Hours after session 53 of Bizarrap came out along with Shakira, Briella, a Venezuelan singer accused the Colombian and the Argentine of plagiarizing her song Only you.
Although Briella’s accusation had a lot of support on social networks and several people advised her to find a lawyer to sue Shakira, a moment ago, a music expert explained why Shakira’s session with Bizarrap is not plagiarism.
My song “Solo tú” (June 2022) / Shakira’s BZRP Session (today)
What do you think? ???? pic.twitter.com/cEgnx7ZuIJ
— Briella (@briellamusic) January 12, 2023
Laura Galindo, a well-known Colombian pianist and cultural journalist, explained on her RTVC Noticias program that her compatriot’s song is not a copy of Briella’s, no matter who.
“The chorus is exactly the same, yes, but it turns out that it is a formula that exists in popular music, and it is the minor seventh chord. With those notes, if you play them in order, with intermediate notes called passing notes, it gives exactly that melody. It is a formula that many have used,” said Galindo.
In addition, the two-time winner of the Simón Bolívar Prize for Journalism cited three well-known examples of songs that were released in previous years and sound similar to Shakira’s with Bizarrap. The first is by a Mexican singer, Caín Guzmán, which premiered at the beginning of 2022; the second, a song called Secret number from a women’s Kpop group, which came to light in November 2021; and lastly, a song by Selena Gomez, which was released in 2015.
???? It has the name of a good person… ???? We know you read it singing!
???? in #ElNotiDeTodos Our dear @LauraGalindoM explains more about the alleged plagiarism of the new song of @shakira.
What do you think? ????#Live ???????? pic.twitter.com/q70ZUg6Day
– RTVC News (@RTVCnoticias) January 13, 2023
“Like these three artists, like Briella and like Shakira, there must be many using the same formula. It is as if we were accusing all the writers of the Latin American Boom of plagiarism who spoke of ‘an afternoon with hot sun,’” concluded the director of the Señal Clásica radio station on Radio Nacional de Colombia.