Timbaland is one of the most successful producers to date. You may not have heard of him, but trust me when I say you've heard many of the song's he's produced. Every urban and mainstream radio station is playing his productions to death at the moment. Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack", Nelly Furtado's "Maneater" & "All good things (Come to an end)" Pussycat dolls' "Wait a minute" - All produced by Timbaland. But it seems not only is he a top class producer and song writer, but now a plagiariser too...
A Finnish music programmer by the name of Janne "Tempest / Damage" Suni had put out a song in 2000 called "Acid jazz evening", which he had entered into a competetion and won. (And rightly so, his track rocks!) Fast forward 6 years and the song resurfaces as track number 9 on Nelly Furtado's latest album Loose.
Check this gem of a video out...
Crazy isn't it? I think it's pretty awful that Timbaland did not credit the original musician. It's not like he just used a small sample neither, but a large chunk of the damn song! All Tim did was add a bassline, a few additional synths and drums over the top.
Timbaland has an insane excess of talent when it comes to making music and someone at his level of his expertise in the music production game shouldn't be doing crap like this. As a musician himself, he should know how valuable a musicians piece of music is to them. I remember a period when he was all in a huff because he claimed producers were copying his sound left, right centre and back. Now now he's gone and ripped a whole song off of somebody else. Pot? Kettle? Black?
The original artist of the song, doesn't plan to sue or take the matter any further. Why is that? Janne is just a guy who programmed a 4 channel song on an Amiga in his bedroom. Timbaland is a producer whose production fee can be as much half a million dollars per song, owns his own record label and could afford the best lawyers in the business to back his claims. If a lawyer could plead a case well enough to let OJ walk free, then claiming some Finnish dude who sits in his bedroom programming on an Amiga is a damn liar will be a walk in the park.
I personally hope Timbaland gets what's coming to him and Janne Suni gets royalties paid out to him. I love the dude. He's been responsible for some of my favourite songs. But he shouldn't be allowed to just rip off a song and not credit the person. It's not ethically correct and it's ill practice.
Take a listen to the original song and also Nelly Furtado's track Do it. Listen closely...
Listen: Tempest / Damage - Acid jazz evening
© 2000 Janne Suni
Listen: Nelly Furtado - Do it
© 2006 Geffen records, Mosley music group, a Universal music company
I also decided to mix the 2 songs together for a little fun. It wasn't hard getting it all to match up. They are essentially the same song!
Download: Nelly Furtado & Tempest / Damage - Do it in the Acid jazzed evening
Running time: 4:50
File size: 6.65 MB
© 2000 Janne Suni / © 2006 Geffen records, Mosley music group, a Universal music company
I'll end this post with a message left by a YouTube user...
He sure did flipfloptk...he sure did.
A Finnish music programmer by the name of Janne "Tempest / Damage" Suni had put out a song in 2000 called "Acid jazz evening", which he had entered into a competetion and won. (And rightly so, his track rocks!) Fast forward 6 years and the song resurfaces as track number 9 on Nelly Furtado's latest album Loose.
Check this gem of a video out...
Crazy isn't it? I think it's pretty awful that Timbaland did not credit the original musician. It's not like he just used a small sample neither, but a large chunk of the damn song! All Tim did was add a bassline, a few additional synths and drums over the top.
Timbaland has an insane excess of talent when it comes to making music and someone at his level of his expertise in the music production game shouldn't be doing crap like this. As a musician himself, he should know how valuable a musicians piece of music is to them. I remember a period when he was all in a huff because he claimed producers were copying his sound left, right centre and back. Now now he's gone and ripped a whole song off of somebody else. Pot? Kettle? Black?
The original artist of the song, doesn't plan to sue or take the matter any further. Why is that? Janne is just a guy who programmed a 4 channel song on an Amiga in his bedroom. Timbaland is a producer whose production fee can be as much half a million dollars per song, owns his own record label and could afford the best lawyers in the business to back his claims. If a lawyer could plead a case well enough to let OJ walk free, then claiming some Finnish dude who sits in his bedroom programming on an Amiga is a damn liar will be a walk in the park.
I personally hope Timbaland gets what's coming to him and Janne Suni gets royalties paid out to him. I love the dude. He's been responsible for some of my favourite songs. But he shouldn't be allowed to just rip off a song and not credit the person. It's not ethically correct and it's ill practice.
Take a listen to the original song and also Nelly Furtado's track Do it. Listen closely...
Listen: Tempest / Damage - Acid jazz evening
© 2000 Janne Suni
Listen: Nelly Furtado - Do it
© 2006 Geffen records, Mosley music group, a Universal music company
I also decided to mix the 2 songs together for a little fun. It wasn't hard getting it all to match up. They are essentially the same song!
Download: Nelly Furtado & Tempest / Damage - Do it in the Acid jazzed evening
Running time: 4:50
File size: 6.65 MB
© 2000 Janne Suni / © 2006 Geffen records, Mosley music group, a Universal music company
I'll end this post with a message left by a YouTube user...
He sure did flipfloptk...he sure did.
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