artists ripping off other artists within 12 months

[Fritz]

Guess im bored this afternoon.

Sure theres only 12 notes in music and alot of songs out there. People say 'oh they ripped off this guy and he ripped off this guy!!' Most of the time it kinda flies over my head.

But doing the whole dodgy covers band things that I do, i had to learn two new girly songs (for the female singer).

Has anyone ever noticed that the Veronicas got huge worldwise success from their song '4ever' and about 6 months later Pink emerged from nowhere after a while with 'you and your hands'. You and your hands is probably the most obvious rip off of a song ive probably ever heard.

The chorus melody and chrords and timing are EXACTLY the same. Even the verses in the Pink song have the same dynamics as '4ever'. Same type of sloppy guitar riff. But yeah I just cannot get over the chorus everytime i hear it.

As i said I usually think to myself 'meh... coinsidence' whenever ppl mention other ppl ripping off stuff. But come on seriously........ The coinsidence of the veronicas having a wouldwide hit then pink coming out 6 months later with a song exactly the same.

Fuck i hate pink. always have. stupid whore. I once played a private dinner on a boat for EMI i think it was and on it was the directors of EMI, daniel johns and natalie and pink. Everyone was sooo nice except pink was the rudest bitch ive ever met. so ive always hated her. Even more so now...

[Tyler_who]

Ive never noticed but now that ive come to think of it, it does. Well i guess thats just teenybopper's pop.

[AlinaPOW]

4eva I heard playing singstar. Then I heard U + Ur hand (I don't understand the need for the lack of grammar) at a friend's place 'coz her sister loves pink and I was shocked at how much pinks song sounded EXACTLY like the Veronicas, I noticed it straight away!

[Kevin]

pink + veronicas mash up

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XSSMH5gncu4


the evidence is clear

[Jodez]

..whooa...The Veronicas had a worldwide hit?????

There are so many songs that sound EXACTLY the same but have slightly differeing words. How can people like that be proud of themselves? Obviously they think oh that song went good bla bla, i want fame and fortune, so ill just copy the sound and change the words. No one will ever know.

[Tyler_who]

Has anyone heard lady soverign? I heard her song on rage and i wanted to stab my ears in with a knife.

[AlinaPOW]

Haha, YES! I was sleeping over at Ally's and we were watching late night Rage-fun :D But yeah, crap crap CRAP song. And hence I haven't listened to radio or watched video hits or rage since year 7

[mel_bound]

I don't mind Lady Sovereign... I was a sucker for the tetris thing she had going on :p

pink + veronicas mash up

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XSSMH5gncu4
Yes.

[ace_jase]

I think the same bloke wrote both the pink and veronicas song, so that explains why there so similar.

As a guess he probably wrote another 15 sets of lyrics using the same tune, that equally could have been pciked up by someone
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[Liz]

:o

I like Lady Sovereign....

[Neryssah]

It gets so much worse than Lady Sovereign.

Anyone heard that Konichiwa Bitches song by Robyn? THAT is bad :p

[Erin]

eskimo joe's song 'sarah' has the same riff as 'the neverending story'
but i've heard they they had a bet going between a few bands as to who could rip the song

[Johnny_Wah]

What a joke. They were written by the same people - can't those idiots come up with something different??

[jessebelle]

Obviously not.

[Tyler_who]

It would be funny if they guy who wrote them were like some 40 year old overly fat combover guy who sweats excesivly.

[RollOn]

Haha, Fritz you have too much time on your hands. Although i do see your point, they're both crap songs that sound exactly the same.

I guess the dude who wrote them thought the artists themselves would make the songs "different."

[Disease]

What peeves me lately is how many songs use the I, V, VI, IV chord progression. (Not to mention how many 'artists' use that same progression in all of their songs.)


..but other than that, Ben Lee's Catch My Disease has the same chorus as an old Superjesus song. I haven't bothered to check if they're in the same key, but they do have the same pattern and melody.

[Strider]

Sometimes artists aren't even conciously aware that they're ripping off other bands, but I hear it with sooo many songs...I'd say a lot of the time it's just coincidence (especially when it's completely different genres) but there are other times when you know they've just regurgitated a hit song with different words.

[Julian]

The Living End totally stole POS from AC/DC's Caught With Your Pants Down :p

[Strider]

And the person who wrote the Alphabet Song tooootally ripped off Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

[Neryssah]

Wow, I never even noticed that before :p

[MONDAY]

haha!
goddam you alphabet!

[Disease]

Sometimes artists aren't even conciously aware that they're ripping off other bands, but I hear it with sooo many songs...I'd say a lot of the time it's just coincidence (especially when it's completely different genres) but there are other times when you know they've just regurgitated a hit song with different words.

Oh yeah.. I'm fully aware of that. I really don't think Ben Lee was consciously ripping of the Superjesus. I just think it's funny sometimes that things are so similar.

It annoys me however, when the one artist cannot stop using a particular chord progression.

[Strider]

That's actually quite common with bands. They get attached to certain key's, and certain progressions. And I don't know if anyone can relate to this- but particular progressions annoy the hell out of me. If a band uses a progression that doesn't sit well with me it will put me off the whole song.

[Disease]

Yeah.. the progression I mentioned earlier in this thread particularly annoys me.

[Caity]

Guyyyyyyyyyyys I posted this ages ago. It's written by the same bloke.

[Disease]

Have a whinge. :p

[Steph Format]

oh god that mashup dealie sounds better than the individual Pink and Veronicas songs.

ahhhh well it doesn't sound like TOO overt a ripoff. Jet get on my nerves more than either one of these groups do.

(and while Lady Sovereign may or may not be "good", her music, cornrows and sketch British accent have a high amusement factor for me and a lot of others I know.
kind of like with The Streets, except I don't think he has cornrows.)

[Emily]

And the person who wrote the Alphabet Song tooootally ripped off Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Guyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyz, lets not go forgetting "Bah Bah Black Sheep,":o

[Neryssah]

AAARRRGGGHHH!! Hahahah I never noticed any of this stuff before :p

[Erin]

bit random, but i've heard they're singing ba ba rainbow sheep in kindies now 'cause saying black sheep is racist

what.the.fuck.

[Bec]

Yeah.. is that actually true or is it just a rumour?

I mean come on... it doesn't fit. And what's wrong with the sheep being black anyway? I don't understand what's offensive about it. SOME SHEEP ARE BLACK! LOTS OF THINGS ARE BLACK! DEAL WITH IT!

And since they're so worried about being politically correct wouldn't rainbow supposedly offend the gay community like the fairy penguins supposdely did? Gah people are too politically correct for their own good.

[Chloe]

eskimo joe's song 'sarah' has the same riff as 'the neverending story'

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD THAT NOTICED THAT!

Thank you. I am no longer alone.

[Neryssah]

Are You Gonna Be My Girl (Jet) has the same music thing as Iggy Pop's Lust For Life. Though there's a bit of a time difference there :p

[Erin]

^ i thought that!

though i like lust for life :cool:

[Lowee]

The intro to 'are you gonna...' is also exactly like the intro riff to The Jam's 'Town Called Malice'.

But, as with Erin & Lust, I like malice.

[Jodez]

bit random, but i've heard they're singing ba ba rainbow sheep in kindies now 'cause saying black sheep is racist

what.the.fuck.

Thats interesting. Where did you hear that from? I have just finished the Diploma of Childrens Services and we had a music subject. The teachers never said anything about it, they did however say about Indians (go back 2 primary school, T PEE and Indians game) and the Hokey Pokey and Golliwogs are the no goers.

[Colezy]

The rainbow sheep thing was in the news for ages while back. Quite a bit of talk about it...there was a thread for it too..might have been on the old board though.

[damo0945]

ive always thought that "nothing lasts forever" sounds very similar to a kisschasey song (possibly do dos and woahs)

[Colezy]

YES! The very start of it does. It only lasts about a second. That's where I stop comparing TLE and Kisschasy.

[Lowee]

Pfft, Tle like so totally ripped off like Soft Cells when the wrote dat song called 'taineted live'.

[Bec]

Thats interesting. Where did you hear that from? I have just finished the Diploma of Childrens Services and we had a music subject. The teachers never said anything about it, they did however say about Indians (go back 2 primary school, T PEE and Indians game) and the Hokey Pokey and Golliwogs are the no goers.

I never liked teepees and indians anyway :p

I'm probably just really ignorant but what's wrong with the hokey pokey?

[AlinaPOW]

King's Evil by Batmobile sounds an awful lot like Rudie Can't Fail by the Clash. I'm pretty dang sure that's just coincidence though...

[Jodez]

Hokey Pokey is about a disease (cant remember the name).

[AlinaPOW]

Really? God that's morbid!

[mel_bound]

That 'Ring A Rosies' poem thing was about the plague!

a tissue a tissue we all fall down!

[AlinaPOW]

Yeah I knew that. Can't believ it was popularised for the kiddiliwinks!

[Disease]

How the hell is the hokie pokie about a disease?! That makes no sense at all. All the lyrics are about putting your legs in and out and turning around and that's what it's all about..

[Neo]

Pfft, Tle like so totally ripped off like Soft Cells when the wrote dat song called 'taineted live'.
yeah and soft cell ripped of someone else too with tainted love

[mel_bound]

Covers are different to ripping off a song!

Twas written by Ed Cobb and sung by Gloria Jones.

[Disease]

Lowee was joking. :p

[Tyler_who]

Hokey Pokey is about a disease (cant remember the name).

I think it was leprosy.

[Erin]

Hokey Pokey is about a disease (cant remember the name).

so is ring a ring a rosy, i found that out in year five (to my horror)

ring a ring a rosies (your cheeks and face would b, well, red)
a pocket full of posies was a supossed cure for the desease.
you knew when you were gonna die because you came down with a cold (a tissue a tissue) and then died (we all fall down)

yeah i know i'm stating the bleedin' obvious...:D

[Bec]

Yeah but then there's that lame second verse
The cows are in the meadows eating buttercups
A tissue a tissue we all jump up

so it's all okay they get better :D


And I think the hokey pokey one is overreacting, even if it is meant to be about a disease it's pretty hard to find a connection and kids certainly wouldn't know. Kids are gonna have a deprived childhood now :p

[Erin]

hehe...they all go to heaven :D

[State_Of_Emergency]

so is ring a ring a rosy, i found that out in year five (to my horror)

ring a ring a rosies (your cheeks and face would b, well, red)
a pocket full of posies was a supossed cure for the desease.
you knew when you were gonna die because you came down with a cold (a tissue a tissue) and then died (we all fall down)

yeah i know i'm stating the bleedin' obvious...:D

Funny that, I didn't know that :eek: ... at least, I don't *think* I do