People keep asking why I let Neon Jungle put my song "Waiting Game" on their album when my album has yet to come out. The answer is I was never asked. I was as shocked as you to see this song made up of my own heartbeats on their album. A song that was born from my real life, my real heartache, my real fingertips when I was at one of the most confusing times in my life.
How strange it is to see it used on someone else's album before it even comes out on mine.
It makes me feel very uncomfortable. Like my own thoughts were stolen from me and sold as someone elses. I am a new artist and new to this business and I am told it is legal. But it feels really icky. I guess I can only hope Waiting Game means as much to Neon Jungle as it did to me when I wrote it....... BANKS
I'm hoping this stirs up a bit of media attention for the girls, cause their album is slipping in the midweeks (#6), so they could do with all the promo that they can get
Yeah thats the labels fault, you can do covers of anyones songs really but labels should know that you probably shouldn't do a cover of a song that hasn't been released on the original artists album yet. the labels messed up but its not like one of the big acts did this, she'll be ok. I get that its the principle though.
Damn thats messed up... :/
Edit: Looked up the cover on youtube and of course the newer comments are dragging them for filth. Messy situation but I wonder whos at fault.
Yeah thats the labels fault, you can do covers of anyones songs really but labels should know that you probably shouldn't do a cover of a song that hasn't been released on the original artists album yet. the labels messed up but its not like one of the big acts did this, she'll be ok. I get that its the principle though.
I am always confused how this works. If you wrote the song, don't they need to ask the artist? Like Madonna had to get permission from ABBA to use a sample.