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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuCc7C9uVnA&app=desktop

You won’t believe your EARS.

Or will you?

Mick Flavin writes:

Someone mentioned the uncanny similarity between Hozier’s “Take Me To Church” and Feists‘s earlier release “How Come You Never Go There?” in the comments here the other day. Interesting video [from musicologist (and Feist collaborator) Chilly Gonzales, top] on the subject..

FEIGHT!

Previously: His Take On The Church

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38 thoughts on “Not So Feist

  1. Splendido

    Chilly Gonzales is hardly an objective musicologist given that he is one of Feist’s main collaborators :)

          1. Prop Joe

            ~While Take me To Church is indeed a fantastic song for a “first effort” it is hardly his first effort. I’ll concede the similarities. But it’s not the best track on his album by a wicklow mile.

  2. Stewart Curry

    Is this Michelle Smith De Bruin all over again?

    We get all excited and then find there’s widdle in the whiskey?

  3. Micko

    On youtube

    Feist’s channel – 22,730,559 views
    Hozier’s channel – 300,584,664 views

    I’d say Hozier’s got the cash to cover this one…

    1. Boba Fettuccine

      It’ll be settled quietly, if it hasn’t been already. Still, nice (deserved) payday for Feist.

    2. On The Buses

      Hozier has already paid out some cash to former band members who all signed non disclosure agreements in return for never publically claiming that they wrote songs with him.

  4. rotide

    Similar in the way that thousands of new songs are similar to thousands of older songs.

    To paraphrase Aaron Sorkin: “If you had written Take me to Church, you’d have written Take me to Church”.

    1. Boba Fettuccine

      No. Similar in the sense that the time signature, chords and melody are exactly the same as a song that was released a year previously by an artist he is on record as saying he is a fan of.

      This isn’t one of those ‘sure, all music borrows from other music, it all came from Africa / Schubert’ scenarios.

      The US courts, where this will end up (if not already settled quietly) take the same view;

      “Direct evidence of actual copying by a defendant rarely exists, so plaintiffs must often resort to indirectly proving copying.[1][page needed] Typically, this is done by first showing that the defendant had access to the plaintiff’s work and that the degree of similarity between the two works is so striking or substantial that the similarity could only have been caused by copying, and not, for example, through “coincidence, independent creation, or a prior common source”.[7] Some courts also use “probative similarity” to describe this standard. This inquiry is a question of fact determined by a jury.” – https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_similarity

  5. Anne

    Everything gets redone.. I was thinking that the music from the new Coca Cola ad (Honeytrap) sounds just like Kraftwerk.

    1. Boba Fettuccine

      It’s just that ‘redoing’ a song from 12 months before with the same chords, melody and time signature is a little more obvious than lifting from something 40 years ago.

      Neither is defensible by the way, and the ‘everyone’s at it’ attitude doesn’t give the copyright holders their due.

  6. Peter81

    Chilly Gonzales is great, saw him in the Sugar Club one night, highly entertaining show despite the bad sound.

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