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12749614, he's a great writer, but he frequently goes off on weird tangents. Posted by Joe Corn Mo, Thu Mar-12-15 12:15 PM
this is one of them.
pharell changed it. if pharell didn't change it enough... I don't know what the standard is.
doesn't remind you of another song?
I can't see how that can be a standard. you can't write a song without jacking someone.
>some weights comments are being "glazed over". i especially >like this part: > >>Okay, Mr. Williams. You are wrong. Both of the tunes are >>actually in Major. The difference is that your song is just >a >>major triad “G-B-D over G” and Gaye’s tune is in >>Dominant Major which means he flatted the 7th degree of the >>scale (G-C#-E over A), which would explain why y’all’s >>song sounds like Oktoberfest and Marvin’s song sounds like >>the Blues. And Marvin’s tune doesn’t go into minor until >>the bridge. If that monotonous piece of trash you call a >song >>had a bridge, you probably would have stolen it, too. And >just >>because you and Thicke lowered the key a whole step from A >to >>G and removed the Blues doesn’t mean you didn’t steal >it. >>Thicke has already admitted you did. >> > >just because its not the same key, as ppl have wanted to zoom >in on all throughout this thread, doesnt mean it isnt a rip. >and just because you add in a note or remove a note in the >bassline (making a note by note comparison of the 2 >compositions appear nonidentical) doesnt mean it isnt a rip. >pharrell was lazy...they made the song in 15 mins, and the >original idea was marvins song. he thought he changed it up >enuff to avoid problems...he didnt. true enough all of this >stuff is a slippery slope, but pharrell didnt do >enough...bottom line.
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