Flo Rida's Rights....

[sparkbro]

Yes, he is sampling Piano in the Dark which is sampling Cry (Just a Little) but you should look into the producers of Flo Rida's track. Paul Bäumer and Maarten Hoogstraten make up the Bingo Players and oh look! Bäumer and Hoogstraten are credited as co-producers of I Cry so they have been given their due. Before you cry wolf about sampling and Flo Rida copying or jacking beats or what have you, make sure you check and see who is credited with the making of the song.

Ahkay thanks for bringing this up. Makes sense. I assume that would be the same with the other songs he's done - Good Feeling etc etc. I'm sure there are more.
As someone else in this thread said. It's just the fact that he doesn't widely publicise where he got it from - so random party goers and the general public are just like "Who's remix is this"... Even if it was originally sampled.

Oh well.
/Rant.

[FVN DEVIL]

I really don't mind sampling when it's taken from a track that is a decade or two old and has a new spin added to it. But recently it just seems like Flo Rida looks for a hot track on the Beatport Top 10 and adds, in my opinion, some really bad lyrics to it.

[MYE]

[bobbylight]

I really don't mind sampling when it's taken from a track that is a decade or two old and has a new spin added to it. But recently it just seems like Flo Rida looks for a hot track on the Beatport Top 10 and adds, in my opinion, some really bad lyrics to it.

No argument there. You speak the truth. While it is annoying, it's brilliant at the same time. Since 'EDM' is so big right now, why not sample some of the biggest and most popular songs and make money off them?

[dj matt blaze]

Ahkay thanks for bringing this up. Makes sense. I assume that would be the same with the other songs he's done - Good Feeling etc etc. I'm sure there are more.
As someone else in this thread said. It's just the fact that he doesn't widely publicise where he got it from - so random party goers and the general public are just like "Who's remix is this"... Even if it was originally sampled.

Oh well.
/Rant.

well...out of the thousands and thousands and thousands of samples that have been used over the last 25 years...where has any artist or producer ever widely publicised where they got the samples from except for in the liner notes of a CD, just like that of Flo Rida....I don't know what exactly you expected....they get credits in the liner notes, they get paid a fee and royalties, why would the general public know that??

[squidot]

well...out of the thousands and thousands and thousands of samples that have been used over the last 25 years...where has any artist or producer ever widely publicised where they got the samples from except for in the liner notes of a CD, just like that of Flo Rida....I don't know what exactly you expected....they get credits in the liner notes, they get paid a fee and royalties, why would the general public know that??

i was thinking that exact thing and was wondering what would be good enough to be considered widely publicized. going on a talk show and specifically citing all of the samples? or maybe a cover story in a large music based magazine? 24 hour news coverage? either way, he could have done that and no one would really know or care anyhow.

it seems like a double standard to me to get upset about one particular artist doing what almost all artists do in this situation. i bet that anyone who is ranting about flo rida doing this isn't going through their collection finding the artists they respect who are doing the exact same thing. in some cases worse...just stealing the sample and mutilating it or making it short enough that hopefully no one finds out about it and sues them. at least flo rida is doing it legit. (disclaimer: personally i don't really care if people take samples either legally or not...just don't cherry pick one person out of everyone to be mad at).

[shr3dder]

Bingo Players (or whoever created the original sample) will make more out of this then Flo Rida I'd imagine.


I don't get why anyone is losing their shit over this. Pop star makes crap pop song that he didn't write. SHOCK!



I'm more concerned about a Bingo Players song being labelled Progressive House. I remember when we used to call Sasha and Diggers Prog House.