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Sometimes a new song sounds suspiciously like your own song, music

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is on the rise,

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ask you why when you look at the charts of all your songs, more than half of the fan map source has been repackaged, it's easier to get a hit if you have an old one. Nobody bothers to serve hits anymore. All the melodies are already written or you continue to succumb to nostalgia. Maybe it's because of the times we live in. We are afraid that new ideas will seek the exit to infinity. Loop talks to Reduce and industry experts about loving the familiar and asks placebo rock legends what pop music is like today.

I don't consume current pop or rock music well, so first one with the perfect pop. perspective I'm overwhelmed by the sheer amount of great

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in all these different Genres So much creativity borrowing old sounds with new ideas In fact, I've never experienced a time when music was better Blake Robbins DJ producer and musician from Los Angeles He writes songs for games such as Forsa Horizon television series such as The Hills and his own project Luxury Internet. He gained fame thanks to his intelligent analysis of pop songs. His specialty is hits that take up the melodies or lyrics of existing songs.

The magic word is interpolation. so it is a form of borrowing from a stranger. This is often confused with sampling. One day he joins a new song. Both interpolations now do not refer to the recording, but rather the composition of one or more melodies by a foreigner is used. song if you wanted to understand interpolation. The interesting thing about this is that with some artists you ask their permission directly and give them the line, don't believe me, just what comes up. Others had to sue for their credit, such as the punk band Collage, as well as.

The band is nothing more than an isolated case in the pop business. The Sims had to hand over 25 of the proceeds from Stay with Me to Tom Petty. Others like the world use interpolation surprisingly as a tribute between inspiration and plagiarism. There is a very fine line. Sometimes you sit down. I go into the studio and think, I just feel like writing today, I want to write something that reflects this feeling, this vibe, this energy. Sometimes interpolation comes from instinct. You listen to music, you get inspired and you try to find new ways. based on that when the melancholic vibe the chords demanded like with lana del rey scott free can have similarities with new indie rock anthems like creep radiohead heard and demanded 100 percent of the royalties lana putin 40 percent because this chord progression does not has been around for the first time since radiohead the hollies were there first apa It's the same major minor chord that celebrates it's a unique sequence of chord changes when drbd brief's Hazelwood and Hammond songwriters sued Radiohead over the song, they were granted a portion of the royalties, the four, on the other hand were not processed by the songwriters this shows how subjective The whole thing is interpolation is considered copyright infringement if anyone at the label, management or artist finds that a song sounds too similar, a boundary has been crossed, it's not like two or three The same notes always lead to a lawsuit, let's sit together.

So the legal situation remains a gray area when like is too similar. I know this woman is Jewish. I am a musicologist focusing on copyright and intellectual property issues. That's why some people call me a forensic musicologist when it is considered one of the most important in music, remember and teach forensic music at the University of California if a song is plagiarized or not, for more than 25 years I have been consulted on this issue by stamp prosecutors. and musicians, the Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Chris Isaac, are among her clients. We analyze melodies, harmonies, sometimes individual rhythms, we analyze all the sound elements and also the text.

Her most notable work was in 2014 in the major legal dispute over Robin's Stupid Lions. Thicke and Pharrell Williams the heirs of Marvin Gaye accused them of having copied I have to give it up the defense said that the authors of the black lions would not be sued for similarities in the composition but rather a similar one for the report, however, he witnessed a constellation of similarities and not Bloodlines only convinced the court, but also coined a new term. There were significant similarities in the legal sense and contained a number of conscious creative decisions. He clearly refers to giving it up, although it is not so obvious that it can be seen immediately.

PVC, etc., but in reality 127 of Gerd Land's 130 bars contain at least one and usually several characteristics that you can find at Marvin Gaye; This is not a random collection of similar elements, but all these similarities are emphasized in the same way as in God it's a little bit of the rhythm a little bit of the bass a little bit of luck namik the chord changes a little bit of the similar ones when you add it up everything you get this constellation the solar system the similarities in the two songs connected Because it's an absolute nightmare for songwriters, so you always have to be careful what you look at and what you draw inspiration from.

Until the late 19th century and early 20th century, everyone was served in the music hall. The author's information was completely unimportant. It was simply, wisely, with the commercialization of music, that changed because those who copied well had a clear competitive advantage, as if Bob Dylan had won the Nobel Prize without copying. Captains would also be much poorer without interpolation. cases, but assuming you want to write music that has never been possible yet, but the search for originality has been abandoned because it feels a bit like the search for the holy grail after 25 years of band history and four platinum albums Resting in.

Places where no one can prove anything to anyone isn't an option anyway, but that's why the duo brought their creative process full circle. Barclays is a couple. We turned the creative process around first, the album cover, then came the song titles and then the music is craig. This process was like a springboard for us into the joy of experimental adventures. It was about finding the courage to break our old patterns. That worked. Their eighth album, Never Let Me Go, is a disillusioned commentary on the state of the world. and direct as only Prezi where the British can at the beginning of each album there is a blank page and it always makes me fall into an existential crisis again, what do I have to say that someone else hasn't said better?

Fill out this page? We asked Sophie, among others, who has pushed the boundaries of pop with productions for Madonna and Jacky Ickx, as well as her own songs. With the synthetic and exaggerated sound worlds of her, the producer who died in 2021, she became an icon. Her answer is that when you have to say something at a certain moment, it just flows, you have to write hundreds of songs, publish hundreds of songs, you have to fail hundreds of times to maybe get a hit. In the end, pop songs are created that sweep the charts and often stay with us for a lifetime.

Lauf has written some of her own songs and her hits commissioned from pop stars like Taiwan or Ellie Goulding are streamed billions of times. A lot of times I used to try to circumvent other people's expectations when I wrote, but when I wrote that it was finally put to the side, my songs were used much more often, so I only write songs that I really have a personal connection to. Nothing in the creative process is done intentionally. I do what feels right to me at the moment. When I try to control the process, it no longer works.

But it's not just intuition, it's also discipline. says the teacher. I work a normal eight hours a day, but I tell myself to keep going, keep going, but as soon as it's 5 o'clock, even on the tour bus, the songs are not just yours, but yours too. ...also number one hits for taylor swift on the weekend or justin bieber, but what if things don't go well? That made a lot of things difficult for me. As soon as it feels difficult, we just let it be and start from the beginning. block is a foreign word for charlie cera the british wrote party anthems for the si icon and is behind camila Cabeus' biggest hits songs that i don't like i just let them go when i finish something i know it's good money but then comes the industry at play the techno legend and the star put it less cynically the producer guys make noise with their production for lady gaga's rain on me they have completely replaced their previous users if you play in this top league you need a thick skin and a lot of elbows and you can definitely take a little bit of fun, but at the same time I can't condemn it because that's how it works sometimes and you decide to do it or not.

When Elton John calls, the decision is easy with Cold Hard. Australian producers Pinnau land in 2020, the interpolation of the year. The collaboration began in 2012. At that time there was even an entire album with new uses of Elton John. The idea came from Elton John himself, who dug us up years ago. A rock in Australia his first album, Good Morning Tour, was ready. He said he would do whatever he wanted and we brought the sound of him. The club became a rave and a psychedelic drug party at home and that's what it sounded like when they. brought Elton John into his world for the first time in 2012.

This time it was structured. The goal, the parents, wanted to be popular with children and be on the radio. The plan worked hard with Dualie Pfarrheims with 15 platinum awards and. becomes Elton John's first No. 1 hit in 16 years. He didn't even have to be in the studio with these four songs. He made sure everyone could sing, we were playing with something everyone has known since childhood. These Elton Johns have shaped culture around the world, so you're playing into this nostalgia and it's very popular right now. I'm listening to a lot of music from the '60s and '70s right now.

Maybe it's because of the pandemic we've had mainly in the last two years I discovered music online only on the laptop, but the social aspect Going to concerts Going to clubs Going to bars Sometimes a song in the middle of the ear with a higher pitch That hasn't really been there to the extent that we want something tried and tested something easy to digest I personally 34 more often after Prince Catalog as a new music playlist Maybe it's just the world in the we live, capitalism and commerce, we are afraid of new ideas, they are not tried and tested, so we trust In something that is guaranteed success, so orders are becoming more and more difficult, the big music publishers They have a treasure trove of classics awaiting their second spring and could also help newcomers catch their first eye, for example.

DJ Felix Genn, who made his global breakthrough in 2015 with the new edition of Chaka Khan Saint Nobody from the publisher Warner Chappell, which owns both songs, explains the advantages of working with older repertoire: the past now has a place. high recognition value and learning, although new target groups may not even know that it is a web catalog and that, of course, is an additional advantage if we create our catalog from works. We have to invest in new research to generate the repertoire, of course. , it's already there and thanks to the streaming portal just a click away According to Adrian Hellekamp of the music publisher Concorde, this is one of the main reasons for the catalog boom: the value of the four songs that a catalog is really worth.

They stand the test of time, that they are heard consistently over a long period of time, and that they can be told in another way. Other generations discover songs they hadn't heard yet, the multi-platinum single Seven Wings was what Lies became. normal again or at the highest level if produced correctly now we had good camorra and bones there were 65 this blue was released there now publishers offer complete playlists for reinterpretation and we actively organize interpolation songwriting camps in which we use pieces catalog as creativity Starting point for users and composers. In the next camp we will make summer classics with all of Germany and users will bring us to make the full versions.

Naturally, it calms you down, but it can also be a lot of fun. In fact, it can send shivers down the spine when you think about the

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spiral coming to an end, because classic songs are so financially attractive that an investment sector has formed around them. dedicated exclusively to the buying and selling of old hits is dedicated to a safe investment. Consumers have been consuming their favorite songs for the past 30 years, whether they are employed or unemployed with or without children, and they will continue to do so. Favorite songs will continue to be streamed and generate other benefits that publishers will earn through marketing and commercial exploitation.

Regardless of economic factors orglobal geopoliticians, financial players such as Oaktree and BlackRock are now also convincing with their cash injections. Participations in songs by legends such as Bob Marley Prinz or Stevie Nicks were able, among other things, to secure participations for investors, songs that have already proven their suitability . New arrivals often only serve to reinforce the catalogue. It's a bit shitty for companies. Do it They say it's the new year Okay, but use some of this in your songs, otherwise we're not interested. Large publishers are also increasingly buying Warner Chappell's catalogues, for example David Bowie's catalog for $250 million. , Sting's university works for about 300 million dollars and Sony with Bruce Springsteen for 500 million dollars.

Investing in a newcomer is simply not worth it anymore. If we stopped hiring new axes or new authors, we would probably have a lot. very good numbers in the next five to ten years. That is true and in fact that is the idea that is sometimes given to them, but they think about the future and, in fact, this is the case with us, who of course finance ourselves with the back catalogue. the left and it will always continue that way, it is always a risk to try to do something new that you don't have. Every generation needs its soundtrack and that can't be a catalogue, it has to be something exactly from this time. and today from the moment with the feeling we all know this moment when I hear a song for the first time and I hope that happens again soon Ready for more extreme ideas but the industry filters are in the way it has stopped It takes courage to counter algorithms and retro speculation with these ideas Write something that you think deserves the so-called hearts if you start with the goal of pleasing an algorithm.

Nothing will be created that makes a difference. We don't need more than what already exists. The best pop music has always been the one that has challenged all limits and the adversities continue on social media and on Arte Punkt TV.