by halftimeresults » Fri Mar 13, 2015 3:59 pm
Vanilla Ice
The song's hook samples the bassline of the 1981 song "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie,[9] who did not receive credit or royalties for the sample.[10] In a 1990 interview, Van Winkle said the two melodies were slightly different because he had added an additional note, an anacrusis ("pickup") between odd-numbered and subsequent even-numbered iterations of the Under Pressure sample.[11] In later interviews, Van Winkle readily admitted he sampled the song and claimed his 1990 statement was a joke; others, however, suggested he had been serious.[11][12] Van Winkle later paid Queen and Bowie and as a result, Bowie and all members of Queen have since been given songwriting credit for the sample.[11] In December 1990, Van Winkle told Smash Hits magazine where he came up with the idea of sampling "Under Pressure":