Ah yes, welcome back to Weird Question Central Station.
Let me introduce you to Dreamcatcher:
Lovely ladies. Now this is MINX:
No problem, looks like two different groups, right? … Right up until you look at the relationships.
5/7 members of Dreamcatcher were originally in Minx.
Well Minx was given a Dal Shabet song called Love Shake as a title track to promote way back in 2015. It’s become almost a joke at this point among the fandom about “Minx sunbae-nim” and joking questions about if they’d “cover” Minx songs as Dreamcatcher.
So. Obviously, this is a new recording of the song (stretching out 5 parts to 7)… but is it a cover if the entire original group is the one performing it (just with two additional people) just under a new name? The same question comes up with Beast/Highlight when they perform their old songs - is it really a cover if they (or the company in Dreamcatcher’s case) own the rights to the song and they’re the original performers?
Are the parts stretched by adding new music/lyrics or is the existing song just shared differently between the members? For the first case, it should be a new work anyway. For the second… I’d personally still set it as a cover, but I’m not sure everyone would
If any of the original members of the recording band record it, its not a cover. If this is not so, then there’s a lot to revisit including Eric Clapton/Cream and Taylor Swift!
It’s still the original song, just different distributions of the song, with all of the second performers/singers re-recording it. (I say second, because it was released as Dal Shabet’s song on a b-side, then given to Minx as a title track.)
Fun times with multi-recorded songs! The first one (the one with the ISWC) says that both Dal Shabet and Minx used the song (though the Minx versions are only the instrumental/dj remix, not the promoted title track) and the second is… just Minx’s version?
I guess It is often Cocker’s style that is later covered, but still same Beatles song, same MB work.
Update
It doesn’t really matter if the original or the latter recording is an A or a B side, if it’s the 2nd or the 50th recording.
Dal Shabet doesn’t share members with the 2 later bands, and the song writers are not part of the 2 later bands either, so the 2 later band recordings are covers of Dal Shabets song.
Update 2
It’s always easier with the examples (I hope they are correct):
They sound the same to me.
I’ve only listened to the beginning but, if the lyrics keep being the same and if the melody and chords keep being the same until the end, it is the same song.
Well, yes.
I have seen several ISWC on 1 work and I have seen different several works sharing 1 JASRAC work code (because they group translations).
Everything is possible.
