Eminem Song Composer: New Zealand Ad Is 'Blatant Rip-Off'
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lifestyle WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017 MUSIC & MOVIES Eminem song composer: New Zealand ad is 'blatant rip-off' he composer of the opening guitar riff for in the courtroom. He said he wrote the song responded. The lawyer asked if it was weaker Eminem's "Lose Yourself" says the sound- with Eminem and Luis Resto over 18 months. because it was different. "It doesn't feel like Ttrack of a New Zealand political ad is a "I picked up a guitar and started playing that 'Lose Yourself""? the lawyer asked. "It doesn't "blatant rip-off." Jeff Bass told the High Court in opening guitar chord," he said. "At that time, I feel like me playing 'Lose Yourself,'" Bass said. Wellington yesterday that the song titled didn't know if it was a song or not." He said The lawyer asked Bass if he'd agree that the Led "Eminem Esque" that was used by the ruling Eminem, aka Marshall Mathers III, put together Zeppelin song "Kashmir" has a similar chord National Party during its 2014 election cam- a drum track but then they got stuck. "It took pattern. paign sounds like "Lose Yourself Lite." But, he him a number of months to author the perfect "No. None whatsoever," Bass responded. added, "It doesn't taste so good, though." lyrics that were just right for the beat," Bass Judge Helen Cull asked Bass if the guitar strum Eminem's music publishers Eight Mile Style sued said. He said they finished as Eminem complet- he'd performed in the courtroom was common. the National Party over its use of the song. The ed work on his film "8 Mile." "It really developed Bass said that while he'd heard those chords judge-only copyright infringement case started in a little studio we had set up in his trailer," played before, he'd never heard them in that Monday and is expected to last about six days. Bass said. He said Resto replaced some of the particular rhythm. He said that by putting an The party has previously said it purchased guitar elements with keyboards in order to accent on the third beat it was as if he was play- the soundtrack for its TV ad from an Australian- remove some of the rock feel of the song with- ing guitar and drums at the same time. "The based music supplier and doesn't believe it has out losing the hip hop tone. intention was to create a tense, hypnotic feel- infringed anyone's copyright. Bass, who lives Defense lawyers argue the musical composi- ing," Bass said. "It starts playing, and never goes near Detroit and traveled to New Zealand to tes- tion of the song isn't particularly original. One away. Along with that drum beat, it actually will tify, picked up an acoustic guitar and strummed of them asked Bass if he considered the sound- hypnotize you, where you are feeling that some- In this file photo, Eminem performs at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival the famous riff that opens the Oscar-winning track Eminem Esque to be musically inferior. thing's going to happen." — AP in Indio, Calif. — AP 2002 song in front of eight lawyers and a judge "Being that it's a blatant rip-off, yes," Bass After child and separation, Janet Jackson resumes tour op superstar and new mother Janet Mana, whose company sells luxury fashion Jackson said Monday she will resume a brands across Gulf Arab kingdoms and who is Ptour after a nearly two-year break as estimated to be worth $1 billion. She initially she confirmed separating from her husband. kept their 2012 wedding private and repeat- Jackson, who had abruptly suspended a tour edly postponed her tour before announcing in 2015 amid the surprise news she was preg- her pregnancy, which came at an unusually nant, announced 56 concerts across North late age. Jackson in her video said she was America later this year. In an online message changing the name of her tour which was ini- to fans, Jackson voiced gratitude for her four- tially called "Unbreakable" after her 2015 month-old son Eissa and acknowledged split- album, her first since her brother's death. ting with her third husband, Qatari tycoon The tour-to begin on September 7 in Wissam Al Mana. Lafayette, Louisiana and close on December 17 in Atlanta-will now be called "State of the World." "It's not about politics. It's about peo- ple, the world, relationships and, just, love," Jackson said. "I want to thank you guys for your patience, for all your support through- out the years," she said to fans. The tour includes "Unbreakable" dates that she had tentatively scrapped. However, she has not immediately rescheduled dates in Europe that she canceled last year. The reasons behind Jackson's separation remain murky, with one tabloid saying Al Mana had been too controlling but other reports saying the split was amicable. Al Mana has publicly declared his love for This file shows Radiohead performing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. — AP Jackson, recently voicing hope that "we will be together in the Great Forever." "To the most beautiful person in the world, thank you for your divine love, your eternal support and for being my best friend," he wrote on his Radiohead expands 'OK Computer' for anniversary website. Jackson won a major fan base in the late 1980s with her albums "Control" and "Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814" as she wenty years after Radiohead shook up the Radiohead had fueled speculation of an "OK driven by electronic loops to dramatize paranoia incorporated the emerging genre of hip-hop music world with its dystopian electronic Computer" anniversary when street posters in a world being taken over by internet culture. In this June 28, 2015, file photo, Janet into her funk-influenced pop music. Jackson Talbum "OK Computer," the band yesterday recently appeared in New York, London and oth- Radiohead-which revived its 1997 website for Jackson accepts the ultimate icon: Music was one of the pioneers of elaborately chore- announced an expanded edition with unre- er cities with lyrics to the album's "Fitter the reissue-went further into experimentation dance visual award at the BET Awards in ographed live shows as she brought in social- leased tracks. The English rockers will reissue "OK Happier," a melancholy spoken-word song in with its 2000 follow-up album "Kid A," often con- Los Angeles. — AP ly conscious messages including calls for Computer" on three vinyl records or two CDs which a computerized voice offers guidance for sidered the band's masterpiece. Radiohead said women's empowerment. — AFP with remastered sound, three unreleased tracks modern survival. But the lyrics in the posters are that "OK Computer" was recorded with the best "Yes, I separated from my husband, we are and B-sides from the singles. Radiohead will also even darker than 20 years ago, ending with the available analog technology in 1997 but that in court, and the rest is in God's hands," said put out an "OK Computer" boxed edition with lines, "Worse politicians / More fear." "OK subsequent advances in technology have the 50-year-old younger sister of late king of new artwork and "full lyrics to all the tracks Computer," the third album by Radiohead, allowed the band to refine the sound. — AFP pop Michael Jackson as she lay on a pillow. except the ones that haven't really got any turned the page on the more carefree, guitar- Jackson has been discreet since marrying Al lyrics," the band's website said. driven Britpop of the 1990s, creating a sound Lynch talks retiring, fishing and anything but 'Twin Peaks' avid Lynch is reclining in his seat, a puckish grin play- do you love that fish? Do you love that idea? And if you love it, ing occasionally on an otherwise inscrutable face as he this is like a little fish that is so important," he enthused. Doffers parables about fishing and geese, like Jesus with a quiff. The 71-year-old directing legend appears to have just David Lynch announced his retirement from making movies, although it's hard to tell, as his intended meaning is often misplaced in the This image released by Universal Pictures shows, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, seated left, and Nathalie Emmanuel, seated lumpy word salad of his discourse. Lynch, regarded as one of right, and Tyrese Gibson, standing from left, Scott Eastwood, Dwayne Johnson and Michelle Rodriguez in "The Fate of the greatest American filmmakers of his generation, is on the the Furious." — AP promotion circuit for his latest project, Showtime's hotly- anticipated sequel to the iconic early 1990s ABC show "Twin Peaks," due to air from May 21. He has spent recent years directing music videos and Box office top 20: 'Furious' shorts and dabbling in comedy acting, but hasn't made a motion picture since surreal thriller "Inland Empire," which made an underwhelming $4 million worldwide 11 years ago. "Things changed a lot in those 11 years. One of the things that takes a victory lap changed is the way people started thinking about feature films, the fact that so many films were not doing well at the efore the arrival of "Guardians and the Galaxy Vol. 2," "The 6. "Beauty And The Beast," Disney, $6,825,595, 3,155 locations, box office, even though they might have been great films," Fate of the Furious" took one more victory lap at the North $2,163 average, $480,525,828, 7 Weeks.