Miley Doesn't Know

So sometime last week, Miley Cyrus (legally born as Destiny Hope Cyrus...who would name their child that?), aka Hannah Montana made news headlines. Again. After reading about her recent problems with the media and those "inappropriate" pictures, which frankly, showed slightly less than if she were wearing a swim suit, I was slightly worried what sort of trouble dear old Miley had gotten herself into this time.

I was happy to read that in fact she was NOT in rehab yet. PHEW. But, no, she was taking heat for supposedly stealing the opening part of a song and not giving credit to the original band. Terrible, terrible, i say! What sort of example is she setting for all of those teeny weeny impressionable people who watch the Disney channel?! But then i saw just what song by what group she was accused of stealing. The song is called "Scotty Doesn't Know" by the very much unheard of band called Lustra. Prior to hearing about this, I had heard of Lustra, and in fact listen to "Scotty Doesn't Know" on a regular basis. The song got its sort of break on the movie Eurotrip....and quite frankly, I would be surprised if Miley has ever seen Eurotrip, though it is a quality movie.

I just didn't buy that Miley or whom ever writes her songs actually copied that song. So i delved a little deeper and found out that the part of Mileys song in question is only the first few seconds, so I just had to have myself a listen. And so I googled a wee bit and found this. You can decide for yourself whether she copied anything or not.



I later learned that Lustra only found out about the supposed copying from a commenter on the bands MySpace page that saids, "Miley Cyrus released a single "Rockstar" with a guitar hook that is very similar to the main guitar riff of 'Scotty Doesn't Know' ... Check it out and sue away."