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Olivia Rodrigo about songwriting credits debacle


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FATCAT

She's not wrong, but she's also not entirely right. You can create original music that doesn't also sound like recently popular songs :rip:

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Zombiecat

She's right but she literally used the whole vocal melody of a song and just changed the words and the overall pitch of the song so that's not the same as what she's saying :air: 

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CyanDante
13 minutes ago, FATCAT said:

She's not wrong, but she's also not entirely right. You can create original music that doesn't also sound like recently popular songs :rip:

I am probably one of the few ones, or maybe someone who is sonically challenged , but I didn't really feel her songs were that similar to Misery Business or Cruel Summer. :laughga:

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RAMROD

Originality is hard when you lived in 2021. Can people just chill? There are like decades behind us where people actually "did it first", what happen today are just the recycle of things really. 

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FATCAT
18 minutes ago, CyanDante said:

I am probably one of the few ones, or maybe someone who is sonically challenged , but I didn't really feel her songs were that similar to Misery Business or Cruel Summer. :laughga:

I'll say this, I knew it sounded familiar and I didn't even know the name of the songs haha

But it was close enough that they added credits, so her or her lawyers were definitely a little worried about any public fallout 

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FATCAT
17 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

Originality is hard when you lived in 2021. Can people just chill? There are like decades behind us where people actually "did it first", what happen today are just the recycle of things really. 

There's plenty of popular artists that put out original music in 2021, when more that isn't in the top 10. Even her team conceded the similarities and vocal melody, they wouldn't have added credits if it wasn't warranted. 

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Olivia.... Child... Glad you wrote the lyrics but this is a messy response and didn't really address the situation. 

 

 

 

 

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gothicdream

I'll be honest, it really irks me to frame this as a feminist issue - and I'm a pretty radical feminist.

Like... Sure, she's a female songwriter, but so is Hayley and she deserves credit for the song Olivia ripped off from her. As well as Taylor.

Framing it within feminism feels manipulative.

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CyanDante
20 minutes ago, FATCAT said:

I'll say this, I knew it sounded familiar and I didn't even know the name of the songs haha

But it was close enough that they added credits, so her or her lawyers were definitely a little worried about any public fallout 

Yeah I think they wanted to avoid any lawsuits especially for the first album. 

But you know they asked for the credits when the tracks got popular. Otherwise no one would have bothered. :rip:

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RahrahWitch

There's line between inspiration and plagiarism. Inspiration is getting inspired by a song and creating something original with that in mind not using it as a blueprint.

I doubt it's all on her though, there's teams of people involved with making a big album like that but when even your Album Aesthetic is seemingly plagiarized then I think it's It's time you get some new team members with a little originality. 

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