This post is not a mashup! But here we go again, I suppose. According to The Daily Swarm and Adam Freeland and Alex Metric’s twitters. The Black Eyed Peas have been accused of stealing a sample (A blatant rip-off by the sound comparison) from one of Freeland’s tracks off their new album Cope. This sampling of Freelands track has not been cleared as well, this is coming from the tweets of Freeland and the album co-producer, Alex.
Above the post is the video of comparison. I’d just like to apologise for the horrid BEP track. But, please, go out and buy Freeland’s new album Cope. It’s an absolutely quality crossover record. You can buy it from Beatport or straight from Marine Parade.
Just for fun and facts: Will.i.am has done this before with Daft Punk and his hilariously bad sample of Around the World for his remix of his track Got it from my Mama; which was promptly denied release by the Parisian robots.
So what’s the general opinion from Noiseporn readers? Personally, I think Freeland should pursue this as hard as possible and I’m sure they will. For the Freeland! We’ll keep you updated.
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The Black Eyed Peas already made too much money with bad music.
Sue them!!
Wow… that’s a bit blatant. Good grief, at least run it through some sound processing or something if you’re going to steal it… Or, heaven forbid, contact Adam F. and say “hey, can we use this awesome sample?”
Seems so pointless as well. Surely he could have just re-written it with a slightly different sound? At least then he could only be accused of plagiarism.
I guess we all can agree before hand that the Black Eyed Peas are one of the worst bands in music today, and Will I Am is an overrated producer. I hope Freeland takes measure and exposes these talentless morons.
ehh, while I’m not in favor of stealing other artists’ work, shouldn’t Freeland be excited about the fact that his music is going to get more exposure from this? I mean, it’s not like the B.E.P. audience overlaps hugely with the UK club scene, and it’s not like they’re going to turn on their precious Peas just because some English guy they’ve never heard of wrote the song first.
Although I will admit that when artists use samples of music that has just been released (a la “Swagga Like Us”) it annoys me. I feel like you should let the original song live its brief life and give it a few years to fade away before you use it.
And finally, while the similarities are there, the B.E.P. breaks into some stuff around 1:30 that the Freeland track doesn’t, which is to say that the only imitated material is a VERY common series of three chords and a specific synth texture. I doubt Freeland stands a chance against a major label legal division.
one thing i was wondering is how it got it b.e.p.’s grubby mitts? originally the track was a remix for marilyn manson so has someone from his camp passed on the backing track? (both artists are on polydor) sour grapes maybe for mr freeland deciding to keep the track for himself???
Listen to the Freeland track – they may have slightly changed the key but you can ever hear the drum fills from the original in the BEP version. Freeland should sue – blatant sample
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SUE THEM! that is bullshit! pure, blatant rip off!!
suck mi dick bitch