― Shadowcat (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shadowcat (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
she doesn't offer any comment on how unpleasantly materialistic life can get, just affirms it; and by affirming it by talking about ridiculous fucking bullshit brands, sports cars, and war diamonds yay, she really isn't on the side of the poor lex.
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shadowcat (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link
She then didn't add a "Why you frontin' wigga?" style html mark-up box.
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― max (maxreax), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Fair enough, but that doesn't really answer my question. I didn't ask how they are similiar, (and half of that is based on circumstance, rather than anything within the songs. the circle-of-fifths thing may be a good point, but my knowledge of music theory is rather rudimentary) I asked how one is a ripoff of the other. I don't see any reason to assume that Beyonce was consciously or even subconsciously setting out to make a song that sounds like "Unpretty".
I did not use the word "ripoff" to imply intent on the part of Beyonce. I used the word "ripoff" to imply similarity, chronology and how I view the relative quality of both (I am not a fan of "Unpretty" but I would rather listen to that any day over "Irreplaceable", despite Beyonce being a much better singer than anyone in TLC).
― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― da mystery of sandboxin' (fandango), Thursday, 15 February 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link