The Lebanese entertainment industry is no stranger to recycling. That’s right, when it comes to borrowing ideas both directors and celebrities don’t hold back. I’m not sure what goes on in their heads when they decided to blatantly reproduce the work of some of the world’s biggest names in music. I mean, come on they got us a fake PSY (Gangnam Style) this weekend and thought we wouldn’t notice. That’s insulting and pretty racist if you ask me.
Here’s the thing, Beyonce, Britney and Lady Gaga are international superstars. If they think that they can sneakily “borrow” a scene from one of their videos without getting noticed then they must assume we don’t own TVs or computers which is also quite insulting. Either way, they’ll deny these allegations to the last minute and may even claim they’re the ones getting copied.
Check out these scenes and make your own conclusions.
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Exhibit A
Left: Angelina Jolie in a scene from Alexander the Great
Right: Lebanese host/ singer/ entertainer Maya Diab in her Shaklak MaBta3raf Video (truly groundbreaking btw) watch it here
Exhibit B
Left: Beyonce dressed as BB The Homemaker in her video for Why Don’t You Love Me?
Right: Lebanese singer/entertainer Myriam Fares in her new video for her song Kifak Inta. Myriam has mastered Beyonce’s dance moves by the way. Watch it here
Exhibit C
Right: Britney Spears dressed as an flight attendant in the iconic airplane scene from her video for Toxic.
Left: Lebanese entertainer/singer Layal Abboud dressed as an attendant in a train in the video for her song Ya Ana Ya Ana.
Exhibit D (and the biggest offender you can read more about this one here)
Left: Britney Spears in a diamond encrusted revealing bodysuit from her Toxic video
Right: Lebanese singer Clauda Chemali in her comeback song “Bowsa Qatoulieh”– meaning- “Toxic Kiss”
Thoughts?
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I think you mixed up right and left in exhibit C. The rest, well, so much for creativity and art.
So is Britney the only one allowed to dress as a flight attendant? or is Angelina the only one who took the role of an Egyptian queen in the history of movies/songs? I don’t see the point of your post.
See? Sue, that’s because YOU are their target audience.
Rien de nouveau sous le soleil ah ah ah !!!Ca compte pour les pas celebres?J’essaie desesperement de me faire la coupe ultra courte de Rihanna…lol
That’s horrific …Oh how much i wish it could be the other way around! But hey, I’m dreaming!
Love the post IVY! xxxooooo
The problem is that we copy them in everything the same details, even the soap Oprah’s of ramadan this year were copied, at least they should put some effort in the production.
Relating to what Sue mentioned are they the only ones allowed to do so well of course not but we shouldn’t copy it exactly we can take the idea and modify to it.
I agree with Sue… who cares? why not copy a working model isn’t it? And im sure not all their clips are copied.
How many remakes of songs have different groups done around the world. Take Get Lucky this summer… Big Hit… Old song remade.
Mmmm…. First copy, then innovate.. That’s the case of the majority… & let’s consider the production cost… Well, that’s alarming… International singers pay fortunes for the clips productions. Lebanese artists pay much less… 😉