Rihanna and her director Melina Matsoukas, more specifically. Melina was behind the video of S&M which was sued by David Lachapelle for plagiarism.

Time to ditch her, Rih.

http://m.necolebitchie.com/2011/12/2...-da-one-video/

lol. Oh dear. I haven't even watched the video yet though, but I love the song.

Rihanna gets into a lot of plagiarism controversies I think. I remember there was one with the Rude Boy video too. And also there was this thing about the Unfaithful video ripping off a movie or something (boy that seems like a LONG time ago now! ).

As a Rihanna fan, I just expect this now.

Here we go again

Same here S

he needs to work with someone apart from Melina (even though she directed the amazing video that is We Found Love) but it's always her videos that are accused of plagiarising.

Not being funny it happened with Beyonce's video either these people are looking for money or these artist need to get their researchers to actually do some research or come up with a concept themselves because its frankly rediculous

This just goes to show that very few people in this kind of music business know real art. I'm not here to call out Rihanna for copying some boorish bint complaining about plagiarism whilst neglecting the limitations of sexual posing; if Rihanna's copying anyone it's Stanley Kubrick and Malcolm McDowell.

Odds are she thought the looks was good and never gave any real thought into the actual character she's really plagiarising, nor any of the connotations that go with the character.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LT-qRFxras...McDowell+1.jpg

http://wakeywakeynews.com/wp-content...2/rihanna2.jpg

The eye make-up, the bowler, the cane... I just don't see how she's trying to fit the character into the video or the song though? It's honestly like she just wanted to look edgy and reinvigorated a once-considered socially unacceptable piece of post-modernist cult fiction in order to do it, without once concerning herself with just who the character is, what he stood for, or how his character fits into either song or video.

Rihanna's US fans might not be aware of this character, but her UK fans, where 'A Clockwork Orange' was a hugely popular book and film, are just as important and should make the connection, really.

she's a beyonce copycat

Oh. She's turning into her pimp's wife.

Not really. Rihanna is as generic and basic as they come, the same can't be said for good ol' Flopyoncé - especially when you take into consideration the album '4'.

Still no where on the scale of copying that Gaga does... how many law suits is that one on now..

Way to ruin the thread. :yawn:

How so?

Its only the truth. I hardly doubt Rihanna will be sued over a poka dot image in her video. Prospective please peeps.

Yes she is a beyonce copycat her music is familiar to hers

Zero.

Oh dear. another Gaga fan starting yet another anti Rihanna thread. If its not Madonna, Katy or Adele its Rihanna! they are one little pressed community! I find it so funny how they have to attack someone else for copying '''again''' when their idol is the biggest pop clone there is!!

Irony. I'll have to remember to read her topic later as the usual will no doubt be ranting that someone has dared to attack their queen. Should be a good nights reading and a laugh before bedtime.

Zero!! lol this is her most recent.

http://news.celebritywonder.com/2011..._Overtime.html

Uhhuh.


Irrelevant.


Unless, of course, this poster was meaning lawsuits in general which would have also been irrelevant.

Feel free to find legitimate lawsuits over plagiarism.

That isn't for copying ideas though..

Anyway I think in this day and age almost anything can be claimed to be copied from something else. There isn't even any specific bits of You Da One video that stand out to be an original bit of "art".. whereas the dresses in S&M were clearly depicted as an art form.

Hasn't Born This Way had about five lawsuits for copyright?

I so wish Madonna's camp had the balls to take Lady Gaga on. That would have been epic. We all know its Express Yourself!

I'm sure I recall something about Judas too..

Yeah I believe it was a Japanese girlband who had a very similar song to Judas, I gave it a listen a while back and it was virtually a carbon copy.

Express Yourself ''took a lot of inspiration from'' another song called Respect Yourself from years before. Madonna's case probably would have been laughed out of court if Gaga's team brought that up.

But I suppose the main issue was Madonna's ''Dance/Single'' remix of Express Yourself. Anyway, I don't think Madonna was bothered.

One shouldn't confuse a legitimate lawsuit over plagiarism, with some random person going to the press about how Lady Gaga (or anyone) copied them. Some say they're suing, but it's a rarity if that ever materialises.

Do you not think there'd have been a slight bit more coverage if Lady Gaga was genuinely being sued? More than the initial Daily Mail article, for sure.

Judas was accused of copying by three separate parties IIRC. One was somebody claiming ownership over the idea of a song called Judas (hers was called "Juda" but didn't sound remotely similar), another was the Korean girlband that had a similar production (IIRC) and then there was an act who called it out for ripping off her songs production...only to then look incredibly stupid because it was a riff available for free as part of a producers sample pack that they both used.

You can't really just believe whatever is reported on.

When you're a big star, you get "sued" (aka going to the press with little intention of actually filing a lawsuit) all the time by people who want a bit of attention.

And let's face it, what's the chance that Gaga (herself) will have heard of a random Japanese girl group?

I'm trying to refresh my memory on that event, but finding it hard to actually locate anything...

edit:

http://gagacheat.blogspot.com/2011/1...-by-south.html

This is what has come up, but it has nothing to do with Judas?

Plus, I love how it's basically saying that Gaga copied an obscure Korean girl band over Madonna.

I kinda (vaguely) remember it, but I think not many people cared because they were still riding the Express Yourself wave.

Also, even if the song was a copy of the Japanese girls' song, I'd imagine that RedOne does more producing than Gaga does, but of course he isn't the star so naturally doesn't get the blame... :yawn: