The spat between producers Southstar and Robin Schulz serves as a cautionary tale for rising artists working with uncleared samples.
of theft. “He said to me [via Instagram message], ‘I’m sorry. I thought we’d do the song together. I never wanted to steal your song,'” Southstar tellsIn a short statement, a representative for Schulz said only that “Southstar listened to the wrong counselors. His team decided to go a confrontational way instead of a conciliatory [one].”
Southstar does not deny that his initial remix was unauthorized, but he “loved it so much” that he felt compelled to put it out anyway. He says he had already finished the “Miss You” instrumental when he encountered Tree’s vocals on TikTok. “Jerk” is a somber, pouting rock song, but the clip Southstar encountered on the app was sped-up, so Tree’s voice sounded chirpy and helium-addled, at odds with his misanthropic lyrics.
Few people listened to “Miss You,” according to Southstar, until the German rapper Yung Hurn posted the track on his Instagram story. The single then started to carom around social media, and soon Southstar was fielding offers from all the major labels. “Sony and Universal came to me and said, ‘We really love the song, and we can get it cleared for you,'” the producer recalls.
Months later, on Oct. 12, Southstar released a sped-up version of his track. Just five days passed before Atlantic released a sped-up version of Schulz’s song.
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