The Dua Lipa Situation

[@Therealolbussyjumbo]

All songs are actually written by Marvin Gaye

[@williamtyson9829]

Marvin Gaye is music embodied

[@MarMar-uy8xt]

Marvin Gaye wrote every single Carti lyric, including the ad-libs

[@thiccorquit]

Exactly like what is even the argument !

[@bill6843]

This is a common misconception. However, the song Grandma's Hands was written by Bill Withers. Everything else was written by Marvin Gaye though.

[@BOAYang]

Marvin Gaye wrote illmatic at the age of 16

[@kushlinfield7106]

Referring to a record as a “cut” is one of the reasons I regularly tune in.

[@dappunk1]

Says the guy referring to a track as a “record”

[@zoda5898]

@@dappunk1 Says the guy referring to a song as a "track"

[@dappunk1]

@@zoda5898 says the guy referring to a ditty as a “song”

[@dylanarthur5526]

@@zoda5898 Says the guy referring to a musical number as a "song"

[@weezhutz]

@@dappunk1 says the guy referring to a composition as a “ditty”

[@sakinaalia1067]

The thing that’s fishy to me is that this was only uploaded on SoundCloud. And if you know anything on SoundCloud you know that you can change the file for a track and it doesn’t say so for all we know they could have heard it, made a song copying her, and than switched the file with the actual live your life track. Why was it not on Spotify or Apple or any other service? Like I’m not saying it’s a completely different song but it could have been a little bit of a different melody or rhythm and than they changed it and reuploaded it. How was it number 2 on the reggae charts yet it wasn’t on the more popular streaming services. It only has 200 plays on SoundCloud when levitating was written so I don’t know how they could have heard it. Dua has sampled before and given credit so why would she have not done it this time and also did they try reaching out to her for a co-writing credit before going to court? The only audio outside of SoundCloud you can find on the song came out in the last 3 days on KZbin yet in the lawsuit they say it’s been available on all streaming services since 2017. Also I looked up the reggae chart thing and can’t find any evidence of this chart existing. Billboard has a reggae albums chart but not a songs chart. There are videos showing how you can change SoundCloud audio and even though the song has been up for four years there was only a comment made after a lawsuit. There’s no way a song gets successful enough to chart that high and no one comments. Also, both songs literally sound like Rosa parks by outkast to me.

[@bennett4789]

u so right on the rosa parks shit bro

[@sakinaalia1067]

@@bennett4789 yeah it makes sense because dua mentioned them as inspiration. Artikal sound system, a white reggae band, never did though and is now trying to sue her when they were both probably inspired by Rosa parks. It’s gentrification at its peak.

[@amasim86]

@@sakinaalia1067 gentrification? Are white people allowed to do anything anymore without being accused?

[@nsinghize]

@@amasim86 nah go away for good

[@DT-qx7yn]

@@nsinghize real

[@TheTacticalGame]

Some say if you rearrange the letters in the name DUA LIPA you get ARTIKAL SOUND SYSTEM.. it’s quite haunting

[@jwill6008]

😂

[@shiningnightmare5616]

Mindblown 🤯

[@kaustik185]

Wow, never thought about that. They're really playing us, all smoke n mirrors. Wouldn't be surprised if it's a stunt to distract us from babies being eaten

[@unknown6390]

Adam Neely's video on this was really good at explaining why this, and other lawsuits like it, are totally bunk

[@royalwarlord2342]

In this case it doesnt matter idk why yall keep commenting this lmao shes not going to win because of some lame youtube semantics

[@lufufi3iboo]

@@royalwarlord2342 I don't think people are expressing their opinions in hopes of making her win but okay

[@royalwarlord2342]

@@lufufi3iboo yeah but Melon literally cites that Adam Neely video and says there’s too much here at play for it not to be her copying sorry Dua stans but shes going to lose

[@lufufi3iboo]

@@royalwarlord2342 that doesn't really have anything to do with your comment

[@royalwarlord2342]

@@lufufi3iboo what the fuck are you talking about lmao thats literally what the guy said, take this L clown

[@TheJerbol]

Call me crazy but unless a song is like 70%+ identical you can't sue. 'Owning' a sequence of notes is as ridiculous as owning a sequence of DNA (which sadly exists). We need a massive rewrite of the DMCA, it's over 20 years old

[@eternalblasphemy6526]

Calling Dual Lipa a snack for 36 minutes straight is quite an original take, Ant-knee.

[@judahunderwood8433]

And a true one

[@olivernicholds]

@@judahunderwood8433 indeed

[@jennyneon]

Dua Lipa gets sued by her music samples & Fantano re-uploads a video because of song descriptions. Thatʼs a very weird day.

[@isaaccastro4846]

Not even a sample, its a well known by any musician rythm and a basic chord progression

[@taurinserotonin9994]

@@isaaccastro4846 Not you though, smart guy

[@jarelllevingston7882]

Those reggae people copied OutKast’s Rosa Parks anyway.

[@miakaelvira9556]

Right

[@azetatoto4]

Y’all mf don’t realize that part of the lyrics are plagiarized too

[@joshuajames6481]

@@azetatoto4 Yes The lyrics "All night" are so original and not generic that Dua Lipa couldn't have come up with them on her own

[@TheMACnator]

@@joshuajames6481 yeah people forget that artikal sound system invented Night that's why they're so obscure

[@KBean-y7n]

That's not how Reggae riddims work but continue your hot take

[@jamesburke2311]

Adam Neely said it best - no white reggae band has the right to an OutKast song

[@hallehuckleberry]

yeah i agree with this

[@Ykcorpwns]

from Adam's correction in the comment section: "The band at one point had a different singer, the Jamaican singer Monsoon Bedward, but all songs the band did with Monsoon have been removed from streaming services for reasons that are unclear. Monsoon, née Denton, is named as a plaintiff in the lawsuit alongside the other current members of the band."

[@SterlingJergens]

the whole wiggle\don diablo thing is a stretch, it's mostly just saying lyrics fast with a descending scale. I do find it funny that there's a Don Diablo remix of levitating now now they're trying to sue for similarity to a song called Don Diablo though.

[@yulamusic]

That Latin vocal line is the Ketchup song by Las Ketchup I’m European I got that song branded on my frontal lobe

[@christiaanhendriks9579]

And in turn Las Ketchup ripped the vocal 'sounds' in the chorus from Rapper's Delight. This is so stupid lol

[@sandwhichism]

To me it actually makes more sense that producers would steal from very obscure songs rather than songs that have a lot of views.

[@c3musiq]

It's really a thing. Underrated

[@TheSkaOreo]

Pretty much.

[@TrendsetterMusicOnly]

This was my thought exactly. And SoundCloud would be a great place to find obscure producers and artists that may not be aware enough or litigious enough to pursue a major label ripping off their song. I suspect if Levitating hadn't been as massive of a hit this suit would never come to light.

[@TheJerbol]

the thing is 'stealing' here is bullshit lmao

[@nevadanate4957]

Yeah except how does someone know what will work and what won't especially if the original didn't get any attention?

[@TheBfree14]

So this band has basically no followers on SoundCloud and gets to ride the coattails of a hugely popular artist because she made a similar song? Music lawsuits are nearly always garbage, this one is no different.

[@PhreakPhantom]

Get a musician pov. It is literally the same song.

[@Martin-wb8bc]

@@PhreakPhantom even from a musician pov video like Adam Neely's, it concluded that this law suit is bs. If a musician says they can own chord progressions and rhyme schemes, they really aren't honest musicians.

[@hjj9269]

@@PhreakPhantom It’s also the same song as El Diablo by Miguel Bose, Rosa Parks by Outkast or Kiss Kiss by Tarkan. Big pop songs like this are bound to have similarities to other songs, that doesn’t mean it’s a copy or they plagiarized it, artist borrow sounds and ideas from other artists all the time. This small group didn’t invent that rhythm, if they win the precedent they created should mean they should be sued by Outkast and lose. And just taking into consideration the cheer amount of music out there, it’s inevitable for coincidences like this to happen.

[@cheesecakelasagna]

Smaller artists/labels are probably doing this because covid and money's tighter than ever but goddammit, they should've known it more than anyone that everything is inspired by everything. Reminds me of a quote from the graphic designer, Chris Do: _"The idea of being original is both ignorant and arrogant. Ignorant, because you don't know what's come before. Arrogant, because you think it was all you."_

[@yeungeddie]

Apparently you can edit SoundCloud audio without changing the stats. BRUHHH

[@isaaccastro4846]

Its pure nonsense, theres a zillion songs that sound the same

[@Yobisewk206]

Pretty much everything sounds the same

[@SirLemming]

I still think Artikal's case is iffy, but it's definitely the stronger one. If I heard one of the 2 songs playing from a different room, muffled, I might not know which one it was. I can understand them hearing Dua's song on the radio and saying "Wait a minute, we did that song before." But the other one is insane. It's literally just eighth notes and a descending scale. Anyone can come up with that, which of course is why so many do. It's like copyrighting the disco beat.

[@theonlycaamz]

all songs listed in the description

[@HipHopfan_]

We don't care

[@theonlycaamz]

@@HipHopfan_ big caca

[@babytuckoo]

@@theonlycaamz w

[@SAUC3YJACK]

Prediction: Dua Lipa uses this controversy as her opportunity to retire from the music industry and return to her native Albania. Then she runs for office and fulfills her destiny as the spiritual reincarnation of Enver Hoxha 🇦🇱.

[@marioandwes]

🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

[@wysanniksikondominium584]

I think she once even said something vaguely pro-Hoxha lol. She's from Kosovo tho, so it shouldn't be suprising, they like him there

[@marioandwes]

@@wysanniksikondominium584 my brother in christ, what could dua lipa even say to please you here lmao

[@nukesploder]

@@wysanniksikondominium584 I have no idea what that means

[@prajwaljayaraj5887]

My mind is blown, had no idea she was East European

[@TheJerbol]

Artists copyright claiming other artists has to be the most depressing thing in the industry

[@thekillerdynamo]

Dua Lipa: 😐 Dual IPA: 😲

[@catloaff]

People are missing out on the fact that the "original" song was only on Soundcloud before the lawsuit if you search Google by date. Their other songs only got hundreds of listens after this lawsuit, so the amount of listens the original song had was also extremely low. Someone who produced for Madonna and Dua Lipa (both are disco albums btw) are NOT gonna scrap the bottom of Soundcloud for inspiration. Outkast's Rosa Parks has the same chord and the producer actually stated that one of the album's inspiration was Outkast so there's that This is like saying Jonas Brother ripped off Gorillaz because Sucker has the same chord as O Green World

[@maffieduran]

Exactly. I will not tolerate this Stuart Price slander

[@alphachad3763]

Also you can replace sound files on soundclouds and it will keep the old date

[@jasperfk]

@@alphachad3763 exactly. All the comments are from after the lawsuit. It’s clearly bullshit.

[@Psylockt]

Yeah I also watched the Adam Neely video

[@dlead9801]

The song debuted at No. 2 on the reggae billboard charts in 2017 when it came out so it's not that crazy someone from dua's team could have come across it that way.

[@VikCain]

This feels a bit like what happens to Coldplay from time to time. The songs are so repetitive and simple that is very likely that someone has made the song before. Pop has a bit of the taco bell problem, there are just enough combinations with the elements you have to choose from.

[@yetinaut]

"It's just like a generally good fun groovy pop song *cough* that feels modern but also has a throwback soulful kinda disco feel to it at points." Yeah almost like a...... FUTURE NOSTALGIA?

[@vinyladventures]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but with the reasoning they’re claiming couldn’t Artikal Sound System then be sued by Outkast or the people that made the 2 disco songs?

[@scottysock5593]

Watch the whole video. It’s not just the chord progression also found in that Outkast song, but that plus multiple other elements. Obviously you can’t own a chord progression, although people try to, but in this case they are trying to sue for much more than that. It doesn’t make it any more likely that she and her producers ripped off the song, but probably looks that way to a jury.

[@SapitoAnimation]

@@scottysock5593 the problem is that Outkast's song also has that melody in some parts of it.

[@kaingates]

I mean sure but it’s not up to court to consider a hypothetical third plaintiff if this doesn’t set any precedence, which it won’t. The Led Zeppelin lawsuit 40 years ago is precedence enough

[@peach_total]

@@kaingates yea but the lawsuit specifically says they believed lipa’s team heard their song and stole it right? how could they prove that when the Outkast song predates both, was way more widespread, and there are interviews w lipa where she says she was listening to a lot of outkast while the album was being written (before the lawsuit was filed obviously) ?

[@kaingates]

@@peach_total Because they're song is closer to Lipas. And they're argument only means that "hey, if OutKast believes it's their copyrighted work she's infringing on then they should sue". And doesn't really matter what Lipa has said publicly, it's what the production assumed was a trope instead of trademarked music. (sidenote; something Adam Neely doesn't want to talk about, the band is way closer to Lipa even though the techniques used in the Outkast song is the same the lyrics, chord and composition is closer to this song). See it doesn't matter if she says "oh no I stole it from these guys, and not these guys" because what the court hears is "I stole it"

[@sheltertwo7957]

The irony of a white reggae band calling anyone a thief.. lol

[@NoName-th2hy]

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[@trymfalkum220]

Petition for you to make videos/streams like this where you talk about something a podcast so I can listen to you talking for example in my car

[@unmixedunmastered2810]

get a girlfriend

[@trymfalkum220]

@@unmixedunmastered2810 wtf

[@zoyasexycool]

listen to the old tnd podcast episodes

[@sadboipotato3382]

I love watching the music industry implode on itself.

[@stuartdunlop8834]

I'm genuinely curious how this will parallel with the ongoing Ed Sheeran plagiarism case. I'm not sure if mainstream music is getting more litigious, but it's very interesting to see how they'll be ruled.

[@nio3027]

Sheeran even plagiarized the brazilian capoeira beat

[@Robo_Cop_YT]

Jokes on you Ed Sheeran won. No plagiarism

[@tylerhackner9731]

Thanks for talking about this

[@ImNotSoLegit]

This reminds me of that episode of silicon valley where the old lawyer says he just made a career of BS lawsuits based on terrible songs that are vaguely similar to other songs.

[@SuperJiolo]

my thoughts exactly!!

[@MythicalSkull13]

I read that you can change the sound of old posts on Soundcloud? So there would actually be a chance they copied Levitating changed an old song and then filed a lawsuit lol (idk if that’s true though)

[@nevadanate4957]

Shit I read you can change the date lmao it's very fishy that the only place this was hosted on was Soundcloud

[@earlfenwick]

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive

[@cadavison]

Copyright infringement DOES NOT HAVE TO EQUAL plagiarism.

[@BunzJackson]

I do remember a while back Dua Lipa just took somebody's art and tried to use it to promote a single or something without asking or even crediting them. So she and her team don't really strike me as people who are that concerned about stealing ideas.

[@ALIENjoy]

Not excusing it but this seemingly happens every other week when it comes to an artist/artist’s team stealing a smaller artist’s IP for themselves

[@officeimpact6377]

It's probably her team, rather than dua

[@sakinaalia1067]

But she always diligently credits samples and stuff so she has no reason to steal. If it’s stolen than her co writers did it subconsciously

[@sakinaalia1067]

@eV Avoz I know. It’s also funny because a white reggae band stealing a melody from a black artist is just gentrification at its peak

[@herefortheshrimp1469]

@eV Avoz Dont go out of your way to sound this stupid on the internet. You sound like the same racists who try to give crap to black women for having straight hair. It isn't the same thing and you know that.

[@lship69]

I listened to a podcast a few months ago where dua lipa explained the entire creative process of her and her team on the Levitating track... makes ya think

[@piekark9951]

she said one of her inspirations for future nostalgia was outkast from what ive heard

[@danieltobias4052]

Feels by calvin harris came out before that song right? And that song sounds very similar to this one

[@nedbilow9519]

I love when Melon takes a full three course meal while giving us his well thought out arguments 😋

[@VirgilOvid]

Really? I gave it a chance since the content was good but after six minutes of listening to him chewing and swallowing I had to tap out. Don't know how you guys thug it out through that.

[@cynthiacrescent]

@@VirgilOvid wow people eat, how scandalous. Imagine giving a shit

[@sleepymaddy7659]

@@VirgilOvid I’m 13 minutes in and didn’t even realise he was chewing or eating, only the drinking and when he was talking about the chocolate I realised why he made 2 seond breaks here and there. Maybe you’re sensitive to sounds? It might be that so maybe try to regulate yourself somehow when you can’t handle certain sounds like chewing to a point you have to stop a video that isn’t about eating. I hope you can work on that when you realise it happening again.

[@noahleach7690]

the adam neely video really opened my eyes

[@ThankGodForAtheism420]

The dubadubaduba part also reminds me a bit of the song Asereje by las ketchups.

[@roneteus]

Exactly

[@JPTQJR]

Artikal Sound System has the strongest case here since structurally their hooks are the most similar. The same can't be said for Miguel Bosé and Cory Daye though, at the end of the day you can't own chord progressions.

[@themusicaljunkie37]

You cant own chord progressions..... yet... someone's gonna try...

[@agr33]

This dude breaks down Arkital sounds systems claim really well and dismisses it pretty well

[@nevadanate4957]

@@themusicaljunkie37 Idk I mean obviously some bs has happened in court decisions but the moment someone tries that, the defense will show the jury dozens upon dozens of older songs using the same chords

[@dieliebenerus5625]

its fitting the acronym for Artikal Sound System is literally ASS lmaooo

[@jd_lam]

If Dua Lipa and company really heard that "Artikal.." song and "that" song really is indeed made in 2017 and heard by people... then when "Levitating" was released critics/writers/people should have pointed it out already 🤷‍♂️

[@Mr.TYN2474]

It’s a white raggee band nobody knows them

[@herefortheshrimp1469]

@@Mr.TYN2474 White reggae band from Florida lol

[@cringeproof100]

It's a tiny group, obscure on sound cloud lol

[@MRLONG758]

There's a music guy on KZbin called Adam Neely who breaks down how this suit is hopeless.

[@FAMGUY2000]

referenced about 13 min in

[@jackstrawful]

Artikal Sound System claiming plagiarism is kinda hilarious considering their album art is literally just the GTA: Vice City logo.

[@alannareimpell3566]

there's a song called "aserejé" that has the same vocal melody of "don diablo." That might be the hispanic song that you have listened to that has the same flow

[@maxvalsaez]

And asereje has the same vocal rythm of rappers delight “I said the hip the hop(..)” == asereje

[@blakeO34]

Yeah, but are all songs listed in the description?

[@SBRS47]

They are but he really should have put a 4 minute disclaimer at the beginning telling people they were there.

[@maxmedina5403]

@@SBRS47 with dead silence

[@jorgelchampi]

Miguel Bosé is from Spain not latin or South American... But yeah, similar vocals but not copied at all.

[@CypressDahlia]

The Latin-influenced song Melon was trying to think of may be the Ketchup Song. That shit got really popular in the US and it has really similar vocal lines.

[@ariariaris]

Miguel Bosé is reaching because he's broke now. His voice is gone and he can't go back to spain bc he owes taxes lol. He lives here in México now and goes on ANY shitty common denominator TV show that will give him money. He needs this Dua Lipa cash so he can stop having to be a judge on Pequeños Gigantes and (mexican) The Voice: Kids. Btw I super disagree with you on that it's more likely that she or her producer heard some random soundcloud song over ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL HISPANIC SINGERS EVER lol. I still think he's reaching and desperate though.

[@maffieduran]

Thinking about how he was a COVID denialist/anti masker at the beginning, not to mention many dislike him because of the surrogacy born children. It's a shame he's stoop so low, truly the fall of an icon

[@jorgelchampi]

De verdad es el mismísimo Miguel Bosé el que está demandando a Dua lipa??

[@nevadanate4957]

Pretty sure he didn't say that "it's more likely she heard this obscure song" he was saying it's more likely because it sounds a lot more like the song than his does

[@lmfsilva3000]

I remember one producer/DJ saying something like modern crate-digging was a script he had that allowed him to input a number of hashtags (don't think it was on SoundCloud), it ripped everything that matched with under 50 plays, then filled the iPod on trips and took note of anything of interest. Now it's incredibly unlikely we'll ever hear if it was really lifted, but it's not impossible a top pop producer has people who do just that.

[@Rhidalgo789]

The article fails to mention the Artikal song went #2 on the Billboard reggae chart. Not massively popular but it makes it more likely to have been heard by her songwriters.

[@mental0638]

The song did not go number 2 on the reggae charts, I don't think a billboard reggae song chart even exists, the ep the song was on went number 2 on the album chart for 1 week before falling off the week after.

[@SimiCantStandYaBits]

Don't care, I'm still bumping some dua lipa while I'm alone in the car...

[@0v3rgr0wn]

This would be more enjoyable if we could actually hear bits of the songs with your commentary. Isn’t that the point of fair use?

[@dunnowy123]

I second this

[@christopherklug4364]

Yes but the risk is too high.

[@katatat2030]

Yes, but KZbin doesn't care. It's more profitable for them to just take down anything that's claimed. So fantano would get claimed so much he wouldn't be able to put out so many videos. Some channels will include clips of music in exchange for taking the extra time to fight the copyright claims. Ugh.

[@suschords]

Don’t forget the chorus of Spotlight by Jessie Ware

[@gnuwaves743]

There really needs to be a penalty for just suing a person with a hit song. Like I hope it's expensive af and the accusee can counter sue.

[@Randuski]

There's only so many chord progressions, and on top of that chord progression, there's only so many melodies you can pick. Everything has been done unless you wanna sing a melody that doesn't work over the chords. We're at a point now, where these suits are over. You have to have insane similarities and proof they had listened to the song before hand.

[@tarekdeeb7314]

Adam Neely did a SICK video on the situation

[@yeungeddie]

I miss her two tone hair ngl

[@anon2971]

23:16 that vocal line immediately reminds me of the British classic, The Ketchup Song. Pls listen to it, Melon. It's a masterpiece. We need your reaction to it.

[@nininininininini7511]

you mean Asejere? , its from the spanish group Las Ketchup

[@vivacemusik20]

They just want to make money on Dua Lipa's back.

[@JesseDCrespo]

That don Diablo song reminds me of the "Song of the Sebu" from VeggieTales lolol

[@nevadanate4957]

YES I thought I was the only one that thought of that melody while watching this lmao

[@Knabtube626]

The fact that Artikal Sound System are suing Dua Lipa for a “chord progression” they probably copied from Outkast is hilarious to me.

[@lasagnaannihilator8952]

Does anyone know where I can find the songs???

[@tierney4330]

I have no idea honestly. I need some kind of black screen to tell me where to find them

[@jager9022]

Apparently the reggae one is only available on soundcloud lol

[@Saint_Idol]

Can't wait for the Levitating vs The Ketchup Song lawsuit 2k22

[@odaktin7857]

No BoDy CoUlD HaVe StOlLEn FroM this, Its ToO obscure. Yup...small artists have NEVER been screwed over before, NEVER 😂

[@JoachimFosse]

Adam Neely has an excellent video on the subject. Much recommended

[@NoritaDeLux]

24:40 It’s the ketchup song

[@thelyonking5812]

Both choruses obviously drew from OutKast’s Rosa Parks. I doubt Dua Lipa ever heard Artikal Sound System’s song.

[@yeungeddie]

Cold cold heart

[@theozamparo]

How hasn't anyone noticed this flow is in Staying Alive by the Bee Gees ?

[@LIONELSJOURNAL]

Ight so hear me out... what had happened here was A.S.S went to their past Soundcloud uploads and just replaced an older song with the song their suing Lipa for. Kinda like how comethazine blew up off YBN Namir's "bounce out with that". sound quality of live your life sounds terrible, as if it was thrown together madd quick.

[@ricardoediza2690]

If any musician can sue another musician for copying music, Playboi Carti would be the richest person on Earth.

[@austinsmith3755]

playboi carti invented music, so if you think about it he should file a copyright lawsuit against everyone

[@solareruption3407]

I listen to Doing It Stealthy when I'm experiencing existential dread. It makes it worse but... I just can't stop.

[@henrygreen2096]

29:40 holy shit I was tabbed out and I thought he said my name randomly. I was scared out of my mind lol

[@wickxd9929]

I think people have to understand that there is only so many notes on a keyboard, and eventually everyone will be just copyrighting eachother, I mean producers don’t get sued for using the same 808 or snare or sounds etc. let alone don’t get sued for using the same chord progression. This argument is stupid and they wouldn’t be sueing if this song was not a hit, they are just trying to steal some money for something as stupid as that.

[@aineli1119]

Las Ketchup - Asereje?

[@Lurklluciano]

you were thinking about " asereje ha he"

[@cringeproof100]

The Artikal Sound System song is really similar to Levitating. And I listen to a lot of disco music. It's not out of the question that Dua Lipa's producers heard it

[@isaacmcginn7923]

New EPIC background color for thumbnail!

[@key-tg1ih]

lol Miguel Bosé and Cory Daye should be sueing each other as well

[@BreePanda29]

"the defense calls Anthony Fantano, music theorist and reviewer, to the stand"

[@gibby3350]

I absolutely despise music lawsuits. Every single one of them is absolute BS! I talked to someone who handles music lawsuits and even he agreed that most of these lawsuits are attempts from small artists to get clout (which NEVER lasts so why bother?) and should not be considered valid. They should really agree that "inspired" does not mean "copied," and they should have musicians on the jury that can look at this objectively and make a fair and logical decision! A "vibe" is not copyrightable, period.

[@AstroMonkey52]

Bro she straight up jacked that shit 😂

[@chrilborn4138]

I'm with you on this, but in this case it's way too similar to be a coincidence or just an influence...even with Adam Neely's breakdown and all that. She could've transposed the song up or down a half step so it sounds a little less blatantly obvious

[@aleczen6973]

@@chrilborn4138 This track is so obscure, anyone having heard it seems so unlikely, and here is the thing, the process for the creation of levitating is VERY well documented, there's recordings of dua coming up with the melody on the spot. The jury won't care, which sucks. And I think it can be a coincidence simply because the elements aren't that unique. I'd be into a indie band getting attention after being ripped off, but these guys suck, the clout chasing is so obvious.

[@gibby3350]

@@chrilborn4138 The thing is though, is there any possibility she or any other writers had heard that specific song before they wrote Levitating. As far as I understand, that group is really small and abstract and even now, they only have a few hundred followers. It just seems much more coincidental than a direct copy.

[@eggzaki]

If we didn’t have these lawsuits, massive record labels and their wealthy pop stars/producers would have a free pass to just search up any obscure artist and rip most of their song without penalty. Some of them are BS but the similarities in this particular case are pretty evident, even if it’s just a coincidence.

[@JoNoSay]

I heard both and they are similar (artikal sound system) so they gonna win the others gonna lose

[@FardtilUshid]

Dula Peep

[@mista414]

The Don Diablo thing reminded me of Lily Allen's "LDN" as well. But only the Artikal Sound System song is really that similar to "Levitating" imo.

[@Mr.Pink1996]

You fixed that shit

[@anontrash1873]

Old boy with a fupa I see ya

[@isaiahclayton8178]

most chocolatey? Way to shoot a shot at Shawn Cee. I do fear how he may reply on his diss record which has been suspected to be titled "Needle In The Hay".

[@orcagang]

I think there’s a lot of lawyers that would be willing to take on this case just for the guaranteed bag at the end. Regardless of if it was intentionally copied or not, the song does sound veryyy similar

[@RHN183]

Bruno mars-24k magic Zara Larsson-rooftop / never forget you Bad 4 us-superfruit (similar belting section to the artikal song🙄) Calvin Harris-feels OutKast-rosa parks Artikal song Don Diablo song And the list could probably just keep going. I feel like levitating tapped into a vibe by curating sounds that would work like magic if altered and put into a different context and that lead to it’s crazy success. Disco party pop with a reggae adjacent flavor underneath and a “unique” delivery of some good pop lyrics. I think dua should be in the clear.

[@TheJerbol]

Sorry but copyright ownership of music is bullshit, no matter who it is or the degree.

[@JoseManuel-dh6iy]

I feel like the song you were thinking about was not 'Hey Macarena' but maybe 'Asereje' by 'Las Ketchup'?

[@therealAQ]

I came here thinking the "dula peep situation" was when she mic dropped mid concert, lol

[@team_edward]

# justice for dula peep

[@mista414]

Also one of the producer's on Levitating is from Miami, and Artikal are apparently from South Florida, so maybe he's into local reggae (or was in 2017)?

[@mRakmYaer]

Copyright of pop songs, which have far fewer variables than a deck of cards, seems almost silly, given the number of pop songs out there.

[@aspookyfox]

The chord progression is very common.