It's a nonsense argument though. Labels weren't signing random teenager bands. Like Blink 182 formed when they were 17 but Cheshire Cat didn't come out until they were already 20. Linkin Park is also an example where they form in highschool and then it still takes 4 years for their first cd to come out. The height of their popularity is always going to be after years of hard work. It's like looking at the baseball hall of fame and then complaining that they only choose old people who aren't in their prime anymore.

Rick Astley: SAY GOODBYE!

How sure are you that this is the reasoning?

Do you think he was 5'4" when he was 8? Wouldnt he have been Big Wayne then, cause I feel like that's a pretty fuckin big 8 year old.

How good something is shouldn't really determine if the attempt was in bad faith lol.. Doesn't mean it is, but that shouldn't be relevant by itself.

There are many sides to shit like this, it doesn't have to be a scenario where you can literally overlap the waveforms and not tell the difference for it to be illegal imitation.

I shudder at Mike Love fronting a weakened Beach Boys band in his 70s, singing: "I'm getting bugged, driving up and down the same old strip / I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip..." Ah, pathetic.

That's what I was referring to.

r/whitewhale

Ahh, you sheep

They have mandatory military service for both men and women so this isn't a bad idea at all. All of the adults over there know how to handle a gun and they have a right to defend themselves and their homeland.

Because it’s a pretty ridiculous lawsuit. Astley is arguing that Yung Gravy is copying his vocal patterns.

A) that’s not actually something protected by copyright, trademark, or any other law, and

B) you’d have to be completely tone deaf to think YG came anywhere close to sounding like him.

Now joking aside, it seems that YG did correctly get a license to interpolate the original song (meaning he has access to the original composition but needs to record everything from scratch, versus sampling where you just use a snippet of the original recording). The lawsuit argues that Astley’s distinct voice is a resource protected under “right to publicity”, which is something I’ve never heard of in the US so maybe it’s a UK-specific law

Except for the little detail that the former owners of the land quickly disclaimed ownership as soon as Israel captured them (they never wanted them, the whole purpose was to prevent the formation of a Palestinian state)--at this point there is no competing claim and Gaza is claimed by nobody at all.

It is about time Mick Jagger got some satisfaction. I mean time waits for no one.

It’s kind of a big dill.

If Betty White was still with us, she'd write that song and IT WOULD ROCK! God rest her soul...

He was the "headline" personality at the xgames yesterday. He didn't seem like a terrible dude at all.. But then he started rapping and everything fell apart. It was out of key, out of time, mumblecore unintelligible bullshit. The kind of music you can only hear nowadays in the era of genZ Spotify/YouTube singles culture. People who can spend all their time in their bedroom fucking around on pro tools and make a good single, get a few hundred million listens, and rake in cash from it while spending the rest of their time on Twitch hanging out with fans.

He certainly doesn't seem like more conventional artists who spend their time grinding and performing and improving their skills in order to rise to the top. In a decade I doubt anyone will remember the name Yung Gravy. I could be wrong though.

Wait...he ...he didn't get permission? What the fuck dumbass

This is an example of self-awareness. It doesn't belong here.

Oh, man. I haven’t thought about this in years, but someone did an interview re: punk music in the peak Green Day years, the gist of which was dunking on bands full of grown ass adults complaining that their dads were making them do their homework. Does anyone else remember this with more specificity?

"We looked like giants... but nowadays we just look fucken old."

If death cab came out with a whole album about making out in cars and losing your skateboard to cops that would be not the onion material

How the fuck did young gravy cover his song without permission

I know I'm "old" but I'm right there with you.

Watched the video on youtube and, goddamnit.. I'm just a little bit like my parents I guess, because I just kept thinking "is this what passes for good hip hop today?"

>Do they have no self-awareness of irony and hypocrisy?

How many years will it take you to get the point? They've been making the same noise since 2015.

that's exactly what we do here, also you need to renew your license every year (i believe), and you also need to shoot a pretty large amount of bullets at the range, this isn't America and gun control is VERY strict here.

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