Posted on 03/10/2015 7:24:46 PM PDT by Perdogg
For the last year and a half, the music industry has been gripped by a lawsuit over whether Robin Thicke’s 2013 hit “Blurred Lines” was merely reminiscent of a song by Marvin Gaye, or had crossed the line into plagiarism.
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Okay, I’m slow cause I can’t figure this out lol. Explain please!
Google “Beatles Ed Sullivan Show 2/6/1964” and be treated to the first Performance of the Beatles on American TV.
Watch carefully George’s guitar playing. It is masterful!
Nona is a jerk.
When I first heard the Ed Sheeran song, all I could think of was “Crazy Love” by Van Morrison.
Same groove,
same arrangement
same chords,
almost the same melody.
different lyrics but very similar sentiment.
AND...there are only so many chord progressions that make sense in a key.
Omg. You are not kidding. That Sheerhan song IS “Let’s Get It On.” The vocals are quite different but if you could hear the karaoke version it would be identical. I was just listening (ok, a little singing) in my mind to Gaye’s iconic track while playing Sheerhan’s video and I became embarrassed for him (or whoever wrote it). Did they plagiarize, or just think they came up themselves with that??? Because it IS “Let’s Get It On.”
And that song = sex. So using the whole of that song will make your own new vocal sound subliminally sexy. Not fair!
You’re a guy or you don’t think Pharrell is cute. Lol.
I really am not dying to see Pharrell naked, but I made a joke because in the blurred lines video he is wearing some sort of silver space suit. ;) it is true that he caught my eye and not the naked chicks.
Oh lol. I have never seen the actual video but I’ve heard all about it. Sorry that I assumed you were a guy :)I’m not into current music scene so really don’t even know who Pharell is. I have heard stuff about Mr. Thicke though, not much was good.
Thicke is probably thick. But Pharrell is a genius producer and not a bad performer. His song “Happy” literally took the whole world by storm last year. He’s also on The Voice as a coach. He is very attractive in an unusual way. Buuuuuuuut he is stupid politically, said something publicly about Ferguson or something, and my mad crush on him dropped like it was on fire. :)
Oooops...looks like Mona will be making a few more bucks!
Just like the recent ruling on Sam Smith’s Stay With Me, which copied a melody from Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.”
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I thought that did not go to court, so there was no ruling ... just an agreement to make Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne co-writers.
AMEN!
There's the reason you and I have been here so long.
Amen...but compared to YOU, I am a n00bie! LOL!
In deference to your opinion, I just listened that crappy Marvin Gaye song again.. ALL the way through.
And, I listen to (and watched :-) ) Blurred Lines again.
I'm sorry.. I just DON'T get it. I could sit here the rest of the day and list songs that are more similar than those two. They have a SIMILAR (not the same) rhythm. Completely different melody.. (Does the Gaye song even really HAVE a melody?) Completely different lyrics... (Again, Gaye's song barely HAS lyrics).
At most, they have a similar "vibe". But, seriously. If THAT is enough for a copyright infringement? Then the music business is in real trouble.
In my very "humble" opion.
I have a High School friend who has been a professional musician for many years. I've asked him his opinion... can't wait to hear it.
I am a big fan of the Russian Classical composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. Eric Carmen used the melodies from two of Rachmaninoff’s most famous pieces. “All By Myself” used the 2nd movement from Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto and “Never Gonna Fall in Love Again” used the theme from the adagio movement of Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Symphony. Carmen had training in Classical music. He thought the pieces were in the public domain but they were not and the Rachmaninoff estate sued Eric. He ended up writing a check.
The way she sings that song makes me homesick, but for a time I never saw in Manhattan.
Very important that in accordance with the best-paid lawyers, new artists live under the thumb of the “old masters.” Every riff, solo, interval is taken. Shut up, fool artist, let the royalties and credit go to the trust fund great-great grandson at Exeter, and his lawyers. Maybe you can pawn your guitar? Worth a quarter of an hour at least of back-attorney’s fees! Here, little Dylan, little Hendrix, you who ripped off Robert Johnson... When they’ve done with Marx and Weber maybe Obama’s taxpayers can teach you how to weld.
Re: “...the male masses will flock. It never gets old for ya’ll?”
I don’t care what the masses are doing.
And, no, looking at a beautiful nude woman never gets old for me.
There’s a name for my condition - Biology.
Yes I know that. You just have to realize how dejected some of us women must feel at times. We know how tempted men can get and there’s just so much temptation out there these days what with so many young women eager to get their kit off. It gets old to US.
I'm out on tour right now and just this morning all of us out here we're discussing it. We all think it is a load of BS and are hoping he appeals. You can't copyright a sound! Plus the chords are different. The melody is different. Sum peeples' jus' greedy!
Of course, he's a musician, not a lawyer. So, take that into consideration. But, musically? The songs are definitely NOT that similar.
No kidding? wow... My intellectual, scientific contributions have a monetary shelf-life of 18 years. Why do artistic creations get such better treatment?
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