Jimmy Fallon Inviting Tik Tok User Addison Rae
On His Show To Perform The Works Of Black Content Creators Causes
Massive Backlash Similar To That Of The Charli D'Amelio Incident
(Video)
History Repeating Itself Or Did Things Simply Not Change
April 2. 2021
Last week I caught a few minutes of the "Tonight
Show" starring comedian Jimmy Fallon. The episode featured Addison
Rae, a 20-year-old woman, who began mimicking the choreographed
dance routines of African-Americans on the social networking website
Tik Tok.
Due to her slutty image and photogenic look, Addison
amassed a large following on the site. However, she has repeatedly
stolen the choreography of other Tik Tok users, who are all black.
Fallon inviting Addison Rae on his show to do the choreographed
dance sequences of African-Americans caused a massive backlash on
social networking and the blogs. People openly asked why Fallon
didn't just invite the African-Americans who created the dances to
perform them on his show.
The manner in which the segment with Addison was
presented on "The Tonight Show" gave the impression that she created
all the choreography. Me and many others walked away with that
impression watching the show.
Addison presented them as her dance moves, as no
other credit was given regarding who came up with the choreography.
To someone who is not familiar with all the Tik Tok dances, and
millions of people are not, they watched the show with the false
impression Addison came up with the dance moves.
Addison Rae on "The Tonight Show"
For the record, choreography is copyrightable. Under
form PA at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, one can
copyright dance sequences. In fact, every music video you see that
contains choreography, is protected by law, both domestically and
internationally.
It is not just the storyline and sets in music
videos (as well as plays, musicals and ballets) that are protected
by law. It's the choreography as well. You can't just take other
people's choreography and say it's yours now.
In using others works without permission you are
committing willful copyright infringement. In not crediting others
for their work you are also violating the "Right of Attribution"
segment of copyright law, as well as the Lanham Act.
America is signatory to the United Nations treaty
known as the Berne Convention, which states a copyright is
established the moment it is authored. It is only in America that
one needs to register a copyright (Library of Congress) for the
right to sue in court in the event the work is infringed, which
doesn't mean much, as federal judges have been caught taking bribes
to throw out cases, among them copyright lawsuits. Judges have been
caught accepting stock in offending corporations to dismiss
copyright cases against them, which is highly corrupt and
disgraceful.
Addison Rae on "The Tonight Show"
Addison, according to Forbes magazine estimates, has
made $5,000,000 stealing the choreography of African-American Tik
Tok users. At the end of the day, as a dancer and now alleged
"recording artist", she is completely mediocre. During "The Tonight
Show" episode last week, Addison stated she spoke to singer, Mariah
Carey, 50, who has a song called "Obsessed." Addison then stated now
she has a song called "Obsessed" too. In short, she stole it.
If you compare both songs, you will see the
similarities. Carey's 2009 song "Obsessed" is about a man being
obsessed with a woman and driving in a car. Addison Rae's 2021 song
"Obsessed" is about a man being obsessed with a woman and driving in
a car. The lyric "obsessed with me" is repeated over and over again
throughout both songs. The beats and melodies are similar as well.
Carey is credited as co-writer of her 2009 song
"Obsessed". Addison is credited as co-writer of her 2021 song
"Obsessed." She knows she ripped off "Obsessed" by Carey, much like
she did the Tik Tok dancers whose work she tried to pass off as her
own. Addison knows exactly what she's doing. She's a thief and fraud.
Not to mention, some of the choreography from
Addison's "Obsessed" video is stolen from Vanessa Williams music
videos. The music for Addison's "Obsessed" is also a brazen
rip off of a song I mentioned on this site last year, the 1986
Grammy award winning hit track "I
Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" by the late singers Aretha
Franklin and George Michael. They've completely ripped off the
guitar riff, among other things for Addison's "Obsessed." So, now
Addison and company are stealing from the dead.
Addison's image and styling is heavily based on that
of Carey. She has been wearing costumes and hairstyles similar to what Carey previously wore. Addison's sound and look are
a complete rip-off.
Mariah Carey
There's one other thing. Addison Rae can't sing.
They've used so many studio tricks on her song, such as turning her
lead vocal down, using layers of processing to thicken the paper
thin vocal (chorus, reverb and eq) and burying it in Autotune.
I can
barely make out what she's singing, as they've turn her lead track
down so low and ladled it with so much processing to hide the fact
she can't sing, much of her singing is inaudible. Addison Rae is
doing her best imitation of a singer (and failing at it big time).
She has ripped off so many people's dance moves and
is executing them in a sloppy, lethargic, listless manner. While
dancing she keeps sticking her butt out for attention, which
inadvertently pokes her gut out, making it look like she has a beer
belly. She looks like a duck when she dances because of it. The
project is weak and unpolished. This woman is not a recording
artist. She's a complete fraud. Stop faking it.
Listen, if you want to make a record, you are more
than free to spend your money and do so. Just don't steal other
people's things to get it done. It's not a good look. It is
extremely dishonest, not to mention it's domestically and
internationally illegal.
Charli D'Amelio
It's not the first time this has happened regarding
African-American Tik Tok users being ripped off of the dance moves
and choreography they created. Tik Tok user Charli D'Amelio, who
according to Forbes magazine estimates, made $4,000,000 off stealing
the dance choreography of an African-American on Tik Tok. She too
appeared on Jimmy Fallon and falsely took credit for dance moves she
stole and is now working on an album (though she can't sing).
For example, Charli took full credit for the very
popular "Renegade" dance moves, choreographed by 14-year-old,
Jalaiah Harmon, who is a professional dancer and acrobat. The New
York Times did a stunning and scathing piece on the theft, which
highlighted how black people are repeatedly being ripped-off by
white Tik Tok users, who steal dance sequences and make millions in
advertising and endorsements, using the original dance trends they've
pilfered from blacks as the avenue for their financial windfall.
America has so much racial tension and inequality.
Some would like to state it is in the past. However, when you see
people in their late teens and twenties, stealing from and
exploiting young black content creators, then making millions from
that criminal exploitation, as copyright infringement is a crime, it
is quite alarming.
Jalaiah Harmon (photo credit: the New York Times)
It is a nasty throwback to the 1950s and 1960s where
white recording artists and white owned labels in America ripped off
music by black singers. The minute a black artist made a song that
started picking up speed with urban audiences, established white
artists would quickly remake the track and push it out into the
mainstream via top 40 radio, and make millions.
Jalaiah Harmon
The practice would kneecap the black artists'
careers, relegating them to the smaller, less lucrative Chitlin'
Circuit, but make millions for the white recording artists in the
mainstream, where blacks were banned. Black artists were not paid
for their work. The labels and white artists kept all the money.
Little Richard
Many black artists such as Little Richard, Chuck
Berry, Jackie Wilson, Otis Redding, and labels such as Motown, Stax,
and Philly International, lost hundreds of millions of dollars due
to this corrupt, disgraceful, sniveling, racist practice.
Jackie Wilson
It's a dirty, racist practice the
Federal Bureau of Investigation supported and assisted then and still does now, as
these acts are still disgracefully happening. It is a part of the
slavery mentality and policies that have been alive and well for
hundreds of years and is still embedded in the U.S. government and
corporate America. Black ownership is frowned upon by the Feds, who
still think we are slaves.
Chuck Berry
To see it so in our faces in 2021 via these Tik Tok
influencers stealing from young black content creators is a
disgusting reminder of slavery, where black people did all the work
and white people took all the credit and money. And trust me, it's
not a good look. People online are enraged and disgusted by it.
Otis Redding
To see musically untalented people, such as Addison
Rae and Charli D'Amelio, declare themselves singers, while stealing
other people's intellectual property, makes a mockery of society,
and the idea that one must be decent, honest and hardworking to make
it in America.
It is also setting the bar so low in society that it
is killing innovation and progress. Where is the next Whitney
Houston? Where is the next Michael Jackson? Where are the next
Eagles? Where is the next Journey? I'm not seeing talent in the
current breed of recording artists. 95% of them have no talent and
got signed because they're cute and have a big social networking
following.
That's the problem with this generation. So many of
them can't sing, dance or act, having failed to train for a career
in the arts, but because they have followers on social networking,
they are getting into genres they have no business being in.
A few weeks ago I saw a film that prompted me to
look up the actress' training, as she did a great job in the movie.
It turns out she studied drama in an arts program at a Florida high
school, then went to university and has two degrees, one of which is
in the arts. She studied her craft and it shows on camera.
Kardashians
However, the Kardashians have made people think you
can fake it and become famous without any talent or training.
They've made this foolishness possible through debauchery and theft
of copyright, and much to the detriment of the entertainment
industry and society as a whole. A family of talentless twits became
famous through social networking, behaving like whores and then in a
reality show, now everyone thinks they can be a singer, actor and
dancer without talent/hard work.
Even porn star, Kim Kardashian, who became famous
due to a sex tape, proclaiming she is becoming a lawyer is a joke.
In America one is supposed to attend university for 4-years, then
law school for an additional 3-years to become a lawyer.
Kim is interning at a law firm for 2-years to become
a lawyer, with absolutely no proof that she's even showing up there
for work, at an office location that is hours away from her home in
Los Angeles. Nonetheless, Kim is missing 7-years of university
schooling and hard work. She does not deserve the privilege of being
called a lawyer, as she is not earning it. It is a massive insult to
every person that went to school for 7-years of very hard work to
become an attorney.
However, Kim is symbolic of this generation's lack
of hard work and ethics, traits she has been instilling in so many
young people via her actions. I'm not stating all the teens and
people in their twenties lack ethics and do not work hard. There are
some who do. What I'm stating is many are following the example of
the Kardashians and others in Hollywood who are thieves and frauds
making money off the hard work of others.
It's very disheartening when a public poll comes
back stating the top jobs kids in America want to be are You Tube
vloggers, influencers and entertainers (and this generation's idea
of an entertainer is an influencer with no talent making a record or
movie because they got a lot of likes on social networking for their
outfit).
Entertainers used to go to schools for the arts and
learn their trade. They used to audition and pay their dues. Now
it's "my butt is totally big, I should be a singer or rapper!"
Really brings new meaning to the phrase, "Talking out of your butt."
America is falling behind in medicine, science and
technology because of a decade and a half of mediocrity spoon-fed to
your kids by none other than Hollywood. Now we're seeing the fruits
of those poor decisions - mediocrity, underachievement and failure.
STORY SOURCE
Jimmy Fallon's TikTok dance segment with Addison Rae sparked
backlash. Here's why.
When singer and internet star Addison Rae performed
some popular TikTok dances last week with Jimmy Fallon, it
resurfaced frustrations about Black internet creators not getting
the credit they deserve.
In 20-year-old Rae's appearance Friday on "The
Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," she performed eight popular
dance trends from the social video app TikTok, many of which were
originally choreographed by BIPOC.
The clip, presented by the show as a fun way to
bring online trends to primetime, sparked heavy backlash as an
embodiment of a larger conversation concerning viral internet stars:
that BIPOC content creators aren't getting the proper recognition
for creating online trends that their white counterparts then
reproduce and benefit from, often in more mainstream settings.
Many online voiced concerns that Rae's segment on
"The Tonight Show" erased those who came before her. "This is a miss
@jimmyfallon," tweeted "The View" host Sunny Hostin. "Let’s give
credit to the black creators."
"White privilege is not creating a single movement
in these dances, but getting the opportunity to go on national TV to
teach Jimmy Fallon instead of the actual creators," added @StephMcNasty.
"This is cringey," wrote @tanyachen. "But what’s worse is that
Addison has been catapulted to being the face of viral dances
created by mostly black tiktokers."...
https://www.usatoday.com
The Tonight Show's Addison Rae Fumble Is an Unfortunate
Reflection of Our Creator Culture
March 29, 2021 - If you want to see a TikTok dance
skit, why not ask the original artists to participate? That's a
question The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Addison Rae face
after March 26th's episode. The well-known creator walked Fallon
through a few of the app's most popular choreography in a sketch,
similar to a video released with Charli D'Amelio last year. Quickly
after airing, the clip faced criticism as viewers wondered why the
creatives who actually created the dances didn't get screen time —
or at the very least, proper credit.
This controversy is not new for Rae, who faced
similar pushback after she and D'Amelio became the face of a
"Renegade" dance routine, which was originally created by Jalaiah
Harmon. Intentional or not, Rae and D'Amelio's names were synonymous
with choreography they had no hand in. They went as far as to
perform the dance at a 2020 NBA All Star game without Harmon. Harmon
eventually got her dues, but only after publicly reclaiming the
viral dance. Rae and D'Amelo need only whisper and their combined
100+ million followers would come running, so why did Harmon
practically need a megaphone to get her credit? Her experience is a
disappointing reflection of how art is co-opted on social media,
especially from Black creatives...
https://www.popsugar.com
Addison Rae Criticized for Not Crediting Black Creators During
"Jimmy Fallon" TikTok Performance
March 29, 2021 - TikTok sensation Addison Rae, who
rose to fame via her take on viral dances, stopped by The Tonight
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to "teach" the host eight of the most
famous dances, from "Blinding Lights" to "Savage." However, many
viewers thought Addison was getting too much credit for these
dances, many of which were originally shared by Black creators.
As TikTok continues to rise in popularity, the issue
of properly crediting creators has come up time and time again. Over
the summer, BuzzFeed News spoke to several Black dance creators who
were reaching out to popular TikTok accounts, asking them to credit
their work or quit using their viral dances for content. Jalaiah
Harmon, who created the "Renegade" dance, reclaimed her viral dance
after it was performed by everyone from Charli D'Amelio to
celebrities like Lizzo.
Addison's performance of the dances is being
criticized for failing to credit the original creators — and giving
Addison the spotlight when it should have gone to those who actually
came up with the popular moves. Many viewers took to Twitter to
share their views on the segment, raising concerns about
authenticity and attribution in the social media world.
"This is colonizer culture in real time cause she
did not have the talent or creativity to come up with these dances
but she’s getting the credit and exposure," wrote one Twitter user.
"This is cringey. But what’s worse is that Addison has been
catapulted to being the face of viral dances created by mostly black
tiktokers," wrote BuzzFeed reporter Tanya Chen.
"This is why I bang
on EVERYBODY about the economics and race of social media ... 'Tik
tok dances' ... the names of the artists not there ... The actual
choreographers not there. She’s on national television but where are
the Black kids who actually made these," tweeted a viewer...
https://www.teenvogue.com
The Original Renegade
Published Feb. 13, 2020Updated July 16, 2020 - A
14-year-old in Atlanta created one of the biggest dances on the
internet. But nobody really knows that. FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. — Jalaiah
Harmon is coming up in a dance world completely reshaped by the
internet.
She trains in all the traditional ways, taking
classes in hip-hop, ballet, lyrical, jazz, tumbling and tap after
school at a dance studio near her home in the Atlanta suburbs. She
is also building a career online, studying viral dances,
collaborating with peers and posting original choreography.
Recently, a sequence of hers turned into one of the
most viral dances online: the Renegade. There’s basically nothing
bigger right now. Teenagers are doing the dance in the halls of high
schools, at pep rallies and across the internet. Lizzo, Kourtney
Kardashian, David Dobrik and members of the K-pop band Stray Kids
have all performed it. Charli D’Amelio, TikTok’s biggest homegrown
star, with nearly 26 million followers on the platform, has been
affectionately deemed the dance’s “C.E.O.” for popularizing it.
But the one person who hasn’t been able to
capitalize on the attention is Jalaiah, the Renegade’s 14-year-old
creator. “I was happy when I saw my dance all over,” she said. “But
I wanted credit for it.”...
https://www.nytimes.com
Pat Boone Has Lived His Life Voting Republican, Stealing Black
Songs and Wearing a Crew Cut
Feb 27, 2017 - A few weeks ago, at the 25th Annual
Movieguide Awards, music legend Pat Boone was asked by a reporter if
he was concerned about the state of Hollywood today. Look ‘Pat
Boone’ up in a dictionary and you’ll see the words ‘family values’.
“Hollywood should be presenting the very best picture of America and
who the average people want to be.” “We used to win awards with
movies that show people in the best possible light,” the singer
added. “Now, more and more people get awards for being a
vampire.”...
I’m sure most people reading this article have never
heard of Pat Boone. Back in the fifties though, he was one of the
most successful musicians. According to Billboard, Pat Boone sold
the most records in the fifties, only behind Elvis.
The secret of Pat Boone’s success was his golden
image. Pat Boone sold so many records, because every parent wanted
their kids to turn out like him. His impeccably squeaky clean image
embodied the fifties. Ever see Leave it to Beaver? Pat Boone was
that crew cut, the cardigan and a faith more resilient than a ray of
sunshine.
Pat Boone appealed to a strictly white audience.
However, all of his music was stolen from black musicians. Back
then, a black rock and roller had it very tough. He signed away his
rights to his music for a few dollars, which surely seemed like a
fortune, and then watched as Pat Boone rode that song across every
Billboard chart in the country.
Take for example the story of Fred Paris, he wrote
one of the most beloved songs of all times, “In the Still of the
Night”. The song sold between ten and fifteen million copies.
Instead of earning the more than $100,000 in royalties, Mr. Paris
signed away all rights to the song for a paltry $783. Here are just
a few songs, that Pat stole from black artists:
1955 cover of Fats Domino’s “Aint’ that a Shame”,
1956 cover of Ivory Joe Hunter’s “I Almost Lost my Mind”,
Covers of Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” and “Long Tall Sally”,
And many more number one hits for Pat Boone...
https://medium.com
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