Posted on 04/06/2023 11:55:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Rap music overall lacks originality, and is highly derivative. Its nearly all borrowed riffs, with a different, simplistic beat overlain on top.
I meant the "I'll Be Missing You" song, not Every Breath You take.
But for the Police, you are wrong, guitarist Summers wrote songs too. And Sting admitted he should have been credited as cowriter for EBYT.
Reminds me of two pro athletes who signed contracts to get paid far into the future. Quarterback Steve Young signed a personal services contract with the USFL owner. He will receive over $1 million each year, until 2027. Baseball player Bobby Bonilla signed a contract with the New York Mets that will pay him over a million each year until 2035. Should he pass away before 2035, the contract is such that his heirs will receive the annual payment until 2035. Not bad, not bad at all.
Sting did the same thing to Dire Straights on “Money for Nothing”.
All he did was quote workers in his house to the band members. (”Look at that faggot” “yeah that’s his own hair”)
As part of the settlement, they recut it and Sting sang backup vocals.
The Bobby Bonilla deal is amazing, I think another former Met had once too. I remember football coach Charlie Weiss was being paid by Notre Dame eight years after he was fire, to almost $19 million, and Kansas was paying him for years too. They said he made $1.6 million per win as a college coach.
A lot don't...
Adam Ant
Alex Lifeson
Alice Cooper
Axl Rose
Billy Idol
Bob Dylan
Bret Michaels
C.C. DeVille
Elton John
Falco
Freddie Mercury
Geddy Lee
Gene Simmons
Henry Rollins
Joan Jett
Jon Bon Jovi
Madonna
Marilyn Manson
Muddy Waters
Nikki Sixx
Ozzy Osbourne
Paul Stanley
Rikki Rockett
Ringo Starr
Rob Zombie
Ronnie James Dio
Sebastian Bach
Sid Vicious
Steven Tyler
Sting
The Edge
Tommy Lee
Aleksandar Živojinović,[
Vincent Furnier
Gary Weinreb
Steven Tallirico
Fredrick Bulsara
Chaim Witz
What a small world.
IIRC, Ghost in the Machine was recorded in Montserrat, before the volcano eruption wiped out the studio.
Why doesn’t he write his own diddy? Is that too difficult for an “artist?”
Yep, writing hit songs is a snap.
You mean ‘Snoop Dogg’ isn’t his real name?
“Won’t Go Home Without You”
Based on "Don't Stand So Close to Me".
They did a private settlement on that one, so nobody knows.
‘‘Edge’ doesn’t spend a lot of timing wanking on the guitar’
I forget who it was, but someone basically described Edge’s style as “milking the same riff for 40 years”.
“I meant the “I’ll Be Missing You” song, not Every Breath You take.”
Got ya.
“But for the Police, you are wrong, guitarist Summers wrote songs too. “
Maybe a few, not many though.
As for whether a guitarist gets credit for adding riffs or whatnot to a song, it’s not standard practice, but every band decides for themselves.
No, you got it twisted. Knopfler was the one quoting the workers in the house. Sting happened to be on Monserrat Dire Straights already had the “Don’t Stand So Close to Me,” part. According to Sting, he never thought about asking for songwriting credit or royalties, but his music publisher, who he didn’t get along with, pursued the royalties/credit, without even asking him.
It's about equal. On Regatta, Copeland wrote more, but on Synchronicity they both wrote one, but Summers cowrote another one. All the others it's equal, plus there were B sides. They won a Grammy for a song Summers wrote, but the only Grammy for a song Copeland wrote was a written by all three.
I always told my kids that I could write a rap song on the toilet. I think I could.
I always told my kids that I could write a rap song on the toilet. I think I could.
Anyone can write a song, and thousands do. A commercially successful song? Vastly different proposition.
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