Greece's 2008 Eurovision Entry ripping off Timbaland

Here's a quick video I knocked up showing just how similar the 2008 Greek Eurovision entry Secret Combination by Kalomira is to Timbaland's Give it To Me (featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake). Surely this is against the rules, right?

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Eurovision
• Belgrade
• 2008
• Kalomira
• Timbaland
• Nelly
• Justin
• Ripoff

[freezycold]

You do realise that at the start of the video each track is overlaid on top of each other? If they weren't alike then they wouldn't fit together so seamlessly. The beat and the bass line are nearly identical.

[love4musiconline]

excuse me? timberland himself has allegations on him.

so i don't see why you have to support him it's not even his own music ...most of his MUSIC comes from other countries which you happen to not heard of because you only listen to shit that is feeded to you ...go out in the real world ... that sound you often hear from timberland is stolen from another part of the world okay so get your facts right.

[mmaakkiinn]

sounds nothing alike..are you deaf

[oftaja]

nothing is original anymore....

[olympia1010]

How Was It a rip Of. You Have got Not even %1 Proff That it was. What Yoou did was just put two songs together. If you wanna prove somethinng Dont put to things intogether at the same time. (( My secret combanation is a mystery for yoou)) <-- Such a great Song . I played it at skl On my ipod on the speakers and ppl were stareing at me and laughing at me I mean FUCK UP Its a great song !! BUt of course i couldnt swear at school :O Im like 11 Lol

[dervit]

Great remix! I think the beat sounds a little better on secret comb though.

[secretcombinationesc]

SO FUCKING WHAT!!?? My Secret Combination stills the BEST OF ALL for me!

[RQstar]

so what if the drum beats are similar? i mean theres A LOT songs in the world, and i can bet every eurovision contest song can be compared to a to some similar song or beats and say its ripping but that doesnt mean it IS ripping.

[Tobbx87]

Is't not really a crime to sample the drums.

Stealing music is when you steal the melodic elements. Like Timbaland does all the time. From arabic music for instance. So please stop being stupid and remove this video or something. The one who is ripping is Timbaland himself. There are many videos on youtube you can watch if you don't believe me.

[freezycold]

Jealous of...?

[rudolf69mike]

first of all kalomira is an american greek, she is born in new york ....

[Fr00ta]

The Americans like to copy a lot of European music. I can think of many greek songs that have been covered by those artists. !!! SO SUCK ON THAT MUHAHAHAHAHAAA

[goddess35]

this is reallt stupid give me a break. no rip off