Songs that rip off other songs.

Alan Harper's Tash said:
Commercial music has always been driven by money. Up until the 60s, it was difficult to make your own music unless you had genuine talent.

Then it was driven by good song writers until the point the 4 chord song was realised.

That then opened it up to a bigger, yet manageable amount of composers.

Then came the music video. The advent of musical models.

Then came the advent of the computer and sampling. The advent of the hardly musical but computer literate generation.

Then came the advent of the X factor esque programme. The continuation of musical models.

Then came autotune. The death of musical talent and PR being king.

It’s no coincidence that there hasn’t been a “generational talent” in music in the past 20 years.
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I'd actually say it's going back again. We're now at a stage where the gatekeepers are to some extent no longer there. My Spotify is now full of ugly people and people releasing their first album in their 30s. People who would never have been given a record contract 20 years ago because they weren't marketable.

Reminds me of that Dylan Moran bit:

"I remember when singers were singers. Ugly people. Aretha Franklin needed a lot of room to eat her chicken wings. Janis Joplin used to come out in clothes woven from her own vomit. Nina Simone, amazing singer, could look at a railway track and buckle it. It didn’t matter; They were beautiful people because of what they could do."
 
The department of obscure and useless knowledge would like you to know that "Surfer Girl" by the Beach Boys is a variation on a theme, the theme being "When you Wish upon a Star" by Dion and The Belmonts.

 
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I'm With Stupid said:
I'd actually say it's going back again. We're now at a stage where the gatekeepers are to some extent no longer there. My Spotify is now full of ugly people and people releasing their first album in their 30s. People who would never have been given a record contract 20 years ago because they weren't marketable.

Reminds me of that Dylan Moran bit:

"I remember when singers were singers. Ugly people. Aretha Franklin needed a lot of room to eat her chicken wings. Janis Joplin used to come out in clothes woven from her own vomit. Nina Simone, amazing singer, could look at a railway track and buckle it. It didn’t matter; They were beautiful people because of what they could do."
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I hope you are right!
 
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