Bob: I gave rap a listen, years back. I was initially captivated by the earthy tonality. I quit listening to it mainly due to conflicts with the content. I couldn't expect people to block out some of the things being said. Now, if you happen to be an aficionado, which I take it, you are not, you would no doubt hear many intricate voices and rhythms. To most people, though, it all sounds the same. One reason for that is, especially at first, most rap was produced by a tiny handful of producers. I've forgotten the names and numbers, though at one time I might have named them. The backing tracks were easy for performers to come by, pretty much standard loops, the richness of textures resulting in much the same way as do drum circle sounds. My guess is that if you looked into it, you'd find a dozen or so standard tracks, the excitement being produced by the mix.
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The music business has been shaken up, caught people off guard. Many of them have become desperate.
A well known modus operendi among lawyers of the shyster variety is to build portfolios of precedents with frivolous and/or outlandish claims before "sympathetic" judges. The pornographers made a science of this in the 60's. It looks like that is going on, here. It sounds like Lady Gaga's lawyer called it what it is, "a brazen shakedown."
Lady Gaga has the money (and the expertise) to fight them, but that is little consolation to the smaller operations, which are and always have been the bread and butter of the rainmakers and ambulance chasers; meaning, the little guy who hasn't much choice but to settle. Remember, ASCAP was visiting open mikes in coffee shops. These suits are, of course, a corruption of the original intent of copyright, which was to discourage copycats from pillaging book runs, a scheme that threatened to shut down publishing in the 1600's, virtually since Gutenberg's invention.
The lawyers suing Lady Gaga will lose, but they don't care. They have their sights on bigger, easier, prey. Very strange that the Christian artists should find themselves on the chopping block.



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