Jukebox Glory Whores
Taking credit for the work of others is always looked foully upon. Waltzing up with a stolen piece of work and bathing in the glory of compliments and appraisal is a thoroughly despicable act. Plagiarism is a crime, thieving recognition is bad manners and the whole concept is just not cricket.
In the music world, you will get sued for recording a covered version of a song without acknowledging the original artist. In fact, in the entertainment industry, if you so much hum the tune to a song without having paid for it, you are liable to have the pants, and possibly other pieces of clothing, sued off you. Musicians are rather protective of their intellectual rights, and rightfully so, hate seeing others receiving praise for their hard work.
However these glory thieves are operating in a more clandestine way. Their tools: a jukebox and an audience of fairly intoxicated individuals. No doubt, if you frequent a pub equipped with a jukebox, you will encounter somebody who spends a heap of money ordering songs on the jukebox. Then when their song comes on, their excitement bubbles over and they begin to brag about how they were the ones who put it on. The desperate attention seeker will then point out others who are either nodding their head to the beat, or miming the lyrics, and proudly exclaim: “See what I did!”
Yes, these people put a song on that everybody knows and suddenly they become heroic. It couldn’t possibly be the months of hard work that Jimmy Barnes and Cold Chisel put into recording Khe Sanh that made everyone sing along, no, it was obviously the guy who spent $1 and chose anything in ‘classics’. When people start singing along to I Cant Get No Satisfaction, it’s because some gifted individual carefully selected the right tune to match the mood, atmosphere, tidal movement and planetary alignment and happened to make a great choice through their own astute talent for choosing the absolute right song. It’s definitely not because the Rolling Stone’s catchy 1965 hit has become so embedded within popular culture that it’s almost impossible to find somebody who doesn’t know the words. Definitely not…
Who do these people think they are? The Fonz?
In the music world, you will get sued for recording a covered version of a song without acknowledging the original artist. In fact, in the entertainment industry, if you so much hum the tune to a song without having paid for it, you are liable to have the pants, and possibly other pieces of clothing, sued off you. Musicians are rather protective of their intellectual rights, and rightfully so, hate seeing others receiving praise for their hard work.
The original glory thief
Who do these people think they are? The Fonz?
