{"id":1380,"date":"2011-01-04T20:59:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T18:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2011-01-05T00:36:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T22:36:45","slug":"how-does-this-keep-happening-2-songs-1-melody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/04\/how-does-this-keep-happening-2-songs-1-melody\/","title":{"rendered":"How does this keep happening? 2 songs, 1 melody…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I listen to a lot of music and I come across songs probably unintentionally borrowing elements from each other every now and then. One of the most obvious examples I’ve run into lately is the case of i Square vs Calvin Harris though. <\/p>\n

First there was Calvin Harris<\/a>‘ I’m Not Alone, who composed a catchy tune with a melody that just really stuck! Maybe a little too much…<\/p>\n

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And then there was i Square’s Hey Sexy Lady.<\/p>\n

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OOPS!<\/p>\n

How does this keep happening? Nobody involved at any point said: “hey, you know what, you know why you suddenly felt so inspired with that melody? It’s because you heard it when Calvin Harris’ track was playing somewhere.” Oh, and Magnetic Man’s I Need Air<\/a> also sounds quite similar.<\/p>\n

Or maybe they licensed it. I don’t know. Terribly uncreative though. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Plagiarism?<\/p>\n

Another recent scandal is the Usher vs The Simpsons \/ Homer Simpson situation by the way.<\/p>\n

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I listen to a lot of music and I come across songs probably unintentionally borrowing elements from each other every now and then. One of the most obvious examples I’ve run into lately is the case of i Square vs Calvin Harris though. First there was Calvin Harris‘ I’m Not Alone, who composed a catchy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[969,974,970,968,971,1025,336,975,973,972,1031],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-calvin-harris","tag-homer-simpson","tag-i-square","tag-isquare","tag-magnetic-man","tag-music","tag-music-video","tag-plagiarism","tag-the-simpsons","tag-usher","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}