Jonah Luke
Portland singer/songwriter Jonah Luke has written what he calls, “A little instrumental piece I composed for my friends Remy and Andrew Neymarc last year,” which is going to be in a Super Bowl commercial for Dannon Yogurt. “Remy directed the commercial,” says Luke, “making him the youngest director of a Super Bowl commercial ever. Pretty cool right?
“What does this mean for me? Well, not a lot. Both the Neymarc brothers and I won’t see much money from the project, since they made the commercial as an entry to a competition. But if you’re watching the Super Bowl during the 3rd quarter, look out for John Stamos eating Dannon Oikos Yogurt while Jonah Luke plays in the background!”
Recently, Jonah played the Crystal Ballroom, and opened for singer/songwriter Joe Purdy as well as Portland’s Chris Robley & The Fear of Heights. He hosts a podcast interviewing Indie musicians.
They’re not allowing a preview of the tune, but here’s one he did with the same director:
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The song is eerily similar to John Butler Trio’s “Zebra”
Similar? I think even that is giving too much credit to the “author”..
“Who would have thought it would win?”… “The Superbowl :O This is going to go very bad I suspect” just a guess.
OOps..
it sort of isn’t good when the first that many people hear about him is something like this, you know what they say about first impressions
It is a blatant copy of the John Butler Trios 2003 hit “Zebra”. Your will be sued for plagarism and your so called composing career is OVER
What a rip-off. Artist? No. Thief? Yes.
Too much of a little girl to approve & post any comments made on his own blog post about how he wrote the song? Yep, that’s this guy.
Way in over his head with his lies about “A little instrumental piece I composed for my friends”? Uh-huh… gulp.
Hoping Dannon provides a really good lawyer? I’d imagine so.
What a tool-bag. Try writing your own music next time you hope to sell it to 111 million people at once!
BTW, Jonah, you should also consider the message being relayed with your music setting the mood… if you think JBT’s fans are upset, you should check out what the anti-domestic violence advocates think of the commercial!
Good luck with your career… can you say, “You want fries with that?”.
Quite honestly, I think the songs sound different enough. It’s a pretty common chord structure and scale to use. Let’s give the guy a little credit here.
Plus, have you visited his site? Some of his music is actually pretty catchy.
@Rachel – That’s a common chord progression? There is one note difference with no chords. A common chord structure is GDC or EAD. If you can convince me Jonah Luke has never heard of John Butler Trio’s “Zebra”, I’ll hire him to write future #1 hits, like Zebra was.
@Mike – you are correct.
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I see the Dannon company have replaced the backing music in the Youtube version of the commercial with something which is not a copyright violation.