Jorbacca's God is an Awesome Battlefield

Posted by thefunnystone on May 15th, 2009 at 5:46 PM
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People keep pointing this out to us, and we had to laugh because it's true. Jordin Sparks' new song "Battlefield" is just a rip off of a Christian song called "My God is an Awesome God". Listen to the chorus of Battlefield and then My God is an Awesome God. They're the same damn song. Either she's doing her preachy thing again or she's stealing music now. Maybe she thinks she's Daughtry?

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sum1
Posted: May 15, 2009 - 7:49pm
Joined: 17 Apr 2008

No kidding.

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Cinemaniac86
Posted: May 15, 2009 - 8:00pm
Joined: 26 Feb 2008

Dave, you should also mention that she also completely ripped-off Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield". I mean, the lyrics literally state at one point: "Why does love always feel like a battlefield?" Jorbacca must've eaten Pat Benatar and is now attempting to channel her. Except Pat Benatar + 400 pounds of Taco Bell delicacies = this piece of shit single/album.

Either way though, bahaha.

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elvenjewel
Posted: May 16, 2009 - 1:32am
Joined: 29 Mar 2007

It's definitely derivative. Close enough you can hear the similarities, not close enough to get sued. Oy. And "Awesome God" WAS an awesome song by Rich Mullins, a REAL musician, before it got completely watered down into a Jesus Jingle.

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iTunesOverthrow
Posted: May 16, 2009 - 4:50am
Joined: 16 May 2009

Ummm.....actually, they're NOT the same damn song. While the chorus of "Battlefield" shares the same basic chord progression with "Awesome God," its vocal melody is entirely different. This happens all the time in pop music. For example, "So Lonely" by the Police and "With or Without You" by U2 both utilize the same four chord progression, but are they the same song? Absolutely not.

MarcusAKAFatima
Posted: May 16, 2009 - 11:59am
Joined: 20 Apr 2007

I don't know....I heard Awesome God a million times as a kid and I never once thought of it while listening to Battlefield.

Svetlana-Ko
Posted: May 16, 2009 - 2:37pm
Joined: 27 Feb 2008

Okay, so I definitely was telling my mom this while we were watching her performance. Called it!

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mormonhuliay
Posted: May 16, 2009 - 7:15pm
Joined: 07 Mar 2008

Has anyone else pointed out the irony of the situation:

Jordin does a song with Chris Brown... and then she does a song about love being a Battlefield?

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha....

SteubieGirl09
Posted: May 16, 2009 - 8:12pm
Joined: 05 Mar 2009

Yeah... sorry but I think this is stretching it a little bit. Awesome God has been one of my favorite songs for a long time but I didn't think of it when I heard Jordan sing it or when I listened to it again. A couple lines have a slightly similar tune but..... :\

Ditto to whoever said that about the Rich Mullins song though.

Weenrocks
Posted: May 16, 2009 - 9:00pm
Joined: 22 Feb 2008

Shit, here I was thinking it sucked just because it was as repetitive as Halo, but it's also a ripoff in sound with Awesome God and a ripoff in theme with Pat Benetar.

Jordin is soooooooooooooooooo faaaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttttttt!!!! Eleven!!!!!!

Panderer
Posted: May 17, 2009 - 7:25am
Joined: 06 Mar 2009

Well, I had to endure the puke-a-licious opening to "Battlefield" but it IS note for note a ripoff of the chorus of "Awesome God."

I'll bet in concert she even has the drones clap in unison in the hope that the mothership will come and pick them all up and take them to wherever they think they are going.