The Weeknd-Belong To The World Video+First Interview
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Lebong James
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SWAG!!!!! This dude makes classic music. I'm going to listen to his music on my electric scooter riding through nature. Even the animals love his music.
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Song is cool.
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straight up jacked that Portishead drum sample. love the Weeknds music but i'm not feeling this one
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I like The Weeknd's stuff but this is a bag of ? . ? poor use of Machine Gun as well.
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Song and video is ? garbage. What do people honestly see in this ? ?
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PORTISHEAD’S GEOFF BARROW REIGNITES PLAGIARISM ROW WITH THE WEEKND
Remember that mildly diverting mid-2013 The Weeknd/Portishead beef?
In June, The Weeknd unveiled Kiss Land lead track ‘Ready For The World’, which centred around an industrial percussion tattoo that sounded spookily like Portishead’s 2008 single ‘Machine Gun’. The Bristol band snapped back, calling out the track as “a load of ? ” and claiming that the sample had been used without their permission. The Weeknd’s team stood their ground, suggesting the passage in question wasn’t a sample after all, and that there wasn’t sufficient likeness to justify credit; FACT’s Laurent Fintoni subsequently used the row as a jump-off to discuss the ethics of contemporary sampling.
As Pitchfork report, the ? water between the two camps has yet to pass under the bridge. Yesterday, Barrow reactivated the row on Twitter, posting an image of a letter from The Weeknd’s management requesting license to sample ‘Machine Gun’. The letter, which dates back to February 2013, asks that a “sample from is used on a master recording performed by the recording artist p/k/a The Weeknd entitled “You Belong To The World”".
The image, available below, was accompanied by the words: “Hey kids. Part 1 of “No Infringement” @theweeknd”. Both ‘Ready For The World’ and ‘Machine Gun’ are below. Portishead are currently at work on their follow-up to 2008′s career-best Third.
http://www.factmag.com/2014/05/06/portisheads-geoff-barrow-reignites-plagiarism-row-with-the-weeknd/ -
how did he plan to get away with it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYO77zNhWl4
