Twang Hero, or how similar pop music has become

Or in this case, how similar country pop has become, but as others have pointed out you can do similar experiments with mainstream chart pop (any current pop multimash), or even EDM as Daleri did with the Beatport top 100. The recent horrible rise of the multi-mash and ‘compilation’ mashups like United States of Pop isn’t because of some amazing production skills, or some shift in technology, it’s because pop music has become so similar that it’s become easy.

It used to be a lot harder – over a decade years ago when Loo & Placido and even DJ Earworm were struggling to get all these tunes to work together without the luxury of video game rips, decent stems or Ableton. Or even a few years after that with the likes of Hank Handy’s Beatle mash…but when even guitar based songs, which are usually the hardest to mash together can just be interchanged like they are in some Twang Hero mix game, well…(via Ian Fondue)