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Music 'Interpolation'

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thejuice

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Ever notice how new Gen Z songs sounds like songs from the Gen X or Boomer generation?
Well apparently there's a weasel word for it called Interpolation, where you rerecord the exact same melody and change the lyrics and a brand new money maker is now yours. Because Gen Z are young and as a whole prefer playing videogames to listening to music, they are less likely to know music history so this recycled music appears new to them. Not a diss on Gen Z btw. Videogames are cool and far more stimulating than music is in my opinion.
 
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I don't know what most of them are listening to. I just know that I don't like hearing most of it from any of the generations my own included.
 
That's interesting.

I did a lot of "interpolation" when I was an insurance rater. But with numbers relative to rating charts and values. Where property values could be in between rate numbers forcing us to interpolate them to get a precise premium due.

Though I am aware of lawsuits like those of Vanilla Ice and David Bowie. Not cool, Vanilla.
 
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I wonder if these people are all using the word interpolate correctly, or just seeing if they get sued or not. Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) interpolated older American songs on Smile, but gave credit. That is, he wrote music which quotes or appropriates parts of older songs (such as "Gee" by The Crows or "You Are My Sunshine," whose author is disputed).

However, when he turned "Sweet Little Sixteen" by Chuck Berry into "Surfin' USA," he got sued. I don't think the melodies are exactly the same, but Wilson essentially took the music and wrote new words to it. When John Lennon took some Chuck Berry lyrics for part of "Come Together" they did an out-of-court settlement.

The examples in the video are interesting. The Dua Lipa song does have a melody like the guitar part in "Need You Tonight," but the melody of the INXS song is different. I mean, the vocals in each song are different. So she kind of wrote new lyrics fitting the guitar part, but not what Michael Hutchence is singing. And I think the KISS song is essentially based on a scale, so maybe it's not one they can sue over. I could be wrong. I'm surprised Beato didn't go into these details.
 
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