tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post8221253496606631147..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Cover songs have disappeared, while movies & TV are all remakesagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-70992081053620009972019-08-16T18:16:09.545-04:002019-08-16T18:16:09.545-04:00I notice Country sounds completely different than ...I notice Country sounds completely different than previous decades yet they name drop past hits and artists as much as any genre.Jay Finknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-16030652386563600592019-08-14T02:11:30.325-04:002019-08-14T02:11:30.325-04:00That doesn't explain why rap doesn't cover...That doesn't explain why rap doesn't cover rap, or R&B cover R&B. There's now 30 years of rap hits, and MTV Classic shows re-runs of Yo! MTV Raps from 25-30 years ago.<br /><br />"Finesse" stylistically covered late '80s New Jack Swing, and the video refs In Living Color (still in re-runs on basic cable).<br /><br />So why not cover an actual New Jack Swing song from the late '80s? Or during the early 2010s, whose atmosphere was similar to the early '80s, why didn't some R&B group cover "Candy Girl" by New Edition?<br /><br />Then there's the electronic dance music that does not cover its own ancestors of 20-30 years ago either.<br /><br />The absence of covers holds within each genre, so it's not simply a case of one genre fading and a stylistically dissimilar one taking its place.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-45046848990099116672019-08-13T23:34:20.530-04:002019-08-13T23:34:20.530-04:00There could be a much simpler explanation. Having ...There could be a much simpler explanation. Having done a bit of studio and production work, I can't say that most songs from previous cycles would be very easy to translate into the contemporary top of the pops sound; the stylistic change in pop music has been huge, essentially adopting the forms and techniques of pop rap/r'n'b. And modern pop rap /r'n'b has so little fundamental variation that the only way to genuinely differentiate songs is through the words. Of course, it's not much of a cover if you change the words. Modern pop still references older hits, in a sense conveying the feeling that covers evoke, but through variations of quotes, sampled snippets, or simply name dropping older songs or artists. I'm inclined to think that in this case, it's down to the simple fact that rap has altered pop, and rap is different from rock. Tomyszhttp://www.peoplethatarekillingit.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com