Song Recreations

Three songs that have been transformed into different works. Some may say it's plagiarizing but I just think that recreation of a song and making it your own is just using someone's original idea and adding a personal spin on it. As long as the song is clearly remade and the tones are different covering songs is very cool and can help lyrics be heard and felt in different emotional ways from the different song styles.


Discovery- I Want You Back REMAKE

The Jackson Five - I want you Back ORIGINAL

Discovery is an indie electronic band that creates songs using a synthesizer. The words of this song are changed, sped up and slowed down. The pitch of this bands voice is shaky and high compared to the original song. The overall tone of the transformed song is "trippy" and chill. The original song by the Jackson five uses a piano, drums and an electric guitar. The piano is the most definite portion of this song, it creates a happy tone and upbeat feeling. In the song by Discovery a loop machine is used, and not a piano. In the original song it is sung by clearly more then one voice, and in the recreated song there are only two different voices. The recreated song's voices are stretched and sounds are repeated 


hey ya- Outkast ORIGINAL

Hey Ya- Matt Weddle REMAKE






This recreation of the song has one acoustic guitar and one artist. The beat is much slower and the flow and tone of the song is much softer. Words from the refrain 'hey ya' and 'alright' are lengthened into full meters whereas in the original song by Outkast the words are shot, fast, and choppy. In this recreation each word is fully annunciated. In the original song, pianos, drums, horns, and percussion instruments are used.


Sing for the moment - Aerosmith ORIGINAL

Sing for the moment - Eminem REMAKE

The original song is sung by Aerosmith in a jazzy type of tune. The recreated version by Eminem is hiphop and the words are faster. Eminem also changed some of the lyrics in his remake