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Diplo: Justin Bieber and Skrillex Probably Have to Pay White Hinterland
"I'm sure they'll work out a deal with her. They don't want to go to court with it."
Yesterday, Casey Dienel, the musician who records as White Hinterland, filed a lawsuit against Justin Bieber and
Skrillex over Bieber's 2015 hit "Sorry." In the lawsuit, Dienel claimed the song duplicates “the specific and unique
characteristics of the female vocal riff” from her 2014 song “Ring the Bell.” She also said she had been ignored by
Bieber's legal team after initially contacting him about the sample in December. Today, TMZ caught up with Diplo,
who has collaborated with Skrillex and Bieber, to ask him about the lawsuit. Diplo told TMZ he wasn't familiar with
the particulars, noting, "I thought they sampled it, but I thought they cleared it." Pointing out how many people
worked on the song, he said it "must have been an oversight," and that "somebody added it and then didn't tell
anybody." (He also called White Hinterland "pretty dope.")
He then compared it to his work producing Beyoncé's "All Night," where he noted that horns resembling OutKast's
"SpottieOttieDopaliscious" had been added to the song, and that the group needed to be credited. "I told them, and
then we had to give OutKast 25% of the record, which kinda sucks for me, but whatever, you gotta pay," he said. He
concluded: "I'm sure they'll work out a deal with her. They don't want to go to court with it."
CD review: Serfs' Day Hang
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Self Aware; Release Date: Jan. 29, 2016
by Jeff Hahne @jhahne
With a bass riff and a jangly guitar chord, Serfs kicks off its
first full-length album, Day Hang, with "Can't Get Control."
The song's blend of noise pop and indie rock even finds goth
subtleties — think Bauhaus — from time to time in the lyrical
presentation. "Slowpoke" follows with fuzzed out finesse
that's raw at heart. From there, the band continues to
showcase its many sides and personalities, wandering in a
Sonic Youth-like haze on "Wish Period" and finding '90s indie
influence for "Genesis Drums." They save one of the album's
best for next-to-last with the nearly eight-minute epic "Arab
Street. "Since forming a handful of years ago, the band has
transformed from more of a garage punk approach to
shoegaze-y textures while showing maturity in its
songwriting. Perhaps it took a while for the band to make
this full-length happen after a handful of years together and
a 2013 EP, Common Feelings, but it's solid from start to finish
and Serfs made it well worth the wait.
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