Subject: Well, I can't say it for all remixes, but
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Posted on: 2014-02-13 02:56:00 UTC
The T-Pain remix of Royals has taken all the lyrics of the original and changed them to the exact opposite. Which, given that the original was a critique on rap and hip hop culture, seems to serve as a rebuttal.
Kinda like how we make Dark and Edgy versions of fluffy canons, and AUs Where Everyone Lives for sad canons. And fix-it fics to critique everything in the original.
I once made a post on Tumblr that became insanely popular about bad fanfiction being like a Kids Bop cover of your favourite song.
Now I'm thinking of expanding the analogy. If a bad cover is like bad fanfiction, would a mash up be considered a crossover? Would a cover of a song that changes the tempo or style (like a really sad acoustic cover of "500 Miles" by the Proclaimers) be an AU? Would a John Barrowman cover of any given love song (or any cover artist who doesn't change the pronouns in a song's lyrics) be slash?
Just wondering.
Woo. As an audiophilic fanfiction writer, this interests me highly. I haven't read the Tumblr, so excuse me if this was addressed, but what about remixes? Would that be Alternative Character Interpretation, Character Derailment, or Mary Sue? Perhaps that would depend on how it was handled- after all, these things are up in the air themselves, and so are remixes- either you love it or you hate it, just like with those character conventions, you either consider them acceptable or unacceptable. (Sad that Mary Sues are acceptable, but that's just how it is. That's why this site exists, after all.)
Or remixes could also be like the Seventh Sanctum generators where it's like "your favorite characters if they were like this" or "if they were in this setting".
The T-Pain remix of Royals has taken all the lyrics of the original and changed them to the exact opposite. Which, given that the original was a critique on rap and hip hop culture, seems to serve as a rebuttal.
Kinda like how we make Dark and Edgy versions of fluffy canons, and AUs Where Everyone Lives for sad canons. And fix-it fics to critique everything in the original.
... the Wrecked Music Department would consider it somewhere between a Mary-Sue and a trans-dimensional snatching. Of course, they're from an AU PPC anyway (probably), so their opinion doesn't matter. I just felt like linking them. ;)
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But if we consider the evolution of, say, the Doctor Who theme, what does that make it? Tone shift? Re-branding?
Anyhoo, since this appears to be a fan-music thread, allow me to plug a few favourites.
Because if it's just the creation and precision of classical music, that would be original fiction in that analogy, and a person replaying the classical music as initially composed would have been akin to a reprint of the series.
An arrangement of a piece for Chamber (For example, Pachelbel's canon) to maybe piano could be like an AU.