Justin Crockett writes:

You know what I’m afraid of? These mixes becoming really popular. I think it would destroy the culture…and that would make me very depressed. Things that go mainstream tend to turn to fakeness, and it would kill me to see such a thing happen to the remix culture.

I agree, this would be a disaster. But I don’t think we’ll see remix culture become mainstream any time soon. The culture is still very small. Pop music is loud, minimalistic and superficial because that’s good business - when your market is in the millions, your product needs to be as clear and simple as possible. Movie remixes are too sophisticated. I still get people asking me what ‘Alice’ is, and I don’t know how you could simplify a movie remix any further than that. But everyone understands sex and attitude. Remix culture would have to change a lot for mainstream producers to even take notice.