{"id":1233,"date":"2013-12-04T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2015-06-27T10:56:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T09:56:16","slug":"context-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/2013\/12\/04\/context-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Context is Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today I have two pieces of music for you. The first is the background music for &#8220;Ice Cap Zone&#8221; from Sonic 3 on the Megadrive:[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hYxlqTpZ-24[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>The second is an unreleased track called &#8216;Hard Times,&#8217; written by obscure 80s New Wave act &#8216;The Jetzons&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VvnsriLZvL0[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s going on here? Plagiarism? Not quite &#8211; Jetzons keyboard player Brad Buxer went on to arrange music for both Sonic 3 AND the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F1_mNirAgC0\">Michael Jackson album Dangerous.<\/a> As Hard Times ended up on the cutting room floor, it shouldn&#8217;t surprise too much to find that Buxer wanted to recycle the incredibly catchy arrangement. As someone who writes chippy stuff, I think this does provide us with quite an interesting case study: Here we have two pieces that are musically almost identical (aside from the lyrics and some of the timbres,) yet I&#8217;d wager most people would probably think you a far cooler person if you were caught listening to the obscure new wave track then if you were caught listening to the classic chip tune.<\/p>\n<p>Context changes everything, i suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today I have two pieces of music for you. 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