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Celeb News: Beyoncé responds to plagiarizing accusations
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Originally posted by DG1
She also released another statement:
"On the one hand, I am glad that 'Rosas danst Rosas' can perhaps reach a mass audience, which such a dance performance could never achieve, despite its popularity in the dance world since [the] 1980s."
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so basically shes saying if it got stolen at least it got stolen by someone popular.
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Sampling is nothing new, not in art, and not in life. Every time you use a word or phrase you are, wittingly or not, making a pastiche out of the linguistic gestures of those who came before you. Evolution, whether in biology, or in technology and culture, is never anything other than a redeployment of old means in new circumstances. We use the old to make the new and the new is always old.
In the absence of direct intention to deceive, plagiarism has nothing to do with this.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/1...-is-always-old
NPR spilled the true tea...
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Originally posted by KΔΥ.ΒΣΣ
But anyone who knows a thing or two about pop cultures would peep the Audrey Hepburn teas right off back. I've been dancing since I was 4 and I've seen pretty much all dance-related films so I knew these were homages right off back. She never said she came up with the choreo. She never said it was her idea. It's only plagiarizing if she took someone else's work and tried to pass it as her own. Until I hear Bey say she came up with these dances and concepts, I don't get what the big deal is.
However, HOWEVER, she has been inspired A LOT during the latter part of her career especially during the 4 era. They all are though, Bey's is more obvious though. Most **** you see nowadays draws inspiration from something done in the past. Nothing these bitches do is original.
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Originally posted by KΔΥ.ΒΣΣ
But anyone who knows a thing or two about pop cultures would peep the Audrey Hepburn teas right off back. I've been dancing since I was 4 and I've seen pretty much all dance-related films so I knew these were homages right off back. She never said she came up with the choreo. She never said it was her idea. It's only plagiarizing if she took someone else's work and tried to pass it as her own. Until I hear Bey say she came up with these dances and concepts, I don't get what the big deal is.
However, HOWEVER, she has been inspired A LOT during the latter part of her career especially during the 4 era. They all are though, Bey's is more obvious though. Most **** you see nowadays draws inspiration from something done in the past. Nothing these bitches do is original.
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Originally posted by DG1
She also released another statement:
"On the one hand, I am glad that 'Rosas danst Rosas' can perhaps reach a mass audience, which such a dance performance could never achieve, despite its popularity in the dance world since [the] 1980s."
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At her turning into a fan
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Originally posted by KΔΥ.ΒΣΣ
But anyone who knows a thing or two about pop cultures would peep the Audrey Hepburn teas right off back. I've been dancing since I was 4 and I've seen pretty much all dance-related films so I knew these were homages right off back. She never said she came up with the choreo. She never said it was her idea. It's only plagiarizing if she took someone else's work and tried to pass it as her own. Until I hear Bey say she came up with these dances and concepts, I don't get what the big deal is.
However, HOWEVER, she has been inspired A LOT during the latter part of her career especially during the 4 era. They all are though, Bey's is more obvious though. Most **** you see nowadays draws inspiration from something done in the past. Nothing these bitches do is original.
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I love audrey hepburn, and I also knew it was a referance however, it was nowhere near as blatant as annes choreography, point blank.
Exactly. After hearing bey's response and the directors response, I'll lay off...however beyonce can avoid these types of situations if she could be more original, and also, ASK people. It's not that hard.
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Originally posted by DG1
Sampling is nothing new, not in art, and not in life. Every time you use a word or phrase you are, wittingly or not, making a pastiche out of the linguistic gestures of those who came before you. Evolution, whether in biology, or in technology and culture, is never anything other than a redeployment of old means in new circumstances. We use the old to make the new and the new is always old.
In the absence of direct intention to deceive, plagiarism has nothing to do with this.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/1...-is-always-old
NPR spilled the true tea...
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Poor UclaBoi
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At her turning into a fan
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"But she is held in great affection by her dancers, and in her most recent statement she notes that Beyoncé was four months pregnant at the time of the Countdown filming, just as she was in 1996, when de Mey's film was made. So today, she generously concludes: "I can only wish her the same joy that my daughter brought me." "
Another quote...
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Originally posted by DG1
"But she is held in great affection by her dancers, and in her most recent statement she notes that Beyoncé was four months pregnant at the time of the Countdown filming, just as she was in 1996, when de Mey's film was made. So today, she generously concludes: "I can only wish her the same joy that my daughter brought me." "
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AWWW now she loves bey
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Originally posted by KΔΥ.ΒΣΣ
But anyone who knows a thing or two about pop cultures would peep the Audrey Hepburn teas right off back. I've been dancing since I was 4 and I've seen pretty much all dance-related films so I knew these were homages right off back. She never said she came up with the choreo. She never said it was her idea. It's only plagiarizing if she took someone else's work and tried to pass it as her own. Until I hear Bey say she came up with these dances and concepts, I don't get what the big deal is.
However, HOWEVER, she has been inspired A LOT during the latter part of her career especially during the 4 era. They all are though, Bey's is more obvious though. Most **** you see nowadays draws inspiration from something done in the past. Nothing these bitches do is original.
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but I admit I do wish she would've asked permission before-hand. that way when the "ooh! we caught her copying!" came from the blogs & Anne was contacted she would've already been like "they asked me and I approved." Oh well... as long as she isn't suing.
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Originally posted by DG1
She also released another statement:
"On the one hand, I am glad that 'Rosas danst Rosas' can perhaps reach a mass audience, which such a dance performance could never achieve, despite its popularity in the dance world since [the] 1980s."
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Thanking the King for for the generous promo.
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All the Beyonce stans suddenly huge experts on obscure pop culture from 1900 to the present Didn't see that trait in them when other artists' videos that contained a lot of homages came out.
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Originally posted by BadBitch
Noone cares what she has to say. She shouldn't be texting & driving anyway.
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But yas Bey, She didn't need to do this but I'm happy she did this to shut everyone up.
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Where were all U concerned citizens for this thread???
No where to be found.
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Originally posted by Onen
I love audrey hepburn, and I also knew it was a referance however, it was nowhere near as blatant as annes choreography, point blank.
Exactly. After hearing bey's respnse and the directrs respons, I'll lay off...however beyonce can avoid these types of situations if she could be more orignal, and also, ASK people. It's not that hard.
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The point is, if she was trying to plagiarize the woman's work, wouldn't she make the **** a little less obvious?
**** I'm a college student. I write papers and I'll admit I've stolen a couple of paragraphs from articles without putting it on my works cited, but I changed a word or two to make it my own and to make the **** less obvious that I wasn't indeed stealing someone else's work. If she was "stealing" she would've changed something. That's just my opinion.
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Originally posted by Onen
I love audrey hepburn, and I also knew it was a referance however, it was nowhere near as blatant as annes choreography, point blank.
Exactly. After hearing bey's response and the directors response, I'll lay off...however beyonce can avoid these types of situations if she could be more original, and also, ASK people. It's not that hard.
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yup. no one is talking about the audrey hepburn images. its about annes choreography.
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Originally posted by Onen
I love audrey hepburn, and I also knew it was a referance however, it was nowhere near as blatant as annes choreography, point blank.
Exactly. After hearing bey's respnse and the directrs respons, I'll lay off...however beyonce can avoid these types of situations if she could be more orignal, and also, ASK people. It's not that hard.
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Be more original? You can't be original in a world filled with 6 billion people. Beyonce will get slack from whatever she does because that's what happens when you're at the top. If Beyonce wants to bring well deserved dances into the spotlight & educate the younger generation, then so be it. You shouldn't have to ask permission to give thanks in a video to an artist that inspired you.
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Originally posted by BadBitch
Noone cares what she has to say. She shouldn't be texting & driving anyway.
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