I just called to say I love you

[Guy Incognito]

What do you think about this song?

I was of opinion that it was very weak and was hoping Stevie Wonder wouldnt do it at glasto. Well he did, and it was surprisingly brilliant, everyone was singing along and it was a nice moment.

Yes i know this should be in OM but i cant be arsed.

[abcdefz]

Here's what I remember:

He won the Oscar for best original song with that. Then his former writing partner came forward with registered sheet music from years earlier that
was a strikingly similar song. It but Stevie in the position that either 1) He plagiarised it, or 2) If he could prove he wrote the song before
this other guy, he was actually inillegable for the Oscar, since it clearly wasn't written specifically for the movie.

I always wondered how that turned out.

But no, I don't care for the song.

Barry: Rob, top five musical crimes perpetuated by Stevie Wonder in the '80s and '90s. Go. Sub-question: is it in fact unfair to
criticize a formerly great artist for his latter day sins, is it better to burn out or fade away?

[Guy Incognito]

Here's what I remember:

He won the Oscar for best original song with that. Then some other dude came forward with registered sheet music from years earlier that
was a strikingly similar song. It but Stevie in the position that either 1) He plagiarised it, or 2) If he could prove he wrote the song before
this other guy, he was actually inillegable for the Oscar, since it clearly wasn't written specifically for the movie.

I always wondered how that turned out.

But no, I don't care for the song.

i think that would have got thrown out of court. Shit like that is always happening, some randommer claiming to have written a smash ten years previous. Not sure he would play it live if it was true. The only cases like that i remember actually being successfull were when established acts sued other acts for plagarism. Bon jovi sued belinda carlisle and Boston sued Nirvana

[abcdefz]

Sorry -- I edited it after you already quoted it.

The guy who sued was his former writing partner, and the song was already registered in his name.

But yeah. I remember Huey Lewis suing Ray Parker, Jr. for ripping off "I Want a New Drug" for "Ghostbusters."

[yeahwho]

Stevie is such a positive dude that it's hard to not like his whole catalog. That said, I really like his songs that take on the harder side of life, like all of innervisions, superstition and that one song maybe your babaay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ItPnIG6abg) just cuts the groove so deep that "I just called to say I love you" seems like an ad.

Speaking of which, checkout Stevie at the end of this ad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ3wgX2Oruo).

[Guy Incognito]

thats the problem i had with it, was that he has written some really hard stuff and even a lot of his love songs are pretty meaningful whereas i just called just sounded twee and like it was written in 2 minutes

[abcdefz]

It sounds like a greeting card that can't even be bothered to rhyme

[MC Moot]

You wanna impress me?...take the wheel... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avh2QdAxQjw)

[Guy Incognito]

You wanna impress me?...take the wheel... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avh2QdAxQjw)

i was very close to making a flag with that on for glasto but thought i might get some stick for it

[Guy Incognito]

i suppose it makes a lot of his other stuff sound even better.

[ms.peachy]

Yeah, I just can't hear that song anymore without thinking of Jack Black in Hi Fidelity.

However - I think it's one of those songs that is so, so corny, it can be kind of fun. Like Copacabana, which I've heard about 500 times in the past week as it's on the Madagascar 2 soundtrack, which my kid is a bit obsessed with at the moment. It's rubbish, but at the same time, kind of brilliant in its utter ridiculousness.

[abcdefz]

I think "Copacabana" is fun. The wordplay isn't as good as Cole Porter's, though, which keeps it from being genuinely great. If Barry Manilow had had Elvis Costello help him out it could've been amazing.

[Adam]

Yeah, I remember that court case about the song. Stevie said in court "I've never seen that piece of paper before in my life"


Yes, jokes about the disabled, what of it?

I'll get my coat.

[abcdefz]

Sad face.

[ms.peachy]

I think "Copacabana" is fun.

Oh but it's so tragic! Poor Lola.

[abcdefz]

...better to have loved and lost, I guess.

Back in the day, they even squeezed a TV movie out of that song.

[Guy Incognito]

Yeah, I just can't hear that song anymore without thinking of Jack Black in Hi Fidelity.

However - I think it's one of those songs that is so, so corny, it can be kind of fun. Like Copacabana, which I've heard about 500 times in the past week as it's on the Madagascar 2 soundtrack, which my kid is a bit obsessed with at the moment. It's rubbish, but at the same time, kind of brilliant in its utter ridiculousness.

having had to suffer this film 4 million times i will quote the penguins about copacabana- "it never gets old"

[paul jones]

good foreplay song

[Adam]

good foreplay song

So you can say...

"Lets go up stairs away from this piece of shit song"

?

[yeahwho]

"I Just Called to say I Hate You"

[JBernas]

good foreplay song

I feel sorry for the foreplayee