Japanese Boy Band Rips Off Hatsune Miku Hit Song

They'd probably be a little disappointed to get a leek up the ass, they'd be hoping for something more phallic...

@AiEM Regarding the NEWS thing, that's actually not true. Japanese artists often buy songs from European songwriters who sell the same songs to European artists because they figure there will be no overlap. It happens ALL the time and is not plagiarism because they have the creator's express permission to use the song because... they bought it. lol

Lampoon
10:57

i have to agree on that too, however they sound a bit to masked, over all i hate the sound of a boy band regardless of language, so i may not be the right person to have an opinion on which is better.

Guess I'm not hip or something... honestly the vocaloid version kind of harmed my ears in places. I couldn't understand what was being said if anything. I honestly found the boy band to be more melodic and have better instrumentation, so honestly I must give them some credit for making a good rendition. Not mentioning that it may have been a rendition however was their fault and it's right that they're called on it.

I came to a realization a long time ago when I actually gave N-Sync a chance and watched their live concert in the 90s I think it was. I had no real interest in them, but there's one thing I must, MUST give credit for. Those guys work their asses off. There may be 100 different boy bands churned out a month, and they may be based on looks, but they also MUST have some capabilities as musicians. That's not to say they're not covered by electronics and voice adjustment of course, but the work that goes into performances and concerts and dancing and such is truly hard work that deserves at least that much respect, regardless of musical taste.

HouseLife
07:14

you are kind of right, this miku one is a bit hard to understand but not entirely impossible, one thing that i think boy bands must pride themselves on is you can understand what they say at any given time.

i mean you listen yo music long enough even in your native language, there will be at least 10 songs where you need to see lyrics to actually know what they are saying, weather this is due to bad mixing, or bad vocals aside, i have never had this problem with a boy band.

now what you said about boy bands being able to move... ill give them credit for standing after being in a hour long concert. but there are 2 kinds of boy bands, the ones that sing live, and ones that dont get caught lip syncing. and even than, you have to ask what is a boy bands purpose? i say get a tween market with songs and how they look and older teen by how they look, so is lip syncing a big deal with them?

anyway, the only respect a boy band gets from me is being in shape, but than most people can get that from me.

The vocals on DYE were intentionally masked.

I personally didn't like KAT-TUN's version. Just another boy band.

I really hate it when things like this happen, they deserve some kind of punishment for this but to be fair, not the worse punishment in the world, still, actions should be taken against them for such a thing...

This whole thing is a lot bigger than it should be. What would music be without remixing? Look at the techno genre in general, there are so many remixes of lots of songs, if everyone complained plagiarism for each song that was remixed slightly, techno wouldn't exist.

Personally, I don't like the song that much, but the parts that used the DYE background music were actually fairly well done.

Y'know, I almost spat out my drink in disgust when I read Boyband and Britney Spears in the same sent-

Well, looks like I'll have to clean that up.

The KAT-TUN song feels... like a montage, somehow. Like they slapped it together from a few sources. We'll see if this is the case.