Sir Mashalot: Mind-Blowing SIX Song Country Mashup

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Cites im3w1l · 2015-01 · on “Why Do All Records Sound the Same?”

That seems to be some random guy just reposting. Didn't know youtube had "blogspam" before Original mashup: [this video]

Cites TheOtherHobbes · 2015-08 · on “Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks”

Pop has actually ossified over the last ten years or so. Dubstep is more than fifteen years old now, and the Paul Van Dyk album I've just listened to sounds a lot like the last Paul Van Dyk album a few years ago. Then you get this: [LINK] and this: [this video] and the now famous this: [LINK] and you start to wonder how much entropy there is to analyse. Modern classical has gone the way of modern art. It's now basically a marketing exercise. The musical experience is secondary. But then I expect creative AIs to be better at marketing too...

Cites dragontamer · 2016-06 · on “Led Zeppelin did not steal 'Stairway' riff, jurors say”

Musical tastes have gotten simpler in general. There remain the musicians who push the envelope, but they just aren't as popular. Its fine: the typical audience just doesn't have the ear to appreciate certain riffs. Simplicity breeds familiarity which breeds comfort. With that said, I still hear great songs on occasion, you just don't really hear it from Top 40s radio stations anymore. EDIT: I don't mean to say that modern music is bad. Its just simple. The vast vast majority of 2010s Music is I-V-vi-IV turnaround with one additional chord in there to make things a little bit different. [LINK] In the 80s and 90s, a bit of musical experimentation was done. In the 2000s and 2010, electronica i

Cites iheartmemcache · 2017-06 · on “Generating music with expressive timing and dynamics”

> "It's sort of convincingly improvisatory." I'm not sure if it was the dynamics specifically, but it was clear to me that A was human. Within 30 seconds I was so sure, I hit pause and loaded the answer to see if I was right (I was, and I'm likely the worst pianist on these forums and only a casual fan of music that falls into the 'classical' genre.) Here's[0] a fabulous physics paper that analyses the 16th notes by a studio drummer widely considered one of the best in his field. IIRC, the paper mentions he couldn't record with a click because it'd throw him off. That being said, the quality of the recording didn't suffer (his 2nd take of the track was more than good enough for the rest of t

Cites soundwave106 · 2018-01 · on “Lana Del Rey, Radiohead, and the Difficulty of Making Original Music”

The progression is I / III / IV / iv. "Get Free"'s verses (not chorus) is in this progression in B. "Creep" is in G. Not the most common progression, but a Google on it led to Reddit where a few other examples came up -- part of the chorus of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" ("this is ground control to Major Tom") or ELO's "Tightrope". One problem with "Creep" is that it is a simple four chord loop, unlike the above songs. Nothing wrong with a four bar chord loop, but four chord loops alone really aren't unique enough to be copyrightable (MHO). Four chord loops are a staple of basic rock and roll (garage rock and punk etc.). Because the scope of triad movement is limited in these styles, the cho

Cites nyrikki · 2025-04 · on “Shared DNA in Music”

The same applies to risk-adverse, high profit genres and/or producer heavy ones like pop country. Obviously zeitgeist and even conventions and music theory play a role. Sir Mashalot had a few videos a while ago. [this video] The Blues Traveler trolling with the song Hook using the melody from Pachelbel's Canon with lyrics explicitly calling this out wasn't noticed by almost anyone. [LINK] Obviously Pop heavily samples too, E.G. Tom Tom Club Genius of Love being used by Mariah Carey's Fantasy, but it goes beyond sampling. The Rolling Stones pulling from artists like Fred McDowell and Led Zeppelin settled copyright suits on Lemon Song, Whole Lotta Love, Bring it on Home and Dazed and Confused etc..

Critical noman-land · 2025-11 · on “AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping Billboard Chart. That Should Infuriate Us”

This brilliant mashup of 6 different formulaic pop country songs would imply that there is a very low bar for some music listeners. [this video]