Remix Artists are Lazy

Remix artists or remixers nowadays are getting lazier and lazier. Most, if not all, of their songs are either a remix of a song another DJ have already remixed. Many albums out there have at least one song that have been remixed already. It would not be such a big deal if the remixes are of epic quality and can captivate the audience, but that is not the case for about... I'd say 80% of the remixes of a song out there.

Why 80%? Personally, I download one song, then a few other remixes if I like the song. Most of the time, a song in one album is also remixed in another. It's a sign that the song is popular and hip. Popular means good right? Not really... eventually when everyone has the same song in their album, the song becomes played out or not so hip anymore. Out of 5 remixes of the same song, I usually end up with one song to put into my playlist. The other remixes are either of bad quality, similar sound to other remixes, or fail to wow audiences.

Why does this happen then? There are many possibilities, but here are some reasons I came across that seems logical.

• Artists today are just too lazy to look for original material that has not been remixed yet.
• In the process of remixing songs for an album, a particular song may have been remixed already, but the artist did not know.
• Many DJs out there are not really DJs. Many will try to remix a hip song in an attempt to be hip in a community of remixers.
  
• When artists remix a song, they usually need an acapella version of the song, which is a song with no beat and ambient sound that only has the vocals. Now in a community of DJs and remixers, when a certain acapella is shared amongst this community, the result is a dozen artists getting a copy of the acapella and a dozen remixes are thrown out there.
• Copyrights. Some originals may be protected by the law and some artists like a majority of the remix industry, refuse to pay money for albums they release for free.

Let's just pretend that every single remix of a song out there is able to captivate and en-trance an audience, but even the most tolerable of us would from time to time get tired of something that is constantly repeated. Originality is important in all the businesses and industries of the world. Sometimes the remixes are so similar that it feels like a form of music plagiarism and it is basically like reading one news article on five different newspapers.