>The dance track uses the hook from 1997 hit Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve, a track which, ironically, sampled Rolling Stones hit The Last Time.
Which even more ironically is a ‘sample’ itself.
> [Although “The Last Time” is credited to Jagger/Richards, the song’s refrain is similar to “This May Be the Last Time”, a traditional gospel song recorded in 1954 by the Staple Singers. In 2003, Richards acknowledged this,[4] saying, “We came up with ‘The Last Time’, which was basically re-adapting a traditional gospel song that had been sung by the Staple Singers, but luckily the song itself goes back into the mists of time.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Time_(Rolling_Stones_song))
Is this news?
Art has always built on/adapted/reacted to what came before.
I’m surprised it’s only 1 in 4.
An alternative headline could be that 30 songs out of the top 40 are made from scratch.
That’s Pop music for ya; Plagiarise Other People and all that.
And why not? Why bother writing something new when all you have to do is slightly speed up a song from the 90s and start “singing” in spots that weren’t intended to have lyrics.
“I’m good and I’m feeling alright”, what the fuck is that?
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>The dance track uses the hook from 1997 hit Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve, a track which, ironically, sampled Rolling Stones hit The Last Time.
Which even more ironically is a ‘sample’ itself.
> [Although “The Last Time” is credited to Jagger/Richards, the song’s refrain is similar to “This May Be the Last Time”, a traditional gospel song recorded in 1954 by the Staple Singers. In 2003, Richards acknowledged this,[4] saying, “We came up with ‘The Last Time’, which was basically re-adapting a traditional gospel song that had been sung by the Staple Singers, but luckily the song itself goes back into the mists of time.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Time_(Rolling_Stones_song))
Is this news?
Art has always built on/adapted/reacted to what came before.
I’m surprised it’s only 1 in 4.
An alternative headline could be that 30 songs out of the top 40 are made from scratch.
That’s Pop music for ya; Plagiarise Other People and all that.
And why not? Why bother writing something new when all you have to do is slightly speed up a song from the 90s and start “singing” in spots that weren’t intended to have lyrics.
“I’m good and I’m feeling alright”, what the fuck is that?