Controverse dans le monde musical entre un groupe australien et un groupe japonais

There's a first time for everything. And once something is pioneered,
others move in and make it theirs. But is that a rip off? One band seems
to say so.


Above, you
can see a music video from the Australian group Clubfeet. The name of
the song is "Everything You Wanted", and it hit earlier this year.
Below, you can see a music video from Japanese group Champagne. The song
is "Forever Young", and it was released last week.


Clubfeet's official Twitter account is calling the "Forever Young" video a "Japanese rip-off". And on the Champagne YouTube page, someone named Darcy Prendergast, who's apparently from the "Everything You Wanted" video's production company,
wrote, "Champagne have blatantly ripped it [the Clubfeet video] off.
Kindly watch the original and kindly dislike this horrible pop song to
stop uncreative vampires sucking at the necks of those who truly strive
to create innovative work to wow the world."



Champagne is a relatively new band and is starting to play the major festivals in Japan and gain a following.

On YouTube,
numerous Japanese commenters seem to agree that the group's video is a
copy, writing things like, "This is a total rip-off" and "How shameful".
It seems like Japanese YouTube commenters were first to notice this: a
week ago, Japanese commenters were already saying that the Champagne
video seemed like an "Everything You Wanted" knockoff. What's more,
Japanese sites like Rocket News are reporting how this video could be a copy.

While it's
not even a hundred percent sure that the Clubfeet video is the first to
do this, all this begs the larger question: Yes, people copy styles and
stories, but can you steal techniques? If that's the case, then video
games are filled with stolen and recycled techniques, whether that's
heads-up displays, health bars, and even contextual prompts. Perhaps,
the technique in the "Everything You Wanted" is the style.

All that
being said, if the Champagne music video director saw the "Everything
You Wanted" video, it sure seems pretty tacky to use the same technique
only a few months after Clubfeet! Uncreative, too.

Update: Champagne's record company has apologized,
adding that it is responsible for the video and not the band. The
record company will stop using the video and stated, "We sincerely
apologize to all fans supporting Clubfeet and [Champagne] for any
worries and anxieties this matter may have been caused."