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Jennifer Lopez's new single 'On the Floor' is being criticized for sounding too much like multiple other artists' songs, including Kat DeLuna.Jennifer Lopez's hit single "On the Floor" is No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart ? with a target.
Yet another eagle-eared listener has found similarities between the luscious Latina's career-resurrecting track (with rapper Pitbull) and a previously released song.
Earlier this year, we reported that J.Lo's tune bore some interesting similarities to Hispanic hottie Kat DeLuna's 2010 single "Party O'Clock," which was produced by RedOne, who holds the same honors on Lopez's hit track.
Last week, Dominique Lord, an associate professor at Texas A&M University, noted in a post on Open.Salon.com that a musical refrain in "On the Floor" bears an uncanny resemblance to the tune "Stereo Love" by Romanian performer and composer Edward Maya.
And as Lord, who blogs under the handle "Kanuk," points out, Maya had to give credit to another composer for lifting the tune from him.
In a post titled "J.Lo's 'On the Floor': Plagiarizing a plagiarized song?" Lord writes that after listening to Lopez's single, "I was surprised to find, right at the 25-sec mark, synthesizer notes that sounded bizarrely familiar."
After listening to the song segment again, he continues, "I definitely knew that tune": Maya's 2009 international club hit "Stereo Love." Lord adds that he wasn't the only one who'd reached that conclusion. He cites a music reviewer, whom he doesn't identify, who wrote, "It sounds like producer RedOne has been listening to Edward Maya's hit single 'Stereo Love.'"
Lord then goes on to recount the history of "Stereo Love," which is interesting in light of the comparisons that are being drawn between "On the Floor" and DeLuna's "Party O'Clock." (Lord even links to our first story about the controversy in his blog.)
Lord writes that soon after "Stereo Love" was released in the fall of 2009, Azerbaijani composer Eldar Mansurov filed a copyright infringement claim with the Romanian Copyright Office, Maya's country of origin.
"According to Mansurov, the refrain of 'Stereo Love' was a copy of a song he composed in 1989 titled 'Bayatilar.'" Lord writes that Maya claimed he'd originally heard the haunting accordion tune over the Internet, borrowed from it, and when he couldn't find its originator, credited it to "Anonymous."
Maya ultimately gave Mansurov a "full co-writer's credit," Lord writes, adding: "Score one for the accordion player from Azerbaijan."
Score two, actually, if his song also inspired RedOne or Lopez or both. Spokespersons for Lopez and RedOne could not be reached for comment by deadline.
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