A song-and-dance troupe of pooping toy unicorns might be in steaming sizzling hassle, legally talking, all as a result of the lil’ stinkers did a send-up of an enormous Black Eyed Peas hit.
Let us clarify … an organization referred to as MGA Entertainment created a well-liked line of toys — dancing unicorns that excrete glowing slime referred to as Poopsie Slime Surprise. Every child’s fantasy, proper?
In order to market the lil’ poopers, MGA ran a bunch of advertisements with animated unicorns singing and dancing to a music referred to as “My Poops” – that includes the catchy hook “my poops, my poops, my poops, my sparkly glitter poops!”
If that banger sounds acquainted, that is as a result of it’s a play on BEP’s traditional “My Humps,” and that is what result in a lawsuit. Will.i.am and co’s document label and music publishing firm, BMG, owns the vast majority of the copyright to the 2005 smash hit, and it claims “My Poops” clearly rips off the melody, tempo, chord development, and even contains a vocalist who sounds rather a lot like Fergie.
BMG says MGA by no means acquired the rights to make use of the music, and now it desires a minimum of $10 MILLION in damages. If that sounds a bit excessive, it’s value remembering that “My Humps” was a HUGE hit, garnering greater than 700 million views on YouTube alone and taking dwelling the award for Best Hip Hop Video on the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards.
If BMG finally ends up profitable even a fraction of the $10 mil in courtroom, this might be the most costly poop joke in historical past! We reached out to MGA for remark … thus far, no phrase again.
The actual shocker — as God is our witness we thought unicorns pooped rainbows. 🤷🏽♂️
