Black Eyed Peas’ music writer BMG Rights Administration has taken authorized motion towards a toy firm over alleged similarities between one in every of their iconic tracks, and one sung by a pooping unicorn.
The Poopsie Slime Shock: Dancing Unicorn toy is created by MGA (the corporate behind Bratz). Based on the lawsuit, the toys sing a tune known as ‘My Poops’ on the push of its heart-shaped bellybutton. Nonetheless, that observe allegedly rips off the rap group’s 2005 hit, ‘My Humps’.
The lawsuit (by way of Reuters) reported alleged similarities within the songs’ melodies, lyrics, chords and different components. BMG additionally stated the singer of ‘My Poops’ sounds “very comparable” to Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie.
“My poops, my poops my poops my poops. Whatcha gonna do with all that poop, all that poop,” sings the toy.
“I drive my mother and father loopy, I do it on daily basis,” it continues. On ‘My Humps’, Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie sings “I drive these brothers loopy, I do it on the every day.”
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BMG have claimed that the Poopsie Slime Shock toy line has earned MGA tens of tens of millions of {dollars} and a part of that success is all the way down to ‘My Poops’, which was additionally used to promote the product. MGA apparently additionally ignored cease-and-desist notices from BMG.
BMG have requested the court docket for no less than $10million (£8.7million) in damages however have declined to touch upon the case.
Final yr, Will.i.am informed NME that he was engaged on a brand new Black Eye Peas album. ”We’ve been engaged on it actively for the previous months and hold recording whereas on the highway,” he stated.
“Having the ability to go on tour once more was most likely the most effective items of stories for us after this pandemic. We like touring, we love performing. That’s our gas, our option to discover inspiration, nonetheless be inventive and take a look at new issues. After a seven years break with the Black Eyed Peas, we may have disappeared and by no means reached that success once more. However we labored onerous, tried to reinvent ourselves, teamed up with Latin artists and pushed it out of our consolation zone. It labored. You may by no means take something without any consideration. You continue to should study,” he added.
