Sunday, December 9, 2007
Was this Avrils Mistake?
When I was listening to the Rubinoo’s songs “I wanna be your boyfriend” and Avril’s song “Girlfriend” the tempo and rhythm were the same but I don’t think the lyrics are the same except for “Hey hey, you, you I want be your girlfriend” instead of saying boyfriend Avril replaced it with girlfriend. Other than that the lyrics was not the same.
Carlin who was upset because Avril made a lot of money off of this song that was originally his client which was the Rubinoo’s. This is a quote directly from him, "She's made a lot of money off of my client's song,'' Carlin told the Canadian Press. You can clearly see if a song is re-created from another artist and makes a lot of money then they usually file a law-suit.
Avril says she has been falsely accused for this law-suit. Avril also had something to say about this and she said, "You may have heard some news that two guys who wrote for some band from the 1970s I have never in my life heard of called the "Rubinoos" are trying to sue me. They have a song called "I Want To Be Your Boyfriend" that has no musical similarities to the song "Girlfriend" that Luke Gottwald and I wrote together." She also mentions something like this in her MySpace and she also says “I had never heard this song in my life" and "all songs share similar lyrics and emotions. As humans we speak one language."
I think Avril Lavigne has plagiarized most of the song like the tempo, rhythm and the main part of the lyrics which is the chorus.
I think at first when she was accused of plagiarizing it was a big deal to people. People would talk about it and never let go of it. They might even stop listening to her music or even stop buying her albums because she’s not honest. But, afterwards, like a few months after people stop caring as much. They talk about the other latest news instead of something old like Avril’s case. This says that overall the society only cares about issues that are first out but afterwards when it’s been awhile they stop caring because nobody else is talking about it and it old news. This says that people only talk because other people talk and they make things sound really bad and afterwards they don’t care about what kind of things they said. At the beginning of this problem of plagiarism, people really get upset and say negative things and that’s when it starts to affect Avril’s career depending on what people say.
A singer’s job is to create songs and that’s what Avril was trying to do. Avril plagiarized some parts of the song like the tempo, rhythm and the chorus of the songs, as I have mentioned before. If people read that Avril have plagiarized, some people might not think it’s a big deal because mostly all artists get charged or accused of plagiarizing something. Some people might really care about her plagiarizing from the Rubinoo’s songs. It all depends on what people’s beliefs, values and opinions are about these kinds of issues. For example, if people really care about people plagiarizing they will stand up and say something and other people who don’t care they will just sit back and not do anything.
I don’t think this will play a part in Avril’s image because it is artist’s job to produce songs and I guess some choose to plagiarize. I think if the artist’s don’t listen to other artist’s songs it would be pretty hard to create songs.
I think people have stopped caring about all this plagiarism stuff because it’s getting so common, it’s happening a lot. It wares off fast. People talk and talk and then it’s over, they talk about the other latest news.
Now, I think a lot more artists plagiarize and don’t really care because they make their own version of the song. Plagiarism is happening more and more often like Beyonce (Still in Love (Kissing You)). She was accused of plagiarising Des’ree Weeks song called “I’m Kissing You” I don’t think this will ever stop, there will always be at least one or two cases of plagiarism. Maybe’ it will affect some celebrities and maybe it won’t but if you think of it celebrities have no fear of plagiarizing because they have loads of money and if they get fined they can just pay it off.
Work Cited
Admin. "Only VIPMEDIA." Avril Lavigne. 8 Jan 2008 http://onlyvipmedia.blogspot.com/2007/03/avril-lavigne-girlfriendlanguage-pack.html.
Montgomery, James. "MTV." vril Lavigne Responds To Lawsuit, Says She's Been 'Falsely Accused'. 9 July 2007. 8 Jan 2008
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1564324/20070709/lavigne_avril.jhtml.
Turcu, Casmin. "Music." Avril Lavigne Replies to Plagiarism Charges . 7 July 2007. 8 Jan 2008 http://news.softpedia.com/news/Avril-Lavigne-Replies-To-Plagiarism-Charges-59300.shtml.
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