no artistic flo, mr rida

How many more songs does Flo Rida want to sample and recreate as his 'own'? Why does he feel the need to ruin perfectly good songs and make them into some shitty 'dance pop'? Why are we allowing him to do this? WHY WHY WHY?

Yet again Flo Rida has used minimal creativity in 'his' songs. I must emphasis the use of the word 'his' in that sentence, because apart from adding a dance-like backing track and a couple of rap verses (if you can even call it rap), the songs are not his own. He has in fact just created his own version of the song - a remix if you like. This is evident in most of Flo Rida's work. Hold on, I shall prove it. 

Flo Rida's first work was pretty good, well pre-indie Paige loved it - SHAWTY HAD THEM APPLE BOTTOM JEANS, BOOTS WITH THE FURRRRR. Songs,from both Mail On Sunday and R.O.O.T.S, showed Flo Rida at his best. Okay, so yes I did rush out on the day of release to buy R.O.O.T.S, and I pretty much wore the album out. HOWEVER.. even on R.O.O.T.S Flo Rida sampled other songs! You all remember Right Round feat. Ke$ha, right? Original version being You Spin Me Round by Dead Or Alive.

More examples include:

Elevator;

Prove It All Night by Bruce Springsteen

In The Ayer;
Jam The Box by Pretty Tony

Sugar;

Blue (Da Ba Dee) by Eiffel 65

Available;

Boom Boom Pow by The Black Eyed Peas

Take Your Time (Do It Right) by The S.O.S Band

Run;

Run To You by Bryan Adams

Good Feeling;

 Etta James' Something's Got A Hold Of Me

(inspired by Levels by Avicii, which also samples Etta James' song.)

I Cry; 

Cry (Just A Little) by Bingo Players

Let It Roll;

Let The Good Time Roll by Freddie King

And more recently

How I Feel;

Feeling Good by Nina Simone

(incorporates the Bassnectar remix of Feeling Good)

Crazy right!?

Gimmicky. Yet catchy. 

Annoying. Yet clever.

Flo Rida is not a stupid person though. Obviously, his songs are catchy, and by using samples from songs which are clearly popular, he draws people in, brainwashing them to like his songs. And I guarantee he has made tonnes of money from them. But in no way is this right. Fair enough, if you've done it in one song it could be seen to be acceptable, BUT 10? (There may be more if you analyse each song critically.)

I understand that Flo Rida isn't the only artist to sample other songs, Pitbull is also frequently guilty of this. Not forgetting the argument between Directioners and The Who fans for the debate whether Best Song Ever was in fact copying Baba O'Riley.

But whatever, if you're going to sample songs from other people, at least do it some justice. PLEASE.