Joe Jonas Plagiarizes For Lovers Only Music Video?
According to THE WRAP: (Joe’s Music Video) became a bestseller on iTunes after its July release, and accumulated a rabid group of followers who still sing the movie’s praises on Twitter. Those followers have bombarded HSI’s Facebook page with demands that the production company acknowledge the video’s inspiration.
“There is nothing wrong with getting inspiration from other artists’ beautiful works, like you did with Mark & Michael Polish’s ‘For Lovers Only’ movie for this video, but there is everything wrong in not acknowledging that inspiration,” wrote one fan.
In the interviews he’s done about the video, Joe Jonas has talked about how excited he was to shoot the video in Paris (“like a dream come true”), how he was the only one on the set who didn’t speak French and how he thinks the video’s sexual aspects may shock some of his longtime fans. He has not spoken about the video’s inspiration, though Mark Polish said he saw an interview where someone else associated with the video “said it was inspired by the French New Wave. But the French New Wave is a style, not the content. “In their video, the content is a man and a woman meeting on the stairs, taking a boat ride, running through Paris, sitting in a bathtub … And so much of that is straight from our movie that the first time I watched it, I thought, ‘Somebody really loved ‘For Lovers Only.’” The HSI Productions website includes a running Twitter feed including all the recent comments about its productions. As of Tuesday afternoon, nine of the 10 comments upbraided the company for not acknowledging “For Lovers Only.” Do you think Joe plagiarized the music video?
