American Idol Roth/CVH rip offs!

[edvanheineken]

There were two CVH/Roth rip offs on "American Idol" last night. I say rip off because neither the singers nor the show cretided the arrangements to CVH and Roth. Sanjaya Malakar (uhum..cough..loser) performed "You Really Got Me" ala CVH. Phil Stacey performed a carbon copy of DLR's version of Tobacco Road. No credit was given to Roth at all. I'm sure the judges must have heard the classic versions of both songs. Who the fuck hasn't? It pisses me off that the idol perfomers make it seem like it's their own arrangements. This is not the first time it has happened.
Toughts?

[Sweet Irony]

Does the show, or do the contestants, give arrangement credits, as a rule?

[edvanheineken]

Links:

Tobacco Road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS7rYhnEhrw

You Really Got Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz8T2hT__w4

[edvanheineken]

As a rule? I'm not sure, but they should. If you watch the show, the judges are always encouraging the performers to make the "song their own." Last year there was a controversy regarding a performer claiming his performance of a Live (the band) song was his own.

[DLR'sCock]

puke, gay, lame....horrible......


i hate these shows, they are so not rock n roll at all....

[vh rides again]

ray davies (the kinks) wrote yrgm, and john d loudermilk wrote tobacco road.
so maybe title of thread should be american idol ripped off songs that vanhalen ripped off.

[pflo]

Who the fuck cares, anyways?

[Diamondjimi]

Who the fuck would waste their time watching that shit anyway?

[Big Troubles]

Kinks and The Nashville Teens deserve the credit.

[chi-town324]

the theme was the british invasion...VH, DLR covered both songs...why would there be any mention of them st all?

[Matt White]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...GHEY

[FORD]

It was truly horrible.....

I've never watched American Idol before in my life, but last night I had some bizzare cable outage going on. Internet was totally down and the TV only got local channels, so I watched the stupid shit out of pure boredom.

The gay Indian dude (he makes Cherone look butch, seriously) started out singing the Kinks version horribly, and somewhere around the middle switched to such a painfully horrible interpretation of the Van HALEN version that I almost wished it was Sammy Hagar for a second.

Of course then I heard on the radio this morning that there's an organized internet movement going to make sure this fag wins the competition because he's the worst thing on the show. I forget the website, but it seems like a great way to get that fucking show off the air!

[DLRdelight!]

american idol blows. never liked that damn show. no rock at all. so lame

[Douglas T.]

This years Idol show is horrible. I don't think there's a talented singer in the lot!

[Douglas T.]

I like the Spanish version of TR best!