The Death of the 80's...in 2009: "Down Under" Might Be A Rip-Off
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Artist:
Pack up that Atari and take out those shoulder pads, kids: the 80's are officially over. While we were sittin' around and playing with our Cabbage Patch Dolls (seriously, though, those things are effing creepy), an Australian judge ruled this week that Men at Work may have plagiarized their worldwide hit "Down Under."
The story goes a little something like this: some group called Girl Guides (which seems to be some other-dimension version of the Girl Scouts but probably doesn't sell awesome cookies [shits delicious, right?]), claims that the famous flute riff in "Down Under" (don't even pretend like you're not kinda bobbing your head to it right now) was yanked from the popular campfire song "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree" (if you didn't sing this in elementary school then you have no soul) to which Girl Guides owns the rights. Whew.
What do you think? Sound familiar? Or are you just as frightened as us that some group which touts itself as the best way for young girls to learn life skills and good citizenship is, in fact, actually a greedy corporation that owns the rights to campfire songs?
--Gaar Adams
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The story goes a little something like this: some group called Girl Guides (which seems to be some other-dimension version of the Girl Scouts but probably doesn't sell awesome cookies [shits delicious, right?]), claims that the famous flute riff in "Down Under" (don't even pretend like you're not kinda bobbing your head to it right now) was yanked from the popular campfire song "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree" (if you didn't sing this in elementary school then you have no soul) to which Girl Guides owns the rights. Whew.
What do you think? Sound familiar? Or are you just as frightened as us that some group which touts itself as the best way for young girls to learn life skills and good citizenship is, in fact, actually a greedy corporation that owns the rights to campfire songs?
--Gaar Adams
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