Plagiarism

Part I.)

“Animal Planet”

Paragraph: The Allegory in this song is the constant mentioning of animals that are portrayed in a personified sense. This personification is their because if you think of it these animals are just doing things that everyday humans in society do. Example: “You see the chimps they grow hemp they hustle and sling in the trees” now imagine the chimps as drug dealers, the hemp as the drug, and “sling in the trees” as maybe escape from the elephants mentioned in the next line. All of these things enhanced the unique yet fantastic use of an allegory in the song Animal Planet.

“Right in Two”

Sentence1: In “Right in Two” the allegory stems from where they mention monkeys, these monkeys are meant to be humans, and I think that the son of the father spoken is maybe Jesus or another religious figure shown to be controlling these animals, that seem to be meant as the human race doing human like things that monkeys wouldn’t normally do.

“The Trees”

Sentence2:  The song uses Allegory to explain a much deeper point about civil rights and African American segregation in previous years, by saying “So the maples formed a union and demanded equal rights.” Is a clear indication that this song is an allegory, and that it is about the lack of equal rights for many people in earlier years.

Part II.)

1.)   @Plagiarism: Noun; The practice of taking someone else’s work or idea and passing them off as one’s own.

2.)   @During the 80’s there were multiple law suits and settlements involving Led Zeppelin, for example Led Zeppelin's song "Whole Lotta Love" contained lyrics that were derivative of Willie Dixon's 1962 song "You Need Love." In 1985, Dixon filed a copyright infringement suit, resulting in an out-of-court settlement. Later pressings of Led Zeppelin II credit Dixon as co-writer. This is important especially to me that lyricists indentify the plagiarism of their songs, without it the world would run amuck with plagiaristic thieves which would make a living off stealing lyrics from classics, one hit wonders, most of all non-popular songs, which are less likely to be convicted because their less likely to be heard.

3.)   @In 2003 Michael Cottrill and Lawrence E. Wnukowski claimed that Britney Spears’s "Can’t Make You Love Me," from her 2000 album Oops!... I Did It Again, misappropriated substantial melodic material from their "What You See is What You Get". The court was skeptical on the question of defendant’s access to the plaintiff’s work. This example is technically a coincidence because it wasn’t proved to be plagiarism so it cannot be technically defined as plagiarism, placing it as undefined allowing me to label it a coincidence.

              Citations: @Google definitions, @Goldstein, Patrick. "Whole Lotta Litigation". Los Angeles Times, 3 February 1985: N72, @"Cottrill v. Spears, No. 02 – 3646, 2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8823". (E.D. Pa. May 22, 2003). http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/case_cottrillspears.html. Retrieved 23 November 2008.

Comparative Analysis

Zachary Freedman

The Poetry of Song

11/19/12

                Both Eminem and The Last Emperor are two “stars” with laid back personalities that write rhymes enjoyed by millions of people throughout the world. This talent that they posses is unique yet intriguing, and gives the people the ability to judge what has been rapped, and yet feel completely comfortable. The powerful comparison between these to artists allows for a theoretical clash of perpetual wordplay, dynamic allusions, and original transitions unmatched between various other artist comparisons. With this in mind, the two artist’s clashes could be defined, or portrayed as fundamental all around yet at many times inconsistent with each other. These thoughts create a contrasting differential that ultimately forms a mean Venn diagram.

                The differential in the lyrics of both songs “Monumental” (TLE) and “Square Dance” (Eminem) highlight the good and great aspects of each song. For example, In Monumental TLE says “Sure, for that kind of capacity, you’d need a crazy large arena that might stretch from west Philadelphia to east Medina” this is a great example, because it shows the simple, but respectable use of rhyming, almost a childish sort of rhyme. “I’m back to ambush this bush administration” is a perfect example for the different aspects of the two songs. Eminem uses just a simple rhyme using the word ambush, and bush in a clever scenario to produce a simple yet effective rhyme. These two quotes compared side by side create a feel of opposites which leads on to the fact that these songs are different, yet parallel simultaneously.

                The similarities in these two songs are alluring because they both tend to reference people using allusions, and have similar yet original transitions which allows for the song listener to have variety in multiple lyricists. Each artist takes on a sinister and, monstrous tone which gives the listener a feel of anger, and pride that projects a rebellious aspect which is synonymous with teenagers. This rebellious aspect is a great reason for why people listen to these artists, because they can relate to them. When you can relate to something you are much more likely to identify with that particular thing, in this case it is allowing for more listeners to fancy the same music. These similarities are consistent with many other songs by these artists showing that they both respect music, and the aspects it brings to the table every night.

                Both of these rappers can be respected for what they have wrote, and produced, but what most people don’t notice are how similar two songs can be, yet still be worlds apart. They can get to the same point, but stray from similarities within each individual song, making song analysis an art when dealing with hard headed ideas. With the ability to produce an analysis it allows people the opportunity to compare two “non-related” songs, and relate them, stumping plagiarism, and enhancing the similarities and differentials brought on by genres. From the quaint mellowness of “Monumental” to the strong passion of “Square Dance” both songs show that there will always be differences in songs, but similarities just as much.