Plagiarism - Ghostbusters VS Queen

[NEXPAR]

"I Want A New Drug" was NOT written 8 years after "Ghostbusters"!!!!!! "New Drug came out in 1983 while Ghostbusters came out in 1984. WTF?

[TheCatmanjoe]

Yeah, Queen did "The Works" album the same year as the film's release and then they work on "The Miracle' album the same year the sequel came out. That's something, I mean has Freddie seen that movie? :/

[BLAKERZ91]

You wanna know a couple songs covered in plagiarism? Tik Tok - KE$HA and California Girls - Katy Perry Ft. Snoop Dogg

[Cassie8810]

I never noticed this one before. They do have some similarities, but I'm not sure it's a case for plagiarism.

[Flain33]

Sounds nothing like Ghostbusters. Huey Lewis and the News "I want a new drug" was a song made before Ghostbusters but that is so similar that they sued Ray Parker Jr lol.

[allthisway40]

@Flain33 And "Pop Music" by M sounds veeeery similar too!

[burtonrules123]

wtf i thought this was gonna be GB's fighting queen! its just a dumb music video.

[OrielFilms]

wow vocally i never noticed this before lol

[clowntoon]

YES! I noticed this as well! glad I'm to know someone else can see it and I'm not insane!

[SPeacock]

@clowntoon I noticed it, too. I think The Invisible Man is inspired by the Ghostbusters theme song :)

[much1337]

HOLY CRAP!

[Hybow4ever]

Yeah, I've noticed that they're similar

[Celarko]

Anyway, the Ghostbusters theme was plagiarized from Huey Lewis and the News' I Want a New Drug. Mr Lewis had actually declined to make a song for Ghostbusters and when they stole his idea he sued Ray Parker Jr, but the case was settled. You can check out the musicplagio clip in Related videos. It gets even more interesting...

[twebb72]

credit where credit is due my friend...

huey lewis is who ray parker sampled from. there is certainly some influence from queen, but one thats legal. queen and huey lewis influenced a lot of music from the 80s on.

[barryismygod]

Hey Gamerunleashed Scat man covered it The Song in Question is Queen's The Invisible Man Originally Released in 1989 on the album The Miracle

[GamerUnleashed]

that song isn't Queen -,- it's ScatMan

[TheGreatEscapeMovie]

...its Queen

[JonnyInfinite]

eh?

[HeyyJohnnyBoy]

michael jackson's "bad" sounds like too

[marcusleonswadling]

lol

[JohnnyHeadshrinker]

Obvious steal. Like the Ray Parker version better though.

[jvrcarrasco1990]

no comparison. A waste of time.

[KnockYouOutCold]

This song more resembles Michael Jackson's 'Bad' than it does Ray Parker Jr's 'Ghostbusters'.

[PeterOnoLennon]

@KnockYouOutCold

exactly what i was going to say

[hellokittykat50]

@KnockYouOutCold true it does sound like MJ

[OxBigly2010]

@KnockYouOutCold the pacing of the verses is similar to Ghostbusters.

Also someone mixed Ghostbusters and Bad

[McDannyto]

Honestamente no le veo similitud alguna,,plagio si es de Ray Parker Jr a Huey Lewis & The News con su "I Wanna New Drug" , que hasta le gano un juicio,,pero esto no es sample ni mucho menos..!

[RafaelDivoz]

whats the meaning of Buster ?

[MrSMorgIn]

"Destroyer", I would say.

[geradcom]

cazador!!

[supremebeing87]

Not really destroyer, because they don't destroy the ghosts they only capture them, so it's the same idea of a robber getting "busted" by cops or a trouble making student getting "busted" by a teacher or something like that.

[SuperKinley]

lol, this sounds like it could be played in ghostbusters

[mind89]

es similar peor no igual en mas de un 80 porciento la ley es clara mas del 80 poricneto o parte integral de forma casi igual lo siento pero es asi

[alexfanx]

The Ghostbuster's Theme is a lot closer to the Huey Lewis song than the Queen song is to either I'd say.

[alexfanx]

Also if I'm not mistaken there's a little bit of Michael Jackson's Bad that sounds kind of similar in the vocals.

[Xxmusicxl0vexlifexX]

dude I said the exact same thing!

[larrypearce2]

Yep. Huey Lewis's "I Wanna New Drug". Huey and the boys successfully sued Ray Parker Jr.

And then came the "Back To The Future" soundtrack. Yeeeesh.....

[yougosquishnow]

yeah apparently Parker Jr only had a few days to write the theme...after Huey Lewis and the New turned the job down...talk about irony.

[lordmephysto]

Apparently no one remembers the controversy between Ray Parker Jr and Huey Lewis. Listen to the Ghostbusters theme beside Huey Lewis's "I want a new drug" sometime.... ;)

[notionsradical]

plenty of people remember it..so save us your george santyana bullshit you sanctimonious self appointed record keeper of musical controversies. fuck you.

[Dravenswraith]

if you take out the bass riff it wouldnt be any comparison

[bol316]

Pretty much agree here

[k0stil]

when i lisened to the song invisible man on the radio i thought it was ghoustbusters

[kostasxrysogelos]

Um...i think I wanti it all is more similar to Chirpy chirpy chip chip, than this one to the ghostbusters theme.

[jostopholees]

Uhh, they sound nothing alike. Video uploader is embarrassed

[fetymann]

the part that sounds similar is at :19, it resembles the part of the Ghostbusters theme where it starts "When there's something strange, in the neighborhood." it's all about the rhythm of the vocals.

[thrashcopycats]

um invisible man was after ghostbusters try and get ur facts straight before posting something like this and end up looking like an idiot

[GeansShow]

Chill, guys. Music comes from music.

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution" Paul Gaugin

[titolante]

You certainly Know no shit 'bout music!

For the untrained ears like yours "We will Rock you" might have been taken From "I love rock and roll" by Joan Jet (What ever her name was)"the invisible man" is a great song "ghost busters" can be barely called a song.

[gbsnp123]

Are you fucking stupid? The guitar riff played in "We Will Rock You" doesn't sound like "I love Rock 'n' Roll" at all. If you hear two same chords that doesn't mean it's rip off of it.

[alexfanx]

I Love Rock and Roll was by the Arrows, Joan Jet covered it later on.

[ReverendSyn]

Who cares? Theres nothing truly new under the sun as they say.

I want a new Drug sounds a lot like the country song "Baby's Got her Blue Jeans on"

They were all nice in their own right. Cant we just enjoy them as is?

[liprandi]

It does not look so similar to me, anyway "The Miracle" is from 1989, 5 years later than Ghostbusters.

[Dragonfear80]

Freddie Mercury=Ledgend

[ChrisHepditch]

You take that back! He was a legend, not a ledgend!

[aaronmmcintosh]

Who cares, it was written for the movie.

[DJNesSimepolys]

Well many people are trying to prove that Ray Parker Jr tried to steal the melody off of several existing songs. I want a new drug seems more understandable. Yet the queen song Invisibile Man came out on Queen's 1989 album. 1989 that was about 5 years after the first Ghostbusters. So if anyone stole a melody it would be Queen and not RPJ.

[DJNesSimepolys]

But personally from listening to it I think Queen ripped off Bad by Michael Jackson. It sounds more like it would fit Bad. More than Ghostbusters. Yet Bad sounds like Ghostbusters. Lemme just put the dates and label ripoff on here

1.I want a new drum 1983

2.Ghostbusters 1984 (rippoff1)

3.Bad 1987 (ripoff of2)

4.Invisible Man 1989 (possibly ripoff of 3 or 2)

[DJNesSimepolys]

oh one more....i guess 5.Invisible Man (scatman version) (cover of 4 still a ripoff of 3or2 possibly)

[thrashcopycats]

directed at DJMESSIMEPOLYS its i want a new drug not i want a new drum

[leehec]

wow so i guess this is how ray parker jr wrote the ghost busters theme song he took from this song and huey lewis's i want a new drug but i do love that ghost busters song

[ShadowColossi]

Queen's "Invisible Man" was written 5 years AFTER the Ghostbusters Theme.

[leehec]

When the similarities between this song and the theme song of the 1984 film Ghostbusters were heard, Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr. for plagiarism, claiming that Parker had stolen the melody from "I Want a New Drug". Lewis had been approached to compose the main theme song for the film, but had to decline because of his work on the soundtrack for Back to the Future. The producers of the film allegedly then hired Ray Parker and asked him to write a theme that sounded like "I Want a New Drug".

[ShadowColossi]

What's your point? I never said anything about "I Want a New Drug". YOU said he ripped off that AND "Invisible Man". But like I said, Queen's "Invisible Man" was written 5 years AFTER the Ghostbusters Theme.

[leehec]

no my reply wasnt directed at u it was for jackh4eva he wrote that new drug was written 8 years after the ghostbusters theme and u are correct about invisible man

[vicmbjwe]

So what???

Both are good... :)

[jackh4eva]

I want a new drug came out 8 years after ghostbusters.

[leehec]

"I Want a New Drug" is a song by American rock band Huey Lewis & The News from their third album Sports. It was released as the second single from the album, following the top-ten hit "Heart and Soul" in January 1984. The single reached number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Dance Club Play chart.

[powerup151]

Who you gonna call? - The invisible man! XD

[Mindslash47]

That's not funny.

[mhziqo]

love this movie. ghostbusters rocks!

[Grunger4Eva]

haha when it started off i thought it was michael jacksons song...can't remember what its called but you'll know what I mean if you know his songs

xxx

[harryguitarjackson]

flesh love flesh and the eye is flesh. <>< swims the blue.

[lozerjohnson]

You can tell how similar they are because of how catchy the songs are.