Dillon Francis Ripped Off By Katy Perry?

The worlds of pop and electronic music have collided again with more accusations of flagrant plagiarism.  Now only shortly after the Diplo and rapper Flo Rida became embroiled in a dispute over the latter copying the Mad Decent boss’ idea another member of Diplo’s stable feels he’s had his idea stolen and I think it’s fair to say he’s not best pleased.

The usually jovial Dillon Francis has reacted angrily to American popstrel Katy Perry seeming to have obviously copied the music video concept behind his track ‘Messages. Entitled ‘Roar’, Perry’s latest assault on the charts sees the lyrics to the song pop-up on screen as if it were a text message conversation taking place on an iPhone which is more than a bit similar to Francis’ video for ‘Messages’ so it came as little surprise to us when Dillon decided to vent on Twitter (does anybody not save their rants for social media these days?)

At first you can see how the producer is livid at the apparent ripping off of his work as he tweeted:

Damn first @official_flo steals @diplo‘s “butters theme” music idea now @katyperry steals my “messages” music video idea..What the fuck?

— DILLON FRANCIS (@DILLONFRANCIS) August 12, 2013

Before calming down and deciding that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery be adding

Legitimately this is so dope that @katyperry‘s director thought my video was good enough to rip off

— DILLON FRANCIS (@DILLONFRANCIS) August 12, 2013

Check out both videos for yourself below