{"id":5133,"date":"2010-10-22T11:35:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/22\/musical-poll-remix-this\/"},"modified":"2010-10-22T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:35:32","slug":"musical-poll-remix-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/22\/musical-poll-remix-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Poll: Remix This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the way in to work, I heard yet another example of the deplorable trend of taking the vocal tracks of slow songs&#8211; in this case, &#8220;The Kids Don&#8217;t Stand a Chance&#8221; by Vampire Weekend&#8211; and replacing the musical backing with a 120 beats-per-minute dance beat that sounds like it was generated by a high-end Casio keyboard. These turn up over and over, and every time it happens, it annoys me to no end.<\/p>\n<p>But why should pop music be the only genre to get this treatment? Thus, a poll suggesting some other slow songs that ought(?) to receive this treatment:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3967637.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/3967637\/\">What slow song is most in need of a dance-beat remix?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">online survey<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to nominate your own favorites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way in to work, I heard yet another example of the deplorable trend of taking the vocal tracks of slow songs&#8211; in this case, &#8220;The Kids Don&#8217;t Stand a Chance&#8221; by Vampire Weekend&#8211; and replacing the musical backing with a 120 beats-per-minute dance beat that sounds like it was generated by a high-end&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/22\/musical-poll-remix-this\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musical Poll: Remix This!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,137,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-polls","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}