

In April 2015 action was finally taken by The Gap Band for their credit when a settlement was made with the band and producer for them to receive a combine seventeen percent state, as well as credited as the writers of the track.Īlthough The Gap Band did receive credit towards the song a year later after it being released, if Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars had given them credit from the beginning, they would have saved a lot of money and hassle. The spokes person of The Gap Band, Kali Bower claims that the hook of the two songs is too similar to be a coincidence.

When Uptown Funk was released in 2014 no credit was given to The Gap Band. A: Total Experience Music (Leosong) B: Total Experience Music From the U.S.-Hit-Album Gap Band II aus dem Hause phonogram Stereo. Lyrics:say oops upside your head say oops upside your headsay oops upside your head say oops upside your headpay attention nowsay oops upside your head say o. Uptown Funk uses many unique hooks throughout the song, proving that it is copied from Oops Upside Your Head. Uptown Funk is a more recent song, being released in 2014, while Oops Upside Your Head was released in 1979. Listening to the audios of these two songs it is very difficult to even tell which one is which. Like many cases, these two songs have very similar baselines and beats. (instrumental) I dontt believe that you want to get up and dance. Now analyzing the comparison of Oops Upside Your Head and Uptown Funk. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images ‘Uptown Funk’ Is Longest-Leading Hot 100 No. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupOops Upside Your Head (made popular by The Gap Band) (backing Version) Party TymeDance & Disco Hits 8 - Party T. Basic Elements of Creativity from Everything is a Remix Robert Wilson, Charlie Wilson and Ronnie Wilson of the funk group 'Gap Band' pose for a portrait in circa 1980. Finally, recombining is putting different ideas together to create something new. Transforming is the way we take others ideas but recreate them into our own. We observe how others do things and use that to influence our own ideas. In the video of Everything is a Remix, copying is the way that we learn. For the two songs we must look at this differences between copying, transforming and recombining.
