"Marionette" is covered by a Vietnamese male singer!

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Originally Posted by noidea

Oh, american artists like to do that as well, I remember Timbaland ripping of some C64 music for an Nelly Furtado song...(poor C64 musicians, seriously, they do music for like no money and that ashole doesnt even offer them any money, they would have probably given it for less than 500 dollars or something)

"C64"? I thought it was Tempest. (I know it's wiki but there's a lot of info about it).

At any rate, I think it would be too risky for a western musician to rip off a mainstream Japanese one. The Japanese music industry is a bit too big. I can see it happening with a smaller, less-known music industry though, both the ripping-off and the being-ripped off...easier to get away with it.

Originally Posted by SheFliesHigher

This thread is a lolfest. =D The singer might be telling the truth when he says he had no idea the song was done by Ayu. His situation sounds pretty plausible to me. I mean, it's hard to do a "background check" on every music track a composer gives to you.

Yeah, makes me think of the whole taskinst/Hoobastank thing...