Love it when he looks so earnest when he is singing, vry yummy ^__^ 2 MORE DAYS!!! Hope David, already in KL, is in good spirits despite all the negative news *sigh* Its funny cos someone mentioned to me that Red Hot Chili Peppers had been accused of plagiarism so out of curiosity I surf around & found a vry long forum thread discussing this, as well claim that the Tom Petty's song that RHCP has been accused of copying was also copied from some other song. Probably somewhere further along the line, somebody will say that song was copied from another song. Do people have so much time on their hand to compare songs & accused songwriters copying? What is the point? As the music experts say in the Rolling Stone article:''The opening parts of both songs have very similar grooves, they use pretty much the same chord progressions and the ways the melodies are patterned are similar. And it pretty much stops there,'' says Travis Jackson, an associate professor who specializes in recording technology. ''Chord progressions are really hard to claim as a basis [for a lawsuit]. That's a pretty standard groove. You would have to do a lot more to say there's outright copying.''
At least Rolling Stone bothered to get expert opinions on whether or not RHCP plagiarised. Sina.com have no such qualms abt putting a story online abt a petty forum discussion that David 'copied' songs & put the headline as 'copycat king'. If this was in US, David could have sued them for outright slander & taken them to the cleaners. OK, bearing in mind that at least eight continuous bars of music must be substantially similar before claims of plagiarism can even be entertained, here are the songs they accused David of 'copying'
1) Leave & BSB's If I don't have you. The above argument applies. Both songs has similar chord progressions which is found in most r&b songs. Go listen to Boyz 2 Men's End of the Road & you will also find the similarity.
2) Melody & Mariah Carey's After Tonight - ARE YOU TONE DEAF?
3) Shanghaied & Craig David's Fill Me In - maybe if you dissect both songs thoroughly, may find a few continuous bars of similarity. So what? They are both of similar musical genre - 2-step.
4) Season of Loneliness & not 1 but 2 Japanese anime songs - ARE YOU TONE DEAF?
5) Rain & some obscure Japanese band - ARE YOU TONE DEAF?
6) You are so Beautiful & Justin Timberlake's Still On My Brain - maybe if you dissect both songs thoroughly, may find a few continuous bars of similiarity but certainly not eight.
So based on the above, I exonerate David completely from the charge of plagiarism *__* Anyway if anyone ever accused David of 'copying' in front of you, feel free to direct them to this post.
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The truth about music is that none of them are really original. Musicians borrow from others and as a musician myself, I know it's evitable the your music reflects on your influence. Plus, with the amount of music out there, whenever you write something, your song is bound to be similiar to someone else's. Plus, when you look at pop music, it's all about recycling the same progressions, that was used since Bach, up to the Beatles.
I feel that the plagarism 'attacks' are rather baseless. They either come from haters, non-musicians, or even like what you've said, ppl who have nbtd. I'm sure David borrowed a lot from the artists he listen to, sometimes you can hear a little Beatles in it, a little R&B. But, the fact that he blend them so well that it became his music is what made him an amazing musician. Like someone once said, when you copy from one person, it's called plagarising but if you copy from several people, it's called research.
If these people want to know what plagarism is, tell them to listen to Queen & David Bowie's "Under Pressure", then compare it with Vanilla Ice's "Ice Cool Baby".
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