{"id":502,"date":"2022-08-05T07:46:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T07:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpelembe.net\/?p=502"},"modified":"2022-08-05T07:46:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T07:46:32","slug":"beyonce-is-cutting-a-sample-of-milkshake-out-of-her-new-song-but-not-because-she-stole-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpelembe.net\/index.php\/beyonce-is-cutting-a-sample-of-milkshake-out-of-her-new-song-but-not-because-she-stole-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonc\u00e9 is cutting a sample of Milkshake out of her new song \u2013 but not because she \u2018stole\u2019\u00a0it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/hayleigh-bosher-437649\">Hayleigh Bosher<\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/institutions\/brunel-university-london-1685\">Brunel University London<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There was lot of excitement leading up to Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s album Rennaissance, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/music\/news\/beyonce-renaissance-leak-1235327192\/\">leaked two days before it release<\/a>. Maybe it could have done with a bit more time, as two songs are set to be rerecorded and released. The song Heated will have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/beyonc-remove-ableist-lyric-heated-renaissance-2022-8\">ableist language<\/a> removed from it, while the song Energy will be rerecorded without one of the samples on which it is built.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This second change has been portrayed as a response to the singer Kelis calling the use of the sample \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/beyonce-removes-kelis-interpolation-energy-1235121669\/\">theft<\/a>\u201d, and to Beyonc\u00e9 \u201callegedly failing to seek permission for usage\u201d. But that\u2019s not actually true. While Kelis might not have been paid for the sample \u2013 and that is an issue \u2013 that\u2019s to do with her legal contract with her producers, not a failure on Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s part.<\/p>\n<p>Kelis is the performer of Milkshake, which was released in 2003. Now you might think she should be getting money for any use of the song. However, the credits and the royalties for Milkshake go to Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams, together known as The Neptunes, who reportedly wrote and produced it. <\/p>\n<p>In the music industry, when a song is recorded it has two rights attached to it. One in the actual sound recording and one in the song itself. This is why Taylor Swift re-recorded and release her music to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pB1nyP_O7II\">reclaim her rights<\/a> in the sound recordings. She was the owner of the songs themselves but not the recordings, so she made new recordings. <\/p>\n<p>These different rights are often owned by different people and are governed by contracts. So who owns what and how much they earn depends heavily on the agreement between the people involved.<\/p>\n<figure>\n            <iframe width=\"440\" height=\"260\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6AwXKJoKJz4?wmode=transparent&#038;start=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In 2020, Kelis revealed in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/jan\/30\/unmasked-singer-kelis-on-music-men-and-her-missing-money\">interview<\/a> that she doesn\u2019t make any money from her two albums produced by The Neptunes. She said that she was told everything would be split three ways and so didn\u2019t double check when presented with the contract.<\/p>\n<p>She was 19 at the time of signing the contract and claimed that she was \u201cblatantly lied to and tricked\u201d but didn\u2019t notice at first because she had other sources of income, like from touring. \u201cTheir argument is: \u2018Well, you signed it.\u2019 I\u2019m like: \u2018Yeah, I signed what I was told, and I was too young and too stupid to double-check it.\u2019\u201d So, due to the contract, Kelis doesn\u2019t have any copyright in the song Milkshake, or indeed much of her first and second albums.  <\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2022\/05\/producer-chad-hugo-neptunes-interview-pharrell.html\">interview <\/a> earlier this year with the culture publication Vulture, Hugo brushed off these comments: \u201cI heard about her sentiment toward that. I mean, I don\u2019t handle that. I usually hire business folks to help out with that kind of stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Different type of samples<\/h2>\n<p>The sample of \u201cMilkshake\u201d in Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s new song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O9rk6ldyFkA\">Energy<\/a> is credited to Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams, but not Kelis. The Milkshake singer commented on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CgcSNyHsTVW\/\">Instagram<\/a>: \u201cMy mind is blown too because the level of disrespect and utter ignorance of all three parties involved is astounding.\u201d And said that she found out about the sample use at the same time everyone else did.<\/p>\n<p>This has happened because of the way that sample licensing works alongside the song rights and the sound recording rights. <\/p>\n<p>When you sample directly, you take the sound recording and cut and paste it into a new song. This means you are using both the sound recording and the musical work, and so need permission from both owners. <\/p>\n<p>For example, the artist Ashnikko recently directly sampled another hit song performed by Kelis \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N3JFwd1bk4Q&#038;ab_channel=KelisVEVO\">Caught Out There<\/a>, taken from the same debut album Kaleidoscope \u2013 in her song <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=DXGelmwqfm4\">Deal With it (feat. Kelis<\/a>). Williams and Hugo also both appear in the writing credits.<\/p>\n<figure>\n            <iframe width=\"440\" height=\"260\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O9rk6ldyFkA?wmode=transparent&#038;start=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9, on the other hand, did not directly sample the sound recording, but instead recreated the sound herself, known as an interpolation. There are a number of reasons why a song creator might choose to use either a direct sample or an interpolation. It can relate to budget (unlikely in Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s case), or artistic choice based on the meaning behind the use of the sample or the formation of the song. <\/p>\n<p>For example, in a dance track it\u2019s common to use the sound recording and lean towards more of a remix. Whereas an interpolation can be more about building on a theme or making a cultural reference. <\/p>\n<p>An interpolation only requires clearance for the musical work that is usually owned by the publisher and credits the songwriters. Kelis is not credited as a songwriter and doesn\u2019t own any of the publishing rights, so legally there was no requirement to clear the sample with her.<\/p>\n<p>So Beyonc\u00e9 may have decided to remove the sample due to the public backlash, or because she sympathised with Kelis. But it does not appear to have been for legal reasons and it certainly wasn\u2019t the case that she stole the sample.<\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/hayleigh-bosher-437649\">Hayleigh Bosher<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/institutions\/brunel-university-london-1685\">Brunel University London<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This article is republished from <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\">The Conversation<\/a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/beyonce-is-cutting-a-sample-of-milkshake-out-of-her-new-song-but-not-because-she-stole-it-188187\">original article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayleigh Bosher, Brunel University London There was lot of excitement leading up to Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s album Rennaissance, which was leaked two days before it release.<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/mpelembe.net\/index.php\/beyonce-is-cutting-a-sample-of-milkshake-out-of-her-new-song-but-not-because-she-stole-it\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowu7GVCw:productID":"","_crdt_document":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[16300,696,16294,16298,722,162,16297,16292,773,16293,16299,10622,11506,16296,16295],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-ashnikko","tag-beyonce","tag-caught-out-there","tag-chad-hugo","tag-creative-commons","tag-energy","tag-hayleigh-bosher","tag-kelis","tag-london","tag-milkshake","tag-pharrell-williams","tag-renaissance","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the-hits","tag-the-neptunes"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/mpelembe.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beyonce.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/mpelembe.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beyonce-300x202.jpg","large":"https:\/\/mpelembe.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beyonce.jpg"},"ams_acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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