Use of samples
Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? uses two samples of 1950s gospel music.
Gospel choir
Both are taken from a song called King Jesus Will Roll All Burdens Away. The surface noise of the samples has not been removed. Moby did not want the music to sound sterile.
The first sample is a male singer and uses the words 鈥榃hy does my heart feel so bad?鈥 The second sample is a female singer and uses the words 鈥楾hese open doors鈥. Both samples are looped.
A sample is a digitally recorded fragment of sound - it could be a guitar riff, a line from a song chorus, or the sound of running water. Looping is where a short sample is repeated over and over again.