Beyonce steals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBmMU_iwe6U

My fiancee is like, you ain't gunna believe this one.

I MEAN REALLY HOW CHEAP IS THIS? HALF THE FUCKIN SONG GETS RIPPED MY GOODNESS!

one of the producers for this song is half of major lazer, so er? he ripped himself really, lol

most of major lazer stuff is just favela funk/samba/Brazilian music ripoff

  On 7/6/2011 at 11:36 PM, underscore said:

one of the producers for this song is half of major lazer, so er? he ripped himself really, lol

flol whoops. STILL THOUGH MAAAAAAN! I mean how lazy is that!?!?!?!

mediocre lazy

jazz, but doesn't hold a candle to timbaland!

this is pasted from wiki, lol. what a cunt.

On February 2, 2007, Timbaland responded to the plagiarism accusations in an interview by the radio show Elliot in the Morning. In this interview, Timbaland admits to what he calls "sampling", but he also claims that sampling is "not stealing", because "everybody samples from everybody every day". Timbaland also says that the sample is "from a video game" and mentions the Commodore 64. He also says that he has no time for research and that it is sometimes impossible to "know what's public domain and what's not". Timbaland also calls the issue "ridiculous" but mentions that he is "in legal discussions" and therefore can't say much about it. He did, however, call Janne Suni an "idiot" and a "freakin' jerk" on the show. He consistently talked about the incident as sampling, failing to address the claims with regards to the melody

Yeah I remember that. Deplorable.

jeez never visit jamaica

at least ask eric wareheim to make your clip, this is ridiculous.

Sexy!

  On 7/7/2011 at 12:12 AM, vincentvc said:

at least ask eric wareheim to make your clip, this is ridiculous.

fucking lol, this.

i havent been able to masturbate to a beyonce video since naughty girl.

I love Pon de Floor but hasn't it been worn out by now? Or was it not that mainstream? I feel like I heard it everywhere for a while there. Just surprised she decided to go with sloppy seconds instead of something fresh.

On second thought, Kanye made a ton of money rapping over a classic Daft Punk track so I guess it's not that weird.

  On 7/7/2011 at 12:00 AM, underscore said:

"He did, however, call Janne Suni an "idiot" and a "freakin' jerk" on the show. He consistently talked about the incident as sampling, failing to address the claims with regards to the melody

Wow, what a fucking turd.

Also, that major lazer track is fucking annoying, and so it beyonce.

It's almost a perfect storm of aggravation.

  On 7/6/2011 at 11:53 PM, sneaksta303 said:

  On 7/6/2011 at 11:36 PM, underscore said:

one of the producers for this song is half of major lazer, so er? he ripped himself really, lol

 

flol whoops. STILL THOUGH MAAAAAAN! I mean how lazy is that!?!?!?!

Whats the issue? That's fucking genius. Get paid a shit ton of cash for a song you already wrote. Like aphex and virgin airlines kind of idea.

It's cheating is the issue. I believe in sampling, but this takes it a bit too far imho. Cheap, lazy, etc. It goes against my personal code as a beat maker blah blah.

How the fuck is it it cheating when the guy who wrote the song is using it in a different song? I'm not talking about timbaland here.

imo it just is I wouldn't do it. I'm not looking to get into a heated argument about it or anything. It is just something I look down on I guess. It seems exceedingly lazy to me. I see where you're coming from, and if he just did it for a check, that's pretty lol, but again, it just isn't something I can agree with.

he's cheating himself

I think using the amen break is cheating.

Maybe not cheating. Just lazy, really.

  On 7/7/2011 at 2:10 AM, sneaksta303 said:

imo it just is I wouldn't do it. I'm not looking to get into a heated argument about it or anything. It is just something I look down on I guess. It seems exceedingly lazy to me. I see where you're coming from, and if he just did it for a check, that's pretty lol, but again, it just isn't something I can agree with.

i get what you're saying sneak, its pretty cheesy. but i also realize what the goal of pop musics is, $$$. so i definitely get it when a producer hears a dewp instrumental track and just decides to throw some super stars voice over it.

after all, in this case what is the result? http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/dance-club-play-songs

The fact is, I listened to the song all the way through. I guess that says something.

I need to ignore mainstream pop music. confuses and scares me...

  On 7/7/2011 at 12:46 AM, Superstix said:

On second thought, Kanye made a ton of money rapping over a classic Daft Punk track so I guess it's not that weird.

Who also ripped it off of Edwin Birdsong. Every Daft Punk song is pretty much a ripoff.

an old friend of mine who writes rap music always used to go on about how he never "samples". it was a big issue to him, always saying, oh sampling, i'm not into that. the dude uses preset beats in fl studio to write his drum tracks