More recently, I was researching the phenomena of remixes – primarily when I found this hilarious remix version of Bob Ross on Youtube.
My perception of fan-based remixes came to another dimension, when I made the mistake of adding a folder of „My Little Pony“ fanmade remixes to my GoogleDrive account. When my File Explorer crashed completely, I finally realized that Google just tried to sync approx. 6000 MP3s with nearly 30 Gigabytes in size. I did know that the My-Little-Pony-fandom was a large one including artworks on sites like DeviantArt, a huge convention set-up or Cosplay-Events, but I was not too much aware of all of these musicians creating fanmade, derivate (and besides, copyright-infringing) work based on a cartoon series in that sheer size.
Now, a small experiment: I took one particular sample of the series: „Love is in Bloom“. A song, that is played at the end of Season 2 for just some seconds. Voice-Overs are dubbed over this sample, as well. You would think, it’s not the most inviting thing to do remixes with (however, an extended version was released a little later). Nevertheless, I searched for remixes just out of curiosity (and no, I wouldn’t even dare to do the same with some of the even „more popular“ song samples).
After a short time, I had a remix-compilation of the song including styles like instrumental piano covers, techno, house, electrobeat, rap, 8-bit, rock covers and and and… Everything else I put into this video (original sample at the beginning):
(I personally like the one from Warbalist at 35:30, including just everything cool from piano, 80ies, rock, 8-bit, scratching and guitar solos).
Well. Fan momentums are crazy.
But this is what happens when a company decides to tolerate derivate works (also see this Variety article). I sense, that, as soon as all companies realize which opportunities they’re missing by their current copyright mania, something really big and beautiful will emerge on the creativity side of peers that is not just bound to some specific fan groups. Let’s foster that trend!
Will keep an eye on that. After all, everything is a remix anyway.
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