{"id":30721,"date":"2024-10-28T21:02:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T21:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/elvis-costello-explains-why-he-didnt-demand-song-credit-on-olivia-rodridgos-brutal\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T21:02:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T21:02:46","slug":"elvis-costello-explains-why-he-didnt-demand-song-credit-on-olivia-rodridgos-brutal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/elvis-costello-explains-why-he-didnt-demand-song-credit-on-olivia-rodridgos-brutal\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Costello explains why he didn’t demand song credit on Olivia Rodridgo’s ‘Brutal’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lorne Thomson\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Elvis Costello<\/strong> never went after Olivia Rodrigo<\/strong> for a writing credit on her <\/span>SOUR<\/span><\/em> tune \u201c<\/span>Brutal<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u201d despite many people agreeing it sounded just like his hit \u201c<\/span>Pump It Up<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u201d and now he\u2019s explaining why.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a new interview with\u00a0<\/span>Vanity Fair<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Costello says people don’t cover “Pump It Up” \u2014 rather, he says, they “allude to it in their own arrangements. Like Olivia Rodrigo’s producer obviously did.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Now, I did not find any reason to go after them legally for that, because I think it would be ludicrous,” Costello continues. “It\u2019s a shared language of music. Other people clearly felt differently about other songs on that record.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Costello may have been referring to\u00a0Taylor Swift\u00a0<\/strong>with that comment; Taylor and her producer\u00a0Jack Antonoff\u00a0<\/strong>are listed in the credits of\u00a0<\/span>SOUR\u00a0<\/span><\/em>as co-writers of the songs “Deja Vu” and “1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back.” That’s because of the similarities between “Deja Vu” and Taylor’s song “Cruel Summer,” and the fact that “1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back” interpolates Taylor’s song “New Year’s Day.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Costello continued to explain his point of view to\u00a0<\/span>Vanity Fair<\/span><\/em>, noting, “[I]f there were no [musical] quotations, there\u2019d be no\u00a0Bach<\/strong>. There\u2019d be no\u00a0Mozart<\/strong>. There\u2019d be no\u00a0Sonny Rollins<\/strong>. So we can\u2019t start worrying about that. That’s the way it works. One thing leads to another. That’s all I’ve ever been saying.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lorne Thomson\/Redferns Elvis Costello never went after Olivia Rodrigo for a writing credit on her SOUR tune \u201cBrutal,\u201d despite many people agreeing it sounded just like his hit \u201cPump It Up,\u201d and now he\u2019s explaining why. In a new interview with\u00a0Vanity Fair,\u00a0Costello says people don’t cover “Pump It Up” \u2014Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}