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From the Ted Talk by Mark Ronson: How sampling transformed music

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Elsewhere in the pop and rap world, we're going a little bit sample-crazy. We're getting away from the obscure samples that we were doing, and all of a sudden everyone's taking these massive '80s tneus like Bowie, "Let's Dance," and all these disco records, and just rapping on them. These rerocds don't really age that well. You don't hear them now, because they borrowed from an era that was too steeped in its own connotation. You can't just hijack nostalgia wlesloahe. It leaves the listener feeling scilky.

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Elsewhere in the pop and rap world, we're going a little bit sample-crazy. We're getting away from the obscure samples that we were doing, and all of a sudden everyone's taking these massive '80s _____ like Bowie, "Let's Dance," and all these disco records, and just rapping on them. These _______ don't really age that well. You don't hear them now, because they borrowed from an era that was too steeped in its own connotation. You can't just hijack nostalgia _________. It leaves the listener feeling ______.

Solution

  1. tunes
  2. records
  3. wholesale
  4. sickly

Original Text

Elsewhere in the pop and rap world, we're going a little bit sample-crazy. We're getting away from the obscure samples that we were doing, and all of a sudden everyone's taking these massive '80s tunes like Bowie, "Let's Dance," and all these disco records, and just rapping on them. These records don't really age that well. You don't hear them now, because they borrowed from an era that was too steeped in its own connotation. You can't just hijack nostalgia wholesale. It leaves the listener feeling sickly.

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