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>Just as other songwriters had once been affected by having their songs
>swiped, the impact on Carey of losing the "Firecracker" sample for Glitter
>was deep. The singer was forced to quickly change the sample on "Loverboy"
>from "Firecracker" to Cameo's old hit, "Candy."
>
>"We had to work fast," says a Glitter source, "because we had to find music
>that would fit what was already filmed." Nevertheless, the damage was done.
>When "Loverboy" was released it was savaged by music industry trade paper
>Billboard in an unusually harsh review.

What I find depressing about this is:

Everything.



  "We had to work fast, says a Glitter source"...  and do what? Find 
another sample?  Is that working fast?  I thought working fast would 
mean working fast to create something.  Why do they have to "work 
fast" to find something to cannibalize?  Why couldn't they just make 
a groove?  Is this really what it has come to at the top end of the 
biz where people are signing $80,000,000.00 deals?


There was a time when people actually wrote music and using the music 
someone else wrote was considered plagiarism.

Now who gets dibs on a sample of which hit song is a media sensation?


"Pathetic" is the word that leaps into *my* mind.