That vicious ’swaggerjacking’ accusation rears its ugly head yet again. Apparently, Pussycat Doll singer Melody Thornton has accused fellow R&B/pop songstress Ciara of swaggerjacking her look. Melody says via her Twitter that Ciara’s recently surfaced ‘L’Officiel’ photoshoot is the spitting image of her Matthew Rolston photoshoot for the latest Pussycat Dolls album ‘Doll Domination’. According to Melody, Ciara jacked her look. Are you seeing the similarities? Not only is the pose identical but even the outfits are similar. I hear Ciara stans are spitting blood at Melody for speaking her mind, but pictures also paint a thousand words:
What if swaggerjacking suddenly came with legal obligations and we were able to copyright it? What if it were treated in the same context as stealing ideas and concepts from songs, novels and movies? Would Beyonce be allowed to call herself a songwriter after putting her name on songs that were already written? Would Rihanna be allowed to accept praise for her edginess even though it was previously done by Kelis and Fefe Dobson?
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When it comes to the musical industry, nothing is ever original. A lot of what we see are images, words and gimmicks that have been done before from a more respected longer serving veteran. Even the greats were inspired by some of their predecessors. Ciara has been accused of swagger jacking just about every big name female singer that made an impact. If swaggerjacking became illegal, Ciara would face a long list of prosecution from the likes of Aaliyah, Janet and Beyonce.
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Every year, millions of people are sued for copyright infringement and are prosecuted to the fullest exent, so why should visual/image conceptualisation be any different? Many photoshoots come with lots of interesting concepts and ones that had much thought put into them by the originator. If an act wants to disassociate themselves from all the derivativeness, be inspired, but put your own twist on it. Be creative. Be original. Be innovative.
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People are influenced by others all the time and there is nothing wrong with that at all. But by being creative you are also giving something back to your source. And that way, you won’t get a scenario like Melody and Fefe Dobson calling out others for stealing their swagger and ideas or Beyonce and Rihanna being the brunt of those angry accusations.
Damn Everyone is claiming “she jacked my style”…All these artist today are “jacking” from the 60’s,70’s & 80’s. So they all need to shutup with claims to a certain style.
Everyone swagger jacks…….from Same Cook to Marvin Gaye to James Brown to Michael jackson…From Etta James to Aretha Franklyn to TIna to Beyonce….I mean come one….now…I couldnt have said it best Cammie, but the artist in 50s,60s,70s and 80s copied from people in the 20s,30s and 40s……..so its jut a recyclying factor…..
Melody is trying to get some press obviously. This is beyond wack if she think Ciara was even thinking about her irrelevant ass while they were shooting this shot.
BTW, Kelis and Fefe both called Rihanna out for swagger jacking. They both did it better and Rihanna came off as the poser. #FACT
Okay, is Ciara running this site? Calm down Toya, calm down
*bursts out laughing*
come on – she’s holding her hair – what about that is swagger jacking??
This is just ridiculous. I just can not even entertain it.
*laughs with MJ*
Girl go to the back with that, Melody is reaching, who cares, we are waiting for Ciara to come out with fire to be relevant again, we can pray for her to jack someone’s swag. Melody was in the background, she deserves to have her back up swag jacked, i’m thru with that!!
Melody stole the pose & outfit from a tranny! Leiomy was the 1st to hold her ponytail (remember beyonce did it at an award show? she got that from leiomy).
This whole leotard/edgy crap is being taken from the gays in the underground voge world check out vogue evolution.
melody needs to shut up she sounds like a sheep (maybe her & rihanna can do a duet?) sheep & billgoat
and isnt she messin w/ bow wow? come on! ciara aint studyin her ass!
R U FUCKIN SERIOUS DAMN U KRAZY BYTCH U SPEND SO MUCH TYME WIT BEYONCE CUZ SHE STAY N YO HEAD DAMN DIS AINT HAVE SHYT TA DO WIT HA KEEP HA NAME OUT YA MOUTH N CHOKE ON HER FORTUNE BYTCH
ooh n beyonce did the hair thing too, and b scott, MELODY, ATTACK!!! HAHA SHE’S DUMB
Moving on….*rolls eyes*
Ciara has swag… <== now that's funny!
WOW.
Melody Thornton needs to worry about her “career” rather than someone relevant “jacking” her style.
I felt bad for her before, but now I don’t.
She’s just holding her ponytail. GEEZ.
The Make-up, Hair & Art Direction all different.
I’m just going to pretend like she’s not serious…
The poses and outfits probably weren’t even Ciara’s idea, there are such things as photography directors. She needs to shallap.
I’m sry ladies, but bish are you serious?
*taps M.J.’S shoulder* Is she serious?
Really a waste of a post & somehow it reverts back to rihanna no surprise there considering she your obsession toya being a super fan an all.
Cici didn’t steal from melody because she never invented that image herself & considering photo shoots are based on the photographer’s vision. When has PCD had control over their image & artwork?
Melonie needs to take a seat.
see i spelled her name wrong…that is how um important she is lol
I always believe that Rihanna, Beyonce & Lady Gaga, everytime they make something “HOT” everyone starts bitching. I dont get it. Dont hate on them because they put their own spin on shit & really made it hot! James Brown “SWAGGERJACKED” a wrestler with the cape thing but he made it famous. Michael Jackson “SWAGGERJACKED” kids from the inner-city, but he made the Moonwalk famous! I dont hate on folks for makin shit famous!
is this biotch serious? the pics hit the web, not even 24 hrs ago & this biotch is all rdy trying it. since when how someones poses has someones name on it?
Mel hun, when u produce a single or evn a flopping single. then tlk out the side of ur neck. BYE GIRL
Ciara aint thinkin about u bitch. I notice all the irrelavent bitches r callin big name stars out. its sad that Ci aint even got a thing out & her name nvr leaves someones blog
its not ciara its the photographer so y didnt melody adress the photography
melody would never be able to pull this off
its just a dam picture
CIARA 2010
And for the dumbass citing Vouge Evolution, They came after PCD. No one could have “jacked” them. Smh.
@bitchBOObye
BUT Rihanna did what Fefe & Kelis FAILED to do & thats sell the look to the mainstream & the gain the success. #FACT!
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If it were the other way around and it was Melody that was jackin’ Ciara, yall would not be pulling this “is she serious” bullshit, so ALL OF YOU need to quit fronting, lol! Now as an unbiased viewer who is a fan of neither of these two FLOPS, I can assure you that the pose, the hair, the outfit AND the swag is extremely similar in both pics. However, Melody needs to realize that (as some of you have already mentioned) it was more likely than not the designer’s concept that created this look, not Ciara herself. HOWEVER…who goes around blaming the background folk for these mishaps? Of course it would only make sense for Mel to go right after Ci, but it’s still technically incorrect, nevertheless.
Let the girl have her minute and a half of publicity, she just got kicked out of PCD for god sakes. Let her have her moment, yall.
LOL!
@Face
You’re the dumbass this time. The members of Vogue Evolution have been underground for YEEEAAAARRRRSSSSS
@YO
I love your comments sometimes,
So, SuperCi
Do you think PCD, having contrived images, were checking for VE when they were “underground”?
So…..they both have a ponytail, AND they’re both wearing black outfits! OMG Ciara should be shot for this….she clearly swaggerjacked Melody, I mean who wouldnt want to, shes so famous and original!
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(Sarcasm btw
Oh come on, the photos have vague similarity, but I highly doubt anyone saw the photo of Melody and though “wow, lets recreate that with Ciara!” Plus, Ciara herself probably had little if any input to the outfit and ‘look’ etc.
And i agree with what others said about everyone copying from other in the past. Hardly any people (if any) are completely original, and ‘copy’ elements of other people’s style, or elements of times in the past (70’s, 80’s etc.) so this whole ’swaggerjacking’ thing is almost always trivial.
Maybe Melody just wanted some attention, which is fine i guess, but maybe she should spend more time worrying about her ‘career’ rather than accusing other (more succesful) people. Just saying….
People u have to understand that since pcd is about to break-up, melody needs to make her mark, and and it cant be good if ciara steals her shine by doing the same thing, so u got to feel for the girl. same with fefe and rihanna. fefe needs to get people interested and her look is all she got for those who dont listen to her music, and u cant have rihanna being praise for ur look and u coming off second best.
I LOVE MELODY.
This was taken out of context. She was pointing out that she wasn’t the swagger jacker, not that Ciara was the swagger jacker. People need to calm down and do their research before getting their stan on kmt
@cc the pcd are more succesful then ciara, and they are the hottest girl group out there and if the great britney will go to them for concert concept and dance moves, why is so hard to belief that someone jacked them to get for that photoshoot.
I saw these pics a while ago. Toya slow day huh cuz this is some MTO shit
for one Melody’s pic was for album promo, & that is actually a group photo. Mel cld pack her & her 2mins of fame up.
No one was checking for PCD at the time this was takin & neither are they now.
Ci’s pic was for High Fashion, & its not like it was one pic, it was a whole spread. so its all FUCKERY
toya, this is just dumb…girl stop
I think I like Melody more after this.
who is ciara? and this other melony chick?
lol… just kidden, both these chicks look like trannies in these pics, get the fuck over it…
Melody needs to find some swag worth jacking first.
Who is Melody???
This Melody trick is so annoying. I bet you Ciara doesn’t even know who she is. TBH, does anyone? she’s in PCD but the only famous one is Nicole. girl nobody knows who you enough to JACK you! so STFU!
Toya, you need to stop. I know you dislike Ciiara but REALLY?? Ciara jacks every female!?! yeah OK, says the BIGGEST Rihanna stan. SMH are u serious?Beyonce jacked Ciara so many times herself!
Her stans say “love sex magic” is SL-ish but that video didn’t look ANYTHING like a beyonce video. Aside from that video, I’ve never read any comparisons between Bey and Ciara. The style are SO different!
PEOPLE comparED Ciara to Aaliyah when she first came out because she was young, a very good dancer, and a tomboy, just like aaliyah was. I personally never saw any similarities but because she’s not with us anymore and i respect her greatly(R.I.P), I’ll leave it at that.
Everyone says Ciara is like a this generation Janet and I think that’s a compliment. She’s probably the only one I would say CiCi is similar.
Look at PCD’s “when I grow Up” video. The dance break is SO Ciara! Nicole was even wearing Ciara’s outfit from her “That’s Right” video.
*sighs* I’m sooooo done with this… its very lame.
i highly doubt that ciara or the people involved with the photoshoot had MELODY THORNTON’S irrelevant ass in mind when taking this picture. melody was not the first bitch to hold her damn ponytail in a picture. as far as i see it, this “swaggerjacking” shit is immature.
BOOBITCHBYE!! LMAO! This is seriously some MTO shit, cuz this right here has to be a joke…SMH. Ain’t NOBODY thinkin’ about no damn back up dancer Melody WHOREton, especially for a high fashion concept. Now had this been Rihanna, I could at least acknowledge the accusation….”but this right here nigga, this right here nigga?” Desperate much?
and DEAD at ANYONE even acknowledging this bullshit, even considering this act and claiming “would if melody is right?”….is CLEARLY a Ciara hater…*cough* *cough* @YBG
WHO DOES MELDOY THORNTON THINK SHE IS CALLING CIARA OUT.HAS SHE LOST HER MINE.& YES I AGREE WIT TOYA NOBODY IS ORIGINAL THESE DAYS WEN IT COMES TO THEIR SWAG.THEY ARE JUST BRINGIN BACK OLD FASHION….I WONDER WAT IS KIM KARDASHIAN THINKS CONSIDERING SHE’S VERY CLOSE WIT BOTH CIARA & MELODY THORNTON
Who the hell is Melody Thornton?
How is Ciara ’swagger-jacking’?
I swear these ’starruhs’ sound so STUPID sometimes.
Accusing someone of COPYING you is sooooo juvenile.
A ponytail is a ponytail is a ponytail.
there is nothing new under the sun
Damn these stupid celebs who think they can take ownership of something so UNIVERSAL (wearing a ponytail) and MUNDANE (pulling the hair of that ponytail).
Melody, please feel free to feel real dumb right now.
Deuces.
I never said Ciara jacked those artists. I said she has been accused. Read the post properly next time.
Oh, now that you mention it, I was seeing a lot of Aaliyah influences during her ‘Promise’ era.
Trust me NO ONE wants to swagger jack that goat Rihanna lol.