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Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign aren’t feeling the Valentine’s Day love as their Vultures 1 observe “Good (Don’t Die)” has been faraway from Spotify after lower than 4 days on the streaming service.
“Good (Don’t Die)” was taken down from Spotify on Wednesday afternoon (Feb. 14) however stays obtainable on different streamers corresponding to Apple Music. The electro-pop deep minimize seems to interpolate parts of Donna Summer season‘s 1977 hit “I Really feel Love” on the pensive refrain.
Hours after Vultures landed on streamers over the weekend, Donna Summer season’s property claimed “copyright infringement” and disapproved of Kanye’s use of the alleged pattern.
“Kanye West… requested permission to make use of Donna Summer season’s tune I Really feel Love, he was denied… he modified the phrases, had somebody re sing it or used AI however it’s I Really feel Love… copyright infringement!!!” the property wrote in an Instagram Story on the official Donna Summer season account Saturday (Feb. 10).
“I Really feel Love” reached a peak of No. 6 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 in 1977 and spent 23 weeks whole on the chart. The observe is certainly one of 14 songs to succeed in the highest 10 on the Sizzling 100 in Summer season’s lifetime.
“Good (Don’t Die)” was removed from the one sampling points Kanye and Ty confronted with Vultures 1.
A observe tentatively titled “Everybody” was performed on the New York Vultures listening occasion which appeared to pattern the Backstreet Boys anthem of the identical title, however was reportedly not cleared and didn’t make the primary quantity of Vultures on streaming.
Rockstar Ozzy Osbourne known as out Kanye West and labeled him an “antisemite” after a former model of “Carnival” featured a dwell efficiency of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man.” West went again to the drafting board and swapped out “Iron Man” for an interpolation of My Stunning Darkish Twisted Fantasy‘s “Hell of a Life” on the ultimate model.
“We get so many requests for these songs,” Sharon Osbourne advised Billboard final week. “And after we noticed that request, we simply stated no method… We’ve been in contact along with his group … And it’s additionally a problem of getting respect for an additional artist.”
Billboard has reached out to Spotify for remark. Take heed to “Good (Don’t Die)” under.
