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A huge portion of the music production is identical. The way I see it, there's two possible explanations for it

Posted by Jonas on 30 Mar, 19:14:15

1. Just like "Dai Laga" in Malta or Belarus/France 2007, they've used a royalty free sample pack to create the backing track production. And they've both ended up using the same one, AND using a lot of it.
These sample packs, as long as you've paid for them, are normally free to use in any kind of music production in whichever way one wants to. Most producers would certainly use only a few elements and instrument oops from one and the same sample pack. But it seems to also be more common that people are "lazy" and use so much of it that they've barely created anything new themselves. So it's possible the producers of both songs just "created" these two productions without knowing about someone else doing it. This is perfectly legal, and afaik EBU's rule about "originality" usually only stretches to the lyrics and composition, not the production.

If anyone wants to go through all the stuff at e.g. http://www.producerloops.com/, they'd probably find a lot of stuff that they recognise from a lot of contemporary pop songs, in and out of Eurovision.

2. A producer might have made this backing track (without using sample packs) and sent it off to other songwriters for them to "topline" it. (i.e. write a vocal melody and lyrics). If the track has been making the rounds and ended up with more than one person, there might have been two songs created using the same track as their foundation. (This does happen sometimes). And then either they've given the green light for both of the songs to be released. Or they only allowed one of them to be released, and someone just decided to release the other song anyway without permission. How legit is the Guez release? Is it a proper release or just a song that the singer decided to upload to youtube?

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