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With all the borrowing vanilla iced tea with ice ice baby from music artist let’s not forget to add that the lyrics or borrowed two. Ice ice baby is a part of fraternity song sung by Alpha phi Alpha fraternity . And for those who want to say they borrowed from him, the fraternity was founded in 1906. The Chant predates his birth by quite a few years. Hey I bet you would predict his grandpa’s birth by quite a few years as well.
This joke is as stale as MTV is these days. Don't get me wrong, you are definitely correct but it makes me chuckle when I see this comment pop up because we've all seen/heard it a million times over since about the mid 90's. Y'all can't blame MTV. They changed with the times and were very successful in doing so. Also, nowadays it's completely pointless to run music videos when they are all on UA-cam, waiting for the click of a mouse. They do however have sister channels that come with cable packages that do play videos mostly 24/7. VH1 as well.
Happens on YT too. I watched a channel where the Channel Op wrote & performed his own music intro for his channel & they gave him a copy write strike for not getting permission from the writer, himself!
Fogerty’s old studio saw money, popped a 1/2” Chubb and set loose their lawyers. Pathetic AF that pencil-pushing talentless douchenozzles wanted money for something they had jack .... to do with.
Anyone remember an interview with Vanilla Ice explaining that the difference between "Pressure" and "Ice, Ice Baby" is that little "ding" in his song? I was thinking "Really dude? You're going to run with that"? Apparently he did.
I can't even fathom the number of times in my life I heard an intro on the radio, exclaimed, "I love this song!", only to find out it was a totally different song.
Totally had that happen in middle school. The gunter glieben glaughten gluben intro came on and i thought it was Def Leppard's Rock Of Ages, but it was The Offspring's Pretty Fly for a White Guy Edit: I even proclaimed to the class oh i love this song cuz i was so excited def leppard was playing in 6th grade
Yes Yes YES!! "Sampling." Oh PLEASE, it is flat out f*cking THEFT!! I have a strange tick about theft (we can thank drug addled cousins for that), so when it's so in my face like that...I want to kick someone in the face. I actively will not purchase nor listen to anything that does this sampling. I also give credit where credit is due. Prince royally bent over Arrested Development (the band, not the epic tv show) for their 'sampling' his music. He waited until they hit a particular mark of income and THEN sued the bloody shit of them. GOOD.
The thing that pisses me off about the Down Under lawsuit was that the original creator of the kookaburra song was still alive during the height of Down Under's popularity and had no problem with it. She died a few years later and the rights were eventually picked up by some company who then sued Men At Work.
wasn't it the Girl Guides? I have a mate who is a huge Men At Work fan who told me this. Greg Ham didn't have to die because of the stress this lawsuit placed on him. It was a tribute and we all loved it, as Aussies, I think. It's a travesty.
Same thing happened with Stairway to heaven, although the lawsuit got tossed anyway. Also Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4 is a clear steal of Led Zeppelin's Babe Im Gonna Leave You. for yet another fun fact :D
Exactly this. If one artist or group reaches an agreement with another artist or group to sample their song in exchange for credits/some share of royalties, then provided the sampler abides by the agreement, the sampler shouldn’t get sued by the copyright holder of the sampled song. What some particularly greedy music companies don’t seem to understand is that music is meant to be shared with the world.
Well, he'd know - his vocal on "Whole Lotta Love" is basically identical to Steve Marriott's performance of "You Need Lovin'" on the Small Faces' first album...
And never hid the fact when he was clearly inspired by an artist. The song Whole Lotta Love definitely was inspired by Steve Marriott, but its clear Robert Plant gave the song his own thing.
People that truly appreciate good music know who they are, and that is really all that matters. Their contributions to rock and roll, and pop culture are massive, but slightly off the radar. Personally, I think that is kind of a good thing.
I can't help but think a lot of songs genuinely aren't rip offs or intentionally stealing others material. I think in many cases people hear things throughout their life and it stays with them. When they're creating something they can't even tell they're just regurgitating what they heard before.
ATC all around the world vs Ava max my head and my heart they are the same tune practically I think Ava max copied ATC all around the world from the 1990s for Ava max song my head my heart
If you think about it, writing original material has got to be very difficult to accomplish in a business with already a million other artists out there. Kudos to those who had abundant, original ideas.
The originality is the combination of materials, not the chords or the elements themselves. It's not that difficult. Nor does it matter much, unless your near copy ends up as a big hit.
"Menopause Rhapsody" is such a blatant rip off of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", it should be illegal. But it isn't because it's satire. Just saw a cat meme. Four cat heads, black background: Mama, just killed a mouse. Ripped it right across its head, and put it in your bed.
Have you ever heard of sampling before? It's when usually a rap artist takes the back beat of a song and raps over it. It's quite common. Try listening to most of Jay Z's songs, 95% are sampled from other songs.
“Dani California” by RHCP also sounds like Pettys “Mary Janes Last Dance.” Petty and the RHCP noticed it but Petty refused to sue them. In fact, he loved “Dani California.” Petty truly was a legend.
Petty’s “Mary Janes Last Dance” was itself a ripoff of sorts. Listen to the beginning of “Waiting for the Sun” by the Jayhawks, which came out one year BEFORE Mary Jane. It’s identical!
I'm a writing teacher, and I have talked about unintended plagiarism all the time. We read/hear a particular selection, jot it down, either forget to attribute it OR we believe it's our own original idea ... you get the picture. I've done it myself, wholly without malicious intent. It happens, although most of us do not end up in court over it.
There's only so many combinations of words, notes, colors, etc. Human beings will independently create similar works. I happened across a sculpture from around 1914 that is a spitting image if General Grievous from Star Wars, for instance. I would bet money the SW designers have never seen it. Yet the similarities are striking.
I've found that "borrowing" in music is way more criticized than doing the same in movies, TV shows, literature, etc... The original Star Wars trilogy was heavily borrowed from multiple sources (even directly copied certain scenes like the dogfights), yet people are more surprised about the score resembling classical works.
That's because it should never get that far. A blatant remake claiming original could be an issue, but writing a song in a basic A,E,D chord progression is almost cliche' and should never be chased after. The Monkey's "A little bit me a little bit you" which Neil Diamond wrote was later redone by Neil with his own hit "Cherry Cherry", the Romantics used the same chords in a different rhythm for "What I like about you". It's just how music goes and there's only so many enjoyable melodies you can make the chords available without some similarities creeping in.
7:09 the original "Kookaburra" song was written by Marion Sinclair in 1932. She was still alive when Men at Work referenced a small fragment of the melody in their 1981 song "Down Under" which became a huge hit. But she said nothing about it. In 1988 she died and in her will, gifted Kookaburra's publishing credits to the Girl Guides. They later sold it to a publishing company, who much later sued Men at Work for copyright. It was a real travesty that they had to give up future royalties to a company who had nothing to do with writing either song.
Columbia Pictures: Hey, Huey Lewis, please write a theme song for "Ghostbusters". Lewis: No thanks. Columbia: Hey, Ray Parker Jr., please use Huey's hit tune and write a theme song for "Ghostbusters".
Universal Pictures: Hey Huey Lewis, since you didn't want to write the theme for "Ghostbusters", can you write the theme song for "Back to the Future"? Lewis: Sure. Universal: Hey Lewis, what do you want to name the song? Lewis: The Power of Love
You all going to forget that Chuck Barry straight stole “Johnny B Good” from a high schooler named Calvin Klein. And he stole it at a prom from what I hear. 😤
But Calvin Klein stole it from Chuck Berry! Who stole it from Calvin Klein! Who stole if from Chuck Berry! I have a headache... (BTW, this is known as the bootstrap paradox, a form of causal loop.)
Jethro Tull's "We Used To Know" became The Eagles mega hit Hotel California. Ian Anderson gave them a nod with a Well Done Boys without even a thank you.
Chuck Berry has probably the most appropriated work in the world, and yet gets little respect for his contributions. As the Godfather of Rock and Roll, his legacy is still hidden from most of the world.
Chuck Berry got his sound from Calvin Klein. He received a phone call from his cousin Marvin who was performing at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. Marvin suffered from an unexpected accident with a knife and Calvin stepped in to finish out the set.
No matter how original you try to be, you will always have someone with a similar idea. I think it is impossible to be 100% original, especially nowadays since millions of artists and creators lived on this earth. The more time goes by, the harder it will be to avoid copyright conflicts to a point where it would be impossible. Feel free to disagree.
That's why there's that 100 years copyright free rule. That's why Maroon 5's Memories can't be sued for its blatant plagiarism of Pachelbel's Canon in D
Black Sabbath has written every heavy metal riff in existence, its just played backwards, slower or lower. And they don't give a shit who uses them. Metal is the greatest genre of music for this reason.
With Queen/Bowie vs Ice. It was ice's comments that lead to the lawsuit. Brian May said they more or less would have said yes. But Ice made a comment like "I made the riff a hit" and that is when the lawsuits got filed
I get caught every time it comes up at music trivia!! The bars start and I ALWAYS pick the wrong one! They are exactly the same. Some of the others are a but of a stretch??? Ice, Ice Baby is just blatant!
One of my favorites is the argument over "Halo" by Beyoncé vs. "I'm Already Gone" by Kelly Clarkson. The thing is, they were both written by Ryan Tedder of One Republic, who used the same riff on "Secrets." And here's the punchline: they're all just Pachelbel's "Canon" in D.
one of mine is the proven theory that aside from the truth in the below comment (thanks @122Music1) its also a known truth that all three "artists" and i use that word wayyyyyyyyyyy lightly in this case, were terrible from song one. i.e. cant imagine that case got a lot of publicity (well,, maybe mSSnbc or the other people that profit on what i cant believe idiots believe) see now if we had talented, recognizable artists like, oh i dunno, multitudes every decade from musics inception till the sharp decline in the 90s......i mean shit im pretty sure the shit at Waco was just them playing the top 40 of the day....3 days of that and ida been dead for 2 days and like 19 hours already XD. dont thik ida made it much longer....
now if you got rid of the other artists influences, it woulda sounded amazing, is what i gather from the "punchline" of that comment. you know what they say "don't make sound fucking aweful, if its not broken." i think?
also those nobodies brought, what exactly to the table to improve on one of the greats and such a well known, popular song played at weddings for generations......and it neeeded.............more? more what? i feel like the fact that the ones mentioned inthe original post, take away from the original masterpiece by not having way more words, and lets say contrasts, not comparisons......i mean adding an electronic drum loop and sub par "entertainers" def doesnt cout, funny as it is....but theres the comparisons. way more things that contrast. like i doubt any of them minus pachbell has any idea how to write a song, and before autotune you used to have to make the talent come out of, get this, YOUR mind and body. not ghostwriter #3 (other two were servicing the rest of the modern pop musicians that day.)
I think it’s funny that 9 inch nails originally made “Hurt” and when Johnny Cash covered it Trent Resnor said and I quote “oh that’s not my song anymore, he did it way better than I did” 😂
Johnny Cash actually called up and asked, Trent said no , Johnny Cash said f*** you I'm going to do it anyway I'm dying and then after it was done Trent rezner said it was like he stole my girlfriend
The funniest thing about the Coldplay case is that they found a song with that same little melody dating back to the 1800’s which just makes all the people who tried to sue them look like idiots. Like there’s only so many notes on the piano and that melody has three.
People are freaking ignorant I mean there's stuff about Coldplay is in the top 10 most hated bands lol there my favourite band also they ask permission for that small melody in the song talk from there x and y album
Interesting story about this... I was listening to Alice Cooper's show back in the day, and he was talking about getting sued by Kiss one time. Can't remember the song, but he was completely caught off guard. So he's sitting in the courthouse, waiting for the trial to start and Paul Stanley walks up. He told Coop "Look, I have no idea what in the hell any of this is about, this is all the studio doing this.". Alice went on to say that's what these almost always are. it's not the band suing people, it's the studios doing it, and a lot of the time, the musicians aren't even aware until they get some kind of paperwork from an attorney or the courts.
Pretty sure it was the other way around for the KISS song 'Dreaming' being in litigation for sounding too much like Alice Cooper's 'Eighteen'. but your point still stands. Cheers!
Studios generally have no rights to the music, they’re just a facility when the music is recorded. If there’s any truth to this story, it must have been either the label or the publisher as they hold the rights to the songs.
"It takes just seven notes to recognise 'Ice, Ice, Baby'." No. It takes just seven notes to recognise Queen's "Under Pressure". That came first, as a UK national, and Queen fan in a family of Queen fans, that is the song instricably linked with that riff. I think the main reason Ice Ice baby got the market penetration it did, is because it sampled the genius performers and creative powerhouses that were Queen.
The only similarity between the two was the bassline which was written by John Deacon so I don't think Bowie's contribution formed the basis of the suit. I loved Bowie BTW.
John Deacon. Great songwriter😊. One of the most memorable riffs in rock and roll. Queen was one of the rare bands (along with The Eagles) where all the band members wrote at least one or more of their hits (with Mercury responsible for writing the most).
In Parker’s defense, he was given a vocal-less track of what the producers were kind of looking for and had no clue what it actually was nor where it was from. He accomplished what he was tasked with and just did not ask questions. Huey eventually came to learn this and settled, but what got him in trouble was discussing it, despite being contractually obligated to never talk about it.
Actually it was the song Soul Fingers by the Bar Kays that Akroyd wanted and was used as a temp track. That is what Ray copied. A year later Akroyd ending up just using Soul Fingers in his movie Spies Like Us and no one noticed she we still hear the fake Huey Lewis story.
The worst part about the Bitter Sweet Symphony case was that the Stones were dragged in the press over it even though they had no control. That part of their catalog was controlled by Klein & they had no part in the lawsuit but everyone accused Mick & Keith of being heartless, greedy bastards over the whole thing. In the last few years, they got control back on those songs & restored the Verve's royalties to 100% for it. They were actually fans of the song & hated what Klein did to them. On the Bridges to Babylon album, after the Stones cut Anybody Seen My Baby, someone pointed out that it sounded like K.D. Lang's Constant Craving. Mick couldn't say for certain he never heard Lang's song so they gave her a writing credit to be safe. They released it as a single on the album so Lang probably made out nicely without having to lift a finger. They've always been good about giving credit to their inspirations & influences & have been good to young upcoming bands.
because of 2 things ... One , the Stones KNOW they are "borrowing" from early Blues records & Two, because they are rich to the gills and could care less about being dragged into court.
What pisses me off about most of these is that copyright is supposed to protect against copies that can displace or substitute for the original to the point that someone who was going to buy the original instead buys the copy. It was never supposed to cover one song sounding slightly similar to another, and no one has ever gone into a record shop looking for Kookaburra and walked out with Men at Work by mistake. Giving writing credit sure, but even the 5% is too much let alone the 60% the copyright troll rights holders demanded for a 70 year old song.
The Stones never wanted the Verve sued in the first place. It was the label and managers. As far as I could tell, Mick and Richards like Bittersweet Symphony from an artists perspective
That’s the case for a lot of these. The artists usually don’t really care it’s the rights holders (publishers managers and record labels generally) who sue
It's worse than that, because the sample is of an orchestral arrangement that Mick and Keith didn't write or arrange. Alan Klein was a shifty bastard who bought the rights to an old song just so he could sue his own managed artist, George Harrison, over his latest song. May that guy rot in hell.
what kills me is the stones will sue anyone that even sounds even a little like their songs, but straight up stole from lesser known Black artist. it’s the hypocrisy for me.
@Caleb Hurley Yeah, I was always under the impression that it was mostly Alan Klein who did the suing. He's infamous for being, to put it mildly, a shark.
@Caleb Hurley Hey, check this out if you can. Bryan Adams released a song called "Please Forgive Me" in 1993 that was co written by Mutt Lange (I think). In 1999, the Country band Lonestar released a song called "Amazed" that is nearly identical. The vocal melody, key, tempo, and even many of the lyrics are the same. I have no idea how they got away with that one. And nobody ever mentions it in these "lists." It's cool to talk to someone who knows what they're talking about. Cheers
I think sometimes songs just happen to sound very similar, there's literally a finite number of musical possibilities melodically or harmonically that can be created, anyway.
John Lennon idolized him, and probably thought he was doing more of a tribute than plagiarism. Poor goofy George, though! Maybe he thought no one would remember "He's So Fine," or assumed the Chiffons couldn't afford a lawyer. 🤣 Phil Spector produced "My Sweet Lord," though, and he should surely have known better.
I don’t know the proper way musicians need to go about doing songs that sound alike, but I honestly love when a new song reminds me of a song from my childhood. It makes me want to listen to both so much more. Nostalgia at its finest.
The court case against Men At Work for the 'Kookaburra' riff in 'Down Under' was nasty because the owner of Kookaburra was not the writer; they were someone who'd bought the rights... How this person could buy and own another person's creative IP is a bit perverse, but to then sue another artist who was merely quoting what he assumed was part of local folk culture... was just about getting the payout and nothing to do with creative credit. Greedy.
Maybe it's because of where i'm from but i had never, NEVER heard of ice ice baby, only under pressure. And same goes for my friends 🤷♀️. But anyway, justice has finally been made all over the world
@@emili9715 yeah I’ve honestly never heard Ice Ice Baby on the radio except for the 90’s pop Sirius stations. I was born in 2000 so that was after Ice Ice Baby’s popularity came and went
@@denistuohy2535 maybe. I was born in '97 and live in italy and here you hear under pressure on the radio, in the stores and such. Ice ice baby probably was never a hit here 🤷♀️
" Is it just me or does 'Do You Wanna Build a Snowman' from Frozen sound suspiciously like 'Papa, Can You Hear Me?' from Yentl? and nobody fucking realizes it." - Deadpool
Years ago I was playing guitar in a rock/roll band and we were playing 'Just What I Needed' by the Cars (E, B, C#m, Ab) and a good friend/guitarist told me 'Those are the same chords for verses as The Beatles 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand'. And yes!, they are!
Music labels suing over minute differences is ridiculous. I can understand lawsuits like Vanilla Ica "Ice Ice Baby" but some of the others are far fetched
@@somberstricken4424 I had always wondered about this. We have a finite number of notes. We also have a finite number of combination of said notes that are pleasing to hear. Therefore, at one point,we are going to run out of unused combinations. It's nonsense.
I remember getting so pissed off when Ice Ice Baby came out. Under Pressure has always been one of my all time favorite songs, one that didn't get much airplay... so I would get so excited when I heard the familiar base chain.... then I would hear Ice Ice Baby... and would be so disappointed!
I used to go to 80's night at a dance club about 20 years ago and it was ABSOLUTELY hilarious when "Under pressure" would come on. I'd say a good half to 3/4 of the crowd thought it was going to be "Ice, Ice, baby" (even though it's a 90's song) and were left completely confused. Probably saw that happen a good dozen+ times and every time I'd tip DJ Dead Air extra for the laugh.
As a hobby musician I cant tell you how many times I think I wrote something good and weeks later I realize its just like some song I heard a long time ago. Its hard to write unique music.
Saul Zaentz is the thug here. He sued Fogerty bc of the "almighty $" in the 4m of royalties. Even more clever; Fogerty's "tribute" 2 Zaentz w/"Zanz Can't Dance" but l8r retitled & re-recorded as "Vanz Can't Dance" bc of the lawsuit. After all; there r 2 versions of the "Centerfield" LP that was indicative as such. I oughta know bc I used 2 have both versions but lost 'em ovr 18 yrs ago when I residentially reloc8d. However; the CD version only has the "V" version (i.e.: "Vanz Can't Dance").
Or Jay-Z's. As much as I love his music, Jay-Z literally hit his peak doing Biggie and Pac lyrics, and making entire tracks based around songs that they as well as others like Dre/Snoop did. Always respected Nas 100000x more, Ether tells it all, he took Biggie's everything. But at the same time, Jay-Z is 1 of the best 10 rappers of all time and personally he has multiple albums I've listened to over and over my entire life. Its proof that if you get the go ahead approval to sample, you'll be respected if you make a great finishing product. Honestly pays off!
"There are only so many notes and chords, inevitably some songwriters will hit on the same progression and sound completely independent of one another"
It goes beyond notes and chords. A melody is a series of notes, and can contain different time signatures. Some sequences sound less musical than others, but there's the potential for a lot of variation if one works at it.
Radiohead completely ripping off Creep then trying to come for Lana’s song is the shadiest, greediest thing I’ve ever heard of lol glad she called them out and they dropped it
In both cases none of the writers or band members had anything to do with the action of suing in each it was entirely out of their control and done by their agents and lawyers respectively. Also I which you’d listen to all 3 of those songs . The air that I breathe is very different to creep . Where as get free is quite similar to creep.
There was one song that wasn’t included on this list that I had to mention, I’m a massive fan of Def Leppard and their most popular song is by far Pour Some Sugar On Me, but my brother is a bit of a One Direction fan so I came across the song Midnight Memories and I thought he was listening to Pour Some Sugar On Me, I was shocked and looked up if there was any tension between the two groups or if One Direction was inspired by their song, and I found out Def Leppard sent lawyers to see if One Direction should be sued for the similarities between the two songs, but they never got anywhere and One Direction got off easy, in my opinion, even if One Direction didn’t directly copy the song, they should’ve given them some credit after hearing similarities afterwards
Wow, during the verse I said to myself, "Ok, the pulse of the song has some similarity," but the pre-chorus went in a different direction and I almost x'd it out. Glad I stayed for the chorus because HOLY CRAP that's a rip.
The only real similarity is that the beat and chord progression from the One Direction song is similar to the verses from Pour Some Sugar on Me. The One Direction song really lacks continuity in any sense, to be honest. It sounds like three different songs spliced together, one of which remotely resembles the Def Leppard song. However, the other thing they really have in common is the deliberate use of tone correction.
Similar and close to blatant or actually blatant rip offs is the difference. Between shared chords, riffs, lyrics, what have you; you're right, some songs are going to sound similar but it shouldn't be practically the same song. It's along the same lines as writing; two authors might have similar writing styles, shared words, the same genre, some of the same words in the title but plagiarism isn't subtle.
One thing I learned in theory class in college, is that the longer artists record music, the less unique songs will be produced. There's only so many progressions and melodies in western music, that there's bound to be some artistical overlaps.
It is not a question of a limited number of chord progressions. If we consider the non-accidental pitches in a single scale (e.g., CDEFGAB), there are 127 chords (consisting of 1 to 7 pitches each) that can be constructed (e.g., C, CE, CEG, DEFGABC); if you include accidentals, there are 4,095 such chords. This provides us a supply of single chords out of which to build an "accompaniment" as a "chord progression" (like, for instance, CEG-FAC-GBD, or CEG-FAC-DEFGABC-G). How long is the accompaniment? Let's just consider limiting it (for the sake of the calculation) to using each pitch in the scale as a chord root only once (so, up to a maximum of 7 chords in the accompaniment total). We have to ignore rhythmic variation, and whether any of the the accompaniment chords repeat, for the sake of making the calculation tractable. Now, maybe I messed up the math, but with 127 base chord variants, the number of 2-chord accompaniments is 16,002 variants; for 3-chord accompaniments, there are 2,000,250 variants; or for all of the chord accompaniments for length 1 to 7, there are 454,109,046,552,379 (454 trillion+) variants. Allowing accidentals, the total is 21,885,025,000,667,410,887,597,051,611,794,938,097,522,875 variants, or roughly the number of stars in the observable universe. The fact that 99% of these sound better than Fernyhough is left as an exercise for the reader.
Interesting subject! Great video. I wish, though, for dummies like me, that they would compare the conflicting music directly back-to-back. Thanks for the history lesson 👏
I love how Tom Petty sued Sam smith over some similarities in songs, but when the strokes straight up said they ripped off his music, he said “good for them. I don’t care.” Lmaooo
@@garyrhone1395 I was never super into them, so after this video I got their 1964-1971 Anthology that was released in 2014 that has 150 songs on it.. So now I'm super into them! They're great!!
Angus Young, AC/DC’s lead guitarist himself, has actually poked fun at this, saying, and I quote, “I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.”, poking fun at the fact people often forget about the Australian version of High Voltage, as well.
KD Lang’s ‘Constant Craving’ and the Rolling Stones ‘Has Anybody seen my Baby”. The Stones even gave KD Lang credit and a share after they heard the original. Both great tunes.
About 15 years ago I was running up and down the fretboard looking for a good riff and after a couple of hours hit on one that sounded so good I knew it was destined to be great. I played it and added to it for almost a week when I realized I'd just re-written the opening riff of Maiden's Heaven Can Wait. Back to the drawing board...
Cobra, i always wish i could remember those riffs i play in my dreams! If you are fast enough, you can grab a shadow of them. But then too, as often as not, i found those riffs i played in my dreams were just a slightly different voice of music i had already heard. But hey, never discount what you can learn in dreams :)
I don’t know whether you’ve listened to the full Tom Petty song (which you should, it’s a banger) but the snippet that WatchMojo played isn’t the section that the Sam Smith lawsuit stemmed from. The similarity comes from the verse of Tom’s song, not the chorus (which is what WM played for some reason)
@@paulmcgrath6118 Rod Stewart was successfully sued by Brazilian songwriter Jorge Ben Jor, over "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" melody and chorus similarities to Ben's 1972 song "Taj Mahal".[38]
The final line "There really are no new ideas anymore" hits the nail on the head. Although I'd phrase it more "There rarely are any new ideas anymore" (rather than "no new ideas") There are only a finite amount of chord sequences. Yes things will sound the same at points. How much of a song is directly inspired or ripped ? Well I guess that's what needs to be considered. But the bottom line is all musicians, song writers, book authors, film makers , scientists, engineers get inspired by the previous ones. A lot of time the work of any is just a munge up of the earlier stuff. Mixed and stirred in a different way to make something slightly different. Occasionally there's something original.
You guys missed one of THE most infamous ones! It’s when MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” ripped off Rick James’s “Superfreak”. That was extremely well known.
Will Smith - Men in Black vs Patrice Rushen - Forget me Nots (sampling) // Will Smith's - Getting Jiggy with it samples Sister Sledge - He's the greatest dancer // Will Smith's Miami samples from Whisper's - and the Beat goes on
As a composer, I'm always super scared that a new song I've written is subconsciously copying an existing one (it can happen), so I ask a bunch of people if they've ever heard it before I get too attached.
yeah i do the same thing. im a guitarist and write music(Metal/rock for the most part). and often finding my songs sound more like the people who inspired me to play than me. id say an easy 1/4 songs i write immediatly get trashed for sounding to much like slayer,exodus,etc. granted most of their stuff is very basic
I wrote my experience a near nervous breakdown junior year in high-school and classic Janis Ian Serious Wierd Al Can I even ask? Or Gordon Litefoot and my bittersweet to a "friend " and the thoughts of we are not same page of " Bible " and the relationship fizzles and dies If anyone has ideas I assume I can ask It won't necessarily be cheap
They could get sued for copyright infringement if they played any more of the track than was absolutely necessary to demonstrate their point (which would be ironic).
The interesting thing about the Nirvana/Killing Joke dispute is that it came from a place of love. The boys were big fans of the post punk group and in the early 00's Dave Ghrol even played drums on their 2nd self titled album.
four songs that have a very similar sound to “Come As You Are” “22 Faces”- Garden of Delight “Baby Come Back”- The Royals “Eighties”- Killing Joke “Life Goes On”- The Damned
It was so embarrassing when Robin Thicke and Pharrell were sued by Marvin Gaye’s estate over that Blurred Lines song of theirs. The former lost the case and it seemed only Pharrell recovered, but Thicke was not able to.
That’s what always pissed me off. Robin and Pharrell BOTH had EQUAL efforts in “Blurred Lines” yet all the women who cried rape culture accusations only came after Robin. Nobody got mad at Pharrell and actually while Robin bombed in 2014 post album, Pharrell got MORE popular and was rewarded with doing the music for countless movies and collaborations *Edit: Thank you all below for educating me. It just made me wonder why Robin was crucified for this song while Enrique Iglesias made a song literally called “Tonight I’m F*cking You” and got a pass to make even more misogynistic music. Some people only go for one and not both. Or the other.
Robin Thicke started it. Gaye's estate said they were similar and Thicke sued them. Pharrell could have worked something out if Thicke hadn't went to the lawyers. Once things are in court, it's hard to amicably settle.
Ray Parker: Ok, we'll settle out of Court but you can't tell noone about it. Huey: *Tells the world about the out of Court settlement* Ray Parker You Fool! You activated my trap card!
Huey Lewis was going to do the Ghostbusters song but he did the soundtrack for Back To The Future then sues Ray Parker Jr for the Ghostbusters theme is the most 80s thing I ever heard
@@All-due-respect-I-disagreeActually it was the song Soul Fingers by the Bar Kays that Akroyd wanted and was used as a temp track. That is what Ray copied. A year later Akroyd ending up just using Soul Fingers in his movie Spies Like Us and no one noticed she we still hear the fake Huey Lewis story.
let not forget, Ray Davies "punched" a hole in his amp to get a louder distorted sound for his guitar. that sound would became proto-metal. for more evidence listen to You Really Got Me.
@@Revcharge They broke out into a fight onstage during their last number, when I saw them performing in Washington DC. Early seventies . They were second only to the Stones, for. a while.
Just gonna skip Puff Daddy / Police "every breath you take / missing you". Funny thing is that, allegedly, Sting never heard of the cover until one of his kids said it was cool that he led Puffy use his song- that was the first he knew of it.
The Vanilla Ice song was so blatantly identical to the Bowie/Queen song that I just assumed he had purchased the rights to use the bass riff. How could he not know that he would be sued?
I have to correct you on the Radiohead/Lana Del Ray case. Radiohead publicly denied that any such claim ever came from them or their legal team, and as a result, laid the rumours to rest that Lana helped fuel to begin with.
Re the Nirvana/Killing Joke one there was an interesting twist in the story. During discussions about the copyright infringement Dave Grohl, who admitted to being a big KJ fan, found out they were short a drummer for the album they were due to record and volunteered to drum for it and go on tour with them, which he did. I believe the law suite was dropped.
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Tom Petty’s I Won’t Back Down vs. Sam Smith’s Stay With Me
With all the borrowing vanilla iced tea with ice ice baby from music artist let’s not forget to add that the lyrics or borrowed two. Ice ice baby is a part of fraternity song sung by Alpha phi Alpha fraternity . And for those who want to say they borrowed from him, the fraternity was founded in 1906. The Chant predates his birth by quite a few years. Hey I bet you would predict his grandpa’s birth by quite a few years as well.
Ice Ice Baby
Cool video 😎👍🏼🌷🖤
This video had more music playing in its twenty minutes than MTV has played in the past twenty years.
I couldn't agree with you more!!
We should petition MTV to change their name. No music is played on Music TeleVision.
STV.... Sick Television!
@@MichaelOKC more like STD
FACTS!
This joke is as stale as MTV is these days. Don't get me wrong, you are definitely correct but it makes me chuckle when I see this comment pop up because we've all seen/heard it a million times over since about the mid 90's. Y'all can't blame MTV. They changed with the times and were very successful in doing so. Also, nowadays it's completely pointless to run music videos when they are all on UA-cam, waiting for the click of a mouse. They do however have sister channels that come with cable packages that do play videos mostly 24/7. VH1 as well.
The John Fogerty getting sued for plagiarizing himself is one of my favorite musical tidbits.
Happens on YT too. I watched a channel where the Channel Op wrote & performed his own music intro for his channel & they gave him a copy write strike for not getting permission from the writer, himself!
Didn't he win the case because he broke down both songs to show they were just similar but not the same?
Surprised that wasnt number one
Probably didn't even realize he did it...
Fogerty’s old studio saw money, popped a 1/2” Chubb and set loose their lawyers. Pathetic AF that pencil-pushing talentless douchenozzles wanted money for something they had jack .... to do with.
Anyone remember an interview with Vanilla Ice explaining that the difference between "Pressure" and "Ice, Ice Baby" is that little "ding" in his song? I was thinking "Really dude? You're going to run with that"? Apparently he did.
I totally remember that interview. Ridiculous! "Ours goes like this...theirs goes like this." Literally identical
I do remember that. What year was that?
Lol he ended up paying for it in the end
I think that was when he on The Arsenio Hall Show.
Hey man.. Vanilla Ice is awesome.. You see him in "That's my boy"? I've never laughed so hard in my life
When I write songs, I often notice other songs creep in. It is really difficult to be truly original.
Ofc it is, specially nowadays. But imagine it being the 60's or 70's, doesnt take nearly as much!
So, you often find yourself out of compliance with originality?
@@RayfordRaySiegel No, I find myself out of compliance with earthly authorities.
@@kingnorlen They had music they grew up with that influenced them just like modern artists do. Nothing is really original.
At least you try. Some of these [ and others ] are so blatant.
I can't even fathom the number of times in my life I heard an intro on the radio, exclaimed, "I love this song!", only to find out it was a totally different song.
sample music in RnB/Rap alot
Totally had that happen in middle school. The gunter glieben glaughten gluben intro came on and i thought it was Def Leppard's Rock Of Ages, but it was The Offspring's Pretty Fly for a White Guy
Edit: I even proclaimed to the class oh i love this song cuz i was so excited def leppard was playing in 6th grade
I did like when i heard a Garage Band loop that i know I've used personally in my own tracks on that program, on a Lupe Fiasco song.
Yes Yes YES!! "Sampling." Oh PLEASE, it is flat out f*cking THEFT!! I have a strange tick about theft (we can thank drug addled cousins for that), so when it's so in my face like that...I want to kick someone in the face. I actively will not purchase nor listen to anything that does this sampling.
I also give credit where credit is due. Prince royally bent over Arrested Development (the band, not the epic tv show) for their 'sampling' his music. He waited until they hit a particular mark of income and THEN sued the bloody shit of them. GOOD.
Wtf is the radio? (Lol jk)
The thing that pisses me off about the Down Under lawsuit was that the original creator of the kookaburra song was still alive during the height of Down Under's popularity and had no problem with it. She died a few years later and the rights were eventually picked up by some company who then sued Men At Work.
wasn't it the Girl Guides? I have a mate who is a huge Men At Work fan who told me this.
Greg Ham didn't have to die because of the stress this lawsuit placed on him. It was a tribute and we all loved it, as Aussies, I think. It's a travesty.
Same thing happened with Stairway to heaven, although the lawsuit got tossed anyway.
Also Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4 is a clear steal of Led Zeppelin's Babe Im Gonna Leave You. for yet another fun fact :D
Exactly this. If one artist or group reaches an agreement with another artist or group to sample their song in exchange for credits/some share of royalties, then provided the sampler abides by the agreement, the sampler shouldn’t get sued by the copyright holder of the sampled song. What some particularly greedy music companies don’t seem to understand is that music is meant to be shared with the world.
An American company.
Yep, classic case of copyright/patent trolling. Total, complete, blatant misuse of the system to turn a buck.
Robert Plant admitted "As musicians, we're all beggars and thieves". Their are only so many chord progressions that can be original in totality.
He also admitted that they ripped off a lot of black artists in their early career.
Well, he'd know - his vocal on "Whole Lotta Love" is basically identical to Steve Marriott's performance of "You Need Lovin'" on the Small Faces' first album...
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And never hid the fact when he was clearly inspired by an artist.
The song Whole Lotta Love definitely was inspired by Steve Marriott, but its clear Robert Plant gave the song his own thing.
There not their
Hey, thanks for having a real person hosting and narrating!
Its amazing what you take for granted as time goes by
A I nonsense compilation videos are taking over UA-cam. Human narrator is nice
Rebecca is the shining star of Mojo! What a great voice!
How could you forget Rick James “Super Freak” vs MC Hammer “U Can’t Touch this?!” Rick James had to sue him.
Do obvious (with no lying about originality like Vanilla Ice did) samples really count though?
i was coming to say this.this is probably one of the most famous rip offs..
@Catharsis Is that the same Kid Rock song that sounded like he ripped off "Werewolf of London" and "Sweet Home Alabama"?
@@dolphquick2686 Yep, that's the one. Completely ripped them off
@Catharsis He has said it was arranged beforehand with royalties going to the other artists.
Given his name, it's ironic that Tom Petty seemed to be the least petty of artists.
That deserves more credit 👏
Petty was chill af.
@Brix Broox I am honestly so happy that I had seen him on his very last tour
For real....Petty would be the last person to sue anyone
Petty's "Last Dance With Mary Jane" was also ripped off by the Red Hot Chili Peppers in "Dani California".
One of Yoko Ono's songs was alleged to be a copy of the Emergency Broadcast tone.
I think all of them 🤣
😂😂😂
You mean "Don't worry Kyoko,(Mummy's only looking for a hand in the snow)?
She's ripping off a hyena.
@@garyginther6742 A cat caught in the curtains... with the house on fire.
11:06 "My songs tend to sound like my songs" Fogerty you LEGEND.
I love Fogerty’s defense of “I wrote it, of course I’m gonna sound like myself”
"Yeah, I sound like myself. What a surprise!"
He brought a guitar into the courtroom and showed how different the songs were. ... He won the argument.
Fantasy Records trying to stick the knife in Fogerty again. Diden't work.
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Haha it’s my favorite ever story about a stupid lawsuit
The fact that this starts with The Kinks makes me happy that their huge contribution to music is not forgotten!
I know... They are so underrated yet so many musicians were "inspired" by them
People that truly appreciate good music know who they are, and that is really all that matters. Their contributions to rock and roll, and pop culture are massive, but slightly off the radar. Personally, I think that is kind of a good thing.
one of the best rock bands ever.
@R G The Kinks and the Hollies are two of the best British bands ever!
Ray Davies!
I can't help but think a lot of songs genuinely aren't rip offs or intentionally stealing others material. I think in many cases people hear things throughout their life and it stays with them. When they're creating something they can't even tell they're just regurgitating what they heard before.
Makes sense
That may be likely the case. It’s actually a thing called Cryptomnesia
Happens to me a lot of times, it's a common thing
Lol. “It just came to me in a dream”
ATC all around the world vs Ava max my head and my heart they are the same tune practically I think Ava max copied ATC all around the world from the 1990s for Ava max song my head my heart
If you think about it,
writing original material
has got to be very difficult
to accomplish in a business
with already a million
other artists out there.
Kudos to those who
had abundant, original ideas.
The originality is the combination of materials, not the chords or the elements themselves. It's not that difficult. Nor does it matter much, unless your near copy ends up as a big hit.
"Ice, Ice Baby." I heard about 3 chords of that song when it first came out and thought that Queen had re-recorded "Under Pressure!" lol.
When I first heard it on the radio After the first 3second I though " The words are wrong"
"Menopause Rhapsody" is such a blatant rip off of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", it should be illegal.
But it isn't because it's satire.
Just saw a cat meme. Four cat heads, black background:
Mama, just killed a mouse.
Ripped it right across its head, and put it in your bed.
Freddie Mercury solo.
OMG SAME!!!
Have you ever heard of sampling before? It's when usually a rap artist takes the back beat of a song and raps over it. It's quite common. Try listening to most of Jay Z's songs, 95% are sampled from other songs.
“Dani California” by RHCP also sounds like Pettys “Mary Janes Last Dance.” Petty and the RHCP noticed it but Petty refused to sue them. In fact, he loved “Dani California.” Petty truly was a legend.
Petty’s “Mary Janes Last Dance” was itself a ripoff of sorts. Listen to the beginning of “Waiting for the Sun” by the Jayhawks, which came out one year BEFORE Mary Jane. It’s identical!
Jon Bon Jovi's "Queen of New Orleans" sounds a lot like "Mary Jane's Last Dance" as well.
Yeah both songs sound similar but are different in their own right, personally I prefer Tom Petty's song but both are really good songs
Absolutely❤
All of RHCP songs sound like the same song.
I'm a writing teacher, and I have talked about unintended plagiarism all the time. We read/hear a particular selection, jot it down, either forget to attribute it OR we believe it's our own original idea ... you get the picture. I've done it myself, wholly without malicious intent. It happens, although most of us do not end up in court over it.
There's only so many combinations of words, notes, colors, etc. Human beings will independently create similar works. I happened across a sculpture from around 1914 that is a spitting image if General Grievous from Star Wars, for instance. I would bet money the SW designers have never seen it. Yet the similarities are striking.
I've found that "borrowing" in music is way more criticized than doing the same in movies, TV shows, literature, etc... The original Star Wars trilogy was heavily borrowed from multiple sources (even directly copied certain scenes like the dogfights), yet people are more surprised about the score resembling classical works.
That's because it should never get that far. A blatant remake claiming original could be an issue, but writing a song in a basic A,E,D chord progression is almost cliche' and should never be chased after. The Monkey's "A little bit me a little bit you" which Neil Diamond wrote was later redone by Neil with his own hit "Cherry Cherry", the Romantics used the same chords in a different rhythm for "What I like about you". It's just how music goes and there's only so many enjoyable melodies you can make the chords available without some similarities creeping in.
7:09 the original "Kookaburra" song was written by Marion Sinclair in 1932. She was still alive when Men at Work referenced a small fragment of the melody in their 1981 song "Down Under" which became a huge hit. But she said nothing about it.
In 1988 she died and in her will, gifted Kookaburra's publishing credits to the Girl Guides. They later sold it to a publishing company, who much later sued Men at Work for copyright. It was a real travesty that they had to give up future royalties to a company who had nothing to do with writing either song.
Columbia Pictures: Hey, Huey Lewis, please write a theme song for "Ghostbusters". Lewis: No thanks. Columbia: Hey, Ray Parker Jr., please use Huey's hit tune and write a theme song for "Ghostbusters".
Nice! LMAO!
Power Of Love.
Universal Pictures: Hey Huey Lewis, since you didn't want to write the theme for "Ghostbusters", can you write the theme song for "Back to the Future"? Lewis: Sure. Universal: Hey Lewis, what do you want to name the song? Lewis: The Power of Love
I didnt hear any similarities between those two
@@CrazyCatMom24that’s because a live version of the Huey Lewis song was used. Listen to the studio version and it becomes very clear.
You all going to forget that Chuck Barry straight stole “Johnny B Good” from a high schooler named Calvin Klein. And he stole it at a prom from what I hear. 😤
@kountree38 😏
That’s a good one! Had to read it twice- but that was good!😂
But Calvin Klein stole it from Chuck Berry! Who stole it from Calvin Klein! Who stole if from Chuck Berry!
I have a headache...
(BTW, this is known as the bootstrap paradox, a form of causal loop.)
Calvin Klien dated his mom, so it is tough to defend him.🤣
And from what I remember "he was just too darn loud".
Tom Petty has always been cool about inspiration and musical “accidents”. Be cool like Tom Petty
Chad Tom Petty
What a legend. He will definitely be missed. 😔
Tom Petty always seemed like one of the chillest "rock stars" Like he was just happy to be there and have people enjoy his music. RIP.
Be cool like Tom Petty. Don't steal music.
Didn't he say once that there were only so many cords, everyone will end up copying everyone eventually?
Jethro Tull's "We Used To Know" became The Eagles mega hit Hotel California.
Ian Anderson gave them a nod with a Well Done Boys without even a thank you.
Chuck Berry has probably the most appropriated work in the world, and yet gets little respect for his contributions. As the Godfather of Rock and Roll, his legacy is still hidden from most of the world.
If you look back further you will find the shoulders he stood on.
Chuck borrowed heavily from the country and western catalogue.
Chuck Berry got his sound from Calvin Klein. He received a phone call from his cousin Marvin who was performing at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. Marvin suffered from an unexpected accident with a knife and Calvin stepped in to finish out the set.
@@iconiccreations2492 wow that's awesome!
@@iconiccreations2492 I thought it was the Fish Under the Sea Dance?
No matter how original you try to be, you will always have someone with a similar idea. I think it is impossible to be 100% original, especially nowadays since millions of artists and creators lived on this earth. The more time goes by, the harder it will be to avoid copyright conflicts to a point where it would be impossible. Feel free to disagree.
That's why there's that 100 years copyright free rule. That's why Maroon 5's Memories can't be sued for its blatant plagiarism of Pachelbel's Canon in D
@@hacantyapradipta1119 That's good to know that there is some kind of regulation.
I agree. Some of these are a little petty
Black Sabbath has written every heavy metal riff in existence, its just played backwards, slower or lower. And they don't give a shit who uses them.
Metal is the greatest genre of music for this reason.
I won't disagree I'll simply point out nirvana, and Aic.
With Queen/Bowie vs Ice. It was ice's comments that lead to the lawsuit. Brian May said they more or less would have said yes. But Ice made a comment like "I made the riff a hit" and that is when the lawsuits got filed
I get caught every time it comes up at music trivia!! The bars start and I ALWAYS pick the wrong one! They are exactly the same. Some of the others are a but of a stretch??? Ice, Ice Baby is just blatant!
Ice has always been, and will always be, an asshat.
ego starts a fire again
egos get you every time
@@garyfrazier5414 Actually it's worse than that. He's now a real estate salesman. But what could we have expected. The guys an asshat.
One of my favorites is the argument over "Halo" by Beyoncé vs. "I'm Already Gone" by Kelly Clarkson. The thing is, they were both written by Ryan Tedder of One Republic, who used the same riff on "Secrets." And here's the punchline: they're all just Pachelbel's "Canon" in D.
one of mine is the proven theory that aside from the truth in the below comment (thanks @122Music1) its also a known truth that all three "artists" and i use that word wayyyyyyyyyyy lightly in this case, were terrible from song one. i.e. cant imagine that case got a lot of publicity (well,, maybe mSSnbc or the other people that profit on what i cant believe idiots believe) see now if we had talented, recognizable artists like, oh i dunno, multitudes every decade from musics inception till the sharp decline in the 90s......i mean shit im pretty sure the shit at
Waco was just them playing the top 40 of the day....3 days of that and ida been dead for 2 days and like 19 hours already XD. dont thik ida made it much longer....
obviously the original posters 3 listed, just to be clear.....if they were ANYTHING like the cure, there might still be hope for our race....
now if you got rid of the other artists influences, it woulda sounded amazing, is what i gather from the "punchline" of that comment. you know what they say "don't make sound fucking aweful, if its not broken." i think?
also those nobodies brought, what exactly to the table to improve on one of the greats and such a well known, popular song played at weddings for generations......and it neeeded.............more? more what? i feel like the fact that the ones mentioned inthe original post, take away from the original masterpiece by not having way more words, and lets say contrasts, not comparisons......i mean adding an electronic drum loop and sub par "entertainers" def doesnt cout, funny as it is....but theres the comparisons. way more things that contrast. like i doubt any of them minus pachbell has any idea how to write a song, and before autotune you used to have to make the talent come out of, get this, YOUR mind and body. not ghostwriter #3 (other two were servicing the rest of the modern pop musicians that day.)
Sonofa...! I KNEW 'Halo' sounded familiar, but I couldn't place it!
When your song has 4 cords, you are taking a huge chance of a copyright lawsuit.
For real, right!!!
Common chord progressions should be considered public domain.
@@spiderman4x exactly
You ever try to add a 5th chord? It's like 1234 1234 1234 yeah this rocks 1234 yes yes yes 1234 1234 oh yeah 12345.. What the fuck?
@@thebikehippie6562 I just saw this and spit out my beer I was drinking. It's 100% True.
I think it’s funny that 9 inch nails originally made “Hurt” and when Johnny Cash covered it Trent Resnor said and I quote “oh that’s not my song anymore, he did it way better than I did” 😂
Johnny Cash made that song his own.
@@Kevin-593 didn’t even steal it. The song chose him lol
He claimed that he believed it was never his song to begin with and that when Cash asked for it he knew instantly that that was who he wrote it for
Trent also found out they were selling one of his albums for 18ish in Australia, and said boot leg it, come see me live when i come
Johnny Cash actually called up and asked, Trent said no , Johnny Cash said f*** you I'm going to do it anyway I'm dying and then after it was done Trent rezner said it was like he stole my girlfriend
The funniest thing about the Coldplay case is that they found a song with that same little melody dating back to the 1800’s which just makes all the people who tried to sue them look like idiots. Like there’s only so many notes on the piano and that melody has three.
People are freaking ignorant I mean there's stuff about Coldplay is in the top 10 most hated bands lol there my favourite band also they ask permission for that small melody in the song talk from there x and y album
@@perrycoffey5410 You need to learn the difference between there, their, and they’re. You totally messed up and it makes you look not very smart.
A bit like Dua Lipa borrowing from White Town on "Love Again" who then in turn borrowed from a Russian composer.
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@@perrycoffey5410 Most of the people who hate Coldplay seem to be Americans... I don't get it. I love Coldplay.
That Ghostbusters one was crazy he didn't even try to hide it🤣
It’s true but the reality is the ghostbusters track is even more catchy than the Huey Lewis one 😂
I think that Tom Petty, Chuck Berry, and The Kinks all got multiple tunes copied by other artists is testament to how talented and creative they were.
Interesting story about this... I was listening to Alice Cooper's show back in the day, and he was talking about getting sued by Kiss one time. Can't remember the song, but he was completely caught off guard. So he's sitting in the courthouse, waiting for the trial to start and Paul Stanley walks up. He told Coop "Look, I have no idea what in the hell any of this is about, this is all the studio doing this.". Alice went on to say that's what these almost always are. it's not the band suing people, it's the studios doing it, and a lot of the time, the musicians aren't even aware until they get some kind of paperwork from an attorney or the courts.
Pretty sure it was the other way around for the KISS song 'Dreaming' being in litigation for sounding too much like Alice Cooper's 'Eighteen'. but your point still stands.
Cheers!
That must've been an entertaining courtroom.
Studios generally have no rights to the music, they’re just a facility when the music is recorded.
If there’s any truth to this story, it must have been either the label or the publisher as they hold the rights to the songs.
"It takes just seven notes to recognise 'Ice, Ice, Baby'." No. It takes just seven notes to recognise Queen's "Under Pressure". That came first, as a UK national, and Queen fan in a family of Queen fans, that is the song instricably linked with that riff.
I think the main reason Ice Ice baby got the market penetration it did, is because it sampled the genius performers and creative powerhouses that were Queen.
Bowie had nothing to do with that song then?
Queen sued and lost.
The copy changed ONE NOTE and convinced the court that makes it not the same.
The only similarity between the two was the bassline which was written by John Deacon so I don't think Bowie's contribution formed the basis of the suit. I loved Bowie BTW.
John Deacon.
Great songwriter😊. One of the most memorable riffs in rock and roll. Queen was one of the rare bands (along with The Eagles) where all the band members wrote at least one or more of their hits (with Mercury responsible for writing
the most).
@@irenec4210ueen won! It’s still obvious it’s Queens. He paid them $4 million dollars
I love how Ghostbusters asked Huey Lewis to do a song and when he declined they just said, mkay, we’ll just rip off your hit then that’s cool. 😂
In Parker’s defense, he was given a vocal-less track of what the producers were kind of looking for and had no clue what it actually was nor where it was from. He accomplished what he was tasked with and just did not ask questions. Huey eventually came to learn this and settled, but what got him in trouble was discussing it, despite being contractually obligated to never talk about it.
Actually it was the song Soul Fingers by the Bar Kays that Akroyd wanted and was used as a temp track. That is what Ray copied. A year later Akroyd ending up just using Soul Fingers in his movie Spies Like Us and no one noticed she we still hear the fake Huey Lewis story.
I would have never thought "Stay with Me" sounded like Tom Petty's song.
I honestly don't hear the similarity
Same
Glad I'm not the only one.
It's the vocal line.
The song it literally named I won't back down and they won't
Great list Rebecca!
Bet you could do another 20 lists and still not scratch the surface.
Very educational and entertaining for us music buffs. Thanks!
The worst part about the Bitter Sweet Symphony case was that the Stones were dragged in the press over it even though they had no control. That part of their catalog was controlled by Klein & they had no part in the lawsuit but everyone accused Mick & Keith of being heartless, greedy bastards over the whole thing. In the last few years, they got control back on those songs & restored the Verve's royalties to 100% for it. They were actually fans of the song & hated what Klein did to them.
On the Bridges to Babylon album, after the Stones cut Anybody Seen My Baby, someone pointed out that it sounded like K.D. Lang's Constant Craving. Mick couldn't say for certain he never heard Lang's song so they gave her a writing credit to be safe. They released it as a single on the album so Lang probably made out nicely without having to lift a finger. They've always been good about giving credit to their inspirations & influences & have been good to young upcoming bands.
@Dick Keith I ❤ K.D. Lang she’s amazing!
because of 2 things ... One , the Stones KNOW they are "borrowing" from early Blues records & Two, because they are rich to the gills and could care less about being dragged into court.
Gave supporting slots to Stevie Wonder, Prince and the Strokes. Always helped musicians starting out
Klein is one of the major villains of the rock world.
and its a sample of a COVER song with those instruments not even on the stones versio
What pisses me off about most of these is that copyright is supposed to protect against copies that can displace or substitute for the original to the point that someone who was going to buy the original instead buys the copy. It was never supposed to cover one song sounding slightly similar to another, and no one has ever gone into a record shop looking for Kookaburra and walked out with Men at Work by mistake. Giving writing credit sure, but even the 5% is too much let alone the 60% the copyright troll rights holders demanded for a 70 year old song.
The Stones never wanted the Verve sued in the first place. It was the label and managers. As far as I could tell, Mick and Richards like Bittersweet Symphony from an artists perspective
Sounds about right. The labels and managers are starving for money. They could give a shit about the art.
Sounds like a lot of the cases on this list. Were it not for the label and managers, several of these cases would never have existed.
That’s the case for a lot of these. The artists usually don’t really care it’s the rights holders (publishers managers and record labels generally) who sue
It's worse than that, because the sample is of an orchestral arrangement that Mick and Keith didn't write or arrange. Alan Klein was a shifty bastard who bought the rights to an old song just so he could sue his own managed artist, George Harrison, over his latest song. May that guy rot in hell.
The Stones don't own any of their songs rights upto the early 70's. How come such rights are tradeble anyway?
what kills me is the stones will sue anyone that even sounds even a little like their songs, but straight up stole from lesser known Black artist. it’s the hypocrisy for me.
@Caleb Hurley Yeah, I was always under the impression that it was mostly Alan Klein who did the suing. He's infamous for being, to put it mildly, a shark.
@Caleb Hurley And Bittersweet Symphony doesn't sound anything like the Stones' song... just someone else's arrangement of it.
Klein kept Jodorowski's filmography hidden for a long time
@Caleb Hurley I know! I hear ya
@Caleb Hurley Hey, check this out if you can. Bryan Adams released a song called "Please Forgive Me" in 1993 that was co written by Mutt Lange (I think). In 1999, the Country band Lonestar released a song called "Amazed" that is nearly identical. The vocal melody, key, tempo, and even many of the lyrics are the same. I have no idea how they got away with that one. And nobody ever mentions it in these "lists."
It's cool to talk to someone who knows what they're talking about. Cheers
I think sometimes songs just happen to sound very similar, there's literally a finite number of musical possibilities melodically or harmonically that can be created, anyway.
This is right. Music is patterns. Also, there is a socially accepted format for all popular songs. Similar instruments are used and styles are
copied.
Wow I haven’t heard that before 🙄
I always say that 😬
The problem is that judges seem extremely quick toward writes and credit for any songs that sound similar
@@aidanfl No, he meant finite
I didn't realize I should be so dang impressed with Chuck Berry!! Props man!
😎🎶
John Lennon idolized him, and probably thought he was doing more of a tribute than plagiarism. Poor goofy George, though! Maybe he thought no one would remember "He's So Fine," or assumed the Chiffons couldn't afford a lawyer. 🤣 Phil Spector produced "My Sweet Lord," though, and he should surely have known better.
Chuck Berry is the true king of rock. So underrated.
Facts
Thank you
Buck Cherry*
Elvis begs to differ
The two kings are little Richard and Elvis
There's only so many notes and so many ways to combine them - Hell, if Johann Pachelbel was still alive, he could sue 75% of the music industry...
Lmfao everyone uses Canon! From the graduation song, to that maroon 5 memories
Very true!!!
That’s a fact
Make that 100% if the fact he invented the bass line is true.
And Bach could sue more or less everyone.
I don’t know the proper way musicians need to go about doing songs that sound alike, but I honestly love when a new song reminds me of a song from my childhood. It makes me want to listen to both so much more. Nostalgia at its finest.
Do it like MC Hammer did, when he wanted to sample Super freak. Ask first. Edit: I was wrong. He didn't ask either.☹️
The court case against Men At Work for the 'Kookaburra' riff in 'Down Under' was nasty because the owner of Kookaburra was not the writer; they were someone who'd bought the rights... How this person could buy and own another person's creative IP is a bit perverse, but to then sue another artist who was merely quoting what he assumed was part of local folk culture... was just about getting the payout and nothing to do with creative credit. Greedy.
That's how debts are often collected. If you are not up to spending years in court, you sell the dept to a professional collector
@@dmitripogosian5084 They are called vulture funds.
It’s poetic justice that Queen’s resurgence in popularity had Under Pressure once again being recognized by all ages as the original.
Maybe it's because of where i'm from but i had never, NEVER heard of ice ice baby, only under pressure. And same goes for my friends 🤷♀️. But anyway, justice has finally been made all over the world
Queen - David Bowie " Under Pressure " is one of the greatest songs EVER..!
@@melrankin3682 definitely 👍😊🎶🎵
@@emili9715 yeah I’ve honestly never heard Ice Ice Baby on the radio except for the 90’s pop Sirius stations. I was born in 2000 so that was after Ice Ice Baby’s popularity came and went
@@denistuohy2535 maybe. I was born in '97 and live in italy and here you hear under pressure on the radio, in the stores and such. Ice ice baby probably was never a hit here 🤷♀️
"we drink Pepsi now" lmaoooo
They switched drinking Pepsi, but continued snorting coke...
" Is it just me or does 'Do You Wanna Build a Snowman' from Frozen sound suspiciously like 'Papa, Can You Hear Me?' from Yentl? and nobody fucking realizes it." - Deadpool
That IS so true! Seriously!
You are so right!
Lol haha should of been on the list
And also just like Tool's Forty Six and Two. It's freaky!
omgosh, yes! lol
Years ago I was playing guitar in a rock/roll band and we were playing 'Just What I Needed' by the Cars (E, B, C#m, Ab) and a good friend/guitarist told me 'Those are the same chords for verses as The Beatles 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand'. And yes!, they are!
Music labels suing over minute differences is ridiculous. I can understand lawsuits like Vanilla Ica "Ice Ice Baby" but some of the others are far fetched
@Dominic Wileman but it's kind of hard when pretty much every note has been recorded.
@@somberstricken4424 I had always wondered about this. We have a finite number of notes. We also have a finite number of combination of said notes that are pleasing to hear. Therefore, at one point,we are going to run out of unused combinations. It's nonsense.
Some i can believe some aren't
Very true.
"Neglected to credit Berry..." That's the story of his career. Such a tragedy.
Even Berry plagiarized himself. He rewrote his own 1957 hit School Days in 1964 as No Particular Place To Go.
Yeah, probably not helped by all his troubles with underage girls and hidden bathroom recordings. Tragic
@@JMacSD I never heard of that.
@@chrismulwee4911 yeah Berry is a weirdo for sure
@@chrismulwee4911 Yeah dawg. Berry was a sexual creep
I remember getting so pissed off when Ice Ice Baby came out. Under Pressure has always been one of my all time favorite songs, one that didn't get much airplay... so I would get so excited when I heard the familiar base chain.... then I would hear Ice Ice Baby... and would be so disappointed!
I used to go to 80's night at a dance club about 20 years ago and it was ABSOLUTELY hilarious when "Under pressure" would come on. I'd say a good half to 3/4 of the crowd thought it was going to be "Ice, Ice, baby" (even though it's a 90's song) and were left completely confused. Probably saw that happen a good dozen+ times and every time I'd tip DJ Dead Air extra for the laugh.
That puff daddy song with Kashmir bugs me more 😮
Had the same experience when “Stupid Girl” by Garbage would come on, would always be disappointed it wasn’t “Train In Vain” by the Clash.
Me too! He really is just a white rapper from Texas with a funky hair cut (quoted from Roger Taylor)😂
But David was so cheery about it. RIP
As a hobby musician I cant tell you how many times I think I wrote something good and weeks later I realize its just like some song I heard a long time ago. Its hard to write unique music.
Lady Gaga’s Born This Way is just Madonna’s Express Yourself sped up.
Madonna just never sued Gaga over it.
There is something from "La isla bonita" in "Alejandro", too.
I've heard people make this arguement before but honestly I've just never been able to hear the similarities.
i think madonna just said it was a compliment.
@@mammyewok she most certainly did not. Go see her performance of Express Yourself in the MDNA tour.. she never thought it was a compliment.
@@sylviatamieanan4088 Alejandro steals from “don’t turn around” by age of base. Gaga is just THAT basic apparently.
Man, that John Fogherty case. Just another example of how scummy record labels are
But it did sound like a remake.
Lol when you’re sued for sounding too much like yourself 🤣
Ill get that john fogerty up here to sing for you! What you don't know who the fuck he is?? Anyone?
Saul Zaentz is the thug here. He sued Fogerty bc of the "almighty $" in the 4m of royalties. Even more clever; Fogerty's "tribute" 2 Zaentz w/"Zanz Can't Dance" but l8r retitled & re-recorded as "Vanz Can't Dance" bc of the lawsuit. After all; there r 2 versions of the "Centerfield" LP that was indicative as such. I oughta know bc I used 2 have both versions but lost 'em ovr 18 yrs ago when I residentially reloc8d. However; the CD version only has the "V" version (i.e.: "Vanz Can't Dance").
@@justayoutuber1906 Wouldn't you redo a song that you wrote and sang?
I feel like you could put Kidd Rocks entire career in this video.
"American Bad Ass" comes to mind lol
He changed his name to sKidd Mark
Be wit da ba=Striesand
When they put Kid rock on Super Bowl halftime show. I was watching Lingerie Bowl.
Or Jay-Z's. As much as I love his music, Jay-Z literally hit his peak doing Biggie and Pac lyrics, and making entire tracks based around songs that they as well as others like Dre/Snoop did. Always respected Nas 100000x more, Ether tells it all, he took Biggie's everything. But at the same time, Jay-Z is 1 of the best 10 rappers of all time and personally he has multiple albums I've listened to over and over my entire life. Its proof that if you get the go ahead approval to sample, you'll be respected if you make a great finishing product. Honestly pays off!
I THOUGHT 80's sounded like Come As You Are!!!!!!! Thank you SOO MUCH, for backing up my brain!!!!!
"There are only so many notes and chords, inevitably some songwriters will hit on the same progression and sound completely independent of one another"
Nice, nice, baby.
@@GregMoress 🤣👍 Yeah, not all of them are coincidence!
It goes beyond notes and chords. A melody is a series of notes, and can contain different time signatures. Some sequences sound less musical than others, but there's the potential for a lot of variation if one works at it.
@@tr5947 its just a quote from a music theory professor I used to know.
Melanie Martinez is a few who dont copy the music chords for her songs
Radiohead completely ripping off Creep then trying to come for Lana’s song is the shadiest, greediest thing I’ve ever heard of lol glad she called them out and they dropped it
In both cases none of the writers or band members had anything to do with the action of suing in each it was entirely out of their control and done by their agents and lawyers respectively. Also I which you’d listen to all 3 of those songs . The air that I breathe is very different to creep . Where as get free is quite similar to creep.
They're a Creep
Lana should have said that she rip off the original song that creep ripped off
Two groups I absolutely cannot stand are Radiohead & Coldplay. Horrible music with middling musicians and abysmal writing.
@@tedwojtasik8781 you’re joking right?
There was one song that wasn’t included on this list that I had to mention, I’m a massive fan of Def Leppard and their most popular song is by far Pour Some Sugar On Me, but my brother is a bit of a One Direction fan so I came across the song Midnight Memories and I thought he was listening to Pour Some Sugar On Me, I was shocked and looked up if there was any tension between the two groups or if One Direction was inspired by their song, and I found out Def Leppard sent lawyers to see if One Direction should be sued for the similarities between the two songs, but they never got anywhere and One Direction got off easy, in my opinion, even if One Direction didn’t directly copy the song, they should’ve given them some credit after hearing similarities afterwards
Omg, now that you’ve said it, it’s clear how similar both songs are… They should’ve have sued them for plagiarism
Looked it up, definitely.
Wow, during the verse I said to myself, "Ok, the pulse of the song has some similarity," but the pre-chorus went in a different direction and I almost x'd it out. Glad I stayed for the chorus because HOLY CRAP that's a rip.
both suck
The only real similarity is that the beat and chord progression from the One Direction song is similar to the verses from Pour Some Sugar on Me. The One Direction song really lacks continuity in any sense, to be honest. It sounds like three different songs spliced together, one of which remotely resembles the Def Leppard song.
However, the other thing they really have in common is the deliberate use of tone correction.
1:54...there's a big difference between Tom petty and Sam Smith..Tom petty is a great singer and songwriter
Facts
Fogarty being sued for plagiarizing himself will always be an amusing bit of music trivia.
I'd call it more of a pathetic harassment attempt - the RESULT was amusing though.
But seriously he needs to pay up, uh to himself.
@@thomas1630 He does - every time he gets income from his later songs.
9-)
There’s millions of songs out there. How can a song not sound similar to another song?
True
Truth. There's going to be sounds that match sometimes else every time. It's only when rich people have it happen that we hear about it though.
Similar and close to blatant or actually blatant rip offs is the difference. Between shared chords, riffs, lyrics, what have you; you're right, some songs are going to sound similar but it shouldn't be practically the same song. It's along the same lines as writing; two authors might have similar writing styles, shared words, the same genre, some of the same words in the title but plagiarism isn't subtle.
You can tell if you are a musician.
One thing I learned in theory class in college, is that the longer artists record music, the less unique songs will be produced. There's only so many progressions and melodies in western music, that there's bound to be some artistical overlaps.
It is not a question of a limited number of chord progressions. If we consider the non-accidental pitches in a single scale (e.g., CDEFGAB), there are 127 chords (consisting of 1 to 7 pitches each) that can be constructed (e.g., C, CE, CEG, DEFGABC); if you include accidentals, there are 4,095 such chords. This provides us a supply of single chords out of which to build an "accompaniment" as a "chord progression" (like, for instance, CEG-FAC-GBD, or CEG-FAC-DEFGABC-G). How long is the accompaniment? Let's just consider limiting it (for the sake of the calculation) to using each pitch in the scale as a chord root only once (so, up to a maximum of 7 chords in the accompaniment total). We have to ignore rhythmic variation, and whether any of the the accompaniment chords repeat, for the sake of making the calculation tractable. Now, maybe I messed up the math, but with 127 base chord variants, the number of 2-chord accompaniments is 16,002 variants; for 3-chord accompaniments, there are 2,000,250 variants; or for all of the chord accompaniments for length 1 to 7, there are 454,109,046,552,379 (454 trillion+) variants. Allowing accidentals, the total is 21,885,025,000,667,410,887,597,051,611,794,938,097,522,875 variants, or roughly the number of stars in the observable universe. The fact that 99% of these sound better than Fernyhough is left as an exercise for the reader.
@@talastra Yes, you have so many variants, but the one that people like, or are hits, is limited.
Mostly because we're trained that way; there may be soome conceits of psychoacoustics that hold, but it's really not clear if they would@@Kintabl
@@talastra You wanna say we are learned what music we like? I call it BS!
Oh, I'm sure you were a huge fan of the Rolling Stones before you were conceived. Definitely.@@Kintabl
Interesting subject! Great video. I wish, though, for dummies like me, that they would compare the conflicting music directly back-to-back. Thanks for the history lesson 👏
I love how Tom Petty sued Sam smith over some similarities in songs, but when the strokes straight up said they ripped off his music, he said “good for them. I don’t care.” Lmaooo
Well, his surname checks out
As they pointed out the issue was that this particular song had a co-writer. Petty didnt care, his co-writer did.
Tom Petty said "I wanted to sue The Strokes but they were funny as hell." Also, The Strokes are making good music, Sam Smith is boring af.
They specifically stated that Petty himself wasn't involved in the lawsuit and that he didn't care about it
Dude, Tom Petty is probably the LEAST petty celebrity out there ... a read somewhere he's a gentleman.
So the Kinks basically get ripped off the most and are original and cooler than everyone else. Got it.
I never got the connection between Hello I love you......
@@WooBino. I kinda hear it but it ain't that bad. Personally I think sam smith and tom petty songs sounded nothing alike
God Save the Kinks!
@@garyrhone1395 I was never super into them, so after this video I got their 1964-1971 Anthology that was released in 2014 that has 150 songs on it.. So now I'm super into them! They're great!!
So underrated
Next up, AC/DC sues AC/DC who in turn sues AC/DC for writing different lyrics for the same song 40 times. Fans don't care and listen anyway.
So true 😂
Yeah, Bon Jovi is facing the same kind of troubles.
Same with Status Quo.
As an AC/DC fan, this is so untrue...they actually came out with the same song 200 times, and the lyrics were pretty much the same every time too😝
Angus Young, AC/DC’s lead guitarist himself, has actually poked fun at this, saying, and I quote, “I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.”, poking fun at the fact people often forget about the Australian version of High Voltage, as well.
Love your videos! Been watching for years.
The Offspring "Why Don't You Get A Job" vs The Beatles "Ob La Di Ob La Da"
And apparently McCartney plagiarized it fromJimmy Scott
dang i just relistened to both and they really do sound similar
That's right they do both sound similar. I never noticed that. Good observation Dave.
KD Lang’s ‘Constant Craving’ and the Rolling Stones ‘Has Anybody seen my Baby”. The Stones even gave KD Lang credit and a share after they heard the original. Both great tunes.
About 15 years ago I was running up and down the fretboard looking for a good riff and after a couple of hours hit on one that sounded so good I knew it was destined to be great. I played it and added to it for almost a week when I realized I'd just re-written the opening riff of Maiden's Heaven Can Wait. Back to the drawing board...
I've accidentally rewritten "Soul on Fire" by HIM probably 20 times lol
I recently wrote a song to later realize the melody of the chorus and note count was rather similar to "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany.
Cobra, i always wish i could remember those riffs i play in my dreams! If you are fast enough, you can grab a shadow of them. But then too, as often as not, i found those riffs i played in my dreams were just a slightly different voice of music i had already heard. But hey, never discount what you can learn in dreams :)
I hear a chord progression I like, I steal it and twist it into something a bit different, no one owns it.
@@budahbaba7856 That's where the famous violinist, Paganini, got his most famous piece of work (The Devil's something or other).
Of all the millions of songs in the record books, how is it possible to create a new song that doesn't song like someone else's?
I'm having a hard time hearing the similarities between that Sam Smith and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song
Many claim the similarities are obvious but I don't hear it. It may sound similar but slowed way down.
@@itzybitzy i mean come on... you have to do that much to find the similarities?? Seems a bit ridiculous.
@@itzybitzy omg... that helped so much to hear it! thanks!
I don’t know whether you’ve listened to the full Tom Petty song (which you should, it’s a banger) but the snippet that WatchMojo played isn’t the section that the Sam Smith lawsuit stemmed from. The similarity comes from the verse of Tom’s song, not the chorus (which is what WM played for some reason)
@@User-jk8wq of course I've listened to the full song. Tom Petty was my secret lover. I still say its a streeeeetch at best.
I'm surprised no one mentioned Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" vs. Jet's "Are you Gonna be my Girl"
Was Jet sued for that?
@@paulmcgrath6118 The two songs are nearly identical.
@@paulmcgrath6118 Ask Iggy Pop. He knows it. The two groups have even played a mash-up on stage. Iggy is just too cool to take legal action.
@@paulmcgrath6118 Horseshit. It happens all the time.
@@paulmcgrath6118 Rod Stewart was successfully sued by Brazilian songwriter Jorge Ben Jor, over "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" melody and chorus similarities to Ben's 1972 song "Taj Mahal".[38]
Ed Sheeran's thinking out loud vs. Marvin Gaye's lets get it on.. Madonna's express yourself vs. Lady gaga's born this way..
How about madonna's justify my love and public enemy's security of the first world
Any artist vs Marvin Gaye's estate. Period
Madonna wrote Express Yourself back in the 90s. It was Lady Gaga who ripped it off completely.
Lady Gaga ripped off Madonnas everything! Miley Cyrus did a bit but yeah Lady Gaga should just bill herself as a Madonna tribute act
@@YoMommazNUTZ lol Madonna is a Monroe tribute act.
The final line "There really are no new ideas anymore" hits the nail on the head. Although I'd phrase it more "There rarely are any new ideas anymore" (rather than "no new ideas")
There are only a finite amount of chord sequences. Yes things will sound the same at points. How much of a song is directly inspired or ripped ?
Well I guess that's what needs to be considered.
But the bottom line is all musicians, song writers, book authors, film makers , scientists, engineers get inspired by the previous ones.
A lot of time the work of any is just a munge up of the earlier stuff. Mixed and stirred in a different way to make something slightly different.
Occasionally there's something original.
The theme to the 90’s cartoon X-MEN and Whitney Houston’s “I’m your baby tonight”
Wait really?
good one. That's funny
Lol they do sound fairly similar
Good fn ears man that one got by me. Im stunned!
IM SCREAMING THIS IS SO RANDOM
You guys missed one of THE most infamous ones! It’s when MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” ripped off Rick James’s “Superfreak”. That was extremely well known.
MC Hammer paid to use the sample. Not a ripoff.
One of the best.
sample.....not the same thing...everyone KNEW it was based on superfreak
Will Smith - Men in Black vs Patrice Rushen - Forget me Nots (sampling) // Will Smith's - Getting Jiggy with it samples Sister Sledge - He's the greatest dancer // Will Smith's Miami samples from Whisper's - and the Beat goes on
Aaaaand Rick James' Superfreak is totally copied from Queen's Killer Queen
As a composer, I'm always super scared that a new song I've written is subconsciously copying an existing one (it can happen), so I ask a bunch of people if they've ever heard it before I get too attached.
yeah i do the same thing. im a guitarist and write music(Metal/rock for the most part). and often finding my songs sound more like the people who inspired me to play than me. id say an easy 1/4 songs i write immediatly get trashed for sounding to much like slayer,exodus,etc. granted most of their stuff is very basic
I've written "Basketball Jones" several times.
@@40yearoldman 🤣and you admit it! Ouch!
I wrote my experience a near nervous breakdown junior year in high-school and classic Janis Ian
Serious Wierd Al
Can I even ask?
Or Gordon Litefoot and my bittersweet to a "friend " and the thoughts of we are not same page of " Bible " and the relationship fizzles and dies
If anyone has ideas I assume I can ask
It won't necessarily be cheap
You'd be surprised at how many classical composers would borrow themes from each
Or how many many rock stars have ripped classical riffs, they are outwith copyright I suppose but still, it's poor.
@@snelgrave101I used to listen to classical music as a kid and always here pieces of songs I knew lol
I wish watch mojo would play the songs a little longer instead of a few seconds
Yah, but then they'd get a "Copyright Strike" & removed...
it gets blocked by UA-cam if they do
They could get sued for copyright infringement if they played any more of the track than was absolutely necessary to demonstrate their point (which would be ironic).
The interesting thing about the Nirvana/Killing Joke dispute is that it came from a place of love. The boys were big fans of the post punk group and in the early 00's Dave Ghrol even played drums on their 2nd self titled album.
Gotta give credit, even if its from a place of love
Killing Joke has no right to that credit. Captain Sensible came up with that riff two years earlier than Killing Joke on his song " Life Goes On".
four songs that have a very similar sound to “Come As You Are”
“22 Faces”- Garden of Delight
“Baby Come Back”- The Royals
“Eighties”- Killing Joke
“Life Goes On”- The Damned
Rebecca has the most amazing voice in all mojos communities
And not so bad on the eyes, either!
@@marionlayton929 my man downbad
Men At Work being sued for their awesome unofficial national anthem Down Under was so sad and really unAustralian!
It was so embarrassing when Robin Thicke and Pharrell were sued by Marvin Gaye’s estate over that Blurred Lines song of theirs. The former lost the case and it seemed only Pharrell recovered, but Thicke was not able to.
That’s what always pissed me off. Robin and Pharrell BOTH had EQUAL efforts in “Blurred Lines” yet all the women who cried rape culture accusations only came after Robin. Nobody got mad at Pharrell and actually while Robin bombed in 2014 post album, Pharrell got MORE popular and was rewarded with doing the music for countless movies and collaborations
*Edit: Thank you all below for educating me. It just made me wonder why Robin was crucified for this song while Enrique Iglesias made a song literally called “Tonight I’m F*cking You” and got a pass to make even more misogynistic music. Some people only go for one and not both. Or the other.
Good. That song itself was ass.
@Truth Torpedo what has that got to do with everything else? He became washed out but it's okay cause he's white but it wouldn't be if he's black?
Robin Thicke started it. Gaye's estate said they were similar and Thicke sued them. Pharrell could have worked something out if Thicke hadn't went to the lawyers. Once things are in court, it's hard to amicably settle.
@Truth Torpedo Thicke also has his dad's money to survive on. Not like he's some poor street kid.
The Alphabet song vs Ba ba black sheep vs Twinkle twinkle little star
They are all using the same melody.
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Very true!! 😂😂😂👍👍👍
my head just imploded!
It's Mozart - from a French folk song
I don't think anyone is collecting his royalties, now...
them twinkle bastards started it
Ray Parker: Ok, we'll settle out of Court but you can't tell noone about it.
Huey: *Tells the world about the out of Court settlement*
Ray Parker You Fool! You activated my trap card!
Huey Lewis was going to do the Ghostbusters song but he did the soundtrack for Back To The Future then sues Ray Parker Jr for the Ghostbusters theme is the most 80s thing I ever heard
@@All-due-respect-I-disagreeActually it was the song Soul Fingers by the Bar Kays that Akroyd wanted and was used as a temp track. That is what Ray copied. A year later Akroyd ending up just using Soul Fingers in his movie Spies Like Us and no one noticed she we still hear the fake Huey Lewis story.
Amazing how it takes years for these to actually realise all this
Under Pressure is obviously the most egregious, BUT Ray Parker Jr. pulling that in the same year is next level!
Not the WatchMojo video we needed, but the WatchMojo video we deserved.
Not the overused Batman meme anyone wanted but it's damn sure the overused Batman meme we keep getting shoved at us.
I agree with hellwyck. Enough already!
Stop using this meme, doent even make sense with the context of this video.
Conclusion : The Kinks are geniuses.
And nobody thinks they did anything
let not forget, Ray Davies "punched" a hole in his amp to get a louder distorted sound for his guitar. that sound would became proto-metal. for more evidence listen to You Really Got Me.
@@Revcharge They broke out into a fight onstage during their last number, when I saw them performing in Washington DC. Early seventies . They were second only to the Stones, for. a while.
@@IvorPresents was that the one where Mick Avery almost decapitated Ray Davies with a cymbal?
@@africanfartingfrog One of the members kicked the drum, Put a end to the encore.
Just gonna skip Puff Daddy / Police "every breath you take / missing you".
Funny thing is that, allegedly, Sting never heard of the cover until one of his kids said it was cool that he led Puffy use his song- that was the first he knew of it.
The Vanilla Ice song was so blatantly identical to the Bowie/Queen song that I just assumed he had purchased the rights to use the bass riff. How could he not know that he would be sued?
Did Queen ever get sued for ripping off the Sugar Hill Gang’s Rappers Delight? Bass line is identical in Another One Bites the Dust 😕
@@stephanieboyce4860 It take more than bass line. It you actually composed music you would know that.
Ice and management probably didn't think it would be a hit. They thought too highly of the universe.
@@stephanieboyce4860 You mean the bass line that the Sugar Hill Gang ripped off Chic? And no, the bass lines are not identical.
@@Rasputin443556 How are those two sentences connected?
I have to correct you on the Radiohead/Lana Del Ray case. Radiohead publicly denied that any such claim ever came from them or their legal team, and as a result, laid the rumours to rest that Lana helped fuel to begin with.
Re the Nirvana/Killing Joke one there was an interesting twist in the story. During discussions about the copyright infringement Dave Grohl, who admitted to being a big KJ fan, found out they were short a drummer for the album they were due to record and volunteered to drum for it and go on tour with them, which he did. I believe the law suite was dropped.
I have had the honor of drinking a beer with Dave Grohl. He drinks Coors Light unfortunately.
@@Wutzmename Man...if I was ever in a bar with Dave Grohl I'd make HIM buy me beer. "I'M SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST NIRVANA." Lord let's hope so!
The law suit was dropped after Kurt's death. Also. KJ riff is similar to the Damned riff that was made before so..
@@Wutzmename Yeah and boo. I guess