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Gang Gang Dance accuse Florence of plagiarism, Florence agrees
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 24 February 2010
New York experimentalists Gang Gang Dance have accused Florence And The Machine of robbing part of their song ‘House Jam’ for the intro of her top 20 single ‘Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)’. Strangely for these sorts of situations, Flo has put her hands up and admitted it.
The band say they spotted the similarity when they saw the video for ‘Rabbit Heart’ and approached Florence’s label, Universal’s Island UK. The band’s publishers, Warp, told Pitchfork that “they did acknowledge the infringement and said that they were aware of it”, apparently adding that the fact Gang Gang Dance were left off the credits for the track and, indeed, never contacted about it at all, was the result of one of those oversight things.
Florence herself added: “Yeah that’s true, it’s no secret. I’ve spoken about it in interviews before. I’m a massive fan of Gang Gang Dance and it was in homage to them”.
The Gang Gang Dancers will now get a cut of all publishing royalties from the track, which is nice.
