Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Song Of The Day: Flo Rida- "Good Feeling"


Songs like these make me wonder about what goes on behind closed doors in the music industry.  For instance, the song sampled in this track (no, I don't think Flo Rida can make a hit song without using a sample), is "Something's Got A Hold On Me," by Etta James, an obscure R&B song from 1962 that doesn't even have it's own Wikipedia page.  Yet in the last year, it was already sampled by indie-electronic favorite Pretty Lights and house sensation Avicii.  Now Flo Rida becomes the third artist in a year to use James' vocals, which is almost incomprehensible.  Why did his producers decide to use a sample that's already been done twice very recently, instead of finding a new track to use?  And if they really wanted to use this song, why couldn't they make it better?  The only good part of this song is the sample, and it's not used as well as Avicii or Pretty Lights used it.  Overall a very disappointing effort from Flo Rida, and an extremely confusing one as well.

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