Has VANILLA ICE been stealing other people’s songs?
DearGordon!, I think Vanilla Ice is really great. However, I gather that bits of the “Ice Ice Baby” song are stolen from an old Queen song. Is this true and if so why did he choose that record?
G. Herrick, Sussex.
Gordon investigates: Indeed you’re right! The bassline of "Ice Ice Baby” is “borrowed” from Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” — a Number One record in 1981. Vanilla Ice discovered the song quite by chance, as he told Blimey!:
“The way I do stuff is to go through old records that my brother has. He used to listen to rock ‘n’ roll and stuff like that. I listened to funk and hip hop because rock wasn’t really my era. But having a brother like that, well, I just mixed the two, and he had a copy of ‘Under Pressure’. And putting those sounds to hip hop was great.“
Although Vanilla did give both Queen and David Bowie a credit on his single, the latter is rumoured to be suing Ice.
Zakupy z allegro, konkretnie od jednego użytkownika, ba dzień po otwarciu paczki z płytami, zdecydowałem się na kolejne zamówienie u tego samego użytkownika :) Wszystko widoczne wyżej to płyty używane jednak są w świetnym stanie :)
John and Edward, in speaking on the Mooney Show on Ireland’s RTE1 radio station, announced the release of their next single, “Ferocious”. The Dublin Duo have timed Ferocious to come out on the same day as their Dublin concert, October 24.
Jedward shall be flying out to LA next week to record three music videos, and mentioned that they intend including Hollywood stars William Shatner and Tara Reid, and also King of Hollywood Gossip, Perez Hilton.
Whilst in LA they shall be doing their Ice Bucket Challenge, having been challenged by Tara, Vanilla Ice, and Vine star Tish Simmonds, among others. It was because they were nominated by Archie Naughton, who, with his twin younger brothers, suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, that they decided to finally meet the challenge. John and Edward’s chosen charity is Join Our Boys, which raises money to find a cure for DMD, and to also provide the future care of the Naughton brothers.
Jedward will additionally donate €1 of each ticket sold from their upcoming October concerts in Dublin,Drogheda, and Castlebar, to Join Our Boys.
Before she went into acting, Sanna Ekman, the actress who played Zoysite in the Swedish dub, had a career as a professional dancer. She was one of the background dancers in the video for Vanilla Ice’s song “Ice Ice Baby.”
