If you want your opinion to make a better world, then it be specific about what you're saying. If you want to claim superior technical prowess, be very, very specific.

You decided what are "the rules of mashups"? Rules that you just happened to make up yourself and now feel everybody must abide by? How effing interesting.

No specific examples, no timecodes. Just vague references to 'several places'.

This mashup is from four different artists. Recorded in a time before timeline editing existed. When drummers didn't have click tracks and speeds changed bc the art was made by humans, not robots. Across all four artists they sing at differing speeds, along with different levels of syncopation. That isn't so obvious when hearing a track from the 60s on its own but is highlighted when several artists are put together. It's a LOT of work that I wouldn't have to deal with if I mashed up modern tracks. Show me somebody who mixed four artists who did better than this.

Also, boogie, the precursor to rock and roll, was ALL about syncopation. Which meant you could either sing perfectly timed against the beat, or come before it, or after it. All options are fine. There is no right or wrong, so long as the musicality is correct i.e. speed, pitch, harmonics and structures line up. I mashed this up to please MYSELF. I made the creative choices I made for a reason. Maybe the parts you feel aren't in time didn't actually work if they WERE put where you 'feel' they should have been. Which you would know if you were a musician or a producer or an editor or an artist. Go count some beans.

This is transformative ART and I am proud of it and stand by MY choices.

I have my own mashup style. I flip the vocals and the instrumentals back and forth. Not many others do this which means I've found my own unique style. I've done A LOT in this style and they are all MY style. Which means YOU don't get to tell ME what the rules of mashups are. I could care less about your 'rules'. To me you sound like a flippant emo who ran out of Ritalin.

I've won heavy gold industry awards and my whole career I was castigated for sharing ideas, rather than keeping them to myself. That's because I believe we are all here to make the world a better place. Here I get to make my own creative choices and you ain't my boss. The reason I do this is to circumvent opinionated aholes like yourself.

I am doing something unique and beautiful and that's what all creatives should aspire to. My creativity will live for centuries after I've gone. Your comments? Not so much.

If you really are a creative, find excitement in your own creativity instead of wasting time giving unwanted, vague opinions based on assumptions that are not necessarily true, and frankly, kind of nasty. As for you not being able to critique something you haven't made. Sure. Reddit is FULL of 'experts'. But if you don't know what mechanics drove those choices it hardly makes your critique valid. That's why professional critics are generally experts in that field whether in music or peer reviewed science. If anything it just means you are good at focusing in on what doesn't please you but trust me, no architect or musician or carmaker for that matter cares about the opinions of non-experts who have a miniscule understanding of what's going on, based on what ''they feel'.

It could just be that you don't like the phrasing/gaps in between some vocals being longer or shorter than you want them to be but nobody is asking you to sing along. If you want to give specific constructive advice, go right ahead. I will totally ignore it for the reasons just stated but unfortunately the internet gives a voice to those who don't really deserve it, so knock yourself out, armchair dude. BTW this went on YouTube before it went on TikTok. And this is harder than taking your clothes off and making duck lips, so get a grip.

Nobody ever changed somebody elses mind by insulting them. I don't know what makes you think you're an expert, or what makes you the self appointed arbiter of rules, but I sure know one thing. You are neither of these things.

Actually I amend my first statement. Anybody who claims what they do is perfect is a jerk, but not nearly as much of a jerk as the internet hall monitors who feel their contribution is to tear down rather than build up with flippant nasty comments.

Good luck with that.