Beyoncé vs. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

The new Beyoncé-clip "Countdown" shows some striking resemblance with movies from Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Judge for yourself.

http://www.stubru.be/programmas/zetmo...

Studio Brussel is a Belgian radio station broadcasting from Brussels, Belgium.

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[ToadyMcgee]

In college and high school we probably all learned the hard way about correctly citing sources/references. Beyonce needs to do just that.

[RawFish IsRaw]

Most of the people who buy her music aren't exactly intelligent people in the first place. Why spend loads of money on music you hear on the radio 5 times/day in the first place?

Beyonce is a shameless and a fraude figure funded by naive and simplistic people.

[MiaLeonora]

Jealous much.

[XavierXStar]

She is such a thief she stole this choreography and she has stolen the song If I were a boy, and who knows what else she's stolen!

[Pirate Man]

Artists rarely give credit.

Going forth on your likes I saw Kylie Minogue, half her songs contain uncredited samples, and a nice one on that Duck Sauce song, it's basically replaying /watch?v=CVAG6lqQqo0 most people knew this already just because the original is also kinda famous but lot's of samples remain 'secret' if you will... Not that I have a problem with that, it's a good thing if hidden gems are found. But don't deny the fact, many songs are just reinterpretations of others their work.

[originalblerd]

And it can't be called a 'cover' since she presented it as her own original work until she was finally forced to admit otherwise.

[originalblerd]

A cover is literally one's interpretation of a song which they fully announce and acknowledge was originally written and/or performed by another artist. Sampling implies using part of someone else's work and incorporating it into your own original creative work. Also, sampling is always acknowledged in the writing credits for any purchased physical copy of the music, whereas a music video has no equivalent. The moves weren't sampled, she straight up copied the entire choreography costumes & all.

[Pirate Man]

Well, the song has samples from Boyz II Men. So you could say the moves were 'sampled' from AT De Keersmaeker.

All artists do this. I don't know what your favorite band or artist is but they probably did covers or used samples from songs without giving any credit. That's just how the music industry works =)

[originalblerd]

hard to call it an "ode" when she never asked Keersmaeker's permission and never gave the woman a shout out. this is plagiarism.

[AOTWhasFriends]

Not surprised.

[Crystal Kennedy]

Idk. These two are so close that I believe this is more of an ode to Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker than a steal. I think if she was gonna steal some choreography she'd do it in a more discreet way.

[coco loco]

this is what they call inspiration...? ^o^