Is This Acceptable?
Query: Is it acceptable for someone to write a song upon the occasion of your engagement, and then record it to an album with VERY SLIGHT lyric changes to make it about his new wife instead? For instance, instead of "city of ghosts" (you having gotten engaged in New Orleans) to "here on the coast" and "Happy New Year's" (when you got engaged) to "Happy Birthday"?
I'm interested to hear everyone's thoughts on this, especially musicians. Acceptable? Or no?
I'm interested to hear everyone's thoughts on this, especially musicians. Acceptable? Or no?
10 Comments:
no that's bullshit fuck that person 2 hell 4ev2k7
To HELL.
Nah man, that's like taking a family photo and pasting your picture over the face of "old dad". De clase!
Acceptable is an odd word. By whom?
Whom is an odd word, too. Did I use it correctly? but I digress.
The new blushing bride to be probably would be pissed if she knew—sort of like getting a used engagment ring, or catching the herpes that the guy got from his first wife and forgot to tell the new girl about. Oops!
But as to its acceptability to the original subject of the song in question, it's definitely irksome. And likely painful, but I would try not to let it haunt me so.
Just gives power back to one undeserving.
And the song seems like it sucks, anyway.
Post all the lyrics (old and new) so that we might mock it, and steal it's power to vex.
its power to vex, that is.
Sorry, but I'm in no mood to go back and transcribe the song.
this is worse than bill clinton giving "leaves of grass" to monica, after having given it to Hilary before they were married. Though I'm still embarrased for him about that.
Did anyone consider the writer may have written the second version first and modified the lyrics to suit the happy couple? Since the second version was released on their record (they got paid) not the first one I don't see why everyone is so upset.
Unless you can ask the artist that question why does anyone care?
If and "only if" they paid for the song & rights nobody needs to get their panties in a wad. OCnative
The happy birthday song we all hear with that snappy toon is probibley the single most ripped off. with "happy birthday dear (insert name here) happy birthday to you"
buusiness' like restaurants won't use it anymore due to lawsuits from the writers family. I wonder whos name is being erased from it?
Oh, OCNative, let me spell it out for you:
See, this guy wrote the song for me when the two of us got engaged.
Then he married someone else and changed like four lines so now it's about her instead.
Get it?
Becca
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