’s actually an example of this trope done well. i think i’m just so tired of this trope that i immediately hated it

[@chromberries7329]

Not only was flowers overplayed, but brunos song was also so overplayed that it does piss me off everytime I hear it. Until it gets going, then I'm vibing. But it's just the thought of it, yknow?

[@freyathewolf]

Wait what's the original of that

[@catsballs9657]

@@freyathewolf when I was your man by Bruno mars

[@mrbrookeyoung]

Coi Leray's song on the Spiderverse soundtrack was so damn good. She's clearly very talented without just having to interpolate 90s songs

[@alexisb3829]

Her song was really good

[@orielvy9362]

the album is incredible, even these interpolated tracks are fun even though it’s too cliche atp, but where she shines are her original songs, you can see how much more at ease she feels with it

[@Mirrored33]

Coi is so good! I love one song that she’s featured on, i think it’s called “happy fools”

[@arseeoliveira6934]

Idk about "very talented" lol, but she's very hardworking I'll give her that

[@onceafetus426]

​@@Mirrored33oh yeah, that one she did on TXT's album

[@avabenedict4296]

AVA MAX DOES THIS SO MUCH. I swear every song I’ve heard from her is like this

[@freakshit]

I'm a casual listener so I've never heard of this before, which song(s) has she done this with?

[@addywaddy_]

@@freakshit”Not Your Barbie Girl” (Barbie Girl by Aqua) and “Kings and Queens” (If You Were a Woman and I Was a Man by Bonnie Tyler)

[@freakshit]

@@addywaddy_ I've not listened to the first one but I love the second song and had no idea, ty for letting me know! I'll definitely be checking out the original

[@Con-b6x]

"Not your barbie girl" is the most stupid song i've ever heard but thats just my opinion

[@bananaguard454]

​@@Con-b6xyou're right, it's just so bad 😭 Ava is talented but she is still just a parody of pop singers to me. Too artificial.

[@Tenrek]

I'm SO glad I'm not the only person feeling this way. I'm so tired of sampling being so lazy and popular

[@LucasNicolau-ys4kk]

sampling can be really amazing when done right. the entirety of discovery by daft punk is a proof of it, but yeah it has become pretty tiring to see it being used in such a lazy way

[@Spikew]

You should listen to "copyright strike my fucking nuts"

[@zo_mi_di]

Yes!!!!! As a filmmaker this reboot trend is SO exhausting!!! And it’s so evident that these companies could not care less about actual good storytelling

[@CarolineStrunk-ld4ri]

Right like give us something new

[@renfaere]

This reminds me of the Lana Del Rey vs Radiohead lawsuit over her song Get Free that had the same-ish chord progression as Creep. How can Lana get sued for something that is generally original but these artists can straight up steal and desicrate an entire melody and never get hit for it at all?

[@RandomSwiftie13]

The only way they aren't getting hit with a lawsuit would be if they properly credit the original and give a percentage of the money to them.

[@Ukraineaissance2014]

Crediting and paying

[@michaelrobinson7534]

They're actually clearing the samples because they know that the interpolations will make them hella money lol

[@ForestFire369]

Oh my god, suing over a chord progression is unhinged

[@books2438]

Sampling is allowed when credit is given Edit: by credit I meant paying the og artist

[@lilyflowers2008]

I completely agree! it feels like the emotional aspect of music and the overall connection between artist and art is fading with popular artists.

[@saladwithasideof]

@ville__193 comments on this channel only and you’re barely getting any money off that video

[@dotcircles9926]

6:32 Even though I agree, I do think there are some exceptions in TV as well, for example, I’m super excited about the Scott Pilgrim anime coming to netflix with all the original cast and Edgar Wright as the executive producer. In that instance it does actually feel more like a passion project that has potential to be very successful, than just another cash grab reboot

[@jennayisartsay]

I'm stoked for it too. I think this will work really well because it was originally a comic, so instead of just trying to be an extension/remake of an already successful movie, it's a new adaptation of the actual source material, and it's super fun to see comics animated. There's so much room for both screen adaptations to exist rather than it being, like you said, just a money grab 💜 (edited cuz I typed "stoned" instead of stoked 💀)

[@herb_rolls]

edgar being the executive producer isn't like the biggest win. they're usually pretty hands off and just financing but at most help with branding, marketing, and hiring. he's an amazing director which he won't be doing. i'm really excited because it looks beautiful but i will also hold my breath.

[@andrewb.7917]

Yeah I agree. It’s about execution more than anything. Cobra Kai is one of my all time favorite shows and that’s just because it just feels like an off the wall fanfiction of Karate Kid lol. Comic book characters get rebooted every year and I’m sure many of the standouts vary all over the place. Remixing and Reusing good ideas isn’t a bad thing. It’s all about how it’s executed. And to be fair, anything that started on tv was probably trying to make money even when it was a new IP. That’s just how commercial art works.

[@MarillSweatshirt]

You have no idea how hard my heart sank when my niece said Eiffel 65's "Blue" was a remix of the David Guetta song....😭😭😭😭

[@Quesoquantum]

Kick her.

[@Pukeprincess]

The WHAT

[@NaddleSchidaddle]

Just show her which song came before. She probably doesn't know better because she heard the David Guetta version first. Had the same experience multiple times where I thought that a remix was the original because it was the first version I've heard :')

[@me-myself-i787]

A good remix makes people think that it's the original. Look at the remix of Major Lazer's Light It Up. It's so much more iconic and makes the original look like a crappy remix. But I'm Blue Vs I'm Good is different, because they're both equally good songs in different ways. So people just think the one they heard first is the original. Like, my sister also thought the original was a remix of the remix.

[@kktt1111]

Honestly I was crushed when I heard I'm Good for the first time. Like I was so hyped when I thought the original song was coming back 💀

[@HyperWolf]

Me too. I was getting ready to sing along and then _that_ started, the disappointment was immense.

[@Quesoquantum]

I cannot express my disappointment enough

[@svnnyday]

I worked retail when it came out. Every day was HELL

[@insertfunnyname9763]

Same, I started singing along and then was just like... I can't recall a time where I've felt more disappointed.

[@anappleiam4214]

Thank you for your upload schedule, somehow you beat the quantity to quality ratio because every vid is a banger

[@thisguythunderbolt3342]

every video is a STINKER!!! I HATE Dev Limes 😡😡😡

[@littleguy3]

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[@sam-xk8ij]

@ville__pass away

[@beamuah]

@ville__why are KZbin haters so uncreative 😭😭😭

[@fruitgh0st]

it still amazes me how bold it was for gwen stefani to interpolate wealthy man for rich girl in the first place

[@fruitgh0st]

that certainly wasn't playing it safe

[@b19wing]

I know It’s sooooo girlboss of her

[@quandaredevil]

rich girl is actually a remake of louchie lou & michie one’s song of the same name, so it was them who sampled it first, but gwen popularized it. and then her version of the song became so popular that a lot of people still don’t know it ever sampled fiddler on the roof in the first place lol. I remember being dumbfounded when I first heard if I were a rich man and thinking “wait, rich girl didn’t create this melody??”

[@fruitgh0st]

@@quandaredevil goy

[@Mayhamsdead]

There's something infantilizing about that.

[@Doit4mojo]

What your touching on is a huge problem in media as a whole. I don’t remember what director it was but somebody said something along the lines of “film companies need to (and can) afford a failure”. When they do these lil gimmicks it almost serves as a guaranteed amount of money. I don’t like the show friends but everybody in that cast was nobodies before it came up. We don’t have that anymore instead it’s just the same archetypes of artists from 2016 and it hasn’t changed EDIT: I’ve also heard stories from a lot of black writers in the industry as well who make really creative and original ideas. And their ideas end up getting warped and changed into being like preexisting successful media to ensure that it has a chance to profit.

[@swordkitty]

also when they pay “homage” to a director or movie but just copy certain shots in a boring way. *ahem* doja’s new mv *ahem*

[@Doit4mojo]

@@swordkitty I HATE that. At least with The Weeknd’s after hours he had good music to overshadow the whole “Yeah I watch scorsasee films how could you tell” aesthetic thing. But yeah that’s right there with lazy interpolations tbh

[@TedBilk]

Stranger things was the probably the last piece of media to generate famous people from nobodies.

[@quatreunhuit]

you're*

[@sainttheresetaylor2054]

@@swordkitty what director is she borrowing from?

[@djairwalk]

I’m less frustrated with the artists doing it and more frustrated with the people/fans who just eat it up and don’t even question how much this sucks for music in general

[@Pattamatt1998]

Real. Don't question, don't listen intentionally, don't think about it, just consoom

[@me-myself-i787]

​​​​@@Pattamatt1998I don't like thinking about the art I consume too much, because then everything seems cliche, robotic and unoriginal. The exception being Christopher Nolan films. These are very intellectual. Phil Lord and Chris Miller's movies can be very enjoyable if you don't think about them too much. (Their better movies are still enjoyable even if you do think about them, but they do have some weaker films. But they consistently get the most important part right: realistic, grounded, human characters. In spite of their plot holes and contrivances, these are some of the best movies around. Like, The Mitchells Vs The Machines has the machines defeated in such a stupid way, but the movie compensates with a realistic family dynamic and compelling characters, as well as good humour. Really, it should've been called "Meet the Mitchells", because the fighting against the machines was probably the worst part.)

[@carp3751]

i like the point that nicki is a very original artist so she gets away with it more because she makes it more of her own thing. artists like drake or jack harlow on the otherhand, with songs like first class, staying alive, and way 2 sexy dont do enough with it and the sample overpowers what they do with it. people think of super freaky girl as a nicki song, but most people probably think of a song like first class as that song that sampled fergie

[@crstph]

exactly-if the best part of the song is the sample, u have already lost. first class is a great example of this; nobody cares about the rest of the song. super freaky girl is its own SUPER fun thing, and it does make me want to listen to the original but only after ive finished nicki’s song lol

[@chrisrosario6114]

Who’s fergie

[@Quesoquantum]

​@@chrisrosario6114WHAT

[@mildlyvintage3136]

I'm so glad someone's mentioning this, it makes pop music really bland and unoriginal right now

[@mildlyvintage3136]

@ville__ yeah okay mr spam

[@FallenShadowwalker]

This is like the "look at these popular characters, don't you want to see another quirky combined universe movie?" of music. Incorporating a line from another song and recontextualizing it can be cool, but only when done well. It doesn't help when everyone seems to start doing it.

[@slayvineboom]

my youtubers are feeding me so much rn im both panicking and ecstatic

[@mr_go0ber]

so real

[@llllouis]

i get this i do im not panickijg but i really get it

[@LBELIZABETH96]

TOO MANY UPLOADS TOO LITTLE TIME

[@GergC]

Semi-related hot take time: I've noticed this is/was a common thing in the Europop world. For example, daddy DJ - daddy DJ, basshunter - all I ever wanted, and s3rl - pretty rave girl are all the same melody. The italobrothers essentially built their careers on doing this as well. Interestingly, I think there are a lot of musical similarities with Europop and Celtic folk music (especially Scottish and Irish), such as twiddly melodies and a lot of use of the I, IV, V and vi chords. Double interestingly, the folk tradition constantly puts new words to the same melody. Some melodies have several different sets of lyrics associated with them. Because of the musical similarities with folk music and Europop, it makes it a more obvious comparison regarding the melody "stealing" but perhaps it's also applicable to these mainstream pop songs doing the same thing; some melodies become so iconic that they outgrow the song they're originally attached to and people begin to borrow them in the same way that folk music does. They become part of the new folk tradition.

[@AirborneAshes]

i agree with this perspective. in the eurodance/rave community especially back in the 90s, so much was about OH SHIT BRO IT'S THE SONG IT'S THE SONG WE GOTTA GOOO, originality is further down the priority list than recognition and unity. however the current phenomenon in pop just doesn't have the same energy imo. a lot more about selling records.

[@zzjamie-is-over-partyzz]

when dev posts i instantly anti age into nothing and scream while i evaporate out of my new born baby form ☺️

[@michaelramsey82]

I read this and could 100% hear exactly what the echo of the disappearing scream sounds like. I don't know how to feel about that.

[@xeniagorton]

the fact that i got that monopoly commercial where the girl is like “you ever wanted to play monopoly but on the go?” really goes with the vibe of this video i couldn’t imagine any commercial more perfect for the topic lol

[@katiek.6333]

I read an article I wanna say in 2019 about interpolations and how they were gonna be the next big thing in music and how several record lables and producers had a lot in the works. Specifically songs that its easy to get the copyright or permissions for (or ones you dont need to get any permissions, like nursery rhymes) . With interpolations you only need to get the rights to the melody not the lyrics so its a bit easier than other types of remixes I think?

[@matthewwatt2295]

I think that might be getting rights to the 'song' (composition/lyrics) but not needing the rights to the 'master' (original recording)

[@matthewwatt2295]

@ville__ bro u don't even have any content, how am I supposed to find out how much cooler you are?

[@kit4616]

@ville__You’re making it very easy to report your comments! 😊 I hope you get banned for this spam shit.

[@BigOwl51]

The only time in recent memory that I’ve seen a spin-off live up to the quality of the original is Better Call Saul. It’s in the same universe and has some of the same characters but it’s a completely different genre with a completely different story, and you can watch it without having ever seen Breaking Bad, and it’ll still be incredibly enjoyable and interesting. I know people who say Better Call Saul is the best show they’ve ever seen, and they’ve never even watched one episode of Breaking Bad.

[@Quesoquantum]

Because it expands on a different character who has an interesting story. Some of these spinoffs are just "you like this character? Child now"

[@aspengreen4319]

7:08 this is too real 😭 there are an absurd amount of actually good kids cartoons, and they just make a spin-off where they’re babies. I have never seen someone over the age of 6 appreciate a baby spin-off

[@thiefpotato2759]

I don't know if this is an interpolation, but I think my favorite one that is done well is Rina Sawayama using the FF7's victory jingle in Snakeskin. Its obvious, but its done in a way that she makes it her own and it adds to the song instead of just being "Omfg, its ff7"

[@IamB3CCA]

My least favorite is the Not Your Barbie Girl song. A huge part of it is that I really don’t like how it sounds and it’s everywhere, but on top of that, the aqua song was already tongue in cheek and the Ava Max team said let’s make it more obvious and annoying.

[@js8qp2pwisos]

Everytime the new "What is Love" David Guetta remix comes on the radio I get soo excited before the singer acrually starts singing and I realize its the remix again 😭

[@whatpartywin]

THANK YOU SO MUCH for talking about this. I think the sampling argument is just part of the reasons why labels tend to push those songs more, while the rest is just faking their numbers. If you’ve noticed, more labels are using combined streaming methods to inflate a song’s streams and make it appear as if it’s doing much better than it’s actually performing. For example, on Spotify, it’s pretty typical that an artist has a clean version of a song, but it was always meant for searches and does not appear on an artist’s profile. Nowadays, labels are including clean versions on their artist’s profile in order to benefit from its combined streams, and inflate a song’s numbers that way. Labels don’t care if the song is good as long as they can manufacture the invisible audience listening to it. (Sorry for the long comment it’s just such a stewpid blantant attempt at impact that labels are doing)

[@CrybabyDraws]

THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT THIS!!! That shit makes me lose my mind. I will never forgive David Guetta and Bebe Rhexa for what they did to Blue. It didn't deserve that.

[@strawberycupcake]

YES!! me and my brother are so confused when it plays and we expect blue, but then this dumpster fire comes on and people act like it's the original.

[@natalied662]

its literally trash like is there anyone who will sit there and let that garbage play. if there is please get help @@strawberycupcake

[@gabesvideosofficial]

@@strawberycupcakeoh i love the song but i would be mad if someone said that was the original

[@Quesoquantum]

I will never forgive Bebe Rhexa for this. She was pretty cool, but then she massacred my child

[@Quesoquantum]

@@onlyluvh bad. It's bad

[@jynxiejinx]

I am SOOOO glad you talked about this, I’ve literally just been counting how many new songs come out that are just blatantly ripped off songs that came out not even 10 years ago with modernized lyrics. It’s so unbelievably stupid like can anyone have a creative thought once please 😭

[@maddieadaddy]

I think Betty (Get Money) by Yung Gravy is an example where it works, but only because Gravy's whole gimmick for years has been this sort of thing

[@j_murdoch]

I absolutely agree. Love sampling and interpolation, too. But this has been driving me crazy since Puff Daddy songs like "Been Around the World" and "I'll Be Missing You" back in the day.

[@kamiyama-chairdesklamp]

Warren G-- "Regulate" Always wondered if that was the sort of thing 311's "Come Original" was talking about. Unfortunately, the US market has become super risk-averse; the more original and innovative you are, the *less* you get greenlit these days, it seems.

[@Tina-fj4xo]

This was also really popular in the late 2000's- early 2010s with songs like Right Round and Stronger. I noticed it then and it's back now like 10-15 years later.

[@asrielknight]

okay i completely agree with you here but icarly as adults actually makes sense. the ending of icarly left a lot open for interpretation and a lot of people wanted to see how theyd live out their lives post high school, and paramount+ made it to where they could actually do it justice by allowing adult themes. spongebob as babies made no sense, ill give you that, but icarly as adults is NOT on the same level as I’m Good (Blue) by david guetta and bebe rexha. anyway, thanks for the video dev!

[@ElementalWhispers]

7:39 It's an age thing. As you get older and have heard more music, you start to realize you've heard things already and notice it more. Every decade reminds me of music from the decade before. I like Miley's Flowers but I always end up listening to Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive after!

[@ForestFire369]

This is just the alternate lyrics we would make up in middle school when we didn't know the words to the original. It's exactly the same, they even messed up the melodies a little bit too

[@AlonsoMontero]

Yes! “Better Off Alone” by Alice Deejay is one of my favorite eurodance songs, but I’m so tired of it being sampled to death 😭

[@bitefesili]

this is something I've noticed and PREACH anytime I can talk about it. more with TV and movies than music but all are infuriating. why can we not just put the time and funds into a great quality thing instead of a pump and dump of shitty stuff. there's more media than we could even consume, we don't NEED to be making more things

[@axolotlchaos2318]

True, but I like to think that we do need more new media. Key word: NEW, not just an idea that's been done to death. I want to see what visions ppl have for their stories, NOT the companies'. You can tell which shows and songs are made with passion vs the shows and songs made purely for cash.

[@lollusk]

Jason Derulo's whatcha say still makes me upset cause Imogen heap made such a pretty song full of tension and buildup and he completely changed the energy of the song with the sample

[@wack...]

damn, thank you for putting me onto this song

[@prettierjesus3119]

I was surprised to found out that Hide and Seek was where that came from, given that I’ve seen many people describe it as a very sad song about Imogen’s parent’s divorcing, I believe.

[@Quesoquantum]

Him doing that was honestly gross. Good sample songs stay true to their origins, him making a song about divorce and sadness into a party song boils my blood

[@vinnyfromvenus8188]

yup, makes no sense lmao. he ruined the song. the original is better in *literally* every way

[@lisah8438]

​@@QuesoquantumI disagree. A good sample song does not have to stick to the origin.

[@azzy9932]

an example where i think this is done well is the song “na na na” by lay bankz where they incorporate the line “if i was a rich girl” and the “na na na”s but with a different melody + whole new verses of rap. it makes it sound more like a nod to “rich girl” instead of just copying it

[@rykaro69]

rich girl in itself is an interpolation. it comes from the musical Fiddler on the Roof

[@azzy9932]

@@rykaro69 oh, i didn’t know that! that’s cool!

[@malialmaooo]

as someone who loves sampling in music i’ve noticed this phenomenon too. it’s really made me realize the difference between sampling and transforming vs sort of parodying. like. most of my favorite songs are great uses of sampling like tears dry on their own by amy winehouse. in that song she samples ain’t no mounties in high enough and the subtlety of the sampling is what makes it into an artistic transformation. same situation with tell me by groove theory sampling all night long by mary jane girls

[@idyllic58]

I loved I'm Blue growing up, especially paired with Sonic for some reason, so seeing the new one just. makes me irrationally annoyed 😭 or I guess just sad.

[@bmhrulezable]

I feel like Saweetie has been doing this lately too. Almost every song is sampling a song already in existence I presume to ensure it’s “a bop”

[@meowmeowmeowmoews]

8:32 I think another thing that works about SFG and Anaconda is the fact that the songs they sample from are both sexual in meaning. She doesn’t take an innocent song (like It’s My Party) and make it sexual. Baby Got Back is literally about ass. Super Freak is about a girl who’s kinky. SFG is almost like if Super Freak were from the woman’s perspective, and Anaconda is almost like a collaboration or a feature.

[@shannond1511]

Yes! I’m really glad someone spoke about this because it kinda always gave me this feeling as well. It feels less like putting a spin on something and more like “tricking” an audience or sort of stealing an audience.

[@faysayk]

dev is so silly i love it

[@neo_nathan]

she makes me giggle and kick my feet everytime she speaks

[@faysayk]

​@@neo_nathan REAL REAL

[@AidanTrosclair]

My toes go in the air and they don't stop wiggling

[@jameswarden5312]

when you were talking about reboot style shows i believe it can be done well. the best example i can think of is Boy Meets World and Girl Meets World. I grew up with GMW and it was incredibly successful and when I was older watched BMW and both shows hold up on their own.

[@hbmento8102]

I feel like the reason artists need a "safety net" like interpolation, is because so many people are dropping radio-ready songs at an alarming rate, that it's very easy to get lost in the crowd.

[@yorkish]

i think centuries and toms diner are good examples. fall out boy heard the hum that sounded a like it could be a war cry type thing and made a COMPLETELY new song with it. i'm not really into that kind of music but i just think it's crazy that they heard toms diner, which in a lot of ways is the complete opposite of edm, and made centuries.

[@Helenasrevenge]

They also used the Munsters theme song in their song Uma Thurman

[@Quesoquantum]

Fall out boys honestly made the little hum tune sound like something from The Hunger Games

[@ashknight6696]

i always bring up "country grammar" by nelly when it comes to song samples and "fraiser" when it comes to tv show spinoffs. both aren't trying to copy the classic, instead making it their own thing and succeeding because of that

[@mareca98]

I do agree that when nicky does it, it feels more natural and like fun and not as tacky as most artists i see doing this

[@glswain]

I noticed this a little while ago with Camila Cabello’s “Bad Things” (Out of my Head by Fastball) and “Crying in the Club” (Genie in a Bottle by Christina Aguilera) - felt like they were really trying to springboard off of 90s nostalgia.

[@YChan620]

"i'm good yeah i'm feeling alright" makes me violent i heard the actual i'm blue song at work a while ago and i felt blessed after only hearing the shit version for the longest time

[@offbrandweasley1574]

I'm so glad i'm not the only one who noticed this! The I'm blue interpolation gets played all the time on the radio where i live and i hate the lack of what feels like genuine creativity. I personally have no issues with sampling/interpolation but this is ridiculous.

[@ogpandamonium]

It's literally like children going "Hehe, instead of saying heart, I'm gonna say FART haahahahha"

[@gomoestas]

When Nicki samples, she gives respect and hommage to the originals. She has a strong artistic voice and vision, so her samples give new life to old classics.

[@the4thdoor906]

Please trust me for this My sister goes to University of Miami, and so does David Guettas son Elvis Guetta, and they were friends last year in Freshman Year, as they are the same age, but whenever someone on campus would ask him how he was feeling or how he was, he would say “I’m good yeah i’m feeling alright” and everyone around him hated it

[@Starsongzz]

I’ve been calling it the Disney Effect🤣 people saw what you can get away with repurposing and said “bet” I also can’t help but feel like some people are trying to mimic what someone like Yung Gravy does, but I think what makes his sampling work is that 1) he usually just uses the melody and adds his own vocals over it for the intro 2) the sampled melody works with the melody of his song and isn’t shoehorned in 3) the vintage music matches his affinity/hook for M!LFS so the music from a different time works for him. It adds to his overall vibe of “this is what I eff your mom to” instead of being super random for him.

[@MasterTangerines]

A great use of a popular song in a sample this year was Fentanyl Tester by Jpegmafia and Danny Brown

[@porazk]

i love that song! in this case milkshake is a part of the instrumental but like their actual rapping has a different flow and i think thats the difference between a sample vs interpolation

[@porazk]

but tbf interpolations can be done well too, like for example neck brace by city morgue interpolates guillotine by death grips but it's like in a "iykyk" way and not in a LOOK IM INTERPOLATING THIS SONG GIVE ME MONEY

[@mykeadelic]

such a good comparison- tv (and even film) is full of reboots and ‘safe bets’ money-wise. but the reason everyone loves the originals is because they have a voice and they stand out- we don’t want nostalgia cash-grabs, we want something new! I feel like tv-wise Only Murders in the Building is a good modern example of doing it right- Selena Gomez stars with Steve Martin and Martin Short in an original series as opposed to say Miranda Cosgrove in the iCarly reboot. it’s a bummer that artists taking risks and being creative is so rare in mass markets- it’s absurd!

[@thaBigGENERAL]

this becoming more and more popular is like the mcu / sequel / remakes, etc. fever in hollywood but with music. corporate risk aversion in pop music 🤮

[@AlwaysConfused.]

This is exactly how I’ve felt about this not necessarily a new trend but a trend that keeps stooping lower and lower. There are some amazing songs that have maybe sampled older songs but ‘I’m good’ for example is just too much. I feel like it just takes away from the original song, especially ’My body’. It’s like turning an older song with meaning and expression into a bleak ‘everything’s awesome!’ pop song. Just leave it alone.

[@yacikitschymuah]

i love how every video i watch of yours is always me going 'mhm mhm EXACCTLLYY' like you just know how to explain it ☆

[@ariczair]

"what if we lazily cover this song, but just write new words for it." Bonus points if the new words rhyme with the original

[@danyalbajwa6155]

I feel like Ava Max is a really good example of this that I don’t hear enough people talk about. I hate being mean about someone’s music but man I heard a song the other day and asked myself if this woman had ever had an original thought in her life.

[@elainedeyoung7515]

im never ever someone who hates on new trends and waves going on on music and I'm a big time poptomist but Jesus Christ I can't stand the interpolation thing it's so grating

[@FeyPax]

I always hated this and I’m so glad people are talking about it. As an artist and musician who loves oldies, this pisses me off to no end. I was singing breakfast in America only to find out it was sampled when a coworker thought I was singing the sampled new song. I was like noooooo how could you

[@JoshCooperVID]

Jxdn did an “interpolation” of feeling this by blink 182 and even just used the same end rhymes in the most iconic part of the original and it makes me wanna implode everytime I hear it.

[@Blueborne-music]

Melanie Martinez actually did this well back in her crybaby’s era with “Pity Party” she used the chorus but completely changed the song and context.

[@mop7316]

i'm glad other people have noticed this too, i thought i was exaggerating when i thought originality is completely dead at the moment and everything is just a copy of something already successful. pop songs are based on older, popular songs, movies are mainly live action versions of animations or other types of remakes, books all fall into the same 10-20 tropes that make them more marketable... it's getting so boring like why are we allergic to originality all of a sudden (the answer is easier profit btw)

[@wizdls]

We’re just old enough to know the songs. I remember my parents always saying oh this? I’ve heard this before and then show me the song it was taken or interpolated from. Now it’s happening to us because.. welll.. getting old yall.

[@usagififi]

I really think its related to tiktoks and reels if you get a familiar tune but with cheeky words it makes fun videos. I’m good is one of my most hated songs ever

[@iamhby]

I think a big problem with the current nostalgia complex when it comes to sampling/interpolations in popular music, is that it's got a much different dynamic than how it used to be in years past. It used to be that an artist would just sample or interpolate a track, get it cleared by whoever own the publishing rights to the original work, and then release the song. Now, you've got a publishing company like Primary Wave that's said flat out that they'll pitch artists on doing a song sampling or interpolating something they have the rights to. Specific examples of this that Primary Wave has detailed include songs like "Super Freaky Girl" by Nicki Minaj or "Betty (Get Money)" by Yung Gravy. To me, that comes off less as artistic expression, and more like a publishing company trying to maximize the potential of the assets they own. Also, to add on to Coi Leray relying heavily on nostalgia, Busta Rhymes and Coi Leray released a track called "Luxury Life," where it's essentially just a remake of "Ain't No..." by Jay-Z and Foxy Brown, to the point where the beat is flat out just the original instrumental from the Jay-Z song and the chorus is a weak interpolation of the chorus from the Jay-Z song.

[@waitawhat8855]

XG’s Mascara is a really good take on the “it’s my party I can cry if I want to” line

[@jaaanai]

for tv and movies, they love to capitalise on nostalgia instead of making the financial risk of an original idea. especially Netflix, they love cancelling originals after 1/2 seasons lmao. great video!

[@xFTE97x]

Thank u, for talking about this! It’s so annoying. I feel like no one is bothered by this, but I’m so sick and tired of it. I love samples, but this new trend of just taking a famous pop or rnb song and making it more «modern» I guess is so boring and annoying. It’s fckn everywere in house music these days. I feel like the new trend in house music specifically, is just taking a popular song, then slap the most boring, simple and «standard» deep house beat on it, and maybe slow it a bit down. And then Spotify top 50 is garanteed. I can’t go to any vorspiel/pre drinks anymore whitout half the songs played are these types og «deep house» remakes and other similar tactics to make an old song popular again. Jeez I want off this planet sometimes…

[@yepitsjilly]

when Train used that Heart & Soul piano song for his chorus melody lol

[@mickeynotmouse]

"you spin my head right round" made me so mad as a teenager back in the day, for this exact reason

[@overthiefayen]

The best example I can think of is a recent #1 polish hit named „6 influencerek” by zeamsone. It interpolates the chorus of I’m Good (blue) by David Guetta and Bebe Rexha. Yes, it interpolates an interpolation.

[@BaddeGrasse]

Me having this take has labelled me a buzzkill for too long. Glad to find my people here 😂 Im not compulsed to think it sounds bad every time, but its so oversaturated and the origins in black culture are almost always disregarded