Christine and the Queens defends herself from plagiarism

This is one of the hits of the moment, and also the subject of a controversy on social networks. "Damn, tell me", the title of Christine and the Queens (now Chris), would it be the product of royalty-free music loops available in a consumer software? Internet users have tried to demonstrate that the main components of the song were easily accessible in Logic Pro X, an Apple program for musicians. Videos thus show the badembly of loops at the origin of "Damn, tell me". In "The Obs", the artist who celebrated her 30th birthday last month is explained that the approach that pushed her to use these loops.

"I did not plagiarize a song, what I took is free from right. 95% of today's raps borrow well-known songs. At least three pieces of Rihanna are built based on loops from these software, "she said in an interview to appear in the weekly, whose website published an excerpt Saturday. Christine and the Queens continues: "I did not plagiarize, I sampled a royalty-free loop, on which I added lyrics, singing melody, arrangements. It's a creative technique like any other. "In fact, there can be no plagiarism of royalty-free elements.

She believes she is a victim of badism

Christine and the Queens has never made a secret of her composition process. At "Vanity Fair," she had told of her debut: "I asked around me: what is the easiest way to write music? I was told: GarageBand software on Mac. I went to buy a computer. "In" The Obs ", she confides to estimate that she is today victim of badism. "One doubts that I can be author and producer because I am a woman."

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The new Christine and the Queens album, "Chris", will be released on September 21.

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