GenErik

In my real life I’m in television advertising, and sometimes I also create production music to go in the background for these. In April 2007 I created this ad:

One of those annoying late night ads to be sure. However if you’ve paid attention to commercial R&B lately (I certainly haven’t, but buddy Brandon tipped me off), you might have heard some slight similarities in this April 2008 Usher track:

A complete ripoff!

OK, to be fair we might just have used the same royalty free GarageBand supplied sample set (Euro Hero), but it just goes to show that with very a minimum of know-how and free Apple-supplied software you too can be a million dollar hip hop producer!

GenErik - Date Song (MP3, 192Kbs, 0:42, 984KB)

Update: I’m of course not the first to notice this. From Wikipedia:

“Love in This Club” is a mid-tempo song that strongly seems to be made out of a couple stock loops (Euro Hero Synths) from the Apple Inc. GarageBand software, although denied by Polow da Don.^[5] The song features guest vocals from Young Jeezy. According to Polow da Don, the lyrics are not about sex, they’re about having the urge. Polow da Don wanted to call the song “Lust at first sight”.^[3]

Polow da Don denied that he was using Euro Hero Synths from Apple? When it is dead plain obvious? That makes him Douchebag of the Year™ in my book.