What’s With all the Ripping Off? Or is it just a Coincidence?
Recently I had been doing some clearing out with the stuff I don’t need anymore and can be given to charities, so practically I was clearing out all the junks…
While tidying and clearing, I came upon a stack of pop magazines (e.g. Top of the Pops, Mizz and Sugar) which my sister didn’t bother to chuck away…deciding to take a break, I started flipping through them (I don’t know what compelled me to do so, as honestly I’m not that big of a pop, rap or hip-hop musics fan, I’m more for rock music…) but I got interested when I realized there were also several interviews with some of my favorite rock bands—Green Day, My Chemical Romance and Lostprophets in the pop magazines…(they were all supposedly ‘exclusive’ interviews with Billie Joe Armstrong, Gerard Way and Ian Watkins…)
However, when I started reading the interviews in my sister’s pop magazines, something clicked in my head, not only because I recognized the interviews from somewhere else before in a bunch of rock-musics magazines such as KERRANG!, Q, NME and Rock Sound and from other online music webs…but also because for some weird reasons, I remembered that the words in the interviews were exactly word for word as the interviews that I’ve read before online and from rock magazines…
So I went to fish out my scrapbooks in which I pasted in the all the magazines cut-outs of my favorite bands (how sad am I, i.,e. the scrapbooks…
), and I then I started comparing the dates the magazines were issued…
Beforehand I already recognized the pictures in the pop-magazines and I knew they were taken by someone else…especially there was this one issue of Sugar Lad-Mag, I recognized instantly the cover photo of Gerard Way which was taken by the professional photographer—Rob Bennett…but the magazine took all the credits and claimed the pictures to be have been taken by one of their own crew…(which I’m already p***ed off about )
Anyway, back to the dates and the interviews comparison, I realized that they (the interviews) were all words for words like as if the words had been copied and pasted from one interview to another. In terms of the dates, I realized the dates the rock magazines were issued, were always way before the dates the pop-magazines (with interviews of Green Day, MCR and Lostpropets in them) were issued.
Now, I started questioning myself, did the pop magazines took clumps and bits of interviews from an assortment of other magazines and then put it all together, and then claiming the credits for themselves, while they are always claiming the interviews to be ‘exclusive’ interviews with the band members? or is it all just a coincidence?
If they are really taking credits for other magazines’ work, are they that ignorant to realize that the fans of the bands would recognize sooner or later the huge flaw that they made???
What do you think?