Kavinsky says Gaga rip-off his song

[Ladle Ghoulash 44,651]

Just now, Ziggy said:

Yeah that's what I'm hearing, too. Like sure you could say she had inspiration...but she was inspired by Daft Punk in like 8 other places in this show including this bike helmet she has on. So I feel like saying it's a rip-off is a liiiiiittle much especially when the songs themselves are massively different.

When people said he was credited initially, I was surprised but I thought maybe she was just exercising an abundance of caution (à la Abra and Siouxsie), but yeah, they just aren’t technically close enough where a credit is functionally necessary

[Lava 3,794]

Imagine the biggest artist of all time samples your song bc they like your artistry and then being an asshole to them. 

[Ladle Ghoulash 44,651]

1 minute ago, gagzus said:

Madonna had an entire performance of Born This Way on her tour DVD back in 2012 and Gaga/Fernando or anyone was in the credits for the movie.

Tbf, in that instance, if Gaga had sued, Gaga would be opening herself up to the can of worms of whether or not BTW was meaningfully derivative of EY (which I’d argue it isn’t, but she’d already gone thru enough hell with that at that point). 

[Gardevoir 9,971]

8 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Yeah, it’s clearly inspired by Nightcall, but the actual notes aren’t the same. If he tried to take her to court over this, he would probably lose 

But it’s also not like he own this kind of synthwave sound. I’ve heard it a few times already. The vibe.

[He8MyHeart 9,867]

Imagine being that unprofessional that you'd post that sort of thing on Instagram. Grow up.

[Judas Oyster 1,937]

56 minutes ago, gagzus said:

Mashups in live performances are free under creative licence, same for covers, and interpolation. 

 

was thinking some like that too.. like, it's not a recorded song

BUT what if it's a recorded show, filmed, and distributed and streamed as a individual show on a streaming gigant like Apple TV? I mean they could say they/Gaga earns money on the deal with Apple

[MountainMonster 2,135]

13 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

I mean, tbf, Closer also isn’t directly interpolated or sampled. She mimicked the drum loop in Closer and referenced “I wanna fck you like an animal,” but that’s it as far as I can tell

True; but I think there’s about as much of a resemblance in Abra and Spellbound and they were credited. 

[Kayioshka 3,091]

As if he couldn’t communicate it in private with Gaga's team...

He just wanted to get some attention but I won’t stream his song anyway.

[Judas Oyster 1,937]

15 minutes ago, Lava said:

Imagine the biggest artist of all time samples your song bc they like your artistry and then being an asshole to them. 

I understand your point, but like he says: bare minimum is to give creds, either actual credits, money and/or at least letting them know the song sounds similar

[Brazilwood 4,324]

10 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

When people said he was credited initially, I was surprised but I thought maybe she was just exercising an abundance of caution (à la Abra and Siouxsie), but yeah, they just aren’t technically close enough where a credit is functionally necessary

Exactly. In the case of Adele against Toninho Geraes, Angra's guitarist was hired by Toninho's team to analize both songs. I saw a video that he explained he had to write a visual chart using symbols and colors in a way that the court would understand the technical stuff of theory, to compare the harmonies, melodies, prosody of the lyrics, pauses, etc. He said that when put side by side, they looked like a mirror of each other, and the case is still ongoing.

[Ziggy 13,506]

20 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

When people said he was credited initially, I was surprised but I thought maybe she was just exercising an abundance of caution (à la Abra and Siouxsie), but yeah, they just aren’t technically close enough where a credit is functionally necessary

Since I wanna be messy

express yourself and born this way are closer alike 

[ANVEEROY 64,382]

Reminds of Beyoncé vs Milkshake scandal 

[Oriane 22,307]

Of course people here never heard Nightcall, just another day on GGD

[GerMonsterNotta 2,085]

WE ARE SO BACK

 

…. but this time, Mr Polansky, please release the hounds 

 

Edited 19 hours ago by GerMonsterNotta

[Brazilwood 4,324]

2 minutes ago, Ziggy said:

Since I wanna be messy

express yourself and born this way are closer alike 

Everytime I listened to Express Yourself, I tried to find the similarities and never saw it (biased, obviously), then one day I was listening to Born This Way and it came, and then it went, it's like being cross eyed trying to make those stereograms work