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Originally posted by Ascension
No, they didn't take any elements from Marvin's song. It's similar in sound and feel but they honestly did not sample. You can question the moral issue of them admittedly listening to Got To Give It Up while recording and then proceeding to make a song as similar as possible without actually sampling (and therefore having to pay), but they didn't actually take anything from the song. There were no lyrics used and the music is flat out not the same and pretty much every music professional that analyzed the two tracks came to that same conclusion:
http://joebennett.net/2014/02/01/did...m-marvin-gaye/
http://danreitz.com/blog/2015/analyz...blurred-lines/
The Gaye's musicologist segmented the pieces of the track into bits so small that it was ridiculous and them actually winning with that basically made it so that having something as small as three common notes within the same phrase was grounds for a successful "infringement" suit (there are only 12 notes in the entire musical scale). Um yeah -- that is a complete game-changer for songwriters. I understand Jidenna and Janelle wanting to preemptively take the L of giving someone they actually didn't sample a cut as a preventative measure given the current climate for songwriter's with what that ruling did.
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The part in bold is problematic for me. Especially when they go to make the song sound like it with them attempting to make it not sound like it, I personally think they were trying to get away with by recreating the sound "Got to Give it Up " made and they deserved to take a L for it. But that is just my opinion.
But to this situation, if she didn't actually sample Fancy and she can easily prove that the synths used in Classic Man and Fancy are the sound used in DJ Mustard/Bay Area sound, I don't see how they can lose since that would make the two cases different.
I understand your side, but you can hardly blame Iggy for saying she sampled the song when Janelle or whoever probably called her told her they were giving her a writing credit without going into details with her. All she knows is that she and her producers are being given a writing credit because they sampled the song. Also the "shade" where Janelle is basically admitting she did sample Fancy. She basically contradicted herself and she definitely needs to clean it up.