Music is lacking in integrity and originality (i.e. too much sampling and covering): an example essay

Loss of Music "The hills are alive with the sound of music." The hills are alive with the sound of covered, sampled, plagiarized, and redone music. Is there any originality in music anymore? In general, popular music and culture has become an imitation of an imitation. Almost everything found in music today is sampled music from yesterday, much uglier the second time around. "Sampling," is a major issue. Sampling is the extraction of portions of …

…call for a return to originality. Now that sampling's a multi-million dollar industry in itself , many people have a financial incentive in seeing people continue to raid old catalogs. It is up to the true music fans to demand that producers either make more creative use of sampling or accept the challenge of creating all original tracks. Because as it currently stands, this generation is not leaving a musical legacy to be very proud of.