Remember When The Composer of the DBZ Games Plagiarized The Entire Soundtrack Lmao?

[Kingshango]

It didn’t make the final cut but Nintendo almost put this in the last Paper Mario game.

 

[Don Homer]

Slightly related I was listening to some Japanese music once and I'm like "Damn this song sounds SO much like something else I listened to before" and lo and behold:





There's even a mashup of the songs online.

80s city pop is heavily influenced by western 80's rnb

 

[firemanBk]

Bruh This never hit me until this was just played wow. It's crazy and makes sense why I like so many of these songs and love so much of streets of rage. Idk how i didn't recognize. My mind i s actually blown.

you ruined my child hood you son of a bytch!!!!

Damn, SOR1 is my fav video game soundtrack and half is basically "inspired" by Black Box

I thought this was well known
Yeah he borrowed a lot but he threw it on down on that 16 but soundchip and made it sound which was still really fukking hard to do. Listen to something like the Rock n Roll Racing OST on Genesis that sounded terrible and those were just straight up conversions of popular rock songs
Could he have been sued if they really wanted to though? Yeah I think he could have

Art is imitation, my favorite producer Pharrell is a serial interpolator and no one has ever batted an eye because of sample culture(even though interpolation is an entirely different thing).

I don't see anything wrong with it, even innovation doesn't stem from originality if you have the capacity to think in an abstract way like that.

Marvin Gaye's estate batted an eye
Hey Hey Hey

 

[O.Red]

There could be a whole thread on Japan plagiarizing music for videogames

 

[Insensitive]

80s city pop is heavily influenced by western 80's rnb

I think saying "Influenced" is a stretch, I'd argue IT IS R&B and any attempt to call it anything OTHER THAN THAT, is high key black erasure.

I've listened to "City Pop", that's literally just cheap imitations of Roger Troutman, George Clinton, Prince, Michael, and so
many other bands.

***I can understand "City Pop" used as a distinction for "Japanese R&B" but trying to not call it R&B, is definitely a dangerous path to go down.

 

[bogey_j]

Yoko Kanno was another "genius" musician who basically plagiarized her whole catalog. Can't watch Cowboy Bebop or SAC the same after she she got exposed.

Who she steal from?

 

[GPBear]

greatest thread OP's ever made

although he's a drake fan, so im sure he's good at knowing when music is stolen from somewhere else

 

[Arris]

Video game soundtracks are filled with plagiarism.


This has to be the most blatant

This can't be real

 

[Monsanto]

Definitely thought it was going to be the Thong Song instrumental.



They used that Budokai soundtrack all the way up to Tenkaichi 3. The metal they stole was top notch. Still have the Budokai 1 OST. Fire. Hero's Desperation

 

[Emoryal]

Video game soundtracks are filled with plagiarism.


This has to be the most blatant

 

[SCJoe]

Who she steal from?

They have a whole playlist on YouTube of people she was “inspired” by.

 

[Another Man]

Basically "Children" by Robert Miles

 

[Another Man]

Video game soundtracks are filled with plagiarism.


This has to be the most blatant

 

[O.Red]

 

I think saying "Influenced" is a stretch, I'd argue IT IS R&B and any attempt to call it anything OTHER THAN THAT, is high key black erasure.

I've listened to "City Pop", that's literally just cheap imitations of Roger Troutman, George Clinton, Prince, Michael, and so
many other bands.

***I can understand "City Pop" used as a distinction for "Japanese R&B" but trying to not call it R&B, is definitely a dangerous path to go down.

Can't forget Chaka

80% of City Pop sounds EXACTLY like this

 

[O.Red]

Video game soundtracks are filled with plagiarism.


This has to be the most blatant

Nikka