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March 22, 2006
Copying the sunlight
A story is currently unfolding in Germany that stands to illustrate the fact that what we are lead to believe may not be quite the truth after all.
A couple of weeks ago, 3 young men shot into the limelight in Germany because a song they had recorded ("Wo bist Du mein Sonnenlischt") was being plugged in various German weblogs and gained hype by the hour. They recorded a video for the song and it was uploaded to YouTube, where it became an instant success. Now the young men sing and perform badly. No, really badly. But the whole concept became cult and within a few days, the young men were on national TV, had a record deal and their song had been turned into a ringtone.
However, the sunlight is starting to fade. It turns out that in fact the music has been copied from a Canadian tune, the lyrics were mostly copied from a youth-unemployment musical training program and all that is really original "Grup Tekkan" is in fact the off-key singing and bad performance. Things are still unfolding, the actual copyright-holders for the various bits and pieces still in negotiations, but as Spiegel.de reports, this may mean that around 60.000 produced silver disks stand to be left in their boxes this coming Friday (the scheduled launch of the single).
Posted by Matthew at March 22, 2006 12:32 PM
Comments
Ouch. That was some mean bad piece of music. I managed to listen and watch through half of it, but then I gave up. :)
Posted by: Steven Noels at March 22, 2006 01:36 PM