on Youtube right now done by a white chick and a white guitar player...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl-jTixt6C0&feature=youtu.be

for fcks sake....smh

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cause shorty can blow. Also dope to actually hear the lyrics.


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but damn...
did she at least hit D off with some dividends or ask permission??
I mean...we all KNOW she bout to get some serious clicks...thus some good $$$ off of this when it blowuptuates.....

the royalties. I maybe wrong.



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i was looking for any indication that youtube's content ID has evolved to the point of detecting songwriting but came up short. it seems a claim still needs to be filed per
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/18/can-songwriters-make-money-youtube
i didn't know this:
Some publishers now even have a person who does nothing but pitch their songs to YouTube cover artists with large channels, says Frank. "If a song has 500,000 views it'll be a few hundred to a few thousand dollars that come into the pipeline," he explains.

expense of what?

I guess it's no different than say ghost writing?

i guess the publishers figure there is no way to stop people from covering songs on youtube, might as well collect the songwriting royalties and up to 100% of the ad revenue on the videos

it makes sense, i'm pretty sure you can't legally block a performer from performing and even releasing a piece of music, it's just a matter of attribution and collecting royalties

The fact that this is listed by name with all the song titles listed and has been up for a few weeks suggests to me that this is all legal. I could be wrong though.

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obviously they employ people to scour youtube specifically for their content, but i'm sure they miss some, maybe even a lot, especially if there is no attribution. i was more interested in debunking the idea that there was some kind of automatic payment from youtube. when it comes to performances, the publishing rights have to be claimed first, which means coming across each video. i'm curious how soon youtube will have an automatic detection of a previously published song (not recording) if ever. i'm sure that algorithm would be quite complicated and would have all sorts of interesting side effects like detecting plagiarized and similar pieces of music. right now if a rapper uploads a video rhyming over someone else's beat, content ID will list the original artist and song below the video, for example, but imagine if the same could be applied to songwriting.


>The fact that this is listed by name with all the song titles
>listed and has been up for a few weeks suggests to me that
>this is all legal. I could be wrong though.

attribution doesn't change its legal status any more than how long it's been available. it's all legal, there are just royalties to be paid, and they don't start until a claim is filed because youtube puts the onus on the publishers (gee, wonder why). since this is to do with songwriting, the rights society probably is on top of it, but if it were up to d'angelo or his label, look no further than the live and mixtape bootlegs being sold under his name for the last several years.

uploaded.

to be absolutely clear, i am talking about the new performance of a song, not the use of its preexisting recorded version. the latter is detected by content ID, but to my knowledge the former isn't (yet).

I don't think it's intelligent enough to pick up cover songs....

do you FEEL them???
something about a white chick singing 1000 Deaths really really don't sit well with me...

just cause

I don't even like the album that much but I hate this.

butter milk complexion cracker christ

we talking abt the jesus of the bible...with hair like lambs wool

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"There is much temptation to use what has worked before,
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"Roll me further bitch"

I'd make an exception for a boho Black woman though....
or Solange...

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the clear implication is no white people.

No Asian people.
No Latino People.

You skipped logic day when they taught it at school?

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http://youtu.be/hl-jTixt6C0?t=14m32s

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>http://youtu.be/hl-jTixt6C0?t=14m32s
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Don't see the issue.

I just don't see the issue in an artist being moved to the point of singing music which is credited to the original artist. If anything, this provides more publicity for an already great album.

like...
do better.
looks like she has an entire album of covers too....
if she's an artist....create something original to go along with the copy cat stuff....

besides that aspect though....
there's the whole:

"I'm gonna sing this album with proper diction and clarity so that all of us white folks can enjoy it without the extra work or effort"

or

"I'm going to translate this because Mr. D'Angelo obviously doesn't know how to sing properly and enunciate"

if a Black person SANG this.. crickets.
but if a nerdy white chick sings it.. OMG, it's so cool and she is so talented.

FOH

It may be gimmicky to you but I see it as a sign of respect and admiration for the original work. Not everyone will see the world through your eyes.

Not everyone will see
>the world through your eyes.

look in a mirror and read this 100 times

You all have interesting and creative theories.

you have the intellectual honesty and nuance of a "free-spirited" teen ager

i'm 33

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTRhpy98-NU

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both are at like a level 71 on my list of micro aggresions

right below uncle ben & aunt jemima as food mascots

and guitarist covering an instant piece of classic art.

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for real. i would give this guy my number.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdCQfGyyHNo

it is that he assumes he can just approach any old Black female with this and she's going to be cool about it...
like...how about he approach some old white women? or just some white women period??
*disclaimer* I ain't watch all of it...
just finished watching it...

Hearing homie singing sweet nothings about taking dick made me swoon. Plus he's cute.

closed it after 30 secs. no thanks

https://soundcloud.com/tipicourbano/im-in-love-with-the-coco

lmao

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ain't had a music ringtone since like 2003 either ....

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I'm going to be thinking about this the next time I go to the mexican restaurant.

This is hilarious...

LOL

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but i just don't feel it as i do with
hearing d's voice

i didn't click and i never will.

Interesting, she can sing, though I would rather her a voice like Ledisi's sing these songs.

Gil Scott-Heron / Ain't No New Thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az3NAoVInQQ


I really hope it isnt purely about this white chick using D's album to promote herself, but thats what its really lookin like to me. Who covers an entire album ? Do a video search on Google for "D'angelo Black Messiah" and this chicks video is the 5th link on page 2... SMH

Folks have been doing this since the advent of YouTube.

.

In modern times, now that Black musicians tend not to get jerked for their publishing (360 deals aside), I support covering songs if you have the ability to do so, regardless of race. All the old dynamics are gone. it's not like this duo is gonna blow up and D will die unknown (or far lesser known) when compared to them. This isn't the old Elvis/Pat Boone days.

I dig hearing another vocal perspective on these records and the acoustic ax-work is good.

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Covering someones entire album that came out 42 days prior is unprecedented. The polycarbonate has barely dried and someone already trying to cop that fire... SMH

Why didnt she cover Brown sugar or Voodoo ?

Seems like she trying to ride the coattails of a better known artist in an attempt to promote herself.

and melodies that quickly, it's amazing really. that is the
definition of a copy cat. i could see if it was 1 cover or a
couple of songs but, NO. the entire fucking album.

>Covering someones entire album that came out 42 days prior is
>unprecedented. The polycarbonate has barely dried and someone
>already trying to cop that fire... SMH
>
>Why didnt she cover Brown sugar or Voodoo ?
>
>Seems like she trying to ride the coattails of a better known
>artist in an attempt to promote herself.
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"Roll me further bitch"

ultimately do you think this will have the effect of bring more awareness/money to D or less?


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...it really helps me understand the chord structure of 1000 Deaths because on the album, it's so dense and distorted that I had no idea what I was listening to.

Turns out I really really love that song!

>...it really helps me understand the chord structure of 1000
>Deaths because on the album, it's so dense and distorted that
>I had no idea what I was listening to.
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>Turns out I really really love that song!


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"There is much temptation to use what has worked before,
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"Roll me further bitch"

Same thing there.

a song like 1000 deaths is supposed to be murky, gritty, and
distorted. i would rather hear D put a spin on it.


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"There is much temptation to use what has worked before,
even when it may exceed its effective scope."

"Roll me further bitch"

reveal something in it previously hidden beneath layers of all that stuff.

I'm kinda suspecting D's intent was clearly realized with the way he sang AND recorded the album. If he WANTED it to be perfectly clear and understandable on first listen he would have recorded it that way...
and also....it's HIGHLY likely he intended to provide just a TASTE on the album so that folks would clamor to see him live in hopes that he'd sing it more clearly ....
or perhaps he intends to do his own unplugged release where he sings it clearly...

who knows...
but your reason for liking this cover is kinda lame....if you really wanted to get what he was saying, there are PLENTY of sites that have gone down the path of deciphering the album. It's part of the fun....

I think this woman can sing jsut fine...I think I even said as much...my beef isn't with her singing at all....she's obviously got talent.....

But she didn't really put her own twist on this cover like a lot of these Youtube artists do....
she simply sang the lyrics clearer than D did....

LOL @ the reverse. Fucking idiots.
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johnnycomelately white folks jumpin on this D'Angelo wagon....

we can't have NOTHIN to ourselves dammit...

this sentiment is ignorant and irrational as fck...I totally admit that....

artist are ignored.


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especially this soon after the release.
Sure a song or two would be okay. But the whole thing? cmon

exactly!

Can anyone point to a situation where someone covered another artist's entire album ? I've never seen that done before, thats my issue. If she had covered one or two songs, no problem. But the entire album? Less than 2 months after it was released? Something else going here.. SMH

Even if this woman was black it would still bother me, strikes me as someone trying to hustle up some self promotion off someone elses back.


As far as not understanding the lyrics, D has all the lyrics in a PDF on his Black Messiah website, no issue with not being able to understand anything. http://blackmessiah.co/

You think this woman was up late listening to "Black Messiah" on the headphones trying to decipher the lyrics? Hell no, she downloaded the lyric sheet from his site.. SMH


We used to having black innovators
copied and sent back to us
We used to having people try to rob us,
it ain't no new thing

—Gil Scott-Heron, "Ain't No New Thing"

except when it has. like, numerous times.

http://flavorwire.com/62353/reinvention-as-flattery-the-best-full-album-covers-of-all-time

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/08/cover-albums-dave-depper-paul-mccartney

ok cool thanx for the history lesson, though usually this has been done a few years after the initial release, right ? Not 43 days after an album was released, righ ?

...just a few months after Abbey Road was released. LOL. so the 43 days thing isn't a thing either, dude. let it go.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLemore_Avenue

it gets no more Soul and Black than the Stax house band. and not much more white and Pop than the Beatles.

so this white lady covering D's album ain't such a thing either, really. and if it is it's just 'payback' for what Booker 'nem did. LOL. but really it's just not a big deal. at all.

>Can anyone point to a situation where someone covered another
>artist's entire album ? I've never seen that done before,
>thats my issue.

it's not as uncommon as you think. usually it's done in concert. sometimes it's done as a studio record (which seems more desperate and coattail riding than at a live show, but it can be good). finally, beck did a whole series of video covers of complete albums along with well-known guests as part of his record club.


>If she had covered one or two songs, no
>problem. But the entire album? Less than 2 months after it was
>released? Something else going here.. SMH

it strikes me as weird, too (i'm with SHA, not clicking, not interested), but mostly because it's the entire album. hendrix covered a beatles song at a show 3 days after it was released (in front of the beatles, no less): http://www.beatlesbible.com/1967/06/04/mccartney-harrison-watch-jimi-hendrix-london/ point being, it's done, just probably not often the entire album (if ever).


>We used to having black innovators
>copied and sent back to us
>We used to having people try to rob us,
>it ain't no new thing
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All the fresh styles always start off as a good little hood thang
Look at blues, rock, jazz, rap
Not even talking about music, everything else too
By the time it reach Hollywood, it's over
But it's cool, we just keep it going, make new shit

Take our game, take our name
Give us a little fame, and then they kick us to the curb
That's a cold thang
("Hollywood Divorce")

at all.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/08/cover-albums-dave-depper-paul-mccartney

entire album covers happen. they're not a big deal.

the end.

usually they are forgotten about pretty quickly and not even countered as major releases by their fans. that often means they were done for fun, as a quick cash-in, or a combination of the two. i suppose the same could be said about doing it live as a video, although i can't blame anyone for being suspicious.

I wonder why she didnt cover Brown Sugar or Voodoo ?

https://twitter.com/dougwamble/status/555763829372489729

i can be pretty cynical, but since i don't know her and have decided not to watch/listen, i won't speculate, only say that just as it's true people can be shrewd and opportunistic, they can also be ginuwine (oh, that's next month, sorry)

Covering someones song live is cool in my book though posting a video on youtube, covering an entire album strikesvia someone elses coat tails.


Thanx for the info and history lesson!

Sophia Grace got a whole career out of rapping a Nicki Minaj song on youtube.
They are killing me. Our Black asses ain't got get a lick of attention for covering nan song.

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https://twitter.com/questlove/status/58507992659787776
https://twitter.com/karminmusic/status/76397419578925056
https://twitter.com/questlove/status/128482823265988608
https://twitter.com/questlove/status/227872072263671808
etc.

I just can't clap to the fact that I haven't even fully digested it as a work. The songs are just too fresh in my head to allow for a coffee shop interpretation of what I feel is a pleasingly grimy album. I would be mildly entertained if she had waited 'til at least the spring to do this. I never heard of the chick before, but in looking at the list of videos, it seems like she waits to pounce on the hotness and give her own spin. She's talented for sure, I'm just not standing in support of this effort. JMO.

fucking terrible.

They need to just cover their favourite and keep it moving.

I find them annoying.