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I read this on the internet:
The sore truth is that pop band Orange and
Lemons ripped-
off "Chandeliers" by `80s duo The Care and used
the melody for "Pinoy
Ako" according to music correspondent Giselle
Roque who beseeched
Manila Bulletin after she read an article this
broadsheet published
last Oct. 5.
"When I was posting emails that certain artists
did not ask
permission [from The Care] and copied
`Chandeliers, I did not mention
Orange and Lemons. But they were the ones who
reacted and posted
their own defense in turn so that was the time that
established na
kinopya nila talaga yung kanta," Roque, who is
also the niece of rock
icon Sampaguita added.
"`We did make it Carish` went Orange and Lemons
`admission` and they
have the guts to say that these are two different
songs?" pointed out
Roque, who is a friend of Paul Simpson, who wrote
and
sang "Chandeliers" for the album "Diamonds and
Emeralds."
The other half of The Care duo is Ian
Broudie. "Chandeliers" was
credited to Broudie/Simpson, like the rest of the
songs in the said
album, published under Warner Chappell, Ltd. The
Care, which was
formed in 1983, was most noted for the
singles "My Boyish
Days," "Flaming Sword," and "Whatever
Possessed You."
Roque disclosed to the Bulletin that she could not
believe it when
Orange and Lemons posted on an e-group mail she
received that they
were just waiting to be noticed by Simpson and his
camp. "They
said, `At last, this is just what they`ve been waiting
forto get
noticed.` They also said that at least now, people
are researching
The Care`s music. My point is how could people
research it if you
don`t acknowledge that you got the song from The
Care? Ang isinagot
ni Clem (Castro of Orange and Lemons) `E bakit
kami magpapaalam?
Magpasalamat pa nga ang The Care at pinasikat
namin ang kanta nila.
It was really frustrating. They even wrote, `Do we
have to find
people who are avid fans of The Care and ask
permission from them?`
Well, if they`d ask me, they didn`t have to track
down Care fans,
only the person who wrote the song they ripped
off."
She further revealed that "Orange and Lemons said
that they were
pressured and did not know what else to do. Since
they were listening
to The Care, to that effect, they decided na
`puwede`
ang `Chandeliers.` I have the email from Orange
and Lemons to prove
this including the time line explaining they had to
rush the song
because ABS-CBN gave them barely a week to do
it and record the video
for `Pinoy Ako.`"
The said `time line,` Roque gathered, came up
when earlier queries
were thrown against the band in certain egroups
both Orange and
Lemons and Roque belong to.
She continued, "At that time they were
commissioned to do the melody
of the song, they were listening to The Care and
thought that it`s
some sort of natural tendency to come out with
something that sounds
like but I`ve heard of `Pinoy Ako` and that`s not
katunog. When I
heard on board a bus, I was almost sure that
`Chandelier`s` lyrics
are next after the intro so you could just imagine
the shock when
Tagalog lyrics settled in! I was like `Oh my God!
What is this?` I
didn`t know who ripped the song off that time but
same thing, I
thought `This is very sad. This is very frustrating.`
Then, somebody
from the States emailed me that they saw it on
ABSCBN`s `Big
Brother.`"
Meanwhile, ABSCBN`s official statement on the
issue was: "ABS-CBN
commissioned Orange and Lemons to compose
the music, arrange and
perform an original song, `Pinoy Ako,` as the theme
of `Pinoy Big
Brother.` Any inquiry with regard to this matter
should be addressed
to the band and Universal Records (Orange and
Lemons music label)."
A staunch believer of Indie musicians and OPM,
Roque was prompted to
come out after she read the band`s denial in
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