That's true. And I should have mentioned that I'm a big fan of Scott Bradlee and Postmodern Jukebox, who take today's pop music and recompose it into retro music formats. I spent a whole month listening to their stuff on YouTube a couple of months ago and they've been on a tear since then.
Here's a song where they redid a Maroon 5 song to sound more like a Motown tune:
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