Critique Of The Defense Of Cover Songs

The development of the cover through the 1950's and 1960's spurred many positive and negative connotations. However, these two pro's and con's are usually intertwined in some manner. A positive aspect to covers is it provided many artist in this instance R & B artists with large amounts of publicity and many financial benefits. These R & B artists thus spurred the creation of what is now know as "rock and roll" with the help of many established artists one in particular was Elvis Presley. However, many of these covers grew to be so popular that the original artist and genre of that song would be forgotten. Leading to the main connotation of covers, as these songs become more and more popular the roots and the original artist seem to become

Is important for anyone who has created any intellectual property to protect it. In the music industry, in order for someone to protect their work, they must obtain a copyright. Music has been around before anyone could obtain a copyright and when the invention of the computer came along it made it easier for someone to steal another artist's intellectual property with the help of the internet. This paper will cover what events have taken a big role in copyright protection for artist, the consequences if someone was to break the rules of a copyright which is called copyright infringement, and how will a copyright hold in the future. Were copyrights enacted without the thought of life changing technology, and how can some music companies

In this essay, you will read about an artist in the name of Robert Matthew Van Winkle, known professionally as Vanilla Ice who became famous for a while, not because of his talent, but because of the copyright of someone else baseline. He thought changing the rhythm of David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” baseline and not giving him credit would avoid him from any questions. In this essay I will provide you my opinion of Vanilla Ice’s song “Ice, Ice, Baby”as an example of plagiarism, with evidence provided of what he did wrong, and what he could have caused.

Like any genre of music, country music is famous for its cover tunes. Younger artists paying tribute to legends, old songs getting a breath of fresh air, or sometimes a song is so great it takes almost every country artist in Nashville to record it. No matter what the reason, artists will continue to create their own unique version of timeless country songs.

Furthermore, various songs are specifically written with certain intentions and nuances to express the artist’s values and beliefs about a topic such as, love or the natural phenomena. Based on the passage, “ Source 2: Selling Out Not Worth the Risk”, it states “ But when outside interests enter the mix, they can replace the passion in an artist’s music and turn the art into just another tool for corporations.” To emphasize, businesses have the power to change any lyric in the song, so the song would lose it’s meaning and instead be about the product the business is selling. Even though, allowing corporations use an artist’s song for advertising a product, enables the artist’s song to be heard from an even more

Gone are the days where artist, songwriters, performers, producers and records companies reap full successes of songs through stage performance and radio airplay. Since 1960, a technological evolution has created many changes in how music are made, played and performed. From the era where television and radio was popular with much of its viewers and listeners being the youth to development of the Internet and World Wide Web platforms, music suffered much development. Huge part of these changes was how music was delivered to the audience this time not on the radio or television but on the Internet websites where music

When we hear the song Brown-Eyed Girl, it is safe to assume the majority of us think of the Van Morrison version that was first introduced in his album Blowin’ Your Mind, released in 1967. Since that time the song’s legend and popularity have grown to unprecedented heights. Many artists have redone the song, some with a similar music style to Morrison (like Jimmy Buffet), and others of a completely different genre like the punk rock band Green Day. In my essay I will argue that the stylistic differences between the two songs are not a barrier. Rather, in combination with the similarities associating with cover songs, they form a bridge between two genres. In this case, it is achieved by

Over the past fifty years, the British Music Publishing industry has undergone dramatic changes. It has evolved as an entity with innovations in technology, changes and creations of laws and new mediums to promote and exploit songs to a wider audience. Therefore, the way in which the music publishing industry operates and exploits its assets has completely transformed, and continues to do so at a rapid pace. This paper will attempt to explore the ways in which publishers exploit song copyrights and the way in which this has changed over the past 60 years. It is important to define what is meant by copyright and its role within the industry. The Performing Right Society website states: “Copyright

While the term authored is traditionally applied to literary works, the term can be used in a broader sense to refer to any piece which employs rhetorical devices in order to serve a specific purpose or put forth a specific message. In terms of an audio album, the cover artwork is the first part a listener is exposed to and can be expected to pique that person’s curiosity so that they are led to learn more about or buy the album. The artwork created by Christopher Austopchuk for Billy Joel’s album The Nylon Curtain exemplifies this concept of authoring as the scene he uses both draws one’s interest when first seen and embodies a part of the social commentary presented through the lyrics of the album.

In 2001, Alien Ant Farm’s second album, ANThology, became a sensation on the strength of its first single, a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal.” It is, by all means, a great cover, managing to pay homage to the King of Pop while at the same time injecting a dose of punkish rock and humor to a song about a murder. It was a huge hit, but it somewhat stereotyped the band as a one-hit wonder, even though the next two singles from the album, “Movies” and “Attitude,” were well received and ANThology would eventually go platinum.

For this paper I decided to do the original Sir Mix-A-Lot “Baby Got Back” song compared to Nikki Minaj cover version song called “Anaconda.” Both these creative songs are alike in ways but, are also very different. Sir Mix-A-Lot was a hot early 80’s MC rapper and Nikki Minaj is a hot 2000 MC rapper. As I listen to Nikki cover version all I could think about was Sir Mix-A-Lot original version. I think the lyrics in both songs are a little silly, but it gives the people what they expect from both rappers.

Most popular music today is driven by violence and sex. These musicians put out albums that glorify violence and promote causal sex. When the albums are being produced, the artist does not think of how it will affect the perspective merchant. When

My group recorded and mixed a singer-songwriter named Sarah Loethen. She performed an acoustic cover of the song “You’ve really got a hold on me.” by Smokey Robinson. I do not listen to the soul genre, therefore I was never introduced to the original song until my group members informed me which song that she would be performing. To me, it is a very bold move in with today’s popular style of music being very different than the style of this song. For her to have chosen this song in this genre was makes the session that much more admirable and important for my development as a producer and or engineer to explore new genres and although it was an acoustic cover there was still things to be learned in this recording session and mixing

The fact that replicating a seventeen-years-old song can still become a hit in 2017, demonstrates that there is a pre-designed pattern for popular music in which changing a few characteristics to make a new songs sound “unique” can still result in success. For this reason, Adorno argues that the music industry produces music in an “industrial” way--popular music is centralized in its pattern and modifies some characteristics to seem “individualistic.” Though Shape of You and No Scrubs contain different keys, tempo, and of course, lyrics, they both rely on a chord progression of i-ic-VI-VII in a common time (MusicNotes, 1 & FindSongTempo, 1). Shape of you takes advantage that the audience is accustomed to listening to the same pattern and it is modified to fit the current era and thus, result in a significant monetary income.

The music industry is rapidly changing. New hits and duds are released everyday. If record companies can better predict the successes of songs, they could save a lot of money from releasing songs that will not be charted.