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Originally Posted by sugarbasil
Pride and Crucify (omg, that is the most hilarious video I've ever seen!) I can see the similarity, but it doesn't seem similar enough to be ripped off. Plus, that seems way to obscure of a song for any Japanese person to know about (but then again, maybe they thought they could get away with it BECAUSE it's obscure).
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Actually to me it was rather obvious that the Pride chorus was copied from Crucified, even if it's an obscure song mainly for a few facts:
-If you acctually listen to SWEETBOX discography (GEO is the composer), many of their songs have sampled, copied and paste pieces of already existing songs, including classical songs and other stuff. So GEO already has a "bad reputation" in not doing original compositions.
-Prides verses are totally disconnected from the chorus. It's like a copy+paste song with two different songs glued together. The verses sound deep and sorrowful, the chorus sound a little disturbing, macabre and does't related much with the verses. It's like bad photoshopping in which you glue your face into somebody's else body and don't are to model things up to make them look slightly real. Because of that I was never able to fully enjoy that song.
-Crucified is an horrible song, reason why the only part of Pride that sucks so much is the chorus
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Originally Posted by sugarbasil
But seriously, I wonder how many Japanese people have figured these things out as well. You'd think there would have been some sort of uproar by now.
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I don't really know. Where I live we have a local genre of music, and the composers usually "steal" (copy without permission) several famous american songs and adapt it to this genre (They even made it with Rihanna's Umbrella for example). They use the exactly same composition, create new unrelated lyrics, change the arrangemernts to be an adaptation of that genre of music and put a local female vocalist to sing. The people here never complain about the copying and to an extent they actually prefer listening to the "adaptation", which can be a little shameful imo. Maybe in Japan, something slightly simillar happens, and they don't really care much if american music is sampled even without permission. Shameful that a huge label like avex would permit that though.