Pop Autopsy Supplemental: Big Time Rush

“These Nickelodeon hucksters not only steal the very recognizable “Woo-hoo!” chorus, but the intro guitar riff is not nearly identical, it is identical.”

Like a character in an episode of the Twilight Zone, I’m frequently witness to something I can’t explain and I look around hoping someone else will see it to. But it never works that way. It’s a curse to be aware of these things and a hellish existence to have no one else see it. One of those things that has been driving me nuts lately is the song “Windows Down” by very shitty, fake boy band, Big Time Rush. It sounds exactly like Blur’s “Song 2” and for the life of me I can’t figure out why there isn’t a law suit currently being heard in a court somewhere.

Here’s Blur’s “Song 2”. You’ve all heard it a million times. It was a huge, worldwide hit and is still played in most hockey arenas:

Now here’s Big Time Rush’s offering. Sorry for making you listen to it, but you’ll only have to hear 30 seconds of it to get the gist:

These Nickelodeon hucksters not only steal the very recognizable “Woo-hoo!” chorus, but the intro guitar riff is not nearly identical, it is identical. I tried to impress this upon my eight year old and in true young/older generation fashion, he couldn’t have given two shits. I’m all for nods to great bands, but is Big Time Rush even aware of Blur? Do they know just how massive this song was to the rest of the world? Or did some producer/song writer show up with it already done and these dildos just put on their fancy baseball hats and tank tops, ready to make the music video? One thing is for certain: if no money changed hands before this was released, a whole lot will be exchanged now.

Written by John Reidy