A reminder that "Fight the Power" from Do the Right Thing is one of the most iconic and effective original songs in the history of movie soundtracks but was never eligible for Best Original Song because sampling makes a song not "original"https://twitter.com/ilyseh/status/1226694375759065088 …
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Replying to @hegelsbro @arthur_affect
It’s a new recording, not a sample of an existing recording. So, yes.
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Replying to @MerrickGreenVM @hegelsbro
For the purpose of Best Original Song, covers, parodies, new lyrics to the same tune or vice versa, are also all disallowed John Williams does scores, not songs, so it's not the same conversation
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But yes "originality" really means being able to effectively hide your influences from your audience Good artists borrow, great artists steal, etc
2:11 PM - 10 Feb 2020
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