Mary's Mashups!

I am hooked! Check out this wonderful thing called a mashup. It's basically one song audibly mashed into another. You take one song's vocals and pit them up against the music tracks of another and then you have a mashup. MTV sells CDs of mashups and DJs in clubs love to do a little mashup now and then. It's a refreshing way to deliver music we've already heard. Usually it's done with audio only, but I found this awesome videomashup of Oasis and Green Day:



So what do you think? Is this silly and obnoxious like the sound of two songs playing at once? Is this something only true audio geeks can appreciate? Is it modern technology run amok? Or is this an awesome new form of artistic expression? It's kind of fun to imagine what would have been had those Green Day lyrics really been sung up against the melody of the Oasis song... Mashups aren't really that new, by the way. This has been going on for a while. Most notably, rapper Eminem did a mashup by rapping his lyrics over Aerosmith's Dream On.