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Pharrell Accused of Plagiarizing Franz Ferdinand Song
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Collaborations, Gossip, Hip-Hop & Rap, Pop, Rock, New Releases,
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Perhaps Pharrell shouldn't break out the champagne glasses for his Grammy wins just yet.
The 40-year-old producer/singer/Arby's hat lover has been accused of stealing the rift from the 2004 Franz Ferdinand song "Take Me Out" for the Paloma Faith track he produced, titled "Can't Rely on You."
"Hey @Pharrell - I love your tunes. If you want to borrow a riff, just ask... [sic]," Alex Kapranos - Franz Ferdinand frontman - wrote on Twitter yesterday.
Although Kapranos seems to have taken the plagiarizing in good humor (he later pointed out another similarity between a popular contemporary tune and one from 1986: "THAT's what it is! Royals by Lorde sounds like You're The Voice by John Farnham. A wee bit."), Pharrell has yet to respond. Kapranos hasn't stated whether he'll pursue legal action against him.
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Charli XCX Wants to Write for Hilary Duff
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Charli XCX wants to write a song for Hilary Duff.
The 21-year-old singer/songwriter, who is behind Icona Pop's hit "I Love It," is eager to be involved in Hilary's first album in five years, after she submitted a song for Britney Spears' latest record.
"I want to write a song for someone like Hilary Duff, she's making a comeback and I want to be involved, it would be awesome. The Britney song didn't get used but there might be something with Icona Pop's next record and there's a lot of cool things in the pipeline," Charli said.
Meanwhile, the "Stay Away" singer is also focused on recording her own album, the follow-up to last year's True Romance, which she promises will be "aggressive." She told BANG Showbiz, "I've been working on my second record for four months, mainly in Stockholm. It's very much punk inspired, it's way less electronic but it's not going to be a massive departure for people who liked my first record. It's still a pop album but it's aggressive. I've been listening to The Hives a lot. I've written about 20 songs for it, I feel like I'm eight songs in [recording] but that could all change, I could decide I hate them. I want to have it done by February."
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Ed Sheeran Writing for Taylor Swift
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The "A Team" hitmaker - who has previously penned tracks for One Direction - was asked by the country singer to work on her new album because she is a "massive fan" of his own music.
"Ed and Taylor have been in the studio in LA a lot over the past few weeks working on new material. She's into her British music and became a massive fan of Ed before asking to work with him recently. There is a mutual affection between the pair," a source said.
It has not yet been decided whether Ed's songs will be released as singles, but even just a credit on an album track will earn the 21-year-old British star around $310,000.
"It's still to be officially decided how the material will be released but just a single credit on her album will be worth big money. Taylor's country sound is massive around the world," the source added.
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Carrie Underwood Writes for Herself
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The "Before He Cheats" singer tries not to worry about the business side of her career and instead just concentrates on writing music that she enjoys singing.
"I try not to think too much about what other people want from me. I feel like that's somebody else's job to be like, 'Carrie, you've gone too far.' I don't know statistics, and I don't know what kind of songs people download more. I just know what I like, and I know when I'm singing what feels good for me to sing and what songs I'd turn up on the radio and which ones I'd change. So I kind of write for myself, I sing for myself, and if people like it, I guess they're a lot like me."
Mutt Lange offered Carrie the song "Who Are You" for her latest album Blown Away and she was thrilled the legendary producer wanted to work with her: "He submitted it. He sent it in. He's really secretive and private about what he has. Lord knows how many songs he has stashed away some place, but I guess he had me in mind at some point. I don't know when he wrote it, but somewhere along the way he must have thought, 'Hey, Carrie would sound good on this.' I don't know what he thought but I'm glad whatever he thought, he thought it, because he sent it in.
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Gloomy Lana Del Rey
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Justin Parker co-wrote Lana's first ever hit, "Video Games," and says they had chemistry to write together because they both sometimes have a sad outlook on life.
"I'm quite gloomy! And she's a bit gloomy sometimes as well. It says a lot about her and I'm not too dissimilar and I think that's why we got on so well because we have a similar outlook," he said.
Justin and Lana recently picked up an Ivor Novello award for their track, and he is hopeful they will collaborate again when it comes to her second album: "I think there's going to be some more, definitely. I don't know when or anything but I've already been told there'll be some more sessions so I'm looking forward to it. We had a really good relationship when we were working together - it was like younger sister, older brother type of thing. It worked really well."
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Lana Del Rey Songwriter to Write for Adele?
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Lana Del Rey's songwriter wants to work with Adele.
Justin Parker co-wrote Lana's first ever hit, "Video Games," and thinks his style of songwriting - which last week won him an Ivor Novello award - would be a good fit with the "Someone Like You" hitmaker: "Definitely, it suits my thing. I'm sure we could write something really beautiful. But you never know - the thing about writing is you can have a bad day and you may never get to work with that artist again. You have to prepare and make sure you've got something you really believe in. I've been quite lucky. I do a lot of preparation. I don't work tons. I try and work cleverly and try and work with people I really want to work with," he said.
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Kara DioGuardi, Jewel Tapped for Bravo Songwriting Series
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Kara DioGuardi may not be a part of American Idol any longer, but she is definitely not hurting for a TV job.
It’s just been announced that DioGuardi has been tapped to play head judge on a brand new series for Bravo. The program will focus on an angle of music recently addressed by Elton John: songwriting.
Going Platinum, which will be similar to many of the network’s hit reality shows, will follow 12 musicians as they are tested through a variety of challenges and genres. The winner, as determined by a panel of judges, will receive a number of prizes including deals with Sony and RCA/Jive. They will also receive a $100,000 cash prize.
DioGuardi, who was best known for her songwriting prior to her time on Idol, says she is looking forward to the new gig.
“Hit songs are the backbone of the music industry, and as a publisher, nothing excites me more than finding new songwriting talent,” Kara said in a statement. “I am happy to be a part of a show that helps up and coming songwriters pursue their dreams, while giving the public a look into the creative process.”
The 10-episode series – hosted by singer Jewel -- will debut sometime next year.
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