Dear Chamillionaire
I understand you are a hip rapper, and too cool for my taste, but could you please stop sampling Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’ in your song Good Morning.
While flipping through the radio channels I stopped when I thought I was going to hear the classic tune. Then I heard something about haters, love, shoes and big stacks of cash.
This isn’t the first time music lovers have been fooled.
In the early 1990s music lovers heard the baseline of Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie, to only be disappointed at “all right stop collaborate and listen.”
I tried to stomach Rihanna using the “tainted love” beat in her catchy first single and ignore Flo Rida’s use of “you spin me” in his tune about strippers, but I cannot take anymore. I know there are more examples, but there are just some of the more current disgraces to a time when music was good.
These songs are classics and there are some things you should just leave alone.
P.S. Could you please call the oldies’ station in Pittsburgh and inform them that the 80ies are not oldies. I am not ready for my music to be “old.”
(I welcome any comments, suggestions and criticism at michelleg@dailyamerican.com)
Yes! I agree. I can take Guns -N- Roses and Def Leppard as classic rock! Us folks born in the ’70s aren’t THAT old! If these “artists” are going to “sample” classic tunes, at least make the kids that are listening aware of the originals!
I agree with you! Let the originals alone. It only proves that the “new” groups can’t come up with hits of their own.