hey hey - here is something scandalous already to kick-off the week...there have been a few mentions that pink's latest video for the song u + ur hand had quite a similar styling & look 'borrowed' from the work of artist martin f. emond (the f stood for 'fucking') well sadly mr. emond passed away a few years ago (he committed suicide here in LA) and the company he left behind called illicit still operates down in his home country of new zealand...
apparently no one asked illicit's permission to use marty's art and based on the art to video comparisons below the resemblance is pretty uncanny (read their news post) obviously anyone can see it's a blatant rip-off! well a popbytes reader (aka liltrix) from NZ is furious and it sounds like a lot of other kiwis are angry at ms. pink for having borrowed without asking! i love pink and all but you gotta admit this is all kinda shady on her part...so maybe she will have to finally give credit where it's due...popbytes over & out for now...xxoo!
Some of you might have spotted the Illicit influence on the new Pink video "U + Ur Hand" Well you'd be right! Seems whoever "styled or created" the video has obviously come across our favourite son Marty Emonds artworks and "Borrowed"... Rockerbikergirl, HardCandy and Baby Redknuckles.
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PINK'S ILLICIT STYLE & SCANDAL
above and beyond any sort of rip-off she and the creative director may have been a part of, I'm more focused on Pink's latest video attempts.
I think she's a great peformer; charismatic, charming and sexy. The highly conceptualized video form gets lost on me with Pink; she doesn't need an uber-glossy video to sell a song.
Pink, a microphone and a stage is all that's needed for the track to translate.
» this comment was posted by midnight lounge on august 7, 2006 8:01 am «
thank you so much for posting this! you know how much this means to me, im sorry i wasnt there for you with all the info... but you did a great job anyways!
big love from all of NZ (who are still a little hot from steaming so hard at the bad knockoff...)
liltrix
» this comment was posted by liltrix on august 7, 2006 3:16 pm «
Well...theres no question, whatsoever the video is taken directly from the art.
Its so obvious, thatI doubt it was meant as original material. While, Pink is morally responsible for making sure her material is indeed her own, its most likely the case that the producers of the video, which is rarely, if EVER the artist singing, was depended on to clear such details legally. Whether they did or not I can't say, but it certainly seems like more of a tribute to me, rather than theft.
Bottom line, the details are copied so specifcially, that nobody, could EVER, expect to get away with literally stealing the art.
I think its a great video, and a great tribute to a great artist.
» this comment was posted by Mike on august 9, 2006 5:59 pm «
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above and beyond any sort of rip-off she and the creative director may have been a part of, I'm more focused on Pink's latest video attempts.
I think she's a great peformer; charismatic, charming and sexy. The highly conceptualized video form gets lost on me with Pink; she doesn't need an uber-glossy video to sell a song.
Pink, a microphone and a stage is all that's needed for the track to translate.