Just five days from the premiere of Music Sessions, Vol.53 by BZRP in collaboration with Shakira, the official video already has 126 million views, becoming the number one music trend on the YouTube platform. In addition, it has caused a furore all over the Internet, not only because of the hints at former Spanish soccer player Gerard Piqué, but also because of an accusation of alleged plagiarism.
A few days ago, we told you that the Venezuelan singer Briella used her TikTok account to say that Shakira was “inspired” by her song Only you to do the chorus of the session with DJ Bizarrap. However, she was quickly caught up in networks for this statement and several people specialized in music denied it.
So is it plagiarism or not?
First, let’s define “plagiarism”. As shared on Instagram Gaby Castellanos, an expert in marketing and advertising, in music, plagiarism is “copying other people’s works with a fraudulent attribution of authorship, that is, making someone else’s work one’s own, hiding its true author.” while a samples is “to use a musical formula that has already worked in the past and wants to be revived in a new song, attributing the copyright.”
Not only Gaby, but many more, through their networks, have shared other examples of songs made before Shakira’s and Briella’s with the same melody or the same sound resources, such as the song Dangerous in Love, from the band k pop Secret Number, which came out in November 2021, as well as the theme Remember me, by Caín Guzmán, released a few months later.
Just like these, there are many other songs that use the same resource, which is not so far-fetched, because anyone could think of it. This phenomenon has happened forever and in many genres, so in conclusion, no, the song For guys like you of Shakira and BZRP is not plagiarism, it is a samples.
That being the case, it may be that Shaki does not even know Briella’s song, as many have speculated on networks, to even be inspired by it. With these tests at hand, people have gone over the Venezuelan Briella with more force, because they tell her that she only wants to hang on to the fame of the Colombian to promote herself.
In the end the scammer got scammed
After all, poor Briella only made a fool of herself by so subtly accusing Shakira, because now she is the one accused of plagiarizing the melodies that had already come out before Only you. In addition, her song cannot be considered “viral” if the majority is just getting to know her due to this controversy.
The truth is that it did make us doubt a little because Shaki is talented, but she also has a history of plagiarism, like the song waka waka, which was the theme of the 2010 Soccer World Cup, which at the time also gave a lot to talk about.
Source: Okchicas
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