Talk:I'm So Afraid

Lindsey does not sing this song alone, you can hear someone else sing with him at around 2:00, it sounds like Stevie... --80.44.216.142 (talk) 02:14, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

This Little Babe

I think the claim regarding "This Little Babe" by Benjamin Britten is overstated. Yes, the first few bars are similar but not identical (see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVE0WJfwVhA&t=12s). But that's all. Bernhard Fabricius (talk) 14:56, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

How would you suggest improving this sentence? Would the following work?

Some of the music is derived from Benjamin Britten's short song "This Little Babe"

I think the similarity is truly random (there is nothing to suggest that Buckingham had ever heard the Britten work). And "derived" would suggest that Buckenham deliberately (or at least unconsciously) based his tune on Britten's. I would rather state as a fact (ie with the current reference) that

It has been observed [Reference] that the opening bars of the verses are similar to the opening bars of Benjamin Britten's short song "This Little Babe"

and leave it at that. Recent court cases have done a lot to widen the boundaries for similarities before plagiarism can be claimed, explicitly disallowing cases where just a few notes follow the same progression somewhere. Bernhard Fabricius (talk) 17:06, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

From the reference in question, the following text is the only information we have to work with: “This Little Babe,” which rocker Lindsey Buckingham filched for his pre-Fleetwood Mac “I’m So Afraid”. Like you mentioned earlier, Buckingham has never acknowledged whether or not he deliberately pilfered the motif found in "This Little Babe", and the author of this article has not demonstrated verifiable authority on the matter. As per Wikipedia:Weasel word, we should avoid language that is unjustifiably dressed with authority, specifically phrases such as "some people say", "it is widely thought", etc. As such, it might be best to remove this sentence entirely. Dobbyelf62 (talk) 17:45, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

Totally agree. Bernhard Fabricius (talk) 14:51, 1 November 2023 (UTC)