Will.i.am borrowed melody from U2

[Belisama]

Does anyone see the connection?

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=722450

Iovine: Will.i.am borrowed melody from U2 song for biggest Peas hit

April 20, 2012, 11:34 AM EST


Record label boss Jimmy Iovine says will.i.am lifted from a U2 track to write the Black Eyed Peas' megahit "I Gotta Feeling."

The Interscope chief claims the rapper borrowed a melody from the song "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" after he produced material for the Irish band's album "No Line on the Horizon."


However, will.i.am purportedly assured there were no hard feelings with Bono and his bandmates by telling the rockers they had inspired his club anthem.

Iovine explains, "I sent will.i.am over to the studio to do some remixes on 'I'll Go Crazy.' He works on them for two weeks, comes back and writes 'I Gotta Feeling.'

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"The chords are U2 chords, 100 percent. Will even told them."

[mattressjedi]

Does anyone see the connection?

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=722450

Iovine: Will.i.am borrowed melody from U2 song for biggest Peas hit

April 20, 2012, 11:34 AM EST


Record label boss Jimmy Iovine says will.i.am lifted from a U2 track to write the Black Eyed Peas' megahit "I Gotta Feeling."

The Interscope chief claims the rapper borrowed a melody from the song "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" after he produced material for the Irish band's album "No Line on the Horizon."


However, will.i.am purportedly assured there were no hard feelings with Bono and his bandmates by telling the rockers they had inspired his club anthem.

Iovine explains, "I sent will.i.am over to the studio to do some remixes on 'I'll Go Crazy.' He works on them for two weeks, comes back and writes 'I Gotta Feeling.'

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"The chords are U2 chords, 100 percent. Will even told them."

It shows how bad things are when Crazy is a weak U2 track but The Black Eyed Peas biggest hit.

It's not good enough for U2.

[tigerfan41]

^ Also shows how ridiculous pop radio is today.

[mattressjedi]

^ Also shows how ridiculous pop radio is today.

Exactly.

[JoshuaTree94]

Which part was borrowed? I'm listening to I Gotta Feeling and I still haven't found what I'm looking for (pun intended).

[tigerfan41]

Without forcing myself to listen to I Gotta Feeling again (it's been a year or two since I've heard it, and I'd like to keep it that way) I'm going to say it's probably the chords at the beginning of the song that were ripped off from Crazy. Or perhaps those in the verse/chorus.

I just looked up a tab (basically a guitar's easy reading version of music notation) of both songs...and they use a lot of the same chords.

[wraitii]

It's probably the ones at the beginning, which are basically the same as the ones at the end of the choruses (of Crazy). Not the same melody, though.

[mdmomof7]

^ Also shows how ridiculous pop radio is today.

Exactly.

Double exactly!

[TheSceneoftheAccident]

Bono is probably weeping over an underperforming U2 single being one of Black Eyed Peas' biggest hits

[tigerfan41]

I still think it has a lot to do with age. Pop radio tends to not play stuff by older artists, even if it's good. If U2 were 20 years younger, a song like Boots or Crazy would have been picked up by pop radio. I mean, look at the stuff they're playing now. Nickelback, Daughtry (who actually is OK), Coldplay, Maroon 5. Can anyone honestly say the singles by these bands as of late are better than Boots or Crazy? But yet they receive airplay, and I think a lot of that is due to the age factor.

[TheSceneoftheAccident]

Boots got poorer airplay because it was a bad song

[tigerfan41]

But is it honestly worse than any of the other stuff played on radio at that time? That's my point.

[TheSceneoftheAccident]

Probably when you consider U2's standards

[mattressjedi]

Bono is probably weeping over an underperforming U2 single being one of Black Eyed Peas' biggest hits

I'm not weeping. I really don't want U2's last hit to be THAT song.

[mattressjedi]

Probably when you consider U2's standards

Yeah, Im glad I'm not subjected to Boots and Crazy on a regular basis.