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@@laustcawz2089 Still only 24 notes if we're only counting quartertones because, let's face it, most people can barely discern something feeling odd about quartertones. Cutting it further down would be indiscernible to most people. I suspect that eventually given a few hundred years this process will repeat itself with people having the same qualms about 24 tone music and it's limits.
@@Bryan_Hagan Well exactly, I agree that octaves should make music more expansive. But in reality, like you said, most people get lazy and use the old 4 chord progression, not even bothering with chord variations or even rhythmic changes. So while they're should be a lot of possibilities, most will barely scratch the surface of what microtonal music is capable of.
@@catman6089 boom. There are different notes in other cultures. It’s like trying to say that ROYGBIV is the entire spectrum of color. Nah we just picked those and some people call the sky green
@@J.PC.Designs bit my reply too is a remix of your comment which is in turn the the remix of sm budges comment thus also being the remix of the dictionary which means the remix of all three comments
to the people who hate sampling: listen to some old experimental Daft Punk, they use samples in such a way that it becomes something else entirely. its crazy :)
not just old, ANY Daft Punk discography has at least one example of incredibly detailed sampling to the point its an instrument in itself. The best examples are defo found on Discovery though
For those who don't know Rebecca's channel, its a great place to check out just how much a woman can lust over the beauty that is Eddie Vedder Oh and there's something to do with singing as well
Actually, whales do remixes, too. Melodies become popular and widespreaded and other whales add their own tunes to it. Until that song goes out of vogue and the next one emerges.
DALEK: Eg eg eg eg eg eg eg. RORY: Eggs? You mean those things? DALEK: Eggs. RORY: I don't, I don't know what you want. Those things. Are those things eggs? This? You want this? DALEK: Egg. Stir. Min. Ate. *Exterminate!*
@@MsRubyet he shouln't be, everything gets copyright claimed, ESPECIALLY if you say the name of the song. HOWEVER, I think this video isn't copyright stiked? kinda weird ngl
The Eminem sound happened because Dr. Dre played it for him the first time they met up and he just freestyled on it. There’s a cool documentary somewhere where they both talk about it
The song you’ve probably never heard, but you have heard in literally thousands of other songs, is _Amen Brother_ by The Winstons. The “Amen Break” is based on a sample of the drum solo from this song and there are entire *genres* built around this *one sample.*
Not-so-fun fact: the drummer who played that drumbreak died basically penniless and forgotten. Inspiring new genres of music is nice and all, but maybe some compensation wouldn't have hurt ya know.
When I first heard _U Can't Touch This_ I was super freaked. Then I heard _Ice Ice Baby_ and was under pressure to figure out where I'd heard that tune before.
It's not stealing....their song went "ding-ding-ding-dig-a-ding-ding....ding-ding-ding-dig-a-ding-ding", mine goes "ding-ding-ding-dig-a-ding-ding--ta-da--ding-ding-ding-dig-a-ding-ding"....clearly different /Vanilla Ice
Combination of notes are one thing. You also have combinations of notes and rhythm, rhythm and timing, bpm, song structure and arrangement. There's so much more to music than just the notes. Music, like language, is infinite and evolving.
Good way to test this: Take the number of possible notes and the number (or range) of notes needed to make a song/melody (admittedly subjective), then plug those numbers into the formula for permutations (it's been a few years since I've taken statistics so I don't have it memorized, but you can look it up online), and you can calculate the total number of possible original beats. It should be a VERY large number, but if you could find a way to account for beats which are similar and those which are not aesthetically pleasing to most people... AND factor in how long humans have been creating music... Idk, all of the best beats might already have been done.
Pete a problem that arises is, how large does a combination gets to be? 10 notes? 100 notes? an arbitrarily large number? I don't see how you can bound the numberbof combination of nodes unless you restrict it to allow only a maximum number of notes in each combination.
Holy crap, I've known werewolves of London for awhile but never all summer long (not the beach boys one) and I just listened to it, it's completely the same
"Found a Child" has been my ringtone for a decade. It starts playing, people say "I know that song!" Then it gets to the "na-na-na-na-na" part, and they start looking confused.
I remember hearing Crazy Town's Butterfly on the radio all the time in the early 2000s, but only later realized that the guitar riff is from RHCP's Pretty Little Ditty. What made it funny was that RHCP has basically always been my favorite band, just had never heard that specific song before.
Don’t say EVERYTHING that has come since because every song here was sampled into a hip hop/rap or R&B song. So I would say that gospel and early R&B which was developed by black peoples is what evolved into modern hip hop and rap, which is a majorly black genre, which has already been a very well known fact
"There are no new things" including this topic lmao. Great video we need to loosen up our copyright laws so disney can't continue to monopolize things they didn't even create
How I'd do it: 14 years of protection from unauthorized for-profit adaptation & sampling. Clips for the purpose of education, analysis, parody, or discussion are fine, as are not-for-profit adaptations (fan-fiction). Once the 14 years are up, it's fair game for everything except reproduction in whole (singularly or aggregated). And that coverage only applies to the original creator or an authorized representative actively producing based on the copyright or patent.
@@cryofpaine If only that were so in writing...then there wouldn't have been Saul Zaentz to give permission to New Line Cinema so Peter Jackson could make the Lord of the Rings movies. Tolkien had been dead almost 30 years by then. Once an author or artist is dead, any work of theirs should move into the public domain.
Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap is another example of this for me, it was insane the first time I listened to it to realize the “mm whatcha say” that I associate with the SNL skit is actually from a very emotional sad song. I hadn’t even realized Jason derulo sampled it
Now THIS is an A+ classic Vlogbrothers video! Not that I don't like all y'alls videos. I do. But this brought me back to the old days and I love it! Thanks for reminding me again that the world is amazing, Hank.
He didn't know. But then someone told him there was porn online, so I'm betting he's learned. For real. He had a huge DVD porn collection and was showing it off to an interviewer. The interviewer talked about how cool it was to go vintage for that stuff, with all the porn available online, and then Eminem forced him to show him. He just got big at a time before the Internet, and didn't ever really need to learn about it.
Producers like Madliab and the Alchemist (which I’m sure many of you will be familiar with if you’re avid listeners of hiphop) are the two that really proved sampling songs themselves is a whole art. It isn’t “cheating” or “copying” it takes so much time and effort to make a sample work. It really is a beautiful craft of its own. A sample I’m particularly enjoying right now is Kayne’s “I wonder” which sampled a song named “my song”. Great sample.
Aditi Dubey I like how that addition illustrates the cross-continential manner of remixing as different cultures take on different musical elements that appeal to them, really. Like how an Belgian electronic pop song samples an French opera (Stromae's "Carmen" and Bizet's "Habanera"), or how a German baroque piece brought the foundations to a Malaysian hip-hop number (Pachelbel's "Canon in D" and Zizan Razak's "Bawaku Pergi") for example...
Ok I thought the Hotline Bling portion was gonna be the music that plays around the Wii characters doing nothing and that Hank was swinging a tennis racket
My favorite part about the Ray Charles song (and why I like that version better) is that it is the exact opposite of Kanye’s version. Ray’s version talks about how his women takes such good care of him and gives him money when he really needs it. The Kanye version is basically just, that women is only dating me for my money.
Anyone who enjoyed this episode should definitely check out Nardwuar. He's a master of digging up musical history (so long as his odd style doesn't bother you).
As someone who listens to a TON of music in my spare time, I love discovering samples. It’s like putting together the pieces of the puzzle that is our shared culture as humans.
I think new songs should include references for older pieces they sample. So that I don't feel so shell-shocked when I recognize something on a 60s station and realize my whole life has been a lie. Maybe it's dumb I feel betrayed when I realize I never knew a song's true origin, but it happens nonetheless.
There’s a Leadbelly song called “Let It Shine on Me” where he talks/plays you through the origin and changes of his music from hymns through gospel to the blues by performing the same song in different styles. It’s an awesome little history lesson
Wonderful video. I am more used to seeing people throwing shade, saying that some artists are tertible because stole from previous artists. Thanks for consistently sharing your view of the world with your unreasonably possitive lenses.
Sampling is amazing to me because it takes the musical themes that one person heard in a piece and it transforms into something completely different. Especially when I want to hear something expanded upon, I love it.
I love remixes and covers and samples. I don't think that people really give them enough credit. And, forgive me for getting my literature geek on, there's a long history of doing that type of thing. From borrowing sonnet form and content in the renaissance to Shakespeare writing new versions of old plays. It definitely takes some talent and creativity to take something and make it new and make it yours and play on the knowledge and expectations of your audience. Anyway! Great video!
I am just reading Parzival for my German literature studies, so cool to read a version with comments about why and from who the author took his inspiration from. (Chretien de Troyes, other stories from himself, other stories before his time, other languages and so on) SO COOL!
"i stole every one of these words im saying from the person who made the word up and we don't even know his name."... i know that probably shouldn't have just blown my mind but it really did...and i don't know why...
This reminds me of the time in elementary school we took a field trip to the House of Blues where they taught us that Elvis covered Hound Dog which was made by Big Mama Thorton, and then when we all got back to class every other kid insisted that Elvis was the writer
Interesting Fact: "My Name Is" started out as a sample put together by Dre, he wanted to hear how good Eminem really was. Shady started to spit bars "the hook" to the beat, Dre loved it, and the rest is history. Dont blame Em. Blame Dre.
I don't think it's blaming so much as wondering where Dr. Dre found the track to begin with. In pre-widely used internet days it's even more interesting to find out where someone found, was inspired by, and then sampled a track from.
Samples research is increibly fun cause you get the original song of course, but then you also get pretty much most of the songs that use it. Take "Alien Superstar" by Beyonce, you heard that chorus before for sure. It's a different take but the foundation is unchanged. You go back to "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred. Now you know that "Way 2 Sexy", "Look What You Made Me Do", and "Get Sexy" all used this sample. And then there's more, the original song itself also uses samples to make it. Next thing you know went from Beyonce to The Turtles in 30 minutes 🤣🤣
my favorite sampling people aren’t aware of is how the iconic chorus from “whatcha say” by jason derulo was the bridge of a beautiful song called ‘hide and seek’
My favorite one is Centuries by Fall Out Boy, I’ve fallen in love with the song they sampled and I’d have never found it otherwise! Tom’s Diner is what it’s called and it’s so odd but so good!
m.ua-cam.com/video/7dpvLjtT7jI/v-deo.html There’s also this sample by a rave collective called Ratpack in the underground rave scene in thd uk in the early 90s.
I dunno if this makes me very old, but Tom's Diner was a HUGE hit when it came out (I was a small kid at the time but I remember hearing it a lot). I mean. Sort of. Because..... PLOT TWIST.....the single was a remix! The original recording by Suzanne Vega is just vocals and (I think?) some finger clicks. But a few years later (in 1990) 2 British producers took that recording, added a down-tempo drumbeat and various moody synth and string parts (it sounds a lot like Massive Attack but actually predates them by a year), and released it themselves without asking permission from the artist or her record company. The record company heard it, but instead of just suing the producers, they saw the commercial potential and released it as a single. It was a huge hit in the UK and Europe (and was apparently pretty big in the US as well), 3 years after the song was first released! But in a weird way this whole story is a perfect example of what Hank is talking about in this video. Just layers and layers of reinterpretation and reimagining art. Sharing ideas. Just humans doing human stuff.
I don't know if I was just listening to the wrong version but on spotify there's no instrumentals or humming, it's just the woman singing followed by awkward bouts of silence...really weird
I'm a music technology major, and finding out how songs are constructed and where samples come from is like my favorite thing of all time... I basically screamed when I figured out what this video was about, bless u hank
Creativity is recycling, so please be kind, rewind, remix, and give credit! I love how you can go back thru history and see the beginnings of something, especially thru art! :)
I COMPLETELY AGREE! I love remixes for this reason, along with mashups, edits, flips, redos, covers, all of it! It's a constantly growing collaboration between all musical artists forever. Not only do people build these songs using elements from other songs, but these people also listen to their own library of music they like and they influences how they make music as well.
also, the manufacture of tools for long term use - ie. making a hammer vs. bend a straw to get some food out of a container then forget about the straw
my dog likes to dip his food in water before eating it. you could argue thats a kind of alteration of food or cooking. Also like 99% of animals can probably run further than us.
One of my favorite sub-genres of the sample is the double sample, like you mentioned with Kanye’s Gold Digger. One of my other favorite examples is also from Kanye, his song Stronger of course sampling Daft Punk’s Harder Better Faster Stronger, which itself gets its main groove from Edwin Birdsong’s Cola Bottle Baby. It’s always funny how that chain can just continue and can end up with a song that sounds nothing like the original sample, yet still shares that connection
On a related note, I’m always surprised that the music I grew up on, 1960’s to early 70’s contemporary rock, Motown, R & B and jazz, is still so popular today and played everywhere, either the originals or covers. ~ Great vid Hank!
Dre and Eminem talk about how they made Slim Shady in an interview. It was more about the recording of the vocals rather than the track production though. Dre is a beast.
I wonder what the statistics on that would be? How many people knew both or just one or none of them. I also wonder how or if it corresponds to age. Region could be and probably is a factor. To the SurveyDome!!
Not to mention every pop song of the 90s was the Pachelbel "Canon" chord progression. I recommend people check out the "4-Chord Song" by Axis of Awesome for more examples because it is a doozy. Also as far as sampling goes, someone below mentioned Daft Punk but I'd also like to nominate Beastie Boys as well for great uses of sampling.
Also, I clicked away from re-watching an episode of My Drunk Kitchen to this video, and very much appreciate the fact that you’re wearing Hannah’s Reckless Optimism sweatshirt.
I was just reminded of this video during one of my course discussions for my class "Social History of Popular Music" and was thrilled to be able to share this video with classmates. Thank you for making it.
Thanks for making a topic on one of my favourite too little discussed topics! Gotta love sampling. I got into the topic after hunting down all the samples to Fatboy Slim's "You've come a long way baby"
Ballin' Jack's song "Found a Child" was sampled by Young MC in "Bust a Move". In your credits you list it as being sampled by Deee-Lite for "Groove is in the Heart"
"If you're going to steal, steal from the best" John Williams stole from classical music and himself(listen to Leia theme and Marion theme). Nothing is created in a vacuum. Welcome to the digital age, we're ripping off each other.
John Williams has a “theme” among other themes. Like Rey’s theme is a sped up/cheerier version of the Emperor’s and iirc he did the same with the imperial March at the end of Episode 1 and the same subtlety plays during Anakin’s theme... unless you’re talking about him legit just reusing music like he did with Harry Potter but he was pretty busy when he did those films and I don’t think his heart was really in it
@@sophistikitten6347 I think it’s in Chamber of Secrets he legit just uses Star Wars music lol... I’m not sure though since I wasn’t a huge fan of the Harry Potter films
This was the video that formally introduced me to sampling around 4 years ago, I’ve been researching and hunting samples now for over a year! (specifically in a subgenre of early 90s electronic music called breakbeat hardcore). Of course when you research electronic music samples you’ll find the obligatory james brown drum breaks, hot pants, amen brother... and so on. But I encourage whoever’s reading to please go to whosampled and check out some uses of 2nd hand drum breaks if you get bored of the above ones. Some of these include “The stone roses - fools gold” “NWA - Straight Outta Compton” & “The Shamen - Hyperreal Selector”
Kind of like how there are no new ideas. Like, people think whoever invented the first dragon myths were original, but they really just thought of a big a lizard, and lizards already existed.
As a classical musician, my favorite is the Rachmaninoff Concerto #2 - 2nd movement being used for Eric Carmen's All By Myself, which has been even more popularized by Celine Dion
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2:07 I was expecting to hear “I’m off on the adventure” lmao
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"Everyone steals, there are only 12 notes."
Not if you experiment
with microtonal music.
@@laustcawz2089 Still only 24 notes if we're only counting quartertones because, let's face it, most people can barely discern something feeling odd about quartertones. Cutting it further down would be indiscernible to most people. I suspect that eventually given a few hundred years this process will repeat itself with people having the same qualms about 24 tone music and it's limits.
@@Bryan_Hagan Well exactly, I agree that octaves should make music more expansive. But in reality, like you said, most people get lazy and use the old 4 chord progression, not even bothering with chord variations or even rhythmic changes. So while they're should be a lot of possibilities, most will barely scratch the surface of what microtonal music is capable of.
except euro-centeic music theory doesn't represent the entirety of the world's music
@@catman6089 boom. There are different notes in other cultures. It’s like trying to say that ROYGBIV is the entire spectrum of color. Nah we just picked those and some people call the sky green
Fun fact: every book ever is a remix of the dictionary
@@J.PC.Designs bit my reply too is a remix of your comment which is in turn the the remix of sm budges comment thus also being the remix of the dictionary which means the remix of all three comments
Does that my mean my name is now a producer tag too.
@@aseasangie does that mean that my testicles r burning 🥵🤭
Unless its a lil xanax song
@@J.PC.Designs his reply didnt have a j, yes i know im fun in parties
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to the people who hate sampling: listen to some old experimental Daft Punk, they use samples in such a way that it becomes something else entirely. its crazy :)
Yeah I think Death Grips use samples in a really transformative way too
Beastie Boys used sampling perfectly as well
not just old, ANY Daft Punk discography has at least one example of incredibly detailed sampling to the point its an instrument in itself. The best examples are defo found on Discovery though
Their song Face to Face off of Discovery is a great example
Cola bottle, baby.
Self awareness. What a beautiful thing.
Make one man cry, make another man sing.
Unfortunately some humans seem to lack self awareness.
For those who don't know Rebecca's channel, its a great place to check out just how much a woman can lust over the beauty that is Eddie Vedder
Oh and there's something to do with singing as well
LOL not every human has that.
My dog eats his shit like a idiot
Animals: sing a song to alert help
Humans: r r r re-re-re-*REMIX*
Actually, whales do remixes, too. Melodies become popular and widespreaded and other whales add their own tunes to it. Until that song goes out of vogue and the next one emerges.
@@lonestarr1490 I can't tell if you're being for real or not, but I want this to be true really bad..
my mind just remembered : IT’S A REEEEMIX !! jAAAAAy whYYYY pEEEE
DALEK: Eg eg eg eg eg eg eg.
RORY: Eggs? You mean those things?
DALEK: Eggs.
RORY: I don't, I don't know what you want. Those things. Are those things eggs? This? You want this?
DALEK: Egg. Stir. Min. Ate. *Exterminate!*
So, you don't actually know there isn't some quartet of humpback whales that do satirical covers of popular whalesongs, do you?
They put on a damn good show. 10/10 highly reccomend
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@@lynpeters4287 The Blue Whale Group, but tickets are wickedly expensive,
@@GeorgieChaos And you need a mask to attend
You mean the young whales who swim the wrong way on purpose, ruined a beautiful song. That's not music, it's just noise. Humbug.
Labi siffre is so underrated. He deserves more fans and listens I only found him through Spotify recommending him and now I absolutely love him.
He's brilliant
Found out about him through Better Call Saul! "I Got the..." was used very prominently in one of its montages.
I found out about him via I Wonder by Kanye very clearly sampling his stuff
Now listen to Isaac Hayes, Bootsy Collins, Curtis Mayfield, and Baby Huey
@samt3412 Yeah, thanks for letting the world know he "clearly" sampled him. You're a genius.
the copyright claims on this video must be fantastic.
chloë holt got em
If the clips are no longer than 6 seconds then they should be okay.
@@MsRubyet and he talked over some of the clips too
@@MsRubyet he shouln't be, everything gets copyright claimed, ESPECIALLY if you say the name of the song. HOWEVER, I think this video isn't copyright stiked? kinda weird ngl
@@Olivia-hg6gc the songs might be older than 100. if they are, then they are public domain
The Eminem sound happened because Dr. Dre played it for him the first time they met up and he just freestyled on it. There’s a cool documentary somewhere where they both talk about it
Also if you listen to it again, you can hear the bad boys theme song lol
The document is called the defiant ones... I recently whatched it on peacock and its free
@@golden_ape5235 it was sooooo good
And Chas from Chas and Dave played the bass line on the original recording (will assume that will only mean anything to Brits over a certain age!)
I just saw that clip of Dre talking about it and then this video came up the next day!
DO CRASH COURSE MUSIC HISTORY AND MUSIC THEORY
Andrew Huang would be a great person to host that with all of his Music Theory experience.
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YES. I'm taking a class on music in the western world this semester and there is SO MUCH INTERESTING STUFF.
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The song you’ve probably never heard, but you have heard in literally thousands of other songs, is _Amen Brother_ by The Winstons. The “Amen Break” is based on a sample of the drum solo from this song and there are entire *genres* built around this *one sample.*
Also just a banger in it’s own right
Not-so-fun fact: the drummer who played that drumbreak died basically penniless and forgotten. Inspiring new genres of music is nice and all, but maybe some compensation wouldn't have hurt ya know.
My favorite sample is “wish I was a rich man” from fiddler on the roof and Gwen stefani used it in her song “rich girl”
It's called "If I Were a Rich Man".
IF I were a rich man
Gwen Stefani sampled it off of a song that sampled it off of fiddler on the roof shfifh
My show choir did that song for one of our shows and I had never heard it before then so I was shocked to hear Rich Girl after that
if i were a rich man
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Usually when this happens to me it's because Weird Al put it in a polka medley
For real though
How I discovered Lawrence Welk
@@Brave_Sir_Robin wait, when was Lawerence welk in a weird al polka?
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From Jesus to Yeezus
Wolfie Wilde mate that’s gold
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Wolfie Wilde you ever find that one comment that you wish you thought up? I just did.
Wolfie Wilde nice
Wolfie Wilde lol
When I first heard _U Can't Touch This_ I was super freaked. Then I heard _Ice Ice Baby_ and was under pressure to figure out where I'd heard that tune before.
clever 😁😁
Under pressure
It's not stealing....their song went "ding-ding-ding-dig-a-ding-ding....ding-ding-ding-dig-a-ding-ding", mine goes "ding-ding-ding-dig-a-ding-ding--ta-da--ding-ding-ding-dig-a-ding-ding"....clearly different /Vanilla Ice
7 months later, and this is the most underrated comment I've seen today.
Even Mozart said that in his lifetime, all the possible combinations of notes had already been used
Leroy Sinclair highly doubt that
Except they absolutely haven't been.
Combination of notes are one thing. You also have combinations of notes and rhythm, rhythm and timing, bpm, song structure and arrangement. There's so much more to music than just the notes. Music, like language, is infinite and evolving.
Good way to test this: Take the number of possible notes and the number (or range) of notes needed to make a song/melody (admittedly subjective), then plug those numbers into the formula for permutations (it's been a few years since I've taken statistics so I don't have it memorized, but you can look it up online), and you can calculate the total number of possible original beats. It should be a VERY large number, but if you could find a way to account for beats which are similar and those which are not aesthetically pleasing to most people... AND factor in how long humans have been creating music... Idk, all of the best beats might already have been done.
Pete a problem that arises is, how large does a combination gets to be? 10 notes? 100 notes? an arbitrarily large number? I don't see how you can bound the numberbof combination of nodes unless you restrict it to allow only a maximum number of notes in each combination.
I never know if I'm about to hear "All Summer Long" or "Werewolves of London."
YES. This one frustrates me so much every time! Especially since the slightest of adjustments turns it into Sweet Home Alabama.
I feel so seen. 😭 Yes, every time.
Or Under Pressure or Ice Ice Baby. Or Superfreak or Can't Touch This.
And it’s such a disappointment when it’s anything other than Werewolves of London.
Little old lady got mutilated late last night...
Holy crap, I've known werewolves of London for awhile but never all summer long (not the beach boys one) and I just listened to it, it's completely the same
Damn Hank! I love every second of this video.
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"Found a Child" has been my ringtone for a decade. It starts playing, people say "I know that song!" Then it gets to the "na-na-na-na-na" part, and they start looking confused.
It is confirmed hank green listens to kpop
Pretty sure he did his research. Can't confirm that he listens to any of this music.
Coolio * kpop sucks
@@cjwhite7801 lmao true
I just came here to say I was the 666th like. Thank you all for your time, have a great day.
@@emmalaine3449 lmao I love your pp
MORE OF THESE!! Omg this was so much fun!
Oh, dude, yes. More videos like this.
Kenny Elyse Look up everything is a remix by Kirby Ferguson.
We need a part 2 for this.
Agreed. This was both funny AND educational.
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I remember hearing Crazy Town's Butterfly on the radio all the time in the early 2000s, but only later realized that the guitar riff is from RHCP's Pretty Little Ditty. What made it funny was that RHCP has basically always been my favorite band, just had never heard that specific song before.
This video is a great illustration of the huge influence African American music (gospel and early R&B) has had on everything that has come since.
yeah, i've learned a lot about music history in class and it's astonishing how much is influenced off of African American culture
So cool. Credit is always due
not to mention appropriation.
Don’t say EVERYTHING that has come since because every song here was sampled into a hip hop/rap or R&B song. So I would say that gospel and early R&B which was developed by black peoples is what evolved into modern hip hop and rap, which is a majorly black genre, which has already been a very well known fact
I mean, this video is literally just link Gospel to rap...Wouldn't exactly call that everything lol
"There are no new things" including this topic lmao. Great video we need to loosen up our copyright laws so disney can't continue to monopolize things they didn't even create
How I'd do it:
14 years of protection from unauthorized for-profit adaptation & sampling. Clips for the purpose of education, analysis, parody, or discussion are fine, as are not-for-profit adaptations (fan-fiction). Once the 14 years are up, it's fair game for everything except reproduction in whole (singularly or aggregated). And that coverage only applies to the original creator or an authorized representative actively producing based on the copyright or patent.
@@cryofpaine If only that were so in writing...then there wouldn't have been Saul Zaentz to give permission to New Line Cinema so Peter Jackson could make the Lord of the Rings movies. Tolkien had been dead almost 30 years by then. Once an author or artist is dead, any work of theirs should move into the public domain.
Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap is another example of this for me, it was insane the first time I listened to it to realize the “mm whatcha say” that I associate with the SNL skit is actually from a very emotional sad song. I hadn’t even realized Jason derulo sampled it
I recommend Amber Run’s cover of Hide and Seek. It was the first version I knew.
yeah and that SNL skit is satire based on an episode of the OC that uses the song when a character gets shot!
right like its abt divorce
The Imogen Heap song blew my mind after growing up hearing the Jason Derulo song on the radio so much! 🤯
That scene in the OC was iconic.
This doesn't just happen in music, it's pretty much what makes art, well, art.
Now THIS is an A+ classic Vlogbrothers video! Not that I don't like all y'alls videos. I do. But this brought me back to the old days and I love it!
Thanks for reminding me again that the world is amazing, Hank.
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Wow I really hope Eminem actually emails you, Hank.
For some reason I'd guess he's not a regular viewer. 😂 But who knows, maybe word will reach him!
He doesn't know how to use a computer and still uses a flip phone😂😂 I highly doubt he will email hank.
He didn't know. But then someone told him there was porn online, so I'm betting he's learned.
For real. He had a huge DVD porn collection and was showing it off to an interviewer. The interviewer talked about how cool it was to go vintage for that stuff, with all the porn available online, and then Eminem forced him to show him.
He just got big at a time before the Internet, and didn't ever really need to learn about it.
@@pdtsshady5544 he does not use a flip phone lol
Wouldn’t it be great if Eminem was a nerd fighter?
I know it's been 3 years but what a freaking good video this is.
what a vid what a vid what a vid what a mighty good vid
Producers like Madliab and the Alchemist (which I’m sure many of you will be familiar with if you’re avid listeners of hiphop) are the two that really proved sampling songs themselves is a whole art. It isn’t “cheating” or “copying” it takes so much time and effort to make a sample work. It really is a beautiful craft of its own. A sample I’m particularly enjoying right now is Kayne’s “I wonder” which sampled a song named “my song”. Great sample.
Never thought I'd ever see Madlib and alc being mentioned in a hank green video's comments section, THE GOATS
can't forget J Dilla
Who else here would gladly watch Hank try to re-create the Hotline Bling music video??
Carolyn Knudstrup He does owe a punishment......
Hank Green talking about IOI what a mixing of worlds, never thought i'd see it
Aditi Dubey yeah bit of a twist there
ikr xD
Aditi Dubey I like how that addition illustrates the cross-continential manner of remixing as different cultures take on different musical elements that appeal to them, really. Like how an Belgian electronic pop song samples an French opera (Stromae's "Carmen" and Bizet's "Habanera"), or how a German baroque piece brought the foundations to a Malaysian hip-hop number (Pachelbel's "Canon in D" and Zizan Razak's "Bawaku Pergi") for example...
jakmanxyom it's truly incredible
Omg hi Aditi! Hahaha. I was literally just thinking this.
Ok I thought the Hotline Bling portion was gonna be the music that plays around the Wii characters doing nothing and that Hank was swinging a tennis racket
My favorite part about the Ray Charles song (and why I like that version better) is that it is the exact opposite of Kanye’s version.
Ray’s version talks about how his women takes such good care of him and gives him money when he really needs it. The Kanye version is basically just, that women is only dating me for my money.
or bc women dont want dirt poor men?
its all good, kanye made graduation, all is forgiven
yeah the song called gold digger
wow what a surface level realization. its almost as if kanye wrote his interpolated lyrics to juxtapose with the original song
kanye better you're buggin
In the nardwuar drake interview, drake does big up Timmy Thomas and his music
Anyone who enjoyed this episode should definitely check out Nardwuar. He's a master of digging up musical history (so long as his odd style doesn't bother you).
I think it's cool that older more obscure songs get sampled for modern music, I'd just like to see more recognition when it's done.
As someone who listens to a TON of music in my spare time, I love discovering samples. It’s like putting together the pieces of the puzzle that is our shared culture as humans.
I think new songs should include references for older pieces they sample. So that I don't feel so shell-shocked when I recognize something on a 60s station and realize my whole life has been a lie. Maybe it's dumb I feel betrayed when I realize I never knew a song's true origin, but it happens nonetheless.
There’s a Leadbelly song called “Let It Shine on Me” where he talks/plays you through the origin and changes of his music from hymns through gospel to the blues by performing the same song in different styles. It’s an awesome little history lesson
4 minutes wasn’t enough! This video was awesome!
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Brittany Maddox ummmm actually it was 3:59 minutes get your facts right
THIS IS JUST A JOKE DONT @ ME
You’re right, it totally could have used that extra second!!!!!
Wonderful video. I am more used to seeing people throwing shade, saying that some artists are tertible because stole from previous artists. Thanks for consistently sharing your view of the world with your unreasonably possitive lenses.
I’m old.... I’ve actually heard a few of those.
Sampling is amazing to me because it takes the musical themes that one person heard in a piece and it transforms into something completely different.
Especially when I want to hear something expanded upon, I love it.
I love remixes and covers and samples. I don't think that people really give them enough credit. And, forgive me for getting my literature geek on, there's a long history of doing that type of thing. From borrowing sonnet form and content in the renaissance to Shakespeare writing new versions of old plays. It definitely takes some talent and creativity to take something and make it new and make it yours and play on the knowledge and expectations of your audience. Anyway! Great video!
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I am just reading Parzival for my German literature studies, so cool to read a version with comments about why and from who the author took his inspiration from. (Chretien de Troyes, other stories from himself, other stories before his time, other languages and so on) SO COOL!
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I really needed an excited Hank video today. Thank you for this! 😀
"i stole every one of these words im saying from the person who made the word up and we don't even know his name."... i know that probably shouldn't have just blown my mind but it really did...and i don't know why...
Alysa Carr you quoted him wrong
Swaggin Swag well you know what they say "correct me if im wrong"
Alysa Carr I like you. So sexy
Swaggin Swag I LIKE TUTTELLS
Alysa Carr lol
This reminds me of the time in elementary school we took a field trip to the House of Blues where they taught us that Elvis covered Hound Dog which was made by Big Mama Thorton, and then when we all got back to class every other kid insisted that Elvis was the writer
I love how I just did not connect for the second one and then hank goes "wicca wicca slim shady" and Im like :|
Interesting Fact: "My Name Is" started out as a sample put together by Dre, he wanted to hear how good Eminem really was. Shady started to spit bars "the hook" to the beat, Dre loved it, and the rest is history.
Dont blame Em.
Blame Dre.
I don't think it's blaming so much as wondering where Dr. Dre found the track to begin with. In pre-widely used internet days it's even more interesting to find out where someone found, was inspired by, and then sampled a track from.
I guess they forgot about Dre.
Turns out hip hop is based around sampling old soul grooves.
Huh.
Superphilipp Who woulda thought.
Superphilipp more and more people are talking about it, saying good things. I hear good things.
Samples research is increibly fun cause you get the original song of course, but then you also get pretty much most of the songs that use it. Take "Alien Superstar" by Beyonce, you heard that chorus before for sure. It's a different take but the foundation is unchanged. You go back to "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred. Now you know that "Way 2 Sexy", "Look What You Made Me Do", and "Get Sexy" all used this sample. And then there's more, the original song itself also uses samples to make it. Next thing you know went from Beyonce to The Turtles in 30 minutes 🤣🤣
my favorite sampling people aren’t aware of is how the iconic chorus from “whatcha say” by jason derulo was the bridge of a beautiful song called ‘hide and seek’
Kam :/ Me too!!! I listened to hide and seek for months after I discovers this!
By whom?
Imogen heap
Kam :/ such a massive duh 🙄
Kam :/ hide and seek is way more iconic than whatcha say trash from Jason derulo
My favorite one is Centuries by Fall Out Boy, I’ve fallen in love with the song they sampled and I’d have never found it otherwise! Tom’s Diner is what it’s called and it’s so odd but so good!
Tom's Diner was the track originally used by the guy who fine tuned the first mp3 encoder.
Yo, same! Only I found tom’s diner by accident, guz it played during a random playlist I turned on, on Spotify
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There’s also this sample by a rave collective called Ratpack in the underground rave scene in thd uk in the early 90s.
I dunno if this makes me very old, but Tom's Diner was a HUGE hit when it came out (I was a small kid at the time but I remember hearing it a lot). I mean. Sort of. Because..... PLOT TWIST.....the single was a remix! The original recording by Suzanne Vega is just vocals and (I think?) some finger clicks. But a few years later (in 1990) 2 British producers took that recording, added a down-tempo drumbeat and various moody synth and string parts (it sounds a lot like Massive Attack but actually predates them by a year), and released it themselves without asking permission from the artist or her record company. The record company heard it, but instead of just suing the producers, they saw the commercial potential and released it as a single. It was a huge hit in the UK and Europe (and was apparently pretty big in the US as well), 3 years after the song was first released! But in a weird way this whole story is a perfect example of what Hank is talking about in this video. Just layers and layers of reinterpretation and reimagining art. Sharing ideas.
Just humans doing human stuff.
I don't know if I was just listening to the wrong version but on spotify there's no instrumentals or humming, it's just the woman singing followed by awkward bouts of silence...really weird
And then there’s me who has actually never heard any of these songs
I was thinking I don't know most of these modern songs and only some of the older stuff.
Same! I've only (maybe) heard the Ray Charles song before. I thought maybe he was going to take about Pachabell's Cannon or something.
Same. I actually listen to very little music, and only started fairly recently, so I haven't heard anything, old or new.
I have heard them. I listen to almost everything. From Palestrina to Cannibal Corpse .
@@jpaugh64Pachabells canon makes my skin crawl. Hate it with a passion.
I have actually heard most of these old songs since my aunty and her husband are huge music nerds. And especially old music, grew a love for it ♥
The face when none of these songs are familiar to you...
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2:22 hank dancing to hotline bling is THE best thing I’ve ever seen 😂
Havana has been driving me insane, the song itself isn't bad but it just feels fake and it bothers me.
Yeenosaur join the navy
That song cracks me up because she’s obviously never been to Cuba. You know who really fucking hates Cuba? Cubans.
Jorgan Freeman She's Cuban...born in Cuba...in Havana...
Yeenosaur check out the version she
does with Daddy Yankee.
Yeenosaur check out the version she
does with Daddy Yankee.
When you look at classical music it was often seen as an honour to be quoted in another composers work
I'm a music technology major, and finding out how songs are constructed and where samples come from is like my favorite thing of all time... I basically screamed when I figured out what this video was about, bless u hank
Creativity is recycling, so please be kind, rewind, remix, and give credit!
I love how you can go back thru history and see the beginnings of something, especially thru art! :)
YoAntoNeo -- Fair means lovely or pretty, not white.
"Creativity is recycling" No, copying is recycling.
Hisbeautiful Truth Ever hear "fair-skinned"?
F F -- Yes, but it's used incorrectly. Fair doesn't describe a color.
Hisbeautiful Truth Could you please elaborate?
... the few seconds of Hank boppin' around to 'Bust a Move' shall go down in my history banks as some of my favorite moments... teeheehee...
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I COMPLETELY AGREE!
I love remixes for this reason, along with mashups, edits, flips, redos, covers, all of it!
It's a constantly growing collaboration between all musical artists forever. Not only do people build these songs using elements from other songs, but these people also listen to their own library of music they like and they influences how they make music as well.
Always love your perspectives, Hank.
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Actually, it's cooking and long distance running
also, the manufacture of tools for long term use - ie. making a hammer vs. bend a straw to get some food out of a container then forget about the straw
Daniel McIntosh What about the pet rock tool thingies that otters carry with them for years in a pouch?
that would be using a tool, they didn't alter the rocks in any way
actually, it's kissing your homies goodnight without it being gay
my dog likes to dip his food in water before eating it. you could argue thats a kind of alteration of food or cooking. Also like 99% of animals can probably run further than us.
add The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman (1961)
and Portugal. The Man - "Feel It Still" (2017)
= sampling
One of my favorite sub-genres of the sample is the double sample, like you mentioned with Kanye’s Gold Digger. One of my other favorite examples is also from Kanye, his song Stronger of course sampling Daft Punk’s Harder Better Faster Stronger, which itself gets its main groove from Edwin Birdsong’s Cola Bottle Baby. It’s always funny how that chain can just continue and can end up with a song that sounds nothing like the original sample, yet still shares that connection
I expected a lot, but i didn't expect to see I.O.I here
JOHNNY'S GONNA FREESTYLE- LITERALLY SAME lmao
JOHNNY'S GONNA FREESTYLE- I was fuckin shook
JOHNNY'S GONNA FREESTYLE- same lol
JOHNNY'S GONNA FREESTYLE- i livED IN AMERICA FOR FOUR YEARS. THATS WHY IM HERE, MAN
yang jeongin's number 1 fan BE THERE OR BE SQUARE
On a related note, I’m always surprised that the music I grew up on, 1960’s to early 70’s contemporary rock, Motown, R & B and jazz, is still so popular today and played everywhere, either the originals or covers. ~ Great vid Hank!
John OBrien Gardener I love 60’s.
Everything is a Remix by Kirby Ferguson is an amazing series of videos about this exact subject. Want more of this? Watch it.
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Thanks for this comment! I watched it and really enjoyed it.
Definitely a great series that more people _need_ to watch.
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Dre and Eminem talk about how they made Slim Shady in an interview. It was more about the recording of the vocals rather than the track production though. Dre is a beast.
"he really reminds John Green"
Turns out they are brothers.
Is it weird I know most of the old songs but not the new ones
I was about to say the same thing O_O
Same, well, except Salt 'n' Pepa, that I new, but one could argue if it's a new song :D
I know neither, the old ones or the new ones. Whoops
I don't know either....
I wonder what the statistics on that would be? How many people knew both or just one or none of them. I also wonder how or if it corresponds to age. Region could be and probably is a factor. To the SurveyDome!!
Music has such a fascinating role in human interactions-I love discussions surrounding it. Thanks for this video, Hank!
I feel that the best type of sampling is when a sample is chopped up and rearranged, pitched up and down in different spots and still sounds seamless.
This whole sample thing is now a trend on TikTok 3 years later
Man I recognized like... none of the songs that I was supposed to. I'm pretty okay with that though.
Same xD I mean... most of what I heard sounded pretty cool, might look some of the artists up :)
Same!
Don't be okay with it. There's some great music out there if you look for it.
Wasn't expecting to see Tony DeRosa and Main Street this morning
1:54 wait.... "My name is, my name is, my name is CHARLES THE SECOND"
*launches into Charles 2nd song from Horrible Histories
He does have a natty hairdo.
Horrible Histories is the besttt
ILOVETGEPEOPLEANDTHEPEOPLELOVEMESOMUCHTGATTHEYRESTOREDTGEENGLISHMONARCHYIMPARTSCOTTISHFRENCHITALIANANDALITTLEBITDANEBUTONEHUNDREDPERCENTPARTYANIMAL...CHAMPAGNE !!!
Thank you for making such a happy video!!
these are the kinds of videos i'm here for!! love it!!
Not to mention every pop song of the 90s was the Pachelbel "Canon" chord progression. I recommend people check out the "4-Chord Song" by Axis of Awesome for more examples because it is a doozy. Also as far as sampling goes, someone below mentioned Daft Punk but I'd also like to nominate Beastie Boys as well for great uses of sampling.
If you like that, I think you'll also enjoy Pachelbel Rant by Rob Paravonian! I still get it stuck in my head all these years later and it's hilarious
I love it when Hank dances!! XD
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I wanted to scream when he started doing the drake dance haha I loved it xD
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This is such a Hank video, and I love it.
Also, I clicked away from re-watching an episode of My Drunk Kitchen to this video, and very much appreciate the fact that you’re wearing Hannah’s Reckless Optimism sweatshirt.
I was just reminded of this video during one of my course discussions for my class "Social History of Popular Music" and was thrilled to be able to share this video with classmates. Thank you for making it.
Alternate title: “Hank discovers Sampling”
Thanks for making a topic on one of my favourite too little discussed topics! Gotta love sampling. I got into the topic after hunting down all the samples to Fatboy Slim's "You've come a long way baby"
can you please make this a series?? i need to know about more songs that i don’t know about but actually do know about!!
Sarah Jack www.ted.com/talks/mark_ronson_how_sampling_transformed_music/up-next
Ballin' Jack's song "Found a Child" was sampled by Young MC in "Bust a Move". In your credits you list it as being sampled by Deee-Lite for "Groove is in the Heart"
Bro
It was sampled by both
Just because it was also sampled by young mc doesn’t mean that he is wrong
I loved the barber shop quartet. They are my favorite thing now.
Lela Hamilfan The are called Main Street! They have several other awesome songs (and there are lots of other awesome quartets out there!)
“It’s My Party” - Leslie Gore recycled in “Pity Party” - Melanie Martinez
I've heard it in another song as well. I don't remember what though.
Motionless in white recycled it too in "necessary evil"!
@@justanotherweirdo11 I think it's in a song by Rihanna but I dont remember which one
"If you're going to steal, steal from the best"
John Williams stole from classical music and himself(listen to Leia theme and Marion theme).
Nothing is created in a vacuum. Welcome to the digital age, we're ripping off each other.
John Williams has a “theme” among other themes. Like Rey’s theme is a sped up/cheerier version of the Emperor’s and iirc he did the same with the imperial March at the end of Episode 1 and the same subtlety plays during Anakin’s theme... unless you’re talking about him legit just reusing music like he did with Harry Potter but he was pretty busy when he did those films and I don’t think his heart was really in it
I thought Marion's theme sounded like Princess Leia's theme
there’s a part in the first Harry Potter movie where the music sounds like the Star Wars theme and I always freak out when I hear it lol
@@sophistikitten6347 I think it’s in Chamber of Secrets he legit just uses Star Wars music lol... I’m not sure though since I wasn’t a huge fan of the Harry Potter films
This was the video that formally introduced me to sampling around 4 years ago, I’ve been researching and hunting samples now for over a year! (specifically in a subgenre of early 90s electronic music called breakbeat hardcore).
Of course when you research electronic music samples you’ll find the obligatory james brown drum breaks, hot pants, amen brother... and so on. But I encourage whoever’s reading to please go to whosampled and check out some uses of 2nd hand drum breaks if you get bored of the above ones. Some of these include “The stone roses - fools gold” “NWA - Straight Outta Compton” & “The Shamen - Hyperreal Selector”
I'm so happy Hank recognized Whatta Man by IOI 😭
I really thought IOI's version of “Whatta man“ was the original. I'm ashamed of myself
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Elsa Re they did (love them)
Fluffy Kookie that's depressing
I thought TLC wrote it back in the 90's. it's fiiiiiiine.
Fluffy Kookie lmao
There are no new things, only old things mixed and matched to tell new stories
Kind of like how there are no new ideas. Like, people think whoever invented the first dragon myths were original, but they really just thought of a big a lizard, and lizards already existed.
Synthesis. If I learned anything from AP Language and Composition, its that.
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As a classical musician, my favorite is the Rachmaninoff Concerto #2 - 2nd movement being used for Eric Carmen's All By Myself, which has been even more popularized by Celine Dion
I love all of those versions. I was 9 when the Carmen version came out and all my friends and I sang it loudly into our hairbrushes 😉