Vanilla ice explaining how it's different by adding one extra note made me lose brain cells

@taibolding7648

4 жыл бұрын

Ik right lmao

@RealShrigmaMale

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah he literally added a single 8th note.

@lauren77713

4 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHHA I WAS DYING

@whammersbach

4 жыл бұрын

It's still a joke in our circle

@gagesuther159

3 жыл бұрын

One more note, one less brain cell.

Probably the only time ever that someone strengthens their point by stating, "It's like Vanilla Ice said".

@averyellis

4 жыл бұрын

every time! it was first: haha vanilla ice is gonna speak and second: huh, he made a really good point.

@averyellis

4 жыл бұрын

lemme clarify and say he made good points about the business side. the shit he said about ice ice baby was bs and he knew it.

@FrictionFive

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it was strangely satisfying to hear Vanilla Ice validated for the first time in world history.

@gizzy2403

4 жыл бұрын

I heard hes actually doing well fronting a Punk/Thrash Rock band on East Coast. @ least b4 th Country shut down anyway

@mollynuttall2915

4 жыл бұрын

averyellis stole from Queen

the fact ICE couldn't defend his own argument without laughing at how ridiculous he sounded

@greggrozdanis5737

2 жыл бұрын

Ya, but in his defence like the video said, what he was doing was pretty much the norm in rap

@jebby16

2 жыл бұрын

That laugh is known as Duper's Delight.

@nahblue

2 жыл бұрын

Copyright is too strong anyway, great artists steal.

@frankdux5693

2 жыл бұрын

Its different. Has an extra ding.

@briancannon3987

2 жыл бұрын

It was worth it tho. Would you do it?

"he's a white rapper from florida" is the definition of throwing shade without technically throwing shade, gotta love Roger

@joshuabaker5990

2 жыл бұрын

@Ryan Powell yes

@hpvamp246

2 жыл бұрын

@Ryan Powell I think he was just stating it because it is an unusual thing that you wouldn’t expect. Most of the famous hip hop rappers were not white at the time and he is from Florida, somewhere you wouldn’t expect a rapper. You would more likely expect rappers from NY, LA, Detroit and not Florida which most people see as a place for retirement.

@MrThankman360

2 жыл бұрын

@Frank Lopez Well, you gotta realize. This was before Eminem. Eminem changed everything. Not only did Em become the best selling rap artist (and one of the best selling musicians period) of all time, he changed the rap game forever. Shady isn’t only popular in America, or even western nations, but worldwide.

@joshuataylor3550

2 жыл бұрын

He' saying he's not authentic/original anyway, e.g. what should we have expected.

@ajgerbi

2 жыл бұрын

Joshua Taylor : White being paired with in originality is racist and ignorant. White American culture is so mainstreams and has been for so long that it isn’t easily distinguished from other developed cultures, but it doesn’t make all white people unoriginal.

Paul McCartney had once explained how he thought of it as a compliment when his music was copied, because that meant they couldn't think of anything better.

@APokeInTheEye

2 жыл бұрын

Good point 😅

@bmp2791

2 жыл бұрын

You can say that when you are an iconic musician and most of your songs are well known. It's harder when you are hardly earning any money off your music and somebody big steals it to make bigger money you will ever earn and won't credit you.

@ghost_pictures

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was gonna be nice like "Great minds think alike" I was wrong lol

@n-extrafries-surprise

2 жыл бұрын

@@bmp2791 sad that this is pretty common even outside the music industry. Take some business companies for example, people get a raise or promotion from stealing others ideas while the other party earns nothing.

@powersliding

2 жыл бұрын

imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

“a white rapper from florida with a funny haircut”-roger taylor HAHAHAH

@whosorla

3 жыл бұрын

Kaia Drori the king (should i say queen) of throwing shade

@molly3730

3 жыл бұрын

he's honestly so iconic

@lolumgobrrr8092

3 жыл бұрын

Why is that so funny that you have to go “HAHAHAH”?!

@shingxinhuilinglinglinglin1982

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, ROGER 😂 hahahahahahahaha 😂😂😂😂😂

@saraa136

3 жыл бұрын

YAS QUEEN 💅🏻

Although Vanilla Ice’s “cause I added one note so it’s different” statement is hilarious, he is right about publishers only sue a song when it’s extremely successful and famous.

@chumuheha

Жыл бұрын

Vanilla Ice may be a douche, but he's much smarter than he lets on.

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.” - T S Eliot There’s a difference between plagiarism and transfiguration that seems to be forgotten all too often.

@cacomelon4768

2 жыл бұрын

How does this only have 15 likes

@pineycolada3075

2 жыл бұрын

@@cacomelon4768 im suprised it has that many tbh

@DCAbsolutJohn1

2 жыл бұрын

Bravo.

I love how Tom Petty is actually the complete opposite of petty

@vinniesmyyth334

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lloyd-Franklin i wouldnt blame the artist, the labels are the ones who own their music, theyre the ones moneygrabbing

@djmarz7123

4 жыл бұрын

@VinnieSmyyth I don't think that's what Lloyd meant. I think it was more of an "artist being the opposite of their last name" thing.

@ixlnxs

4 жыл бұрын

He's almost like A Boy Named Sue.

@pabloapostar7275

4 жыл бұрын

Probably helped that the rip-off is bland compared to what Petty composed.

@perhapsxarb7226

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lloyd-Franklin Cilla Black's real name was Cilla White, but a journalist got it mixed up and she decided to keep it

Why does vanilla ice look like a character from lazy town

@malloryvolanti8806

3 жыл бұрын

StEpHaNiE iS nEw To ToWn

@malloryvolanti8806

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao he does

@malloryvolanti8806

3 жыл бұрын

@FeS FeO2 I thought it was “ziggy” lmao

@mickytherat8020

3 жыл бұрын

@@malloryvolanti8806 it is ziggy xD

@riverbanzachamploo9725

3 жыл бұрын

omg you're right

I wrote a guitar riff that was so unique and different to me at the time. I then heard this exact riff in a song at a Spanish restaurant I later worked at. There was no way this song could have influenced my own, because there was no way I would have heard it previously. I had never listened to Spanish pop music before. The moral of the story is be careful when using the term rip-off. It could simply be a coincidence. I've experienced this first hand.

@MM-MLT

2 жыл бұрын

Yea but that Spanish pop could have gotten it from somewhere. Music is always interchanging between cultures and society.

@7Volkan6

2 жыл бұрын

There only are 8 tones in a scale (if we don't include accidentals). That meanst there is a limit to how many melodies can be written. For example melody 1= 11111; melody 2=11112; ......; melody 12143=12143. which btw is the beginning of happy birthday (c, d, c, f, e). I firmly believe that if we had software into which we could input all the melodies ever written, we would see that the majority of the melodies in songs aren't "original" and had been stumbled upon by someone else.

@bruce_daddy

2 жыл бұрын

@@7Volkan6 i wonder if Mary had a little lamb and London Bridge using the same notes was intentional

@DavidNorthMusic

2 жыл бұрын

I started writing a song recently which accidentally turned into Dear Prudence. I decided to start again.

@vgcreviews8277

2 жыл бұрын

@@7Volkan6 to an extent yes, but I think part of it is because of how simple music is. If you go back to the early 70s, you can listen to a track called "Child in TIme" by Deep Purple, you will see that they likely had very few problems when it comes to being sued for copyright. The intro is borrowed from another song, which I think had been okayed, and there is a two second bit on the organ that sounds like "Flight of the Bumblebee", but even then, not close enough to be a copyright infringement in my mind. When you write music like that, you are far less likely to copy other works except for people claiming small bits might sound like small bits of their songs. Compare that to a typical rap songs that will play over two chords with a 3 note melody, you are more likely to take someone else's work, even if accidentally. And when it comes to Uptown Funk, I think there is another thing worth mentioning. A genre will typically die out when it has been figured out. Not always, because sometimes someone just does something so different that is succesful and others copy it, but a lot of the time, a genre dies when a style's original sounds becomes harder and harder to find. Van Halen was part of the generation that brought back rock after a few years of a down period because they sounded unlike anything else, and suddenly, all the bands started sounding like Van Halen. Nirvana popularised a whole genre because what they sounded like was "uncharted territory". Funk was never super mainstream I think, but it had it's share of attention 60s-80s, before it started dividing into sub groups that strayed further and further from the original sound. Going back to that style might give you a hit because people forget that sound (or are too young to be familiar with it), but that style died out because it became harder and harder to be creative in it without stepping in other musician's toes, and if you make a song in that style, your song is going to sound like everything else from that time, and some of them might be able to make a case for infringement

Tom Petty was such a gentleman. Bless his soul, he was a legend.

@InstantGiblets

2 жыл бұрын

Legends never die. So I would say Petty is a legend. 😁

@DeidreL9

2 жыл бұрын

@@InstantGiblets absolutely. He was so much fun too. Just the kind of guy you love. 🤗

@joshuakosch6475

2 жыл бұрын

he was a tweaker who died of his addiction.

@JudeCooper

2 жыл бұрын

Back in the 80s Tom Petty's record label wanted to raise the album price listing on Petty's new release. At the time all new releases were listed at $8.98. MCA wanted to increase the price level to $9.98 like they had with Steely Dan's Gaucho. Petty protested by telling MCA he was planning to call his new album Eight Ninety Eight. MCA responded by not raising the price. I guess Petty's "I Won't Back Down" was an anthem to him label .

@bluegrip3007

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshuakosch6475 actually he didn’t die from his addiction he kicked all drugs in the 90s you are one very ignorant individual

I'm a simple man. If I see Jim Morrison on a thumbnail, I just click

@iamgroot6965

3 жыл бұрын

I see that you're a man of taste 👍

@calebdickerson2003

3 жыл бұрын

@@iamgroot6965 Agreed, The Doors are legendary

@ziggycat7504

3 жыл бұрын

perfect clickbait!

@simonegentili4571

3 жыл бұрын

@@ziggycat7504 it's not clickbait if he actually talked about him

@thedys70

3 жыл бұрын

Jim Morrison will always be The Man

"What Vanilla Ice is trying to explain here..." I don't know why, but that part really cracked me up

@IsomerMashups

3 жыл бұрын

But the thing is that even if he's wrong, he communicated his thought process well enough. So, like... did it need to be reiterated?

@aki5764

3 жыл бұрын

@@IsomerMashups He was probably explaining so that people who don't know about music or the music industry would have a clearer picture about what Vanilla Ice was saying. "What Vanilla Ice is trying to say" is probably just ironically funny, and wasn't meant in a derogatory way to begin with. I still think it's funny though xD

@bleb2771

3 жыл бұрын

He is speaking the language of *_R A P_*

@saraa136

3 жыл бұрын

He is “trying”

@DianaHerberg

3 жыл бұрын

It made me crack up too... like not only can he not write his own riff or give credit where it is due, but he can't even clearly explain why he believes he got "caught"

"he's a white rapper from Florida with a funny haircut"

@ArcDevErik

2 жыл бұрын

That went 5x.

@wheeinsheight

2 жыл бұрын

@Frank Lopez no he made good points

@wheeinsheight

2 жыл бұрын

@Frank Lopez doesn’t matter he made points

@wheeinsheight

2 жыл бұрын

@Frank Lopez the point is its funny can’t you read Frank

@Jakehawk2005

2 жыл бұрын

Rogah

My favorite music lawsuit was when John Fogerty was sued for plagiarizing his own music. Fantasy Records owned the rights to "Run Through the Jungle." They (meaning company President Saul Zaentz) sued Fogerty, claiming his song "The Old Man Down the Road" was a rip off of the older CCR song. Zaentz had been called a thief by Fogerty. The songwriter had written a song called "Zanz Can't Dance (But He'll Steal Your Money)," so when someone pointed out to Zaentz that "The Old Man Down the Road" sounded a lot like "Better Run Through the Jungle" he saw this as an opportunity to get back at Fogerty, and so he sued him for copyright infringement. Fogerty won the lawsuit by bringing a guitar into court and demonstrating the differences between the two songs to the jury.

@joeroscoe3708

2 жыл бұрын

I also heard the judge made a statement along the lines of "You can't sue Fogarty for sounding too much like Fogarty."

@yourcommentisntfunnyv2709

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@hellradiolives

Жыл бұрын

The song was changed to "Vanz Can't Dance" before release.

"What Vanilla Ice is trying to say here" is such marvelous shade.

@lazer2365

2 жыл бұрын

He's trying to say "Ding-ding-ding-diggy-ding-ding...

@tomlewis5542

2 жыл бұрын

How about everybody agreed to stop using that term shade sounds quite ghetto

@mosquerajoseph7305

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomlewis5542 is that your only problem with using the term “shade” lol

@jakemode

2 жыл бұрын

They added an 8th note. That's it.

@randomhero2480

2 жыл бұрын

@@obscurity3027 why is he a tool though? He seems like a nice and respectful guy. He was just trying to make some money. Do you have a reason for not liking him, or just based off face value?

Even Vanilla Ice himself was laughing as he explained the "difference"

@jamesslick4790

4 жыл бұрын

It didn't even SOUND LIKE a change,but merely a bad edit,😛

@jasonbossardt9453

4 жыл бұрын

He did laugh, because he knows he stole the sample. But he is right. If it had only sold 10,000 copies, then nobody would have given a shit getting their slice of 10k.

@jamesslick4790

4 жыл бұрын

@@jasonbossardt9453 For real he IS right. No one would sue if it only sold a few copies. But ,"Ice,Ice baby" still sucks though. Pet rocks sold millions of "copies" to, But that doesn't mean they are "art".

@DePuntinAlMedio

4 жыл бұрын

James Slick The thing is that Ice Ice Baby would have gotten the same success even if they had another sample.

@jamesslick4790

4 жыл бұрын

@@DePuntinAlMedio And THAT is why I stopped giving a 🐀's ass about music after about 1985 or so.

I think, with only 7 root notes in the whole musical universe, it's pretty remarkable that every song doesn't sound the same.

@rootsgrassusa

2 жыл бұрын

7 in each key, 12 notes in western music but the point remains. some of these copyright lawsuits were absolutely absurd. how can u sue someone over 3 chords on guitar and similar drums?

@ganeshapsychedelicrock4027

2 жыл бұрын

@@rootsgrassusa Yep, all desiged to feed the "Fat Cats" Ahha, more than likely, does anyone know why we play in 440hz instead of 432hz?

@DarkWorldQ8

Жыл бұрын

@@ganeshapsychedelicrock4027 because most modern music are based on classical music, classical music splits the frequencies that makes the musical notes into 12 notes with equal spaces between them, that is to make songwriting easier and to allow other musicians to play with each other without sounding off. For example, a song in C major can be played in D major easily, especially if the singer prefers this key or they want to change the feeling of the song. You should listen to some Arabic and Turkish music. Some Arabs would use microtones and quartertones, some would intentionally take a regular scale such as the C major scale, and sharpen or flatten a note slightly and intentionally to make it sound different.

@ranica47

Жыл бұрын

12 notes

@salty_3k506

Жыл бұрын

​@@ganeshapsychedelicrock4027 the frequency ratio between notes stays the same across keys so you can change keys which is important because you could start on any root note so every key should sound good

"What Vanilla Ice is trying to explain here...." I appreciate the translation.

@ArcDevErik

2 жыл бұрын

Seemed pretty straightforward.

I like how the only artist who isn't petty about getting his music "stolen" is Tom Petty.

@bluemarlin6806

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, he sued Sam Smith.

@SkatePunkBanana

3 жыл бұрын

I believe Zepplin is also pretty chill when it comes to it. They acknowledge they ripped off a lot of blues tracks so they feel it'd be wrong to sue for someone ripping off one of theirs.

@okee9

3 жыл бұрын

@@bluemarlin6806 He didn't, he had a co writer Jeff Lynn and he sued

@ccubsfan94

3 жыл бұрын

@@bluemarlin6806 Wasn't him that sued, was the others who had credit on the track

@zoierenee724

3 жыл бұрын

he doesn't want to live like a refugee

“White rapper in Florida with a funny haircut” 😂

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Zep Langston music 😆

@RascalMcascal

4 жыл бұрын

Nice video David

@natejackman7705

4 жыл бұрын

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

@nickwall2497

4 жыл бұрын

Gotta love Roger Taylor!

@patrickcraig7360

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao actually reminds me of a few friends from high school

"it's literally plants vs zombies" ah yes, a woman of culture

@kevink4539

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you @ghost mall , I needed this

@maximillianford9301

2 жыл бұрын

@ghost mall 'literally' is just used for emphasis now bro

@oscarsrensen7280

2 жыл бұрын

@ghost mall Yea, welcome to modern language, pal.

@jamonnaranjo

2 жыл бұрын

@ghost mall you literally missed the point bro

@EmJeRo14

2 жыл бұрын

@@maximillianford9301 just because the majority use that word incorrectly doesn't mean they're right. That's not how grammar works.

The keyboard intro to A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum (1967) is almost 100% Sleepers Awake by J.S. Bach. How did they get away with it?

@johnremp3470

2 жыл бұрын

Public domain

@WibblyWobblyBob

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, Bach is out of copyright.

@H3AVYR0CK3R

2 жыл бұрын

A whiter shade of pale wasn't the only song that Procol Harum took classical inspiration from. To me it seems like lawyers have found a way to tax inspiration. How can you possibly come up with something entirely new without it, in some way, being affected by things you have experienced before.

@LakePlacidBear

2 жыл бұрын

There is also a little bit of JS Bach in Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock Improvisation. Other instances also includes him kinda put Beatles’ riffs into his song and improvised them. I mean he basically covered Sgt Pepper three days after the initial release in front of the Beatles, yet even Paul said it’s a wonderful rendition. People don’t call Hendrix a copycat, rather we say Jimi was the most creative guitarist who ever walked on this planet. The issue should not be always focusing on people copying others’ riffs. It’s about how you are able to take those as inspiration and make it your style.

@unidentifiediconography8837

2 жыл бұрын

Yep... I don't care what song you're talking about... Bach did it first, and probably better... 🖖

“i’m afraid to touch the guitar because i might be touching somebodies note” that hit so hard and is such a relevant statement

@joshuafreedman7703

3 жыл бұрын

matthias • Will ** PLEASE go and kick Don Henley in the balls??

@n3rds3y3vi3w

3 жыл бұрын

In hindsight he was being overly dramatic. He should’ve just taken the L and kept it moving.

@EDMdeAcai

3 жыл бұрын

IKR???

@DA-js7xz

3 жыл бұрын

Nah. He clearly ripped off the song

@cindysue5474

3 жыл бұрын

Now you know how George Harrison felt with My sweet Lord.

Teacher: you plagiarized this paper Vanilla Ice: No I didn’t!! I changed this word right here 😂😂😂

@ChristinaJ01126

3 жыл бұрын

Noah Derkos What

@MrRhombus

3 жыл бұрын

Vanilla is a lazy student Chocolate is getting a scholarship

@NickChase

3 жыл бұрын

Lol 😂

@joandrumz3176

3 жыл бұрын

Me holding a presentation: My teacher: You stole that text from wikipedia Me: Nooo, I changed that word, see?

@ew6483

3 жыл бұрын

My mum’s a teacher and a student got called out for plagiarism from Spark Notes. It was impressive because the plagiarism didn’t even answer the question or follow an essay format! The student was given a 0 but a chance to try again. They submitted the exact same thing but got a thesaurus and changed a few words and structures...

So glad I stumbled across this channel. I love music but am not a musician, so greatly appreciate how you break things down into laypeople terms :-) Keep up the good work!

@CC3193

5 ай бұрын

I’ve always liked music, but as I’ve gotten older - over 35, over 40 - I’m enjoying it more & more! And especially older music, different genres & styles, and the backgrounds & stories behind songs, groups and performances.

I just heard "Bury A Friend" today, and immediately thought of "People Are Strange". Glad I'm not the only one!

@briancannon3987

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe it'll get gen z into the doors?

The people trying to sue Mark Ronson are laughable. You can’t sue just because every single funk song uses chicken scratch type guitar licks. If that’s true, then every single funk song ever is about to be sued by Nile Rogers.

@imchipjames

3 жыл бұрын

That's where i was landing on this. Am i allowed to play a dotted 16th note as a rhythmic support or are all those taken?

@eddixon2015

3 жыл бұрын

Suddenly everyone is going to owe Nile Rogers a lot of money

@theduckytaco7602

3 жыл бұрын

@@imchipjames one 32nd, thats all you get!

@leehamlet5900

2 жыл бұрын

The credit for the ‘don’t believe me just watch’ lyric is so stupid

Ice Ice Baby sampled Queen’s bassline without even asking. How he thought he was gonna get away with it is beyond me.

@Kiki-zl2dk

4 жыл бұрын

This is kinda irrelevant butit's okay lmao. I play bass, and I was practicing under pressure. My cousin came in and said "omg I love ice ice baby!" And I was like, no you uncultured swine

@Hunter2847

4 жыл бұрын

Kaylee Puterbaugh toy story

@novadowdell8042

4 жыл бұрын

he stole the line from arguably one of the greatest and definitely one of the most popular bands.. how did he think he’d get away with stealing from queen & bowie ??

@mitchtrubiscuit7876

4 жыл бұрын

nova dowdell why is everyone dick riding Queen they are only popular now because of the movie and Wayne’s World so thank them their music isn’t very influential

@Ghooyable

4 жыл бұрын

@@mitchtrubiscuit7876 lol, that's hilarious dude

First time i have come across this channel ,great analysis of copied notes! In depth and good explanations👍

The strokes "bad decisions" is identical to "dancing with myself"

@joshuabrunetta4656

2 жыл бұрын

Ya bc it was co-written by Billie Joel and done on purpose lol

@falconier1979

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshuabrunetta4656 Do you mean Billie Idol?

@joshuabrunetta4656

2 жыл бұрын

@@falconier1979 ya my bad. Daddy was highhhhh last night

About Freddie's reaction to Ice Ice Baby, Peter Freestone wrote: "When he first heard it, Freddie just listened to the start and thought it was Under Pressure being played on the radio again. He carried on eating his breakfast and suddenly stopped, frowning. I thought there was a problem with his food but he said ‘no’. He started listening intently and couldn’t believe his ears. He was smiling when he said that he couldn’t believe what he was hearing…. a blatant rip-off. He got hold of Jim Beach, who was already on the case and left it at that, always remembering that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

@michaelmiller7160

2 жыл бұрын

My Sweet Lord may be a rip off but they just sound so different. 1.6M .. how much change did George have on him? Come on that was one of the last good songs he wrote. But not sure why he was so worried ..... he had millions more and he was about the spiritual world not material. .haha

@nejraissocool

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmiller7160 cause that was his work. Regardless of how much he had, that was still something that he worked hard on and had every right to protect his work

@davidmsirois

2 жыл бұрын

@ghost mall this comment deserves everything 😂

@libradawg9

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmiller7160 No, that's wrong. They're the exact same song besides the bg singers placement. Now where we agree is that it doesn't mean he ripped it off. He very well could've met and collaborated with someone who also worked with the 50s group. Enough time lapsed, and it's extremely plausible that George didn't know or like that song. Many things come into play here.

@ScarletVoodoo

2 жыл бұрын

@ghost mall Asking the real questions! 😂

Vanilla Ice: explains something in the worst way David Bennett: *what vanilla ice is trying to say is*

@jazzram_

3 жыл бұрын

Rogerina is mad

@LethalMitch

3 жыл бұрын

Vanilla ice is just so trash

Fun little Under Pressure fact is that that sample in question almost didn't exist! John came up with the bass riff and played it to the others and it had been working well. They all took a break (cue Q + Bowie grabbing pizza together) and when they got back in the room he could not remember how it went or what he'd been playing - luckily for planet earth, Rog remembered it (and presumably having ding ding ding dada ding ding sung at him was enough to jog John's memory)

You are very correct. Thank you for this, I have just subscribed. You are one of the very few people on youtube who truly knows what they are typing about. Additionally, Vanilla Ice should be horse whipped for his insolence. Have you noticed "The Mary Tyler Moore Theme' has been 'borrowed' by the composers of the, (I can't remember which now), either the opening or closing themes for Downton Abbey? I don't think there is any doubt about that.

Tom Petty probably thought to himself "I'm not going to sue a band just because we both play a C octave chord to begin our song." Tom wasn't Petty. RIP.

@NathanKwadade

4 жыл бұрын

1996thrh nice 👍🏾 pun... thought 💭 of the same pun though.

@LudiColorado

4 жыл бұрын

well, TECHNICALLY American Girl starts on a D octave chord and was pitch adjusted to match Last Nite. But yes, good on him for not caring lol

@reimourrpower9357

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Petty was great songwriter. What he also knows that any great songwriter has appropriated certain elements from their greater songwrriter forebares and influences that nobody caught them for. It's all a matter of how generously you 'adapt' other elements and how much is truly original.

@mykecaouette4940

4 жыл бұрын

he sued sam smith lol

@stevieframe

4 жыл бұрын

@@mykecaouette4940 his record company sued Smith.

Some of the lawsuits against Uptown Funk are extremely silly and unfair. Like that guitar riff -- I was in jazz band in high school and that riff is like, one of the most common funk music riffs. Wow, a funk song features syncopation and riffs? Who would have thought?

@joermnyc

4 жыл бұрын

Isaac Thomas I read that Mark Roson was so obsessed with perfecting that guitar part he actually ended up passing out in the studio after hundreds of takes.

@magnustp1429

4 жыл бұрын

"Syncopated fourths on beat 1 and 3 are only allowed to be in my song" - some greedy guy

@MrDamojak

4 жыл бұрын

Who would have funk?

@the-engneer

4 жыл бұрын

Song is generic pop nonsense anyway

@kuleulrik7349

4 жыл бұрын

It's almost like trying to copyright the lick in jazz, or a I-V-iv-VI in pop

YOO WHEN I HEARD THE PLANTS VS ZOMBIES THEME I BURST OUT LAUGHING.

literally, these videos are so well done. thank you for putting in so much time and effort!

Uptown Funk: exists Every Funk Band: *Our Property*

@maryspencer4975

3 жыл бұрын

I know. How many songs staked a claim on Uptown Funk? I lost track.

@maryspencer4975

3 жыл бұрын

I think there were 5.

@LastBastian

3 жыл бұрын

Add "Jungle Love" by "The Time" to the list.

@jasonm9178

3 жыл бұрын

It's because new artists are barely artists and mainly an image...lyrics written by ghost writers and produced by other people..hell half of the "artists" can't even sing good

@annaborbely2789

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonm9178 well true but it's been like that since the 50's, Elvis never wrote a single song nor did Frank Sinatra. i feel like every generation has the same realisation that nothing's authentic 'anymore'

so what ive learnt is funk is illegal

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

DoNOTannoyKarina got to have that funk

@jaschul

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano To paraphrase George Clinton, "Funk! It Ain't Illegal Yet!"

@timespace.productions7513

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano I read a story about the origins of Come Together by the Beatles that exemplifies how aware Paul McCartney was of copyright infringement.

@learntospell

4 жыл бұрын

Come Together was written by Lennon.

@unclepodger

4 жыл бұрын

THIS IS NOT FAIR I WANT MORE FUNK OR ELSE I WILL COME COUNTLESS WAR CRIMES

08:12 well Tom Petty’s “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” also sounds suspiciously like the Jayhawks’ “Waiting for the Sun”

Gotye "Some body that I used to know" is a dressed up "bah bah black sheep"

@neiltwaterhouse

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, Bah Bah Black Sheep/Twinkle twinkle etc is in the public domain. But the opening guitar plucking sample was used without permission and he got some heat for that.

@Elbowbanditest2003

2 жыл бұрын

Actually I found another song that's similar to the you didn't have to turd me off part it's by Fleetwood mac I can't remember the song so yeah he took that part

@danlyons4602

2 ай бұрын

Trinidad sampled Too Short and Too Short sampled HIS song. 😂

later in the interview with roger taylor he said “try and dance yourself outta that one vanilla” and that has got to be one of the funniest things i’ve heard about the ice ice baby shenanigans

@saraa136

3 жыл бұрын

LMAO he always throws the perfect shade

@vikmarisco5679

3 жыл бұрын

Next thing you know there will be a Dance Off between Van ice and R.T .

What Vanilla Ice is 'trying to say', made me laugh when you said that twice, clearly he wasnt capable of saying much

@joeessig3550

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, he was pretty clear in both of the interviews. But I get it, he’s a dummy and that’s funny.

@DerekHartley

4 жыл бұрын

@@joeessig3550 He wasn't clear at all. He made a hash of describing the rhythm changes in Ice Ice Baby and in the other interview just sounded like an arrogant twat and took about 3 minutes to say 'My record sold a lot more than most rap records which is why they went after me'.

@ByeX360

4 жыл бұрын

Queen: NOOOOO YOU CAN'T STEAL THE RHYTHM WITHOUT PAYING ROYALTIES Vanilla Ice: hahaha this song goes ding ding ding

@gaijininja

4 жыл бұрын

His speaking is like his singing. Fake.

@Udontkno7

4 жыл бұрын

@@DerekHartley I mean, he's not wrong. Nobody cares if some small artist makes a song with extreme similarities. But, if it's big, there's money to be made. They want credit.

I can speak that as a studying composer at university, in the 12-tone scale it would be obvious to hear similar melodies and chord progressions in many pieces of music for certain genres... it happens on accident more than some people would believe. After even a few lessons in music theory, it becomes really stupid hearing about lawsuits involving music/copyright infringement. Everyone borrows, everyone recognizes certain rhythms and chord progressions.

Have you also noticed that the exact same note combination used for The Alan Parsons Project's "Sirius" in 1982 from Eye in The Sky, is employed in the Tears For Fears track "Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams" from 1990. The melody, in a loop cannot be coincidental. If I am not mistaken, it may even be in the same key. "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" is a book by Sylvia Plath, a collection of short stories, published in 1977, after her death. Tears For Fears in their album recordings for "Songs From the Big Chair", borrowed the book title as it fitted the album's concept theme of mental illness. Sylvia Plath had a preoccupation with issues of mental illness which became a recurring theme in her books. She also writes about the universe and planets and does mention the brightest star in the sky, that is "Sirius"!. I wonder if Tears For Fears also saw the connection?

I love how when you're a drummer you see people arguing about things that sound almost like others when in drums you play things that are so universal that everyone does it

@AYEGEEArt

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao , Definitely! Sometimes the songs they even mention to compare are the songs you're not even familiar with😂

@robertwheatley8809

3 жыл бұрын

He's much more than a drummer. He writes some of the music and sings too.

@peterlittle4357

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertwheatley8809 who? Who's more than a drummer?

@robertwheatley8809

2 жыл бұрын

@@peterlittle4357 I think I was talking about queens roger Taylor

@petek7217

2 жыл бұрын

Dana Carey of tool says good luck copying my beats..

"What Vanilla Ice is trying to say here..." This made me laugh. It's like he needs translating.

@wokkus5610

4 жыл бұрын

Yep lol. He’s too inarticulate to get his point across

@Myrick313

4 жыл бұрын

What Vanilla ice said was the truth though.

@virtual_it_admin2065

4 жыл бұрын

@DVN, technically yes, but he's still an inarticulate dumbass.

For the melody, you can see this quite often in songs from artists where Joe Bruce and Joey Utsler (ICP) are involved. Listened to the Inner City Posse albums? You may have caught melodies from songs like MC Rob Base and DJ EZ Roc's "It Takes Two," or Psychopathic Ryda albums with songs like "Scrimps" using the same one from Biggy Smalls' "Juicy." There's gotta be thousands of songs where major artists, and the underground, used at least the melody, etc. or even mimicked the lyrics. Yeah, "Burry Your Friend" sounds so much like "People are Strange" because of the (at least when I first read about it) minimal 3 note difference to avoid copyright infringement.

3:25 BIG DEAL! It's the shaker that's thrown into the mix. STILL THE SAME SONG

"Hey, Queen can I copy your homework?" "Yea, just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious you copied."

@tillysalmon585

3 жыл бұрын

“Yes but just change it the slightest slightest bit which does absolutely nothing for you because it still sounds the exact same” Think vanilla ice needs to copy homework a bit more carefully

@phatphat7089

3 жыл бұрын

Ding

@dirkpehrke9909

3 жыл бұрын

Queen did the same with the bassline to Good Times from Chic on Another One Bites The Dust and never credited them. Instead of changing it a bit, they dumbed it down for their mainstream rock audience.

@thomasfarmer1730

2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha fuckin geez🤣

@fazza2104

2 жыл бұрын

More like, secretly steals it photocopies it and changes the name at the top then secretly gives it back

That Jim Morrison photo is iconic.

@parkerreese9438

3 жыл бұрын

Nah the one when his filiming ray on TV is the best

@nobletrahan1

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@droppe3405

3 жыл бұрын

@@parkerreese9438 so is his mugshot. He has tons of iconic photos

@NPGLAMB

3 жыл бұрын

I knew a schizophrenic guy who thought he was Jim Morrison. I will never think of Jim the same again

@l.russellbrown9732

3 жыл бұрын

Miguel Bose totally ripped his #1 hit Don DIABLO From L.Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer s song WIGGLE N A GIGGLE ALL NIGHT BOSE LOST AND HAD HIS NAME REMOVED FROM THE COPYRIGHT.

"This video is sponsored by the rich..." I did bit of a double take there. LOL!

You could mention "Wish you were here" by Pink Ployd being close to "Almost Independence day" by Van Morrison. Recently I realised that many songs from the Shins sound a lot like "Wine and Dined" by Syd Barrett. "Wait for the summer" from Yeasayer is strongly influenced by "Rain and Snow" by Pentangle, which is a traditionnal tune but Yeasayer didn't mention it.

"Hes a white rapper from Florida great right with a funny hair cut." I love Roger XD

@andrasidansjon313

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree. Roger Waters and Roger Daltrey are awesome guys!

@britneyavelar2675

4 жыл бұрын

Andra sidan sjön roger taylor

@UNKNOWNe-wm6zl

4 жыл бұрын

Rock-n-roll will never die

@Crevette_Creations

4 жыл бұрын

@@UNKNOWNe-wm6zl true dat

@dihyatazim996

3 жыл бұрын

Love it

The moment when Vanilla Ice was roasted by a member of Queen "He is just a white rapper from Florida with a funny haircut" 🤣🤣🤣

@user-es6hj2mb9d

3 жыл бұрын

kh22912 and at the end of the interview Roger goes “Dance your way out of that one Vanilla” ahahahhaha yes Roger is a savage

@jamesstephenson9546

3 жыл бұрын

That’s how you know you f***ed up

@mitchelltyler5972

3 жыл бұрын

Ice roasts himself, looking like that. Guy from Queen literally just gives an apt description of him lol.

@dx.feelgood5825

3 жыл бұрын

@@mitchelltyler5972 I haven't seen that part yet but I'm willing to bet it was probably Roger

@beauxguidry5373

3 жыл бұрын

I have to ask this then. Is there any worse diss from a group then then the drummer putting someone in a corner? I know, but the member that gets the least respect according to jokes is the drummer. And yes, I am a drummer.

I like that David Bennett points out that some of the similarity in the funk genre where claims of plagiarism has occurred is simply that - it is all in the same genre. It may (or may not) always be attributed to that, but it certainly often has something to do with it in other genres as well. It reminds me of the Blues genre, where it is routine for songs to sound very similar. There was Ten Years After’s humorous piece titled, “Every Blues Song You’ve Ever Heard” (which is simply stating this fact.) I also am glad that it was stated that intent isn’t relevant in plagiarism cases. I never have even for a second suspected that George Harrison consciously stole anyone’s tunes. But repetition in pop (& most genres) music makes some inadvertent copying inevitable.

Vanilla Ice might have been an asshole regarding his use of Under Pressure's sample, but he was absolutely right about how these lawsuits always go for the multi-millionaire record breaking hits, even if there's barely a thing in common between the songs

@AT-rr2xw

4 жыл бұрын

Sure, it makes sense. Going after someone who has made only a little bit of money off of a song and probably cannot afford to go through the legal process risks resulting in royalties that do not cover the legal costs and make the plaintiff look bad. Regardless, I believe that the lawsuit was warranted in Ice's case. The same with "My Sweet Lord" by Harrison. I dislike the "Blurred Lines" song, but I felt that the lawsuit there was a stretch.

@TurboSixxSpeed

4 жыл бұрын

@@AT-rr2xw unfortunately a lot of things have changed since then. at least in Vanilla Ice's time, you could go Gold and still "be under the radar". nowadays, youtube and other platforms have Content ID bots scouring for any similarities to do copyright strikes on youtube. its gotten so bad, that beginner artists are using samples they have paid for as a consumer (buying a sample pack) and getting songs flagged just because they use the same samples that someone else had (which they both got from the same sample packs). its ridiculous.

@saoirsedeltufo7436

4 жыл бұрын

It's true, but not from a good perspective necessarily. The fact that people can't necessarily afford lawyers, especially for a song that won't get much in royalties, doesn't deflect from the fact that they're still stealing the riff

@DrSardonicus

4 жыл бұрын

Tobías Yance yeah? So what! Of course what vanilla ice said was true. It’s not remarkable or the mind of a genius. Absolutely your chances of being sued would exponentially rise if you (or the song specifically) had huge success. Like, no shit, Sherlock! What’s the incentive to sue a nobody or a song that never reached any success? Why are we praising vanilla ice for something that is so dim wittingly obvious that my left shoe would’ve come to the same conclusion. Coming up on National News at Nine; scientists discover ‘water is wet!’ Yes, that’s right ladies and gentlemen, head scientist at the institute of ‘Fucking Obvious Shit’, the FOS, has released a statement exposing the fact that Vanilla freakin’ Ice was the genius to discover the wetness properties of water. Truly remarkable revelations everybody. I just hope the world of science and religion can come together and cope with such a magnanimous discovery of this obvious piece of shit. The very foundation of society and faith have been shaken to its core today. What else could be rattling around in the fascinating mind of Iced Vanilla?! May god help us all.

@keith6706

4 жыл бұрын

First rule of lawsuits: if you're seeking damages you don't sue poor people.

I once read that Jim Morrison wrote "People Are Strange" while taking a walk in the Hollywood Hills. He was at his bandmates house and was depressed over a girl, so he decided to take a walk and that's when the melody came to him. He wrote the lyrics on the spot in order to retain the melody. From my understanding, he used this formula to write many of The Doors greatest songs.

@Lizards_Lounge

3 жыл бұрын

Yea, sometimes melodies just come into your head, Ve created more noise that way than ever trying to sit and force something.. Get on the tar and play it, from there what should come next seems pretty natural to add to mostly.

@jamesmccann2087

3 жыл бұрын

most morrisons songs were poems he wrote.

@ericktellez7632

3 жыл бұрын

He was a terrible singer tho

@geraldcollins7748

2 жыл бұрын

How about shadow of the day and with or without you? I can hear it. I love both songs though.

@absfairabbyfouts7099

2 жыл бұрын

THATS HOW I WRITE SONGS!!!!

2 bands I discovered that sound in the intro of their songs is: 30 seconds to mars: the kill & The red jumpsuit apparatus: misery loves its company.

I have a few more for you. 1) The instrumental to "My Baby Loves Me" by Martina McBride sounds strangely similar to that of "Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen 2) The opening chords and chord progression of "Show Me The Light" by Michael Lloyd and Debbie Litton sounds exactly like those from "Lost Without Your Love" by Bread

I love how you translated everything Vanilla Ice said.

@drewmiller910

4 жыл бұрын

lol

Vanilla Ice: You know what I'm saying Mr. David Piano: So what Vanilla Ice is saying.

@MsJerrySparkle

4 жыл бұрын

*trying to say

@JonBecker81

4 жыл бұрын

That actually made me mad. Ice wasn’t “trying to say” he actually DID say and I understood him completely without the pompous British explanation. I hate it when people say “so what you’re trying to say” or something along those lines. Whoever says things like that feel like they are superior to whoever made the original comment and that their interpretation is necessary because of how much better they are.

@squirlmy

4 жыл бұрын

@@JonBecker81 not necessarily, repeating or rephrasing what another person says shows that you're actually listening. You can't repeat without really listening. Now, because this is an on camera interview, and the personality clash, you may be right in this case. But don't think it's like that that in every one-on-one conversation.

I really like your channel I like how you are confident I do not know if you have come out of the closet yet but if you have I am proud of you and if you have not yet I know that it will happen and just know that all of us are supportive or behind you 100% we love your channel you’re just a great person entertaining. Thank you for being who you are and thank you for giving us great content you’ve helped me through some times..Love the channel keep up the great content.

Would very much like to see you do a video on "Paul's Boutique" by the Beastie Boys. Btw, keep up the good work. Great videos, fantastic insight!

Tom Petty was amazing. He didn't care if other people took a little somthin from his music, he *wrote a song for Scooby Doo* and he went on tour with a busted hip. R.I.P Tom Petty

@robf6105

3 жыл бұрын

That's cool about the Scooby Doo song. However, he was bothered by Sam Smith allegedly ripping off "I Won't Back Down." They settled the dispute amicably without going to court. I'm sure that some money was exchanged.

@markspitzok3064

3 жыл бұрын

Tom petty was a class act!

@lauramessy

3 жыл бұрын

@@robf6105 i didn't know that

@vzeller

3 жыл бұрын

Sure he cared, know the facts. He sued the pants off of Sam Smith when "Stay with Me" was released. It was basically "Won't back down."

@spearfisherman308

3 жыл бұрын

@@vzeller what's funny is that he stole the riff from every breath you take.

2:55 Me explaining the teacher that I didn’t copy the classmates homework.

@proshathaghighi8927

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@SaltyBob355

4 жыл бұрын

“No, no, no. You seen that extra comma right there?”

I thought I heard a cover version of Counting Crows' Daylight Fading, in a shop, last week. After investigating, I discovered it was a song called Just Another Day by Rod Williams.

well, i think you can find similar progressions and melodies everywhere. it is virtually impossible to compose a song that doesn't have any elements that have been used before, even if you have never heard them.

The funk thing is silly, it's like copywriting a 12 bar blues. You just can't.

@MasterNcognito

4 жыл бұрын

Wolfgang Seriously, who funking cares?

@mrstud_1114

4 жыл бұрын

@@MasterNcognito I funking care now pay me 5 mill because you played a open chord

@joedav67

4 жыл бұрын

Shouldn’t all those artists be suing each other though? If they all say his song is the same as theirs, then wouldn’t those songs also be the same?

@mrstud_1114

4 жыл бұрын

@@joedav67 They didn't make alot to sue for so they sued the one that made alot of money

Vanilla ice: we added 1 extra note so it’s totally different. Everybody: yeah... no!

Well, damn. I was just saying in another of your 'rip-off' videos that I knew a little about the Ice Ice Baby/Under Pressure situation, and then it comes up here. In which case, the channel was Brain Blaze where I got my information from rather than here, but this did provide a new angle.

There are only so many chords so sometimes things will sound similar.

@bens3767

2 жыл бұрын

This is kind of a silly comment chords are the same but melody structure and tempo are endless... Let's not be naive and think these artists don't know what they're doing....

So by Ice's logic, stealing is acceptable as long as the owners don't catch you? Florida man.

@skyblazeeterno

3 жыл бұрын

Copying or using music is NOT stealing

@thefakepie1126

3 жыл бұрын

​@@skyblazeeterno yes , sample is a very common practice , and it's only using a part of a song to make another part of another song , it's still art , and a lot of songs that a lot of people knows and loves use sample of other song , for reference I have a video of 20 popular US rap song and their samples : kzread.info/dash/bejne/lp-gj9mOYszAgps.html

@thealternativeequalitycong8593

3 жыл бұрын

There’s a difference between Sampling with credit and just taking it. For example, 1D credited both The Clash and The Who with giving them the idea for the riffs in two of their songs. Ice just took the baseline and the royalties you would normally get out of the then sick Mercury’s mouth.

@Reno_Slim

3 жыл бұрын

It's the code of the ghetto...that Robert Van Winkle has no connection to.

So there's natural minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor, Hungarian minor, Dorian, Phrygian, Ukranian Dorian, Phrigian dominant … Just how many minor modes are there!?

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Patrick Reding really there are three main minor scales... Natural, Harmonic and Melodic. Of those, harmonic and natural are by far the most common. Then there are minor modes including Dorian and Phrygian. And beyond that, although other scales have names (like the Hungarian minor) you can just think about them as variations of the main scales I’ve already mentioned. So you may as well think about Hungarian minor as “harmonic minor with a #4” I hope that helps!

@AntjedePantje

4 жыл бұрын

12Tone has just released a video about modes, you should check it out! Turns out there are a LOT 😂

@davidcantwell2489

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano My brain hurts ...... =^>

@TheRealGirlWeeb

4 жыл бұрын

There's also Melodic Minor. Just leaving the smol bit of musical knowledge i do have here.

@Dismoeyy

4 жыл бұрын

12Tone also recommends this incredibly interesting site fyi: ianring.com/musictheory/scales/

Funnily enough, the song that always comes to my mind everytime I hear "Uptown Funk" is Duran Duran's "Notorious", but that might be because that song has a strong funk influence as well.

I'm relatively new to this channel so I haven't yet seen if there is a third or even fourth in this series that's covered it yet, but on the subject of 90s Hip Hop I thought it was worth mentioning the similarity between Sublime's What I Got and the Beatles' Lady Madonna. Oh, huh, it's on the wikipedia page for it.

vanilla ice: "their song goes ringdingdingdingdingdingding ringdingdingdingdingdingding" but our goes "ringdingdingdingdingdingding.. ding! ringdingdingdingdingdingding... ding!" ok dude

@benjaminsmith1328

4 жыл бұрын

I saw this comment before reaching that part of the video and though it must have been a joke lmao

@Stoic1976

4 жыл бұрын

“It’s not the same”

@SteveMasonCanada

4 жыл бұрын

LOL Ask Alexa the difference

@krisfrederick5001

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly, glad you see the obvious difference.

@mikelopez6953

4 жыл бұрын

No but there different. lol

*ABC need to sue twinkle twinkle little star* the guy deserved royalty

@harini6092

4 жыл бұрын

Ikr, I hope David talks about this in his next video 😂

@ipsurvivor

4 жыл бұрын

Haniff Mohd - Twinkle Twinkle came before ABC. Mozart wrote it as a variation on a French Nursery Rhyme. I get the joke though... good One...

@nickwall2497

4 жыл бұрын

Public Property now. Not eligible for copyright

@Richard_Nickerson

4 жыл бұрын

You mean Bouin should sue all those other 3 since it's really "Ah vous dirais-je, Maman". Too bad he wrote it in 1761... a little past its expiration date. Also, it wasn't original even to him either, so...

@Markle2k

4 жыл бұрын

@@Richard_Nickerson A bit before the concept of copyright was invented is what you mean. The first copyright law came about in 1710 and only covered books. It was intended to promote learning by encouraging publishing of books by removing the monopoly rights of the publishers and vesting them in the authors and the owners of the printed product. It was 1777 before France started following this notion that the author owned a right to publish.

It's also worth mentioning that in addition to paying a one time compensation fee to the family of Ronnie Mack (the writer of He's So Fine), George Harrison avoided ongoing profit sharing by *buying the record company* (Bright Tunes Music) that owned the copyright of He's So Fine 😁

"Down Under" writers, Men at Work (Australian iconic band) were suddessfully sued for 5% of royalties for a couple of short quotes in a flute solo (injected very inventively into a completely different musical context, which lifts trite melody snippets from a kids' song, entitled "Kookaburra", to an entirely higher plane). The song writer would almost certainly have been delighted, but they'd written the song half a century earlier and were long gone. The rights had passed to the publishing company, Larrikin, who as far as I'm concerned, live in infamy ever since.

Vanilla Ice looks like a Vice City character

@timmytoms__

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@scorpionwins6378

4 жыл бұрын

Vanilla Ice just looks plain stupid

@GeorginoEstevez

4 жыл бұрын

@@timmytoms__ hahahaha

@geesus14

4 жыл бұрын

Tommy vercetti, yeaah didn't think they'd ever let him out

@devilsson6660

4 жыл бұрын

Vice city looks like vanilla ice...theres quite a few years before vc was out ...that interview close to 30 yrs old obviously older than xbox or ps

The “Blurred Lines” case decision has completely messed up song copyright law.

@joermnyc

4 жыл бұрын

Aaron Clift but Stairway to Heaven having it’s case overturned may have fixed that. Apparently Blurred Lines is the way it is because the lawyers for Thicke and Pharrell messed up pre-trial motions and were unable to file an appeal.

@Kylora2112

4 жыл бұрын

@@joermnyc But at the same time, they made a conscious effort to mimic the feel and timbre of the entire rhythm section. If I wrote a song that had zero harmonic or melodic similarity to "When The Levee Breaks," but used a sample of John Bonham's drums from that track (or tried to recreate the sound by using the same the pattern and getting the same reverb and echo), that'd be copyright infringement, but if I just had the same drum beat, there wouldn't be an issue (because you can't really copyright a rock drum beat). You have to have more than just a couple of bars of melody to infringe (Robin Thick and Pharrell took an entire rhythm track for Blurred Lines). The My Sweet Lord Decision was right (even John Lennon said George should have mixed it up a bit). I'm also pretty sure George heard He's So Fine more than once (it was a massive hit in both the US and the UK in the 60s). The Stairway Decision set the precedent that you can't copyright line cliche and the subsequent Dark Horse Appeal set the precedent that you can't copyright a scale, so those were good.

@ianfreud

4 жыл бұрын

Kylie McInnes I don’t think you can say Thick and Pharrell “took an entire rhythm track.” The two pieces are wildly, wildly different apart from a couple of seconds. It’s an attempt to copyright a rhythm and a two note bass phrase. There’s a Legal Eagle KZread where he pretty conclusively proves (using the Stairway/Dark Horses) that the outcome of the Blurred Lines case was more bad lawyering than anything else. Complex video, but Neely’s in it for the musician angle too.

@BlockDefender

4 жыл бұрын

On topic, the song ROLLIN' from the k-pop group Twice lifted their intro from Blurred Lines

@MarkNealon

4 жыл бұрын

You might even say it's blurred the lines of what's infringement

The thing about George Harrison is that he most certainly heard "He's So Fine" at some point in passing, but didn't realize it. He never noticed it, but it seeped into his subconscious and then later manifested in his consciousness as an original idea. In copyright law, saying I've never heard that song before can be a defense, if it can be proven that you've never heard that song. But outside of the song having been recorded and put on a shelf and never released, it's near impossible in the modern age.

Hey just stumbled across one, so odd I watched your video for the first time this morning...so it's Gwen Stefani's HollaBack Girl and Ashnikko's Blow...like them both.

That George Harrison incident was indeed scary for young musicians who are trying their best to write songs. Coincidence indeed happen that way.

@shamu3990

3 жыл бұрын

Well it never would have happened if it wasnt George Harrison, so most young musicians are probably safe, although it is quite scary

@JuicyJoey

3 жыл бұрын

There were clear differences in the song too, kind of ridiculous if you ask me. For people who casually listen to music they wouldn’t even notice that both songs are similar at all.

@kevinhaakede

3 жыл бұрын

I never realised until it got pitch corrected to be in the same key wow

@j_freed

3 жыл бұрын

I guess never write a boring predictable song, and you won't fall into the trap…

@skipacuff5104

3 жыл бұрын

@@j_freed of sounding like a jerk? You obviously know.

“White rapper in Florida with a funny haircut” That made me laugh

"Pressure Drop" by Toots and the Maytals and "When the Night Feels My Song" by Bedouin Soundclash have some real similarities.

It's hard to believe George Harrison didn't hear "He's so fine" Chiffon's song in 1963. It made it to #16 on the UK charts, which means it was a hit and had wide spread radio play. "One fine day", Doo Ron Ron, and Loc-Motion were also on the charts. The Beatles songs were exploding in the UK at the same time. I don't know, maybe he just didn't remember hearing it. I can't imagine the hectic lifestyle the Beatles must have had. My Sweet Lord came out 7yrs later in 1970

@lukebrennan5780

2 жыл бұрын

I have always assumed he had heard it at some point in their madness and had genuinely not consciously known. His response felt true. As he ended up paying and then buying it, I think it shows he wasn't going to let it sit and felt hurt/attacked over it. A mess that worked out for each side eventually.

Theirs does "ding ding ding dingy ding ding, din dingy ding dingy ding ding", and ours goes "ding ding ding dingy ding ding TSSSS, din dingy ding dingy ding ding" ------ 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@iamtheralwus

2 жыл бұрын

Theirs does "ding ding ding dingy ding ding, din dingy ding dingy ding ding", and ours goes "ding ding ding dingy ding ding TSSSS, din dingy ding dingy ding ding" ------ 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@chaoticrin

2 жыл бұрын

@@iamtheralwus ...

@b34r21

2 жыл бұрын

why is his eyebrow up the whole time WHY IS HE SMILING JONTRON WAS RIGHT HE IS JUST A EGG

Artist A: *breathes* Artist B: "I DID IT FIRST!"

@Christiangjf

3 жыл бұрын

Court: Agreed! Artist A pay 11 million dollars to Artist B.

@vikramrana726

3 жыл бұрын

I love you

I wrote a chord sequence once where each chord fitted really well with next chord till it sounded familiar I thought maybe its one of my earlier compositions then bingo I was playing Purple Rain .

Internet Money Lemonade (2020) and our song Mysight (2017)... Lyrical Lemonade (the producers) did an article on Mysight a few months before they released Lemonade. Interesting one...

Therapist: pitch-shifted Jim Morrison isn't real, he can't hurt you Me: *sweats in **0:34*

@ringdingdongy

4 жыл бұрын

Loll

@timon_of_athens

4 жыл бұрын

I thought I was going crazy

@tempviduse

4 жыл бұрын

Genuinely annoyed me lol

I'm gonna write a program that make millions of combinations to melody and chords progressions, publish all the tunes, wait for someone to create a song that becomes a hit which will statistically have the same notes than one of my song and then sue the artist.... Anyway, copyright is getting ridiculous....

@Arrica101

3 жыл бұрын

That has already been done. Someone created an algorithm that would produce every conceivable variation of an 8 note melody. It is an interesting watch, kzread.info/dash/bejne/pX6oz5KGn7LNmbg.html

@EnricoDiLauro

3 жыл бұрын

For real man! Its ridiculous

@yondie491

3 жыл бұрын

OR........ maybe you don't understand copyright law, since there are a myriad of aspects to it, such as the defendant having access to the original tune. If you don't publish and no one hears... you ain't got squat when it comes to rights.

@jenm1

2 жыл бұрын

Capitalism kills creativity. This is a prime example.

@nightspicer

2 жыл бұрын

@@yondie491 that's why the OP said he's gonna publish all of those tunes

Butterfly By Crazy Town uses the exact same guitar as in Pretty Little Ditty by Red Hot Chili Peppers

@co.ty.tato39

2 жыл бұрын

RHCP were described as writers of this singiel, you can check it on wiki :- )

Years ago I looked up how they determine similarity in different pieces of music. I don't remember all the ins and outs but I do remember the number of possibilities in just a few measures (bars to some) and it was 10 to the 26th power. That's a lot of zeros

Tom Petty was a good dude. And an incredible songwriter. Miss him.

@j.lindback

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed. He only made Sam Smith pay him 12.5% of the royalties for "Stay with me". I mean, it could have been worse!

@eyeheartsushi2212

4 жыл бұрын

Johan Lindbäck Yeah Sam Smith should consider himself lucky. He “got lucky” 😉

@silverdragon710

4 жыл бұрын

you knew him personally?

@dreams4956

4 жыл бұрын

@@silverdragon710 Some people (like me) love the man and his music so much it's almost like we did know him. Though I never met him, Tom is like a father, brother, and friend to me through his music