FRIDAY FEEDBACK: DIPLO / PETER BJORN & JOHN

Skinny Diplo

This week's Friday Feedback track is:

"Youngest Folks" by Peter Bjorn & John / Remix by Diplo
not on the "Young Folks" CD single

Arguably one of the biggest songs of 2006 and 2007, Peter Bjorn & John's "Young Folks" gets the Diplo treatment here. (You can also hear a slightly different version here.) Apparently Kanye West's rapping over it on his mixtape and AT&T's jacking it for a commercial hasn't killed the song.

For me, that ubiquitous hook is starting to surpass the theme song for The Andy Griffith Show as the most recognizable whistled melody in music.

What do you think? Is Diplo doing something fresh with the song? Or do you think he's starting to get lazy by playing a Casio beat underneath the original and passing it off as a remix?

--Junichi