![]() I think there is more influence from The Time than just the "synth drone" but that part is just undisputable. E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator And let me tell you something, that's a new one for me! After spending almost two years on this board I've found out that there are more haters than fans of Prince's music. ![]() So the guitar riff in the intro has no Controversy album feel at all? So the synth drone (thanks Cinny) doesn't sound like anything on Controversy, The Time (1981), 1999, What Time Is It?, Ice Cream Castles? Ok, so I must be absolutely sound deaf then. I must find a link of a song to prove all of the Princelovers that they are wrong." Uhhh, uhhh" "It sounds like everybody from the early eighties except for The Time or Prince, they have no relevance in Uptown Funk. They didn't have anything to do with the inspiration of the song. ![]() Mostly everbody is putting in links to songs that most definitely aren't The Time or Prince because "fuck those guys. Billboard reports that “the settlement, which sources say gives 17 percent to the ‘Oops’ writers, frees up those monies, albeit with different songwriter shares going forward.I would like to call this thread "Hey, let's shit on Prince again and deny all of his importance and input in music". With stakes that high - and in such a litigious climate - it’s not too surprising that Minder would pursue legal action, nor that Ronson and Mars would rather share the credit nearly a dozen ways than face a messy, potentially damaging trial.īillboard learned from sources that Minder’s claim actually splits the song’s ownership into impossible fractions (making the total greater than 100 percent), which means YouTube will halt payment to publishers and put the profits in escrow. For comparison, “Uptown Funk” sat atop the Billboard Hot 100 for more than three months. “Uptown Funk” could be an even bigger hit than “Blurred Lines,” which held the number one spot on Billboard for ten solid weeks and pulled in $16.5 million in profits, with Williams and Thicke taking in more than $5 million each. Once a copyright dispute goes to a trial,, it is subject to be decided by public opinion - and no longer resolved based entirely on copyright law.” Nobody wants to be involved in a lawsuit. Zook replied that “everyone is being a little more cautious. jury ruled against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, determining that the 2013 song of summer lifted too much from Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up.” Thicke and Williams owe Gaye’s family $7.3 million.īillboard asked Danny Zook, Trinidad James’ manager and CEO and founder of Alien Music, the sample clearing house, if the “Blurred Lines” case influenced Minder’s decision. It’s no coincidence that this case is coming less than two months after an L.A. We’re in a post-”Blurred Lines” verdict world, and everyone is being extra-careful about giving credit where credit is due. The Gap Band crew was added after publisher Minder Music put forward a claim on their behalf into YouTube’s content management system in February of this year. If you’re wondering how that happened, the gist of it is: Mars and Ronson are just here so they don’t get fined. The latest additions? The five writers responsible for “ Oops Upside Your Head,” The Gap Band’s 1979 song: the Wilson brothers - Charlie, Robert and Ronnie - as well as keyboardist Rudolph Taylor and producer Lonnie Simmons. (The RCA Records documents state that pieces of James’ and Gallaspy’s “All Gold Everything” are “embedded” in “Uptown Funk.”).īut as of April 28, those six gents were joined by five more writers for a grand total of eleven people. ![]() “Uptown Funk,” the Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars smash you just got stuck in your head simply because you read it (sorry about that) intially listed six songwriters: Ronson and Marks, plus co-producer Jeffrey Bhasker, Phillip Lawrence, Trinidad James (real name: Nicholas Williams) and producer Devon Gallaspy. How many people does it take to write a pop song?
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