Your Chocolate in my Peanut Butter: Mashin' it up
10/14/07 04:58 PM Filed in: Music
The
whole "mash-up" thing is totally three years ago in
hipster time, so that means it's hitting its stride
with mainstream middle 'merica. A good way to tell?
When Madison Avenue tries to reach you with
some viral video
advertising.
Usually mash-ups, do not improve any of the songs
involved. Once in a great while, however, both
songs benefit. As seen in the following clip.
Britney's pedestrian dance tune mixed with Kelly's
funny but weak on the production end battle cry
for the teenage shoe-shopping youth. Check it:
Other times a crappy song can be made better thanks to a mash-up. Take for example the classic funk of the Tom Tom Club elevating the danceable shitstorm that is Fergie's London Bridge. I think it'd look a little something like this:
Once in a while someone will come up with a clever title for a mash-up and start from there. 9.5 times out of 10 this renders total crap. But sometimes if the stars align just right you can get something that's passably listenable, even if it's comprised from two real "vagina-festivals" of pop songs. Case in point, Every Car You Chase by The Police vs. Snow Patrol:
And sometimes mash-ups are a foregone conclusion, particularly when all the tunes involved are the same fucking song. Why Toni Basil isn't suing I have no idea.
And yes, sometimes you can mash up video as well, although the results are only going to be about as funny as this:
And if you don't watch the Office AND Lost, it probably wasn't funny at all. If you're like me and those are your two favorite shows on broadcast TV then... well, it still isn't really funny at all.
Okay... so ends the lesson for today.
Huzzah, kiddies.
Other times a crappy song can be made better thanks to a mash-up. Take for example the classic funk of the Tom Tom Club elevating the danceable shitstorm that is Fergie's London Bridge. I think it'd look a little something like this:
Once in a while someone will come up with a clever title for a mash-up and start from there. 9.5 times out of 10 this renders total crap. But sometimes if the stars align just right you can get something that's passably listenable, even if it's comprised from two real "vagina-festivals" of pop songs. Case in point, Every Car You Chase by The Police vs. Snow Patrol:
And sometimes mash-ups are a foregone conclusion, particularly when all the tunes involved are the same fucking song. Why Toni Basil isn't suing I have no idea.
And yes, sometimes you can mash up video as well, although the results are only going to be about as funny as this:
And if you don't watch the Office AND Lost, it probably wasn't funny at all. If you're like me and those are your two favorite shows on broadcast TV then... well, it still isn't really funny at all.
Okay... so ends the lesson for today.
Huzzah, kiddies.
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