Robot Boy is a ripoff? ;)

Folks in YouTube call Robot Boy's piano loop a ripoff of TI's What You Know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIFCgz_Cf6E

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and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooa8nHKPZ5k

 

I actually think they sampled Roberta Flack - Gone Away

Also T.I. sampled several songs for What You Know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIDf1lGHpLI

 

^ what he/she said.

 

Man, come on people!

Robot Boy is directly stolen from Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix. Even most the verse melody is directly copied.

Here. Listen.

I heard it the moment I heard robot boy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mBjG9chIFw - Jimi Hendrix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5hcYMtdfxc - Robot Boy.

One poster on this forum said that his dad asked him if it was a remix of Hey Joe.

 

T.I. who?

 

I don't think people understand how much artists sample older material.

 

The one in Robot Boy is not sampled, though.
I think that piano chord is something that is usually used in gospel songs...

 

Not so many things are original these days, take it.

Even my father said that the beginning of Blackout is a rip off from a Vietnamese Song. There you go =)

 

I hope you guys know that literally every chord progression in music has already been used. It's just a matter of using different sounds and different structures and styles that determines whether something is plagiarized.

 

But to be fair, most Vietnamese songs (and most third-world Asian countries like Cambodia, no offense) are ripped off of American songs anyways.

 

Not going to call it a rip-off, but the minute I heard Robot Boy it reminded me of a few Thrice songs. Silver Wings in particular.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRgEcm8h0ko

 

Yeah, but most of OLD Vietnamese songs...well..I don't know if they are original but I think I've never heard anything like them. I think you know "Trinh Cong Son"

 

Am I the only one that immediately thinks eminem when i hear the piano at the first of the song????

I'd like to say Your Never Over but i swear some eminem song reminds me of it =l

 

Nothing is original. It's how you spin the old material.

 

There are really only so many ways you can play a 4-chord progression before it starts to sound like something somebody's already done. There's no "sampling/ripping off" of any other artist in Robot Boy, it's just built around a progression that's been used before, like nearly every other song.

Exhibit A:

[youtube]5pidokakU4I[/youtube]

 

The keyboardist from Axis of Awesome played me and my friends the Keyboard Cat song on his blow-keyboard thing. It was the best day ever.

 

Almost 10 years later (I was wondering if nobody noticed that Robot Boy is at least "inspired from"), but also Roberta Flack (1970) covered The Impressions - Gone Away (1968) ). So I guess this progression goes waaay back...