DO NOT WANT: Lady Sovereign’s Blatant Ripoff Of The Cure’s “Close To Me”
March 5th, 2009
I had to force myself to turn caps lock off and compose myself for long enough to type out this post, cause I’m kinda foaming at the mouth right now. I used to be a real fan of Lady Sovereign, even when she was abusing the “S-O-V” spellout of her name in her early songs and acting like a little brat in general - we still loved her. But her new single So Human has achieved a level of bogosity (yes, a word) that I had thought was impossible until this point.
Apparently Lady Sovereign has cleared the use of both the melody, instrumentation AND lyrics from The Cure’s Close To Me for the new single, but this seems a little TOO close to the original song to not merit being called outright what it is: a cover version. There’s just no way that So Human can claim to be an original piece of work. Just none. Yes, there’s a real lack of originality these days - we already knew that. It’s just a terrible shame that Lady Sovereign, who I long thought was bursting with originality and creativity. This just screams “weak”. What do you think? At what point is a song no longer sampling an original clip, but outright copying it (without attributing credit)?
Lady Sovereign uses Robert Smith’s original lyrics - granted, they’re not the most original but they’re sung in the same melody, even: I’ve waited hours for this / I’ve made myself so sick / I wish I’d stayed asleep today
Compare to the original song by The Cure.
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Posted on Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 3:33 pm by Kat and is filed under Music & Videos, What The Funk?.
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9 Responses to “DO NOT WANT: Lady Sovereign’s Blatant Ripoff Of The Cure’s “Close To Me””
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Mad points for use of BOGOSITY which is the only word to describe it.
Good outing, Kat. -
omg i hate lady soveryign. how dare she rip off a classic ! stupidchave should get some GCSEs and write her own lyrics !
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I listened to the song today and I’ve been fuming fire ever since. So Human is NOT a cover song. When that bitch changed CLOSE TO ME by The Cure into SO HUMAN it became, in my opinion, blatantly plagerized. How can that be allowed? It’s a evil practice to change the name of a cover song. It should not be permitted to continue. It’s wrong. I don’t even want to read her name on the internet anymore. I am in total boycott mode now.
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Are you stupid?
She is obviously SAMPLING The Cure.
Get your information straight, you obviously know nothing about digital sampling or how it is often used in hip hop and dance music.
Way-to-go Much Music, this blogger should be fired. How can you consider yourself a music blogger?
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yeah yeah yeah young people are consumer!!! yeah yeah yeah eat eat eat!!!
young consumer sucks!!! yeah yeah yeah yeah…… -
She is a bad impersonation of Boy George (although I’d like to check her undies for the “boy bit”. Shameless blatant rip off _ and to not acknowledge its a Cure song in the title. Lady George _ don’t give up your day job _ and to everyone else If she does, egg her.
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i didnt hear from her for a long time. Only remember that one song which was on mtv a couple of years ago. i always liked it and i also like this one
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Omfg how can you say this !
Lady sovereign is a legend … and i dont think its right that you are saying she needs GCSE’s i have met her and she is a perfectly nice girl ! and obviously she got permission …. :L
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Unbelievable! It should be called by it’s original name as it is clearly a cover, not an original song at all.
How could Robert Smith let this happen?