Sample culture and remixes have been obtaining mainstream success since the 90s, coupled with the steady and gradual defunding the arts in education, coupled with the rise in cheap audio production technology and autotune = 2020. We shoulda had flying cars.

This has been going on for like 30 years now bruh.

And all these years later, with all the modern examples to choose from, for whatever reason the SWV Human Nature remix of "Right Here" annoys me the most.... also the 40 "versions" of "Between the Sheets" every R&B/rap artist had to sample from the 90s until mid 00s.

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AvocadosMax said:

But we have to accept that we’re in the remix/remake age.

Remakes have been around pretty much the entire history of the recording industry. That's how some songs became to be called standards. Many artists recorded the same songs, especially with jazz singers and easy listening bands like Percy Faith & James Last. Back in the 1960s, Gladys Knight & The Pips & Marvin Gaye had a big hit with the same song about a year apart. Same with the Isley Brothers & The Beatles and neither of them had the original version. Twist And Shout was first released by The Top Notes. That won't happen now. Remakes of hit songs are less common now, probably because many modern hits since the 1990s are rap songs which don't really fit someone else doing them. There's a lot of Youtube covers though. Like metal, gospel, classical & jazz versions of Bodak Yellow.