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Plagiarism - alive and thriving !!!
Plagiarism,
Nice to know it’s alive a well in the music industry !! Girls Aloud’s Life’s got Cold sounds a lot like Oasis’s Wonderwall in parts. http://popdirt.com/new-girls-aloud-t...derwall/18132/ Lily Allen’s “Who’d Have Known “- sounds very similar to ..Take That’s “Shine” . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMTSsKhiBUA James Blunt’s “ One Of The Brightest Stars” is so like one of The Bee Gees songs !! - I just can’t remember the title of it though - they have done so many !! |
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that akon thing recently blatantly ripped off alice de jays 'better off alone'
everything coldplay have done sounds like someone elses work... |
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that akon thing recently blatantly ripped off alice de jays 'better off alone'
everything coldplay have done sounds like someone elses work... I can't think of one single time they have sounded like any other song to be honest. |
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Coldplay built their whole career on it.
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Coldplay built their whole career on it.
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I'm pretty sure Lily acknowledged Take That on that track, same goes for the Girls Aloud track.
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It isn't even recent.
Bach and Handel did it (in fact, two of Bach's major vocal works are borrowings), sometimes from themselves, and sometimes from others. The bass/harmony progression in Bach's Air from Suite No.3 (commonly referred to as Air on the G String) is the same as in Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale. I guess pieces of existing music inspire you anyway, nothing wrong with it. And of course bands cover other songs all the time. |
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The guy below tries to prove similarties between Coldplay and Satriani - he has a point at about 3mins into the vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEGGF...eature=related |
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Prove it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDSJ22OX1wE |
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I'm pretty sure Lily acknowledged Take That on that track, same goes for the Girls Aloud track.
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Plagiarism,
Lily Allen’s “Who’d Have Known “- sounds very similar to ..Take That’s “Shine” . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMTSsKhiBUA She actually credits them as well on the Album. |
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Lily actually admitted that she ripped off the chorus of Shine and was not intending to put it on her album, but she got permission from Take That.
She actually credits them as well on the Album. |
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I read this somewhere
![]() Someone told Brahms that the main melody from his 1st Symphony sounded like Beethoven's 9th. He replied, "Any fool can see that". Even the greats steal from each other. " |
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WTF !!! ROFL my goodness it's a bad day when you resort to ripping off Take That of al people.
Well obviously they fit the tune.. but I can see how it happened. Yep, classical musicians have been known to take snippets of their pieces from each other! |
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They sing songs written by songwriters.
Songwriters who are banging out the same style, even same chords, strings, hooks, on different tracks daily. Those songs can be picked up quickly, or sit around for ages. Often people will WANT their song to sound like something else, the brief sent to songwriters and publishers will state. 'something like wonderwall', etc. i've actually seen 'sound like Shine, comeback like Take That' and worse on briefs. Same as now everything goes electro, because its what people are buying, all the songwriters are now recycling the electro hooks and choruses etc. Its all one big factory at the end of the day. |
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I'm pretty sure most musicians are influenced by others at some point and it probably ends up being obvious in some of their songs, intentionally, or unintentionally. I don't really care if a band rips off a cool riff or whatever... it's what they do with it that matters. If they put it into a great original song and make it their own, no problem IMO.
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Songwriters who are banging out the same style, even same chords, strings, hooks, on different tracks daily.
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I suppose it's hard enough to write a song in the first place - apart from trying to compose something new with the 7 or 8 notes available to them !!
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More than 8! An octave is 12, and you have more than one of them.
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I'm pretty sure most musicians are influenced by others at some point and it probably ends up being obvious in some of their songs, intentionally, or unintentionally. I don't really care if a band rips off a cool riff or whatever... it's what they do with it that matters. If they put it into a great original song and make it their own, no problem IMO.
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The new Lily Allen track reminds me of Amy MacDonald a hell of a lot.
I also think there was a track of the extended version of the first Embrace album that had the exact same riff as Oasis' Getting Better Man. |
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Plagiarism,
Nice to know it’s alive a well in the music industry !! Girls Aloud’s Life’s got Cold sounds a lot like Oasis’s Wonderwall in parts. http://popdirt.com/new-girls-aloud-t...derwall/18132/ Lily Allen’s “Who’d Have Known “- sounds very similar to ..Take That’s “Shine” . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMTSsKhiBUA James Blunt’s “ One Of The Brightest Stars” is so like one of The Bee Gees songs !! - I just can’t remember the title of it though - they have done so many !! The Oasis / Girls Aloud one is old news. Then again, Oasis's Cigarettes And Alcohol sounds just like Get It On by T Rex, so yeah, plagiarism is alive and well .In all their defences, I think it's actually getting harder and harder to create anything that sounds truely original. You can always find a sound alike. There's only a finite number of note sequences that work. |
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Girls Aloud song "No Good Advice" reminds me of My Sharona by The Knack, especially at the start.
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I'm pretty sure most musicians are influenced by others at some point and it probably ends up being obvious in some of their songs, intentionally, or unintentionally. I don't really care if a band rips off a cool riff or whatever... it's what they do with it that matters. If they put it into a great original song and make it their own, no problem IMO.
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Anyone noticed Norway's Eurovision winner has a chord sequence nicked from Lyndsay de Paul's 'Sugar Me'? It also has a feel of 'Those were the Days'.
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