Top 10 plagiarism incidents in the Chinese music scene

's most popular song this year is probably " Shang Xue " by Yun Feifei , you can always swipe to it when you open the APP. I don't know why, but this song always gives me the feeling of "meeting again" with an old song.

​​Copy all the articles all over the world, and the same is true in the pop music world. Plagiarism has become a major cancer in the Chinese pop music scene.

The Chinese music scene has been plagiarizing for a long time. Our singers and producers have copied from the 1970s to 2022, a full half century! Today, let's take a look at the top 10 plagiarism incidents in the Chinese pop music scene in the past 50 years.

1, Tanya Cai —" Red High Heels ", "Halfway"

​​Tanya won 4 Golden Melody Awards for Best Female Singer, surpassing Zhang Huimei and making history. She has talent, but her style is disgusting.

​​Tanya Cai's popular "Red High Heels", plagiarized Taylor Swift's "Take it from me" , "Halfway" has a 30-second section plagiarizing "safe and sound" .

​​Who is famous for copying who, Tanya Cai is really a bold artist. She denied it herself, saying the plagiarism made her "very sad".

2, porridge —" came out of the mountain ", "mother wants me to marry"

​​walks the rivers and lakes with 4 major chords, and porridge is known as "literary hooligan" and "former Soviet composer" in the folk ballad world. Its "original" song "Out of the Mountain" was picked up to have the exact same melody as a foreign melody, while "Mother Wants Me to Marry" copied the former Soviet ballad.

​​Hua Porridge apologized, saying it was "a temporary negligence of the staff". Apologize if exposed, better than Guo Jingming .

3, Li Yuanjie —" Leaving People Sorrow "

​​Li Yuanjie is known as a music ghost "cut" and a "stitching monster" in the Chinese music world. Hua Chenyu once criticized his creative level very euphemistically - he doesn't understand the basic music theory of , so don't advertise the original .

's "Sorrow of Leaving People" is a typical stitching work. Based on Renran 's "Hearing the Wind and Rain" by Renran Rain on ".

4, Luo Cong - the whole album

​​Luo Cong will release a album "Little Happiness" in 2021. The 9 songs included were picked up by netizens and were suspected of plagiarizing . The title song " Simple Happiness " even more openly copied Xu Song's " why not ".

​​Xu Song dares to copy all the songs, it's really an open flame. After the release of the album, Xu Song Music Company personally ended the hammer, and the two sides fought a lawsuit.

5, Chopsticks Brothers - " Old Boy " " Father "

​​When Chopsticks Brothers became popular, many people's eyes lit up: I didn't expect that there are so many talents in Chinese music, and there are such two masters hidden in the mundane world!

​​But a few years later, people were outraged! The two Divine Comedies on which chopsticks became popular - "Old Boy" and "Father" are all plagiarized works! Covering does not count, pure "bringing".

​​"Old Boy" plagiarized Japanese song "Thank you", "Father" stitches "Milk Tea" and "Stay with me". It is said that after being plagiarized, the brothers "replenished the ticket".

6, Phoenix Legend - " Above the Moon "

​​This song is the most interesting, it was questioned for plagiarism when it first became popularEnglish song "All I Rise". When this matter was still undecided, a domestic singer came forward and said that the English song was given in advance, and it copied me!

"Above the Moon" plagiarized the classic folk song "Aobao Meeting"!

​​sounds like two irrelevant songs, how could they be plagiarized? Netizens don't believe it. The two parties went to court, and the court ruled that "Above the Moon" interlude 6 bars plagiarized "Aobao Meeting", and compensated the latter for economic losses of 20,000 yuan!

​​The legend of Phoenix became popular in those days, but because of plagiarism, it failed to appear on the Spring Festival Gala the following year.

7, Zhang Hanyun - " is my "

​​The most popular song in 2005, Zhang Hanyun did not lose at all when he was the most popular Li Yuchun Zhang Liangying. Mengniu because of this song sour yogurt sells so much, so Yili can't find the north.

​​It's a pity that Zhang Hanyun's luck was so bad that his masterpiece was actually a plagiarism, and it was even exposed!

​​On May 27, 2005, some netizens called the media, claimed that "Sour and Sweet is Me" plagiarized the English song "Pretty Young Thing" . This event caused a huge sensation at the time.

​​Zhang Hanyun's agent came forward to clarify, saying that he copied it, but not all of it, the melody is his own, and the arrangement was copied from someone else's...

8, Zheng Xiuwen - " ", "unique", "seamless" ”

​​Whether “Browning” is a plagiarism or a cover has become a headless koan. Some people say that it is a cover song, and they paid for the copyright; some people say that it is plagiarism, and they bought the copyright after being sued by Li Zhenxian .

​​But one thing is certain, Zheng Xiuwen's MV's dance, costumes and even eye movements are all copied from Li Zhenxian. In 2003, Li Zhenxian accepted an interview and publicly expressed his dissatisfaction.

9, Flower Band - "Scrubbing", " Hua Difei ", " Can we not break up ", "The Best Love in the World", "Fairy Tale Life and Death Love", "Planet Opera"

Da Zhang Wei acted as the lead singer of the band. The band's career in the arts is basically full of scolding, and is characterized by music fans as the scum of the music world. Singing one after another vulgar song, insisting that it is " rock band"; the popular songs are all copied, and they dare to advertise their originality.

In February 2006, a professional pointed out that there are 13 songs in Hua'er's 2 albums suspected of plagiarizing ! The two albums have 13 songs, and the plagiarized songs are enough for one album. The incident of

​​was a thunderous shock, which shocked the cognition of many music-blind people. A month later, EMI Records came forward to apologize, and admitted that 4 songs did plagiarize .

​​Da Zhangwei's performance can be called "hardcore rock", and the company has apologized.

10, Tian Zhen - " is a big tree "

​​"What a big tree" is Tian Zhen's famous work, one of the most popular songs in the mainland in the 1990s. The song is quite special, plagiarized from the Japanese song "In the Sky and the Earth", but when it came out, there was no "copyright" in our country.

concluded that

plagiarism not only reflects the incompetence of the creator, but also reflects the low moral standard of the creator, and its harm and shame are far more harmful and shameful than whoring. We are not punishing plagiarists enough.