The Most Frustrating Gimmick In Pop Music 

Barbie world is drill rap type song and drill is known for having a high pitched sample in the background. Pretty much the basics

Ava Max's song is so annoying. Nicki and Ice made something fun and creative using the rhythm instead of the rhyme scheme in a way I really like. Ava Max did nothing with it and just changed the lyrics to something dumb, the tone of the lyrics she wrote just make it worse considering how the original song is peppy and fun

Also the original barbie girl is already a social critique in a way, the lyrics aren't kid friendly and I feel like Ava Max just didn't listen in closely and did whatever she thought was edgy

@@piper2257Also the whole “you can’t touch my body unless I say so” is such a stupid line to add in a twist on the OG because the OG already made it clear that her whole deal with this guy was fully consensual. The original literally went “you can touch me there” as in giving him permission, or asking him to do things. No consent issues exist here. Unless the point is her wanting to say “you can’t rape me” or something and it’s like… no shit… this isn’t a real commentary on anything. It’s almost like saying “you can’t murder me” and thinking you just made some interesting point on something. Yeah I don’t like Avamax and I can count on one hand the amount of feminist pop I actually liked, or even feminist music at all that I liked and wasn’t riot girl-ish in nature. (Destroy boys deserves to be much more famous than avamax honestly.)

Memento mori

All his recent songs and remixes sound exactly the same

Calvin Harris fell into the same trap. I often say David Harris or Calvin Guetta because they haven’t made interesting music… ever … I think

@@jakeemchism7257 They used to have interesting stuff tbf

My boss listens to this genre of music and it seems like a good portion of the songs follow the exact same melody but with a different phrase said over and over and over. I used to listen to electronic music growing up. The genre doesn't make me feel the way it used to.

But didn't David Guetta end racism?

no boomerang phone 😔

I didn’t enjoy that either

megan trainor's entire gimmick is she writes pop songs like they're jingles. it's smart because it gets stuck in people's heads and makes her a lot of money (plus it's always the most ad friendly songwriting). saccharine but leaves a bad taste in your mouth. but got to give her props for her business instincts

​@@AirborneAshesin particular she uses like 50's era doo wop style progressions with lots of trumpet and saxophone to evoke that music and sort of combine doo wop with early jazz. I honestly generally like her music because it's really catchy but then I just listen to actual older music instead of her imitation of it

that made me so goddamn angry

that and the song itself is basically nothing about mickey so it’s just a sample and not like a parody

i love that song so much. and esp with the theme of the barbie movie it definitely comes across as like a respectful and endearing nod to hey mickey that hypes toni basil up

i LOVE that fucking song it’s such a good nod to the original bc IT DOESNT RELY ON THE NOSTALGIA !!

how i feel about first class by jack harlow... it has the singing out of the "glamorous" but is a completely different song

Same with Endless Fashion by lil Uzi Vert bc i realized it’s a im blue remake on the third listen lol

It's just shitty remakes and reboots that nobody remembers over the original

It has the same energy as fanart made by 12 year olds, only it's being produced and marketed by professionals... It's a very confusing experience

True, without a doubt. All "cinematic glamour" but not worth to the ear.

@SusNation90 what would you post?

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This is EXACTLY what I was thinking

idk cuz like some r really good and better than the original like fantasy but others r just so lazy

@@ville__yo mama

@@ville__you fuckin wish 🤣

Honestly I'd rather we see more interpolation from more out-there source material. It would be really funny if, say, we saw interpolations of Touhou music in pop tracks.

callout to specifically eminem - offended

nas almost did this with street dreams, the whole song is so good and the chorus almost ruins it imo

Rae Sremmurd - Community Dick

It can be done well but most of the examples I think of come from the 80s and are basically dancehall rhymes over hiphop beats which yknow makes it a whole different thing. Cutty Ranks and early Boogie Down Production comes to mind.

This reminds of that Bo burnham bit (the ba ba blacksheep one)

Like they turned our fun little weird roller rink song into a stupid 2010 raver song.

blue by eiffel 65 has so much charm and fun and weirdness to it while the new one is just so goddamn generic. why.

Same when you think you're listening to Take on Me or You spin me right Round and it's just pitbull or Bebe rhexa EVERY TIME

​@@nellobartooh pls don't tell me someone messed with Take On Me Who do I gotta fight to protect Morten Harket's honour?

Thinking you're about to listen to one of the best mainstream rap songs of all time, only for it to turn into just 'Thank You' by Dido.

The only good thing about that song is people putting the song over videos of them laying in bed during new years instead of partying

Me too it's driving me fuckign insane

Which is a shame because the original lowkey slaps but all these remixes ruin it for me

I feel it’s in my soul! I’m hearing it in my sleep at this point

That shit plays like twice an hour at my retail job it drives me fucking nuts

They're trying and failing, none of it in a good way

Don't disrespect Al Yankovic with this garbage

the difference between Weird Al and Bebe Rexha is that Weird Al is actually a good artist zing!

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@@Quesoquantumzoinks

Thank you, yes!! Right Round was literally years ago but no one in our age group ever acknowledged it was an interpretation (bc You Spin Me was from the 80s). This has been going on for forever, people are only just now acknowledging it bc its music from our childhood.

​​@@jenkinsjrjenkins​ legit! My favourite example is the song 'Something good' by Utah Saints it has been remixed twice over from the 90's to the 2000's and the backing beat and vocal hook of "ooo I just know that something good is gonna happen" comes from a popular song from the 80's by Kate Bush called Cloudbusting. A whole journey from 1985 to 2008 😂

@@jenkinsjrjenkinswhen I found out right round was a spin on the original song I was like “oh, that’s so cool!” But none of these recent songs give me that same feeling

100%. a huge proportion of Jason Derulo's biggest hits are samples (watcha say, dont wanna go home.. probably more) that I had no idea were samples when i was vibing with them at the age of 12, but these are things my parents would have recognized. Same thing in the 70s: Eric carmen's all by myself samples rachmaninoff's piano concerto number 2 HEAVILY which is something my dad wouldn't have noticed hearing it as a kid, but HIS dad would.

This is literally the process of folk music, but with payouts to the estates of dead artists because of copyright law. You ever wondered why so many old songs have the same melody? Same-same. Someone came up with a cool melody and then people fucked around with it.

Her song was really good

the album is incredible, even these interpolated tracks are fun even though it’s too cliche atp, but where she shines are her original songs, you can see how much more at ease she feels with it

Coi is so good! I love one song that she’s featured on, i think it’s called “happy fools”

Idk about "very talented" lol, but she's very hardworking I'll give her that

​@@Mirrored33oh yeah, that one she did on TXT's album

I mean, it’s still sampling sometimes, like Baby Tate’s version of Hey Mickey, or Gym Class Heroes’s version of Cupid’s Chokehold/Breakfast in America, even Kanye’s version of Harder Better Faster Stronger, like there are definitely looser versions of sampling, like for the munster’s theme in Uma Thurman by Fall Out Boy or the sample from Toms Diner that they used in Centuries, but sampling has always walked that line, ultimately it comes to what they add to it, that said, it’s definitely a quicker and easier way to push out a guaranteed popular song, and it makes the song feel kinda lazy

How do you feel about tracks like "Helter Stupid" by Negativland?

​@@MayvaAva Kanye's Stronger doesn't actually work in this context because it's literally a collab between Kanye and Daft Punk. Basically Daft Punk remixed their own song with Kanye for his album

@@lukeshioshio I remember that happening very differently, with Kanye himself calling it sampling, and his producer at First being concerned with sampling what was at the time a recent song, but I don’t like Kanye enough to know every little aspect of his lore so u could also be right

@@MayvaAva Kanye worked on the song with Daft Punk if my memory is right. Could've started as a sample but it turned into a collab

ahh same if i hear it one more time!!!!!!!!!

@@fwurbzi will go insane istg it’s so AWFUL!!!!!!! GGRAAAHHHHHHHHH

It feels like a kids bop song that didn't wanna be offensive to colorblind people

All I would listen to a few years ago was the original I’m blue song and then I heard this and it makes me want to RIP MY BRAIN OUT

@@fwurbz lmaoo 💀I love your pfp!!🤭

that was the powerpuff girls writer for context

This only stands to show that it's not the artists and writers faults that this stuff is happening, it's the big companies who are scared of taking chances and killing artists. This is one of the #1 reasons, from a consumer's perspective, on why we need to supports writers during their strike.

thats depressing

​@@misspoppypor we can bring back guillotines for nostalgia's sake, since the corporations can only focus on making money rather than something good 👍

This was Craig McCracken, speaking specifically about Netflix. He announced a Powerpuff Girls reboot, someone asked him why he'd revisit them after so long and he said the thing about 16 rejected pitches. Like here's the thing, it's not just networks - it's companies like Netflix.

anaconda is from another song???

@@renatal.129 yep! baby got back by sir mix a lot !

Kanye originally popularized it but the way he did was tasteful and creative. Examples: Stronger, Through the Wire, and etc.

@@colvynharris9138 I feel like with Kanye he took less massive songs and put his own twist on it with his unique production, whereas now I feel like its just tasteless 'sampling' where artists take a massive song from a few decades earlier and make it modern

@@dovelynight WHAT?? HOW DID I NEVER NOTICED IT I USED TO DANCE BABY GOT BACK 24/7 ON DANCE CENTRAL 2.

So we gonna act like Rugrats ain’t a bop?

@@aliceviens7they started off as babies tho so it’s not the same

Muppets babies were the start of this iirc

At least the reboot is good & back to the original style 😭

Fr and whats so annoying is that whenever I try to say total drama island, I say total drama rama because it rolls of the tongue better 😭

jesus christ girl. oh my lord... can she like..... not.

I feel like the Girls is Players Too song was good, a lot of songs sample the message, it's a nice beat. The same way people sample the "she's homeless" beat. But the Bitch Girl and It's My Body ones just feel like parodies

And she’s so talented too if you listen to her on the spiderverse soundtrack with self love she’s amazing on that track there’s sm potential with her music

@@leix7 "My Body" feels SO lazy and meaningless, like it's being shocking just to be shocking and nothing else😭

Coi is basically a remix album at this point lol

Not only was flowers overplayed, but brunos song was also so overplayed that it does piss me off everytime I hear it. Until it gets going, then I'm vibing. But it's just the thought of it, yknow?

Wait what's the original of that

@@freyathewolf when I was your man by Bruno mars

Also Melanie Martinez’s “Pity Party” does the same where she takes the main line “it’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to” and changed the rest of the song. Not her best song but at least she did a good job referencing an old classic and making it her own

@@raicrush yesss I thought melanie did such a good and unique job with it!

Yessssss I love Physical and Dua definitely makes it her own

Same with her song "Love Again", I can't recall what the sample actually is, but I knew it was a sample from the jump but it still felt so brand new and refreshing.

@@jewelxiat Yup exactly

someone said it!! you phrased it better than i ever could. like is creativity really that dead that NOBODY wants to create or watch something new?? it annoys me so much. i find people just dragging things in media to the ground

@@acesupyoursleeve_It’s because when you boil it down, a lot of music and general media is produced by maybe 8 to 10 different companies maximum. Anything else is generally considered too small to be worth putting in mainstream radio or television, so these companies control what comes out. These reboots and rehashes aren’t just a sign of no creativity, but actually a sign of a larger problem: No respect for the artists. The actual musicians, artists, actors, and most importantly, the writers are being left to the wolves in the name of profit. They don’t want to take a chance on something new because it would mean paying an actual author what they’re worth, and all these companies are worried about is how much money it will make them. In their eyes, putting out a worse product with a guaranteed profit is better than putting out something objectively good that will stand the test of time. It’s only going to get worse (for Hollywood especially) as long as the strikes continue- As it should. There will be no good media without proper compensation for the people making it.

People got bored and ran out of ideas

We all died in 2012 and the matrix is running out of new material to keep us from realising

/j in case anyone suffers from paranoia or smth idk

The only way they aren't getting hit with a lawsuit would be if they properly credit the original and give a percentage of the money to them.

Crediting and paying

They're actually clearing the samples because they know that the interpolations will make them hella money lol

Oh my god, suing over a chord progression is unhinged

Sampling is allowed when credit is given Edit: by credit I meant paying the og artist

I'm a casual listener so I've never heard of this before, which song(s) has she done this with?

@@freakshit”Not Your Barbie Girl” (Barbie Girl by Aqua) and “Kings and Queens” (If You Were a Woman and I Was a Man by Bonnie Tyler)

@@addywaddy_ I've not listened to the first one but I love the second song and had no idea, ty for letting me know! I'll definitely be checking out the original

"Not your barbie girl" is the most stupid song i've ever heard but thats just my opinion

​@@user-ui7fp7gl8uyou're right, it's just so bad 😭 Ava is talented but she is still just a parody of pop singers to me. Too artificial.

this is so real!

i screech as loud as i can and do backflips down the street!!

i tend to stop before my cute little tootsies are too banged and bruised, because i like to spend a few more minutes stomping like a baby rabbit in delight, so i need to preserve my puppy walkers

this is so me. I am this way. this is so me

when will dev acknowledge how FERAL we are for these videos

sampling can be really amazing when done right. the entirety of discovery by daft punk is a proof of it, but yeah it has become pretty tiring to see it being used in such a lazy way

You should listen to "copyright strike my fucking nuts"

Kick her.

The WHAT

Just show her which song came before. She probably doesn't know better because she heard the David Guetta version first. Had the same experience multiple times where I thought that a remix was the original because it was the first version I've heard :')

A good remix makes people think that it's the original. Look at the remix of Major Lazer's Light It Up. It's so much more iconic and makes the original look like a crappy remix. But I'm Blue Vs I'm Good is different, because they're both equally good songs in different ways. So people just think the one they heard first is the original. Like, my sister also thought the original was a remix of the remix.

@@ville__193 comments on this channel only and you’re barely getting any money off that video

Right like give us something new

that certainly wasn't playing it safe

I know It’s sooooo girlboss of her

rich girl is actually a remake of louchie lou & michie one’s song of the same name, so it was them who sampled it first, but gwen popularized it. and then her version of the song became so popular that a lot of people still don’t know it ever sampled fiddler on the roof in the first place lol. I remember being dumbfounded when I first heard if I were a rich man and thinking “wait, rich girl didn’t create this melody??”

@@quandaredevil goy

There's something infantilizing about that.

Me too. I was getting ready to sing along and then _that_ started, the disappointment was immense.

I cannot express my disappointment enough

I worked retail when it came out. Every day was HELL

Same, I started singing along and then was just like... I can't recall a time where I've felt more disappointed.

I'm stoked for it too. I think this will work really well because it was originally a comic, so instead of just trying to be an extension/remake of an already successful movie, it's a new adaptation of the actual source material, and it's super fun to see comics animated. There's so much room for both screen adaptations to exist rather than it being, like you said, just a money grab 💜 (edited cuz I typed "stoned" instead of stoked 💀)

edgar being the executive producer isn't like the biggest win. they're usually pretty hands off and just financing but at most help with branding, marketing, and hiring. he's an amazing director which he won't be doing. i'm really excited because it looks beautiful but i will also hold my breath.

Yeah I agree. It’s about execution more than anything. Cobra Kai is one of my all time favorite shows and that’s just because it just feels like an off the wall fanfiction of Karate Kid lol. Comic book characters get rebooted every year and I’m sure many of the standouts vary all over the place. Remixing and Reusing good ideas isn’t a bad thing. It’s all about how it’s executed. And to be fair, anything that started on tv was probably trying to make money even when it was a new IP. That’s just how commercial art works.

also when they pay “homage” to a director or movie but just copy certain shots in a boring way. *ahem* doja’s new mv *ahem*

@@swordkitty I HATE that. At least with The Weeknd’s after hours he had good music to overshadow the whole “Yeah I watch scorsasee films how could you tell” aesthetic thing. But yeah that’s right there with lazy interpolations tbh

Stranger things was the probably the last piece of media to generate famous people from nobodies.

you're*

@@swordkitty what director is she borrowing from?

HEAVY on Jason Derulo

@@xavi1298 Oh whatcha saaaaay. jk. Yeah big on that. Imogen Heap is my fav all time pop songwriter so Jason can get these hands!

i found it so interesting when people started giving her shit for super freaky girl when the song is the exact same formula as anaconda. people were saying "oh she's ripping off can't touch this, she's ripping off can't touch this", while the rick james reference is literally in the title. i think she said all that needs to be said about interpolation with that song. don't do it if you can't do it well.

@@AirborneAshes yeah, strange but even the use of a sample can be fresh or not. Fans can kinda smell a rinse and repeat.

​@@AirborneAshesyeah people complaining about her interpolating that song is so dumb when can't touch this is so huge from doing the same thing

exactly-if the best part of the song is the sample, u have already lost. first class is a great example of this; nobody cares about the rest of the song. super freaky girl is its own SUPER fun thing, and it does make me want to listen to the original but only after ive finished nicki’s song lol

Who’s fergie

​@@chrisrosario6114WHAT

every video is a STINKER!!! I HATE Dev Limes 😡😡😡

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@@ville__pass away

@@ville__why are RU-vid haters so uncreative 😭😭😭

Real. Don't question, don't listen intentionally, don't think about it, just consoom

​​​​@@Pattamatt1998I don't like thinking about the art I consume too much, because then everything seems cliche, robotic and unoriginal. The exception being Christopher Nolan films. These are very intellectual. Phil Lord and Chris Miller's movies can be very enjoyable if you don't think about them too much. (Their better movies are still enjoyable even if you do think about them, but they do have some weaker films. But they consistently get the most important part right: realistic, grounded, human characters. In spite of their plot holes and contrivances, these are some of the best movies around. Like, The Mitchells Vs The Machines has the machines defeated in such a stupid way, but the movie compensates with a realistic family dynamic and compelling characters, as well as good humour. Really, it should've been called "Meet the Mitchells", because the fighting against the machines was probably the worst part.)

so real

i get this i do im not panickijg but i really get it

TOO MANY UPLOADS TOO LITTLE TIME

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I read this and could 100% hear exactly what the echo of the disappearing scream sounds like. I don't know how to feel about that.

i agree with this perspective. in the eurodance/rave community especially back in the 90s, so much was about OH SHIT BRO IT'S THE SONG IT'S THE SONG WE GOTTA GOOO, originality is further down the priority list than recognition and unity. however the current phenomenon in pop just doesn't have the same energy imo. a lot more about selling records.

I think that might be getting rights to the 'song' (composition/lyrics) but not needing the rights to the 'master' (original recording)

@@ville__ bro u don't even have any content, how am I supposed to find out how much cooler you are?

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she makes me giggle and kick my feet everytime she speaks

​@@neo_nathan REAL REAL

My toes go in the air and they don't stop wiggling

Because it expands on a different character who has an interesting story. Some of these spinoffs are just "you like this character? Child now"

1. Ariana was already established. She had many previous hits and people know that she's very talented and doesn't rely on a sample unlike others 2. The 'My Favorite Things' melody was incorporated quite nicely into '7 Rings' - it worked perfectly and also was not the center part(/chorus) of the song 3. 'My Favorite Things' is unlike other songs that are being sampled not from the 90s or 00s but rather a 60s song. Personally I feel like there's a difference taking an already established pop song to a song from a musical(not saying that 'The Sound of Music' isn't popular but you get my point.) 4. TSOM is one of Ariana's favorite movies and she's even had a SNL skit around it. Ariana is known loving the 50s and 60s and this is almost like an homage to that. 5. The TikTok girls mostly use nursery rhymes (ABCDEFU, Twinkle Twinkle Little B***H) which are a) very weird, considering these are for children and b) obviously VERY corny 6. Sampling has exploded in popularity in around Summer of 2020 and has started being overused and therefore getting tiring/annoying in 2021 - 7 Rings came out February 2019 7. TikTokers and some new/upcoming 'artists' lack talent in every way imaginable...comparing them to Ariana Grande is like comparing apples to oranges. They're literally not even on the same spectrum lol

@@bratzscene3131 While I do agree with a lot of this, it is still also true that if she was some random TikTok/Instagram up-and-coming artist she would've been bullied into oblivion for it. That's mostly just because people LOVE to hate, though, especially when the hating comes easy. Doesn't matter how talented or untalented they are, it's easy to hate a young artist with 50k followers and have an actual measurable effect. On the other hand, Ari with an extra decade-plus of experience on these girls and 379 million followers isn't gonna be quite as fazed by it.

@@bratzscene3131 I agree, I think this is one of the best executed of the songs she lists. As far as these songs go, it's much more of an homage that understand and respects the context of the original. The phrase "I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it" actually fits very well with a slightly different spin on "These are a few of my favorite things". As opposed to completely missing or inverting the point of the original song for easy recognition.

damn, thank you for putting me onto this song

I was surprised to found out that Hide and Seek was where that came from, given that I’ve seen many people describe it as a very sad song about Imogen’s parent’s divorcing, I believe.

Him doing that was honestly gross. Good sample songs stay true to their origins, him making a song about divorce and sadness into a party song boils my blood

yup, makes no sense lmao. he ruined the song. the original is better in *literally* every way

​@@QuesoquantumI disagree. A good sample song does not have to stick to the origin.

YES!! me and my brother are so confused when it plays and we expect blue, but then this dumpster fire comes on and people act like it's the original.

its literally trash like is there anyone who will sit there and let that garbage play. if there is please get help @@strawberycupcake

@@strawberycupcakeoh i love the song but i would be mad if someone said that was the original

I will never forgive Bebe Rhexa for this. She was pretty cool, but then she massacred my child

@@onlyluvh bad. It's bad

They also used the Munsters theme song in their song Uma Thurman

Fall out boys honestly made the little hum tune sound like something from The Hunger Games

rich girl in itself is an interpolation. it comes from the musical Fiddler on the Roof

@@rykaro69 oh, i didn’t know that! that’s cool!

Warren G-- "Regulate" Always wondered if that was the sort of thing 311's "Come Original" was talking about. Unfortunately, the US market has become super risk-averse; the more original and innovative you are, the *less* you get greenlit these days, it seems.

True, but I like to think that we do need more new media. Key word: NEW, not just an idea that's been done to death. I want to see what visions ppl have for their stories, NOT the companies'. You can tell which shows and songs are made with passion vs the shows and songs made purely for cash.

Yes! It sounds so good. I was a Ive concert with my mother and she pointed out how similar it sounded! They definitely made it work!

@@Mirrored33 its so cool how u went to their concert, i love their music and sameee my mom loves after like sm cuz she loves the i will survive sample and how much they made it work in the song

@@angelizespino6776 It was fun! My mom enjoyed them a lot! It was crazy how many people like IVE, especially since they are somewhat new!

that's geniunely a very good example of sampling and doing it right! Didn't take anything else from the song except the instrumental and for one part of the song only. Smart move. Honestly that part is the best of the whole song.

i’m in her walls i can unlock the door for you

@@crowiepoo PLEASE DO PLEASE

@@toffeexedits7 dw i’m here for you🙏🙏🙏

i love that song! in this case milkshake is a part of the instrumental but like their actual rapping has a different flow and i think thats the difference between a sample vs interpolation

but tbf interpolations can be done well too, like for example neck brace by city morgue interpolates guillotine by death grips but it's like in a "iykyk" way and not in a LOOK IM INTERPOLATING THIS SONG GIVE ME MONEY

i guess it's bc it matched the theme of the song and i remember that she was a super fan of the singer who originally did it's mt party

And it has it’s own damn story that people can relate to!

I was about to comment this !!

@@joocey_jule83 I was scrolling to find this specific comment lmao

fr!!

@@ville__cooler? i hardly know her

@@Digital_is_sillythis MIGHT be kurtis conner

very real!