Clearly Rihanna needed help coming up with a few ideas when she released her hit entitled S.O.S. At least be creative when choosing the title because the number one way to make plagiarism obvious is by naming the song after a ditress call. If you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about then maybe you should look back to 1981 when a little hit was released by Soft Cell, called "Tainted Love". Then a few years back, Rihanna stepped out to the microphone and decided to make it original with an upgraded version complete with her very own lyrics. People pretended not to notice, but there's no ignoring your senses. Right from the moment you press play, the music sounds almost identical in each song. I know sometimes it might be difficult to think up a new beat for a song, especially with the 59458594576497865 songs out there, but when you can practically sing a different song to the music of another it kind of speaks for itself. However she got lucky and no one did anything, but believe it or not, she was not the first human being out there to steal and some people aren't so fortunate. I guess you could say she just pulled an Avril.
According to the news, Miss Lavigne has been doing this for a while and when almost your whole album has all been heard before it becomes...oh what's the word, obvious. To give you a tiny taste: Avril's song, "Girlfriend" copied The Rubinos' song, "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" as well as Avril's song, "Runaway" which was a knockoff of The Veronicas' song, "Forever" but she didn't stop there. Her song, "Hot" sounds a little cold after hearing The Beatles song, "8 Days A Week" and even the song, "I'm The Kinda" by Peaches was copied by Avril's song, "I Don't Have To Try". Not to be picky, but when the list of songs that you robbed looks more like a new album, it might mean you Do have to try Avril.
This might truly mean artists are running out of things to sing about. This is especially true when you turn on the radio and hear songs about how somebody's lipgloss is poppin', or instructions on licking someone's lollipop, yet we listen to these words more than we watch the news. What has the music industry come to?
Maybe artists are beginning to think it's alright to plagiarize as long as people keep singing about their body parts or things they like to play with. In our world today, it seems that anyone can get away with anything as long as it entertains us. This is one thing stars never fail at, so why blame them for their silly choices? We asked for it.
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