Another artist in the hot seat. True, some of these music idols have no idea where the beats are coming from; they’re simply by-products of the producing powers that be – music manufacturing at its finest. Still, I couldn’t believe how much ripping off it came down to on this new album.
G-dragon Keepin’ It Real… Sort of.
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Unfortunately, having left my iPod home to recharge, I saw most of a TV profile of this G-Dragon creature on the single gym monitor while working out the other day. Almost dropped a 200 pound overhead press out of sheer repulsion. Someone should put him back under whatever rock in the scum pond he crawled out from.
Hmm this is the third time I think this G-dragon fellow has been mentioned here in the past few days, seems he’s popular with the crowd here then?
#1: Wiki info suggests he’s just another run of the mill boy banders who’s done some ripping off, what else has he done that has elevated him to scum pond’ere? Please tell me he also copied Kanye’s beat of, “OJ Simpson is amazing…”, which seems to be the current hit among American 20-somethings after Right Round.
Speaking of which…I hope KrZ does not re-post that dreadful clip I unfortunately first heard those FloRida lyrics to…
I have no idea what this bit of frou frou has or hasn’t done; it just makes my skin crawl.
#3: Oh I hear ya…that picture reminds me of this terrible incidence once in Phuket…
“True, some of these music idols have no idea where the beats are coming from;”
Yo, I heard that all those big bang kids have been training at the YG family since they were ten, and they learned how to do all the production and beat making themselves. So in all likelihood it could be 100% his fault.
It’s kind of disappointing in a way because YG was founded by one of Seo Taiji’s band members, and I thought that they adhered to a higher standard than the general riff raff, but I guess I was wrong.
It was quite obvious from when I first heard this song on the radio that the author started with the Flo rider rap and started hacking at it to make it different and ended up with his song. So what? That is music. that very approach to song writing is pretty damn ubiquitous. When I learned guitar, my music theory instructor said “Ok, do you want to know how people write rock songs?” He them pulled out a music book for the Phantom of the Opera and started explaining what a progression was. The only thing this kid is guilty of is being too obvious, and hacking a song that was popular too recently, if he is the one who hacked it at all; something I doubt seeing how his real role is just to have a pretty face and jiggle around in front of the laddies.
The ironic thing is that he should have imitated Flo Ryders’ “right ’round” a bit more closely and taken his “inspiration” from a twenty-something year-old group that people have tried in ernst to forget like Dead or alive
A higher standard? Really?
Seo Taiji and his boys were caught up in their own plagiarism scandal way back when. Ripped off Cypress Hill (“Insane in the Membrane”?) if memory serves me right.
It was quite obvious from when I first heard this song on the radio that the author started with the Flo rider rap and started hacking at it to make it different and ended up with his song. So what? That is music. that very approach to song writing is pretty damn ubiquitous. When I learned guitar, my music theory instructor said “Ok, do you want to know how people write rock songs?” He them pulled out a music book for the Phantom of the Opera and started explaining what a progression was. The only thing this kid is guilty of is being too obvious, and hacking a song that was popular too recently, if he is the one who hacked it at all; something I doubt seeing how his real role is just to have a pretty face and jiggle around in front of the ladies.
The ironic thing is that he should have imitated Flo Ryders’ “right ’round” a bit more closely and taken his “inspiration” from a twenty-something year-old group that people have tried hard to forget like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCiVXigrjjQ
Yea, I think Come Back Home or Come Back Hum or whatever the hell it’s called was the Cypress Hill rip off. I remember a roommate back in college raving about what a god Seo Taeji is until I had him listen to Insane in the Membrane to shut him the hell up.
But in the end, I think a lot of rappers rip each other off anyway and call it sampling.
sampling these days is alot more difficult, as you have to get permission and pay royalties for any sample. before there was a certain length of sample you could use without having to pay royalties.
I’ve actually sat in with one of the artists from YG while he was producing a song for another artist. she’d asked him to make a song like fergies london bridge, so all he did was line that song up on his computer and then listen to it and build a new song on the next tab with similar synths, etc.
bought time someone got called out on this cause it doesn’t allow for people to be artistic if all they do is rip off other artists
#8 Not just rappers, even bands like Coldplay have done it. Problem is you can’t sue someone for having similar timings or patterns as it’s different enough to get by, else even Yanni would be penniless.
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