Madonna plagiary

[Ratrod]

According to a Belgian judge, Madonna's song Frozen is a plagiary of Salvatore Acquaviva's Ma Vie Fou Le Camp. The song is now banned in Belgium. Anyone who plays the song in public risks a fine of €125,000.- a day.

[steve]

They should ban Madonna's music everywhere!!Her new song is just a sample of a 70's track with a few vocals slapped over the top.

[Ratrod]

You're right. However, those samples were used with permission.

[steve]

True,is it only banned in that country?

[indysmith]

madonna's old stuff is classic though! And she probably didn't know she was plagiarising - she just sings what the record label people tell her to! :P

[steve]

Her old stuff is classic pop with great songwriting but my point is the new stuff is so bland.And she does'nt sing live,bit of a con really when you see the price of concert tickets nowadys.

[Ratrod]

True,is it only banned in that country?

For now the song is only banned in Belgium. The artist is Belgian and the court hearing was in Belgium too. But who knows? The next step would be go international with it.

[aisuru]

i hate that bitch. i really do. she's such a talentless, plagarising, egotistical whore. that's not the first time she's ripped something off by a long way though - that 'Music' one, with Ali G in the video, is totally ripped off from Kraftwerk's Trans Europa Express

also, she canny dance to save herself.

[blue]

went to slane last year with a crowd of mates, usually a rock festival but that year it was madonna.  i don't know if it was her fault, but i'll blame her for iggy pop's utterly dire sound, the worst i've ever heard at a concert.  i only went because he was supporting!
then every time there was a bit of drizzle, she left the stage until it cleared up!  the tickets were unbelievably expensive, and on the day a programme was 50 or 60 euros.  the next night i met the darkness in a bar in belfast, they said they's been taken off the bill at slane because madonna didn't want to be upstaged!  but they still got paid!
 i like some old madonna songs, but she won't be getting any more of my money

[aisuru]

i think the reason the older stuff is better is because madonna didn't actually write most of it.

[Brow]

My girlfriends a big Madonna fan. So I have to put up with alot of it when we're in the car etc.

I'll admit to liking some of the 80s pop stuff, quite catchy in places :)

I'll agree, the new stuff is either so boring or it just steals from other songs. Like has already been mentioned, the new song is an ABBA riff (from Gimme Gimme Gimme) with a different beat and vocals over it.

My girlfriend saw her in concert last year. She paid £75 for a ticket, and that was in the cr@p seats! She said she mimed 1 song, because of a weird dance she was doing, but could tell she was singing for the rest of the songs because she was out of tune! :D

[Skybone]

I bet Benny & Bjorn are raking in the cash from the royalties of that sample! :D

[Kilby]

Personally Oasis are worse for plagarism and should join Madonna in the banned catagory.

Kilby...

[TwilightOdyssey]

I bet Benny & Bjorn are raking in the cash from the royalties of that sample! :D

Probably not. IF they still own the publishing for the sample used, it was probably paid for as a limited liscence agreement, not as an outright royalty payment.

[Skybone]

But they still get the writing royalty even if they don't own the publishing rights. Intellectual property and all that.