Artist Remaking Songs

[morgorath]

There's a difference between sampling and covering a song. Puff Daddy using the Police's every breath you take riff is a sample. That rapper taking The Police's Roxanne riff is a sample. So on and so forth.

Hey sampling is even worse in my view. And Puff Daddy pretty much did a cover of the song "Every breath you take" he added new vocals and lyrics, but the sheet music was left almost untouched. Sampling is a bane of music. Let?s take a "hook" or something people already now and then add are own stuff to it. Is it new yes... is it good that is left up to choice and opinion. And lets face music is all about opinion.