Eddie Vedder stole my song

Eddie Vedder owes me $1 million. Or, at the very least, two Fixer Field moshpit tickets for their upcoming concert at Mt Smart Stadium on November 27. Hey - he stole my song. It's the least he could do.

Let me explain. Back in June I wrote a blog about bad pop song lyrics, including my own terrible attempts at a chart-topper written back when I was an impressionable 14-year-old.

My song went something like this: "Get it on, get it on, get it on before it's gone. Get it on, get it on, get it on before too long," and it was written on a sheet of toilet paper.

Ha ha. Stop laughing. Yes, it's far from a complete song, I know it's really bad and it took me 16 years to work up the courage to publish it somewhere. But it's my bad pop song. It's the one and only song I've ever written. And it's been stolen.

Imagine my surprise when I see my lyrics turn up on the new Pearl Jam CD (Backspacer is really good, by the way). There I am, reviewing the new album only to open up the lyrics book and read the words Vedder has "written" for his song Got Some. My jaw did drop.

The chorus goes a little something like this: "Get it now, get it on, before it's gone."

Okay, fair enough, Vedder has written an entire song around that particular chorus and the rest of the band has supplied important stuff like drums and bass and guitar riffs. And a blistering solo near the end there. I'm not capable of doing any of that - unless it's already pre-programmed on Guitar Hero.

But people have sued over less. I don't want to have to get a lawyer - they're really expensive and I'm only on a lowly Entertainment Editor's salary - but if those two concert tickets don't show up in my letterbox in the next week or so, Eddie, we're going to "get it on" alright.

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max   #1   11:16 am Sep 22 2009

It wasn't that you had just seen the song performed on Conan O'Brien earlier in the month.... I think they could counter sue you! http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrien.com/video/clips/musical-performance-pearl-jam-060109/1116201/

Steve   #2   11:35 am Sep 22 2009

Or you could sue Pearl Jam for making a terrible album?

Ryan   #3   01:06 pm Sep 22 2009

Pearl Jam wrote and recorded the song before you posted your bad lyrics. Shouldn't it be you paying Pearl Jam royalties???

george   #4   08:45 pm Sep 22 2009

shut up and don't be a loser

Lance Field   #5   03:42 pm Sep 23 2009

So Eddie has the same writing talent, as some teenage kid, who grew up writing columns on Britney Spears.

I think I will give the new album a miss.

Plastiquehomme   #6   05:01 pm Sep 23 2009

Sometimes it makes me sad when people don't get the joke.

samm   #7   09:16 am Sep 24 2009

@ Lance #5

So you decide whether or not you buy albums based on single lyrics taken out of context then? I'd love to see what kind of record collection would result from that strategy....:)

palsay   #8   07:12 pm Dec 02 2009

but if those two concert tickets don't show up in my letterbox in the next week or so, Eddie, we're going to "get it on" alright.==> ROTFL

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