Creativity in music is changing everyday and many people see creativeness in different ways. I would consider sampling somewhat creative because creativity works in so many different ways. For someone to take a portion of one sound of music and put it into another, seem pretty creative in a different way. It takes a lot of effort to learn how to do things like this because working with digital computers is not something just anyone can do. Now with today’s generation people are always looking for something new and different. I consider sampling something okay to be done because I am sure that I listen to many song’s containing sampling or portions of other songs. This does have a tendency to stray away from originality and take uniqueness out of music. Having instrumental beats being put digitally into a song is something very different, but it is nice to have that actual instruments played in the song, not added to it. This is what makes the music less natural and more computerized. Although there are some song’s that don’t show a difference. It does tale a lot more talent for a musician to sing a song that is their’s and have acustic instruments along with it. Sampling is kind of like taking pieces of other’s creative art work or drawings and adding it into your own. Then after finishing that piece of artwork, you say it is your own. It would be considered your own piece because you put it together from different pieces of work into one. It is like putting five other artist’s work into one and calling it your very own piece.
There are some hip hop artists that are not using sampling in their music. Rappers like Timbarland and Dr. Dre are keeping all of their music original. They are not adding any digital instruments and they are “keeping it real”. Many hip hop artists have been acused of sampling and they want other’s to know that they are not one of them. I am not against sampling, but it is always nice to keep things original. If that is what artists are choosing to do then who are they hurting. It is not like they are completely stealing the music from the song writers. The song writers are getting paid for selling these samples to the musicians that will be singing the song.
I am sure that many of us go on everyday listening to songs that have had sampling done to them. The thing is that it is just being done like there is nothing wrong with it. Things have changed a lot in music and unfortunately with all of this new technology happening more and more. Things will just continue to be less and less original. The thing is that if the consumer’s are still showing interest in the music, it is being liked and money is being made than, who really is complaining. Music is music and it will it will always continue to change, but we must not forget where the true roots of music came from. Sampling or not I really don’t mind. If the song has a good meaning and a nice beat then it is fine with me. Although originality always makes everything seem and sound much better
I agree that there is nothing wrong with sampling because it does take a lot of effort to pull it off. It takes a lot of creativity to sample a music. In the end the artist who created the music sample is getting paid for what they are doing. So regardless its a win win situation. However I believe originality is the highest quality a hip hop or any artist can have. If they are creating their own music and own lyrics then that could only mean they are good at what they do. If more artists would actually take the time to create their music then it would lead to a bigger variety of music for the consumers to choose from. It is true that there is a big chance that we might not notice what song has been sampled or not. I mean how could you tell unless you catch the beat or look up where the beat came from. But its better to know that your favorite song wasn’t sampled and it was created by the artist. There’s nothing wrong with music sampling. And theres nothing wrong with originality either. Its better for artists to use their creativity and to choose their words wisely to create a big hit. Rather than bring back a song that already had its glory.
ReplyDeleteGood points and I will tell you why. I like what you have said in the begging of your blog where you have listened to the same part of the song in other artist work. But in musical preface of progressive trance and electronic music remixes are always abound and have many of the same beats robbed from time to time. An artist named Markus Schulz possibly takes sampling from his former tracks. An example being that in Markus Schulz Cold Harbor remixes he used to use the same build up for almost every one of his songs now I maybe just spectating but this could be an example of sampling ones own work which could be worse in sense that the artist doesn't even bother to research any other styles but his own. Also I like artist like Dr Dre because every one of his songs has its own feel or vibe to it. It’s very important for a musician to be original in his or her work ethic because originality more than anything will carry your career as a musician. Lastly I liked what you said about about the culture being less and less original very good stuff.
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