The Weeknd and Daft Punk are being sued for alleged plagiarism on 'Starboy' - They've been sued by someone named Yasminah

[Diabeetus]

https://mixmag.net/read/daft-punk-a...g-sued-for-alleged-plagiarism-on-starboy-news

Daft Punk and The Weeknd are being sued for allegedly plagiarizing material on their collaborative track 'Starboy'.

The Weeknd collaborated with Daft Punk on the 2016 hit track 'Starboy', which was the lead single from The Weeknd's album of the same name. The track peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold six million copies in the US alone. Now it's alleged that the producers may have borrowed material from outside sources, according to TMZ.

A singer and songwriter named Yasminah is now suing The Weeknd and Daft Punk for at least $5 million. She claims her song 'Hooyo', which she co-wrote and released in 2009, shares many of the same elements as 'Starboy'. The lawsuit claims that both tracks have the same hook and same key, as well as a similar tempo and notable claps on beats two and four.

The lawsuit also cites numerous blog posts that outline the similarities between the songs. Apparently there are thousands of comments that agree with Yasminah.

Two of Yasminah's producers also apparently threatened lawsuits in the past and settled out of court. Yasminah says she never received a cut from those settlements and now she has issued a lawsuit of her own, seeking at least $5 million.

They sound very similar, but it seems strange that The Weeknd and Daft Punk would plagiarize a previously obscure song from almost a decade ago. On another note, the name Yasminah sounds like a lisp-based pasta type, and makes it really hard to take the other party seriously. Yikes!

 

[Little Dude]

How could Daft Punk, acclaimed swedish robots who've been around for over a decade now making good music, posdibly claim to have not heard of Yasminah, greatest songwriter of our time?

It's not like two groups can come up with similar sounding music on accident or anything, coincedences do not exist

 

[Diabeetus]

How could Daft Punk, acclaimed swedish robots who've been around for over a decade now making good music, posdibly claim to have not heard of Yasminah, greatest songwriter of our time?

Yeah, plus they're robots right? They should've been able to detect the plagiarism automatically using their futuristic tools. Imagine how it'd feel listening to every song with a four chord progression, their alarms would go off every song. Wew!

 

[PT 404]

Music, right?

Daft Punk is just a tax scam act.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

Great! Now they can join Ed Sheeran!

 

[A Hot Potato]

House music is for dickless morons.

 

[AF 802]

At least it's not Marvin Gaye's estate suing this time. It seemed like they were the main plagarism lawsuite guys for a while.

 

[Coconut Gun]

Meh, the only thing they really have in common is the vocal melody, and even then it's not exactly the same.

 

[Doc Cassidy]

Both of them sound like a rip off of the "Wasn't me" song.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Yasminah's accent is beyond annoying.

 

[BoingBoingBoi]

three chord trash song accusing another three chord trash song ripping it off. the absolute state of music. reminds me of this.

 

[MG 620]

How could Daft Punk, acclaimed swedish robots who've been around for over a decade now making good music, posdibly claim to have not heard of Yasminah, greatest songwriter of our time?

It's not unheard of that famous people steal from unknowns. Timbaland did that on Nelly Furtado's Loose album and was of course an arrogant ass about it.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

How could Daft Punk, acclaimed swedish robots who've been around for over a decade now making good music, posdibly claim to have not heard of Yasminah, greatest songwriter of our time?

It's not like two groups can come up with similar sounding music on accident or anything, coincedences do not exist

They're French robots, not Swedish.

 

[DatBepisTho]

Not that great anyway, even though I wanted to like it; Discovery will always be the best Daft Punk album.

Everything is sampled anymore, it seems. Then again, there's nothing new under the sun and some things do sound similar from time to time.
It wouldn't surprise me if it were lifted, but the robots have been going for 15+ years and are just now copying and ripping? Seems suspicious.

 

[Lunete]

All pop music sounds the same to me.

 

[ERROR_ENTRY]

The issue is that modern pop music uses the same BPM, chord progression, time signature etc. for basically every song; which inevitebly leads to an artist being sued by someone whose music they've never heard, because the basic song struture is so common.

All pop music sounds the same to me.

I miss Sophisti-pop, at least there was some semblence of originality there:

 

[ShittyRecolor]

Bullshit, you can't accuse someone of ripping you off when you're both using the most common public domain clichés. It's like saying someone has ripped off Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive becasue their chord progression is based on a circle of fifths, even though the concept is several hundred years old.

 

[Andre The Roboto]

The issue is that modern pop music uses the same BPM, chord progression, time signature etc. for basically every song; which inevitebly leads to an artist being sued by someone whose music they've never heard, because the basic song struture is so common.


I miss Sophisti-pop, at least there was some semblence of originality there:

What the fuck is Sophisti-pop?

 

[queerape]

Using the same programs makes similar sounds, huh, who'd'a thunk it. Yasiminah's clearly going for the big bucks from this lolsuit that her career couldn't provide.

 

[KE 521]

Sounds like Yasminah got fucked by her producers more than anything, if they really did get settlements already. She’s too busted in the face to make it in pop music and that squinting pic is truly unfortunate