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Bard spotting on Bluesky 18 March 2025 
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This song, Manau's La Tribu de Dana, is one you may never have heard before, but which has played a major role in shaping the face of modern music
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's a rap in French, and uses a melody baseline from a 1970's recording of a Breton folk song, Tri Martolod. Alan Stivell arranged that recording and so held rights in the particular melodic arrangement.
Stivell sued Manau for plagiarism, and ultimately, the courts sided with Manau — which …
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
… cleared a legal path for the reuse and remixing of short melodic arrangements — interpolation and quotation of arrangements and even sampling of recordings — in music distributed in Europe.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Here is Stivell's original recording of Tri Martolod, for comparison:
...Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And here is a cover of it by Nolwenn Leroy:
...Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And here is a Swiss Celtic Folk Metal band hosting Manau performing La Tribu de Dana
...Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And here is what is arguably Eluveitie's most accessible, famous, and most-covered song, "Inis Mona", clearly interpolating both La Tribu de Dana & Tri Martolod
...Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Because of Manau's La Tribu de Dana, such masterpieces which existed in grey areas such as Dean Grey's American Edit are no longer in limbo in Europe.
I'd still post this, even if it were fully illegal.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Lifting from the Dr Who Theme Song, lines from Dr Who, Green Day's American Idiot, & the KLF's Doctorin' The Tardis — which lifted from Gary Glitter's Rock n Roll Part 2.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I believe that songs are prophecies.
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Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Well, maybe I'm the cute twink, America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody, do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Every blocklist and labeler on this site should have a clear statement of "Here are the thresholds by which an account is added. And: Here is how an account appeals this listing."
We are all human. We can all change, we all make mistakes.
Including list maintainers.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
All music is in polka time, if you're Weird enough
Half-butt Matt (@appa69.bsky.social):
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Proposing a novel Freedom Index, the "You Oughta Know" Freedom Index.
On a scale from 1 to 20, count how many words of Alanis Morrisette's "You Oughta Know" are censored from FM radio broadcast. Subtract that from 20.
The United States of America is currently at -4 on this index
Kathleen Belew (@kathleenbelew.bsky.social):
Wow, this index was only at a 1 when the song originally aired
Kathleen Belew (@kathleenbelew.bsky.social):
No wait, I have to math. What's the index if they only censored frick?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
19 if they only censor "frick".
Usually here the stations censored "go down on" & "frick", four words.
Today it was almost the whole line of each, and the "scratch my nails down someone else's back", too
Kathleen Belew (@kathleenbelew.bsky.social):
I mean why even play it
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Propaganda effects, I suppose
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Been a long, long time since I heard "88 Lines about 44 Women" on the radio. Probably too long. Maybe we need Anthrax on the radio again. Startin' Up a Posse.
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Sheryl Weikal (The Leftist Lawyer) (@leftistlawyer.com):
Matt Taibbi is such a traitor to every value he claimed to uphold
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The only people who use "Redounded" are Civil War reenactors & Tolkien geeks.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There's a huge swath of things I don't write about because to do so, I would have an aneurysm. That list is growing faster and faster.
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Lee Kovarsky (@kovarsky.bsky.social):
I know I keep going on about this, but I wish mainline outlets would include in their reporting that the EO invoking the Alien Enemies Act is flagrantly unlawful. Here's the language of the AEA, which permits invocation only when we are at war with/invaded by a FOREIGN/NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They'll pivot on "… and the President makes public proclamation of the event …" to claim that it's within POTUS' power to say that the USA is having war waged on it by an unspecified nation, the identity of which they won't disclose b/c of natl. sec., and then it will have to be punted to SCOTUS
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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
oh good just what i needed, a migraine
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Rest and get better ❤️🩹
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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
the fact that no one is doing interesting things with my titties right now is downright transphobic
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
🌼🌼
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Neighbor!
LOOK AT THE PROFILE PIC
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I am certain you do not wish to argue that several years ago you assaulted me at Tanglewood Forest. Several of your fellow company members have chased me and thwapped me with Amtgard -legal boffer weapons on Company Road while I was making announcements on behalf of Kingdom Officers.
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