Since the act if clicking a link is too hard for some, I have decided to cut and paste this diatribe. Its interesting in so many ways. black and white beauty WHY YOU SHOULD CARE THAT LADY GAGAS SUING ME FOR $1.4 MILLION ROCK WOLF blog The Last Time 7/19/14 » You’ve got kids, college tuitions, classes, boyfriends. You’re a wife, a father, a mother, an employee, a boss, a sister, a friend. You owe money to Visa or ride a bike to work; you swim on weekends or drive a car. You’re a Regular Human. I am, too. That’s why Lady Gaga’s suing me for $1.4 million dollars is about YOU. # Throughout history, individuals working in lonely places – Einstein, Edison, Chopin, Virginia Wolf – bring ideas to life. Something happens when people go off on their own to create. Something original. Ingenuity, it’s called in U.S., happens when men and women: · tinker in garages and laboratories · scribble in studies or cabins · sing in latrines and bedrooms · plunk guitars made from scraps when the bossman ain’t lookin’ · steal moments on a church piano. …or simply hole up in rooms working passionately to write something, to figure something out, to follow the fire, to create. Without exception, these men and women work…alone. # Others, humans of a different quality and kind: · prance about in whacky costumes that kill the environment · wear lingerie to their little sister’s college graduation · release a steady stream of songs that sound like other people’s. This is a different class of person entirely: the performer, the entertainer, the faker, the wanna-be. # I am of the first class of people; Lady Gaga is of the second. # A little background. I sued Lady Gaga in August 2011 for allegedly plagiarizing my song “Juda.” My allegation remains that my ex-engineer/ex-bass player/ex-boyfriend Brian manipulated and used my “Juda” ProTool sessions – which he has copies of – as original source material for songs he sent Lady Gaga. You see, unlike real songwriters, Lady Gaga is, like her getups, fake. She has other people write for her, then takes the credit. It happens a lot in Hollywood today. So in spring of 2010 Lady Gaga sent her people to sniff around for original songs for her upcoming album Born This Way. Remember that song? Madonna’s Express Yourself? Anyway, my ex-engineer Brian (like most excellent musicians) was one of the first, penniless, class. Talented, but bereft of connections. His associate DJ White Shadow, however – a wanna-be if ever there was one – had contacts, lots of them. You know, DJs, right? They play other people’s songs? They don’t write them? And so the duo, like Kafka’s bumbling twins, sent along “their” versions of my songs, to Lady Gaga. Brian believing likely: “It doesn’t matter anyway, she’ll never pick ‘mine’.” DJ White Shadow believing they’re his songs now because he changed them. Whatever. Either way – shockingly, unexpectedly – The Queen of Gag liked them. # A reasonable ending would have been Brian coughing up the truth. Instead, Lady Gaga released “Judas” as her song, and when I heard it, I felt a hard cold stone in the pit of my stomach. Why? · our choruses are nearly identical (I repeat “Juda Juda Juda Juda Juda” over and over and she repeats “Juda, Juda-us, Juda, Juda-us, Juda, Juda-us” over and over), accounting for roughly 20% of each song · our verses are both percussive and monotone in style (roughly 44% of each song) · our breakdowns are nearly identical (12% of each song) · a prominent melody line written by my violinist is the same as her “Oh oh oh oh oh I’m in love with Juda-ah, Juda-us” · she pronounces “Judas” as “Juda-us.”
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