Song Re-Use

Song Re-Use is a vidding activity.
Using the same song in a vid is done when a fan is not aware of a previous vid, and it can be done when a fan is familiar with the song choice.
A similar practice is that of fiction writers using shared universes or writing unauthorized sequels.
Some songs/artists find themselves being used over and over in a single fandom, resulting in a vidding trope for that fandom, such as the extensive usage of Sarah McLachlan in Due South.
 
Song re-use can be extremely contentious as common wisdom was that the first vid a viewer sees for a particular song is often the one that sticks in their mind, no matter how powerful a second vid to that song is. 
A corollary to this was that to remake a song -- to produce a new vid using the same song as someone else -- was to imply that there was something wrong with the original vid, and it had to be remade 'right'. 
For these and other reasons, songs were jealously guarded, and it was considered 'bad form' to remake a song that someone had already done.
 
In 1996, while discussing the topic of unauthorized sequels to fan stories on Virgule-L, Sandy Herrold related the following history of fannish attitudes towards:
In 1993, vidder Gayle F approached a vidder who had used a song twice in different fandoms to ask permission to use the vid. Ironically, the vidder's husband also had just completed his own vid using the song to a third fandom, Gayle opted not to use the vid for a fourth time: 
But not all all vidders object per se to song re-use. 
In 1995, a fan wrote: 
Vidders on the Virgule-L mailing list in 1995 were debating song re-use when Sandy Herrold offered the following: 
With popular songs, that sort of guarding behavior isn't always possible. Songs that receive a lot of "airplay" means that many vidders can come in contact with the song independent of the vidding community, and thus not know that other vids had already been made, or they are not concerned about duplicating song choice.
Often these songs also tend to be fairly generic, and are easily adapted to many fandoms, being 'just perfect' for each fandom they were used in. This led to many variations on a theme, with the same song reused by many different vidders, which led to them becoming a vidding trope. 
As access to vidding equipment became cheaper and more easily accessible, and as the centralized vidding community splintered apart with the sheer volume of new members and new communities being formed -- many of them with a monofannish as opposed to a multifannish focus -- there was no real way to maintain the old 'one song/one vid' adage. 
==Same Artist==
Sometimes it isn't the song that was re-used, but the artist. 
===Same Artist: Some Examples===
* The Beatles
* Melissa Etheridge
* Sarah McLachlan
==Same Song at the Same Time==
Occasionally, two or more vidders will choose the same song for a premiere vid at the same vid show, which leads to a lot of anxiety on everyone's part. 
At Escapade in 2001, Lynn C. and Killa both created vids for "In Your Eyes" by Oyster Band. 
Lynn chose Stargate SG-1 Jack/Daniel as her focus, which meant that the stars were literal and the idea of forever was metaphorical in her vid.
Killa chose Highlander's Duncan/Methos, which gave a literal quality to forever and a metaphorical one for stars.
Both vids had at their core the same theme. Both vids were made on computers, but as extra bonus tension, Lynn was a longstanding member of the VCR vidding community, and Killa was one of the vidders of the WOAD society, which promoted computer vidding. This perfect storm of culture clash over fandom, lyric interpretation, and vidding community base, led to one of the more contentious vid review panels in Escapade's history. 
That same year, Killa also reused another song that had appeared in the 1999 Escapade vid show to create her now well-known Dante's Prayer.
In a 2000 discussion on the Vidder list Killa and Morgan Dawn talked about song choice in the context of the re-use of Dante's Prayer: 
At VividCon 2008, deejay and Seah & Margie both chose the same song for their premiere vids, Handlebars by Flobots, with deejay using Iron Man footage and Seah & Margie using Doctor Who, but without the technology and culture clash issues, it didn't result in the same sort of controversy as In Your Eyes had.
===Some Common Song Choices===
* Behind Blue Eyes
* Bring Me to Life - Evanescence
* Desperado
 
* Hero - Enrique Inglesias 
* Holding Out for a Hero
* I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2) 
* I Think My Girl is Bi
* Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls
* 	Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
* Losing My Religion
* The Man Song
* Rose, The
* Something to Talk About - Bonnie Raitt
* Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
* Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels - Todrick Hall
==References==
Category:Vidding Glossary