Music Appreciation

NIWS because a couple of weeks ago, while checking out a magazine's list of dance (techno) remixes of classic rock, I heard one of this Moodies standard. The remix, which has a lot of views on YouTube, started with enough of the Moodies' instrumental intro to sound familiar, then when the track got to Justin's vocal, it had been altered to make him sound like a cartoon chipmunk...and at about a minute in, the track started sounding like the sound track for a very early third-rate video game. I couldn't help wondering how many kids had heard that atrocity as their "introduction" to NIWS.

The magazine had said the remixes were popular because of the combination of nostalgia and wanting a booming dance beat. There's nothing "nostalgic" about making Justin Hayward sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks, and I thought that track was obviously an attempt to get more views with the reference to NIWS while at the same time showing resentment/envy of a brilliant, classic song they'll never match, by artists they'll never equal.