In this digital age, new media allows anyone and everyone to be creative. Moreso today, where applications and tech have evolved, anyone with their phone or computer can produce professional-level content. Making short films, song mashups, modding games, user-generated content has slowly become commonplace on the internet. This is true with music mashups. In the New Yorker article, DJ Reset mashed up Beck and samples from Jay-Z and making a viral song out of it. Another DJ, Danger Mouse, made a mashup of The Black Album and the Beatles White Album making "The Grey Album" which also became massively popular as well.
My favorite line in the article is "You don't need a record label, because it's your bedroom, and you don't need a recording studio, because that's your computer. You do it all yourself." This is very true now more than ever, ordinary people have the means to become big or their little projects to become big. From sourcing samples to publishing, the internet provides a very large pool of content for people to work with.
Work Cited: The New Math of Mashups from The New Yorker Magazine 2005. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/10/050110crmu_music or here 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 - The New Yorker.pdf (below)
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