Hará unos días, The-RockeR y yo íbamos en el coche escuchando la radio de camino a la universidad. La verdad es que soy bastante vago en el tema de la radio y suelo tener todo el día Europa FM tengan lo que tengan por no cambiar de emisora, aunque a veces no me guste lo que oigo. En general suelo utilizarla de “ruido” de fondo al cual no le presto demasiada atención.
Since this course began, Europa FM’s mornings have been taken over by Javier Cárdenas (yes, the one from Crónicas Marcianas) and his team. In general, I don’t dislike him in content, although in my opinion, Cárdenas does not vocalize well enough to be on the radio.
Returning to what I was going to tell, suddenly while we were chatting, we began to hear a familiar melody. It was none other than Thunderstruck by AC/DC and then we started paying attention. They announced a Mashup of said song with the Ghostbusters melody.
I make a point to explain what a Mashup is: It is basically the mixing of two songs, trying to make a new resulting song that sounds good. Normally the vocal part of one song is used and the background music of another or vice versa, even changing said parts in between. You have much more information, as always, on wikipedia. 
Then, the alarm bells went off. Some time ago we had heard a Mashup with those same melodies on the internet (thanks to YouTube), and at no point in the broadcast did they say that the Mashup came from some source, which meant that they had created the Mashup. First we gave them a vote of confidence, but when the song started, there was no doubt, they had put in someone else’s work, implying that it was theirs.
When I returned home, I started searching the internet for said Mashup, until I found the page in question. The worst came when verifying that on the program page, there was no reference to these sources at all. Not content with just this one, many more plagiarisms had occurred.
According to the website description:
Enric Sánchez has become a true discoverer of musical novelties. The new sensation are the MashUps, remixes that symbolize a duel between two artists: the rhythm of one song and the voice of another.
Since Enric Sánchez premiered the Manolo Escobar and David Guetta Mashup in Levántate y Cárdenas, several media outlets have echoed this new musical trend. And since then the remix has found no limits on Europa FM’s morning show.
It is clearly an attempt to benefit from other people’s work. In my opinion, if YouTube videos are used to create a radio program, the sources should at least be cited.
Leaving aside the bad work of said program and to end the post, I leave you with my three favorite Mashups. I hope you like them.
Green Day vs Oasis
AC/DC vs Ghostbusters
Nirvana vs Europe