Blow me :)

Never said I had one.

*sucks air through teeth*

Ted Cruz can finally go home.

Blow me :)

Which is fine. If you accept the imperfections and whatever else, that’s fine. We’re not talking about happy couples here.

“People who can’t manage the simple task of creating contingency plans for any and all potential child-related variables while dating are idiots.”

Then you shouldn’t have had a kid. A huge part of the decision to have one is making sure that you can make everything (everything) work beforehand. You have to plan for every single possible contingency and hurdle. That way, even if the way you did things pre-child is totally different from the way you do them…

It sampled the bassline and just laid it over a lame 90's b-boy drum track. I mean, there’s being similar and then just straight sampling without license.

Agreed. Just look at this comment section. You’ve got some people saying “of course it’s the same song” and others like me saying they can’t hear it at all. You can’t base a co-writing credit award on a personal opinion on a matter so wildly open to interpretation.

Nnnnnnnnnnnngh, if THAT’S the kicker, that’s nearly as bad as “sorry, Marvin Gaye’s family says you can’t write any more songs with disco drums or a sparse musical arrangement.”

Very well could be. What a goddamn disaster that ruling could turn out to be, if you now have to share credit with whatever musical ambulance chaser (rolling piano chaser?) comes at you first with a song that uses the same 4 notes in the same order as yours.

Congrats on getting out of a doomed relationship. May all women who find themselves in similar situations be as strong-willed.

This is why I hated the judgment in the Blurred Lines case. It essentially ruled that the estate of Marvin Gaye owns that song’s general rhythm and production style.

When they asked Tom Petty about the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Dani California using the some progression of Mary Jane’s Last Dance, his response was, more or less, “well, there’s only so many different combinations of notes that work together.”

That one was a direct lift, intentional or not. Christ, even a local radio DJ said it sounded like I Won’t Back Down played during a church mass.

You absolutely know this if you know them.

Yeah, no, I still got nothing. They just sound like two pop songs written in the same key and time signature.

Anyone can “cover” a song, change the vocal melody and the instrumentation and make it sound like a different song.

Well, I mean, I get it. Nobody wants to admit they married the wrong person and/or made a bad decision to have kids, so it’s easier to say “nobody ever sees this coming” or “everyone goes through this.” It acquits you of any responsibility for your poor decision making.