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Lady Gaga Judas Once Again Accused of Copying Content
This year, Lady Gaga has faced more than her share of plagiarism and act-stealing claims. First, it was said that her title track “Born This Way” drew too much inspiration from Madonna’s 1989 song “Express Yourself.”
Then followed the infamous “mermaid on wheelchair,” an on-stage act that has been the trademark of Bette Middler, but Gaga chose to make it her own.
And now Gaga is in trouble once again, as Chicago-based singer Rebecca Francescatti has filed a lawsuit against the Mother Monster for copying a large portion of her song “Juda” and using it in her similarly-titled 2011 hit Lady Gaga Judas.
The court case was filed on Wednesday (August 3) in the Northern District of Illinois. According to Francescatti, she recorded her song “Juda” in 2005 under the supervision of DJ White Shadow’s Brian Gaynor. The same group also worked with Gaga on “Born This Way” and that gives her claim more weight.
The little known singer says that there is “a substantial similarity between” her and Lady Gaga Judas and is looking for court’s intervention to help her obtain unspecified damages along with the cost of legal proceedings.
Apart from the pop superstar Gaga and Gaynor, the lawsuit also contains Interscope Records, its parent company Universal Music Group as well as DJ White Shadow.
So far neither Interscope nor Gaga’s team have commented on the situation.
Here is Lady Gaga Judas:
And Rebecca Francescatti’s “Juda” can be found here
Source: [Reuters]
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Nina Hagen and Grace Jones started the fashion faux pop craze. How they can own it is besides me. However, it is a form of flattery that Gaga uses the techniques they started. So, is Gaga music better than Nina or Grace? Well, that is another debate.
Copying an image is one thing – there are more than enough Elvis impersonators and tribute acts that can attest to that. But blatantly stealing songs from other artists without permission or compensation is what it is: plagarism.
And, if it is determined that she did indeed plagarize music from other artists, or use samples without clearance or permission, she should be made to pay damages.
She’s just another nail in the coffin of the corpse of original creativity.
Left to her own devices - without stealing gimmicks, images and songs from others before her - she’d likely crash and burn.
She’s a flavor of the week, month, year, whatever. Sooner or later – sooner, I hope – she’ll reside in the “where are they now” graveyard. Most people lacking originality eventually do.
While I don’t disagree with the fact that Gaga’s songs do indeed sound like others before her, what people seem to be forgetting is that there have been only two instances where Gaga’s songs have been considered “plagiarized”. This is Gaga’s 3rd album. If she needed to copy other artists before her from the beginning, she wouldn’t have built the fan base she currently has, nor would she have had a successful career. She’s been original ever since “Just Dance”, and even though this is a setback for her, I doubt we’ll a continuous pattern of this.