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Printablenovabrkr said: People just keep stealing her songs.
 They're good songs and relatively obscure. | |
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ehuffnsd said: CinisterCee said: I suppose! I mean, my question was genuine. contract. it was probably aimed at keeping it from being a hit and claimed as a Beyonce song and left as a album track and leaving it as a song for De'ree. look at Turn the Beat Around. To most people that was a Gloria Estefan song and they totally forget about Vickie Sue Robinson. This is soooo true. I remember having a heated discussion about this in a hair salon one day. People were swearing up and down that it was originally Gloria's song and I knew it was Vickie's but they weren't trying to hear it. It also happened with the Isley's cover of Todd Rungren's "Hello It's Me." However, someone else was there that day to back me up. It was funny when it happened with Chaka Khan and "I Feel for You," because they knew not to argue with my about anything related to Prince's music. 
I hate to admit that I watch "The PCD reality show, but it is a guilty pleasure." Anyway last week one girl had to perform "I'm Going Down," and everyone involved kept referring to it as Mary J's song. I was thinking, poor Rose Royce. 
So it happens quite often that a remake overshadows an original. I can understand Des'ree wanting to preserve her song by limiting the exposure of the remake. perfection is a fallacy of the imagination... | |
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One of my favorite ballads of all time. The original that is. I'm actually playing the Instrumental piece by Craig Armstrong in my wedding in two weeks. Balcony Scene No. 5 I believe its called.. Something like that.. | |
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I am LMBAO at you emotional jokers.
First point: Beyoncé does not write music, she writes lyrics. All these nonsensical claims of "I wish she'd write her own music" is silly. She's never written her own music. Lyrics - yes, though not always. Music - never. Des'ree has 0 chance of having distribution halted. None. Its simply not gonna happen. Yes, its an obvious MUSICAL plagiarism but the best she can hope for is compensation and if her lawyers were smart, that's what they would shoot for instead of trying to halt big business. They didn't spend all that money on redistribution, 10 new videos for marketing and repackaging just to have a "has-been" singer come up and "halt distribution". Before that would happen, you'd read about her and her lawyer's deaths. The label's law firm will just misfile paperwork or plead for an extension until after the release, the release will hit the shelves as planned and Des'ree would have to settle for compensation. You can't fight these companies on their own playing field. I'm sorry; its the truth. Things just ain't the way they used to be. Chances are, Beyoncé probably didn't know what was agreed to until after all of this hit the tabloids. Poppa Knowles keeps her busy enough. Why can't the general public understand that the activities of a performer's business people have nothing to do with the performer? Most of the times, the performer doesn't have a clue as to what's going on until its too late. | |
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