October 1, 201410 yr the girls' side of the story has come out now and apparently Rain Man was not kicked out and he's just trying to stir up shit. Either way he's no longer part of the group. http://edm.com/blog/yasmine-krewella As we reported yesterday, Rain Man's lawsuit was just one side of the Krewella story. Earlier today, Yasmine Yousaf made a statement through two Tumblr posts. Please read Yasmine's account of the situation and formulate your own opinion. Don't allow EDM.com or anyone else to influence your thoughts. Only the people involved truly know what happened, and you know just as much as we do about Rain Man leaving Krewella. Yasmine's words are below, presented without commentary. "Today was 1 of the most emotional days of my life. I know I don’t even have to explain why, as the whole internet-sphere knows by now, but reading so many false claims about my sister and me coming straight from Kris cut me deeper than anything I’ve experienced in my life. I can’t say much as this is a legal issue (and I hope that none of you will ever experience a lawsuit and know what it feels like not to be able to defend yourself to avoid MORE false claims) but truthfully all I really want to say right now is thank you. Even though only one side of a story was put on blast, every single person who texted, called, DMed, and emailed me today had nothing but support in their words. Without even hearing what I had to say, they already saw through the bullshit and knew the truth. That to me is more powerful than anything, this orb of love that I have surrounding me. I straight up feel like Harry Potter who is impervious to Voldemort’s ill will with the strength and care of my family, boyfriend, friends, and KREW. You guys never cease to amaze me with your genuine concern and care that you have for my sister and me. I am forever grateful to those who send us good vibes every day, I truly feel it from wherever you guys are in the world. Please just always remember: don’t buy the hype, don’t fall for a catchy headline. Just because you read it on your favorite blog doesn’t mean it true. Thank you guys again for your unending support." [END OF FIRST TUMBLR POST; START OF SECOND TUMBLR POST] "1 more thing; Choosing a 'side' is terrible. I don’t want anyone to take this situation as an opportunity to pity or criticize either party. From the bottom of my heart, Kris has and always will be my brother and he knows that. I would never ask anyone to feel or speak ill of him. I hope you all can understand that it is a waste of an emotion to hate someone, and that is exactly what I am trying to avoid right now. There is only 1 real message we’ve always tried to spread, and that is to spread love. Thank you guys again for the support." https://www.facebook.com/krewella To our krew: We woke up this morning to the lawsuit Kris filed against us. As you all know, there are two sides to every story. We ask our fans to please be patient and not come to any conclusions until we are able to respond to the lawsuit with the truth. Our team has advised that we don’t get into any specifics until we can properly respond to the false claims made—most importantly being that we did not kick Kris out of Krewella, he resigned. We’re having a really difficult time today. As we write this letter to you, we are in the studio working on the second album. Please hang in there with us, the truth will eventually come out. Thank you for being so supportive, we love you guys. Love, Y & J
January 19, 201510 yr next up is the entertainment news with ► ▲ N :jameela: Two groups that have largely avoided public spectacle are now at the center of a brewing legal debacle. A previously unknown songwriter named Katie Farrah Sopher has reached the media with claims that lyrics for the famous tunes “Latch,” “White Noise,” “You and Me,” and “Attracting Flies” of Disclosure and Alunageorge catalogues were all stolen from her and used without her consent. Sopher allegedly claims that Sean Sawyers, her “violent ex-boyfriend,” stole her songbook in 2009 and has since passed it on through the industry without her permission. Sopher is seeking £200,000 in compensation for her lyrics which she claims were all inspired by her abusive five-year relationship. She cites domestic abuse references like “black and blue” in “White Noise” and the entire outline of “Attracting Flies” from Alunageorge’s Body Music as evidence that these lyrics were originally hers. In response, Sawyers has denied all accusations and released a statement: “I am denying all the allegations … There is zero truth to the claims made against me. I never saw the book the claimant mentions [so] I could not have committed the alleged damages, theft, (and) copyright infringement.” What do you think of this? :o Can't be true surely?!? I really like Disclosure so it would be a shame for their image to be let down by this, it sounds likely to not be true anyway thankfully. bkk2H3Ztrfk Disclosure and AlunaGeorge's 'White Noise', with writing credits to Disclosure, AlunaGeorge and James Napier hopefully they release new material this quarter anyway, really excited to hear it :dance:
January 19, 201510 yr I can't imagine this is true, the whole thing (especially the amount she's suing for) reeks of desperation and the proof she has offered is very broad and doesn't support her case enough.
January 19, 201510 yr This is not really news, just about every successful musician gets sued for 'plagiarism' at some point or anoter (and then you never hear about it again when it's proven to just be some attention seeker as it always is - although there are a couple of exceptions to that like Baauer's 'Harlem Shake', but that's when it actually DOES become news). If the lyrics were actually stolen why would she wait until NOW to claim it? (also that thread title makes my face hurt)
January 20, 201510 yr Probably only doing this now because "Latch" became big worldwide, ain't gonna let them flop
January 20, 201510 yr (also that thread title makes my face hurt) EDM is a thing though and you will deal :teresa:
January 20, 201510 yr yes what has edm got to do with anything here?? confused do u genuinely believe alunageorge and disclosure are edm artist?! wot
January 20, 201510 yr I was referring to the term 'EDM' being horrible and unnecessary in general more than Disclosure not being 'EDM' (which they are by the actual literal meaning of that term).
January 20, 201510 yr Literal meaning maybe. However anyone who knows anything about dance music would not class them as being EDM (thankfully).
January 20, 201510 yr do u genuinely believe alunageorge and disclosure are edm artist?! wot no / yes Disclosure produce dance music and AlunaGeorge were part of this article, plus it was reported on EDM news websites!
January 20, 201510 yr Actually Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is the correct technical term for ‘Dance Music’, coined in 1985; it was shortened to ‘Dance Music’ in Europe, but has been used for the last 30 years stateside. :magic: The confusion came around 2009 onwards, when dance music began to see a revival in popularity. In the US the music industry just used the term they always had for dance music - EDM. However it has been, widely and wrongly, assumed outside of the US that ‘EDM’ refers to mainstream electro and progressive house only. ;)
January 20, 201510 yr This is a primarily European forum and 'EDM' is a primarily American term. The name of the forum itself is 'dance', why can't the thread just be called 'dance news'?
January 20, 201510 yr can we not turn this into an argument of whether the correct term is EDM or dance music? Both are correct. I'll change it to 'news' to stop people arguing, I thought people had accepted the term EDM by now. I actually suggested calling this the electronic dance music forum but it the forum name was instead changed to dance, electro and house by the admins. back on topic from this post guys :magic:
January 21, 201510 yr Disclosure deny stealing lyrics, writing this on their Facebook Hi all, Just wanted to post a little something for our fans who may have read the blogs in the last couple of days and help clear up some speculation that has been circulating, to do with whether or not we wrote the lyrics to some of our songs. Firstly we want to make it very clear that every Disclosure song we have put our names to has been written by us. We sometimes write lyrics and melodies along-side whoever the featured singer may be (i.e. Sam, Eliza etc) and the great Mr. Jimmy Napes, but that is it. When we do, we always make sure everyone gets proper credit. We take great pride in our self sufficiency, our work and the way we work, and it’s incredibly frustrating when someone tries to take that away from us, by claiming we stole even one word or one note of our music from anyone. We’d much rather be working on more music than commenting on these type of things, but it felt like we had no choice… So, just to be clear, all allegations made against us to do with this subject are completely false, as anyone we have ever worked with will back up. We didn’t get into this industry to steal other people’s ideas and we haven’t – we are musicians, artists and producers. In better news… Album 2 is niiiiicely underway! Album 2 coming soon :w00t:
January 24, 201510 yr Katie Farrah Sopher probably doesn't have any evidence to back her claims. Also, really excited for the next album!
February 10, 201510 yr well done to the following representing dance music at the Grammys :cheer: even if the All of Me remix really isn't all that great. Rather Be is fully deserving of its win though Best Dance/Electronic Album Aphex Twin - Syro Best Dance Recording Clean Bandit Featuring Jess Glynne - "Rather Be" Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical Tijs Michiel Verwest, remixer John Legend – "All Of Me (Tiesto's Birthday Treatment Remix)"
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