While fans may be used to Usher burning up with charts, the R&B veteran is the latest hitmaker feeling the heat – heading from the charts to the court over a plagiarism claim. Joining Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Leona Lewis, the ‘My Way’ maestro will soon be making his way to defend his case after songwriter Ernest Lee Straughter convinced a judge that Mr. Raymond’s 2004 Jermaine Dupri-produced ‘Burn’ plagiarized a work of his.
Billboard reports:
Last month, a California federal judge found there to be sufficient possibility that Usher and co-defendants who produced the song had access to Slaughter’s work, “Reasons,” created in 1998. The judge accepted a musicologist’s report that noted substantial similarity between the songs and denied a motion to dismiss the case on summary judgment.
Take a listen to both cuts after the jump and you be the judge:
Usher’s ‘Burn’:
Slaughter’s ‘Reasons’ later known as Reel Tight‘s ‘No More Pain’:
Defendants Usher, Jermaine Dupri, and Arista Records have yet to comment. Billboard further reported, ‘leaving aside the issue of whether these songs sound alike, the big controversy at the moment in the lawsuit is whether Usher and Dupri had access to Straughter’s song.’
Read the full story here.
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I don’t here it.
hear*
Call me stupid but this shid sounds nothing like Burn….the other song sucks!!
1st!!!
This is just some random person looking for money….Remember that one chick who said my fave stole Judas from her and the songs sounde NOTHING alike????Exactly.
If Usher needs to “Feel the Burn” off of anything,It should be some Clippers burning up that Shag carpet on his heaqd…
y’all are REACHING! that sounds nothing like BURN!!
Lady Caca is the biggest plagiarist of them all. The biggest copy/paste idiot of ALL TIMES.
The f*cking deranged Lady Caca person is so incredibly annoying to listen to. B*tch keeps talking all kinds of gibberish sh*t all the time.
Her music and lyrics are f*cking horrific. A gigantic mess.
How the f*ck is this clown one of the most popular pop stars these days, I will never in a million years comprehend.
A f*cking terrible travesty of a very bad joke.
Media is full of f*cking trolls too, for attempting to shove Lady Caca and her immense bullsh*ate down my throat. F*cking fake-@ss puppet imbecile journalists.
They sound nothing alike. When Burn came out I like it them but I like the second one.
LADY CACA MIERDA EXCREMENT SHIATE
September 21, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Lady Caca is the biggest plagiarist of them all. The biggest copy/paste idiot of ALL TIMES.
The f*cking deranged Lady Caca person is so incredibly annoying to listen to. B*tch keeps talking all kinds of gibberish sh*t all the time.
Her music and lyrics are f*cking horrific. A gigantic mess.
How the f*ck is this clown one of the most popular pop stars these days, I will never in a million years comprehend.
A f*cking terrible travesty of a very bad joke.
Media is full of f*cking trolls too, for attempting to shove Lady Caca and her immense bullsh*ate down my throat. F*cking fake-@ss puppet imbecile journalists.
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-This post is about Usher
-You are a TERRIBLE waste of internet space AND an embarrassment to Christina fans
-It’s ironic that you’re talking about “Lady Caca being shoved down your throat”yet you SPAM every Gaga post ’till the cows come home
-It is also ironic that you say she’s a copy/paster because Most,if not ALL of your posts are Copied/Pasted.
but I’m the delusional monster 🙄
Lady Caca is the biggest plagiarist of them all. The biggest copy/paste idiot of ALL TIMES.
The f*cking deranged Lady Caca person is so incredibly annoying to listen to. B*tch keeps talking all kinds of gibberish sh*t all the time.
Her music and lyrics are f*cking horrific. A gigantic mess.
How the f*ck is this clown one of the most popular pop stars these days, I will never in a million years comprehend.
A f*cking terrible travesty of a very bad joke.
Media is full of f*cking trolls too, for attempting to shove Lady Caca and her immense bullsh*ate down my throat. F*cking fake-@ss puppet imbecile journalists.
Lady Caca is f*cking embarrassing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So are all her monstrous ugly fans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP MAKING ME CRINGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lady Caca is an overrated plagiarist clown, cabaret singer troll f*ckery of a troll!!!!!!!!
The f*cking deranged Lady Caca person is so incredibly annoying to listen to. B*tch keeps talking all kinds of gibberish sh*t all the time.
Her music and lyrics are f*cking horrific. A gigantic mess.
How the f*ck is this clown one of the most popular pop stars these days, I will never in a million years comprehend.
A f*cking terrible travesty of a very bad joke.
Media is full of f*cking trolls too, for attempting to shove Lady Caca and her immense bullsh*ate down my throat. F*cking fake-@ss puppet imbecile journalists.
Somebody here is obsessed with Gaga. Hahaha what a f****** loser!!!
Lady Caca’s jobs is to steal from everybody.
Lady Caca and her team sit in front of her Ipads and laptops looking through Google and Youtube, looking for the next things to plagiarize!!!!!!
F*CKING NEWBIES.
SOMEBODY IS OBSESSED WITH MY REAL POSTS ABOUT LADY BULLSHIATE.
THe MONSTERS ARE MAD THAT I SPEAK THE TRUTH.
They’re not used to this.
They’re used to Lady Caca her her fake-@ss.
Poor f*cking babies. Stay pissed at the truths.
Lady Caca sucks majorly.
Lady Caca is a stupid, lame f*cking overrated newbie.
The biggest plagiarist. The biggest.
Media is full of f*cking trolls too, for attempting to shove Lady Caca and her immense bullsh*ate down my throat. F*cking fake-@ss puppet imbecile journalists.
Media is full of f*cking trolls too, for attempting to shove Lady Caca and her immense bullsh*ate down my throat. F*cking fake-@ss puppet imbecile journalists.
Media is full of f*cking trolls too, for attempting to shove Lady Caca and her immense bullsh*ate down my throat. F*cking fake-@ss puppet imbecile journalists.
Media is full of f*cking trolls too, for attempting to shove Lady Caca and her immense bullsh*ate down my throat. F*cking fake-@ss puppet imbecile journalists.
Media is full of f*cking trolls too, for attempting to shove Lady Caca and her immense bullsh*ate down my throat. F*cking fake-@ss puppet imbecile journalists.
Lady Caca’s music and lyrics are f*cking horrific. A gigantic mess.
How the f*ck is this clown one of the most popular pop stars these days, I will never in a million years comprehend.
A f*cking terrible travesty of a very bad joke.
@#1QueenGaga
Who you tellin???This thing is PATHETIC and it spams every Gaga post
Oh and
RIP to that poor monster that took his own life 😥
This monstrous sh*t going on in the music industry must end soon enough!
Lady Caca’s music is absolutely horrible.
If a store I’m visiting starts playing a f*cking Lady Caca song, I leave it IMMEDIATELY! That’s how f*cking wack her music is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I move on to the next boutique!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ewwwww He’s So FUGLY! B**** Needs A Face Transplant Or Something
#KingB2011
Lady caca’s music is terrible.
Her lyrics fail.
It’s all a mess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An overrated disaster praised by idiotic puppet journalists!
Lady Caca’s music does nothing but hurt ears and turn monsters into zombies
Lady Caca’s music does nothing but hurt ears and turn monsters into zombies
Lady Caca’s music does nothing but hurt ears and turn monsters into zombies
Lady Caca’s music does nothing but hurt ears and turn monsters into zombies
Lady Caca’s music does nothing but hurt ears and turn monsters into zombies
Lady Caca is a piece of shiate.
I dare this f*cking lame-@ss b*tch to say anything about anybody supposedly copying her ever again!!!!!!!!!!!! f*cking troll!!!!!
Lady Troll is a MESS!!!!!!!! The biggest MESS in the music industry.
HER ART IS A LIE!!!!!!!!!! SHE SAID SO HERSELF.
Lady Caca’s art is a lie.
She is a fake clown. She is a joke.
Her wigs inspire NOTHING.
The only thing Lady Caca is doing is perpetuating the need for pop stars to look like f*cking idiots all the time.
Did we really need this stupid newbie to come troll us all and repeat Madonna’s old stuff??????????
DID WE REALLY NEED A TROLL VERSION OF MADONNA OR BRITNEY OR CHRISTINA????????
Lady Caca and her team just couldn’t let the past stay in the past. They had to go and copy/paste all that sh*t.
Lady Caca is the definition of REDUNDANT AND DERIVATIVE. NOT ORIGINAL WHATSOEVER. A CLOWN AND A SELL OUT.
B*tch can’t sing sing nicely. She sounds horrifically cabaret all the time.
YAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i dont hear it either……i bought ushers burn but would never have bought this foolishness
Sorry but did sounds like burn!!!!! i hope he has to pay….
Its the guitar in the song and the beat its a lil slower than burn… open ur ears lol
If you slow down Burn you have essentially the same beat!
Lady Caca – her music, her agenda – are not healthy for people dealing with any ostracisms of any kind. Instead of humanizing all bullied groups and bringing the inflicted pain to the forefront to seek human sympathy, Gaga took the ‘we are all freaks’ route which only added to the ignorant perception of the ostracized not being normal. Her music, her imaging and her politics have all only contributed to opening new venues/approaches for bullying.
i am not here for fuckery… that song is how old and now dude wants to go to court NEXT
I hear the similarities.
Oh damn, the beats are exactly the same. Ummm this seems a tad fishy but we will wait and see what the courts decide.
PLEASE DONT TELL ME THAT THE GAGA HATER IS AN XTINA STAN. IM AN XTINA STAN AND IM SO TIRED OF THE WHOLE BEEF BETWEEN THE STANS/FANS. ITS OLD AND TIRERSOME. THE POST IS ABOUT USHER SO LEAVE IT AS SUCH
TWITTER.COM/AYO_RONNIE
September 21, 2011 at 8:04 pm
PLEASE DONT TELL ME THAT THE GAGA HATER IS AN XTINA STAN. IM AN XTINA STAN AND IM SO TIRED OF THE WHOLE BEEF BETWEEN THE STANS/FANS. ITS OLD AND TIRERSOME. THE POST IS ABOUT USHER SO LEAVE IT AS SUCH
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Sadly,It supposedly is….I have nothing against Xtina and the accusations aren’t out of the blue.I’ve seen it refer to Xtina as Amazingtina Voiceleira or some name like that mmultiple times
LMAO How TGJ doesn’t metioned Beyonce who is probably the artist with the most plagiarism lawsuits and the ONLY ONE of them who actually got a judge to take out her album off the shelves for lagiarism (Bday)
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there may be some similarities, but it’s R&B. And JD always brings a pop element to his songs, he usually brings that “hit” quality. His songs aren’t… milestones lol. They’re R&B. S*** always sounds similar. So they gonna sue Mariah for “Shake it Off” next? and then take on “We Belong Together”
Beyonce fans are mad cus LadyGaga SLAYED Beyonce and sent her to early retirement.
LMAO!
Yall talk all kindatrash when BTW came out and yall are left with a 4closed album full a FLOP singles.
Should these types of claims be taken legitimately YEARS after a song has been published? How could these “similarities” go unnoticed?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QBQcV3r5t4
Beyonce, Xtina, Gaga….. Usher? What are we taking about again?
How in the f*** did this post become about Gaga?
I hear the similarities but the big problem is that in the second song the lyrics are very recycled. What I mean is that if you take a few older Toni Braxton songs mixed them with a few songs from Babyface’s 90s songs the result is this song. Thus, not enough to cause a lawsuit when the “original” song is not so original.
LMAO at the look on Usher’s face in that pic. It kinda looks like he is thinking ‘N**** what, I ain’t steal yo s***!’ Lol!
Well, I’ve never heard this song before and these dudes (dude?!) sound alot like Boyz II Men, (which is a TOTAL compliment) their (his?!) voice is beautiful but why in the actual f*** did they take so long to file a law suit?! Good Lord! Their original song came out 13 years ago and ‘Burn’ is 7 years old now. What were they listening to Usher’s ‘Confessions’ album recently and they heard ‘Burn’ and was like ‘That’s my song!’? I just can’t…..
I do admit the beats are similiar but it’s a very slight similarity and you can barely tell. Plus the subjects on the songs are completely different. Its not like you would listen to ‘Burn’ and say this sounds ‘exactly’ like that song from that dude. I think their reaching. *shrugs*
I really like both songs though. *shrugs*
I guess we shall see….
Uhhhh Other than Tempo and feeling there is no similarity
😳
Ohhhhhh! Wow! If he did. Well that is so wrong, coz he built his career partly on that song!
Also I agree with @Jasmine
I can hear it. And honestly, “Reasons” is the more professional song.
THIS POST IS ABOUT PLAGIARISM. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well LADY CACA HERSELF IF THE BIGGEST PLAGIARIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why are people crying about Usher or Lil’ Bow Wow or Justin Bieber and whatnot????
Let’s talk about the real plagiarism : LADY CACACAAAA!!! LOL
Lady Caca is such a ridiculous crybaby. And so are all are fans. Stop crying, you monsters.
Lady Caca is the biggest plagiarist of them all. The biggest copy/paste idiot of ALL TIMES.
The f*cking deranged Lady Caca person is so incredibly annoying to listen to. B*tch keeps talking all kinds of gibberish sh*t all the time.
Her music and lyrics are f*cking horrific. A gigantic mess.
How the f*ck is this clown one of the most popular pop stars these days, I will never in a million years comprehend.
A f*cking terrible travesty of a very bad joke.
Media is full of f*cking trolls too, for attempting to shove Lady Caca and her immense bullsh*ate down my throat. F*cking fake-@ss puppet imbecile journalists.
slaughter?? boo boo? have several Fu*#** seats
Donnnnnn
September 21, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Call me stupid but this shid sounds nothing like Burn….the other song sucks!!
>I CONCUR…I was thinking the wrong song was put up to listen
Listening to “Reasons” my face looked just like Usher’s face pictured in this post…
The songs sound nothing alike. But I really miss the ‘Burn’ Usher. I hope his new album is similar to Confessions.
The songs do sound similar, not ure if its enough.
Will Usher have to pay up for allegedly stealing a song from a little known group? New York Law School’s blog, “Legal as She is Spoke,” investigates. Check it out!
http://www.lasisblog.com/2011/10/22/will-usher-have-to-pay-up-for-stealing-hit-song/
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