New Music Mixed with Old Music

[Buttons]

I don't know if this is a repost, but i would like to hear everyone's opinions on this matter.

I went to someone's myspace and heard the song "I just died in your arms tonight," but in a rap verion. Instead of Cutting Crew's Nick Van Eede singing it.

It got me to thinking, most of older people -or people who like older music- might feel horrible that someone would take a hit song and turn it into something new and put their own mix on the words.

I found two different ways they do this.




Way 1 - They sing the words themselves, even though it is someone else's song.

EX. Cutting Crew's Died in Your Arms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBwVlsa7_gs
Smitty Ft. T-Pain's Died in Your Arms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF_F6XwLCPI

EX. Tone Loc's Funky Cold Medina (Wild Thing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zligio51yP4
Gorilla Zoe's Wild Thang
http://www.down-south.com/content/view/990/46/



Way 2 - They cut out bits and pieces of the origina song and put it in their song.

EX. Richard Marx's Right Here Waiting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JDTAqsMNEM

White Dawg's Right Here Waiting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KCzGECSo4A

EX. Cutting Crew's Died in Your Arms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBwVlsa7_gs
Jay-Z's Died in Your Arms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klhhVFSgBmg

EX. Dreamgirls' One Night Only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq_Rl9OZi0Y
Lil Wayne's One Night Only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcR66ht4iDU



Way 3 - They use some old beat and put their own words on it.

EX. KCi & JoJo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFhEL-hjxqs
Nelly's Wadsyaname
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GdLmo7L5oU


I mean, come on, if the music industry is paying you the big bucks, can't you come up with your own original stuff? The music has been taken away from the artist, they only care about the money being put in their pockets.



Sampling Music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_%28music%29







Discuss.

[lilmanx01]

kc and jo&jos was a classic. nelly done fcuked up.

i just died in your arms tonight class. fckued up.

the other songs...probably fcuked up. /end discussion

[Deke]

Rappers do it all the time. It's definitely not a new occurence. I agree that it's kind of lame that they can't come up with new stuff, but at the same time, most rappers aren't what I would call musicians...more just lyricists. Songs that sample others generally seem to be the big singles too.