Nyan cat?
Don't get me wrong, I've gone to the site that counts how long you listen to it and listened for longer than I should, it's a catchy song and a fun meme, but it's just that, a meme. In a few years, this will be as forgotten as Chocolate Rain, Rick Roll, and that remix with Kirby doing falcon punches. It's fun and all, but I didn't really need an 8-bit remix, especially since in a few years, it'll be forgotten once the fad passes. It bothers me when artists take advantage of a fad like this and it gets stupidly popular just because people recognize it as related to the fad, when in truth, it isn't as funny or amusing as the fad itself, and will forgotten just like the fad it draws it's popularity from. In the meantime, people mindlessly vote it up while the fad is still popular, just to be part of the fad, and it takes attention away from songs of real value. There are tons of great songs on Newgrounds that show immense talent of their creators. What makes your silly little 8-bit remix of a fad song worthy of taking attention from those songs? It shows no creativity; you got the melody from the Nyan Cat meme. It shows no talent; you just took a popular song and replaced the instruments with 8-bit ones. Sure the end product is mildly amusing, but it isn't as amusing as the original concept (heck, it doesn't even have the cat meowing, or the amusing gif), and in the end it will be forgotten, having accomplished nothing other than to draw attention away from real talent. People can go ahead and rate my review useless because I didn't conform to the fad, but I love Nyan cat just as much as anyone here, I'm just trying to put things in perspective.