It’s a tale as old as time: a company releases a new TV advertisement featuring a piece of music; an artist hears said music and recognizes it as resembling his or her own; the artist fires off some sort of angry missive about it and/or seeks legal counsel.
Since time is indeed a flat circle and all things repeat themselves, no matter how many lessons are learned along the way, NME reports that the German car company Audi now finds itself accused (song-thief!) following the release of its new Italian car commercial.
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At the heart of the argument is the London-born musician SOHN, whom SPIN dubbed a Best New Artists back in January of this year. After the artist born Christopher Taylor watched the aforementioned Audi commercial, he let his fingers fly on Twitter.
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.@Audi feels like you may have “borrowed” from one of my tunes… Can I “borrow” one of your cars? https://t.co/N3hkCzxVun #lessons
— SOHN (@SOHN) September 22, 2014
The tune in question is SOHN’s “Lessons,” released last year and featured on the musician’s April release Tremors. Here’s that track for an aural comparison.
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It seems like a pretty safe bet to say that SOHN has this one correct, but Audi has yet to respond to the singer’s accusations on Twitter.
