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I was listening to a bunch of mashup songs. If you delve into it you'll find stuff like Danzig and Idol singing to a Rihanna song, or Bananarama doing vocals for Rammstein. The more of the mashup songs I heard, the more I started wondering are there only so many chord progressions, are commercial song structures set in stone, is the earworm a product of familiarity?

While listening to those mashups, I thought there's no fucking way Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" could ever be mashed up..

I was listening to a bunch of mashup songs. If you delve into it you'll find stuff like Danzig and Idol singing to a Rihanna song, or Bananarama doing vocals for Rammstein. The more of the mashup songs I heard, the more I started wondering are there only so many chord progressions, are commercial song structures set in stone, is the earworm a product of familiarity? While listening to those mashups, I thought there's no fucking way Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" could ever be mashed up..

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Bill McClintock does a bunch of song mashups of YT and he definitely proves that there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to musical creativity. So many songs can be matched up with tempo, timing, chord progression and overall lyrical feel. I think I agree with you that we've hit the wall on original music. It's all so tiresome now.

Los Disturbados - "Stuparena" (a mashup of Disturbed and those old spics that did the Macarena) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_SaCZbENZk

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

That was a great example of how the genre doesn't matter; it's all the same. Kinda depressing.