Daughtry told ’Feels Like Tonight’ feels like very familiar - VIDEO
Uh-oh. Just keeping it real, you didn’t really bring anything of your own to “Feels Like Tonight.” In fact, it sounded like like you just took The Asphalts’ “Tonight.” Okay, it didn’t go down like that, but The Asphalts have brought allegations of plagiarism against Daughtry. They even put together a snazzy video that samples both Daughtry’s “Feels Like Tonight” and their own “Tonight” so you can judge for yourself.
Unfortunately for Daughtry, Chris apparently climbed in bed with a guy by the name of Dr. Luke who wrote “Feels Like Tonight.” This, even though Luke has already settled in a similar case brought against him and Avril Lavigne for her single “Girlfriend,” which bore a striking resemblance to a band called the Rubinoos’ “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.” You know how sometimes you get a tune stuck in your head and you can’t get it out? Apparently Dr. Luke has that problem a lot. Only he writes it down and makes “new” songs out of it.
After watching the below video, I don’t know if I’m convinced 100% that plagiarism is what’s going on here. Sure both songs use the phrase “It Feels Like Tonight” in the chorus and they are sung similarly, but there are not note-for-note identical. In fact, the ups and downs across the four words are different in both pieces. That said, the emphasis is almost the same and the tune utilized is very similar. Other than that, though, the two pieces sound very similar. But isn’t coincidence possible? How many different ways can you sing “It Feels Like Tonight” in a chorus?
I’m not looking to defend or denounce Daughtry or Dr. Luke here. I’m no expert in music … or the law … or marine biology … or even TV … what the hell am I doing with my life?
But I did manage to get a hold of Dr. Luke’s notebook where he writes down various song ideas as they come to him. I see a lot of great potential hits here. Now I’m not going to post all his lyrics here because that would be stealing, which is wrong. But I will give you some samples:
- Don’t Pause the Music - this one has a great refrain of “Please don’t pause the music” throughout, very catchy
- Escalator to Heaven - This one threw me for a loop as who would build an escalator? I don’t know, I just wasn’t buying the story. It’s a lot easier to just build a stairway, you know? He did have a note here that he wasn’t sure if he could get away with this one; probably because escalators are so hard to build
- I’d Do Anything for Love - I really liked this one, and I like how there was a bit of a twist in the chorus because you think he’d do anything for love, but apparently not. In fact, he says “he won’t do that!” Very clever of Dr. Luke to not put that phrase in the title. Innovative, really
- Green Eggs and Jam - I have to admit I didn’t think I would like this, but in the end when the narrator realizes he does like green eggs and jam … very moving! I see this on Jessica Simpson’s next album
I don’t want to bore you with too many more, but clearly the man is a genius. If he gets into too much trouble in the music industry, he should bring his talents to network television. The FOX network especially would love to use a man of his talent in coming up with new and “original” programming.
Jessica Simpson ‘Hurt’ By Nick Lachey’s Dating
Jessica Simpson ‘Hurt’ By Nick Lachey’s Dating
In a recent Elle magazine interview, Jessica Simpson said that when ex-husband Nick Lachey jumped back into dating after their high-profile breakup, it was not taken easily.
“Oh, it hurt me,” the 26-year-old singer-actress gushed in an interview in the March issue of Elle magazine, on newsstands February 13. “Two or three weeks later? Yeah, I’d say it kind of hurt me.”
These words come despite the fact the she is the one who filed for divorce in December 2005, after three years of marriage.
In the interview, Jessica said that after watching the 2004 romance “The Notebook” on a plane ride home to Texas, she made the decision. “I just figured out the statement,” she says of the movie, starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as star-crossed lovers. “It was about that moment of desperation. I needed to breathe.”
Jessica was asked whether or not she still keeps in touch with her ex, who is dating MTV’s Vanessa Minnillo.
“Mm-hmmm,” she told the magazine. “He’s so much a part of my life, how could I not be? Any guy that’s going to be with me from this day forward has to understand that. You want to help me find a guy?”
While Jessica asked for help in jest, it seems evident that it is not necessary. Simpson has been recently tied with singer-songwriter John Mayer, and in her profile in Elle, the writer noted that he spotted e-mails from Mayer on her computer.
She says she “is so happy right now,” but declined to discuss her love life. “I want to tell you everything, but I have to sew my lips together,” she says.
Asked whether she’s in love, a grinning Simpson plays coy: “I didn’t say yes.”
My Sister’s Keeper Cast Update
My Sister’s Keeper, based on the bestselling Jodi Picoult novel of the same name, is the story of a former district attorney and her fireman husband, who are sued by their 13-year-old daughter for emancipation.
Cameron Diaz, Joan Cusack, and Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) were already signed up for the project, and will now be joined by Jason Patric and Thomas Dekker (NBC’s Heroes and Fox’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles). The film is being helmed by Nick Cassavetes, most known for his direction of The Notebook and John Q, and is being shot in LA.