Can I Get A Flip-Reverse On That?
April 3, 2008 by Ailbhe Malone
Filed under Anablog
Very very quickly, because I still have 2,000 more words of mediocre French to write by tomorrow morn….
Compare the first twenty seconds of this:
[youtube:http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=HQwm1v1R-qM]
With the first twenty seconds of this:
[youtube:http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=7sei-eEjy4g]
___________ is the sincerest form of flattery. Fill the blank.
Thought this was ‘common knowledge’?
I guess not
Really? Now I’ll worry that this post is the equivalent of going ‘OMGZ!!!!!!!!!! GAry NEwman tOOOOtally ripped off da Sugababes!!!!!!!!!!!!’.
I’ve asked a few people, they did not know so its ok, Now i need to find more songs that have been re-interpreted…..
It’s a sample isn’t it?
Great song either way, I reckon.
Wikipedia says it’s a sample.
That’s sorted then.
God help me I prefer the M.I.A version!
Has somebody been reading the observer by any chance?!
No- why? I consider the Observer to be the poor man’s Gaurdian.