Haven't done this for ages, but, as a long-term mashup enthusiast, I feel it's nice to highlight some of the instances of this most postmodern and superficially trashy but actually sometimes transcendently beautiful craft that I really enjoyed in 2025.
In no particular order:
LeeDM101 - Sunday Apologies (Sinéad O'Connor vs Marsheaux)
Sinéad's cover of Nirvana is full of delicate melancholy, setting it drifting over a kind of harsh but lush synth landscape makes something really beautiful and moving.
Dunproofin' - Lonely GOATherd (Julie Andrews vs LL Cool J)
I think there's a specific art to a comedy mash, and this is probably the silliest of the year that I really enjoyed - great high concept, wildly mismatched sources, tremendous fun, almost danceable.
Titus Jones - Entertain Us (Charli XCX vs Blur vs Britney vs Nirvana)
Probably the most straight-up banger mashup here, taking several already incredibly catchy elements and scrunching them together slickly to make something even more dancefloor-centric.
fnogg - Subway Situation (Chappell Roan vs Weezer)
One of several great mashes from fnogg's Roan vs Weezer 'Cheezer' album (the other highlights, for me, being Red Wine Photonova and Undone After Midnight). I reckon this one has the edge as the anthemic heaviness of the instrumental brings out the frazzled emotion of the vocals better than the original (even if it ends up sounding a bit like that Keane song).
McClintock Mashups - I'll Be A Disciple For You (Slayer vs The Rembrandts)
Are Slayer bad? I'm not metal enough to know, but a superficial skim of the internet suggests their more dubious imagery and lyrics are for provocation rather than actually being representative of a racist worldview, and the lyrics here seem to be asserting a general hatred of EVERYONE, which I can kind of get behind - particularly when expertly intertwined with the 'Friends' theme tune! Comedically mismatched but really well integrated (love a back-and-forth vocal), great.
DoM - Everybody Needs To Go Home (Boney M vs Fatboy Slim)
Fatboy Slim's Everybody Needs A Carnival is itself an alternate version of his Everybody Needs a 303, with added calypso carnival party vibes. Throwing in Boney M's Gotta Go Home (perhaps better recognised as the sample for Duck Sauce Barbara Streisand) creates incredible energy. At times it sounds like a great mix (i.e. two records playing in sync) more than a comprehensively integrated mash, but it's so good, just draaaaags you inexorably to the dancefloor.
ah! - Lumnpch (Billie Eilish vs Presidents of the United States of America)
Eilish's breathy ethereal vocals over the Presidents' bouncy grungy riffs is an unusual dynamic, but it all fits together delightfully. Perhaps even more than any other mashup this year, I listened to this one over and over and over.
That's it. Loads of others I enjoyed, but think those were the top of the pops. Go check out all the creators accounts for more quality stuff, etc etc.
