Tuesday, December 16, 2014

One is Drunk In Love, the other is Plain Drunk!

Beyonce at the 2014 Billboard Women In Music LuncheonJUST SAY'n...Did you check out The Grio's article where a Hungarian folk artist is attempting to sue Beyonce for stealing her song and including it into the intro of Drunk in Love? If you want a good laugh, go listen to her song and compare it with DIL. There is no part of the two that compare. The Background singer in DIL is singing a typical Phrygian Augmented modal pattern on and off
throughout the song. That's different than what this woman uses...she's doing a Pentatonic Major arpeggio...I've seen where people are attempting to say that Beyonce is stealing the traditional Hungarian form or style. That is not the case here because the Phrygian pattern that she is using is incorporated into many forms of indigenous music(been in hip hop since the beginning). Many forms of Jazz and Jazz Fusion use variations of that pattern both in melodies and in improvisations. Besides, you can't copyright indigenous forms of music(if that were true the people of Africa could sue anyone for using pentatonics) nor can you copyright modal patterns which have been around for centuries. There would have to be substantial evidence that they copied the main theme and form of her particular creative work...it's different pitches and different rhythms, in a different key. In short, One is Drunk in Love, and the other is Just Plain Drunk....JUST SAY'n.

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