Huaer Band's "Good Beginning": from the "Flower Dynasty" album released on January 21, 2006

Shunzi's "Open Up": from the 1999-03 release In the album of the same name

Huaer Band "Red Line": from the "Flower Dynasty" album released on January 21, 2006

Toy-Box "I Believe In You": Collected in the "Fantastic" album

"Flying Butterflies" by the Huaer Band: Collected in the "Fantastic Dynasty" album released on January 21, 2006

O Zone "Dragostea din tei" ": This song topped the charts in many countries in 2003 and ranked third in the UK.

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Huaer Band's "Fairytale Love of Life and Death": collected from the "Flower Dynasty" album released on January 21, 2006

k3: "heyah mama"

Huaer Band's "Can We Not Break Up": from the "Flower Dynasty" album released on January 21, 2006

Samantha Mumba: "Always Come Back To Your Love"

"MISS YOU" by Hua'er Band: from the album "I'm Your Romeo"

BUSTED: "LOSING YOU"

"The" by Hua'er Band: from "I" "I'm Your Romeo" album

AVRIL: "I DON' T GIVE"

Hua'er Band's "Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division": from the "I'm Your Romeo" album

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Aqua "Turn Back Time"

Huaer Band's "Lazy": from the "I Am Your Romeo" album

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Huaer Band's "Accompany You to Meet...": from the album "I'm Your Romeo"

TOY-BOX: "Russian Lullaby"

Related introduction: 3.15 Special - The Plagiarism Incident of Huaer Band in "Sister-in-law Jin's Plagiarism Interview" Among the nominations for the 6th Music Chart, Huaer Band was nominated for five nominations with their song "Happy Swish". However, in the past few weeks, the suspected plagiarism of Huaer's song "Happy Swish" has shocked the Chinese music scene. Famous music critic Wang Xiaofeng pointed out that 13 songs in Huaer Band's two albums "I Am Your Romeo" and "Flower Dynasty" are suspected of plagiarism, especially in the "Flower Dynasty" album, 8 of the 12 songs have been copied. Find the source. EMI Records, which signed the Huaer band, later accepted an interview and insisted that Huaer did not plagiarize.

■It’s not a coincidence, it’s just plagiarism.

Is "Xi Swish Swish" a plagiarized work? Mr. Chen Qi, a musician invited by the Beijing media, confirmed through appraisal that the four songs of Huaer Band's works "Happy Swish", "The Best Love in the World", "Fairy Tale Life and Death Love", and "Star Prison Opera" are indeed plagiarized. . After the appraisal, Chen Qi was very angry and said categorically: "This is not a coincidence, nor is it an imitation, it is plagiarism."

After Chen Qi's appraisal, the chorus part of "Happy Swish" was plagiarized from the Japanese group Puffy "K2G Running to You", "The Best Love in the World" plagiarized Korean singer Kim Momo's "Adopted Son", "Star Prison Opera" plagiarized British singer Geri Halliwell's "Calling", and "Fairytale Love" plagiarized the Belgian group K3's "TurnBackTime" .

■The Hua'er Band is extremely prosperous

For Hua'er, 2005 was an absolutely prosperous year: "Flower Season Dynasty" had a circulation of over 300,000 copies by the end of the year, which was more than last year's EMI China One of the best-selling records in the company and even in the country; the title song "Hi Swish Swish" has dominated various music and wireless charts for several weeks; in December, Hua'er, as a representative of Chinese pop music, performed in Times Square, New York Debut; last month, after the news of suspected plagiarism spread, EMI firmly denied the plagiarism. Since then, the nomination list for the 6th Music Chart has been released, and Hua'er has been nominated for five categories, including "Best Song Award in the Mainland ("Hishuashua")", "Best Composer in the Mainland (Da Zhangwei's "Hishuashua")" ")", "Best Lyricist in the Mainland (Da Zhangwei's "Hi Swish")", "Best Arranger in the Mainland (Da Zhangwei's "Hi Swish")", "Best Rock Band (Hua'er Band's "Xi Swish")" "Flower Dynasty")".

■Liu Huan reminded the judges to be cautious

The agent of Liu Huan, chairman of the jury for this year's "Music Chart", said, "Liu Huan has sent emails to all the judges about this matter. In the end, Hua'er Shortlisting will be determined by a vote from the judges."

It is reported that after listening to the questioning opinions of some judges, Liu Huan sent an email to the judges through the organizer on March 6, hoping that everyone’s attention and expressions on this matter were out of concern for the mainland. The pop music industry, especially the hope and sense of responsibility for the healthy development of the growing younger generation of musicians, hopes that the judges will take a more cautious attitude towards disqualifying Hua'er from being nominated. At the same time, Liu Huan also entrusted the organizer to package and send several of Hua'er's suspected plagiarized works to the judges, hoping that they would make their own choices after personal screening.

Chengdu fan Wang Chao sued the Huaer band, and experts in the Beijing music industry gave the appraisal result that Huaer was indeed plagiarized... The Huaer band was besieged on all sides. However, the reporter received a report from the readers' hotline yesterday, saying that Hua'er had actually admitted in a TV column that her song was plagiarized! Immediately, the reporter received the "Sister-in-law Jin Plagiarized Interview with Huaer Band 3.15 Special Program" downloaded from the Internet. After taking a closer look, she discovered that it turned out to be another "Steamed Bun" incident. It turned out that netizens used TV technology to copy "Sister-in-law Jin". Super Interview" changed its appearance, allowing Hua'er to "fully confess" the so-called "plagiarism process" on the show!

"Hu Ge"'s second spoof of Hua'er

The production technology of this spoof video is about the same as Hu Ge's "Murder Case Caused by a Steamed Bun", and it was actually reported to this newspaper Readers of the newspaper thought Hua'er had really "admitted to plagiarism"! The reporter saw that Hua'er was called a "plagiarizing boy" in the introduction of the video, and therefore launched a "plagiarism interview." Later, the host of "Super Interview" Dai Jun and the female host both appeared and invited the Huaer Band to perform the program (actually, this program was recorded by "Super Interview" before the Spring Festival). The producer of the spoof video, "Gou Sheng", changed the "super interview" into a "plagiarism interview", changed the sponsor "Golden Throat" into "Golden Sister-in-law", and changed Dai Jun's description of Hua'er's "jumping up and down" into "high plagiarism". Copy it." The most powerful thing is that "Gou Sheng" actually found the original album covers of the songs that Hua'er Band was suspected of plagiarizing, and broadcast them one by one in three rounds in the video, indicating the song title, singer name, publication year, and total ** * "Exposed" Hua'er's 13 suspected plagiarized songs made people wonder whether "Gou Sheng" is a professional in the music industry.

Writing an article incognito to cry out for Hua'er

At the end of the video, "Gou Sheng" wrote subtitles and called himself the director, and gave a couplet: "Eat my food." I spit it out; take mine and give it back to me." The horizontal comment was "Music is also cracked down on fakes" and he announced the "official website" where he posted the video: /. The reporter immediately found an article on the "official website" that was published in conjunction with the video, "It's not a crime for Hua'er to copy bars. The agency really treats the audience as farmers." The article read: "Hua'er is indeed guilty of serious crimes. In fact, the source of the crime lies with Hua'er's management company!" The article stated in the tone of an industry insider that after Hua'er got rid of the lawsuit with "Small Workshop Company", she signed with an international company, but the songs she wrote could not satisfy the new boss at all. , so the boss took out a bunch of foreign CDs for Hua'er to "learn from". The article also commented: "So, the entire responsibility for this 'plagiarism' incident lies with the brokerage company. It is entirely your own fault! ... If you don't respect our audience, then we won't expose your shortcomings!" The article was written with a lot of resentment.

Hua'er responded: I have never lied to anyone

The reporter has been trying to contact "Gou Sheng" himself in the past two days and found a QQ number on other websites where he posted videos , but the other party has been offline and ignored the message sent by the reporter. The reporter recently interviewed EMI about the statement that "the entire responsibility lies with the brokerage company." A person in charge said: "This is absolute nonsense! Without evidence, it is slander!" The reporter also learned yesterday that the Huaer Band performed at a commercial performance in Nanjing yesterday. Hua'er, who is always cheerful and cheerful, refused to be interviewed by the media yesterday. She kept a dark face in the audience and even refused to let reporters take pictures. However, in an interactive program, the lead singer Da Zhangwei said proudly: "I am a good person and have never lied to anyone." When he was about to sing the last song "Hee Swah Swish", he was affected by the atmosphere of the scene. , Da Zhangwei, who was in a good mood, said to his fans: "Some very bad things have happened during this period, but no matter how big the storm is, it will pass. Some self-righteous people are very annoying. But you support us, We are very touched and thank you for your support." This sentence is the Huaer band's first public response to the "suspected plagiarism" incident. After the singing of "Hee Swah Swish" ended, the four boys quickly left the scene and left in a hurry under the protection of many staff.

Take mine and send it back to me, eat mine and spit it out for me..." The catchy melody and popular lyrics, "Hee Swah Swish" made the once silent "Hua" The band "Er" became popular all over the country last year.

However, there has been a rumor on the Internet recently that the chorus of the song is exactly the same as the chorus of "K2G Running to You" by the popular Japanese group Puffy in previous years. There are also senior Music critics pointed out that 13 songs in the albums "I Am Your Romeo" and "Flower Dynasty" by the band "Hua'er" were suspected of plagiarism.

In this regard, "Hua'er" The band was collectively silent, and its EMI record company said they preferred to believe the artists, but many people in the industry severely criticized this phenomenon.

It is too confusing to the Chinese audience.

After downloading and listening to the song "K2G Running to You" online, I found that except for the beginning, which is slightly different from "Hee Swish", the repeated melody of the chorus is exactly the same. As for the lyrics, "Hee Swish" is "take it." Bring back what you owed me, spit out what you ate." The Chinese translation of the chorus of "K2G Running to You" is "Give me back what you owe me, hand over what you stole from me." ". One netizen said, "Even the lyrics are plagiarized. The band Hua'er has fooled the Chinese audience too much! "

The Puffy group is composed of two girls. It was a "super popular" group in Japan in the past few years. In May 1996, its first single "Asia's Innocence" set a sales record of one million copies. . In 2003, Puffy released an album in Japan and North America, which included "K2G Running to You". The song also became the advertising song for the Kyushu section of the Japan Passenger Railway Company.

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Although the "Hua'er" band has not admitted plagiarism so far, relevant legal experts said that there are no clear legal provisions on plagiarism of musical works, but there are relevant provisions in the "Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China" The terms can be restricted.

There is a common standard in the music industry, that is, "any similarity of more than 8 bars is considered plagiarism." The part is 4 bars long, and the band sang it twice, which is actually exactly 8 bars of "K2G Running to You". , some netizens recently posted to find out the similarities between 13 "original" works of the "Hua'er" band and some foreign songs, and also included song previews. As for the newly released "Flower Season Dynasty", the album has 12 songs. , eight of which have been found out.

Music critic Wang Xiaofeng: At least four of the songs are the same

The famous music critic Wang Xiaofeng first posted " He found 13 suspected plagiarized songs and the original works of the "Hua'er" band, and compared the mp3 download links of the suspected similar songs in complete order.

Yesterday, he said in an interview: "These 13 suspected plagiarized songs were compared Among the plagiarized songs, at least 4 were almost the same. "

Wang Xiaofeng said that it is troublesome to determine whether a song is plagiarized, "because if the harmony and melody arrangement of two songs are the same, it is considered plagiarism.

There are many reasons for this situation. The more common one is that the author deliberately quotes and draws on the harmony and melody of the original song in his own arrangement, so that the original author's name is usually signed; the other is that the author does not write the original song before creating it. I know the original song, maybe I have heard it occasionally. When I was writing, I wrote the melody as it flashed in my mind. There will be some similarities. Another way is that my harmonious idea is exactly the same as the original song. Such a writer would be too much. Awesome! ”

Musician Xiao Ke: This doesn’t make sense

The famous musician Xiao Ke said that he has been paying attention to this matter for a long time, “In fact, everyone said that "Hee Swah Swish" was plagiarized, which is why this is true. The song is very popular right now. If it is an unknown song, I believe that not many people will care about it if they are full. There are many things that are ‘borrowed from’ in the music industry nowadays, but we firmly do not advocate such things. If it is indeed borrowed or copied, it is not a big deal to indicate it. However, it is not a big deal to write your own name in the author's signature. "

Shui Mu Nian Hua: Over time, you will lose your creative ability

Lu Gengxu, the captain of the "Shui Mu Nian Hua" group, said that he has also noticed this phenomenon, but it is inconvenient to express his opinion. However, he He gave his own example to explain that when composing songs, he would try his best to avoid duplication of other people's works. "The average singer will not tolerate the similarity of more than 4 bars between his original works and others. If the arrangement is really If I have the same opinion, I will try my best to get around it. "

Lu Gengxu said that there are also similar things in the works of some foreign singers or bands, but they are only a little bit similar. They don't have such a large area and so many amazing similarities. "As a creative Singer-type singers should work hard on their creative skills. People may not pay attention to whether you plagiarize or not when listening to songs, but in the long run, they will lose their creative ability, and the music world will not be prosperous. "

"Huaer" band: Use your personality to guarantee that you have not plagiarized

"Huaer" band lead singer Da Zhangwei has a very disdainful attitude towards the plagiarism incident of "Hee Swah Swish". Some media During the interview, he only said five words: "There are many celebrities." After that, he never accepted any related interviews. The record company also stated that the "Huaer" band was still on vacation and could not be contacted.

EMI Records, the band signed by "Hua'er", made a solemn statement on this. The "Hua'er" band assured them that there was absolutely no plagiarism. The person in charge of the record company said that the company has read relevant reports and they have carefully studied the situation. First of all, they have seriously questioned the "Huaer" band about this matter, but they used their personality to guarantee that they did not plagiarize. Therefore, the record company believes that the artist should be respected.

In addition, EMI Records said that now the Internet is not plagiarized. Many things are spread without basis and will change after being passed around. Therefore, you cannot completely trust the things on the Internet. Finally, EMI also said that a good singer-songwriter or group must be familiar with all kinds of things. Music, so there must be a lot of music that has been incorporated into the creator’s brain, and this should not be called plagiarism. Huang Weijing, the person in charge of the company, frankly told reporters that the company believes in the singer. Zhang Wei, he said that these melodies came from his mind and he wrote them down as soon as they came to mind. I want to believe him. "

■Circumstantial evidence

"Hua'er" is so popular!

The band "Hua'er" released the album "I Am Your Romeo" in 2004. In 2005, the album "Flower Dynasty" was released. In these two albums, 13 songs in one album are suspected of plagiarism. If these suspicions are finally confirmed, it may be a rare occurrence in the history of world pop music. "Spectacle".

In the album "I Am Your Romeo", "Miss You" is suspected to be similar to the album "Losing You" of the same name published by the British three-piece group Busted in 2002. There are indeed many songs in these two There are similarities in places. For example, the pronunciation of "Miss You" and "Losing You" are somewhat similar, and the overall melody is also very similar. However, similar melodies are everywhere in such saliva songs. It's really unclear who copied whom.

"The" was pointed out as plagiarizing "I Don't Give" by Canadian female singer Avril Lavigne.

When was "I Don't Give" published? In 2002, Avril published a miscellany, which included some unpublished songs in the official album. In 2003, another unofficial album "Secret Collection" also included this song. Generally speaking, Such albums will not sell more than official albums in the market, but they are often collected by fans as treasures, so they are also widely spread.

"Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division" is also suspected of plagiarizing "Turn Back Time" by the famous Danish group Aqua. This song comes from their 1998 album "Bubble Mix". Especially the chorus parts of the two songs are quite similar. Both songs are lyrical songs.

"Fairy Tale Life and Death Love" is such a lyrical song. I am sure many people were moved to tears by the moving melody of the song. But when you hear "Heyah Mama" released in 2000 by K3, a girl group from Belgium, a country that has never produced a world-class singer, the only thing you can be sure of is who bought whose cover rights.

The song "We Have to Break Up" is also very sad, but what makes me even more sad is that I heard two songs that seemed familiar to this song, one of which was sung by Dawn a long time ago "My Darling", this song was composed by Noriyuki Hara, and the other song was by Irish black female singer Samantha Mumba, who included "Always Come Back To Your Love" in her 2000 album "Gotta Tell You". If you listen carefully, you can find that the combination of the verse part of "Always Come Back To Your Love" and the chorus part of "My Dear" is "We Can't Help Breaking Up".

Suppose, we determine that all the songs of the "Hua'er" band are original, and these suspected songs are only suspected, but unfortunately, these songs are basically saliva songs, which in turn proves that, The two albums "Hua'er" are basically dominated by saliva songs. I spent a whole night researching these songs, and I can only conclude that "Hua'er" has released two albums of oral songs. In addition, it can also be seen from these suspected cases that the creator Da Zhangwei has a preference, that is, he is very sensitive to those lyrical, salivating, and catchy melodies. This shows that since the publication of "Beside Happiness", he has , there is not much progress.

Public statement from EMI to major media

Regarding the "plagiarism" incident involving the Hua'er Band, EMI made the following statement:

1. First of all , EMI is very sorry for the trouble caused to the media and the public due to the "plagiarism" of Huaer Band during this period.

2. In response to Zhang Wei’s inappropriate accusations and attitude at the briefing meeting on March 14, EMI Records also issued a stern reprimand to the artist immediately after the meeting, and Zhang Wei himself also expressed Regret. Here, I would also like to express my apology and gratitude to the critics who care about Huaer.

3. EMI Records’ view on this “plagiarism” incident is: According to international practice, as long as the melody exceeds 8 bars of similarity, regardless of the creator’s intention or unintentional, it will be regarded as “plagiarism”. It is also because EMI respects intellectual property rights that it immediately started copyright processing after discovering this fact. This also means that EMI has no intention to avoid the fact that some songs in Hua'er's album have constituted "plagiarism."

4. EMI Records’ achievements in promoting original music and artists from the mainland over the years are undoubtedly evident. EMI will strengthen the supervision of music and the education of artists. We hope that everyone can continue to give feedback and support on Hua'er's next album.

Finally, I once again solemnly apologize to the media and the public who have troubled me about this incident. Thank you for your corrections and concerns.

I once refused to admit it even to death

In February 2006, the incident of "a large number of Huaer band's songs were suspected of plagiarism" caused an uproar on the Internet. The staff of EMI Records responded categorically, "Absolutely. It is an original work of the Huaer Band" and believed that the incident was "the result of the popularity of the song."

In late February, music critic Wang Xiaofeng disclosed on his blog the names of songs "suspected" of plagiarism by the band, identifying 13 songs in the band's two albums as suspected plagiarism.

In this regard, EMI staff said: "We have seriously questioned the Hua'er band about this matter, but they have guaranteed with their integrity that they did not plagiarize."

In early March, the Hua'er band went to Chongqing for a commercial performance to "sleep" ” and other reasons for refusing to accept media interviews.

On March 11, experts determined that four songs including "Hee Swish Swish", "The Best Love in the World", "Fairy Tale Life and Death Love" and "Planet Opera" were indeed plagiarized. When Huaer Band attended an event in Nanjing, they insisted not to admit plagiarism. Da Zhangwei said: "Some very bad things have happened during this period, but no matter how big the storm is, it will definitely pass. Some self-righteous people , they hate it." This is also the first time the band has responded positively to the "suspected plagiarism" incident.

On March 14, the simplified score identification charts of the four songs "Hee Swish Swish", "The Best Love in the World", "Fairy Tale Love" and "Planet Opera" were released. On the same day, EMI Records and Huaer Band lead singer Da Zhangwei issued a statement admitting that the music had flaws, but did not admit "plagiarism" from beginning to end.

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