Music Mash-Ups
Wednesday, July 31st, 2002Pete Rojas’ first article for Salon (and hurrah for that!) is about the growing phenomenon of bootleg “mash-up” remixes of popular songs, and how many of the same artists who glibly use samples aren’t so crazy about becoming samples themselves:
In just the past couple of years, hundreds if not thousands of these homebrewed mixes have been created, with music fans going wild over such odd pairings as Soulwax’s bootleg of Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious” mixed with Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Freelance Hellraiser’s mix of Christina Aguilera singing over the Strokes, and Kurtis Rush’s pairing of Missy Elliott rapping over George Michael’s “Faith.”
While everyone predicted a flood of original movies and music spewing forth from the desktops of bedroom auteurs, no one anticipated that large numbers of people would be more interested in using their computers to combine, mash together, or remix other people’s work.
