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What opinion just makes you look like you aged 30 years

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[โ€“] comfy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I say yes for the music one, maybe not for the first. There are literally different materials being used and increasingly optimised-for-profit-to-effort-ratio processes. Many things are just straight up made more cheaply because we have the technology to do that.

Although for the music one, a relevant lyric comes to mind:

Hip hop? Buddy, don't get me started

So how do you get yourself charted?

Kids love this stuff 'cause it's so new

Put in a sample from a pop song too

You've got a hit, how come it sold?

The melody and it's 30 years old!

[โ€“] JillyB@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hip hop is pretty mainstream now but it started as counter culture. And I don't think a sample in a song makes it similar to the sampled song. A lot of tracks that rely on samples completely create something new. Look at J Dilla who relied almost entirely on samples. His music isn't a collection of old songs, it's entirely new songs. I guess this thread is for boomer takes.

[โ€“] ccunix@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Or the Prodigy, who relied almost entirely on samples yet made some of the most exciting music we had ever heard.