{"id":96401,"date":"2011-05-18T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T07:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=96401"},"modified":"2011-05-18T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T07:23:15","slug":"azerbaijan-duos-winning-song-copy-plagiarized-kai-metov-thinks-so-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/18\/azerbaijan-duos-winning-song-copy-plagiarized-kai-metov-thinks-so-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan Duo&#8217;s Eurovision Winning Song Copy Plagiarized? Kai Metov Thinks So (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How could the duo from Azerbaijan win over 43 countries who awarded them 221 points in the Eurovision Song Contest? Even a few days after the end of the contest, this question still continues to baffle Europe and Russia, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/lifenews.ru\/\"><strong>LifeNews<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the secret is that the music of the song &#8220;Running Scared&#8221; performed by Nigar Jamal and Eldar Gasimov is painfully similar to the American group One Republic&#8217;s song &#8220;Secret,&#8221; according to the Russian-language news source.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qHm9MG9xw1o?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would say the songs are similar. The guys from Azerbaijan were inspired by this track,&#8221; singer Dmitry Malikov told Life Showbiz, &#8220;There is a general tone, a general harmony, melodic direction, but the winning song, of course, should have been more original.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iq2yLykdjvA?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it comes to plagiarism, one must understand that we&#8217;re talking about melody. In these two compositions, the same harmonic series is used,&#8221; said singer Kai Metov (pictured on album cover). &#8220;Even if from the Azerbaijani duo&#8217;s song you remove the melody and leave some chords, the listener will immediately have the same associative array as with the song by One Republic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music of the song &#8220;Running Scared&#8221; performed by Nigar Jamal and Eldar Gasimov is painfully similar to the American&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25657,19872,25658,26645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}