FEATURE:
The Lockdown Playlist
IN THIS PHOTO: Teyana Taylor (whose 2018 song, Gonna Love Me, contains a sample of I Gave to You, written and performed by The Delfonics; it samples Michael Jackson’s 1972 rendition of Bill Withers’ Ain’t No Sunshine)/PHOTO CREDIT: AP Images
Mighty Fine Samples in Song
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I have a couple of reasons…
why today’s Lockdown Playlist is all about samples. Fifteen years ago today, Madonna released her first single from the album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, Hung Up. It uses ABBA’s Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight), for which Madonna personally sought permission from its songwriters, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. It got me thinking about sampling, and I will be exploring sampling (as I have done a few times in the past) later this weekend. This Lockdown Playlist features songs that have been sampled by others, or tracks that contains some great samples – see if you can guess which songs are being sampled in many of these tracks! To get the weekend off to a kicking start, this is a smattering of some busy and layered songs that contain some wonderful samples, and some incredible songs that have been…
IN THIS PHOTO: Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Terminator X and Chuck D, alongside a member of the S1W troupe, in 1988/PHOTO CREDIT: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
SAMPLED by others.