Coldplaying with Satriani?

Oh Chris Martin, first, you form Coldplay, then you marry Gweneth Paltrow, THEN, you name your first kid 'Apple'. Now? Your rip off a song from a man who's infinitly more talented then you are. Tsk Tsk Tsk.

Word on the street too is that you hid and didn't return his calls in England for quite a while till the grammys came up and he was going to serve you the papers right on the spot. Whats wrong Chris, are you a bit... Yellow? Naughty naughty Chris Martin!

See for yourself...

The original



The Ripoff:

who ya gonna call? RIP BUSTERS!

Welcome plagiarism fans. A reader sent in this rip off from the 80's. Is it for real? Sounds awfully close. Egad!

Ripper:



Rippee:



I'm a little lost on which video wins the 80's cheese factor award. Its pretty hard to top Chevy Chase yelling through a neon window. Hewy Lewis is up to the challenge however, any video with a crazy saxophone solo has to be considered a contender.

Lets also not forget Queen, already mentioned in this blog, for ripping Mr Jr above, and potentially Mr. Hewy (what kind of a name is Hewy anyway?). The Invisible Man... so close its blatantly not even trying to hide the fact its a copy.

Ripper:


As a side note, Queen absolutely dominates the two previous videos for 80's cheese based on Freddy's glasses alone, or the energy shooting out of multiple Brian May's guitars. There are about 100 moments in this video that make it own the 80's cheese. Queen are awesome, even when they are making selfish rip offs!

Avril At It Again

Yet more Avril plagiarism, this time ripping off peaches. Hey, guys, I know plagiarism is the highest form of flattery, but stop ripping me off!
Ripper: Avril - I Don't Have To Try



Rippee: Peaches - I'm The Kinda



Is she guilty? Let it be known in the comments!

MB

New Rip Offs

Your friend MB here again, responses to the blog have been pretty positive. Some new rip offs have been submitted for your scorn, or pleasure scorning.

Ripper: Paris Hilton - Stars Are Blind

Ripee: UB40 - Kingston Town



Ripper: Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl



Ripee: Iggy And The Stooges - Lust For Life (Iggy's cellophane shorts = awesome)




This one is a double rip off... check it out. Avril is the worst as she even ripped off the concept and only changed the gender.

Ripper:Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend


Ripper: The Rubinoos - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend


Ripee: The Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud



Sure, they are not all identical, but when the main hook/concept of your song is the same, its a rip off! Shameless in this case.

found a rip off?

Hello to everyone in interweb land. Michael Bolton here introducing my new blog dedicated to my career of using other people's artistic ability to make money. In a 'wink wink' to SNL's great job of making fun of me, the first example of ripping them off will be in the blog title. They did a great sketch ripping me off (well, okay, its a parody of me really) in the act of Boltonizing someone else's work.

So if you see something ripped off, send it to along and I'll add it to the blog for all to see. Try to send a link to the ripper and the rippe. To get things started I'll post a famous rip off and a recent one I've seen.

Famous: Nearly everyone knows the most famous rip off artist, perhaps of all time, Rob Van Winkle. AKA, Vanilla Ice. He was made even more famous by denying he plagiarized Ice Ice Baby from Queen/Bowie's collaboration Under Pressure claiming that the hi hat made it a totally different song.

Rip off: Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice



Ripped Off: Under Pressure - Queen/Bowie




Recently an eggs "get crackin'"ad has a riff that has only slight changes to the drum beat/rythm from the Fugazi song Waiting Room. Is it a rip off? It sounds pretty close to me, and as you know, I'm an expert at using other people's material. Decide for yourself.

Ripper: Eggs.ca ad http://eggs.ca/energy/ads.asp (power walking ad)

Rippee: Fugazi - Waiting Room



Till next time... send me your own examples.

Michael Bolton.