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Songs that have resulted in lawsuits, either for lyrics or for borrowing too much of the music.
Entries Beginning with O
"Oh Me So Horny," 2 Live Crew
Broward County police hauled in 2Live Crew into court because the album As Nasty As They Want To Be was banned in Broward County Florida due to its obscene lyrical content. But the case and Broward County's anti-obscenity laws were struck down and thrown out because the song was protected under free speech.
Celeste
"Old Man Down The Road," John Fogerty
Fogerty was actually sued by Saul Zaentz, the owner to the rights of Credence Clearwater Revival songs, for plagiarizing "Run Through The Jungle"--a song which John Fogerty wrote.
Agrimorfee
"Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song...," Fall Out Boy
In actual fact, although Fall Out Boy did have a song originally going by the title "I Liked You A Whole Lot Better Before You Became A F***ing MySpace Whore", this one had originally been titled "My Name Is David Ruffin And These Are My Temptations". A clever play on words of course, but courting legal disaster (no pun intended) with the classic Motown vocal group.
neptunevsmars
"Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song...," Fall Out Boy
In actual fact, although Fall Out Boy did have a song originally going by the title "I Liked You A Whole Lot Better Before You Became A F***ing MySpace Whore", this one had originally been titled "My Name Is David Ruffin And These Are My Temptations". A clever play on words of course, but courting legal disaster (no pun intended) with the classic Motown vocal group.
neptunevsmars
"our lawyers made us change the name of this song..," Fall Out Boy
okay so the original title of this song was "i liked you much better before you became a myspace whore" but when they went to record their lawyers saild that the song was offensive or that they couldn't mention myspace or something gay like that and so they decided to change it to "our lawyers made us change the name of this song so we wouldn't get sued"
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