While looking over the list of Grammy winners from this past weekend, I noticed the The Red Hot Chili Peppers won Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for "Dani California".
Which brings me to this: HEY! CHILI PEPPERS! YOU OWE TOM PETTY ONE OF YOUR GRAMMYS!
What, you don't recall all the talk over the summer that "Dani California" was a rip off of the Tom Petty song "Last Dance With Mary Jane" ? On a closer listen, you can find similarities in chord progression and lyrics. Tom Petty says he doesn't care, and he doesn't think its malicious. I don't think it was deliberate, but it feels like when a classic movie gets remade and it pales in comparison. So give props to the original.
I just think it's sad that a band that used to be such pretty badass and dangerous to put on air have wandered off to adult alternative retirement and gotten boring; so boring that the most controversial thing to happen to them in the past few years was this sort-of plagiarism.
Wikipedia: Dani California
Wikipedia: Mary_Jane's_Last_Dance
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