The latest in music stealings.
 

Once again, I've had it with today's "new" music.

The first was that "Let's Go" song that takes the intro and the "ai-ai-ai" from Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train."

Then I heard some rap cover of "I Love Rock and Roll." and Eminem did some bastardization of Billy Joel's "Say Goodbye To Hollywood." There's also "Ice Ice Baby" but that's WAY old news. Also, Rihanna has some "S.O.S" song that takes Soft Cell's Tainted Love background. Then there's "Cupid's Chokehold," which made me lose my apetite for "Breakfast In America" by Supertramp.

now, we've got this Colbie Caillat with her "Bubbly," an empty song with no real story or intrigue to the lyrics, that takes it's refrain's melody from "The Way" by Fastball.

Yeah, the latest one is a stretch, but it's such a close match on the first few lines, and the rhyming is also a little too close for me.

"Anyone can see the road
that they walk on is painted in gold,
It's always summer, they'll never get cold,
Never get hungry, and never get old,
And gray."

"It starts in my toes,
and I crinkle my nose,
Wherever it goes,
I always know."

I mean, look at that, the same four-way rhyme with the O sound with the same bouncy, up and down thing to the tune.

It's aggravating!

Take it up with the bands and artists who give permission for their songs to be used in this fashion.

I think the "Bubbly"/"The Way" thing was probably a coincidence, though, as Fastball aren't exactly music legends.

It still doesn't keep me from instantly blocking out the former and finishing the song with the latter in my head.

Yeah, but that's just because the latter is less terrible than the former.

I KNEW "S.O.S." was taken from somewhere! I just couldn't piece together the fragments of song I remembered. It's all so clear now.

POS: You're nuts. Oh, don't get me started on Bubbly. This isn't just my extreme bitterness because I hate that song with all my being and because in my fifth period this one girls sings it INCESSANTLY! But also because The Way is just way better. Okay, maybe it is mostly bitterness, but Fastball is still way better. They say the best form of flattery is imitation, so they must've done something right. Copycat songs are rarely better. Now, there are exceptions. MC Hammer's Can't Touch This, for example.

Blue: completly agree, just watched the MV, and now wish I hadn't. Way to go, AAF, you made me hate the one thing about MJ I still respected, his music.

Alien Ant Farm should burn for "Smooth Criminal." I know it's old, but they ruined it, and crapped on everything Michael Jackson ever did in the process. There's no WAY a music video that rotten was in any way accidental. :stressed:

Really? I actually enjoy both versions of Smooth Criminal, and thought they did a nice adaption of it. All personal tastes though I guess. But I didn't see the AAF music video, maybe that did something, I dunno.

I don't listen to the radio anymore just because I can't stand to hear what the radio ripped out of the masters cold dead hands now.

Man, I'm absolutely certain Jackson did that to himself.

But yeah, I think that was a pretty decent cover, honestly.

Okay, slow down, chico. You do know the difference between the terms "former" and "latter", right?

Former == "Bubbly"

Latter == "The Way"

I can't generally get offended by straightforward covers. But yes the whole "rap song where someone takes an old, good song, then drones a bunch of shitty rap lyrics over it" thing has never failed to irritate me.


Is that something over which the bands would generally have control? I would think the record labels would tend to control those rights.

Sorry, POS. I thought you meant in chronological order, not the order listed here. My mistake.