How Did Pop Art Change Throughout The 80's

During the late 1950’s through the 1960’s, pop art included techniques that were different that the traditional methods of producing art and issues of ownership. Sampling became a technique that was used by artists and Andy Warhol’s artworks impacted popular music. Music sampling was a technique that was used to produce new music and the turntable was used to mix music. Over the years, technology has allowed existing sounds to be transferred from one song to the next with a sampler. In today’s music world, many famous artists including Beyonce, Ed Sheeran, Kanye West, Jay Z., Ariana Grande, Jason Derulo, and other singers use music sampling in their songs as a way and inspiration to express their creativity and expand unique forms of music.
His works with commercial demonstrate the interconnectivity of art and music. One of Warhol’s project was using commercial items and borrowed images such as Campbell Soup Cans for his artwork (Scherman,1999). His masterpiece contained 32 paintings of different types of Campbell soup cans by printmaking and it was a big art movement. Although Warhol didn’t create the labels of the Campbell soup cans, he used the image and made it modern art by taking a different observation and focus of the cans. In addition, he claims that he changed mundane cans into a more interesting piece of
Ed Sheeran was inspired by the tunes and vocals of Lucy Pearl’s Don’t Mess With My Man and he sampled a small portion (approximately 2 lines) of Pearl’s song into his song, Don’t. Although he changed Pearl’s lyrics, “Don’t mess with my man, Don’t mess with my boy” to “Don’t f--- with my love. That heart is so cold,” lowered the octaves of Pearl’s version, slowed the speed down, and kept the same tune and beat, the sample that Sheeran took and fused into his song is recognizable in his song. It is evident that Ed Sheeran implemented many additions and changes to the sample parts and created something new in his song. Without Pearl’s sample parts, Sheeran’s song, Don’t, many not have become popular and part of the top hits in