Any peticular reason why some rap and rock stars re-make other artists music?...?
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Easy money with minimal work. Hollywood and TV are doing the same thing with movies and shows.\n\nLower Risk - They are taking a song that is already successful, so there is lower risk of failure. They already know that people like it and there is a market for the song.\n\nLess Work – They don’t have to actually create or innovate anything. Just follow the pre-existing blueprint. It also helps to fill up a CD that is otherwise light in number of tracks. “Artist” writes less tracks and then fills in the gaps with “Cover Songs”.\n\nLower Overhead – It costs less to produce because less in salaries/royalties to have someone write something new and it can be delivered quickly from studio to market so that sales revenue is realized sooner.\n\nPeople Are Buying It – The knock off industry is booming. With so many people buying it there is a lot of revenue to be had. So long as that market remains we will continue to see rehash after rehash.\n\nEasy Fame – What makes you a household name faster than being quickly thrown on tv or radio as a low-risk cover artist? Look at the American Idol people: How many of them have been in a band going nowhere for years, and after going on tv and covering a famous song they are now internationally famous?\n\nBeing a pioneer in your field is difficult. Copying someone else's success is easy.
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I think as long as one is artistic, even samples can be orchestrated into new and improved hybrids.  The thing with music is, everybody pretty much has used the same guitar riff or bass line or drum pattern at least once.  It's how you tweak it with your own original style that makes it different.  There's a lot of songs that rock that are based of of samples:\n\nBiggie's "Juicy"\nJay Z's "Hard Knock Life"\nMobb Deep's "Got it Twisted"\n                               just to name a couple\n\nCreativity is key.
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I hate rap.  I'm a country fan. I also like listening to some rock, but rap just seems to be not as full of talent.  People are talking to a beat.  I don't mean to offend anyone, that's just my personal preference.
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Yes. Roxy Music. I think he also did some solo work which I either haven't heard, or heard so long ago that I don't remember it... yeah, I think I have heard some, but it's been a while. He's also produced albums for U2, etc. A lot of people think he's a genius. I should check his stuff out.
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I believe these kinds of bands, together with other artists like Steve Vai and Eric Johnson, are not so popular in the mainstream because they are a little more virtuosic, improvisational, and experimental (instead of playing what they think will sell) with their musical expression than most rock music fans are used to. Though they have a Rock sound and look to them, their approach to writing songs and performing is more like that of Jazz musicians (real Jazz, not "Smooth Jazz") so the average rock music fan can't really understand or appreciate it. That is why most of their fans are other musicians, because they understand the level of technical difficulty that goes into executing the things these artists do.
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Sure, it will happen... it always does. Sometimes things take time and sometimes things seem to explode like Nirvana did. Just think back to a few years ago when the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC ruled the charts and airwaves. Music is slowly returning to rock... Even Rap and Hip Hop is loosing hold in the music scene. Once one band emerges the record labels will always counter with clones but things are already getting better... the bands that you mentioned...  Panic!At the Disco, Fallout Boy, My Chemical Romance, they all pretty much have no real talent but at least they are borrowing sounds from bands that we can all respect. I think that the Internet and downloading music like we do now is destroying the big record companies... things are going to revert back to the early days of rock. There are going to be less and less AOR releases and more singles... just like bands used to put out 45's with a B-track. Artists will put their own sounds out there and market themselves. Somewhere out in the world there is a hotbed of new sounds and we all wait for something fresh. Remember this though, there are not too many of us out there that would say no to a big fat record deal, everyone likes a roof that doesn't leak.
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Some people may have talent, but that does not help with personal problems or arrogance.\n\nSome rock stars kill themselves, even if by accident.  Some do not, but get away with some might crazy things.
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It's stupid 2 say that rap is just people 'talking'..heh..\nIn that case all forms of music have people talking.. they talk.. but they talk 2 a specific rythm.. & that's why they play beats on the background dude..\n\nRap IS a part of music.. y do u think artists like Eminem & Jay-z.. got the grammy's for???.. It's talent dude.. talent..\n\nRAP RULES...
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That does sound rather odd, don't they have a profile or contact page or something where you can check them out? I don't use youtube so I'm not sure about it. Maybe this person just doesn't like your music and hasn't got any common sense.
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Sadly the raspy vocal phenomenon has been overdone.  There's too many artists who sounds like that now to make it a unique sound.  So now it just sounds like all of them are trying to copy each other.  So sad, it was a cool sound.
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the loss of ROCK in rock music, the lack of any truely talented musicians out there, maybe research how many oldies stations there are in your area vs those that play newer music.  i know in my area it's almost all oldies, 70's, or easy listening.  Kind of makes you think, maybe it's because music these days is cookie cutter crap.\nOr....how about the fact that movie stars don't want people to pirate movies (they have those commericals, with like-the camera guys and kraft services people like...if you don't pay to see amovie I can't buy cheese for my kid) and it's like....maybe if stars didn't make millions upon millions for contributing nothing but sterotypes, violence, and sex to society.\nSOrry.  I was about to rant.
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Lack of talent is what is going on! I don't even keep up with the new stuff anymore, it sucks. It seems that the music industry is catering to the younger people with all of this poppy bubble gum crap. This is another reason we bought Sirius, we get to pick what we listen to. No Shakira, or over the hill Madonna. It is all crap!!! Hey is that Freedom Rock? Well turn it up! Ha ha
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It's going down the toilet that's for sure. Endless greed by record companies have killed off originality and controlled what the people want to hear. It's almost like an assembly cookie-cutter factory....to be a successful artists one must either look a certain way, behave slutty or show cleavage with plenty of pelvic thrustings while singing about "getting it on" with anything that comes in close proximity with the listener. It's all about image nowadays and nothing about actual real and creative music writing.\n\nListen to Enya, Pink Floyd, Rush, James Last (great remakes!! Even better than rap :) ), ABBA, AC/DC, Joe Satriani (early stuff), Steve Vai, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Billy Joel, Van Halen, Led Zep, Vangelis and a few others...too many to mention. These artists knew/know how to put together great melodies and sounds. Today's music  is filled mostly with crap unfortunately.....it's a shame that a lot of the younger listeners aren't introduced to much of these artist's songs. Rap/hiphop crap is the "Lord Of The Flies" mentality of much of today's tribe-like clique life in younger folk. Time to educate the ears and widen the palette. :) The music industry once made their bread and butter off of these artists and shunned most of the talentless ones....now it's the other way around. You don't see too many good ugly singers or musicians....everyone has to be "beautiful" or full bodied without much care of the voice or instrument playing abilities. Rollingstone magazine dumped on Steve Vai for years because he is unbelievably good...Steve Vai!!!! Meanwhile, punk-@ssed teen bands come through because their music contains a lot of angst and anger which is what can sell products to the listeners as the record industry feels that the music can relate better with younger folks. It's no longer about music, it's all about profit. And then they wonder why people aren't buying music anymore or not going to the movies as much. Too much vomit out there.\n\nGood day.
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Because most of the popular stuff now is that rap charp, it's hard for anyone to listen to.  \n\nJust try and listen to some normal music and you love it.
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Because some people aren't tolerant of other music genres. As soon as they hear the word 'rap' they're like, "I HATE RAP IT'S SO STUPID!" also, a lot of rappers have been shot n went to jail n most songs are about sex and drugs (not like theres no rock songs about those topics either) so some people use that as an excuse to hate it too. I think people just need to be more accepting of different music. You don't see me hating on rock bands, u know?
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First, Outkast isn't new. They may SEEM new since '04, but they've been around a long time.\n\nI totally agree with you about today's rap though. I haven't been able to listen to my city's urban radio stations because the music they play is so totally garbage. I too still listen to the old skool because these new rappers don't have a clue. Rap has become so formulaic and commercialized that all the soul and integrity and cleverness has been drained. The saddest part to me though is that people ACCEPT it! Heads like you and me who actually complain about today's rap are in the minority, and that is a damn shame. But, as long as people keep supporting crappy hip-hop with their dollars, crappy, half-@$$ed, artless, soulless rap will be status quo.
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I dont think thats true at all, we should respect all different art forms cuz some rappers are really poetic, just listen to Common sense or Mos Def, Dont be so closed minded buttmunch! (and this is coming from a guy who deosn't even like rap)