A Covenant with Jake Gyllenhaal (📣Stoop Chat)
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We watched Guy Ritchie’s latest motion picture, “The Covenant,” starring Jack Joinerhall, and stopped off for a beer and chat on the way home. Also under the microscope are our summer leisure plans. 🏖
Truly a peek behind the curtain, this is a conversation we’d have had whether the iPhone had been recording or not. A great opportunity to find out how interested you *really* are in We Are Scientists.
More thoughts on the Sheeran trial here: https://substack.com/profile/2457011-we-are-scientists/note/c-15679141?utm_source=notes-share-action
Ok. So, firstly, are we suggesting that all the stoop chats you’ve had up to now are not conversations you might have in real life? Because frankly, if that is the case, I feel betrayed! (Or at least disillusioned.) Secondly, I am surprised as to how much of this conversation was about Ed Sheeran and Marvin Gaye as opposed to Guy Richie and Jake Gyllenhaal. You’ve made me go and listen to Thinking Out Loud which I’m not sure I want to thank you for, but I can’t help but feel that if he loses ( this may have already happened, it’s not a story I was aware of) then it’s not good for the future of music. I could hear the similarities between the songs when I was listening for them but had never made that connection before. As you say, surely there are only so many possible combinations of notes. It doesn’t feel right to lay claim to them as intellectual property. I can think of songs that much more obviously rip off earlier music without any repercussions that I’m aware of - A Town Called Malice by The Jam and Babyshambles’ There She Goes spring to mind. Even then, they are completely different songs in their own right from those they have borrowed from.
Really enjoyed this. Two in one week. We are privileged!