So, yeah, up until 1 am for no good reason, except I got sucked into YouTube and the Hype Machine, finding covers and mashups of pop songs that have finally burrowed their way into my consciousness after constant exposure. And it both delights me and makes me a little wistful that I’m not the first person who thought two songs just happened to fit really well together not just thematically (lyrically speaking) but even in terms of key signature and rhythm.

There are people who decry the post-modern/post-colonial remix/mashup nature of contemporary culture, but it’s a different kind of creativity, and it really fits well with the fact we are pattern recognition machines, and a very social species.