“As they say, get a hit, get a writ – if you get something that really works, you get a lawsuit,” Hartman says. One of the reasons that interpolations in pop may be appearing more often in WhoSampled’s data is just because they’re being credited more, not because they’re actually more common. In 2017, of the 50 most-visited entries on WhoSampled, five were pop or rock tracks based around prominent interpolations (six if you count J Balvin’s “Mi Gente,” which was played heavily on pop radio), according to data provided by WhoSampled Head of Content Chris Read. The crowd-sourced site WhoSampled likely contains the most comprehensive database of sample and interpolation information anywhere curious listeners trying to determine what they think they heard – was that Nelly? – can search the site to find out for sure. Now appears to be one of those “in your face” moments. “But it’s always been there – I think sometimes it’s hidden, and sometimes it’s more in your face.” “I hear a lot of interpolating on pop radio today,” says Joe Khajadourian from production duo the Futuristics, who have had major hits with three interpolation-based records (“Bad Things,” Natalia La Rose’s “Somebody” and Flo Rida’s “I Cry”). “I think there are sometimes new things, but there’s only a certain amount of notes, a certain amount of chords.” And from a commercial perspective, “if it’s worked before, why wouldn’t it work again?”īecause interpolation is commonplace, pop’s appetite for it at any given moment is hard to quantify. “You know the saying there’s nothing new under the sun,” Hartman says. The former Beatle would later state that, “99 percent of the popular music that can be heard is reminiscent of something or other,” and recycling in this manner is partially inevitable. The Beach Boys were forced to add Chuck Berry as a writer on “Surfin’ U.S.A.” Led Zeppelin are infamous for stealing and repurposing the work of others and only crediting them when faced with lawsuits. George Harrison lost a suit alleging that “My Sweet Lord” was based very closely on the Chiffons “He’s So Fine.” Pop songwriter Jamie Hartman calls interpolations “old as the hills.” The border between interpolation and theft can be highly contested, with the latter sometimes becoming the former thanks only to a grudging, after-the-fact acknowledgment. The Man’s “Feel It Still” (source material: the Marvelettes), Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello’s “Bad Things” (Fastball), the Chainsmokers’ “Closer” (the Fray), Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road” (Flo Rida) and Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” ( Right Said Fred). The Anne-Marie track was co-written by Ed Sheeran, who is a master of interpolation: He also lifted TLC’s “No Scrubs” on his own “Shape of You” and borrowed from Shaggy’s “It Wasn’t Me” on “Strip That Down,” a hit he gave to Liam Payne. Other major recent examples of interpolation-based records that soared at pop radio include, but are not limited to, Portugal. (Think of how DJ Khaled’s “Wild Thoughts” swipes its melody from Santana’s “Maria Maria” or Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise” riffs on Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise.”) “Blatant lyrical or melodic callbacks appear to be in vogue at the moment for pop acts, and not just in unabashedly nostalgic songs like “2002.” This sort of borrowing, in which an artist employs a snippet of an already-recorded song in the creation of something new, is known as an interpolation. “Hold up, if you wanna go and take a ride with me/Better hit me, baby, one more time.” Anyone with memories of Top 40 radio from 15 years ago will recognize the references to Jay-Z’s “99 Problems,” ‘NSync’s “Bye Bye Bye,” Nelly’s “Ride Wit Me” and Britney Spears’ “… Baby One More Time.” “Oops, I got 99 problems singing bye, bye, bye,” Anne-Marie sings on the track, released in April. built around a simple, effective gimmick: cribbing lyrics from songs that were hits between 19. WHERE THE PARTY AT JAGGED EDGE ft.Anne-Marie’s “2002” is the biggest solo release of her career, a multi-week Top Five single in the U.K.THE TWIST / LET'S TWIST AGAIN CHUBBY CHECKER.In addition to this list, we have an extensive collection of songs and will meet with you to cater your event's setlist specifically to your requests. The votes are tabulated and the following music list is the latest compilation of the broad spectrum of music that Elite DJs agreed are their most requested songs, or selections needed to produce a successful event.
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