Amy X. Wang, who is not very adept at concealing a grudge against
theft accusations towards hip hop, has written yet another article for Quartz with a blatant, not
very subtle agenda that skimps on facts (there is no Radiohead vs Lana Del
Rey lawsuit as of yet), equates court results with industry standards (ex:
failing to note how some instances in which Led Zeppelin escaped a punitive
verdict have nothing to do with music but legal technicalities), links to
articles as iffy and badly sourced as her own, and has the fucking temerity to
call all of jazz “essentially a study in plagiarism”. Fuck, feels like a headache
coming on.
Unfortunately, only us music geeks take this sort of thing
seriously but we've always been irked by and called out folks whose writing can be kindly and euphemistically referred to as "problematic", reaching a large audience
under the imprimatur of respectability that a serious publication grants their
nonsense, mainly because it spreads misinformation at best; and at worse plain ol' ignorance.
Radiohead’s Lawsuit Against Lana Del Rey Shows How All Music Is Stolen
