Red Hot Chili Peppers stole a song?
The other day one talk show hosts claimed that Red Hot Chili Peppers stole copied their highly successful Dani California. The proofs are below.
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The band’s latest hit “Dani California” seems to be very similar to TOM PETTY’s 1993 song “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”, according to two Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, talk-show hosts who posted an MP3 comparing the tracks online this week. Jared Morris, a producer and talk-show host at WGMD-FM said: “It’s not just the chord progressions are the same, the entire theme of the song is the same, and some of the lyrics are the same'’. But while published reports allege an infuriated Petty intends to sue over copyright infringement, the singer wasn’t available for comment and spokespeople for the longtime Heartbreakers frontman didn’t say a word.
Nevertheless, many professionals have another point of view, for example, a University of Chicago musicologist said the “Dani California” passage is hardly similar enough to “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” to hold up in court. Travis Jackson, an associate professor who specializes in recording technology, said: “The opening parts of both songs have very similar grooves, they use pretty much the same chord progressions and the ways the melodies are patterned are similar. And it pretty much stops there”. He added: “Chord progressions are really hard to claim as a basis. That’s a pretty standard groove. You would have to do a lot more to say there’s outright copying”.
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