If you thought the frozen images that turned into real live One Direction members in the boy band’s recent “You & I” music video were super cool, you weren’t the first one. By a long shot. Today (April 24), allegations surfaced that the massive musical act and its frequent director/collaborator Ben Winston may have stolen the entire idea.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Australian production company OhYeahWow is claiming that the “You & I” music video uses a filming technique remarkably similar to its award-winning clip for Austalian band Clubfeet’s 2013 music video “Everything You Wanted.”
“It seems that the chaps of One Direction have taken it upon themselves to regurgitate our original concept, as seen in our award-winning clip for Clubfeet’s ‘Everything You Wanted.’ Don’t get us wrong, we here at Oh Yeah Wow are big One Direction fans and are envious of their ability to maintain flawless hairdos.
To be crystal clear, OYW has nothing against creative evolution. Artists constantly reinterpret other works that have inspired them and we’re fine with people taking a technique and using it to create something new…The wider problem is, that plagiarism and copycatting is becoming increasingly common and acceptable,” OhYeahWow said in a statement to EW.
Indeed, the music video for “Everything You Wanted” features the same playful movements as One Direction’s “You & I,” with the rock band members diving into frozen screen captures of themselves before moving forward in the clip’s action.
After morphing into one another, 1D use basically the exact same effect in its “You & I” video.
Watch the two clips back-to-back, though, and see for yourself. What do you think? Did 1D rip off Clubfeet?
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