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YouTube – Sean Kingston "Me Love" – Music Video

Thanks Andy for pointing this out to me and messing with a memory.  Just kidding – you know sometimes a sample is a feeling – like I was just channel surfing and came across this chick-band Pussycat Dolls: Live in Manchester – had to stop: eye-candy.  I don’t see much original coming out of these girls either.  They are just plain singing other peoples stuff.  But at least they aren’t taking a tune and moving the words a bit. The "music memory" that caught my ear on that show was a pop song that has the sample from ELO’s Mid-evil Woman. I don’t know the song, its a sort of Rap.  

Tributes are good – remember how Run DMC revived one of my favorite bands – Aerosmith!  Explicit rebirth of a great old song. 

So I think its okay to sample – after all music is supposed to elicit a feeling, move you.  If these rappers pull a few bars from the original recording its makes you miss the next few bars and that will make you think, or feel.  Pulling a melody, chorus and changing the words a bit just pisses people off though as Kingston does here.  The Zeppelin song was so much better and the words made more sense anyway.