Quoting james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > On Wed, 15 Mar, 2006 at 08:30PM +0200, Juhana Sadeharju spake thus: > > > > I have this idea: > > > > We could have an organized community where volunteer musicians > > make music similar to the top commercial songs. When the idea > > works, one may get top pop music for free. > Isn't this how Robbie Williams got popular? Seriously. I try hard to avoid chart music and his in particular (and lately I seem to be succeeding), but what I have heard of his always sounds rather more than half familiar and it annoys me that I can never put my finger on what the original was -- it's enough to _almost_ make me wish I had an encyclopaedic knowledge of chart music and a musicology degree so that I could wipe that smug grin off his face... Of course, he has already been successfully sued once for plagiarism -- although he got away with not having to hand over all the income from the song to the original copyright holders because, according to the Judge, his song had no particular "staying power"! Ha ha! I suppose this just goes to show that it's a very fine line between clever and stupid, or between imitating and plagiarising. > > On a completely unrelated note, things "sucking" is one of my > favourite Americanisms. Why is sucking bad? I can think of many > contexts in which suction is important, useful and even, dare I say > it, pleasurable :) > > James > And then there are those things that are so bad they deserve the obligatory Simpsons quote: "I never thought it was physically possible, but this both sucks AND blows!" Digeridoo perhaps? Or anything else where cyclical breathing is a benefit.
