Comments on: Rihanna Rips off Contone with “Shut Up and Drive” http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/ Peter Boyce of MADD Entertainment gives you a comical view of the serious business of entertainment in Barbados and the wider Caribbean. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:09:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: sarcastic mrp http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-1012 sarcastic mrp Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:40:07 +0000 http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/#comment-1012 ah come on people is this what we are being subjected too now peter i have you in very high regard dont meke me lose it i agree with some of the things that are being said but come on enough is enough ah come on people is this what we are being subjected too now peter i have you in very high regard dont meke me lose it i agree with some of the things that are being said but come on enough is enough

]]> By: lickylickum http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-645 lickylickum Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:08:49 +0000 http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/#comment-645 actually I agree that the songs are similar in that they are using cars to be metaphors to the sex act. Contone's car brek down (his percolator won't work correctly) and Paula left him while Rihanna will leave that guy if he won't shut up and drive (won't work his percolator correctly). See the similarity metaphorically speaking. actually I agree that the songs are similar in that they are using cars to be metaphors to the sex act. Contone’s car brek down (his percolator won’t work correctly) and Paula left him while Rihanna will leave that guy if he won’t shut up and drive (won’t work his percolator correctly). See the similarity metaphorically speaking.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-632 Anonymous Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:03:13 +0000 http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/#comment-632 do not describe our music as utter shite. what you are taking is not utter shite just because you have a different opinion fom mine do not describe our music as utter shite. what you are taking is not utter shite just because you have a different opinion fom mine

]]> By: dockus http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-616 dockus Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:30:46 +0000 http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/#comment-616 I always thought you were 'madd as hell' but now you've proven it! Rihanna's 'Shut up and drive' is in no way similar to Contone's drivel...I can't think of anything else that's decent to call that excuse for a song. The problem is Bajans like a lot of foolishness when it comes to calypso at Crop Over and as a result, anything can pass for music when Crop Over comes around! Good luck with your website but please try to plug 'worthy' music and not 'utter shite'! I always thought you were ‘madd as hell’ but now you’ve proven it!
Rihanna’s ‘Shut up and drive’ is in no way similar to Contone’s drivel…I can’t think of anything else that’s decent to call that excuse for a song.
The problem is Bajans like a lot of foolishness when it comes to calypso at Crop Over and as a result, anything can pass for music when Crop Over comes around!
Good luck with your website but please try to plug ‘worthy’ music and not ‘utter shite’!

]]> By: blackbaje http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-567 blackbaje Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:10:00 +0000 http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/#comment-567 It is true that both songs are exactly same, in an opposite sort of way. Play any one in reverse while listening to the next forward, slow down contone a bit and you will hear. Peter is right; but in a backward sort of way. It is true that both songs are exactly same, in an opposite sort of way. Play any one in reverse while listening to the next forward, slow down contone a bit and you will hear. Peter is right; but in a backward sort of way.

]]> By: sweettreatz http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-556 sweettreatz Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:27:08 +0000 http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/#comment-556 wait peter you actually got this many responses i especially like that meshaka posted an entire song to attempt to prove her point or should i say try to prove you wrong. tou 100% right about the business asiba-the buffalo soldier ... wait peter you actually got this many responses i especially like that meshaka posted an entire song to attempt to prove her point or should i say try to prove you wrong.
tou 100% right about the business asiba-the buffalo soldier …

]]> By: asiba-the buffalo soldier http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-555 asiba-the buffalo soldier Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:21:18 +0000 http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/#comment-555 I support Peter sex is the theme anyhow and please Meshaka, Peter is only pulling your leg, cant you tell Dont believe that Rihanna is talking about any car nuttin, she is talking about percolating Anyhow to get serious I have said above, this Ripping Off thing is pretty big in Barbados and I should know because I have been ripped off several times. One example will suffice: I submitted a song called 'Rise Up' to a certain song contest and some time after a certain group in Barbados released a recording of a song with the same title and containing exact lines from my song. I also know others who have been similarly affected. Years ago Roger Maynard had to go to the nation newspaper to claim a song that he had written The song ? 'Slavery Done' I support Peter
sex is the theme anyhow and please Meshaka, Peter is only pulling your leg, cant you tell

Dont believe that Rihanna is talking about any car nuttin, she is talking about percolating

Anyhow to get serious I have said above, this Ripping Off thing is pretty big in Barbados and I should know because I have been ripped off several times. One example will suffice: I submitted a song called ‘Rise Up’ to a certain song contest and some time after a certain group in Barbados released a recording of a song with the same title and containing exact lines from my song.

I also know others who have been similarly affected. Years ago Roger Maynard had to go to the nation newspaper to claim a song that he had written
The song ?

‘Slavery Done’

]]> By: peter http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-554 peter Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:55:46 +0000 http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/#comment-554 Allow me to interject! Darron has forbidden me from responding to your comments in my own comments section but in this case I must. I would like to reiterate that the supposed Rihanna’s “Shut up and Drive” lyrics which Meshaka has painstakingly posted above are an exact copy of Contone lyrics "my car brek down". In fact when I first saw the lyrics above I thought they were Contone’s lyrics. Meshaka is obviously one of those people who have been bewitched by Rihanna,you need to wake up and smell the engine oil girfriend! If I were Contone I would go to Coscap and take legal action and either try to get a settlement of 2 million dollars or a date with Rihanna. I stand by my statement dammit, I have not forgotten what Rihanna did to me in the exclusive interview that you can read in this blog, I still have nightmares about that incident and she has not phoned me to apologise yet! Allow me to interject! Darron has forbidden me from responding to your comments in my own comments section but in this case I must.
I would like to reiterate that the supposed Rihanna’s “Shut up and Drive” lyrics which Meshaka has painstakingly posted above are an exact copy of Contone lyrics “my car brek down”.
In fact when I first saw the lyrics above I thought they were Contone’s lyrics.
Meshaka is obviously one of those people who have been bewitched by Rihanna,you need to wake up and smell the engine oil girfriend!
If I were Contone I would go to Coscap and take legal action and either try to get a settlement of 2 million dollars or a date with Rihanna.
I stand by my statement dammit, I have not forgotten what Rihanna did to me in the exclusive interview that you can read in this blog, I still have nightmares about that incident and she has not phoned me to apologise yet!

]]> By: Chris http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-553 Chris Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:04:23 +0000 http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/#comment-553 Haha..are you that lacking of stories? Haha..are you that lacking of stories?

]]> By: asiba-the buffalo soldier http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-552 asiba-the buffalo soldier Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:27:34 +0000 http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/09/09/rhianna-rips-off-contone-with-shut-up-and-drive/#comment-552 If yuh really want to talk about songs getting RIP OFF-for a real true story talk to me about how I have been ripped off in this island of Barbados.Right now my pockets should be full of royalties from my song 'Gimme My Calypso' listen to it and tell me what yuh think More up to date :I have not received a cent in royalties yet for the song -Too Much Fat on the Road. The Coscap people need to explain why If yuh really want to talk about songs getting RIP OFF-for a real true story talk to me about how I have been ripped off in this island of Barbados.Right now my pockets should be full of royalties from my song ‘Gimme My Calypso’
listen to it and tell me what yuh think

More up to date :I have not received a cent in royalties yet for the song -Too Much Fat on the Road. The Coscap people need to explain why

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