The epidemic of lazy sampling
By Devin Ankeney | May 6, 2023You can’t make it an hour listening to your Spotify or the radio without running headfirst into a song that samples another song. It’s the big thing now.
Devin is a junior Journalism and Media and Communication major from Scarsdale, New York. They joined The Student their freshman year and, in addition to being the Opinion Editor, they are the Business Manager.
In their tenure, they’ve written across various sections including Food, Entertainment and C&C but, most importantly, Opinion. Anything and everything that they could complain about has made it into print.
When not overworking herself, you can find Devin wherever a Paul McCartney song is playing.
You can contact them by email (ankenedw@miamioh.edu).
You can’t make it an hour listening to your Spotify or the radio without running headfirst into a song that samples another song. It’s the big thing now.
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