7 Songs About Plagiarism

1. The Smiths - Cemetry Gates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knM7ow5vMPA A song entirely focused around copycat antics, The Smiths' Cemetry Gates tells the tale of a man disappointed in his lover's unoriginality. Focusing on literary plagiarism rather than musical mimicry, Morrissey's narrator calls his partner out for attempting to pass a Shakespearian quotation off as his own. Literary giants Keats, Yeats and Wilde are all name-dropped, casting a cynical shadow over the shallow nature of adopting another's words as one's own. It's worth noting that the track's title is misspelled, arguably a deliberate attempt by Morrissey to emphasise the importance of originality - as well as implying that plagiarism does a disservice to the dead writers from whom work is copied. Key Lyrics: "If you must write prose and poems, the words you use should be your own / Don't plagiarise or take on loan"
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