Kanye West‘s new Vultures 1 album makes use of an interpolation of Donna Summer season‘s 1977 hit “I Really feel Love,” the late Summer season’s property claims.
The alleged copyright infringement is discovered on the pensive electro-pop observe “Good (Don’t Die) on Ye’s joint album with Ty Dolla $ign, which arrived Saturday morning.
On the Vultures observe, the lyric “Oh, I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive” is seemingly set to the melody of Summer season’s “I Really feel Love.”
“Kanye West… requested permission to make use of Donna Summer season’s music I Really feel Love, he was denied… he modified the phrases, had somebody re sing it or used AI but it surely’s I Really feel Love… copyright infringement!!!” stated an announcement posted in an Instagram Story on the official Donna Summer season account Saturday (Feb. 10).
“I Really feel Love” peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Scorching 100 in 1977 and spent 23 weeks whole on the chart. The music, which was produced and co-written with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte for the Queen of Disco’s fifth studio album, I Bear in mind Yesterday, was one in all 14 songs to succeed in the highest 10 on the Scorching 100 in Summer season’s lifetime.
On Friday, former Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne additionally known as out Kanye West on social media, saying that Ye had requested to pattern a music however was “refused permission as a result of he’s an antisemite.” Osbourne stated he used the pattern anyway at a Vultures 1 listening occasion at Chicago’s United Heart this week. “I would like no affiliation with this man!” the rocker wrote. Though Osbourne stated on-line that West requested to pattern “Conflict Pigs,” the music he appears to have used on the occasion is “Iron Man.”
“We get so many requests for these songs,” Sharon Osbourne advised Billboard on Friday, “and after we noticed that request, we simply stated no means.” She added, “We’ve been in contact together with his staff … And it’s additionally a problem of getting respect for an additional artist.”
On Saturday, she tweeted: “The Osbourne household have by no means wished any affiliation with Kanye West. He’s an anti-Semitic idiot who spews his rhetoric out into the world, Kanye you f—ed with the fallacious dude this time. Sincerely, Sharon Osbourne.”
Vultures 1 marks the Ye’s first album because the launch of his 2021 album, Donda, and his first challenge to be launched since his string of hate speech and antisemitic remarks, which resulted in corporations corresponding to Adidas and Def Jam distancing themselves from the 46-year-old rapper.
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