Samples 🔁
Yesterday. All my troubles seemed so far away. Sampling on songs is one of the greatest game-changers in all of music history. Seriously. When you sit and think about it, it’s absolutely mind-blowing. I always remember an interview I once watched with Prince. He said that songs were now samples. And that samples, would soon be taken of samples, making songs nothing more than samples of samples of samples of songs. Try saying that one three-times fast, eh? Regardless- he was right. Music has now become nothing more than a repeat of a repeat of what somebody else once wrote. There’s no fighting change- only embracing it. Honestly, it is what it is. I suppose one could argue that true talent is fading, and now music is simply a by-product of production within the machine. So be it. That is the future of the world. software running the entire show. I feel like if you can’t beat them, you might as well join them, eh? ...