Takes 3 To Tango

Alright, so this all makes me feel so giddy.

First, let your ears soak in this.

Secondly, listen to some of this song.

Now, listen to this song.

This is such a beautiful thing about music! I love the idea of parodies and covers.
There's something about songs being redone and re-wired and re-strung and re-formed and just re-, re-, re- that makes it such an amazing medium of art (like DJing too).
I think if you're covering or mixing a song, you're not saying that you're making it better than the original, just putting your own spin on it, creating new things, and taking the ideas of it, and totally turning it into something else.
Does it take away from the legitimacy of the original? I say absolutely not.
It's more like a breeding ground for appreciating the original as a stem and creating new ideas from that stem.
Maybe one day all music will have already been made and this will be the only thing left for artists to do! Probably not for another couple hundred years though.

So which is your favourite?