where is the HATRED for MASHUPS?

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mashups are the worst disgrace since puff daddy's half-assed rapping over spent 80's ballads. now there is an entire radio show dedicated to shredding the already dubious value of this stuff. for god's sake, I have heard dave gahan's voice pitch-distorted to a near soprano in order to beat-match it to "dancing in the street". oasis and keane sound better together? that's like saying a HEADBUT mixed with your NUTS feels like a BLOWJOB.

clearly, there is only one recourse: KILL DANGERMOUSE.

the best way I can think to do this is by cutting off his body parts and fusing on those of, say, cindy lauper. but frankly, I'm not partial.

― guythatsaysstuff, Sunday, 2 October 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

So what's a mash-up?
What's a bootleg?
It's pretty much all the same. Also known
as "bastard pop," a bootleg is a song that's
"mashed-up." Usually, this means the vocal
track of one song is mixed over the
instrumentation of another. Using audio
editing software, DJs and mash-up artists
combine different artists and musical genres
to create new and unique songs that are
often greater than the sum of their parts.
Imagine Michael Jackson rocking out with
Nirvana, or Madonna singing with the Sex
Pistols, or Eminem rapping with No Doubt.
Can't imagine that? Then get your ass to
Bootie to hear for yourself!

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 2 October 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

Is this legal?
Does the skull-and-crossbones in our logo
mean anything to you?

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 2 October 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

OMG THIS IS LIKE SO OTM LOL

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Sunday, 2 October 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure mashups have been happening for as long as there have been human beings and songs though.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Sunday, 2 October 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Bach vs Pachebel's entire canon.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Sunday, 2 October 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I have NEVER heard of mash-ups before. Thanks for introducing me to'em!

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Sunday, 2 October 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

Reeces invented the first consumer mashup. The commercials prove it!

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Sunday, 2 October 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

media mashups~~~corporate synergy

― harshaw (jube), Sunday, 2 October 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Sorry. I'm using all of my rage quotient on the Artic Monkeys this month. Maybe in November I'll be better positioned to hate on mashups.

― js (honestengine), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

I really wouldn't worry about it. Why don't you get angry about the government or something?

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Why don't you get angry about the government or something?

Hatred: not a zero-sum game.

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 3 October 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

remember the early '00s?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 3 October 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

One day I turned on the radio and heard Chuck D and Flav declaiming the full lyric to 'Bring The Noise' over a jaunty, Joplinesque piano piece called 'Brittanica Rag'. That was the last mashup I ever needed to hear. That was, I felt, as far as we could go.

― moley, Monday, 3 October 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

I think ccc's are quite good.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 3 October 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

remember the early '00s?

nostalgia

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 3 October 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

Finally! I hate Danja Mouse too! This really needed to be said. Thank you thank you thank you.

― svenne, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

I hate 'em, too. No biggie- I just don't listen to 'em.

― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

seventeen years pass...

For a while I thought they were considered not cool anymore and I was good with that but they are everywhere now again it seems

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 13 July 2023 21:44 (two years ago)

amusingly I just stumbled upon a channel which I think is meant to dupe people into thinking they're getting some VGM and instead are treated to surprisingly incredible mash-ups

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlmDPC6ai4Y

― frogbs, Thursday, 13 July 2023 22:00 (two years ago)

Hahah, that is incredible.

― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 13 July 2023 22:10 (two years ago)

silvagunner is a legend

― ciderpress, Thursday, 13 July 2023 22:25 (two years ago)

omg

― dyl, Thursday, 13 July 2023 23:43 (two years ago)

xp uh yeah there's some wild shit on that channel and there are so many uploads, it can't just be one person

― frogbs, Friday, 14 July 2023 03:08 (two years ago)

lol ok this is gonna be in my head forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEcOzjg7vBU

― frogbs, Friday, 14 July 2023 03:28 (two years ago)

yeah it must be a whole group now, i think it was originally the same guy who does ClassicsOfGame

― ciderpress, Friday, 14 July 2023 04:24 (two years ago)

silvagunner is great! frogbs is right, think it initially started as a parody of the channel "gilvasunner" who'd upload rips of nintendo music. there are some songs on there that left me totally speechless (through laughter or the sheer gall of putting certain songs together, and then astonishment at how well they fit). the best/worst ones keep changing the song being mashed up, it gets absurd in the best way possible

― vexingvexillologist, Monday, 17 July 2023 12:47 (two years ago)

thinking about it, it's possible that channel is how i "got into music" in the first place. getting baited by silvagunner rip --> listening to more mashups on youtube --> finding neil cicierega's "Mouth" albums --> getting into Lemon Demon --> developing my own music taste from there. and i doubt i'm the only internet poisoned gen z nerd to take that path, or some version of it!

― vexingvexillologist, Monday, 17 July 2023 12:51 (two years ago)

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