Nothing shows more musicianship and talent than sampling another person's song and singing over it, especially when you didn't write what little music on there that wasn't already done. Several years ago, I was in fifth grade, and it was the year there was that huge hype about Viatmin C (the singer, not the vitamin). The whole Graduation song was huge, and I admit I liked it because the strings were cool and it was catchy (fifth grade was a time I barely knew shit about music, so catchy was cool). Well for the first time the other night, I realized that the string section for Graduation (Friends Forever) is taken from Pachelbel's Canon. Seriously, is there any way to be less of a musician? Even Blink 182 has more song-writing talent than these pop music assholes who do nothing but sample stuff and then put a lame beat over it that even I could play on drums, or have a song consisting of a shitty sounding midi drumset and weird high pitched scratching noise. That's not music, you're rapping/singing over noise, you butt pirates. If you're too afraid to put out your own songs because you or your record label is afraid you'll lose your following, you shouldn't be a musician.
