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Prediction time: what song will be sampled next?

tall_guy1

tall_guy1

This year and last, pop music has sampled a lot of tracks: blue (dee ba dee), Elton John's remakes of classics, glamorous by Fergie, all around the world (la la la), and several more I can't think of. What songs have the kind of hook that could make for a sample? I think the sweet escape by Gwen Stefani has a hook (the "wee-oh") and maybe paper planes by m.i.a. (the "all I wanna do" part) that could make for sampling. Do you have anything that you think could be sampled, since it's a trend these days? (And come back to this thread if you're right.)
 
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This trend has started to turn me off from CHR. I heard all these songs the first time round - I don't really feel the need to hear them again, slightly reworked by some "superstar producer". There was a Purple Disco Machine remix of Don't You Want Me by the Human League that picked up a lot of airplay earlier in the year that was barely distinguishable from the original.

It's almost like someone's taken a compilation album from 1999 and said "you know what you wanna do with that, right? you wanna put a bangin' donk on it!"
 
Songs were being sampled starting back in the 80's. Doing so is neither controversial nor unusual anymore.
 
It wasn't technically a sample, but Cole Swindell just had a two week #1 for a song that was built around the 90s hit Heads Carolina by JoDee Messina. Apparently there are more of these kinds of things in the pipeline.
 
TheBigA said:
It wasn't technically a sample, but Cole Swindell just had a two week #1 for a song that was built around the 90s hit Heads Carolina by JoDee Messina. Apparently there are more of these kinds of things in the pipeline.
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With all the 90s stuff that plays on the hit country stations here, I don’t blame the labels for trying to get some new money out of the trend instead
 
TheBigA said:
It wasn't technically a sample, but Cole Swindell just had a two week #1 for a song that was built around the 90s hit Heads Carolina by JoDee Messina. Apparently there are more of these kinds of things in the pipeline.
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There's a heavily processed female voice singing a bit of the original song in the intro, but I don't think it's actually Jo Dee.

However, you can hear Ronnie Dunn of Brooks and Dunn sing "I'm a brand new man!" during Kane Brown's "Like I Love Country Music."
 
I'm sure it probably won't happen, but I imagine an EDM DJ sampling the "Take a look ahead" riff from Boston's "Peace of Mind." I think it would sound great on an EDM song.

 
These sample driven songs are just like the built-in audience of franchise movies, built-in familiarity.
Some creative, some lazy, just like the movies.
I think when times are tough, people seek nostalgia and the psychological feel good of sounds that offer a little escape and a sonically "things will go back to good soon".
It's more than the creators being safe, the audience craves familiarity more than usual right now, so while samples are nothing new, the uptick is a reflection of our worst times now in the lives of the money demos.
 
DOB said:
These sample driven songs are just like the built-in audience of franchise movies, built-in familiarity.
Some creative, some lazy, just like the movies.
I think when times are tough, people seek nostalgia and the psychological feel good of sounds that offer a little escape and a sonically "things will go back to good soon".
It's more than the creators being safe, the audience craves familiarity more than usual right now, so while samples are nothing new, the uptick is a reflection of our worst times now in the lives of the money demos.
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Yes, probably. Netflix though seems to build its model off the "new" stuff but elsewhere it seems there's a lot of familiarity in the media landscape.
 
Kelly A said:
Songs were being sampled starting back in the 80's. Doing so is neither controversial nor unusual anymore.
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Some producers keep a library of samples for use in their projects. That's why sometimes you'll hear a familiar sample in a modern song. Producers will even share among their libraries.
 
The best live dj on the planet uses tons of sample acapellas. I think it's a bonus for those artists to regenerate interest in their works.
Netflix seems not afraid to have dozens of original content duds to hit on that one that works. Their model allows for it so thanks for bringing attention to them on that. My ideology is give credit wherever it is due.
(Do I still need to say his name? James Hype obviously is the best live mixologist today)
 
When you mix live you can sprinkle in drops, acapellas and it's fine.
As for producing, most people who own the sampled original are on board with a good song where they will get a percent of royals. Exposure to the original and money from the sample, it's a Plus plus.
 
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