Ira Losco

[Beodevil]

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Ira Losco rebhet l-Bay Music Award 'Best Single' ghad-diska "Driving One of your Cars". Fil-video narawha tkanta d-diska taghha kif inhi released...

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I present to you, Lisa Miskovsky. A famous Swedish singer gaining most of her popularity due to her hit single "Driving One of your Cars" released in 2001 which gained her two Rock Bears, one awarded for the Best Swedish Newcomer, and the other for the Best Swedish Female Artist Of The Year (the rock bear is the most influential music award given in Sweden).

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Coincedence?

I don't think so...

[DfraGG3r]

gg :dance:

If you synch the movies they're practically the same hehe, music is perfect to the second

[Drowen]

Well, I heard this much much months ago, and if I'm not mistaken it was Ira Losco that mentioned it. There's songs called "cover versions". At least Ira's version is much better imo...

[scarface]

ifhem sakemm id diska ma kelliex tkun originali ma nara xej hazin jien fiha l-haga

[Beodevil]

Qatt ma smajtha tghati kreditu lil propja awtrici...

EDIT: Kellha miktub fil-messege board (jekk l-post kienet taghha ghax ghanda spelling).. whoops.. filkaz nideletja t-thread?

Hi Maarcus, Yes indeed Driving One of Your Cars was also number 1 3 years ago in Sweden as it wa here in Mlata and is at number 2 also for the second week. I co wrote two of my songs off my album Accident Prone in Sweden with Dead Mono last February, Everyday and Uh-Oh and then they thought it wuold be great if I released Lisa's song here in Malta!! Hope to be back in Sweden...somtime soon....there are the best Song writers to work with there!!! HUgs Ira



U tbh nippreferi l-izvediza :p

[Avaloner]

I prefer the Swedish version although both singers have very similar voices and the musical composition is, as far as I can tell, exactly the same.

How a cover version (not even an interpretation cause they are practically the same) got the 'best single' award is dodgy to say the least. Anyways all I can say is that, at least, Ira Losco can stand next to the original vocally, although to hear she did not write the song herself is a let down of sorts.

[Pawlu]

ira's version is slightly worse :/

and she needs to learn how to move on stage :yawn:

[scarface]

Originally posted by Energizer


and she needs to learn how to move on stage :yawn:

:clap:

[badboy]

I want to know how much did she pay to have the rights to sing it?

[G-lock]

Originally posted by Energizer
ira's version is slightly worse :/

and she needs to learn how to move on stage :yawn:

you should see her dance to house music . disaster !

[PostHuMaN]

about time tindunaw.

ta l-isvediza hafna isbah u kienet rebhet award wkoll fi sweden

[Cassius]

i can imagine:o :p

[PostHuMaN]

Originally posted by badboy
I want to know how much did she pay to have the rights to sing it?

no need to pay to make a cover song

[badboy]

What do you mean no need to pay. One can actually grap a song, sing it and make money out of it?

Seems ridicilous if you ask me :/

[metallic]

You need to pay or ask for permission from the original band if ur gonna record the song on an album , but u can it play it live for free.

[badboy]

Originally posted by metallic
You need to pay or ask for permission from the original band if ur gonna record the song on an album , but u can it play it live for free.

AFIAK Ira recorded this particular song in her latest album. Soooo How mucch do you think she paid for it? hehe :)

[Drowen]

Originally posted by badboy
AFIAK Ira recorded this particular song in her latest album. Soooo How mucch do you think she paid for it? hehe :)

permission is enough. no need for money in the way.

[Exclusive]

it's in her last unplugged album.

i was there for her cd launch and she sang Driving One Of Your Cars so i guess she got permission from the record label to do it.

And btw Ira is part of a big record label and if im not mistaken even Ludacris is with this label....BMG minalija jisima il label ma nafx :/

[|arK]

its a cover version, + andha xeba diski godda lili personalment jogbuni

Bhalissa Ira Losco u il Band tahha sejrin tajjeb hafna barra minn malta making both money and sucess.

Ma nahsibx li qeda tamel success alxej,.

[Drowen]

Who owns Accident Prone, can confirm that her album is massive. I heard all of the album, and she's gr8

[|arK]

Originally posted by badboy
AFIAK Ira recorded this particular song in her latest album. Soooo How mucch do you think she paid for it? hehe :)


she's with a big ass label, so I guess she went through all the procedures in order to put that song in her album....

Nahseb taf iktar minna xinhi tamel hi man :rolleyes:

[hex4]

mil ftit li smajt waqt l break tax xol - kolla kont smajthom qabel d diski afaik

ahjar semmieta THE COVERVERSION CD

[Exclusive]

remember shit sells........

[Drowen]

l-ahhar album (mux accident prone) smajt hafna bad comments u ekk. pero imo accident prone vera nice

[billy]

clearly you all missed my times letter on this issue a couple of weeks back

i am still shocked they even nominated best MALTESE song when clearly it is not her work

i would never, never, EVER nominate cover versions

(been saying this for literally months now)

[IRALOSCOFanClub]

MALTESE VERSION
Dan l-aħħar qed iddur email b' ħafna konklużjonijiet bla fatti dwar id-diska li hija interpretata minn Ira Losco, il-kumpanji tal-managment tagħha 'Jagged House' iddeċidew li jiċċaraw il-fatti b'dikjarazzjoni uffiċjali hawn taħt.
'Driving One of Your Cars' li kienet interpretata minn artista Svediża 4-5 snin ilu, hija oriġinarjament miktuba minn Malcolm Pardon u Fredrick Rimer - Ħbieb kbar tat-team ta Ira Losco.
Id-dar tad-diski ta l-artista oriġinali m'emmnux fil-proġett biżżejjed biex jipromovuwha barra mill-Isvezja. Ir-rights tad-diska huma tal-kumpanija tal-publishing magħrufa Murlyn. Din hija waħda mill-ikbar kumpaniji tal-publishing fl-Ewropa, responsabbli għal diski li ġew inklużi fl-aħħar album ta Madonna 'Confessions on a Dancefloor' (isimhom jidher ċar fuq is-sleeve ta dan l-album). Murlyn tant kienu impressjonati bid-demos ta Ira Losco illi staqsewha riditx tipprova id-diska, tbiddel xi kliem, u b'hekk tiġi inkluża bħala awtriċi tad-diska hi ukoll, tirriproduċiha u toħroġha bħala single f'kull territorju li xtaqet madwar id-dinja. Avvolja, Murlyn esprimew xewqa li Ira Losco terġa toħroġ id-diska ġewwa l-Isvezja, id-deċiżjoni kienet li dan ma jsirx. L-ismijiet ta l-artista u l-awturi oriġinali jinsabu maġenb 'Driving One of Your Cars' fuq l-album 'Accident Prone.'
Eżempju- Id-diska 'Toxic' li biha Britney Spears rebħet MTV Award, ma kitbitiex Britney Spears. Id-diska hija diska li inkitbet għand Murlyn stess, u proprjament kienu kitbuha għal Kylie Minogue! Ukoll 'Toxic' ġiet 'released ħafna qabel minn artista fl-Afrika tIsfel!!! Aħna nafu dawn id-dettalji, għax morna kemm-il darba għand din il-kumpanija tal-publishing u kien proprju għand il-Murlyn li qalulna li kellhom ix-xewqa li Ira Losco tinterpreta 'Driving One of your Cars'. Dawn huma nies mill-Industrija tal-Muzika Dinjija li m'għandomx ħin x'jaħlu, u jagħtu id-diski tagħhom lil min vera jaħsbu li hu kapaċi!
Finanzjarjament, l-awturi originali tad-diska jieħdu ir-'royalties' talli kitbu id-diska kull darba li Ira Losco tkanta din id-diska. Minħabba il-popolarita ta Ira Losco urew interess kbir li jerġgħu jikkolaboraw magħna fuq diski oħra.....inkluża Ira Losco bħala awtriċi.
Ħadd m'hu qed jinganna lil ħadd, jew jagħmel xi ħaġa illegali- anzi xejn minn dan. Bħal kull proċedura normali fl-industrija tal-mużika, l-ismijiet tal-awturi oriġinali jinsabu ħdejn l-isem tad-diska, f'dan il-każ ħdejn 'Driving One of Your Cars' fis-sleeve tal-album 'Accident Prone'.
L-interpretazzjoni ta' artist jew artista tista tiddetermina id-diska tagħmilx suċċess jew le. Din hija xi ħaġa li narawha mad-dinja kollha. Huwa il-każ ħafna drabi li l-istess diska tidher ġewwa il-klassifiki xi drabi anke fl-istess perjodu, imma interpretata minn artisti differenti. Eżempju: Id-diska sajfijja popolari fl-2005 'Dragostea Din tei' ...kantata kemm minn grupp Taljan Haiduci kif ukoll mill-grupp Maldovian O-Zone kienu it-tnejn qed jiddominaw il-quċċati tal-klassifiki madwar id-dinja fl-istess żmien!!
70-80% tal-MTV Awards għall-aħjar diski huma mogħtija lill-artisti li ma kitbux id-diski huma stess....Eżempju, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Justin Timberlake, Nirvana, Seal, Eminem, Nelly Furtado, The Verve eċċ...eċċ...
Il-Bay Music Awards mhumiex awards għall-awturi tad-diski imma, jippremjaw lill-artisti jew diski li jiddominaw il-klassifiki ta' Bay Radio (biss), ta dik is-sena. L-artist/a, l-awturi, il-produzzjoni, il-performance u il-marketing team wara id-diska, jgħinu biex jagħmlu id-diska suċċess jew le.
Ira Losco hija sal-lum l-unika artista lokali li rnexxielha tiffirma kuntratt ma waħda mill-ikbar djar tad-diski dinjija u tidħol fil-klassifiki Ġermaniżi f'Top 30 b'diski bħal 'Love me or Hate Me', kif ukoll fetħet kunċerti kbar għall-artisti bħal Elton John eċċ. Artist ieħor lokali li għamel unur għal pajjiżna u introduċa il-mużika tiegħu barra minn xtutna huwa Marc Storace, kantant tal-band Svizzera magħrufa 'Krokus' li kumbinazzjoni kellhom hit b'diska li wkoll ma kitbux huma jisimha 'Ballroom Blitz'
Xi ħaġa simili qed tiġri bil-muzika ta Ira Losco. Dan l-aħħar il-preżentatriċi famuża Michelle Hunziker, inkludiet diski ta Ira Losco fl-album tagħha, id-diski qegħdin jitilgħu fil-klassifiki Taljani, u Ġermaniżi, u qed jingħataw prominenza fuq 'prime time' TV Taljan. Kollox huwa legali u aħna flimkien ma Ira Losco nieħdu ir-'royalties' bħala l-awturi tad-diski, minħabba il-fatt li l-artista tniżżel l-ismijiet ta l-awturi (aħna) fuq is-sleeve ta l-album tagħha, ħdejn id-diski kkonċernati 'Love me or Hate Me', 'Get Out' u 'Someone Else'. L-unika differenza hija li Michelle Hunziker ikkuntatjatna bix-xewqa li tinterpreta id-diska, imma aħna ma tajniex permess li tbiddel id-diska, u għalhekk dawn it-tlett diski jissejħu 'Cover Versions'. Fil-każ ta 'Driving One of Your Cars', l-istorja hija differenti, il-kumpanija tal-publishing Murlyn ikkuntatjat lilna, u kellna il-permess inbiddlu kliem, produzzjoni u ingħatajna ir-rights għal territorji madwar id-dinja kollha!
Ira Losco qatt ma stqarret pubblikament jew le, li hi kienet l-awtriċi oriġinali ta 'Driving One of Your Cars'.
Eżempji oħra. Id-diska 'Torn' li aħna niftakruha kantata minn Natalie Imbruglia, li biegħet il fuq minn miljun kopja, kienet oriġinarjament kantata minn artista oħra u telgħet Number 1 fi 3 pajjiżi differenti. Id-diska kisbet popolarita fuq livell dinji wara il-kantata Natalie Imbruglia. Imma il-flejjes kollha iġġenerati minn dan is-suċċess mar għand l-awturi oriġinali tad-diska. Eżempju ieħor huwa tad-diska 'BitterSweet Symphony' interpretata mill-grupp The Verve, li mhija xejn ħlief diska tal-grupp poplari The Rolling Stones, u minkejja dan The Verve rebħu 2 MTV awards għal din id-diska u saru wieħed mill-aktar gruppi famużi fiż-żminijiet tagħna! - U l-lista ta L-Akbar Diski fil-klassifiki tkompli u tkompli....ħafna minnhom diski li jkunu ħarġu qabel minn artisti differenti jew li jkunu miktuba minn awturi differenti u mhux l-artist/a stess.
Id-dar tad-diski ta Kelly Clarkson għada kif staqsietna biex jinkludu waħda mid-diski ta Ira Losco fl-album il-gdid tagħha! Iżda id-deċiżjoni hija f'idejn Il-Kumpanija Tal-Publishing minħabba l-fatt li huma għandhom il-'copyright' fl-istess mod li Murlyn kellhom il-'copyright' ta'Driving One of Your Cars'.
Kif jidher ċar fis-sleeve ta 'Accident Prone' Ira Losco tat kontribuzzjoni ta 65% tal-kitba oriġinali ta dan l-album. Minn dan l-album ħarġu 7 singles, kollha telgħu TOP 10 u 6 minnhom telgħu TOP 5!!
Sal-lum Ira Losco hija rebbieħa ta 23 'Award', kellha 12 TOP 10 singles, żewġ number 1 singles (fuq Bay Radio) u 4 Number 1 album fil-klassifiki tal-bejgħ. Dan juri ċar li Ira Losco tibqa artista kredibbli u ta suċċess li għalkemm kisbet ħafna għall-eta żgħira tagħha baqgħet umli.
Bay Radio innomina u rebbaħ id-diska li ndaqqet u ġiet ivvutatha l-iktar fl-2006 li kienet 'Driving One of Your Cars' kantata minn Ira Losco.
Hija ħassra li l-email li qed tiċċirkola hija waħda ibbażata MHUX fuq opinjoni ta mużika tajba jew ħażina....imma ibbażata fuq konklużjonijet ħżiena u bla fatti li żgur mhiex qed tgħin tiftaħ moħħ in-nies f'Malta dwar kif imorru l-affarijiet fid-dinja tal-mużika! Nirringrazzjaw l Alla li dan l-aħħar il-materjal lokali huwa ta livell li qed imur dejjem għall-aħjar, u għal dan għandna nirringrazzjaw l-artisti, Producers, managers, fans u l-medja.
Sfortunatament ħafna mill-informazzjoni u fatti dwar l-industrija tal-mużika huma tekniċi ħafna u l-aħħar ħaġa li nixtiequ nagħmlu hija li indejqukom bi kliem tqil. Bħala l-Amministrazzjoni ta Ira Losco xtaqna li nwasslulkom din l-informazzjoni li ingħatatilna mill-management ta Ira Losco 'Jagged House', biex nassiguraw il-fans li hemm differenza kbira bejn, fatti dokumentati, bħal m'huma kunċerti kbar li daqqet fihom Ira Losco, postijiet fil-Klassifiki u diski tagħha jindaqqu barra minn Malta ġewwa kumplessi kbar u KONKLUŻJONIJIET ĦŻIENA BLA FATTI li jidhru banali u bla sens issa li l-fatti hawn fuq ġew spjegati min-nies li huma nvoluti u jifhmu l-industrija tal-mużika.
Grazzi tal-ħin tagħkom u komplu agħtu sapport lill-aħjar talent Malti - Ira Losco
Ibagħtu din l-email lil min temmnu li għandu/ha bżonn taqra l-fatti qabel ma jagħmlu il-konklużjonijiet tagħhom!
Dejjem tagħkom
Fan Club Administration
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ENGLISH VERSION
After an e-mail which has been circulating around slandering Ira Losco regarding ' Driving One of Your cars, her management company - Jagged House have issued a report below stating the reality of facts.
'Driving one of your cars' -which was released by a different artist in Sweden 4-5 Years ago was originally, actually written by Malcolm Pardon and Fredrick Rimer - Very good friends of Ira Losco's team .
The label of the original artist didn't believe in the project enough to promote it outside of Sweden. The publishing company, who owned the rights of the song....after hearing Ira Losco, asked us if she would be interested to re-record the song. The publishing company is Murlyn and one of the biggest publishing companies in Europe with artists like Madonna etc.... as you can check on Madonna's new album - 'Confessions on a dance Floor'. After hearing the demos Murlyn were so impressed that they asked if Ira Losco can re-write some words and therefore including her as a song writer, granting the right to reproduce the song and launch it worldwide. Although they gave permission to re-release it in Sweden we decided not to and also gave credit to the original artist and the original writers as shown in the album sleeve of 'Accident Prone' next to 'Driving one of your cars'
One Example - The song 'Toxic' which was released by Britney Spears is not a Britney Spears song and she also won an Mtv Award for that song. The song was done at Murlyn and it was meant for Kylie Minogue and was before released by another pop artist in South Africa. We know this because we've been to Murlyn more than once ...and as explained it was the place where they asked us if Ira Losco would be interested in re-recording 'Driving one of your cars'. These are world class Music industry people with no time to waste.
Financially speaking the original writers get the writing royalties every time Ira Losco performs the song so much so that they've asked us to collaborate on other songs together.....including Ira Losco as a writer.
No one is cheating anyone and doing anything illegal - Far from it. Like in every normal procedure in the music industry the original writers are always to be found next to the name of the song of the album release...as is the case with 'Driving one of your cars' found on Ira's album.
An artist can make a difference in making a song a hit or not. This is common everywhere around the world. In fact on numerous occasions the music industry has seen the charts with the same song performed by different artists.
70-80% of the MTV music awards honored songs not originally written by the artist singing them. Example - Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Justin Timberlake, Nirvana, Seal , Eminem , Nelly Furtado, The Verve etc... etc...
The Bmas is not a songwriters contest - But an award ceremony honoring local artists and songs aired on Bay Radio (Only) - The artist, all the songwriters, the production, the performance and the marketing team all together can make a song hit or drop out of the charts.
Ira Losco is the only contemporary artist to get such a huge major deal abroad and get in the top 30 German charts with 'Love me or hate me' to date as well as perform support to such big names as Elton John etc.. Another singer who has made us proud and took his career abroad is Marc Storace who was the lead singer of the band 'Krokus' who incidentally also had their hit with a song they didn't write called Ballroom Blitz.
Faith has it that a foreign artist decided to cover 3 songs from Ira Losco which have gone up in the Italian, German charts and aired on Prime time TV - This is also legal and in this case we pocket financially as the artist would still honor the legal copyright and next to 'Love me or hate me', ' someone Else' and 'Get out ' there is nothing but Ira Losco's name. - The only difference is that the artist contacted us and we gave no permission to change the song...therefore it's called a cover version. In 'Driving one of your cars' it's a different story as the publishing company contacted us and we had permission to change words and arrangement and have rights for all territories.
Ira Losco has never ever said publicly or not that she is the original and sole writer of 'Driving one of your Cars'.
Some other examples - Natalie Imbruglia's Multi Million seller- 'Torn ' was a number 1 in 3 countries released by a different artist. 3 years later it was given to Natalie Imbrulgia and became one of the most selling songs of our times...Thanks to Natalie....but all the income generated went to the original writer. Another example is The Verve's ' Bitter Sweet Symphony' which was nothing but a Rolling Stones tune which was then released by Verve and also became one of the most selling songs of our times. Everyone thought it was originally written by Verve ... Oh and it won 2 MTV awards - The list of big hits goes on and on with songs being released after being released by a different artist or not written by the artist releasing the song.
The record company of Kelly Clarkson asked us if one of Ira Loscos songs can be used for her new album. So far Ira Losco's publishing hasn't agreed as they own the copyright to give the go ahead just the same way Murlyn owned the right.
Ira Losco as clearly shown on the album 'Accident Prone' contributed to 65% of the original writing as logged on the album's publishing Out of which - 7 singles released and all went to TOP 10 ...and six went Top 5.
With 23 awards won, 12 Top 10 singles, two number singles (Just on Bay Radio...) and 4 No.1 album Sales charts clearly shows that Ira Losco has proven to be a successful, credible and yet incredibly humble artist over and over again.
Bay Radio nominated and awarded the most played and voted song of 2006 - 'Driving One of your Cars' - performed by Ira Losco.
It's a pity the e-mail going around wasn't a musical one based on opinions - Good or Bad..... but based on incorrect non-factual conclusions which don't help to open up people's minds when it comes to music in Malta ... Luckily the industry blossomed these last few years and we have the artists, the producers and management, the fans and the Media to Thank.
Unfortunately the music industry is quite a complex industry to explain and the last thing we want is to bore people with Technical facts but as Ira Losco's Fan Administration we wanted to share this information given to us by Jagged House to ensure all the fans that there's a big difference between factual documentation as we've seen through all the concerts Ira Losco has done together with her band, chart placing, hearing Ira Losco's music in shopping malls abroad........... and the INCORRECT NON-FACTUAL CONCLUSIONS which are now dwarfed and ridiculed by the facts above, given to us by people who are professionals in the music industry.
Thank you.....keep on rocking and supporting Malta's best talent - Ira Losco.
Feel free to send this e-mail to anyone you might think is in need of an eye opener.
Yours truly,
Fan Club Administration

[Drowen]

Thanks for explaining and good luck

[S8nINSIDE]

\m/ go IRA! \m/

[Dragunu]

wahbec! assay!

[MaRkDeLf]

Originally posted by billy

i would never, never, EVER nominate cover versions

(been saying this for literally months now)

ditto, avolja hemm essay warajha .

[metallic]

I agree.

[scarface]

Originally posted by IRALOSCOFanClub
MALTESE VERSION
Dan l-aħħar qed iddur email b' ħafna konklużjonijiet bla fatti dwar id-diska li hija interpretata minn Ira Losco, il-kumpanji tal-managment tagħha 'Jagged House' iddeċidew li jiċċaraw il-fatti b'dikjarazzjoni uffiċjali hawn taħt.
'Driving One of Your Cars' li kienet interpretata minn artista Svediża 4-5 snin ilu, hija oriġinarjament miktuba minn Malcolm Pardon u Fredrick Rimer - Ħbieb kbar tat-team ta Ira Losco.
Id-dar tad-diski ta l-artista oriġinali m'emmnux fil-proġett biżżejjed biex jipromovuwha barra mill-Isvezja. Ir-rights tad-diska huma tal-kumpanija tal-publishing magħrufa Murlyn. Din hija waħda mill-ikbar kumpaniji tal-publishing fl-Ewropa, responsabbli għal diski li ġew inklużi fl-aħħar album ta Madonna 'Confessions on a Dancefloor' (isimhom jidher ċar fuq is-sleeve ta dan l-album). Murlyn tant kienu impressjonati bid-demos ta Ira Losco illi staqsewha riditx tipprova id-diska, tbiddel xi kliem, u b'hekk tiġi inkluża bħala awtriċi tad-diska hi ukoll, tirriproduċiha u toħroġha bħala single f'kull territorju li xtaqet madwar id-dinja. Avvolja, Murlyn esprimew xewqa li Ira Losco terġa toħroġ id-diska ġewwa l-Isvezja, id-deċiżjoni kienet li dan ma jsirx. L-ismijiet ta l-artista u l-awturi oriġinali jinsabu maġenb 'Driving One of Your Cars' fuq l-album 'Accident Prone.'
Eżempju- Id-diska 'Toxic' li biha Britney Spears rebħet MTV Award, ma kitbitiex Britney Spears. Id-diska hija diska li inkitbet għand Murlyn stess, u proprjament kienu kitbuha għal Kylie Minogue! Ukoll 'Toxic' ġiet 'released ħafna qabel minn artista fl-Afrika tIsfel!!! Aħna nafu dawn id-dettalji, għax morna kemm-il darba għand din il-kumpanija tal-publishing u kien proprju għand il-Murlyn li qalulna li kellhom ix-xewqa li Ira Losco tinterpreta 'Driving One of your Cars'. Dawn huma nies mill-Industrija tal-Muzika Dinjija li m'għandomx ħin x'jaħlu, u jagħtu id-diski tagħhom lil min vera jaħsbu li hu kapaċi!
Finanzjarjament, l-awturi originali tad-diska jieħdu ir-'royalties' talli kitbu id-diska kull darba li Ira Losco tkanta din id-diska. Minħabba il-popolarita ta Ira Losco urew interess kbir li jerġgħu jikkolaboraw magħna fuq diski oħra.....inkluża Ira Losco bħala awtriċi.
Ħadd m'hu qed jinganna lil ħadd, jew jagħmel xi ħaġa illegali- anzi xejn minn dan. Bħal kull proċedura normali fl-industrija tal-mużika, l-ismijiet tal-awturi oriġinali jinsabu ħdejn l-isem tad-diska, f'dan il-każ ħdejn 'Driving One of Your Cars' fis-sleeve tal-album 'Accident Prone'.
L-interpretazzjoni ta' artist jew artista tista tiddetermina id-diska tagħmilx suċċess jew le. Din hija xi ħaġa li narawha mad-dinja kollha. Huwa il-każ ħafna drabi li l-istess diska tidher ġewwa il-klassifiki xi drabi anke fl-istess perjodu, imma interpretata minn artisti differenti. Eżempju: Id-diska sajfijja popolari fl-2005 'Dragostea Din tei' ...kantata kemm minn grupp Taljan Haiduci kif ukoll mill-grupp Maldovian O-Zone kienu it-tnejn qed jiddominaw il-quċċati tal-klassifiki madwar id-dinja fl-istess żmien!!
70-80% tal-MTV Awards għall-aħjar diski huma mogħtija lill-artisti li ma kitbux id-diski huma stess....Eżempju, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Justin Timberlake, Nirvana, Seal, Eminem, Nelly Furtado, The Verve eċċ...eċċ...
Il-Bay Music Awards mhumiex awards għall-awturi tad-diski imma, jippremjaw lill-artisti jew diski li jiddominaw il-klassifiki ta' Bay Radio (biss), ta dik is-sena. L-artist/a, l-awturi, il-produzzjoni, il-performance u il-marketing team wara id-diska, jgħinu biex jagħmlu id-diska suċċess jew le.
Ira Losco hija sal-lum l-unika artista lokali li rnexxielha tiffirma kuntratt ma waħda mill-ikbar djar tad-diski dinjija u tidħol fil-klassifiki Ġermaniżi f'Top 30 b'diski bħal 'Love me or Hate Me', kif ukoll fetħet kunċerti kbar għall-artisti bħal Elton John eċċ. Artist ieħor lokali li għamel unur għal pajjiżna u introduċa il-mużika tiegħu barra minn xtutna huwa Marc Storace, kantant tal-band Svizzera magħrufa 'Krokus' li kumbinazzjoni kellhom hit b'diska li wkoll ma kitbux huma jisimha 'Ballroom Blitz'
Xi ħaġa simili qed tiġri bil-muzika ta Ira Losco. Dan l-aħħar il-preżentatriċi famuża Michelle Hunziker, inkludiet diski ta Ira Losco fl-album tagħha, id-diski qegħdin jitilgħu fil-klassifiki Taljani, u Ġermaniżi, u qed jingħataw prominenza fuq 'prime time' TV Taljan. Kollox huwa legali u aħna flimkien ma Ira Losco nieħdu ir-'royalties' bħala l-awturi tad-diski, minħabba il-fatt li l-artista tniżżel l-ismijiet ta l-awturi (aħna) fuq is-sleeve ta l-album tagħha, ħdejn id-diski kkonċernati 'Love me or Hate Me', 'Get Out' u 'Someone Else'. L-unika differenza hija li Michelle Hunziker ikkuntatjatna bix-xewqa li tinterpreta id-diska, imma aħna ma tajniex permess li tbiddel id-diska, u għalhekk dawn it-tlett diski jissejħu 'Cover Versions'. Fil-każ ta 'Driving One of Your Cars', l-istorja hija differenti, il-kumpanija tal-publishing Murlyn ikkuntatjat lilna, u kellna il-permess inbiddlu kliem, produzzjoni u ingħatajna ir-rights għal territorji madwar id-dinja kollha!
Ira Losco qatt ma stqarret pubblikament jew le, li hi kienet l-awtriċi oriġinali ta 'Driving One of Your Cars'.
Eżempji oħra. Id-diska 'Torn' li aħna niftakruha kantata minn Natalie Imbruglia, li biegħet il fuq minn miljun kopja, kienet oriġinarjament kantata minn artista oħra u telgħet Number 1 fi 3 pajjiżi differenti. Id-diska kisbet popolarita fuq livell dinji wara il-kantata Natalie Imbruglia. Imma il-flejjes kollha iġġenerati minn dan is-suċċess mar għand l-awturi oriġinali tad-diska. Eżempju ieħor huwa tad-diska 'BitterSweet Symphony' interpretata mill-grupp The Verve, li mhija xejn ħlief diska tal-grupp poplari The Rolling Stones, u minkejja dan The Verve rebħu 2 MTV awards għal din id-diska u saru wieħed mill-aktar gruppi famużi fiż-żminijiet tagħna! - U l-lista ta L-Akbar Diski fil-klassifiki tkompli u tkompli....ħafna minnhom diski li jkunu ħarġu qabel minn artisti differenti jew li jkunu miktuba minn awturi differenti u mhux l-artist/a stess.
Id-dar tad-diski ta Kelly Clarkson għada kif staqsietna biex jinkludu waħda mid-diski ta Ira Losco fl-album il-gdid tagħha! Iżda id-deċiżjoni hija f'idejn Il-Kumpanija Tal-Publishing minħabba l-fatt li huma għandhom il-'copyright' fl-istess mod li Murlyn kellhom il-'copyright' ta'Driving One of Your Cars'.
Kif jidher ċar fis-sleeve ta 'Accident Prone' Ira Losco tat kontribuzzjoni ta 65% tal-kitba oriġinali ta dan l-album. Minn dan l-album ħarġu 7 singles, kollha telgħu TOP 10 u 6 minnhom telgħu TOP 5!!
Sal-lum Ira Losco hija rebbieħa ta 23 'Award', kellha 12 TOP 10 singles, żewġ number 1 singles (fuq Bay Radio) u 4 Number 1 album fil-klassifiki tal-bejgħ. Dan juri ċar li Ira Losco tibqa artista kredibbli u ta suċċess li għalkemm kisbet ħafna għall-eta żgħira tagħha baqgħet umli.
Bay Radio innomina u rebbaħ id-diska li ndaqqet u ġiet ivvutatha l-iktar fl-2006 li kienet 'Driving One of Your Cars' kantata minn Ira Losco.
Hija ħassra li l-email li qed tiċċirkola hija waħda ibbażata MHUX fuq opinjoni ta mużika tajba jew ħażina....imma ibbażata fuq konklużjonijet ħżiena u bla fatti li żgur mhiex qed tgħin tiftaħ moħħ in-nies f'Malta dwar kif imorru l-affarijiet fid-dinja tal-mużika! Nirringrazzjaw l Alla li dan l-aħħar il-materjal lokali huwa ta livell li qed imur dejjem għall-aħjar, u għal dan għandna nirringrazzjaw l-artisti, Producers, managers, fans u l-medja.
Sfortunatament ħafna mill-informazzjoni u fatti dwar l-industrija tal-mużika huma tekniċi ħafna u l-aħħar ħaġa li nixtiequ nagħmlu hija li indejqukom bi kliem tqil. Bħala l-Amministrazzjoni ta Ira Losco xtaqna li nwasslulkom din l-informazzjoni li ingħatatilna mill-management ta Ira Losco 'Jagged House', biex nassiguraw il-fans li hemm differenza kbira bejn, fatti dokumentati, bħal m'huma kunċerti kbar li daqqet fihom Ira Losco, postijiet fil-Klassifiki u diski tagħha jindaqqu barra minn Malta ġewwa kumplessi kbar u KONKLUŻJONIJIET ĦŻIENA BLA FATTI li jidhru banali u bla sens issa li l-fatti hawn fuq ġew spjegati min-nies li huma nvoluti u jifhmu l-industrija tal-mużika.
Grazzi tal-ħin tagħkom u komplu agħtu sapport lill-aħjar talent Malti - Ira Losco
Ibagħtu din l-email lil min temmnu li għandu/ha bżonn taqra l-fatti qabel ma jagħmlu il-konklużjonijiet tagħhom!
Dejjem tagħkom
Fan Club Administration
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ENGLISH VERSION
After an e-mail which has been circulating around slandering Ira Losco regarding ' Driving One of Your cars, her management company - Jagged House have issued a report below stating the reality of facts.
'Driving one of your cars' -which was released by a different artist in Sweden 4-5 Years ago was originally, actually written by Malcolm Pardon and Fredrick Rimer - Very good friends of Ira Losco's team .
The label of the original artist didn't believe in the project enough to promote it outside of Sweden. The publishing company, who owned the rights of the song....after hearing Ira Losco, asked us if she would be interested to re-record the song. The publishing company is Murlyn and one of the biggest publishing companies in Europe with artists like Madonna etc.... as you can check on Madonna's new album - 'Confessions on a dance Floor'. After hearing the demos Murlyn were so impressed that they asked if Ira Losco can re-write some words and therefore including her as a song writer, granting the right to reproduce the song and launch it worldwide. Although they gave permission to re-release it in Sweden we decided not to and also gave credit to the original artist and the original writers as shown in the album sleeve of 'Accident Prone' next to 'Driving one of your cars'
One Example - The song 'Toxic' which was released by Britney Spears is not a Britney Spears song and she also won an Mtv Award for that song. The song was done at Murlyn and it was meant for Kylie Minogue and was before released by another pop artist in South Africa. We know this because we've been to Murlyn more than once ...and as explained it was the place where they asked us if Ira Losco would be interested in re-recording 'Driving one of your cars'. These are world class Music industry people with no time to waste.
Financially speaking the original writers get the writing royalties every time Ira Losco performs the song so much so that they've asked us to collaborate on other songs together.....including Ira Losco as a writer.
No one is cheating anyone and doing anything illegal - Far from it. Like in every normal procedure in the music industry the original writers are always to be found next to the name of the song of the album release...as is the case with 'Driving one of your cars' found on Ira's album.
An artist can make a difference in making a song a hit or not. This is common everywhere around the world. In fact on numerous occasions the music industry has seen the charts with the same song performed by different artists.
70-80% of the MTV music awards honored songs not originally written by the artist singing them. Example - Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Justin Timberlake, Nirvana, Seal , Eminem , Nelly Furtado, The Verve etc... etc...
The Bmas is not a songwriters contest - But an award ceremony honoring local artists and songs aired on Bay Radio (Only) - The artist, all the songwriters, the production, the performance and the marketing team all together can make a song hit or drop out of the charts.
Ira Losco is the only contemporary artist to get such a huge major deal abroad and get in the top 30 German charts with 'Love me or hate me' to date as well as perform support to such big names as Elton John etc.. Another singer who has made us proud and took his career abroad is Marc Storace who was the lead singer of the band 'Krokus' who incidentally also had their hit with a song they didn't write called Ballroom Blitz.
Faith has it that a foreign artist decided to cover 3 songs from Ira Losco which have gone up in the Italian, German charts and aired on Prime time TV - This is also legal and in this case we pocket financially as the artist would still honor the legal copyright and next to 'Love me or hate me', ' someone Else' and 'Get out ' there is nothing but Ira Losco's name. - The only difference is that the artist contacted us and we gave no permission to change the song...therefore it's called a cover version. In 'Driving one of your cars' it's a different story as the publishing company contacted us and we had permission to change words and arrangement and have rights for all territories.
Ira Losco has never ever said publicly or not that she is the original and sole writer of 'Driving one of your Cars'.
Some other examples - Natalie Imbruglia's Multi Million seller- 'Torn ' was a number 1 in 3 countries released by a different artist. 3 years later it was given to Natalie Imbrulgia and became one of the most selling songs of our times...Thanks to Natalie....but all the income generated went to the original writer. Another example is The Verve's ' Bitter Sweet Symphony' which was nothing but a Rolling Stones tune which was then released by Verve and also became one of the most selling songs of our times. Everyone thought it was originally written by Verve ... Oh and it won 2 MTV awards - The list of big hits goes on and on with songs being released after being released by a different artist or not written by the artist releasing the song.
The record company of Kelly Clarkson asked us if one of Ira Loscos songs can be used for her new album. So far Ira Losco's publishing hasn't agreed as they own the copyright to give the go ahead just the same way Murlyn owned the right.
Ira Losco as clearly shown on the album 'Accident Prone' contributed to 65% of the original writing as logged on the album's publishing Out of which - 7 singles released and all went to TOP 10 ...and six went Top 5.
With 23 awards won, 12 Top 10 singles, two number singles (Just on Bay Radio...) and 4 No.1 album Sales charts clearly shows that Ira Losco has proven to be a successful, credible and yet incredibly humble artist over and over again.
Bay Radio nominated and awarded the most played and voted song of 2006 - 'Driving One of your Cars' - performed by Ira Losco.
It's a pity the e-mail going around wasn't a musical one based on opinions - Good or Bad..... but based on incorrect non-factual conclusions which don't help to open up people's minds when it comes to music in Malta ... Luckily the industry blossomed these last few years and we have the artists, the producers and management, the fans and the Media to Thank.
Unfortunately the music industry is quite a complex industry to explain and the last thing we want is to bore people with Technical facts but as Ira Losco's Fan Administration we wanted to share this information given to us by Jagged House to ensure all the fans that there's a big difference between factual documentation as we've seen through all the concerts Ira Losco has done together with her band, chart placing, hearing Ira Losco's music in shopping malls abroad........... and the INCORRECT NON-FACTUAL CONCLUSIONS which are now dwarfed and ridiculed by the facts above, given to us by people who are professionals in the music industry.
Thank you.....keep on rocking and supporting Malta's best talent - Ira Losco.
Feel free to send this e-mail to anyone you might think is in need of an eye opener.
Yours truly,
Fan Club Administration



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[Cassius]

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[mewt]

doh vera