Gonna date a centerfold that loves to blow my money for me. Get a front door key to the Playboy Mansion, I'm gonna dress my ass with the latest fashion, Sign a couple autographs so I can eat my meals for free Hire eight body guards who love to beat up assholes, I wanna be great like Elvis without the tassels, We'll all stay skinny cause we just won't eat,Įvery good gold diggers gonna wind up there.Įvery playboy bunny with her bleach blonde hair, The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap, 'Cause we all just want to be big Rockstars,Īnd live in Hilltop Houses driven fifteen cars, I'm gonna trade this life for fortune and fame, Somewhere between Cher and James Dean is fine for me. I want a new tour bus full of old guitars, Gonna join the mile-high club at thirty-seven thousand feet. I'll need a credit card that's got no limit,Īnd a big black jet with a bedroom in it, I want a brand new house on an episode of Cribs,Īnd a king size tub big enough for ten plus me. Ist kostenlos und Legal, mal von der besseren Qualität ganz abgesehen. bald nicht mehr auf Youtube verfügbar sein wird, gibt es hiervon die Spotify Version. Da es keine vernünftigen Youtube Videos davon gibt und ich auch keinen Ärger mit der Gema haben möchte bzw. But you know what I’m gonna say next, right?Ĭopyright law doesn’t protect ideas it only protects how you express your idea.Zum besseren Verständniss der Melodie erstmal reinhören. But “lyrical themes wise” we’ve got two songs about the privileges of being rock stars.” Kid Rock took a similar angle and got a better track out of it than either of these with “Cowboy.” If you want to write a song about all the cool stuff you’d get to do if you became a rockstar or a cowboy or a cowboy rockstar, I wouldn’t blame you. As Nickelback’s Rockstar moves through chords that are borrowed from the parallel minor key, the melody in-kind moves over to that key’s scale-tones, so the notes that give the songs most of their character, respectively - the “high-value notes” as I often say - these will tend to be dissimilar.īack to the lyrical themes? Yes, there’s are similarities. After British group Lottery Winners sea shanty version of 'Rockstar' went viral on TikTok in early 2021, Nickelback added their own vocals to the mix. Go back through to what we said about the harmonic structure of both songs. I’m not interested in critical listening again to even try to hear what might be there, as it’s late on a Friday in the middle of shelter-in-place on the warmest day so far this year and my office is way too hot to stay in here any longer than I need to - but if I remember correctly from the first listen, anyone with a one-octave range could sing the entirety of both tracks. One of the most commercially successful Canadian rock bands of all time, Nickelback released a string of top 10 hits like 2001s 'How You Remind Me,' 2005s 'Photograph' and 2007s 'Rockstar. So I’d say not “substantial portions of the harmonic structures.” The most simple way to describe “borrowed” is that while Nickelback’s “Rockstar” is in the key of G major, its chord progressions are almost constantly employing (borrowing) chords that would more naturally be found in the parallel key of G minor. It happens to rely quite a bit on “borrowed chords ” a common device in rock music. Nickelback’s chord progression is fairly basic too, but it bears little resemblance to the plaintiff’s. “Substantial portions of the harmonic structures?” The harmonic structure of Johnston’s “Rock Star” is that of an 8-bar blues song! And it’s the sort of thing you might hear referred to as “Three-Chord Rock.” So you might surmise, we’re talking super-duper common chord progressions. The form of plaintiff Johnston’s “Rock Star” is an 8-bar blues not remotely a novel form. “Substantial portions of the song form?” Here too, even if the entirety of the songs’ forms were identical, the form, like tempo, is just not where you want to hang your hat unless you’ve employed a pretty novel form. You can sing Mary Had A Little Lamb quickly or slowly and it remains Mary Had A Little Lamb. Even if the two songs share the entirety of the tempo, we don’t much care. It’s the more humorous interpretation.) A bad place to start. It begins with “substantial portions of the tempo.” (Or kinda says that. In charitable goodheartedness, let’s just look specifically for the similarities named in the complaint.
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