Top 10 Original Songs Overshadowed by Remakes / Sampled Songs
The song's beat is sampled in Gangster's Paradise by Coolio ft. LV.
Covered by Jimi Hendrix.
Sampled in 'Call on Me' by Eric Prydz.
Famous covered by Jeff Buckley.
Famously covered by Whitney Houston.
Resampled into Hung Up by Madonna
It was covered by Cyndi Lauper & her cover (which was a dance rock cover) was more popular. It was also covered by Miley Cyrus & hers was more upbeat than Cyndi Lauper’s cover but less than the original.
Covered by Cyndi Lauper
I think this is more popular than Deeper and Deeper.
The melody was remade into Viva La Vida by Coldplay, which became really popular, possibly overshadowing this. Yet it received a lawsuit by Joe Satriani until a settlement was made which Coldplay won.
Sampled in Thong Song by Sisqo which in turn was sampled in Love a Girl Right by Little Mix.
It was originally made by the Monkees in 1966 & covered by Smash Mouth in 2001. R.I.P. Davy Jones.
It was released in 1995 as a dance song & became popular at the time, but 13 years later Miley Cyrus interpolated it in her 2008 teen pop song Fly on the Wall, which became even more popular especially among preteens & teenagers & got interpolated in Go Hard by Kreayshawn in 2012. Yet fun fact was it interpolated Rock Lobster by the B-52's in 1978 & directly sampled the beat from Mickey by Toni Basil in 1982.
Gotta love that small moment of anxiety when you can't tell if it's Ice Ice Baby or Under Pressure.
The melody & instrumentation used in West End Girls got resampled into Jump by Madonna.
It appeared resampled into Beggin' On Your Knees by Victoria Justice for Victorious.
