Postmodernism and Music

1) John and Edward, 'so bad, it's good'.
Jedward took over scenes for a grand total of 7 weekends, that they managed to survive in the popular 'talent' show of xfactor (despite the fact they can't sing for toffee). An example of the boys trying to bring back certain songs would be ghost busters, or when they brought 'ice ice baby' into Queen's classic track 'under pressure'.




1) Crazy Frog - Axel F `So Bad It's Good`
The Dreaded Amphipian that took over our phones in the early naughties was an animated and remixed version of Axel F by Harold Faltermeyer the frog was spread round phones by websites such as napster but the younger generation liked the catchy riffs that rang out through mobile phones.


2) A music constantly develops, current artist also try to mix the old with the new. There are many examples of this in music today, and one of the most popular genre's for doing this is rap/ hip hop Artists such as Kanye West reflect this through songs like; 'Gold digger' which is an adaptation of Ray Charles song 'I've got a woman' another example from Kanye would be 'diamonds are forever' which includes the classic and well known song from Shirley Bassey in which they incorporate others' songs into their own.




a more underground example of this is dubstep, an up and coming genre that is all over youtube, remixing tunes and even dialogue from cult films.



Remix Of Lloyds TSB Adverts tune, These type of remixes can easily be constructed on simple music editing programs.



Football Factory quote turn music track.



The Marvellettes original of mr.postman, with added, umphhh.



Give it a while to get into the music but essentially it is just pulp fiction with Wobble Bass inbetween the words.

3) Audiences thats are both mainstream and niche now have easier access to their different and varied mucis tastes. Examples of this would be radio stations like radio1, in the morning they have mainstream broadcasters such as Chris Moyles who plays current mainstream music however, in the evening you have presenters such as annie mac and zane lowe who promote schemes such as 'in new music we trust'. Another example of how these audiences' need are met are through mucis channels for example the universally known channel of MTV varies in all sorts of ways having different sub-channels for people tastes; such as MTV TWO which plays more niche music which isnt always readily available on mainstream channels. NME TV is also an example of a channel for a niche audience.

4) There are so many different ways for our society to engage into music whether it be their phones, ipod, DAB digital radio's, in car/ any vechile, internet, television, etc. things such as podcasts can even been downloaded if shows are missed, this makes everything so accessible to everyone. Music is a constant, everywhere...even on the move.Also Myspace Music allows any band / musician to publish there music online for anyone to listen to Lily Allen famously made her comeback by using myspace, other artists such as Calvin Harris, N-dubz and Junior Fencing Club took advantage of this modern technology to get there music out and in the public eye.

5) Borrowed music/ Sampling music. This is a new movement in which new artists use exsisting artists music to inspire their songs. Example are easier to example this theory rather than words.
- Lily Allen; 'Are you there?' = Take That; 'Shine'.
- Nas; 'I can' = Beethoven; 'Fur Elise'.
- Rihana; 'S.O.S' = Soft Cell 'Tainted Love'.
-MC Hammer; 'Can't Touch This' = Rick James; 'Super Freak'


6) The availability of mucis as i've stated before is constantly growing and becoming easier whether legally or not, for the public through programmes such as itunes store and limewire. It has been said that in 10 years music will be free to download for everyone. However, this will bare the question of is there going to be any profit for the artists & will the tradition of supporting the music you love exsist & will artists still survive? websites such as 'spotify' allow you to listen to songs free.