Great mashup example on Youtube.
The visuals as well as the music are skillfully combined and manipulated to create a new artform(I might need be a bit careful when labeling the word 'art', but anyway); creating of mashups on the web made by amateurs(such as this one) are becoming so popular that it already seems to have formed a whole new genre of its own. There were at least 15,100 entries on Youtube.com alone on searching the word 'mash up', a phenomenon which i believe has derived from and/or reflects the contemporary remix culture.
Kanye West + Maroon 5 (Mashup)
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wow...this is really awesome. I was surprised how musically and visually "complete" this mash-up played. i found the information you wrote about this growing trend in mash-up "artwork" interesting and made me ask some questions: Can this be seen as a form of pastiche? motage? to what extent is there originality and authenticity in these works? is the merit of a "mesh-up" judged by the technical skills used in mixing? or the compatibility of the artworks used in the mash-up? How do you evaluate the authenticity of a mash-up? What about mash-ups of mash-ups? Will mashing-up always complicate the visuals? mixing all three primary colors red blue and yellow create a color that is "no color." will mixing multiple images.. at any point.. lead to...blank?
Re: Minime What I was wondering as I watched that, as I am very familiar with the K West song but not with the Maroon 5 one, what is the relationship between the texts of the two songs? Maroon's is a pretty typical love song, guy suffering but can't give up the girl, K West's is a pretty powerful indictment of diamond (so-called 'conflict diamonds' from war-torn places like Sierra Leone (war-torn, some say precisely because they are diamond producers)) consumption by the nouveau riche hiphopcracy. I guess you can say the combined effect is I really wish I could give up these conflict diamonds, they are breaking my heart but, I don't, know why, I think they really want me to own them!
So...meaning...ummm... I think we live in age where meaning is pretty suspect.
Authenticity? I think we'd all like to believe that we are all artists these days, it is nice to be able to have an instant credibility by launching onto already culturally familiar and popular tropes as in mash-ups... I don't think there is such a thing as originality, but I think mash-ups are more of a reaction to corporate media than anything else.
For something that goes beyond mashup, for me...
I might have played this for you in class. Not a very high-quality version, but the orignal site seems to have been removed. Check out the comments for some contraversy
Michael Bell Smith's R. Kelly's Trapped in a Closet all at Once
and, I am quite sure I played this one, but here's a ref.
http://www.sandiegoserenade.com/2006/04/1986_world_series_game_6_reena.html
Comments on Trapped in a Closet All at Once are pretty harsh. -_-;;;;;;
(I am afraid of uploading movies onto youtube now;)
Anyway, "mash-up" is a new term for me. But it seems very technology oriented. Maybe mainly for leisurely or business purposes? I think the main difference from pastiche or montagemay be the creator's intentions and the interfaces.
"mash-up"only uses public interfaces like websites, no?
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