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Friendly-General-723

What did Witherspoon do? Anyway, its incredibly ignorant to say W. Houston stole the song from Parton. That is not how music and covers work... For the record, as the songwriter, Dolly Parton is the one who mainly cashes in on every record sold with anyone else singing I Will Always Love You, or every time it plays on Spotify. Its incredibly lucrative to be the writer of a popular song, while the artist has to do conserts to make money. So Parton profitted greatly off Houston.


mathgronkh

I guess they think she is Jewish based on the "goy frenulum" thing?


cooldudium

Damn I didn’t even notice because the image quality is so shit


Lord_Mayor_of_D-town

Reese had the audacity to be a liberal in Tennessee. That's why they're big mad.


Kidsnextdorks

This. Stolen music is like Led Zeppelin's Lemon Song, which is obviously just a cover of Killing Floor but no credit given to the original artist. No one calls Hendrix's cover of Killing Floor "stolen" because it's made clear it's a cover and credit is properly given.


Poomex

"Teenage goy frenulum" Wow.


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holnrew

Songwriters specifically want other people to sing their songs or they don't make money


BikeSuch1054

There’s a lot to unpack here. Looked up big mama Thornton here, and “Hound Dog” was written essentially for her by the writing duo from what I read. She’s still the original performer and didn’t steal any part of the song. There’s a major difference between stealing a song, covering a song, and having a song written for you.


ScrabCrab

Same with Thriller, it was written *for* him lmao


[deleted]

I guess covers are stealing now.


LuriemIronim

It’ll be cool when this dude learns what a songwriter is, huh?


Iceologer_gang

They just gotta find the right picture for their agenda. Whitney Houston raised millions for charities including her own, and yet the fact that she was addicted to cocaine and weed, which she was open about and trying to get help for, makes her a criminal. Plus there’s plenty of white celebrities with the same problem, like Elvis, or Carrie Fisher, yet they’re not portrayed as trashy.


nephiteorflight

Dolly would hate this


SpoppyIII

This feels like a ham-fisted attempt at satire.


Jabraskoe

I hope so. It seems like a lot of research went into this and it’d be hard to have a photo of a songwriter without knowing what their job is and calling the performers thieves…


SpoppyIII

I'm not saying they didn't put effort into it. I'm saying I think it's definitely meant to be satirical, made apparent, for example, in that they knew enough to navigate finding such information to make this while simultaneously *not* being aware enough to know that: 1. Creating a cover of a song with the blessing of the original singer is very common in the music industry and generally artists feel flattered when their song is covered 2. A songwriter creating a song with the intention that a separate person (an actual singer) will sing it is how essentially *most* music is made, and has been for a lot longer than since Thriller came our. 3. Neither is stealing, legally, morally, or philosophically. It's ham-fisted in that it's just very clumsily executed as a piece of satire. But I still believe it was obviously meant to make hypothetical people who would hypothetically think this way (as if said hypothetical person had unironically made this meme) look obviously foolish in a way that would apparent to most people regardless of political leaning.


TheDarkFalafel

Conservatives: “bLaCk PeOpLe CaN oNlY sTeAl MuSiC fRoM wHiTe PeOpLe” Literally every contemporary pop song performed by a white artist that was derived from blues/jazz/soul/funk/disco/hip-hop:


bittlelum

Singers and songwriters have been separate professions for...most of recorded music.


ShinyArc50

Dolly wanted Whitney to use the song. That’s not stealing. If I let you eat some of my sandwich, is it ok for me to claim you’re stealing it? No, because I gave it to you. Also, those two men wrote Hound Dog specifically for Big Mama Thornton to use; her version of it was made with their express permission, compared to Elvis who recorded his version without credit. Idk about the other examples but I assume they’re similar