The Weeknd Dituduh Mencuri Konsep Untuk Video 'Can't Feel My Face'

Oleh: admincd - 28 Aug 2015

Meski saat ini sedang berada di atas angin, karena single terbarunya, 'Can't Feel My Face', sukses besar, namun masalah ingin mengikuti langkah The Weeknd. Baru-baru ini ia dituduh sudah mencuri konsep orang lain untuk musik video single tersebut.

Tuduhan ini datang dari sutradara bernama Mitch Moore, yang mengklaim jika video 'Can't Feel My Face' merupakan jiplakan dari sebuah video yang tidak dirilis milik band asal Montreal, Majical Cloudz, dimana ia mengerjakan videonya.

Moore menunjukkan banyaknya kesamaan antara dua video tersebut melalui akun Instagramnya, yang diposting pada Senin malam, 25 Agustus. Lebih lanjut ia menyebutkan, meski video yang dikerjakannya untuk Majical Cloudz tidak jadi tayang karena masalah perbedaan kreatifitas, namun produksi videonya cukup besar dan versi edit videonya sudah tersebar di antara rekan-rekannya untuk kepentingan umpan balik.

So about a year ago, I directed a video for Majical Cloudz. Because of creative differences, it never came out. But the production was large, and many feedback emails were sent out with private uploads of the edit. It's come to my attention that some body at the helm of a certain mega popular video must have seen one or more of these unreleased edits. The resemblance is too uncanny. My mind is a mansion of creativity, so this petty theft is nbd to me. BUT I'M STILL CALLING THE POLICE!! ????. ----------------- Good god now I have to make an addendum cuz of p4K et al!!! I'm NOT calling out any specific body including the video's director. BTW neither premise is original, and I'm not defending my work here. But the mise en scene of the shots and their function within the scene were too uncannily parallel. Third parties alerted me to this fact. I posted for two reasons. One: The Shania gag was HILARE!!! Two: The moneyed folks in the mainstream waste so much money trying to make half-hearted copies of work originally pioneered by gifted and under-resourced artists - many of whom I know personally. Plagiarism and brain drain happens at even the most shadiest of bcc: levels y'all...The fashion/production/management world is narrow. Again, idk nor idc if this actually happened in this case. But I MUST SAY - In the creative agency world, the gank-giddy decision making of creative directors (or whatever u call them) is silly because these folks know how to find the gurls. They could save so so so much money and get more impactful end products if they came straight to the source instead of hiring a middleman with the word "savvy" on their resume. I just don't get it. *goes back to storyboarding

A video posted by Mitch Moore (@mitch____moore) on Aug 24, 2015 at 12:23pm PDT

Moore menduga jika ada seseorang yang bekerja dengan The Weeknd menemukan video miliknya dan kemudian menggunakan konsepnya untuk 'Can't Feel My Face'. Belum ada tanggapan dari pihak The Weeknd atau rumah produksi yang mengerjakan videonya mengenai hal ini.

'Can't Feel My Face' merupakan track dari album baru The Weeknd, "Beauty Behind the Madness", yang akan dirilis pada tanggal 28 Agustus besok. Sebagai single, lagu tersebut sudah sukses duduk di posisi #1 Billboard Hot 100. Videonya dikerjakan oleh Grant Singer dan rilis bulan lalu.