Ah thanks for clarifying about the Madonna thing; I assumed it was a sample of a sample. But cover licenses are compulsory which means the original content owner HAS to let the artist release a cover version of it and a royalty split is calculated by ASCAP, BMI, etc. If
According to copyright law (which is very flawed), it doesn't matter if it's a sample of a work that sampled another; the original source material belongs to those content owners and even a second of it is copyright infringement (with some exceptions made if court rules it's for parody, critique/news, etc.) Even if the work is given away for free. Any "mixtape" artist that claims they shouldn't owe to the original content owner or get permission because their mixtape is free is full of shit, because the work is still commercial in the sense that it's marketing the mixtape artist, etc.
That being said, it's not always enforced and of course the higher profile this album became, the riskier it got for Avalanches to try and fly under the radar.
Amazing that Girl Talk has never been sued and his label is appropriately named Illegal Art. Also interesting and somewhat arbitrary that parodies are considered fair use.
Queefs are definitely real, but it's most likely air escaping after being jammed in there during sex, not from air that originated in the womb or elsewhere in the body.
That being said, I just thought of this parody title: Womb Raider
It's probably more related to BRMC making relatively uninteresting music that's quite derivative of already existing stuff like the Jesus and Mary Chain. I love shoegaze and related genres but have a hard time celebrating "faux vintage" acts that don't bring much new to the table.
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