{"id":1655,"date":"2007-02-27T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/27\/yoko-kanno-plagiarism\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T20:39:00","slug":"yoko-kanno-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/yoko-kanno-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoko Kanno = Plagiarism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I was going to play some Civ 4 with Nico and the gang today and I heard a familiar song coming from his room. I was like “oh hey, you’re playing Hooverphonic.” and Nico was like “zuh.”
\nTurns out the song he was listening to was Cyberbird from Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex (2002)<\/a>. I listened for a little bit and I was pretty freaking astounded. This was exactly like Battersea, from Blue Wonder Power Milk (1998)<\/a>. It had the same instruments, same tempo, same drum beat, same key, same kind of singing… so after I listened to THAT SONG, I connected to my library through iTunes and played Battersea. Everyone was like “you are totally playing the same song Jeffrey you must be joking.”
\nBut man. I mean, the songs are different enough… but in terms of style, Yoko Kanno’s got some serious steeeeeaaaaling going on. Take a look for yourself:
\nBattersea<\/a>
\nCyberbird<\/a><\/b><\/big><\/big>
\nedit<\/b> I was totally beaten by a lot.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I was going to play some Civ 4 with Nico and the gang today and I heard a familiar song coming from his room. I was like “oh hey, you’re playing Hooverphonic.” and Nico was like “zuh.” Turns out the song he was listening to was Cyberbird from Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex… Continue reading Yoko Kanno = Plagiarism?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}