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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Guy’s got chops.
I stole that from Billy Joel.
Watch this kid Michael Pollack play ….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htZnpnoHGgY
Nah. A storm looking for a tea cup.
Chilly Gonzales is hardly an objective musicologist given that he is one of Feist’s main collaborators :)
Definitely. It always seemed odd that Hozier just appeared fully formed with that song …….
What an unintelligible remark.
What’s unintelligible about it? It makes perfect sense.
Well what does “appear fully formed” actually mean?
It means ’emerge from nowhere with a song of this quality as a first effort’.
~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.
What an unintelligent use of unintelligible.
Is this Michelle Smith De Bruin all over again?
We get all excited and then find there’s widdle in the whiskey?
Feist’s finest work,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ9WiuJPnNA
Nah.
https://youtu.be/nWvaGPkOAyo
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…
It’ll be settled quietly, if it hasn’t been already. Still, nice (deserved) payday for Feist.
There’s a lot of tasteless people out there.
You’re one to talk, Mr My Wife Likes A Roadside Ride
Ooooooooh. Low, Joe.
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.
Elton John should sue both of them.
great, now I don’t know which one I dislike more!
Herr Brahms should sue the Feist, Hozier, and Elton John for good measure.
Thats if Tom Waits doesn’t get there first.
I would be more interested in having sex with Feist than with Hozier.
Just to add to the certainty. Here’s an interview with Hozier from last year.
Q: If you could co-write with anyone living or dead, who would it be?
H: There’s too many to mention. I’ve always been a huge Leslie Feist fan.
Indeed.
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2014/06/writer-week-hozier/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KggSIrfL-90
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”.
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
Ha ha @ his slippers
Everything gets redone.. I was thinking that the music from the new Coca Cola ad (Honeytrap) sounds just like Kraftwerk.
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.
Sounds familiar –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtWTUt2RZh0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH9meoWmAOM
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jan/24/what-pop-music-owes-classical-masters
Schubert can be blamed for pop music apparently.
There would be no pop music without Franz Schubert. :-|
Chilly Gonzales is great, saw him in the Sugar Club one night, highly entertaining show despite the bad sound.
Sinead O’Connor must be quaking in her boots.
Whatever about Hozier, the Irish Times clearly ripped off this thread… http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/did-hozier-rip-off-feist-on-take-me-to-church-judge-for-yourself-1.2372964