Tag: Theft
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Dua Lipa’s Levitating ASS: aka how not to copy a song
Artikal Sound System · 03 Live Your Life Future Nostalgia is apparently copying a song from 2017….eh Dua Lipa? Sound familiar? Artikal Sound System’s ‘Live Your Life’ is identical to Levitating, and was released on an EP in 2017 – called funnily enough ‘Smoke and Mirrors’. As Luxxury points out in his video, the choruses…
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The Problem with NFTs
It’s the video version of a long read at 2 hours but this highly researched myth and hype-busing video by Dan Olsen on cryptocurrency and NFTs is well worth watching. It starts with the last recession – the 2008 sub prime scandal – and the anarcho-capitalist fall out that begat cryptobros and all that. I…
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Hollywood Gods N’ Monsters of the mashup steal
I’m fed up of people thinking stealing mashups without credit is fair game. Latest being Hollywood Gods N’ Monsters, with members formerly of Steel Panther who have covered DJ Schmolli’s Rock of Ages as well as a Lady Gaga vs Linkin Park mashup originally by DJStronGer22, rebooted in 2020 with credit by William Maranci. They…