Interpolation

In popular music, interpolation (also called a replayed sample) refers to using a melody—or portions of a melody (often with modified lyrics)—from a previously recorded song but re-recording the melody instead of directly sampling it.

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  7 AM

  Jacqueline Taieb
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  A Sweet Summer’s Night on Hammer Hill

  Jens Lekman
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  All You Need Is Love

  The Beatles
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  Bad Liar

  Selena Gomez
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  Birthday Boy

  Ween
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  Clean Elvis

  Dan Reeder
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  Come On Eileen

  Dexy’s Midnight Runners
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  Damn Life

  John Cale
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  Genuine Imitation Life

  The Four Seasons
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  Hotwax

  Beck
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  John Allyn Smith Sails

  Okkervil River
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  Keep It Warm

  Flo & Eddie
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  Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

  Spiritualized
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  Mr. Whirly

  The Replacements
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  My Baby Wants A Baby

  St. Vincent
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  No More Shoes

  Stephen Malkmus
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  Nobody But You

  Charles Bradley
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  Parties In The U.S.A.

  Jonathan Richman
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  Pissin’ In The Wind

  Jerry Jeff Walker
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  Shakermaker

  Oasis
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  Si Veo a Tu Mamá

  Bad Bunny
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  So Heavy

  Nick Lowe
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  So Young

  Portugal. The Man
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  Suffragette City

  David Bowie
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  The Opposite of Hallelujah

  Jens Lekman
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  The Saturday Boy

  Billy Bragg
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  Thong Song

  Sisqó
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  Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)

  Tom Waits
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  Truth Hurts

  Lizzo
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  Wellington’s Wednesdays

  The Weakerthans
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  Whatever

  Oasis
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  White Ferrari

  Frank Ocean
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  You Think I Don’t Know (But I Know)

  Charles Bradley
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  Young Americans

  David Bowie