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Feb 20, 2011

Best Music Mashups

The Best Video Mashups
There are thousands of mashups circulating the Web that creatively assemble revered bits of classic movies, popular songs and TV shows into funny and entertaining videos. Check out the best cartoon mashups and some of the most impressive movie trailer mixes and click on for our roundup of some of the coolest music mashups.

'Miracles' musical mashup
This mashup cleverly combines more than 15 pop songs from some of the top artists across several genres to create new lyrics around the theme of "miracles." Tracks from this pop princess, the King of Pop, a country darling and a Grammy-winning rapper are featured.
'Bad Mama Jama Mania'
A classic 1970s R&B hit often sampled in rap music today is blended with lyrics from an outspoken rapper, one of the original boy bands and a rapper named after an NFL player to create a funky new sound in this dance-worthy mashup.
'Star Trek' meets Ke$ha in mashup
Pop music enters the final frontier in this musical mashup that hilariously purees select scenes from the original "Star Trek" series with the party lyrics of Ke$ha's "TiK ToK" It has you wondering which of the spacemen would win in a drinking contest.
'The Golden Age of Video'
Take a walk down pop-culture memory lane with this blending of a collection of some of the most popular movies and classic TV shows, such as a long-running cartoon about a dysfunctional family and a movie about supernatural capturers. It's impressive how the British songwriter who created it was able to rhyme so many famous lines.
'Conan the Barbarian' the musical
The former Governator is satirized in this remake of the classic 1982 adventure film "Conan the Barbarian" as a musical. An Arnold-esque voice croons a song of vengeance surrounding the movie's plot.
'Thunder Busters' mashup
Two classic songs (a ditty from a hard rock band about a hair-raising experience, and the theme to a movie about ghost hunters) are married to make an eerily catchy song.
'Avatar,' 'Pocahontas' comparison
When James Cameron's "Avatar" became the highest-grossing movie of all time, it didn't stop the critics from insisting they'd heard the story before. This clever mashup mixes the "Pocahontas" trailer with the dialogue from "Avatar.
'Little Mermaid' & 'Fergalicious'
Timing is everything in this mashup that tells Disney's famous story of Ariel's quest to be part of our world in "The Little Mermaid" set to the tune of the pop star's ode to herself.
'You Got Served' meets 'Wizard of Oz'
Dorothy's trip over the rainbow goes to the hood in this blending of the 1939 fantasy film "The Wizard of Oz" with a 2004 movie about teens who take part in a street dancing rivalry.
Pop music violin mashup
Musician Paul Dateh displays his unbelievable talent when he plays a compilation of Top 40 hits on his violin with songs from the likes of Lady Gaga and Usher.
'Dumb & Dumber' 'Inception'
The trailer for a legendary Jim Carrey comedy about two bumbling friends is set to the ominous music of one of the biggest movies of the year, a science-fiction thriller about a spy who steals information from his target's dreams.