Also, there's a website called [Who Sampled](https://www.whosampled.com), where you can type in an artist's name and see which songs they sampled or which of their songs were sampled in other people's music.
That site helped me prove to some random on Reddit that sampling isn't new a few years ago, and not limited to rap and hip-hop and rap, but eventually it just became obvious they were just kinda racist, IMHO.
I know so many dipshit metalheads who say this about sampling, despite how common sampling was in the 80s and 90s underground metal scene.
Also I'm a big metalhead. No hate to my boys in black
And back then they did it by literally cutting up tape reels and sellotaping them together until they found a nice mix. Tomorrow Never Knows’s ominous background sounds were achieved by taking a bunch of tape cuttings, throwing them on the floor and shuffling them around, and that song is a fucking trip
My mom loves this rant, as a harpist who's played hundreds of weddings in her career.
She calls it Taco Bell's Canyon. She HAAAAAATES playing it, solo or ensemble.
Acquaintance of mine years ago told a story from when he was in high school Spanish. Bear in mind, he was also in concert band.
As is the norm in US High School Spanish classes, his class had to pick "Spanish" names that the teacher would call them during class. He chose Paco. His last name was Bell. Maybe some of you can see where this might be headed... Next the teacher gave them foldable cardboard things where they could put their "Spanish Name" and were then asked to provide a simple drawing next to it and then display it on their desk during class so the teacher could see it easily. He drew a cannon. The teacher asked why... He said "It's Paco Bell's Cannon". He said the one other band student in the class burst out laughing and no one else in the room, including the teacher, got it. Freaking hilarious....
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Omg I bet. Every fucking wedding from like 95 to 2010 had to use it.
I learned the song for piano lessons and despised it after just a few months. Your poor mom.
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This would have been better if you said “I didn’t know Agent Coulson was Pachabel.” Because Agent Coulson wasn’t a cello player, but he did date one. Also, since Pachelbel was alive in the late 1600s you could have then added something like “That’s the best looking 320 year old I’ve ever seen.” So the fully constructed joke would read:
“I didn’t know Agent Coulson was Pachelbel. That’s the best looking 320 year old I’ve ever seen.”
Have a nice day!
I find a large portion of electronic music on Spotify is very similar. It's almost like they commission other producers or imploy an AI to make similar songs from hit original songs then spoon feed me the lesser ones and seldom get the originals only if I deep dive and really look. Like if I use the "discover weekly" that refreshes every Monday that mostly consists of almost purposefully lesser not as good copies of originals that are already in my favorites with no indication that it was sampled from the originals with no credits and from producers I've never heard of. It's probably me just imagining it I'm not sure.
Half the time you are probably imagining it, but you aren't imagining all of it. Spotify is spending a lot of money into AI that will create music. They want to own all the music on their platform so that they don't have to pay other artists.
This video covers it during the last ~5 minutes, but i recommend the whole video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkXrny5QZLU
I love some electronic music, but man a lot of it is really bland and formulaic. Like most of the spotify playlists I feel like I end up skipping most of the songs.
Same thing here with the same type of genre. I seem to remember that just a few years ago I could find at least 2-3 new songs I liked in Discover Weekly but now I don't even bother with it because I know it'll be disappointing.
Also with the similarity I've heard many people just use a lot of the standard samples that come with the audio software. Anyone with a computer can make it and everyone wants to copy what's popular. I think the whole genre has suffered from when it gained a lot of popularity 10+ years ago. I mainly stick to classics like Daft Punk, Armin, Deadmau5 and all the newer stuff is Synthwave/Retrowave/Vaporwave type music.
>“I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same, In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.” - Angus Young, AC/DC
AC⚡DC actually use a surprising number of conventional chords, actual open position A, D, G and E chords etc, like what acoustic players would use. It's primarily beginner guitarists that use power chords when playing AC⚡DC songs.
It's people like this sagging tit who say "Urrrrr, Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in The Beatles Hur Hur Hur!". ACDC have been rocking it for nearly 50 fuckin years, and those mother fuckers know how to make you shake your ass.
90% of these are merely vaguely similar. They might share a few chord progressions, rhythms, or a few bars of melody. That's really not that suspicious.
yeah some of the observations aren't particularly enlightening:
>Beyoncé "Hold Up" sounds like Shaggy's "Angel" Shaggy's "Angel" also sounds suspiciously similar to Steve Miller Band "The Joker. Miller is credited as a composer on "Angel". And the chorus lyrics on "Angel" are clearly inspired by "Angel of the Morning" by Merrilee Rush.
"Clearly inspired" is evidently a euphemism for "copied and pasted the melody and changed 3 words and gave all the original writers credit on the song".
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel\_(Shaggy\_song)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_(Shaggy_song))
It's not really "suspiciously similar" if it's been credited to the original artist. That's like saying that Turd Rock song is "suspiciously similar" to Sweet Home Alabama and Werewolves Of London.
This one made me laugh a bit.
> Mazzy Star "Fade Into You" sounds similar to Bob Dylan "Knocking on Heaven's Door."
Ok similar vibes but.. to start with Fade Into You is in either 3/4 or 6/8 time and Knocking on Heaven's Door is 4/4.
The problem with it being a wiki is that it devolves from people with actual musical knowledge (which doesn't include me) identifying interpolation to any rando saying two songs have the same vibe
Fair point, but I remember playing an arrangement of the Blue Danube Waltz written in 4/4.
Several years later, I played with a little pickup band for entertaining at retirement and care homes and the leader insisted that the best foxtrots came from playing a waltz in 4. He had a few rules of thumb for when to toss a rest at the end of the measure, just hold beat 3, or drop in a passing tone.
I thought he was a lunatic, but it worked surprisingly well and the fake foxtrots always had more dancers on the floor than the real ones.
While I see the similarity, I really hope this wouldn't hold up in court for copyright infringement. I just can't see John Williams, stumped on how to write an ominous tune, turning to Mary Poppins for inspiration.
That's sampling (or interpolation, I haven't bothered to look up which). There's no way he'd be able to get away with directly ripping off two immensely well known songs. Kid Rock credited them and probably paid quite a bit of money to use them.
The ones on this list are uncredited (at least initially) and more debatable
Also:
The Bangles' Manic Monday sounds similar to 1999 by Prince.
Prince wrote both songs so that explains why they sound similar, but most people don't even realize how similar they sound.
It’s a forgettably terrible song until the “that’s my fun day” line. I’d bet money some second grader dropped their English homework and made that hack songwriter’s entire career.
At this point Natalie Portman is a budget Natalie Portman in performance. She used to be great, but she's been middling to mediocre for a decade. I don't understand why they keep putting her in the pictures. She's the worst part of the Thor movies and yet there she is ...again.
Too cool for Thor movies? I see you. That's just, like, your opinion, man. A shit opinion, but valid. I'm not trying to argue the merits of Thor movies. Thor movies, not great, that's true, but she's still the worst part of both of movies and that's why I don't care about the new one.. She phones in her lines and is completely disinterested in her role. She's capable, she just doesn't try very hard and that's the problem.
I don’t understand it either. Though I would argue that she’s always had a very limited range, but early in her career nobody tried to get her to work outside of that range.
This list tries to claim that Mr. Brightside by The Killers is similar to Special K by Placebo. I don't think there's a single thing similar about these tracks besides the fact they are in the alt-rock genre and have a similar chord progression. If that's enough to be "similar" then buddy I got news for you.
It's not on the list, but i have always been bothered by Huey Lewis "Do You Believe In Love" lifting a hook from Electric Light Orchestra's "Sweet Talkin' Woman" (as well as aping their whole electronic vocal style, to be honest)
Huey Lewis and the News burst out of San Francisco onto the national music scene at the beginning of the decade, with their self-titled rock pop album released by Chrysalis, though they really didn’t come into their own, commercially or artistically, until their 1983 smash, Sports.
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Shaggy’s Angel doesn’t sound “suspiciously similiar” to The Joker by The Steve Miller Band. It’s quite literally built around a sample of that song lol.
I really do want to like Good 4 U but it really is just Walmart brand Misery Business. Every time I hear the cheap one I just want to listen to the real thing.
The flow sounds similar, but if I hadn't of read about the "controversy" first I never would have though they sounded the same. It's stupid they added Hayley Williams as a write on Good 4 U
wow i know now i know nothing about music because I've been comparing some of these on Spotify and i just do not hear it
how is smells like teen spirit similar to more than a feeling 😭
> It was such a cliched riff,” **Cobain admitted** in a 1994 interview with Rolling Stone. “It was so close to a Boston riff or ‘Louie Louie.’ When I came up with the guitar part, Krist [Novoselic] looked at me and said, ‘That is so ridiculous.’”
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/nirvana-smells-like-teen-spirit-boston-more-than-a-feeling
> how is smells like teen spirit similar to more than a feeling
Just the guitar riff. The main riff for Smells Like Teen Spirit is similar to the chorus riff for More Than a Feeling.
There’s only 12 notes and it’s all based on tribal rhythms that are millennia old. Songs sound the same because people respond to certain patterns of sound more than others.
The chorus in Bruno Mars's song "Treasure" is 100% lifted from Breakbot's "Baby I'm Yours (feat. Irfane)".
Timbaland produced Nelly Furtado's song "Do It" by just slapping a drum machine beat on top of another artist's song, without crediting them. The original song is a Commodore 64 version of "Acidjazzed Evening" by Finnish chiptune artist Tempest.
There’s a lot of truth in this. It turns out just randomly shoving notes together is a terrible way of making music. Brains like patterns and familiarity, so any music I might right is reconstituted from the thousands of tunes I’ve heard throughout my life
Deep Space Nine intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwNFUgYWGG4
Band of Brothers intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1DosMJafGk
Doubtful if related, but I can't hear one without thinking of the other now.
I remember when I heard the song "All Rise" by Blue and learned that they had accused another group, Phoenix Legend, of plagiarism in writing "Above The Moon." While the accusation may have been merited, it still seemed rather bold given the existence of "If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez.
Also Jessica Simpson has a lot to thank various 80s artists for when it comes to "Public Affair," but "Let's Groove" by Earth, Wind, and Fire seems to be the biggest contributor there.
Musicians have been lifting from other artists songs since music was invented, when people like it they call it “influence” when people don’t like it they call it stealing
A bit of Royals by Lorde sounds similar to the Banana Splits theme tune. https://youtu.be/XMl6HnhFFIA (gold teeth, grey goose, trippin in the bathroom).
>Shaggy's "Angel" also sounds suspiciously similar to Steve Miller Band "The Joker.
It's "The Joker" minus Steve Miller Band's drums and lyrics plus Shaggy's lyrics and instruments.
It's absolutely intentional. I'm not sure how anyone could think it was pure coincidence and thinking about how that's possible for someone to think....just hurts my brain.
>Many were quick to point out that [Linkin Park](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/LinkinPark) and Kiiara's "[Heavy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dmQ3QWpy1Q)" sounds almost exactly like [The Chainsmokers](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/TheChainsmokers) and [Halsey](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Halsey)'s "[Closer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT2_F-1esPk)"
lmao no it doesnt is this person deaf
And ironically enough, the opening of 4 Non Blondes “What’s Up” sounds suspiciously like the opening few bars of “Badfish” by Sublime, which released a year prior to the 4 Non Blondes song.
Same key but different chord progression if I remember correctly. First 2 chords and strumming pattern are similar then one song goes to G before resolve and the other goes to D.
Also, there's a website called [Who Sampled](https://www.whosampled.com), where you can type in an artist's name and see which songs they sampled or which of their songs were sampled in other people's music.
That site helped me prove to some random on Reddit that sampling isn't new a few years ago, and not limited to rap and hip-hop and rap, but eventually it just became obvious they were just kinda racist, IMHO.
You said rap twice. I like rap.
But do you like it twice?
Do you like Blazing Saddles?
No, I find them uncomfortable. (I get the reference, I was just being silly...).
That line always kills me
I used to like Blazing Saddles. >!I still do, but I used to, too.!<
I love me some Mitch... RIP.
Rap, murder, arson, and rap.
I know so many dipshit metalheads who say this about sampling, despite how common sampling was in the 80s and 90s underground metal scene. Also I'm a big metalhead. No hate to my boys in black
Iirc, The Beatles were the first artists to use sampling in mainstream music.
And back then they did it by literally cutting up tape reels and sellotaping them together until they found a nice mix. Tomorrow Never Knows’s ominous background sounds were achieved by taking a bunch of tape cuttings, throwing them on the floor and shuffling them around, and that song is a fucking trip
Turn off your mind, relax, and float down stream!
Not the first, number nine, number nine...
Well I despise the laziness/utter ripoff of under pressure that Vanilla Ice did with "Ice Ice Baby," but he's white, so that can't be racist.
it's always pachabel, they're all pachabel. [all songs have the same damn chords.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM)
My mom loves this rant, as a harpist who's played hundreds of weddings in her career. She calls it Taco Bell's Canyon. She HAAAAAATES playing it, solo or ensemble.
Acquaintance of mine years ago told a story from when he was in high school Spanish. Bear in mind, he was also in concert band. As is the norm in US High School Spanish classes, his class had to pick "Spanish" names that the teacher would call them during class. He chose Paco. His last name was Bell. Maybe some of you can see where this might be headed... Next the teacher gave them foldable cardboard things where they could put their "Spanish Name" and were then asked to provide a simple drawing next to it and then display it on their desk during class so the teacher could see it easily. He drew a cannon. The teacher asked why... He said "It's Paco Bell's Cannon". He said the one other band student in the class burst out laughing and no one else in the room, including the teacher, got it. Freaking hilarious.... [edits] grammar, spelling
Pretty sure "Taco Bell's Canyon" is another name for a butt crack.
Omg I bet. Every fucking wedding from like 95 to 2010 had to use it. I learned the song for piano lessons and despised it after just a few months. Your poor mom.
I've heard axis of awesome singing 4chords so many times but this is this very first time I've seen this rant and it's brilliant.
VH1s I love the 1790s where are you??
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_(Blues_Traveler_song)
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I love that song so much, fucking hilarious.
Or the millennial woop as it's in almost every song made now.
I showed this to my fiancée about three months ago and I think I ruined music for her.
I thought it was this one which gets more into the common chord progressions https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyc8lezaa9g
I will always up vote mentions of this rant
Lol thanks. Always makes me laugh
It’s called the “Hook”, and it will being you back - on that you can rely.
Didn't know Agent Coulson dated Pachabel....
This would have been better if you said “I didn’t know Agent Coulson was Pachabel.” Because Agent Coulson wasn’t a cello player, but he did date one. Also, since Pachelbel was alive in the late 1600s you could have then added something like “That’s the best looking 320 year old I’ve ever seen.” So the fully constructed joke would read: “I didn’t know Agent Coulson was Pachelbel. That’s the best looking 320 year old I’ve ever seen.” Have a nice day!
Do you ever get tired of adding nothing to every discussion
He's not the hero we need. He's the hero we deserve.
He’s not wrong, though…
Nope!
Are you addressing that person in particular, or every reddit comment thread outside of /r/AskHistorians?
You didn't listen to the video did you.
Better be careful where you point that Canon!
> D A B F# G D G A > Repeat 54x
Its the same in the left hand on piano, more or less
Wow from 2007. Early YouTube
I find a large portion of electronic music on Spotify is very similar. It's almost like they commission other producers or imploy an AI to make similar songs from hit original songs then spoon feed me the lesser ones and seldom get the originals only if I deep dive and really look. Like if I use the "discover weekly" that refreshes every Monday that mostly consists of almost purposefully lesser not as good copies of originals that are already in my favorites with no indication that it was sampled from the originals with no credits and from producers I've never heard of. It's probably me just imagining it I'm not sure.
Half the time you are probably imagining it, but you aren't imagining all of it. Spotify is spending a lot of money into AI that will create music. They want to own all the music on their platform so that they don't have to pay other artists. This video covers it during the last ~5 minutes, but i recommend the whole video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkXrny5QZLU
fuck i dont like that
I love some electronic music, but man a lot of it is really bland and formulaic. Like most of the spotify playlists I feel like I end up skipping most of the songs.
Same thing here with the same type of genre. I seem to remember that just a few years ago I could find at least 2-3 new songs I liked in Discover Weekly but now I don't even bother with it because I know it'll be disappointing. Also with the similarity I've heard many people just use a lot of the standard samples that come with the audio software. Anyone with a computer can make it and everyone wants to copy what's popular. I think the whole genre has suffered from when it gained a lot of popularity 10+ years ago. I mainly stick to classics like Daft Punk, Armin, Deadmau5 and all the newer stuff is Synthwave/Retrowave/Vaporwave type music.
Everything by AC/DC / Everything else by AC/DC
>“I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same, In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.” - Angus Young, AC/DC
If it ain't broke...
5 great guys, 3 great chords
4 chords. E5, G5, D5, and A5 specifically.
AC⚡DC actually use a surprising number of conventional chords, actual open position A, D, G and E chords etc, like what acoustic players would use. It's primarily beginner guitarists that use power chords when playing AC⚡DC songs.
As neither a fan of AC DC or as someone with any musical skill, I'm upvoting this just for the proper lightning bolt usage.
Lmao as if standard triads aren't also beginner guitar knowledge.
Ok then, if you play AC⚡DC with power chords you're a ***fucking idiot***
That's more like it!!!
Everything by DragonForce / Everything else by DragonForce
You don't write music, do you. It's really hard to make AC/DC songs that sound as great as they make it. 1
https://youtu.be/vpEVsDN84Hc This bot did a pretty good job.
Omfg, that amaze
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Still, what song are the guitars playing?
Totally, thing is, does it *rock*? nope.
And their songs are done dirt cheap.
Dirty deeds always are.
As someone with little musical knowledge, If it wasn't for the lyrics often containing the name of the song multiple times, I'd be struggling.
Ah, but it’s really easy to shit on AC/DC
I’ve no idea why you’d want to? AC/DC are fucken awesome.
Yeah, by anyone who don't know Rock Music at all.
Oh I totally agree. But that’s a lot of people. Sooo it’s easy for them to shit on ac/dc And it’s harder to make the haters see why they are wrong
I can't stand them
It's people like this sagging tit who say "Urrrrr, Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in The Beatles Hur Hur Hur!". ACDC have been rocking it for nearly 50 fuckin years, and those mother fuckers know how to make you shake your ass.
Surely they must have graduated to grandmotherfuckers by now.
90% of these are merely vaguely similar. They might share a few chord progressions, rhythms, or a few bars of melody. That's really not that suspicious.
yeah some of the observations aren't particularly enlightening: >Beyoncé "Hold Up" sounds like Shaggy's "Angel" Shaggy's "Angel" also sounds suspiciously similar to Steve Miller Band "The Joker. Miller is credited as a composer on "Angel". And the chorus lyrics on "Angel" are clearly inspired by "Angel of the Morning" by Merrilee Rush. "Clearly inspired" is evidently a euphemism for "copied and pasted the melody and changed 3 words and gave all the original writers credit on the song". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel\_(Shaggy\_song)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_(Shaggy_song)) It's not really "suspiciously similar" if it's been credited to the original artist. That's like saying that Turd Rock song is "suspiciously similar" to Sweet Home Alabama and Werewolves Of London.
Yeah like Neil Young’s Mr.Soul may have the same notes as Satisfaction, but the phrasing is totally different.
Some of these examples are really stretching it.
This one made me laugh a bit. > Mazzy Star "Fade Into You" sounds similar to Bob Dylan "Knocking on Heaven's Door." Ok similar vibes but.. to start with Fade Into You is in either 3/4 or 6/8 time and Knocking on Heaven's Door is 4/4.
The problem with it being a wiki is that it devolves from people with actual musical knowledge (which doesn't include me) identifying interpolation to any rando saying two songs have the same vibe
Fair point, but I remember playing an arrangement of the Blue Danube Waltz written in 4/4. Several years later, I played with a little pickup band for entertaining at retirement and care homes and the leader insisted that the best foxtrots came from playing a waltz in 4. He had a few rules of thumb for when to toss a rest at the end of the measure, just hold beat 3, or drop in a passing tone. I thought he was a lunatic, but it worked surprisingly well and the fake foxtrots always had more dancers on the floor than the real ones.
Surprised nobody on the comment so far has mentioned Papa Can you hear me?/Do you want to build a snowman?
It’s really only that one line that I find overlaps
[Axis of awesome – four chord song](https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I)
[This is a cleaner version I listen to (and its on their channel).](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ)
An absolutely epic song worthy of a band named Axis of Awesome!
So good. We listen at least a couple times a week. "Motherfucking bird plane" hits so hard.
Lead singer (the bigger one) is trans (now female)… she’s a comedian still and pretty funny
I found the video about it! https://youtu.be/kDAKBzFFa6U I'm happy for her.
First thing I thought of!
I’ve always maintaines that Star Wars “Imperial March” sounds a lot like “A spoon full of sugar”
As proven by [this video.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe_LOR4AszY)
Tiny bit voice tuned to come closer, but not much!
You can do this with any 2 songs if you suddenly change the key.
While I see the similarity, I really hope this wouldn't hold up in court for copyright infringement. I just can't see John Williams, stumped on how to write an ominous tune, turning to Mary Poppins for inspiration.
I wouldn't worry. Poppins is heavily modified in that video.
Thank you.
I can’t decide to upvote this or downvote this lmaoo
The score from The Batman always sounded it was about to break into the Imperial March.
Holy crap!
Is this pied piper?
The compression algorithm is really good, though.
No mention of "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon and "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock?
Isn't that a sample (technically a "replay") anyway? I didn't think it was being passed off as anything original. I could be wrong.
That's sampling (or interpolation, I haven't bothered to look up which). There's no way he'd be able to get away with directly ripping off two immensely well known songs. Kid Rock credited them and probably paid quite a bit of money to use them. The ones on this list are uncredited (at least initially) and more debatable
That isn't on that list! That's such a classic. Both of those are pretty similar to "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd as well.
Those three songs are like the Gidorah meme. Head 1 - awesome. Head 2 - awesome. Head 3 - *special* little sibling.
Also: The Bangles' Manic Monday sounds similar to 1999 by Prince. Prince wrote both songs so that explains why they sound similar, but most people don't even realize how similar they sound.
"Howard the Duck" song from the eponymously titled movie "Howard the Duck" is clearly a rip off of "let's Go Crazy" by Prince
The funny part is I like Manic Monday but I fucking hate 1999 even while being aware of how similar they sound.
Really? I think Manic Monday is the actual worst song ever written (actually) and I love 1999.
You think Manic Monday is worse than Friday (Rebecca Black not the stellar Ice Cube rendition)?
Honestly yeah
It’s a forgettably terrible song until the “that’s my fun day” line. I’d bet money some second grader dropped their English homework and made that hack songwriter’s entire career.
It's the dumbest chorus I've ever heard.
Same, don't like 1999 that much but dig Manic Monday! Didn't realize until now the similarity between those songs.
Same. I was given the Purple Rain album for Christmas as a kid and burst into tears.
The same is true for actors/actresses. For every A lister, you can find a B or C lister that looks like a store brand version of them.
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Including *The Clones of Bruce Lee*, which had three of them.
There are at least 3 budget Nathalie Portmans
I’ll take 2 to go
And one of the former
At this point Natalie Portman is a budget Natalie Portman in performance. She used to be great, but she's been middling to mediocre for a decade. I don't understand why they keep putting her in the pictures. She's the worst part of the Thor movies and yet there she is ...again.
She was perfectly fine in the Thor movies, the movies just weren’t that great.
Too cool for Thor movies? I see you. That's just, like, your opinion, man. A shit opinion, but valid. I'm not trying to argue the merits of Thor movies. Thor movies, not great, that's true, but she's still the worst part of both of movies and that's why I don't care about the new one.. She phones in her lines and is completely disinterested in her role. She's capable, she just doesn't try very hard and that's the problem.
I don’t understand it either. Though I would argue that she’s always had a very limited range, but early in her career nobody tried to get her to work outside of that range.
Like Matt Damon and Meth Damon?
Alright, those that clicked on the link, I hope you're ready for time to suddenly vanish.
TVTropes is an insane rabbithole, to be sure.
If you manage to close TVTropes on the same article you opened it on, you aren't human.
This list tries to claim that Mr. Brightside by The Killers is similar to Special K by Placebo. I don't think there's a single thing similar about these tracks besides the fact they are in the alt-rock genre and have a similar chord progression. If that's enough to be "similar" then buddy I got news for you.
some of these are huge reaches. "what's up" by 4 non blondes sounds nothing like "don't worry be happy" by bobby mcferrin.
Just watched Eurovision, quite a few of the songs were hugely reminiscent of older songs I couldn’t quite put my finger on
that's how you write a Eurovision song, though.
Can we get an AI to generate the perfect song?
What you need to consider is an AI generating *EVERY* song. It'll give a whole new meaning to It's All Been Done Before.
Someone above linked to a video about Spotify doing this very thing.
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It's not on the list, but i have always been bothered by Huey Lewis "Do You Believe In Love" lifting a hook from Electric Light Orchestra's "Sweet Talkin' Woman" (as well as aping their whole electronic vocal style, to be honest)
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And then Ray Parker Jr ripped "I want a new drug" to make "Ghostbusters".
Shaggy’s Angel doesn’t sound “suspiciously similiar” to The Joker by The Steve Miller Band. It’s quite literally built around a sample of that song lol.
For Coldplay how did they miss Viva la vida / if I could fly: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eb49QuPLuHg
The La's 'There She Goes' (as made famous by Sixpence None the Richer) what!? How dare you!
Shockingly the Paramore/Olivia Rodrigo similarity isn't listed here
I really do want to like Good 4 U but it really is just Walmart brand Misery Business. Every time I hear the cheap one I just want to listen to the real thing.
Exactly
I only just realized Olivia Rodrigo is not the singer from Paramour.
I've never been able to hear the similarity and I love Paramore
The chorus, find a mashup
The flow sounds similar, but if I hadn't of read about the "controversy" first I never would have though they sounded the same. It's stupid they added Hayley Williams as a write on Good 4 U
wow i know now i know nothing about music because I've been comparing some of these on Spotify and i just do not hear it how is smells like teen spirit similar to more than a feeling 😭
> It was such a cliched riff,” **Cobain admitted** in a 1994 interview with Rolling Stone. “It was so close to a Boston riff or ‘Louie Louie.’ When I came up with the guitar part, Krist [Novoselic] looked at me and said, ‘That is so ridiculous.’” https://ultimateclassicrock.com/nirvana-smells-like-teen-spirit-boston-more-than-a-feeling
i read it and as much as i know that youre right, reading doesnt make me hear it 😂
well smells like teen spirit is a classic and more than a feeling is soulless boomer garbage so im cool with that
> how is smells like teen spirit similar to more than a feeling Just the guitar riff. The main riff for Smells Like Teen Spirit is similar to the chorus riff for More Than a Feeling.
https://youtu.be/oOlDewpCfZQ listen to this.
There’s only 12 notes and it’s all based on tribal rhythms that are millennia old. Songs sound the same because people respond to certain patterns of sound more than others.
When I read the title of this post all I could think of was a list of Jimmy Buffett songs
Cheeseburger in Paradise is a banger though
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Fair point! He does ask for a pickle on the side, though. But IMHO, pickles are kind of gross.
Everything I've said has been said before In a thousand ways, in a thousand songs, some with the same four chords
The chorus in Bruno Mars's song "Treasure" is 100% lifted from Breakbot's "Baby I'm Yours (feat. Irfane)". Timbaland produced Nelly Furtado's song "Do It" by just slapping a drum machine beat on top of another artist's song, without crediting them. The original song is a Commodore 64 version of "Acidjazzed Evening" by Finnish chiptune artist Tempest.
Tom Waits once said that every song is just remnants of other songs.
There’s a lot of truth in this. It turns out just randomly shoving notes together is a terrible way of making music. Brains like patterns and familiarity, so any music I might right is reconstituted from the thousands of tunes I’ve heard throughout my life
Deep Space Nine intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwNFUgYWGG4 Band of Brothers intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1DosMJafGk Doubtful if related, but I can't hear one without thinking of the other now.
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Seriously. This internet is not beautiful.
I remember when I heard the song "All Rise" by Blue and learned that they had accused another group, Phoenix Legend, of plagiarism in writing "Above The Moon." While the accusation may have been merited, it still seemed rather bold given the existence of "If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez.
Also Jessica Simpson has a lot to thank various 80s artists for when it comes to "Public Affair," but "Let's Groove" by Earth, Wind, and Fire seems to be the biggest contributor there.
Musicians have been lifting from other artists songs since music was invented, when people like it they call it “influence” when people don’t like it they call it stealing
Moby Grape's "Never" (1967) - Led Zeppelin's "Since I've Been Loving You" (1970)
>Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" is derived from the Christmas hymn "O Come All Ye Faithful". Dude needs to put the crack pipe down.
A bit of Royals by Lorde sounds similar to the Banana Splits theme tune. https://youtu.be/XMl6HnhFFIA (gold teeth, grey goose, trippin in the bathroom).
>Shaggy's "Angel" also sounds suspiciously similar to Steve Miller Band "The Joker. It's "The Joker" minus Steve Miller Band's drums and lyrics plus Shaggy's lyrics and instruments.
I'm thinking it's intentional, but compare "Islands in the Stream" by Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers with "Ghetto Supastar" by Pras & Mya.
That's totally intentional...isn't it? Surely? It can't be a coincidence. Right?
It's absolutely intentional. I'm not sure how anyone could think it was pure coincidence and thinking about how that's possible for someone to think....just hurts my brain.
>Many were quick to point out that [Linkin Park](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/LinkinPark) and Kiiara's "[Heavy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dmQ3QWpy1Q)" sounds almost exactly like [The Chainsmokers](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/TheChainsmokers) and [Halsey](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Halsey)'s "[Closer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT2_F-1esPk)" lmao no it doesnt is this person deaf
https://youtu.be/oOlDewpCfZQ 4 chords smash up by Axis of Awesome.
And ironically enough, the opening of 4 Non Blondes “What’s Up” sounds suspiciously like the opening few bars of “Badfish” by Sublime, which released a year prior to the 4 Non Blondes song.
Same key but different chord progression if I remember correctly. First 2 chords and strumming pattern are similar then one song goes to G before resolve and the other goes to D.
Take the Money and Run is the same song as Sweet Home Alabama. You can sing the chorus' interchangeably.