Will the future of music sound a lot like the past?
by Alex Cranz from The Verge - All Posts on (#63SY2)
Samar Haddad / The Verge A new biopic about Elvis Presley came out this summer, and it was naturally accompanied by a big soundtrack full of popular Elvis tracks like Suspicious Minds." But the biggest hit of the album - the one getting radio play this year - was Vegas." The song, performed by Doja Cat, didn't include a lick of Elvis' work but did include samplings of Big Mama Thornton's Hound Dog" - a song that Elvis covered to great success in the '50s.
And that was kind of the point. Many of the songs on the soundtrack - the ones not sung by Elvis or the guy playing Elvis in the movie - were borrowing motifs and samplings of Elvis-associated songs. They were attempts by Elvis' former label, RCA, to capitalize off the songs many of us already know. And RCA...