Pick who you think is the best Sampling Queen, here is just a few:

 

Ava:

 

Bey:

 

Nicki:

 

I like how Beyonce does it. Not familiar with Ava. Nicki is a bitt to copy and paste.

 

Beyonce is the only one who isn't lazy about it, so her. 

Summer Renaissance really reminds me of Sam's cover of I Feel Love

not the best sampling on Renaissance for sure

One of these is not like the others...

Beyoncé did an EXCELLENT job of sampling, it was fresh and yet honours the original sound. 
 

I do like Ava but feel like she’s ‘pigeon-holing’ herself into a box by not offering enough originality. 

Ava's is unironically the best out of these three

in general Beyoncé clears though

Personally I enjoy Ava's music more however Beyonce does the best at interpreting the samples and making the songs her own

 

Ava and Nicki are basically cover artists at times

Ava Max makes songs based on samples, she basically chooses an already huge song and builds her music around it. Zero creativity and originality.

 

Beyoncé uses samples very creatively and beautifully to elevate her music, and not because she's lazy and can't come up with something original.

 

 

The sampling queens.

 

I feel like Beyonce does it the "cleanest" or in the freshest way.

 

Nicki's new samples ain't it. None of hers really have been tbh.

Ava Max is to me how they portray pop stars on tv shows like Ashley O 

 

i rebooted my iPhone after going on her Spotify page. I couldn’t believe it was real. 

Bey does it better because she actually reworks them, Ava literally copy paste them with almost no changes  

Out of those three, the Ava Max song.

 

In general, I like how Beyonce and her team really rework the samples, but they sometimes don't have the same nostalgic feel I wish they had.

 

Ava goes samples better in general.

When Beyoncé samples, it has class to it. I'll say that.

 

Ava does a great sample. This is the best one.

 

 

Ava is the only one who isn't lazy about it, so her. 

Bey has some of the best sample uses EVER. From Crazy In Love to Renaissance. 

 

This is quite disrespectful  

Beyoncé is objectively the best at it. She’s not copy and pasting parts of songs, she reworks and reinvents for contemporary listeners. 

Ava is actually good at this. don't let the Shakira one fool you. but Beyoncé's are so smooth. so them.

Beyonce’s team is the least obvious about it 

2 hours ago, Safe&Sound said:

Summer Renaissance really reminds me of Sam's cover of I Feel Love

not the best sampling on Renaissance for sure

What?

 

I think it's one of the most brilliant examples of sampling because though the lines are used outright and not necessarily reinvented, it's presented like a quote, not so much a sample. She's not sneaking the lyrics in, Beyoncé literally transitions from her own lyrics to Donna's. Her vocals are soaring up and then they transforming into the lyrics of I Feel Love. The "e" sound on "dance" becomes the "I" sound of "I feel good". This is intricate, and brilliant, imo and nothing like a cover.

This also being the end of the album, and the album being one with many samples, she's very clearly outlining the source era like a bibliography and a direct quote (we also hear just a bit of Donna's voice echoing in the background at one point).

 

Not only that, but the song begins with a straight up sample of the iconic I Feel Love beat that changed pop music, and then it suddenly changes the beat itself and interpolates almost immediately... it's a brilliant technique which tells a story. The same cannot be said for the paint-by-numbers samples included in that of Ava or Nicki's latest works.

 

Edited January 22, 20242 yr by swissman

Bey

38 minutes ago, Raphy23 said:

Ava does a great sample. This is the best one.

 

 

could've been a bop but the "nobody hee-hee" and "can't you see-hee-hee" is the most annoying thing I've ever heard, wtf was that? 

The answer is Beyoncé. Her sampling is both artful and meaningful but also sonically appropriate. You never really get the sense that she's leaning into a classic hit just to attain a base-level of appeal for her song even at its most overt (like Naughty Girl), and most often she's really being clever with it and if you look into the samples you can understand a deeper meaning of her intention.

 

A GREAT example is Freedom.

 

She sampled a recording from a 1940s State Penitentiary on a song about freedom and the injustices of the justice system. It's a brilliant and moving use of a sample, the likes of which none of her peers have ever come close to presenting in their work.

 

 

Another good example is her sample of Led Zeppelin in Don't Hurt Yourself which aims to reclaim rock as a Black genre, and in doing so samples a white band's song that was itself a cover of a song co-written by a Black woman in the 1920s.
 

 

 

 

Edited January 22, 20242 yr by swissman