![]() ![]() While techniques and sourcing still vary - with many audios co-opted from platforms like SoundCloud and YouTube, then reposted by de facto TikTok curators and micro DJs - the core of the genre is still present. ![]() Normally confined to a mere 15 seconds, audio mashups on TikTok are beginning to shift the ways in which young people discover music ( mashups of hits from the ‘90s are just as popular as those featuring current chart-toppers like Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP”), and how a new cache of artists and creators perceive sampling. Only recently, however, has the mashup gotten a whole lot more popular - and much more succinct. From the campy takes on the classics in Ryan Murphy’s Glee - a show that even paid homage by centering an entire Season 1 episode around the concept - to the viral longform videos of Daniel Kim’s “Pop Danthology” and DJ Earworm’s “United State of Pop,” the current generation’s teens and young adults have always been exposed to the genre. ![]() To say that the mashup went out of style would be doing a disservice to the pre-TikTok power players who helped instill a love for the mixing method in millennials and Gen Zers around the globe throughout the 2010s. ![]()
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