Ever heard a song that you feel as if you've heard before? Think Flo-Rida's 'Good Feeling', 'I Cry', 'Right Round', 'Sugar' ...actually the majority of his songs have echoes of releases in times gone by. Turning semi-well known songs into Top Ten chart hits is not a new thing but is this really a good thing for the music industry though? Effectively it's just stealing and copying someone elses song and building on the previous artists success, a lot of the time, without permisson, is this really fair?
Will.i.Am has got himself in a lot of trouble recently. This week he released on his YouTube account a song from his new album 'Let's go', which some could say is a instant rip off of a song by lesser well known house/dance DJ's Matt Zo & Arty's 'Rebound'. There was a statement released saying he was interested in the song but they denied working with him, and he still used it without the labels permission. Although this is not the first time 'Steal.I.Am' has been accused of stealing songs some say that his latest number one with Britney Spears 'Scream & Shout' has elements of Avicii's Levels. This is bad press for the star who was also recently accused of using some of Tulisa's lyrics in the same duet, where there is still an ongoing battle pursuing.
Personally I'm torn on the whole idea of 'stealing' songs, I love how something can be updated and shown in a different way to appeal to a different type of audience but if this is done without permission from the original artist, then the artist and the management seem to be covering it up in any way possible it all looks very suspicious to me and as a result the artist loses respect from their fans and critics alike.
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