While techniques and sourcing still vary - with many audios co-opted from platforms like SoundCloud and YouTube, then reposted by de facto TikTok curators and micro DJs - the core of the genre is still present. Normally confined to a mere 15 seconds, audio mashups on TikTok are beginning to shift the ways in which young people discover music ( mashups of hits from the ‘90s are just as popular as those featuring current chart-toppers like Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP”), and how a new cache of artists and creators perceive sampling. Only recently, however, has the mashup gotten a whole lot more popular - and much more succinct. From the campy takes on the classics in Ryan Murphy’s Glee - a show that even paid homage by centering an entire Season 1 episode around the concept - to the viral longform videos of Daniel Kim’s “Pop Danthology” and DJ Earworm’s “United State of Pop,” the current generation’s teens and young adults have always been exposed to the genre. To say that the mashup went out of style would be doing a disservice to the pre-TikTok power players who helped instill a love for the mixing method in millennials and Gen Zers around the globe throughout the 2010s.
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