Music - MYP 4 and 5 - Samuel Wright - Hodder 2020

Case study 2: Under Pressure
because of a single added note. The case involved many
Listen to Selena Gomez’s 2011 pop song ‘Love you like a Love Song’. If you
compare the bass note pattern of the chorus, it is the same pattern as Vivaldi’s!
forward to 2018 with the pop ectronic group Clean Bandit’s song ‘Baby’
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(Figure 4.6). Their chorus uses the same progression, with the bass stepping up by
4ths and down by 5ths each time:
Figure 4.6 Clean Bandit’s ‘Baby’ following Vivaldi’s bass and progression.
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The artist known as Vanilla Ice wrote a now infamous
Listen to the tracks on the playlist and discuss as a class
song in 1989 entitled ‘Ice Ice Baby’. Despite Queen and
whether there really is a case of plagiarism here. The two
David Bowie’s 1981 hit ‘Under Pressure’ being voted as
bass lines are notated below; with your instruments or
the secondbe
devices, take turns at playing them.
st collaboration of all time by Rolling Stone
magazine, Vanilla Ice not only used the exact same bass
Is this example merely about choosing to act fairly
line in his own song, but claimed they were different
when imitating someone? Or did Vanilla Ice miss a great
opportunity to develop a new and more original bass line?
strange interviews with Vanilla Ice; however, it was nally
settled out of court.
Figure 4.7 Two bass lines compared: Can you spot the difference?
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