Mashed up. (Music).Can hip-hop diva Missy Elliott and hard rockers Metallica ever unite in harmony? Yes, thanks to the new online music genre of mashups. Beyond simple song swapping, users create mashups by breaking apart songs like Legos and putting the vocals and instrumentals back together however they want. Anyone with easy-to-download music-producing software and an ear for two great sounds that sound great together can do it. Here are examples circulated on the Net and in underground record stores. * Missy Elliott + Metallica--Combining the metal "Enter Sandman Sandman induces sleep by sprinkling sand in children’s eyes. [Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 966] See : Sleep Sandman - The DoD requirements that led to APSE. " instrumental with Elliott's rhymes walks the line between total mess and supercharged su·per·charge tr.v. su·per·charged, su·per·charg·ing, su·per·charg·es 1. To increase the power of (an engine, for example), as by fitting with a supercharger. 2. new song. * Christina Aguilera  Some statements may be disputed, incorrect, , biased or otherwise objectionable. * Destiny's Child + Nirvana--"Bootylicious bootylicious Adjective Slang sexually attractive, esp. with curvaceous buttocks " meets grunge grunge - /gruhnj/ 1. That which is grungy, or that which makes it so. 2. [Cambridge] Code which is inaccessible due to changes in other parts of the program. The preferred term in North America is dead code. . The result smells like the best of both worlds--and a new copyright headache for the record industry. |
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