#27: “I Didn’t Mean to Turn on You”
Like many things in the art world, artists draw inspiration from other artists. While there isn’t anything inherently terrible about this practice, it can be somewhat jarring when one artist essentially takes a different artist’s work and presents it as their own idea and art.
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Well, in 1985, famous singer Robert Palmer released the song “I Didn’t Mean to Turn on You,” which ended up reaching number two on the Billboard Hot 100. The only thing was that the same song had previously been released the year before by African American artist Cherelle but didn’t nearly do as well as Palmer’s version…