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Celeb News: Kelly didn't know Run Run Run was a cover
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Seriously, can you add the other tweets to the OP? It's really misleading.
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Originally posted by MissedTheTrain
Seriously, can you add the other tweets to the OP? It's really misleading.
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I think that was the point of this thread
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The lack of reading comprehension...
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Yeah, she recorded a song of which a demo had been sent to her years ago, how dares she, let's stone her! *head hitting against wall gif*
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She also talked about it in the new Spin interview:
How did working with John on this song come about, and how'd you both decide to cover a Tokio Hotel track?
Well that's funny actually... I just found out today that it was a Tokio Hotel song. I didn't actually know that. [Laughs.] I was just talking to my assistant about it, like, "Man, I gotta reach out to them about it!" I didn't cover them, because the only time I'd ever heard that song was from my publisher, who sent it to me and said, "Hey, I have this demo with a piano and a vocal from David Jost," one of the writers. That's the only way I knew it was the song. I didn't know it was already out there, so that was really fun finding out. It's a great song so I could see why another band would wanna sing it. It's so good and intense, but I guess we have the duet version.
http://spin.com/articles/kelly-clark...gn=spintwitter
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That's why you gotta make your own songs. None of this makes the label or the publisher or anybody but Kelly look bad. Of course this depends on the person, some wouldn't care, others will slight Kelly
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Very disrespectful
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okay but why is the song in the OP giving me the chills specifically John's part? let me go download this
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Originally posted by NoRhymeOrReason
She also talked about it in the new Spin interview:
How did working with John on this song come about, and how'd you both decide to cover a Tokio Hotel track?
Well that's funny actually... I just found out today that it was a Tokio Hotel song. I didn't actually know that. [Laughs.] I was just talking to my assistant about it, like, "Man, I gotta reach out to them about it!" I didn't cover them, because the only time I'd ever heard that song was from my publisher, who sent it to me and said, "Hey, I have this demo with a piano and a vocal from David Jost," one of the writers. That's the only way I knew it was the song. I didn't know it was already out there, so that was really fun finding out. It's a great song so I could see why another band would wanna sing it. It's so good and intense, but I guess we have the duet version.
http://spin.com/articles/kelly-clark...gn=spintwitter
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Originally posted by Lulu
Very disrespectful
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Not at all, read the thread.
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Oh! Kelly
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The publishers/songwriters gave the song to Kelly in 2013. I guess they wanted some extra money to they also gave it to an irrelevant German band. No big deal. Kelly's version is fire.
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Originally posted by Mzd
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How did working with John on this song come about, and how'd you both decide to cover a Tokio Hotel track?
Well that's funny actually... I just found out today that it was a Tokio Hotel song. I didn't actually know that. [Laughs.] I was just talking to my assistant about it, like, "Man, I gotta reach out to them about it!" I didn't cover them, because the only time I'd ever heard that song was from my publisher, who sent it to me and said, "Hey, I have this demo with a piano and a vocal from David Jost," one of the writers. That's the only way I knew it was the song. I didn't know it was already out there, so that was really fun finding out. It's a great song so I could see why another band would wanna sing it. It's so good and intense, but I guess we have the duet version.
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It's not a cover, Kelly was sent the song in summer 2013, and recorded it for her album. Tokio Hotel also got hold of the song and slightly changed a word, then added their names to writing credits on their album.
However the official publishers and original writers do not have Tokio Hotel on the credits, another singer even tweeted that he was offered the song in 2013 and they weren't on the credits.
Essentially they have credits on their album because they slightly altered the song to steal a credit, they had nothing to do with the original song, which Kelly recorded before them.
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Poor Kelly, she was done wrong by the writers. They should have TOLD her it was already released in an other form.
But I think similar thing happened to Kelly Rowland who recorded Jamie Foxx's "Freak" right?
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She's sweet I mean, while she could have found out, it's not surprising she didn't, Tokio Hotel's version isn't very known.
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Originally posted by Twai
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Because the song was sent to her by the writer 2 years ago, with just the writer's voice and a piano. Tokio Hotel weren't credited as writers. Their version hadn't even existed yet.
The writer also sent it to Tokio Hotel, who changed a couple words and put themselves on the writing credits, and released it. I don't get why that's so hard to understand.
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Originally posted by Lippy
Poor Kelly, she was done wrong by the writers. They should have TOLD her it was already released in an other form.
But I think similar thing happened to Kelly Rowland who recorded Jamie Foxx's "Freak" right?
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But how could they? When she was given the song/recorded it, the TH version didn't exist.
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Any time you do a song by somebody else, it is technically a cover. She's covering a song done by another singer/songwriting team or person. It's not really a big deal and takes nothing away from Kelly as a singer or artist
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Originally posted by Can't_M!ss_This
Any time you do a song by somebody else, it is technically a cover. She's covering a song done by another singer/songwriting team or person. It's not really a big deal and takes nothing away from Kelly as a singer or artist
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alright so there are two cover versions, one by Tokio Hotel and one by Kelly.
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