Monday, April 4, 2011

Blog #10



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44k8u_sZsVE

Jagged Edge - Lets get married remix


When Lessig talks about his friend Ben on page 52 who can write well he mentioned the reasons why.  He didn't do well in other classes but when it came to writing, he was able to clip quotes from the authors and build his arguments around it.  "He suceeded because the salience of the quotes, in contect, made a point that his words alone would not.  In this remix run dmcs flow, the new beat, and a few changes into the songs lyrics from the original remind me quotes, they string together to make a perfect remix.  They created what was originally a slow jam song to a up beat marriage song.  First time I herd a marriage song that made you want to dance.

page 56 - It is the expression of a freedom to take "the sons of the day or the old songs" and create with them.  Basically this remix used the original lets get married song which was slow beat.  and they added the old school RUN DMC in the song and having rap with a slow jam, and changing the beat made this remix even more popular then the original.

page 69 - "But the internet and digital technologies opened these media to the masses"  Just how sampling and  remixing has evolved and keeps evolving, having rappers have a rhyme or two in a slow jam or different genre song has been getting popular lately.  A lot of songs do this now and this remix is a great example of how successful these two mixings of genres in a song can become.  R&B with RAP is still growing.  A perfect example of a artist who does this alot is trey songz with rapper drake.