Bienvenido a WatchMojo Español, y hoy vamos a hacer un recuento de nuestras canciones populares que brillaron más que las canciones originales de las que supuestamente tomaron prestadas.
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00:00Welcome to Watch Mojo Español, today we are going to tell our selection of the times that popular songs got more shine than the original tracks of which they were supposedly based.
00:2010. George Harrison – My Sweet Lord vs. The Chiffons – He's So Fine
00:40The ex-Beatle George Harrison scored a number one success, the first of a former member of the Fab Four with My Sweet Lord, however he did not have much time to celebrate since he was sued for copyright infringement.
00:559. Ronnie Mack – Make It Shine vs. The Chiffons
01:23Finally the court decided that he had unconsciously plagiarized the song and Harrison almost had to pay 1.6 million dollars to Bright Tunes Music Corporation.
01:358. Coldplay – Viva La Vida vs. Creaky Boards – The Songs I Didn't Write
02:019. Coldplay – Viva La Vida vs. Creaky Boards
02:2610. Andrew Haffner – The Legend of Zelda vs. Nintendo
02:5210. Andrew Haffner – The Legend of Zelda vs. Nintendo
02:59Let's assume they didn't write that song after all.
03:0211. Andrew Haffner – The Legend of Zelda vs. Nintendo
03:098. Katy Perry – Roar vs. Sara Bareilles – Brave
03:20In 2013 there was a big stir when Katy Perry was accused of plagiarizing the less popular singer and actress Sara Bareilles.
03:308. Katy Perry – Roar vs. Sara Bareilles
03:36The songs Roar by Katy Perry and Brave by Sara Bareilles not only sound similar, but also share an equally encouraging message about the power of believing in yourself.
03:489. Katy Perry – Roar vs. Sara Bareilles
03:55Some have even produced mashups to demonstrate the superposition between the two songs.
04:02Unlike Taylor Swift and Perry, there doesn't seem to be any bad intentions between these two, with Bareilles tweeting,
04:10All love, all love.
04:1310. Katy Perry – Roar vs. Sara Bareilles
04:217. The Beatles – Come Together vs. Chuck Berry – You Can't Catch Me
04:32It seems quite undeniable that the Beatles copied the legendary Chuck Berry, also known as the father of rock and roll.
04:40For his song Come Together, especially with the flat top line, it was alleged that the two songs were also musically similar.
04:508. John Lennon – Come Together vs. Chuck Berry
04:57This caused legal problems for John Lennon due to the controversial editor of Berry, Maurice Levi.
05:04However, as a direct result of the unbridled Beatlemania of the time, the solution to this problem was less expensive than one might think.
05:149. John Lennon – Come Together vs. Chuck Berry
05:21As compensation, Lennon agreed to record three songs owned by Levi, which were released on his 1975 solo album Rock and Roll.
05:3210. John Lennon – Come Together vs. Chuck Berry
05:406. Nirvana – Come As You Are vs. Killing Joke – 80's
05:53Nirvana did a pretty strong riff with 80's from the British band Killing Joke for Come As You Are.
06:01Seriously, listen to the riffs of these two tracks.
06:096. Nirvana – Come As You Are vs. Killing Joke – 80's
06:12Come As You Are is driven by a slower variant of the Killing Joke riff.
06:18Tragically, Kurt Cobain died before the two bands could collaborate.
06:247. Dave Grohl – Come As You Are vs. Killing Joke – 80's
06:30During the 21st century, it was Dave Grohl who would finally change things.
06:35The former drummer of Nirvana and current leader of Foo Fighters paid the band in 2003, playing the drums on their album Killing Joke 2003.
06:466. Dave Grohl – Come As You Are vs. Killing Joke – 80's
06:535. Rod Stewart – Do You Think I'm Sexy vs. Georgie Ben Jor – Tash Mahal
07:07Do You Think I'm Sexy was a great success for the British singer Rod Stewart in 1978.
07:14The answer of the Brazilian musician Georgie Ben to the question of the title seems obvious,
07:20since he presumably did not find anything sexy in the supposed plagiarism of Stewart of his song Tash Mahal.
07:27It came to an extrajudicial agreement, being this another classic case of an artist who admits the unconscious plagiarism of a song.
07:36In his autobiography of 2012, Stewart said he had heard the song of Ben Jor while he was at the Rio Carnival of 1978.
07:53But he did not stop there, and he also admitted that the synthesizer riff of the song was taken from If You Want My Love, Put Something Down On It by Bobby Womack.
08:064. Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters vs. Huey Lewis – I Want A New Drug
08:195. Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters vs. Huey Lewis – I Want A New Drug
08:27Who am I going to call? My lawyer!
08:30It is what we suppose that Huey Lewis said when he heard for the first time the main song of the 1984 classic comedy.
08:384. Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters vs. Huey Lewis – I Want A New Drug
08:46This may have been a case of envy since Huey Lewis stopped writing music for the Ghostbusters to make Back to the Future.
08:54Both films were a success, but we imagine that he was still regretting not having done both.
09:01However, we admit that the theme of the Ghostbusters sounds curiously similar to I Want A New Drug by Lewis.
09:095. Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters vs. Huey Lewis – I Want A New Drug
09:16This was resolved outside the courts in 1985, but Ray Parker Jr. turned around and sued Lewis in 2001 after Lewis spoke about the confidential agreement in Behind The Music by VH1.
09:326. Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love vs. Muddy Waters – You Need Love
09:53Led Zeppelin is one of the most acclaimed bands of all time. This is due not only to how they were pioneers in heavy metal and hard rock, but also to how their many influences manifested themselves in their music, although this could occasionally get them in trouble.
10:107. McKinley-Morganfield – Muddy Waters
10:30This was evident when Led Zeppelin was sued in 1985 for all the things in common that his song had with You Need Love by Muddy Waters of 1962.
10:428. Willie Dixon – You Need Foolin'
10:47Willie Dixon, the songwriter, reached an agreement that includes him as co-author.
10:532. Tame Impala – Feels Like We Only Go Backwards vs. Pablo Ruiz – Oceano
11:20Kevin Parker, also known as the only member of the psychedelic project Tame Impala, can be one of the most influential artists of current music, working with names like Dua Lipa and The Weeknd.
11:33Therefore, it would make sense that someone with his talent had very varied tastes and influences and that some of that would be unconsciously reflected in his music.
11:44However, sometimes a song is too dark to believe that an artist could be plagiarizing it.
11:51When the Chilean music site Rata published the note that Parker had plagiarized the course and song of Pablo Ruiz of 1989, Oceano, we thought it must be a joke, and then they said it was.
12:043. Luis Fonsi – Encuentros Legales
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12:31Very well, let's see the position number 1.
12:341. Mark Ronson – Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk vs. The Sequence – Funk You Up
12:49The Uptown Funk single by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, which led the popularity lists, has been the subject of an unusually high number of alleged cases of plagiarism.
13:012. Trinidad The James – The Sequence
13:08Even before the song was released, the rapper and composer Trinidad The James received a writing credit, because Ronson and Mars borrowed the chorus of the song from him.
13:21The Sequence, a less known hip-hop group from the 70s, composed of three women, sued Mars and Ronson for copyright infringement in 2018.
13:40They argued that Uptown Funk had too many compositional similarities with his 1979 single Funk You Up.
13:523. Billboard
13:55Funk You Up had been a success in itself when it was released, being only the third rap song in history to appear in the Billboard Top 50 singles.
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