Bad news for the current queen of the UK album and single charts: Madonna's 1998 hit 'Frozen' is the product of straight-up plagiarism according to courts in Belgium.
Belgian songwriter Salvatore Acquaviva had previously remarked to Madonna's people that there was a major similarity between the song and a composition of her own, but the major label suits were unmoved and subsequently said nothing. So, Acquaviva went to court, and her claim of plagiarism was upheld.The result of the court's decision is that EMI, Sony and Warner Music must withdraw Madonna's song from sale to the public, in Belgium at least, and they must also prevent it being aired on Belgian television and radio. Its parent album, Ray Of Light, is also to be withdrawn from shelves in the European country.
Not a whisper has come forth from Madonna's camp on the matter, but Victor-Vincent Dehin, lawyer for Acquaviva, said: "They have stolen a song, so they have to pay the value of the song."
That value? 100,000 euros, or £68,000, which seems like nothing considering what Madonna herself must have earned from the song. The money need only be handed over if the labels in question fail to obey the ruling within 15 days.
Plagarism?
In pop? Surely no! How could this happen? ??? ??? ??? etc
Its about time
this dancing cadavar got some stick instead of people vomiting vacuous praise about how 'good she looks' for 67 or whatever like its the middle ages and no one lives past childbirth or semething. ONe word for her really: Oldfrapp
Praising Madonna is as cool as namedropping Loz Hardy
Yes, exactly
I hate...
the amount of adulation she's getting right now for ripping something off again.
All the stuff on her in the Observer Music Monthly almost made me sick.
yes that was the final straw
and hearing some irritating man going on about how 'great' her show was at G-A-Y on the 6 music even though she only played 5 songs AGAIN - she has the integrity and allure of Maureen from Driving School
Sacha Baron-Cohen called her 'America's Most Famous Transvestite' - I applaud him forever for saying that
no more oldfrapp
the joke was never really funny, and theres hardly any connection except theyre both blonde and old.
some of the new stuff is really good, although i doubt that has a huge amount to do with madge herself...
Again?
She's been done for ripping off songs before hasn't she?
She just ripped off....
.....stuff from the late 70s/early 80s. Hell, she almost ripped off herself.
to be fair
there are only 8 notes in music...
If you're talking scales...
...then it's 12. C C# D Eb E F F# G G# A Bb B.
Has anyone else noticed what a stupid shirt Madonna is wearing? No disrespect to her religion, just that 'better than you' shirt...
Well yeah,
Sure, but oh so many permutations and then factor in lyrics...
she's everywhere
on french TV at the moment.
Ans she looks really pathetic.
I think the end is near.
Ermmm..
Isn't 'Salvatore' a man's name??
...
" C C# D Eb E F F# G G# A Bb B."
actually thats only in the western traditional tonal scale.... created by equal temperament. It can be split into even tinier fragments called microtones etc etc. And in non western music they don't use equal temperament at all.
This may be boring, but its more interesting than talking about maddonnas sagging arse.
actually
you're completely right !
sadly
you're not right. the chromatic scale you've mentioned is a way of describing the twelve tones which make up the western musical alphabet.
equal temprement is a way of tuning fixed pitch instruments, like pianos, to allow many different keys to sound aproximately in tune (allowing a greater shift of keys and harmonic variety within a musical composition without having to retune the whole thing half way through).