Zyrada

If you mean a song lifting an entire section wholesale and just transposing it up, then yeah, that's hackneyed BS. Music would be pretty boring as a whole though without any key changes at all.

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Chula Vista

That's called modulation. When done well it can work but some bands fall back on it as a gimmick.

Spinal Tap did a song where they did a bunch of modulations to poke fun at the practice.

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Speaking of house music...

Here is an example of the worst kind of gimmick in all of music:



That song is technically Glitch Hop, but this type of distorted vocal effect happens most commonly in Deep House. I can't stand it. As soon as I see it is a Deep House upload, I know I will be skipping it.

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