Ace Of Base rips off Lady Gaga
May 9, 2010 by Charlize12 Comments
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta better known these days as Lady Gaga, might be facing a tiny problem. Do you remember the band Ace of Base? Well, apparently someone on their crew must be doing some massive hit diggin’. One of Gaga’s The Fame Monster singles, more precisely, Alejandro, has definitely been stolen by the Ace Of Base crew, obviously by manipulating the very essence of the space-time continuum, a technology which Sweden evidently possesses.
Ace Of Base – Don’t Turn Around – 1993
Lady Gaga – Alejandro – 2009
And now here’s what it sounds like when you mix them
Ok, cutting the crap: Alejandro, a mid-tempo song with a massive Europop and disco touch, is influenced by ABBA and Ace of Base, thus flushing down the toilet Gaga’s originality. The Ace of Base influences can be distinguished in the beats of the song, vocals, and melody. C’mon girl, we trusted you…
This gets even worse, as Bill Lamb (About.com) considers it a some sort of a Madonna’s 1987 La Isla Bonita, and Evan Sawdey (PopMatters) thinks that Gaga sounded like Shakira in the chorus. Ok guys, we got it, now stop overreacting…
Ripping off other artists’s work is something we’ve become used to lately. Lady Gaga is definitely not the first, nor the last to do it. Why be original or creative? It takes time and effort anyways. Oh well, you know what they say…Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.
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Eh… Very similar. Not as much as Lady Gaga – Reloaded compared to Prince – When Doves Cry
The start of the article is very confusing. I do not know what artist stole from the other. Please review your approach to logical english sentence design. It is really not good.
stupid they don’t even sound the same..
Are you serious? Two dance songs have the same beat tempo and you say one artist is ripping off the other?
Have you ever listened to dance music?
You do realize that DJs have been mixing similar beats for 50 years now?
This is a NON STORY. Lady Gaga’s song sounds nothing like the other one with the exception of the beat.
Try googling James Brown’s funky drummer beat. Probably 500 songs have that one.
Bah.
Most pop songs have the same exact structure. Any two songs that have the same tempo and key will line up nicely.
I am not a fan of either, but they are clearly different songs. Of COURSE she takes inspiration from other musicians, it’s impossible not to. Just because you can overlap them and the end result is still coincidentally musical, doesn’t mean it’s a rip-off.
I hope this crap gets lost in the internet.
lol they sound exactly the same. gaga is so unorignal
The first time I heard Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro”, I immediately thought of Ace of Base’s “Dont Turn Around”. It sounds a LOT like it. Its not just about the beat. The melody and the changes are all very similar.