It's not a secret that I hate pop radio music. I find no musical value in it, and most of it is cheesy and horrendous on a grand scale. There are pop songs that remind me of certain times of my life, but that doesn't make me like them any more in any context. There have been some pretty bad pop songs in the last 20 years, the ones that just annoy you to no end.
It seems like music has gotten even worse as time has gone on. If Nirvana killed Metal, then Boy Bands killed Rock. There's not that much good rock out there anymore. This being said, what if metal was still the mainstream music form on the radio today? What if the people who were out singing pop had actually been metal acts? Yes, Pat Boone did metal covers in his own style, but that sucked. Well, some guy with a YouTube channel named Andy Rehfeldt has given us a glimpse of what it could be like with today's music.
Mixed in with pop-gone-metal remixes are remixes of great metal and rock songs, mixed into other styles. For example, there's a Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit(Reggae Version) and Cannibal Corpse Hammer Smashed Face(Radio Disney Version). These funny remixes are great, but the cream of the crop for me are the pop-gone-metal mixes. They let us know what radio could have sounded like the last fifteen years if pop didn't win out. Here are my top 5 "it's slightly better" pop remixes:
My Heart Will Go On(Celine Dion)
Yes, that's slightly better. It's weird how it almost works. I like how he has chosen to keep the original vocal track for authenticity. You can't deny that this insanely annoying song is slightly better this way.
Baby(Justin Bieber)
I'm on the fence about anything ever making this song better. It's probably the most un-listenable song in the last 10 years at least. When a song is this bad, anything can only make it go up.
You Belong With Me(Taylor Swift)
I dislike this song mostly on the basis that it's 1)A creepy stalker anthem and 2)My daughter played it way too much when it was popular. If I never have to hear this song again, that would be great. This only adds maybe 1/100000000th of an ounce of decency to it, but that's a start.
Hips Don't Lie(Shakira)
Every time I hear Shakira, I just want to ask her "Why do you have to sing like that?!" I can't stand the way she sounds. Pretty annoying. This is probably the most annoying song she has had out on mainstream radio. The metal probably doesn't make it any better since her voice still sounds like that, but at least it gives you something to distract you from it.
Toxic(Britney Spears)
Nothing saves Britney Spears from being ridiculous. Not even a metal track, but it somehow fits the way the song moves forward. Plus you can't help but laugh at the Barnum & Bailey song solo in the middle and metal again may be able to distract you from the horrible song and lyrics by Britney here.
Well that's all the best ones this guy has done so far for newer music. I don't really think that it makes much of a difference with these songs. I still think music would have sucked, but at least there would be guitar in the songs. I have panned through and found one that I feel is particularly brilliant. It really stands out, both comically and in the sense that it is really well done. It's the best pop-gone-metal remix of a classic pop song. Here it is:
Dancing Queen(ABBA)
The mix music and the vocals really seem to work in a very strange and unintentional way here. So THAT'S why ABBA was put in the Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame...
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