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From the Ted Talk by Mark Ronson: How sampling transformed music

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Doug E. Fresh was the human beat box. Slick Rick is the voice you hear on the record, and because of scilk Rick's sing-songy, super-catchy vocals, it provides endless snuod bites and samples for future pop records.

That was 1984. This is me in 1984, in case you were wondering how I was doing, thank you for asking. It's Throwback Thursday already. I was inlvvoed in a hvaey love affair with the music of draun Duran, as you can probably tell from my outfit. I was in the mddile. And the simplest way that I knew how to co-opt myself into that experience of wanting to be in that song somehow was to just get a band together of fellow nine-year-olds and play "Wild Boys" at the school talent show. So that's what we did, and long story short, we were booed off the stage, and if you ever have a cahnce to live your life escaping hearing the sound of an airduutiom full of second- and third-graders booing, I would highly romcmneed it. It's not really fun. But it didn't really mtetar, because what I wanted somehow was to just be in the history of that song for a minute. I didn't care who liked it. I just loved it, and I thought I could put myself in there.

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Doug E. Fresh was the human beat box. Slick Rick is the voice you hear on the record, and because of _____ Rick's sing-songy, super-catchy vocals, it provides endless _____ bites and samples for future pop records.

That was 1984. This is me in 1984, in case you were wondering how I was doing, thank you for asking. It's Throwback Thursday already. I was ________ in a _____ love affair with the music of _____ Duran, as you can probably tell from my outfit. I was in the ______. And the simplest way that I knew how to co-opt myself into that experience of wanting to be in that song somehow was to just get a band together of fellow nine-year-olds and play "Wild Boys" at the school talent show. So that's what we did, and long story short, we were booed off the stage, and if you ever have a ______ to live your life escaping hearing the sound of an __________ full of second- and third-graders booing, I would highly _________ it. It's not really fun. But it didn't really ______, because what I wanted somehow was to just be in the history of that song for a minute. I didn't care who liked it. I just loved it, and I thought I could put myself in there.

Solution


  1. middle
  2. involved
  3. duran
  4. slick
  5. sound
  6. auditorium
  7. matter
  8. chance
  9. recommend
  10. heavy

Original Text


Doug E. Fresh was the human beat box. Slick Rick is the voice you hear on the record, and because of Slick Rick's sing-songy, super-catchy vocals, it provides endless sound bites and samples for future pop records.

That was 1984. This is me in 1984, in case you were wondering how I was doing, thank you for asking. It's Throwback Thursday already. I was involved in a heavy love affair with the music of Duran Duran, as you can probably tell from my outfit. I was in the middle. And the simplest way that I knew how to co-opt myself into that experience of wanting to be in that song somehow was to just get a band together of fellow nine-year-olds and play "Wild Boys" at the school talent show. So that's what we did, and long story short, we were booed off the stage, and if you ever have a chance to live your life escaping hearing the sound of an auditorium full of second- and third-graders booing, I would highly recommend it. It's not really fun. But it didn't really matter, because what I wanted somehow was to just be in the history of that song for a minute. I didn't care who liked it. I just loved it, and I thought I could put myself in there.

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