I became the most passionate follower of this 'Everything is a remix' theory after watching all four videos.
My first impression when I saw this video was, Wow, whoever made this video is really a smart guy!
The video-maker is supporting his theory with millions of historical and recent examples, which are so valid and very well fit into his theory.
Thomas Edison's light bulb invention, the creation of world wide web, the typewriter developments and how modern computer was evolved through decades of years.
I agree most on the part where the author claimed that almost all the music in this world are remixes of another. As a person who learns over 200 new songs a month, I certainly agree with this, and I found a LOT of remixes that nobody knows. It should take like a full week for me to make a full version of a video that contains these remixes, so I would like to introduce some of the ones that are popular in the Internet these days.
The explanations of these so-called 'copied' songs are to be written soon,
and I also found out that Pixie Lott has been 'remixing' a lot of other songs to make her own, especially in the <Turn it up (Louder)> album, which was released on October 15th, 2010. All the melodies and beats sounded familiar and I found the origins of some of her songs.
So many artists and so many songwriters and singers are being accused of 'plagiarism', but as the Everything-Is-A-Remix-theory suggests, it's not a plagiarism if the songs sound similar; rather, they're the remixes.
I personally think that these remixes are vital and inevitable, especially in songs, because there are certain kinds of melodies or beats that people feel more comfortable or accustomed to. Of course, every songwriter wants to make his song sound great, thus without any intention to copy anything, they simply remix the previous songs and make another version of great music. In this way, there is approximately 95% of chance that the song will be popular, and so the songwriter will make money out of it.
Furthermore, I think the success of a song depends on how well the music was remixed, or how much of the original idea was put into it. Of course, when remixing a song, you're not completely "remixing" it. In other words, you should put SOME new and original melodies into it. Finding a correct beat that nicely fit with the remixed song is really important, and also it's really important to change everything in a nice way that people usually don't notice that the song is a remix. If these factors are met correctly, you got a new song that will be sold to a lot of audience. Most remix songs are not on billboard top 10 chart, since most of those songs are ALMOST truly original and are very innovative in terms of melody or beats.
Simply put, even though it wasn't so back in the 18th century, when geniuses like Mozart or Chopin created completely new kinds of music, the modern music industry is a "Remix" industry. Therefore, I think in order to be a great songwriter, you should first be a great copier or a remixer.
NOT FINISHED!
