Here are Billboard's picks for the 50 best interpolations of the 21st century. 🎶
. When a new song calls back to an older one without directly sampling from it, it can run the risk of setting off a powder keg between fan groups and lawyers alike, leading to arguments over who deserves what in terms of credit, both in the artistic and legal senses.
But the potential rewards are also high. A subtle lift from a familiar hit can be an easy shortcut to making a new single feel like it's already a smash the first time you hear it. It can also be an inspired way to ground the new entry in pop history -- and maybe even add extra new layers of complexity to it, expanding the meaning of the newer song by folding all our feelings about and associations with the older song into it.
'It’s Made People More Paranoid': How Artists and Writers Are Covering Their Bases in the Post-’Blurred Lines’ Era of Interpolations This week, we're commemorating the art of the interpolation at its most successful by listing our 50 picks for the best examples of the form from this century -- the songs that crossed genres and generations to revive old classics and make new ones. Some of them are head-smackingly obvious, and some of them you might not have even spotted until this very list; all of them serve as new links strengthening the chains connecting pop's past, present and future.
Check out our list below, divided into those sections, and best of luck sorting out all the unforgettable songs you'll get tangled in your head afterwards.Interpolations that traffic heavily in '90s nostalgia, borrowing huge and instantly recognizable Clinton-era hooks.
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