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1* [[http://www.soundsjustlike.com/ General theme page]] to steal, uhm, make that, eh, sample.
2* Many one-hit wonders from the pre-Internet era fell victim to this trope, as they were never able to make a real name for themselves thanks to their first big hit being mistaken by most casual listeners as from being from a bigger name artist. To give a few examples:
3** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eJhzp0IHTc&ab_channel=ReginaRichardsOfficial Baby Love]]" by Regina was commonly mistaken as being from Music/{{Madonna}}, even though it was released as Madge was abandoning this sound to go in [[GrowingTheBeard a more artistically experimental direction]]. Regina's physical appearance and singing voice having a striking resemblance to an early Madonna to the point of being a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute didn't help.
4** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Tue3b-3sU&ab_channel=KevinPaige-Topic Don't Shut Me Out]]" by Kevin Paige was commonly mistaken as being a Music/GeorgeMichael song thanks to their similar singing style.
5** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ivt_N2Zcts&ab_channel=MeredithBrooksVEVO Bitch]]" by Meredith Brooks was mistaken by just about everyone as being an Music/AlanisMorissette song.
6** "Sausalito Summernight" by the Dutch band Diesel was mistaken for being a Music/SteveMiller song... despite Music/SteveMiller himself ''absolutely loving'' the song and saying publicly that it was WordOfGod "The best song of mine that I have never written!". It was still assumed that Music/SteveMiller had just assembled an ersatz copy of himself and his band to prove a point, and derailed the rest of Diesel's career in the USA.
7* The chorus of Jason Mraz's "Have It All" sounds remarkably similar to "What's Up" by 4 Non-Blondes.
8** On the flip side, Nick Jonas' "Introducing Me" (from the ''[[Film/CampRock Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam]]'' soundtrack) sounds like a faster, sillier version of "I'm Yours".
9* Verse 3 of Music/ElvisPresley's "I need your love tonight" sounds similiar to Los Lobos'/Ritchie Valens' "Come On Let's Go". This verse was also sung in the movie "La Bamba", plus they each have guitar solos after.
10* Music/MurrayGold's "Love Don't Roam", made for the 2006 ''Series/DoctorWho'' ChristmasSpecial "[[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride The Runaway Bride]]" sounds a lot like "The Snake" by Music/AlWilson.
11* B.E.R's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwqtKlwJjgc "Night Begins to Shine"]] opening theme is similar to Blondie's [[https://youtu.be/y6QBaZHltJw?t=98 "Call Me"]] However "Night Begins to Shine" was created to be an 80's tribute.
12* Music/{{Beyonce}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeonBmeFR8o&list=RDPeonBmeFR8o#t=107 "Hold Up"]] sounds like Shaggy's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWJrPzAUzAs&list=RDXWJrPzAUzAs&index= "Angel"]]
13** Shaggy's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWJrPzAUzAs&list=RDXWJrPzAUzAs&index= "Angel"]] also sounds suspiciously similar to Music/SteveMillerBand [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgDU17xqNXo= "The Joker]]. Miller is credited as a composer on "Angel". And the chorus lyrics on "Angel" are clearly inspired by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24rYz9QAvdQ "Angel of the Morning"]] by Merrilee Rush.
14* Music/{{M83}}:
15** Some people will note similarities in the overall structures of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3k_QDnzHE "Midnight City"]] and The Chain Gang of 1974's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8puEIliGOg "Sleepwalking"]]. Midnight City was released in 2011, while Sleepwalking was released in 2013. Even more noticeable: compare "Midnight City" to Music/TheChainsmokers' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhU9MZ98jxo Paris]]", as well as Mike Posner's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKR5CL1Ml44 Looks Like Sex]]".
16** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofnYWPZ9qsA Lune de fiel]]" is noted to be similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufwslm6P9No Tony Montana's theme]] from ''Film/Scarface1983''.
17** The chorus of [[https://youtu.be/qB-8Kj8stSQ "Oh Yes You're There, Everyday"]] is suspiciously similar to the [[https://youtu.be/cMssCMqMHuk Dungeon Theme]] from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI''(though that itself was inspired by Deep Purple's "April"). The lead synth melody is also similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIDkiPAqhhk Proto Man's theme]] from ''VideoGame/MegaMan3''.
18* "Baby Come and Get It" by The Pointer Sisters contains a riff very similar to Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} "Can't Get No Satisfaction"
19* Music/BreeSharp's "America" sounds VERY similar to Music/TheLas' "There She Goes" (as made famous by Music/SixpenceNoneTheRicher).
20* Music/{{Daughtry}}'s "Waiting For Superman" has a riff that sounds almost the same as Far East Movement's "Rockateer".
21* Music/VanillaIce tried to avoid paying royalties for "Ice Ice Baby"'s [[SampledUp musical background]] by adding an extra note to [[Music/HotSpace "Under Pressure"]] by Music/{{Queen|Band}} and Music/DavidBowie. It didn't work, and he was ultimately forced to give songwriting credits and royalties to both artists.
22* Music/{{Queen|Band}} themselves had their share of songs that uncannily resembled other songs:
23** [[Music/TheGameQueen "Another One Bites the Dust"]] is pretty much their take on "Good Times" by Music/{{Chic}}, barely dissimilar enough to not have to credit Nile Rodgers and Bernie Edwards. Edwards later admitted that bassist John Deacon hung around with Chic in the studio, hence him developing basically the same riff.
24** [[Music/NewsOfTheWorldQueen "Sheer Heart Attack"]] starts off with a few verses that were copied from the beginning of Music/TheBeatles' "I Saw Her Standing There."
25* In the instrumental part of Music/{{The Cure|Band}}'s "Prayers for Rain", there is a chord sequence that sounds like the chords for Music/{{Alphaville}} "Dance with Me".
26* "Neighbors" by Camouflage sounds a lot like "New Dress" by Music/DepecheMode.
27* Many were quick to point out that Music/LinkinPark and Kiiara's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dmQ3QWpy1Q Heavy]]" sounds almost exactly like Music/TheChainsmokers and Music/{{Halsey}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT2_F-1esPk Closer]]". In turn, Zenith Volt's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5BGA6FSvV8 Hold On]]" sounds like a more upbeat synthwave take on "Heavy".
28* Music/TheSpiceGirls song "Last Time Lover" sounds similar to The Mary Jane Girls' "All Night Long".
29* Music/MazzyStar "Fade Into You" sounds similar to Music/BobDylan "Knocking on Heaven's Door".
30** Also "Coming Down" by Dum Dum Girls sounds highly similar to "Fade Into You".
31* Music/NewOrder's [[Music/{{Technique}} "All The Way"]] sounds a lot like Music/{{The Cure|Band}}'s "Just Like Heaven".
32** Conversely, The Cure's "The Walk" is similar to New Order's "Blue Monday".
33** Ditto for "A Honest Mistake" by The Bravery.
34* Music/BillyJoel's "My Life" takes its melody from Johnny Rodriguez' "Love Put a Song in My Heart".
35** His "This Night" has almost exactly the same tune as Louise Tucker's "Midnight Blue". But he's not ripping off "Midnight Blue", they're ''both'' borrowing from Beethoven (Sonata No. 8). Billy Joel gave Beethoven writing credit.
36* Ditto for 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up?", from Music/BobbyMcFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy".
37* The [[FadeOut fade-out]] of Music/DireStraits' "Money for Nothing" from ''Music/{{Brothers in Arms|Album}}'' is set to Music/ThePolice's "Don't Stand So Close to Me" -- {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Mark Knopfler having Sting sing it and giving him co-writing credits.
38** The [[FadeIn fade-in]] to "Money for Nothing", with Terry Williams's improvised drum solo, is remarkably similar to end of the middle part of "Won't Get Fooled Again" by Music/TheWho.
39* Safetysuit's "Stay" sounds incredibly similar to Music/{{Switchfoot}}'s "Meant to Live." They sound enough alike that most people seem to initially think that "Stay" is a cover of "Meant to Live."
40* Both Music/TheKillers' "Mr. Brightside" and Music/MyChemicalRomance's "Bulletproof Heart" are reminiscent of Music/{{Placebo}}'s "Special K". MCR even sings "gravity" in the same way; this may have been done intentionally.
41** Then there's also Music/{{Muse}}'s "Time is Running Out." It doesn't sound like "Special K," but "Mr. Brightside" and "Bulletproof Heart" sound a lot like it.
42** Throw in Kish Mauve's "I Don't Care".
43* Aiden's entire discography is this to AFI's, but "I Set My Friends on Fire" and "The Despair Factor" deserves a special mention.
44* Music/TwistedSister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" is derived from the Christmas hymn "O Come All Ye Faithful". Lampshaded when the band did an album with rock covers of Christmas songs, where "O Come All Ye Faithful" is performed [[InTheStyleOf exactly like]] "We're Not Gonna Take It".
45* "I Missed Us" by SWV samples a Suspiciously Similar Version of the Fairy Fountain theme from the ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series.
46* One popular example is the obvious similarities between "Roar" by Music/KatyPerry and "Brave" by Music/SaraBareilles, to the point that the latter only became a hit on the back of the controversy. Despite all this, [[http://tinyurl.com/nkza5vm Sara Bareilles has said]] that [[ShrugOfGod she really doesn't care and thinks people are making too big a deal out of it]].
47** And of course, the similarity between "Roar" and Delirious?'s "I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever".
48* The opening riff of Music/{{Maneskin}}'s "For Your Love" (which, coincidentally, [[SimilarlyNamedWorks shares a title with a song of the same name]] by Music/TheYardbirds) sounds similar to the opening riff of "Layla" by Music/EricClapton.
49* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuLZlZ18APQ&pp=ygUIMzkgbXVzaWM%3D "39 Music!"]] by mikito-P featuring Music/HatsuneMiku is quite similar in terms of structure and style to {{Music/Psy}}'s Music/GangnamStyle.
50* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1H8pwehAkY "Lamb of God"]] by Music/MarilynManson has a basically identical verse to the earlier [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbtZyuOMdHI "Climbing Up the Walls"]] by Music/{{Radiohead}}.
51** Manson has done this more than once: "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" (taken from the heavily Music/DavidBowie-influenced ConceptAlbum ''Mechanical Animals'') is a dead ringer for Bowie's own "Fame."
52** "The Fight Song" is quite similar to Music/{{Blur}}'s "Song 2."
53** In a more odd example of this, former guitarist Daisy Berkowitz claimed that the song "1996" stole and sped up his "She's Not My Girlfriend", an earlier Marilyn Manson song (back when it was Marilyn Manson and The Spooky Kids), from when Manson wrote only the lyrics, and Daisy wrote the music. The likelihood of this is reduced when you remember that Marilyn Manson (the person) considers "She's Not My Girlfriend" to be the worst song he ever wrote.
54* Music/FallOutBoy's smash hit "Centuries" has a chorus with a tune that's nearly identical to GetScared's "Hate".
55** The riff to "Irresistible" is basically copied from part of Music/RhapsodyOfFire's "Dawn of Victory".
56** "Uma Thurman" predominantly features samples from the ''[[Series/TheMunsters Munsters]]'' theme music.
57* Speaking of Music/GetScared, their song "(Setting Yourself Up For) Sarcasm" is extremely similar to "Paralyzed" by Music/TheUsed. Get Scared, another PostHardcore band from Utah, are huge fans of The Used and have cited them as a major influence on their music.
58** In fact, Get Scared have very much modeled themselves directly on The Used, right down to Nicholas Matthews imitating Bert [=McCracken=]'s every mannerism and vocal tic. Their first album, ''Best Kind of Mess'', is in fact a Suspiciously Similar Album to The Used's ''Lies for the Liars''. However, they've been quite open about this, and are as such praised as an homage or throwback rather than condemned.
59* Creator/DavidHasselhoff's "Crazy for You" all but shares its tune with, of all songs, "[[Music/VillagePeople YMCA]]."
60** Creator/Disney's 1982 exercise album ''Mousercise'' features a song called "Keep on Trying", which also sounds like a Suspiciously Similar version of YMCA.
61*** And another Disney album gives [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Sport Goofy]] an ImageSong that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tY5R-k3iFgwas also used on TV]] and sounds an ''awful'' lot like Music/{{ABBA}}'s "Take a Chance on Me."
62** David Hasselhoff actually made Suspiciously Similar versions of multiple songs... His song "Looking for Freedom" sounds like very much like "Rivers of Babylon" by Music/BoneyM. But actually, David Hasselhoff's 1989 version of it isn't the original one... It was originally done by Marc Seaberg who released it back in 1978 when "Rivers of Babylon" was still in the charts. Other sound-alike songs by David Hasselhoff are "Do the Limbo Dance" (sounding like Boney M's "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday") and "Hands Up for Rock'n'Roll" (similar to Pia Zadora's "Let's Dance Tonight.")
63** Taiwanese pop singer Cyndi Wang's "Honey" is also another "YMCA" ripoff.
64** "YMCA" itself was clearly influenced by The Trammps' "Disco Inferno."
65* Brinck's attempt to represent his country (Denmark) again in Eurovision 2013 entry was "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRdg6ueRpuk Human]]." Having the exact same structure and guitar notes as Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah." The Danes decided to go for a different song - which ended up winning the Contest.
66* Music/{{Abba}} did this with the follow-up to "Waterloo," "So Long," which was intentionally done to ensure another hit. It wasn't as successful.
67* Charlotte Gainsbourg's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YphYOAEooSc 5:55]], composed by Music/{{Air|Band}}, sounds exactly like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqcPSbkS9TQ Dire, Dire Docks]] from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''.
68* Train's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf4aSxDvlPw5 50 Ways to Say Goodbye]] sounds exactly like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej1zMxbhOO0 the title song to Phantom of the Opera]].
69** In turn, the title song to Phantom of the Opera nicks its opening melody from Music/PinkFloyd's "Echoes." Roger Waters was pissed off at this ("I couldn't believe it when I heard it. It's the same time signature -- it's 12/8 -- and it's the same structure and it's the same notes and it's the same everything.") but commented that "I think life's too long to bother with suing Andrew fucking Lloyd Webber."
70*** Actually, Andrew Lloyd Webber ripped off "Poisoned Youth" by the obscure UK band England. That song predates "Phantom" by a few years.
71** The "Phantom" vocal melody has also been interpolated in [[https://youtu.be/jlWZPX6KLiM?t=1m "Angels Crying"]] by E-Type, [[https://youtu.be/SctQqzbFTXY?t=2m25s "Thinking About You"]] by Cynthia, [[https://youtu.be/09sC5onYmzE?t=26s "Can't You Feel My Love"]] by Rose (of [[VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution "Speed Over Beethoven"]] fame), and [[https://youtu.be/nqoLfT80jBg?t=16s "Music Rides The Sky"]] by BPM.
72* Scooter's Roll Baby Roll featured a sample of ABBA's Arrival which it turned out the band hadn't asked to use. As a result, the rerelease of the album it was on (The Stadium Techno Experience) features a remix of the song called Swinging In The Jungle, which has a Suspiciously Similar version of the Arrival sample.
73** Scooter have done this so much that it has become a sort of trademark to expect certain songs in a particular style on each album. Maria (I Like It Loud) and One (Always Hardcore) are the most notorious and there is one song like them on every album since. Similarly, Break It Up and Leave In Silence are both techno ballads and have pretty much the same chord progression and laid back feel.
74* Music/DavidBowie tried to do a lyrically less-than-faithful glam rock version of "Comme d'Habitude," but Paul Anka took the rights from under him for "My Way." Bowie made some small changes to the tune and chord progression, and the result was "Life on Mars."[[note]]Some people think that "My Way" and "Life on Mars" have the same chords, but they don't: they depart from each other at the sixth/seventh line of the verse, where "But more, much more than this" goes in a different direction from "To the seat with the clearest view". "Life on Mars" also has a chorus, while "My Way" doesn't (it has the "Yes there were times" section instead of one.)[[/note]] Note that on the back cover of the album the song is parenthetically noted as being "Inspired by Frankie" -- as in Sinatra, who made "My Way" famous.
75* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1raCtM3UGk "She's a Rebel" by Green Day]] lifts the majority of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37dBq_4TsZI "Boxcar" by the little-known but influential Jawbreaker]].
76* Music/RageAgainstTheMachine's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1T8xgHdMEM Wake Up (Theme from The Matrix)"]] and Music/LedZeppelin's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQH3LtNePgI Kashmir"]].
77** The opening riff to Music/{{Audioslave}}'s Cochise is pretty similar to Zeppelin's "The Ocean" too. And, of all things, I'm Broken by Music/{{Pantera}}!
78*** Ironically enough, "Cochise" also sounds like a faster version of the main riff of Soundgarden's "Get On The Snake". And Chris Cornell sings both songs!
79** Another song, Show Me How To Live, lifts the riff from the obscure Rage Against The Machine song "Producer".
80** The opening of Music/{{Heart|Band}}'s "Barracuda" was lifted directly from "Achilles Last Stand".
81** Going the other way, Page has admitted he took the distinctive "da-da-da-da-duh" of "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" from Music/{{Chicago}}'s "25 or 6 to 4".
82*** Which ''itself'' sounds like a speeded-up version of Music/TheBeatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". These are all examples the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lament_bass Lament Bass]] (also heard in Green Day's Brain Stew, The White Stripes' Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, and a hundred other songs).
83** Sean Kingston's "Me Love" gets its melody from "D'yer Maker", which ironically got its name from a joke about Jamaica.
84-->Guy: My wife's going on holiday in the Caribbean.
85-->Friend: Jamaica?[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke "Did you make her?", in full.]][[/note]]
86-->Guy: No, she wanted to go.
87* Music/IronMaiden's opening riff to The Wicker Man does sound an awful lot like Running Wild by Music/JudasPriest...
88** Similarily a few of their songs' intros do this. on ''The X Factor'', "Fortunes of War" and "Look for the Truth'' have a very similar chord progression. "Blood Brothers" from ''Brave New World'' and "Face in the Sand" from ''Dance of Death'' open with the same four chord progression, with the latter being slightly more upbeat.
89** Also; The Pilgrim's intro and When The Wild Wind Blows middle section have a similar Celtic sounding part, Brighter Than A Thousand Sunsmiddle section and The Legacy's exunt have similar four chord progressions.
90** The main synth riffs in Muse's[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r02_A-3LOc "MK Ultra"]] sound a lot like the synth riffs in Maiden's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSZbbTjM0Es "Can I Play With Madness]]. Ironically, a year later, Maiden released [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xo6wmz_iron-maiden-satellite-15-the-final-fronteir-lyrics_music "Satellite 15... the Final Frontier]], whose baseline does bear a slight resemblance to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm_5qWWDV8 "Hysteria"]] by Muse.
91* The opening riff of No Doubt's "Hella Good" sounds strikingly similar to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean".
92* Australian musical comedy group Music/{{Tripod}} have, on occasion, included a version of the ''Series/{{MASH}}'' theme in their concerts. When the concert was being recorded to be put on DVD, the song had to be changed - the last note of every phrase goes in a different direction (the final note in the first line, for example, goes up rather than down.)
93** This was incredibly amusing on the DVD- they sang it properly (crowd joining in) then stopped and said that if it was going to make it on the dvd they'd have to change it, so Scod gets the audience to sing said 'revised' version, which he's improvising, leading to a very confused chorus.
94** Apparently they did get the rights for the song anyway- a later performance has them telling the audience that the final stage was sending their version off to the guy who wrote it for his approval, so they wrote a song about ''him''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWHm-wZ75dw Here it is, folks.]]
95* Music/LinkinPark's "Shadow of the Day" was rather heavily criticized for its uncanny resemblence to Music/{{U2}}'s "With or Without You".
96* The sheer similarity between the intro of "No More Sorrow" and the last 30 seconds of Megadeth's "Silent Scorn". They even use similar 'military' drums. Of course, they may well have sampled it up, rather than outright copied it, but it still sounds like a Suspiciously Similar version.
97* Trivium is often reviled by metal fans for making songs that allegedly copy the notes from other metal bands' songs, primarily Metallica. In fact, most people see them as trying to "copy" Metallica.
98* Music/{{Metallica}}'s "The Four Horsemen" and Music/{{Megadeth}}'s "Mechanix" bear a massive resemblance. The reason? Dave Mustaine, while a member of Metallica, wrote the song "The Mechanix" which is included in some of their early demos. However when he was kicked from the band's roster they kept the song and rewrote the lyrics and some parts and made "The Four Horsemen". Later when Mustaine formed Megadeth he dropped the "The" in the same and sped up the main riff and included the track on his debut album.
99* There's a Website/YouTube series called "Metal that sounds like other metal" based all around this trope, pointing out the similarities between songs intentional or not.
100** Heck, just watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25O-bLjreaA these]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XEUjvEDvro videos]].
101* The Cat Empire's song "Voodoo Cowboy" briefly pastiches the theme from ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''.
102* A techno song called "E" included the melody from a popular Music/{{Eminem}} song. However, when that techno song got popular and got released in a larger scale, they changed the melody to the Suspiciously Similar Version. The funny thing was that Eminem ''mocked'' techno in this song.
103* A catchy Eurodance song by Italian musician Magic Box called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9ZEQfJuO8 If You]]" [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff became very popular on Brazilian radios]]. Later, two songs which carry four similar aspects appeared: a looped modulated bassline, similar ad-libs, a narration in the beginning of the song, and a notable usage of falsetto. Those two songs were the not-so-popular "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wao3TEkjGc Game of my Life]]" by Project One, and the OneHitWonder "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHNJt6fEI4 Can't Get Over]]" by Kasino.
104* A few of Japanese singer Music/{{Gackt}}'s songs are Suspiciously Similar versions of other songs; "Another World" is very similar to the Film/JosieAndThePussycats song "Three Small Words", "Vanilla" is ''very'' reminiscent of Music/RickyMartin's "Livin' la Vida Loca", and "Emu~for my dear~" sounds very much like Music/{{U2}}'s "With or Without You".
105* The signature guitar riff for "I Feel Fine" by Music/TheBeatles is a more folk-rockish, less fuzzed-up version of the riff for Bobby Parker's minor 1960 hit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvtabNAb_wE "Watch Your Step"]]. The drums on the two songs are also very similar. However, Music/JohnLennon himself freely admitted that he borrowed the riff. The riff was also adapted by Jimmy Page for the Music/LedZeppelin instrumental "Moby Dick".
106** "Watch Your Step" is all over 60s Beat music: it's hard to say where Music/TheYardbirds' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ1MiiHA_Qw "Rack My Mind"]] would be without it.
107** The same riff was then borrowed more-or-less untouched for Sugarloaf's "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You."
108** Sugarloaf's first hit "Green-Eyed Lady" sounds a lot like "25 or 6 to 4" by Music/{{Chicago}}, which was popular around the same time.
109* Music/TheBeatles more or less admittedly used this technique to craft the song "Come Together" out of Music/ChuckBerry's "You Can't Catch Me", even taking one of the lines ("Here come ol' flat top"). Berry tried to sue them; they settled out of court. That said, "Come Together" sure sounds a lot like Dr. John's 1968 song "I Walk on Guilded [''sic''] Splinters" as well. Both compositions have similar ominous bass-centered Swamp Rock-type grooves (with "Come Together" at a slightly slower tempo) and feature WordSaladLyrics.
110** The same thing is often alleged to have been done by Music/GeorgeHarrison's solo hit "My Sweet Lord", which sounds a lot like "He's So Fine". That one ''wasn't'' settled out of court. Harrison was successfully sued: the court accepted his claim that if he had plagiarized, it was unintentional and unconscious, but they ruled that unintentional plagiarism is still plagiarism. ''Bright Tunes Music vs Harrisongs'' became a landmark decision in American copyright law. He later wrote "This Song" [[TakeThat to rebut the lawsuit]]. (Interestingly, ''both'' songs are suspiciously similar to the traditional GospelMusic song "Oh Happy Day," but that resemblance didn't seem to sway the court case either way.)
111** When the Beatles' press officer started working for Music/TheByrds, Harrison asked him to tell the band's guitarist that he created the Beatles' "If I Needed Someone" out of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGFb_xZR3K0 two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTlS2JhaBJM of]] their songs[[note]]Though the former is a cover[[/note]].
112** In a similar vein, Music/TheBeachBoys' song "Surfin' U.S.A." inadvertently copied Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen" and in re-issues is credited to Berry. Meanwhile, some people have noticed a resemblance between "Sweet Little Sixteen" and Clarence Garlow's 1953 ListingCities song "Route 90".
113** It wasn't Chuck Berry who tried to sue, actually. Morris Levy had snapped up the publishing rights to a score of songs from the 1950s and 60s, including "You Can't Catch Me", and jumped at the opportunity to extort a dollar from Lennon (and, eventually, an album - "Rock 'n Roll"). Lennon remained in good stead with Berry and performed with him on occasion.
114** When they were an up-and-coming touring band they often did Music/LittleRichard covers, with [=McCartney=] taking Little Richard's lead vocals. After they hit it big they covered Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally" and released it on an EP. They also recorded Lennon-[=McCartney=] original "I'm Down", sung by Paul, which is...not dissimilar to "Long Tall Sally".
115* Music/KeithRichards has claimed that the guitar riff for Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" came to him in a dream in a Florida hotel room. Given that "Nowhere to Run" by [[Creator/{{Motown}} Martha and the Vandellas]], with a similar hook, was peaking on the American charts around that same time, Richards might've had the song on his (subconscious) mind.
116** Music/NeilYoung then swiped the same riff for Buffalo Springfield's "Mr. Soul" a couple years later.
117** The chorus of The Rolling Stones' "Anybody Seen My Baby?" sounds a lot like kd lang's "Constant Craving": It's reportedly a coincidence, and since this came to the band's attention before ''Music/BridgesToBabylon'' was released, they actually credited lang (and ''her'' co-writer, Ben Mink) as co-writing the song to help prevent any kind of lawsuit.
118* "Still Take You Home" by Music/ArcticMonkeys borrows a riff from "Out On Patrol" by Music/TheOffspring.
119* One of Music/TheResidents' songs share the bass line of Music/MichaelJackson's "Billie Jean". Which one? Their cover of Music/HankWilliams' Kaw-Liga. Funnily enough, The Residents usually avert this so their [[CoverVersion covers]] usually only share the lyrics and the basic rhythm of the original song. One theory is that this was done for the sake of a StealthPun: Hank was once married to country singer '''Billie Jean''' Horton.
120* And then there was the time that John Fogerty got sued for "The Old Man Down The Road" ripping off Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival's "Run Through The Jungle", a song written by... [[SelfPlagiarism John Fogerty]]. (There's a lesson here about reading the fine print in your record contract.)
121* The power metal band Music/{{Dragonforce}}'s music drew much inspiration from computer and video games, including the synths, complete with occasional SID-style arpeggios, ala Machinae Supremacy. In fact, the solo section from "Black Fire" contains the beginning of the ''Double Dragon'' theme verbatim.
122** The opening riff to "Evening Star" is taken from the solo of "Mr. Crowley" by Ozzy Osbourne.
123* Afrika Bambaataa used a slightly altered version of the main riff from Music/{{Kraftwerk}}'s "Trans Europe Express" in his popular song "Planet Rock"(you may know the Paul Oakenfold remix from the ''Swordfish'' soundtrack), and needless to say, got sued over it.
124** He didn't help his cause by using the beats from "Numbers" in the ''very same song''. Eventually the case was settled out of court.
125* Music/LennyKravitz's "It Ain't Over Til It's Over" has a strong resemblance to "That's the Way of the World" by Music/EarthWindAndFire (mostly in the arrangement and chorus).
126* The opening of Music/ProcolHarum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" is clearly... ahem, ''inspired'' by [[Music/JohannSebastianBach Bach's]] "Air On A G-String", aka "The Hamlet cigar music" in the UK. Ironically, the authorship of the song (and thus the royalties) is now disputed between the band members...
127* Music/ReelBigFish's song "Suckers" features a little riff that sounds suspiciously like the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' theme played on horns.
128* Speaking of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', Kakkmaddafakka's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58rUBL4-XwA "Touching"]] sounds like a decent homage to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7bvnjQMgq4 "Athletic theme"]].
129* Compare the opening riffs of Music/{{KISS}}' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlnmNkMivHc "War Machine"]], Music/{{Danzig}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P-eJoZaCO8 "Snakes of Christ"]], and Music/StoneTemplePilots' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s3lmr09oVg "Sex Type Thing"]].
130** Harry Slash and the Slashtones produced a Suspiciously Similar version for Wrestling/{{Taz|z}}'s Wrestling/{{ECW}} entrance music [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4pGwkHFpEM "Survive If I Let You"]]
131* Music/{{Silverchair}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGr2YNZy30Y "Suicidal Dream"]] is only a solo away from being a guitar cover of Music/AliceInChains' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYegfhgiZo "Bleed The Freak"]].
132* The Music/VillagePeople's "Go West" has a somewhat similar tune to the hymn "Give Thanks", released a year earlier, as many have noted.
133** "Go West" also sounds a lot like Pachelbel's "Canon in D". The Music/PetShopBoys' cover sounds even more like "Canon in D", as Neil Tennant was a huge classical music fan. The cover of "Go West" also ''heavily'' interpolates the Soviet national anthem.
134** Pachelbel's Canon has seen Suspiciously Similar versions produced [[PachelbelsCanonProgression countless times]], of course, even by classical musicians.
135* The main guitar riff of Music/{{Weezer}}'s "Take Control" is almost the same as that of "Children of the Revolution" by [[Music/MarcBolan T Rex]].
136** Another odd Weezer example: their single "Troublemaker" has been reviled by their fanbase as just a rehashing of the song "The Good Life" despite only having a vague resemblance. This is mostly a case of an incredibly BrokenBase, though.
137** ''Van Weezer'' as a whole is meant to be an homage to vintage HardRock and arena rock, and some songs were close enough to their inspirations that they credited members of other bands as cowriters just to play it safe - "I Need Some of That" credits members of both Music/BlueOysterCult and {{Music/Asia}} due to melodic similarities to "Don't Fear The Reaper" and "Heat Of The Moment", Music/BillyJoel is credited for "The Beginning of the End" due to similarity to "The Longest Time", and Music/OzzyOsbourne and Randy Rhoads are credited for "Blue Dream" due to the signature riff from "Crazy Train" appearing throughout the song [[note]]oddly, "Blue Dream" is a reworking of "Ballad of the Briny", a CutSong from an earlier album that originally didn't sound anything like "Crazy Train"[[/note]]
138* Music/NineInchNails' "A Warm Place" has a very similar keyboard melody to "Crystal Japan" by David Bowie, as well as the same overall ambient feel. Reznor himself admitted inspiration from Bowie ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RQCT69y5s link]]), but specifically cited the album ''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]'', which doesn't include the song (it was added to ''Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps'' as a bonus track much later on), so it seems to be a bizarre coincidence.
139** Before that, his very first single, "Down In It", was very admittedly a rip off of "Dig It" from Music/SkinnyPuppy.
140** Trent Reznor lifted the instrumental for "Head Like a Hole" from a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIfh0XMrg6w Hawaiian Punch TV ad]] scored by Music/MarkMothersbaugh in 1987. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4411PgkkPQ Devo would later cover the song.]]
141* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pb8AAEsZAo This video]] tells us about how Music/{{Nirvana}} (with "Come As You Are") ripped off Killing Joke ("Eighties"), who ripped off Music/{{The Damned|Band}} ("Life Goes On"). Some have also pointed out similarities to Garden of Delight's "22 Faces", {{Music/Bauhaus}}' "Hollow Hills", and Music/TheBeatles' "Day Tripper" (though the last one is debatable).
142** Also from Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was considered similar to Music/{{Boston}}'s "More Than a Feeling", "Debaser" and "U-Mass" by Music/ThePixies, and "Godzilla" by Music/BlueOysterCult. Kurt Cobain himself agreed: "It was such a clichéd riff. It was so close to a Boston riff or [The Kingsmen's] 'Louie Louie'", but admitted only that he was "trying to write a Pixies song". So it's more likely he was doing a Suspiciously Similar version of the Pixies track rather than Boston.
143*** During concerts, Nirvana would often play the opening riff of Teen Spirit before launching into an intentionally poor version of More than a Feeling.
144** In turn, Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage's WCW theme music "Self High-Five" is a Suspiciously Similar version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
145*** Likewise for The Breeders' "Cannonball".
146* Music/{{Journey|Band}}'s song "Faithfully" sounds awfully similar to "Working Class Man" - with good reason. They were both written by Jonathan Cain, keyboardist for Journey.
147* Asher Roth's "I Love College" was originally based around a sample of "Say It Ain't So" by Music/{{Weezer}}. Once it got an official release, he couldn't get the sample cleared, so it became a Suspiciously Similar version... which accidentally made it sound a little like "Waiting On The World To Change" by John Mayer instead.
148* Music/WeirdAlYankovic used to do this early in his career, especially with non-vocal orchestrations. But as he got famous enough to ask direct permission from artists, these got closer and closer to the originals. He also continues to do "style parodies" that sound a lot like a specific song or artist, but are not actually the same. For example, "Dare to be Stupid" riffs on the style of Music/{{Devo}}, while "Germs" parodies the style of Music/NineInchNails.
149** On occasion, Al's "style parodies" have been so close to actual songs that fans began to consider them as true parodies. The most obvious examples are "Traffic Jam" (Prince's "Let's Go Crazy"), "I Remember Larry" (Music/TheyMightBeGiants' "See the Constellation"), "The Night Santa Went Crazy" (Soul Asylum's "Black Gold" - in fact, a mash-up exists to prove that the songs are nearly identical), and "Albuquerque" (The Rugburns' "Dick's Automotive"). "Albuquerque" comes so close to its source, in fact, that a handful of fans accused Al of flat-out plagiarism. After this occurred, Al began crediting style parody inspirations in his CD booklets.
150*** Also, compare the choruses of "Young, Dumb & Ugly" and Music/{{ACDC}}'s "For Those About To Rock (We Salute You.)"
151** Al's soundalike skills actually landed him in legal trouble once - the incidental music for the 'Gandhi II' scene in UHF is a spoof of the Shaft theme; and the copyright owners for that song weren't amused.
152** A strange example is "Buckingham Blues", the lyrics of which seem to fit perfectly with Music/JohnMellencamp's "Jack and Diane". In fact, the song was written as a Mellencamp parody, but legal issues prevented Al from recording it this way. For the final version, he matched the lyrics to a completely different tune that in no way resembles Mellencamp's song.
153** "I'm So Sick of You" not only parodies the style of Elvis Costello, but also has similar chorus patterns to that of "I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone", best known as a hit for Music/TheMonkees (though originally by Music/PaulRevereAndTheRaiders).
154** The verses of "Virus Alert" might sound similar to those of Gao Silver's theme music from ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger''.
155* Zilch's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNQd4QpQ0UY "What's Up Mr. Jones?"]] pretty much an English version of Music/XJapan's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejPTlnY930I "Drain"]]. Explained by the fact that Zilch was founded by [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]], who wrote the original version and owned the rights to it.
156* Music/JimSteinman, the songwriter-producer most commonly associated with Music/MeatLoaf, tends to recycle certain musical hooks in songs written for different artists. Compare the intro to the song "Stark Raving Love" off his solo album, ''[[TheBandMinusTheFace Bad For Good]]'', to the intro of Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For a Hero", which he wrote, and you'll note that aside from the drum track the two are note-for-note identical.
157** In that vein, fans on Youtube have identified Music/MeatLoaf's "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" and Music/CelineDion's "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" as [[DistaffCounterpart distaff counterparts]], owing to their similar sound, length, ''and'' music videos. Both songs were written by Steinman.
158* Gary Jules' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4 Mad World]]" (also known as the [[strike:''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' commercial theme]] [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic that sad song from the climax of]] ''Film/DonnieDarko'') sounds like a slow, calm version of Music/TheOffspring's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=numCZoBFcv4 "Gone Away"]]. Of course, Music/TearsForFears released "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZvPSpLxCg Mad World]]" as a single two years before Music/TheOffspring even existed.
159** Music/LinkinPark's "New Divide" also borrows heavily from both.
160* The choruses to Bonnie Tyler's "If You Were a Woman (and I Was a Man)" and Music/BonJovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" are Suspiciously Similar versions of each other. Probably because they were written by the ''same guy''...
161** The tune for the chorus of "Bump in the Night" by Allstars also sounds very similar to "You Give Love a Bad Name".
162* Music/JustinTimberlake's "Nothin' Else" sounds like a Suspiciously Similar Version of the Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black." "Rock Your Body" has a similar sounding beat to "Another One Bites the Dust" by Music/{{Queen|Band}}.
163* The beginning of Music/{{Sublime}}'s "What I Got" ''is'' an acoustic "Lady Madonna" with different lyrics and a note changed here and there.
164** Sublime has an entire laundry list of this, as demonstrated [[http://sublimestp.com/?page=pages/rs here]].
165* The chorus of Music/BelindaCarlisle's "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" is Music/BonJovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" reset in a major [[{{Scales}} key]].
166** Also Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" chorus.
167** That's Desmond Child at it again (albeit not for Belinda Carlisle), and he does it yet again with FM's Bad Luck.
168* In another "You Give Love a Bad Name" soundalike case, the bassline for "Comedown" by Bush sounds like the guitar riff of the former.
169* Try to listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZmRuIjAfIY "Kings & Queens" by Ava Max]] without thinking of "You Give Love A Bad Name" as soon as you hear the chorus. Desmond Child wrote this as well.
170* Bon Jovi has a few other examples:
171** "Who Says You Can't Go Home", which has a striking similarity to Music/BobDylan's "Positively Fourth Street".
172** "Bad Medicine", the first single from''New Jersey'' album sounds a lot like "Social Disease" from the preceding album ''Music/SlipperyWhenWet''.
173** The verses of "Living in Sin", the final single from ''New Jersey'', sound a lot like the chorus to "Father Figure" from Music/GeorgeMichael.
174* The guitar riff of Music/MichaelJackson's "Black or White" from ''Music/{{Dangerous|Album}}'' is similar to that of Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "Rock and a Hard Place" from ''Music/SteelWheels''.
175** Which is itself extremely similar to that of the Stones' own "Brown Sugar" from ''Music/ExileOnMainSt''. It's a very regularly recycled riff in ClassicRock.
176** The riff is also similar to Bob Dylan's Neighborhood Bully!
177** The vocal melody sounds strikingly similar to that of the Music/DuranDuran song "Hungry Like the Wolf".
178** It actually sounds a lot more like the riff to Music/JohnMellencamp's "Hurts So Good". In fact, some listeners born after about 1980 might hear "Hurts So Good" nowadays and [[ParodyDisplacement think, "Hey, 'Black or White'!"]]
179*** But then, there was an old Mountain Dew commercial (The "doing it country cool" one) that resembled "Hurts So Good."
180* An intentional, parodic example is The Offspring's "Why Don't You Get a Job?", which is patterned after "[[Music/TheWhiteAlbum Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da]]."
181** The riff to "Hammerhead" sounds ridiculously reminiscent of "Ace of Spades" by Music/{{Motorhead}}.
182** The song "She's got Issues" appears to borrow heavily from 38 Special's "Hold on Loosely".
183** "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" sounds like Offspring's own "Come Out & Play".
184* [=MOD=]/demoscene example: Purple Motion's "Fracture In Space", one of his earliest songs, was a Suspiciously Similar version of Dr. Awesome's "Space Deleria". Which itself was similar to Music/JeanMichelJarre's "Music/{{Oxygene}} Part 5".
185* Three 6 Mafia's "Late Night Tip" song sounds an awful lot like Lisa Fischer's "How Can I Ease The Pain". They never mention whether it was sampled or not.
186* Many cheaper compilations during the nineties were full of Suspiciously Similar versions. One label (Mecado) is credited with ''[[GenreKiller killing an entire genre of music]]'' by oversaturating the market with subpar copies in the Netherlands and was succesfully sued over misleading customers.
187* OlderThanTelevision: The tune most commonly used in the U.S. for the Christmas song "Away in a Manger", typically called "Mueller", was written by James R. Murray. Most other countries use "Cradle Song" (1895) by William J. Kirkpatrick, which sounds much like a Suspiciously Similar version of "Mueller". (Both tunes are in F major and 3/4 time with virtually identical phrasing, and both even end on the same four notes.) And "Mueller" itself is itself an example, according to Website/TheOtherWiki: "The first half of the melody is identical to the beginning of the second theme of Waltz #4, transposed down a fourth, in G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald, Op. 325 by Johann Strauss Jr., composed 19 years earlier."
188* [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku's]] version of "Ievan Polkka" has a ''very'' similar opening to Music/TheBeatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da".
189** Vocaloid does this a lot. Bonus Points go to Rin Kagamine's "Clockwork", which sounds EXACTLY like the Hooktail Castle theme from VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor, especially the opening. [[WebVideo/VocaloidInTheWalfasverse "I bet Nintendo would sue her if she wasn't a program."]]
190** Although this might be a coincidence, since Ievan Polkka is an old Finnish folk song.
191** Teto Territory bears striking similarities to Cirno's Theme.
192* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anthem_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina national anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] ([[http://www.navyband.navy.mil/anthems/ANTHEMS/Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina.mp3 MP3 file]]) sounds a lot like the theme of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variations_on_a_Theme_by_Haydn Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Haydn]] without being exactly the same melody.
193** Bedrich Smetana's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdtLuyWuPDs Die Moldau]] (the melody in question begins about a minute in) is a tweaked version of the Italian song [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mantovana La Mantovana]], which is best known as the tune for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjfFpFW9OdA Hatikva]], the Israeli national anthem (about thirty seconds in on that video).
194** Calixa Lavallée, in composing a national anthem for UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}, borrowed very heavily from a march in ''Theatre/TheMagicFlute''.
195** Unintentional for sure, but the first 11 notes of the verse of UsefulNotes/{{Senegal}}'s national anthem sound like a rewritten version of the chorus of "Jingle Bells".
196* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJO3ROT-A4E "What Makes You Beautiful"]] by Music/OneDirection has a guitar riff that sounds just a bit too much like the riff in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXlnMveRt-Y "Summer Nights"]] from ''Film/{{Grease}}''. On the other side of the spectrum, "Say Somethin'" by Austin Mahone and, more recently, "Cake By The Ocean" by Music/{{DNCE}} both bear a strong resemblance the boy band hit.
197** The EpicRiff of "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by Music/TheClash is copied very unsubtly in "Live While We're Young".
198** "Best Song Ever" blatantly copies the opening of Music/TheWho's "Baba O'Riley", enough that it [[http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/15/entertainment/la-et-ms-one-direction-best-song-ever-who-baba-o-riley-20130815 was rumored that it was going into court]]. Directioners were ''not'' happy about this. The Who's fans couldn't care less.
199** And then you have "Midnight Memories" and Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me".
200** In a more obscure example, the opening ukulele of "Story of My Life" is very similar to "Sweet Troubled Soul" by stellastarr*.
201** In the piano's tone and riff, "Steal My Girl" resembles Music/{{Journey|Band}}'s "Faithfully".
202* Marsheaux:
203** The synth riff in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDq5eiDCjQk Stand By]] is suspiciously similar to that of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)]] by the Music/{{Eurythmics}}. In fact, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ibY2GMryU there's a mashup combining the two songs]].
204** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7OcOq2w4_Y Loss of Heaven]]'s main hook sounds like the ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MODJaM1RDbY C64/NES game theme]].
205** "[[https://youtu.be/4ju4Rnekgqg Now You Are Mine]]" is this to Music/KateBush's "[[https://youtu.be/wp43OdtAAkM Running Up That Hill]]"(mentioned below).
206** The synth progression in "Safe Tonight" is an obvious nod to Music/{{The Cure|Band}}'s "Just like Heaven".
207* Since Ferry Corsten's remix of William Orbit's version of "Adagio for Strings", numerous imitations have been made, such as "Purple Room" by 949.
208** Spaceplanet's "Summer Rain" sounds suspiciously similar to Tiesto's arrangement of "Adagio".
209* Music/FleetwoodMac's song "Peacekeeper" has a chorus that has more than a passing resemblance to that of Music/PaulSimon's song "Kodachrome".
210* The Venga boys' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWYXIuuI-Rg Rocket To Uranus]] has a suspicious resemblance to Music/DonnaSummer's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7r83-y3j2A I Feel Love]].
211* {{Music/Inna}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAvr5_EtOnI Be My Lover]], in addition to interpolating the La Bouche song of the same name, sounds similar to Music/NickiMinaj's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdrqA93sW-8 Pound The Alarm]].
212* The breakdown and ending of Music/{{Ylvis}}'s "The Fox" resemble Inna's "In Your Eyes". Although the latter's video was released second, the song itself was released six months prior to "The Fox". The verse and overall melody is even more similar to Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" and to some extent Music/DavidGuetta's "Titanium", to the point that it was temporarily pulled from circulation due to plagiarism accusations.
213** One can argue that it's a deliberate parody of modern "electronic dance music" (referring to the specific mainstream use of the term to refer to the particular classes of house music made popular by acts like Guetta)
214** And yes, there's a resemblance to Gangnam Style as well.
215* The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM Pachelbel Rant]]" routine by comedian Rob Paravonian features him playing the chord progression used in "Pachelbel's Canon in D" on his guitar while singing the lyrics to many, many different contemporary songs.
216* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnVUHWCynig "Halo"]] by Music/{{Beyonce}} and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0T3WAbU6tg "Already Gone"]] by Music/KellyClarkson would be a case of this (not mentioning that the songs were hits only months apart)... except that writer/producer [[Music/OneRepublic Ryan Tedder]] co-wrote both songs, making this a subtle case of SelfPlagiarism.
217** In turn, Music/DemiLovato's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3zdIHDTbg0 "Made in the USA"]] sounds like a MusicalPastiche of "Already Gone" and Music/MileyCyrus's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11SvDtPBhA "Party in the USA"]].
218** The drumbeat of "Already Gone" resembles that of Music/{{Coldplay}}'s "In My Place".
219* Music/TransX's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9xBAtCsCTQ "Living on Video"]] sounds rather similar to Van Halen's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuyvT8nFMLY "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love"]], leading to [[https://soundcloud.com/jockeboberg/aint-talking-bout-video this mashup]].
220* Music/FerryCorsten:
221** The main melodic hook of [[https://youtu.be/7Wp7xMwfS3M "Walhalla"]] by his Gouryella project is similar to the refrain of [[https://youtu.be/Jy2VGRDxSvU "Maria"]] from ''Theatre/WestSideStory''.
222** [[https://youtu.be/DI-yAD6-9Ek "Tenshi"]], the third Gouryella single, cribs its main melody almost note-for-note from Music/{{Vangelis}}'s [[https://youtu.be/Uj0i_H3lzEU "Light and Shadow"]], while the lead-in riff resembles [[https://youtu.be/YpuQX2cRl6o "Orion City"]] by fellow Dutch trance producer Vincent de Moor.
223** "Holding On", a collaboration with Shelly Harland, suspiciously resembles Music/{{Madonna}}'s "The Power of Goodbye".
224** [[https://youtu.be/chVRictItRQ "A Day Without Rain"]] sounds suspiciously similar to Nalin & Kane's [[https://youtu.be/6OVKPIKc3ao "Beachball"]],
225** The chorus riff of [[https://youtu.be/wEyKp8YfzaU "Wherever You Are"]] is blatantly similar to that of Trouser Enthusiasts' [[https://youtu.be/uKzruhDH-LU "Sweet Release"]].
226** "[[https://youtu.be/kKcYeh2By9w Insolation]]", produced under his System F alias, bears a strong resemblance to Music/{{Orbital}}'s "[[https://youtu.be/FqTpuoypr-U Belfast]]".
227* The opening riff of Music/AvengedSevenfold's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-QaFWURsMU "Unholy Confessions"]] sounds similar to a riff from Death's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOXLc3rmK10 "Spirit Crusher"]]
228** Interestingly enough, the opening of Black Veil Brides [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6jWXajPzFo "Knives and Pens"]] sounds a lot like the opening riff of Unholy Confessions.
229** On the topic of Avenged Sevenfold, their song "Hail to the King" sounds a lot like the Music/{{Metallica}} song "King Nothing."
230** Avenged Sevenfold's "This Means War" and Music/{{Metallica}}'s "Sad But True" sound so similar that the former song is considered by some to be a ripoff.
231** Again, the intro of their song "The Stage" sounds a lot like "Thunderstruck" by Music/ACDC.
232* The chorus from Music/LadyAntebellum's "Need You Now" sounds a whole lot like the chorus from Music/TheAlanParsonsProject's "Eye In the Sky".
233* Ewan Dobson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXqPYte8tvc "Time 2"]] is pretty much just a slightly slower version of Music/{{Buckethead}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkeXE6FOf6s "Big Sur Moon"]]
234* The Oakenfold, Christian Burns, and Jes collaboration [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCjWuP27LZs "As We Collide"]], especially the chorus, is suspiciously similar to Coldplay's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k_1kvDh2UA "Speed of Sound"]]. Possible mashup material.
235** In turn, the chorus of "Speed of Sound" is similar to Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill". This was intentional [[WordOfGod according to the band members]].
236*** Also, the synths in Years & Years' "Shine" sound like the effect vocals throughout "Running Up That Hill".
237** Also, the intro to and verse melody of Lindsay Lohan's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swdCySYoSp0 "Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)"]] sounds very similar to the intro to and verse melody of "Speed of Sound".
238*** Not to mention that the intro to Demi Lovato's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHeVsnqj-9A "For the Love of a Daughter"]] is very similar to the intro to "Confessions". "Daughter" and "Confessions" even have a similar meaning[[note]]: losing an abusive father[[/note]]!
239* Some have noted that "Das Lamm, das erwürget ist", the last movement of Music/JohannSebastianBach's {{cantata}} ''Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis'', is very similar to "Worthy is the Lamb", the last movement of Music/GeorgeFredericHandel's ''Messiah''. The two share a very similar structure and are even based on the same Bible verses!
240* The Frozen Autumn:
241** The hammered dulcimer riff in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDO2Ryt_NOM "Pale Awakening"]] sounds like the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt5rCgHN1Gc theme]].
242** The synth riff in the original version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZefvDUblpc Wait For Nothing]] sounds like the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ9ySQX_PF8 Skull Castle Stage 5 & 6]] music from ''VideoGame/MegaMan3''.
243** The strings section of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rcSzQHNBr8 "The Echo of My Lies"]] resembles the ''Film/BladeRunner'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgz6jFxMpyk ending theme]].
244** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajqFixXD-GU There's No Time To Recall]] is similar to Music/ClanOfXymox's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuKgAj9m-Fc Stranger]].
245** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEV7odqyNfY "The Twin Planet"]] sounds suspiciously like the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlW3oRLNd2o "Flier"]] from ''VideoGame/SanFranciscoRush 2049'', scored by Barry Leitch.
246* Fish Leong's song ''Chong Bai'' directly steals the refrain tune from ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Can You Feel the Love Tonight]]''.
247* Deap Vally's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2OjVFp54po "Baby I Call Hell"]] is an exact copy of the Flaming Lips[=/=]Music/{{MGMT}}'s song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNMCvys9IpU "Worm Mountain"]]
248* Marlon Band$' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRaXFFv7Ir0 "Hold Up"]] sounds a bit like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UknWK95u15k "Living with Determination"]] from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''.
249* Fozzy's "The Test" has a basically identical main riff to Therapy's "Rust".
250* Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge's song "I Sat By The Ocean" has a similar guitar riff to The All Seeing I 's "Walk Like A Panther"
251** Both of those songs sound like Music/{{Blur}}'s "Coffee & Tv"
252* Colony 5's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJY1KnB8znI Avalanches]], to Pride and Fall's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqJGGMzo8l0 Border]].
253* Music/{{Anamanaguchi}}'s song "Pastel Flag" sounds quite a lot Nelly's song "Dilemma"
254* Yello's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q7FFjUpVLg "Oh Yeah"]] is suspiciously similar to Vicious Pink's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH5rlLDHPhQ "8:15 to Nowhere"]].
255* Music/{{Eluveitie}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z89WI96MzZc "A Rose for Epona"]] copies its intro almost note-for-note from Music/{{Blood Stain Child}}'s earlier [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQhRS-4NXiE "Metropolice"]], released approximately five years before Eluveitie's song. Some say that the intro is lifted from an earlier Irish/Scottish folk song, but so far not many people have been able to verify that origin (or what the base song is, for that matter) and it leaves one questioning how a Japanese trance/metal band would have heard an obscure Celtic folk song in the first place (slightly more understandable for Eluveitie, being a Celtic metal band themselves).
256** Eluveitie has several songs based on folk songs, which makes them sound very similar to other songs based on the same source material. If you don't know this, you might be forgiven for thinking Inis Mona and Luxtos were pirated from French folk hip hop band Manau's La Tribu De Dana and Qui Est La Belette or the other way round.
257* Anoraak and Sally Shapiro's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFeAzgIz3PM "Don't Be Afraid"]] sounds like the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyMOj6fJhSo "Tim 1"]] music from ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}''.
258** Also on the subject of ''Lemmings'', Myvoice's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTjOlrrPOdc "The Voyager"]] sounds rather similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWFtUBKrn8E "Lemming 2"]].
259* Of Monsters and Men's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_adqP8Ks4iU "Little Talks"]] has received some criticism for its similarity to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFaenf1T-Y "Home"]].
260* Music/{{Fraktus}}, the band that invented {{Techno}} in 1980 (at least so they say), parody this:
261** The chanting in Westbam's "Sonic Empire" is stolen from "Supergau".
262** The Telekom stole their jingle from "Bombenalarm" and removed two notes at the beginning.
263** Music/NewOrder stole the bass drum line in "Blue Monday" from "Affe sucht Liebe" (which was deliberately prevented from charting high).
264** And of course, they all got away with claiming that these are original compositions because nobody remembered Fraktus anymore.
265* The chorus melody of "When I'm Gone" from 3 Doors Down sounds a lot like "Breathe" from Faith Hill.
266* Music/GustavHolst's "In the Bleak Midwinter" has a nearly identical melody to the Largo movement of Music/AntoninDvorak's ''New World'' symphony.
267* The melody of Yuya Matsushita's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQH-Q098Ze4 Foolish Foolish]]" sounds almost identical to Ne-Yo's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqvvaOQWsBM So Sick]]".
268* The guitar riffs in OMC's "How Bizarre" and Kristen Kelly's "Ex-Old Man" are virtually identical.
269* The chorus of Music/WalkTheMoon's "Jenny" sounds a lot like that of Music/TheKillers' "Somebody Told Me."
270** "Somebody Called Me" by Format C & [[Music/Eiffel65 Gabry Ponte]] copies "Somebody Told Me"'s chorus verbatim.
271* The intro of Music/KylieMinogue's song "Padam Padam" sounds similar to the synth used in Music/{{Radiohead}}'s [[Music/KidA "Everything In Its Right Place."]]
272* Some parts of Voicians' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN7EHEzUri8 "Loner"]] bear a rather strong resemblance to Music/{{Celldweller}}'s song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knV1H163ISE "Switchback."]] Though, they work together and Voicians has made it pretty obvious Music/{{Celldweller}} is his main influence, so.... [[JustifiedTrope yeah...]]
273* Music/NeilYoung's "Borrowed Tune" outright admits the melody is lifted from a Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} song (specifically, "Lady Jane") - it's right there in the title.
274* Music/{{Dragonforce}}'s "Cry Thunder" sounds like a ripoff of a couple of {{Music/Sabaton}} songs, particularly "Union (Slopes of St. Benedict)."
275* Swedish singer Ted Gärdestad's 1979 Series/EurovisionSongContest entry "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EePXylI7TPI Satellit]]" is infamously similar to Music/{{Toto}}'s breakthrough hit "Hold The Line". Gärdestad's guitarist had jammed with the then-unknown Toto in Los Angeles, and unaware that they'd just started climbing the charts, figured he'd get away with borrowing the most striking bits.
276* The synthesizer riff in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZTXr31eL9E Eurobeat Brony's remix of "Hush Now Quiet Now"]] from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is suspiciously similar to the chorus of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWyhj7siEY Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah]]" from ''Film/SongOfTheSouth''.
277* Music/{{Warrant}}'s "Cherry Pie" came about because their label asked them to do a song in the style of Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s "Love in an Elevator". However, the finished product sounds a lot more like Music/RingoStarr's "Back Off Boogaloo".
278* As said in the [=YouTube=] comments, the main melody of Evening Star's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ9RPTEkQW4 Octavia]] sounds similar to the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ9RPTEkQW4 theme]].
279** The secondary melody in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtHJ8lFUrWI his arrangement]] of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' theme sounds suspiciously like the chorus of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II04E2GEJG8 Victory Celebration]] music from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi: Special Edition''.
280* The intro of Music/{{Faunts}}' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bShslKmOkfY Lights Are Always On]]" sounds quite similar to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ShzyggtsCs title music]] from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''.
281* Music/{{Muse}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbB-mICjkQM Plug in Baby"]] sounds way too much like Air's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC6vZOgYduk Sexy Boy]]"
282** "Panic Station"'s bass intro sounds a lot like "Another One Bites The Dust," and its chorus bears quite a resemblance to "Thriller."
283** "Map of the Problematique" has a synth riff which sounds like "Enjoy the Silence" by Depeche Mode.
284* The opening bit of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POtv2wjoIHQ "Angel in Blue Jeans"]] by Train is note-for-note the chorus of Matt Redman's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtwIT8JjddM "10000 Reasons"]].
285* The chord progression to Music/DaftPunk's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5EofwRzit0 "Get Lucky"]] sounds like some parts of Ratatat's "[[http://youtu.be/IKniXABsUeE?t=2m30s Wildcat]]"
286** As does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yca6UsllwYs&t=32s "Around the World"]], although Thomas Bangalter has said Music/{{Chic}}'s "Good Times" served as the inspiration for the song.
287** "Get Lucky" also nearly shares a rhythm with Hedley's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjkJ9-pAXHY "Crazy For You"]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOzkyonqcf0 Viva la overlaying example.]]
288** Humorously, the chord progression of "Get Lucky" also sounds like the chorus of Music/GirlsGeneration's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGP1cUk7cRs&t=1m05s "Genie (Tell Me Your Wish)"]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IHKxOAwvY8 There's even a mashup of the two.]]
289*** The bridge of "Genie (Tell Me Your Wish)" is itself almost identical to the bridge of Daniel Bedingfield's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4eMyOzD9UI Gotta Get Thru This]].
290** And we can now add [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2R_mnhK8QY Mystery Skulls' "Ghost"]] to the mix.
291* One Republic's "Counting Stars" can be aligned with Bloodhound Gang's "Bad Touch" so perfectly it's eerie. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXpieAWyvvo Like so.]]
292** Even more blatant is its similarity to Asaf Avidan's "One Day/Reckoning Song."
293* John '00' Fleming's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLbCIIT9BCU WKO]] sounds suspiciously similar to X-Cabs' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fedrFIMaDNk Neuro]].
294* The chorus of Celine Dion's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGrLb6W5YOM "All By Myself"]] sounds like Bon Jovi's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifm00JEjSeo Never Say Goodbye]].
295** "All By Myself" was [[CoveredUp a cover of]] an Music/EricCarmen hit from 1975, which ''pre-dates'' NSG by 11 years. Jon Bon Jovi himself, however, [[WordOfGod states that]] the song was inspired by Southside Johnny And The Asbury Jukes' "Hearts Of Stone".
296* American Authors' "Best Day of My Life" sounds an awfully lot like Imagine Dragons' "It's Time."
297** And BOTH were accused of ripping off Matt & Kim's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgBeu3FVi60 Daylight]].
298* When many people first heard "Latch" by Disclosure & Sam Smith, they thought it was a rehash of Sam Sparro's "Black & Gold."
299* Music/{{Seether}}'s "Country Song" is eerily similar to Black Stone Cherry's "White Trash Millionaire", except played in a minor key with more of a steel-guitar focus. Otherwise, the two songs sound more or less the same. It's worth noting both were released in 2011, BSC succeeding Seether by about ''a month.''
300* Hearing "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdlqjiQPAc Low]]" by Cracker and Spacehog's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkhl-CgETg In the Meantime]]" back-to-back can be very disorienting. The later sounds like a slightly happier version of the former, which is a stoner's love anthem. "In the Meantime" was kinda creepy to begin with, but this disparity and obvious similarities make it all the more disturbing.
301** Try listening to "In The Meantime" without thinking of "Where Is My Mind" by the Pixies.
302* The intro to Switchfoot's "Dark Horses" is cut-and-paste from Lenny Kravitz's "Fly Away".
303* Music/SixFeetUnder's "Nonexistence" and Music/{{Obituary}}'s "By the Light" sound ''incredibly'' similar. Which isn't surprising since the latter band's guitarist was in the former band during the recording of the former song.
304* Swiss rock band Gotthard's biggest hit, the ballad "Heaven", bears an uncanny resemblance to Savage Garden's "Truly, Madly, Deeply."
305* [=KingSpartaX37=]'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb47Dac4j2Q "Eurobeat Boss Battle: Eurobeat Pegasister"]] almost directly cribs the intro, synth hook, and bridge melody from DJ Command & 3L's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDWQnZ8F1XQ "Think of You"]], a Eurobeat arrangement of the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' song "Music/BadApple". Although the organ intro in those two seems to resemble that of Eurobeat Brony's "Discord" (which is actually taken from Bach's "Toccata & Fugue in D Minor"), "Think of You" predates said song by several months, and the original "Bad Apple" is more than a decade older than all of those.
306** The A-section of "Eurobeat Pegasister" is a pastiche of "Lost Dream"'s A-section with the first half of Fluttershy's "So Many Wonders".
307** Another brony music piece possibly inspired by ''Touhou'' is Makkon's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NbyUtARW6I "Deae Lunae"]], which sounds like a slow version of the climax of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm4PvG7RGwU "Vanishing Dream~Lost Dream"]] from ''Phantasmagoria of Dimensional Dream''.
308* The main riff of Music/DieKrupps' [[http://youtu.be/3Xj2KF2zxgc "High Tech Low Life"]] is pretty much the Franchise/{{Halloween}} [[http://youtu.be/AFSDR1iJrZ4 theme]].
309* Music/ImagineDragons' "I Bet My Life" bears some resemblance to KONGOS' "Come With Me Now".
310* Music/MiseryIndex's "We Never Come in Peace" is basically a slight re-write of Music/{{Chimaira}}'s "Cleansation".
311* Here is the [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek2}} Academy Award-nominated]] "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUypt2nvorM Accidentally in Love]]". Two years later, Music/BonJovi gives "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CeX5VEo10c Who Says You Can't go Home]]". The similarities in song structure are undeniable!
312* The hook of Music/NeYo's "She Knows" reminds one of Kirko Bangz's "Drank In My Cup".
313* A Christian blogger pointed out that Dan Schutte's mass setting "Mass of Christ the Savior", in particular the "Glory to God" part, sounds just like the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' theme. Read [[http://www.ccwatershed.org/blog/2014/feb/13/Dan-Schutte-Mass-of-Christ-The-Savior/ here]] and [[http://www.ccwatershed.org/blog/2014/aug/27/Dan-Schutte-Mass-of-Christ-the-Savior/ here]].
314* [[http://odysseymusic.bandcamp.com/track/endgame "Endgame"]] by T. Stebbins (the same person behind the Odyssey and Eurobeat Brony aliases) sounds like a cross between [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsGPthUe8Po "A Searing Struggle"]] from ''[[VideoGame/{{Ys}} Wanderers From Ys/The Oath in Felghana]]'' and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFpnW5En33M "He's A Pirate"]] from ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''. Also, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d88MG6weSA "Aflame"]] is similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTjEdY4wFiA Karna's theme]] from ''Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys''.
315* Lasgo's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozmTO4AXroI "Only You"]] is a sped-up soundalike of the 80s italo disco song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnBfvR2duBY "Come On"]] by Alan Barry.
316* DJ Yanny's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htGDxdCszA4 "Take Me to the Top"]] and Jimmy Diamond's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6WcR76zqBg "Love Machine"]] both copy the chorus of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud6sU3AclT4 "Tell It To My Heart"]] by Taylor Dayne.
317* The synthesizer hook in Jenny's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wikY4fy_tqk "Do You Remember Me?"]] sounds suspiciously like the first part of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wsp38NxKWo Hard Man]]'s BGM from ''VideoGame/MegaMan3.'' Likewise, the main riff of Music/AwolNation's [[https://youtu.be/x62B8FgaGOI "The Best"]] is similar to the B-section of Hard Man's theme.
318* Music/ButtholeSurfers' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FROlM3Ft5qQ Pepper]]" is a blatant and admitted nudge at Music/{{Beck|Musician}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE Loser.]]"
319* Listen to the opening drumbeats of both "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDRccz-UoeY Hope You Get Lonely Tonight]]" by Music/ColeSwindell and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXszJUmmik Neon Light]]" by Blake Shelton, and try not to be reminded of Chris de Burgh's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC1C4g8YOA4 The Lady in Red]]".
320* The chorus to Green Day's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G68qe1ew5tE Amy]] is highly reminiscent of The Zombies' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JM2ghmhGk0 Time of the Season]], as well as the Beatles' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFvnjI-csD4 All I've Gotta Do.]]
321** "Time of the Season" itself was interpolated in Melanie Fiona's 2009 single "Give It To Me Right". The latter was about to [[SampledUp sample up]] the former, at least in Fiona's native Canada, but quickly faded into obscurity.
322* Many WebAnimation/HomestarRunner viewers, upon listening to the Mark Ronson[=/=]Music/BrunoMars song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0 Uptown Funk]]" for the first time, noted a striking similarity between that and the ''Homestar Runner'' original song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-WTbGupxbk To The Limit]]". The resemblance was so uncanny that an epic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6IKTNmn3Uo mashup]] has been created.
323** It's also similar to Was (Not Was)'s "Walk the Dinosaur". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ARVjPL1Wo Behold.]]
324** The original song itself kinda resembles [[https://youtu.be/tUqvPJ3cbUQ Rapper's Delight]] by the Music/TheSugarhillGang.
325** The main saxophone riff in "Uptown Funk" sounds like one in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3c6TfY2J0o "Boss!!"]] from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD''.
326* Elastica got into trouble over the glaring similarities of their early single "Connection" to Music/{{Wire}}'s "Three-Girl Rumba", and the album track "Waking Up" to Music/TheStranglers' "No More Heroes". Money was reportedly handed over to settle lawsuits.
327* The sabi (Eurobeat term for chorus) of Mark Foster's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLhq_Ebpj7c "Spiderman"]] is similar to the first half of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MviUoCEbuO4 Stage 1 BGM]] from the Capcom shmup ''[[VideoGame/NineteenFortyTwo 1943: The Battle of Midway]]''. In turn, Maximum Power's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDV8quVr19E "Go Rocky Joe"]] copies "Spiderman"'s riff and chorus nearly verbatim, as well as the verse and bridge of Niko's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-cCbpvfLRs "Night of Fire"]].
328* Music/TayZonday's now [[MemeticMutation memetic]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA Chocolate Rain]] sounds similar to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J02TndStxaw Mission Select]] theme from ''[[VideoGame/{{Area 88}} U.N. Squadron]]''.
329** It's also almost a copy of the underground level theme song from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''.
330*** Apparently a total coincidence- Tay admitted early on that his parents had never let him play video games as a child so he'd have been unlikely to have heard either.
331* Music/JustinMoore's "'Til My Last Day" has both an opening similar to Hollerado's "Americanarama", and a chorus eerily similar to Melissa Etheridge's "If I Wanted To".
332* Rotting Christ's "Sorrowful Farewell" has a riff much like Nightwish's "Slaying the Dreamer", though the former song came first.
333* The refrain of the Christian hymn "Alas! Did My Savior Bleed" borrows from France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise," with the later twentieth-century children's song "If You're Happy and You Know It" borrowing from the rest of the hymn's refrain.
334* Music/AllThatRemains' "Fiat Empire" has a chorus that sounds sort of like Music/MichaelJackson's "Human Nature", complete with the "why, why," phrase.
335* Music/ArianaGrande's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qU7p7yOY8 Love Me Harder]]", Music/NickJonas' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw04QD1LaB0 Jealous]]", and Music/TaylorSwift's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmadmM5cOk Style]]" all sound similar to Music/LadyGaga's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3jzMyYgPQs Do What U Want]]" in terms of melody. And then "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl1aHhXnN1k thank u, next]]" received comparisons to, of all things, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8JdWs3jtcs theme]] of ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence''.
336* "Perfect" by OneDirection sounds a lot like Taylor Swift's "Style". Not helped by the fact that the latter song is very arguably about the former act's Harry Styles, and contains the line "[[TakeThat if you're looking for someone to write your break-up songs about…]]"
337* Music/TaylorSwift's "Look What You Make Me Do" [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Atz4NZlOjY follows the same rhythmic pattern]] as "I'm Too Sexy".
338* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Whgn_iE5uc "Smooth" by Santana]] has an opening very similar to that of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcWKZTI9OC4 "Rainbow In The Dark" by Dio.]]
339* Music/MenWithoutHats' "Hey Men" almost sounds like a copy of the Music/SteveMillerBand's "Rockin' Me", using the same guitar riff.
340* The similarity between "Got to Give It Up" by Music/MarvinGaye and "Blurred Lines" by Music/RobinThicke is another example that actually involved legal action. Gaye's estate won, and Thicke and Music/PharrellWilliams were ordered to pay the estate $5 million.
341* There exists what is known as the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLiuMkGCOC4 26 or 6 to 4]]" riff, a very distinctive set of bass chords which has been endlessly copied:
342** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elnRbeNsNRk Brain Stew]]" by Music/GreenDay.
343** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm7vnOC4hoY Last Resort]]" by Papa Roach.
344** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFOtX3VkG88 Riptide]]" by Sick Puppies.
345** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjVeSq9Mm_8 Paris]]" by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
346* The acid break in Audrey Napoleon's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnwmpWRLpUg "My Sunrise"]] is very similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhg_BkJ8bxw "Higher State of Consciousness"]] by Josh Wink, which itself borrowed from Hardfloor's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un4CeV_l3pI "Acperience 1"]], as did Cygnus X's "[[https://youtu.be/Nw7fAx9kZRE Synchronism]]".
347* The synth/guitar riff in Hotblade's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGldpsvgVao "Plastic"]] is all but copied from the bridge section of the ''[[Series/TheATeam A-Team]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyz_2DEah4o theme]].
348* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLTAf6SDIqQ "Free Your Mind" by En Vogue]] sounds quite similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LVuK6-nJ64 "Feed My Frankenstein" by Alice Cooper]] - less so in the instrumental and moreso in the lyrical style and overall progression of the song- both begin with a spoken opening followed by the title drop, some lyrics could practically be switched between songs and both have a similar instrumental break in the middle.
349* mitch murder:
350** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zr2mLzg6X8 Killer Angels]]" sounds suspiciously similar to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=matq6G5jgyE Theme of Solid Snake]]" from ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake''.
351*** Also similar to "[=ToSS=]" are Lazerhawk's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdncFnL3_30 "Visitors"]], and the intro of [[https://rossocorsarecords.bandcamp.com/track/kasumis-journey "Kasumi's Journey"]] by Highway Superstar.
352** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xXCkpVhW1s "Valles Marineris Pursuit"]] resembles [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzEcd14fWFg Charge Man]]'s stage theme from ''VideoGame/MegaMan5''.
353** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIxw6Ksrq68 Race Day]] is this to Music/TearsForFears' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCdLKXNF3w Everybody Wants to Rule The World]]".
354*** Music/BryanAdams' 1991 hit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP4Nnek6DCo "Can't Stop This Thing We Started"]] even more blatantly rips off "[=EWtRtW=]"'s introductory riff.
355** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZrG1wKOy1I "Thanks For Playing"]] is uncannily similar to ''VideoGame/MarioKartWii'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhOHzGuYBqA Rainbow Road theme]].
356** The first half of [[https://youtu.be/5NOFU3S1R6A "Coup de theatre"]] is this to Paul Hardcastle's [[https://youtu.be/lFmcdf77wzU "Rainforest"]].
357** [[https://youtu.be/_OwSWyNqu5I "Outta Space"]] sounds rather like Guru Josh's [[https://youtu.be/z2CIiES_xxk "Infinity"]].
358* Power Glove: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63iLLXJ7oic "Grip"]], to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGqiBFqWCTU Cybotron - "Clear"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imG1MyMipi8 "Maximum Potential"]], to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB3ibdil2UM Lazerhawk - "Dream Machine"]].
359* "Hot Fun in the Summertime" by Music/SlyAndTheFamilyStone (1969), "Sail On, Sailor" by Music/TheBeachBoys (1973), "Hold the Line" by Music/{{Toto}} (1978), and "Misunderstanding" by Music/{{Genesis|Band}} (1979) all sound very similar to one another. Toto cited "Hot Fun" as an inspiration for "Hold The Line". In the case of "Misunderstanding", songwriter Music/PhilCollins has said that the resemblance to the others was intentional. And The Beach Boys did a CoverVersion of "Hot Fun" many years later.
360* "Sussudio" by Music/PhilCollins has a background that's very similar to that of "1999" by Music/{{Prince}}.
361* Compare the repeating organ of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82aBwT59WsQ "Ignant Stick" by Mem Shannon]] to the main guitar riff of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRHBLwpASw "Sharp Dressed Man" by ZZ Top]]
362* Miami Nights 1984's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foxVW0Ed0Dw "Saved by the Bell"]] is similar to [[VideoGame/MegaMan Elec Man]]'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jATw8MvJNoo theme]].
363* Sight Unseen's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lImCUvUARtQ "Goodbye at Last"]] is totally a ripoff of Music/{{Aviators}}' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U0UUDy_5ik "Friendship"]]. Which itself sounds like a DarkReprise to "[[https://youtu.be/fOOOu_DqWuc Through The Eyes of The '90s]]" by French-Canadian synthpop act Trans-X.
364* "Insane in the Brain" totally sounds like "Jump Around". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKKHwGS6VQ4 Proof]]. They did share a producer, though.
365* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W72ElfGnpl0 "Trampled Under Foot" by Led Zeppelin]] has been long debated about what it copied- it was stated by Robert Plant to have been inspired by Robert Johnson's "Terraplane Blues" in that they both use cars as a metaphor for sex, but they sound little alike. Some have also suspected it copied Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" due to the organ, but those parts sound distinct. But many have noted that it sounds a lot like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4tJSn0QtME "Long Train Runnin'" by the Doobie Brothers]] due to similar sounding riffs and the choruses, not to mention that the lyrics to one could be sung to the tune of the other. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M4JUBGXIwA It has inspired this mix]]. It's worth pointing out that the Doobie Brothers had played their song live in concert for 3 years before it was released as a studio cut, and not only does it predate "Trampled" by several years, it also predates "Superstition".
366** And "Long Train Runnin'" is itself likely a take on Bachman Turner Overdrive's "Let it Ride". Randy Bachman says they were sharing a dressing room with the Doobies while they were working on the opening riff, and when he heard "Long Train Runnin'", he realized right away where they'd gotten the idea for beginning with those stuttering acoustic chords.
367* Music/GinBlossoms' "Til I Hear It From You" sounds a lot like Marshall Crenshaw's "Some Day Some Way," though this could be intentional since Crenshaw was one of the writers of the former.
368* Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Frozen" was the target of a lawsuit once a Belgian composer said [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRo_Vl-3gbk she riped off his song]], and "Frozen" remained banned from the country for a while (including from the GreatestHitsAlbum tracklist; Madonna still played it in a 2009 concert in Werchter). It was lifted once another party claimed their song was being plagiarized too, leading the judges to say the three were "not sufficiently 'original' to claim".
369* The verses of Music/{{Asia}}'s "Heat of the Moment" musically resemble the verses of Music/TheBuggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" (and even lyrically, in some cases, like with "And now you find yourself in 82" vs. "And now we meet in an abandoned studio", at the start of their respective second verses). Since Geoff Downes contributed to the writing on both songs, this probably wasn't a total coincidence.
370* Lost Years:
371** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdAWBMRAjyw "The Harbour Heist"]] from ''Black Waves'' sounds a fair amount like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67nkzoJ_2M "Stickerbush Symphony"]] from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest''.
372** "[[https://youtu.be/RCyOUR2FbU8 West Side Lane]]" sounds like the last part of "[[https://youtu.be/n6dpHPuwg5o?t=4m27s Live For Tomorrow]]" by U4ia.
373** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD3QbvR5Rgc "Storm"]] from the ''Nuclear'' EP is similar to Music/{{Vangelis}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgz6jFxMpyk end titles music]] from ''Film/BladeRunner''.
374** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rswx2Z7SDw title track]] of ''Amplifier'' is suspiciously similar to Music/{{Madonna}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV9NSfPkXTA "Holiday"]].
375** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwkQG6SLYys "A Start is the Beginning of the End"]], the intro track of ''Venom'', sounds like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ_i2W9aYME "Network"]] by Skaven of the Future Crew.
376** "Phoenix Rising" has a synth riff similar to that of Music/{{Falco}}'s "Rock Me Amadeus".
377* 5 Seconds of Summer's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFz1gCZSmdE "She's Kinda Hot"]] has been considered similar to My Chemical Romance's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6EQAOmJrbw "Teenagers"]] that came out 9 years earlier.
378** Their overall sound makes them sound like a discount Music/{{All Time Low}}.
379** They've also, had other songs that sound suspiciously like others. Examples include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdLdqeNl5nQ "Social Casualty"]] having the exact same instrumental as Music/{{Fall Out Boy}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhG-vLZrb-g "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T6o0iMfTbY "18"]] [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment randomly]] stealing part of the instrumental to Music/{{Foo Fighters}}' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBG7P-K-r1Y "Everlong"]] at 1:54, & [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0X7u_mmREE "Jet Black Heart"]] sounding like a slowed down version of Music/PanicAtTheDisco's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk8jV7r6VMk "Girls/Girls/Boys"]], or something by Music/{{My Chemical Romance}}. That's just 3 examples out of many. It's a wonder they haven't been sued.
380** “Youngblood” is commonly seen as a ripoff of Sam Smith and Disclosure’s 2014 hit "Latch".
381* Music/SamSmith's "Stay With Me" sounds a lot like Music/TomPetty's "I Won't Back Down". Smith said this was a complete coincidence as he'd never heard the latter song before, but nevertheless, Petty and Jeff Lynne ended up getting co-writer status on "Stay With Me".
382* Music/ThomasRhett has done this a few times.
383** "Crash and Burn" sounds very similar to "Chain Gang". Same rhythm and grunts.
384** Ed Sheeran's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp-EO5I60KA "Thinking Out Loud"]] became a huge hit in the beginning of 2015. Rhett's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2CELiObPeQ "Die a Happy Man"]] has become a country hit in the latter half of 2015 with very similar guitar chords, as well as similar messages of "you are all I'll need for the rest of my life."
385** "Vacation" has a similar bassline to "Low Rider" by War, so the writers and producers of that song, as well as the members of War themselves, were credited as songwriters.
386** "Shape of You" had a similar-enough melody to Music/{{TLC}}'s "No Scrubs" [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8OrT52ZToUk that the latter song's composers were also credited as writers]].
387* Porter Robinson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsy1URDYK88 "Language"]] and Armin van Buuren's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjN27z_Oc6E "Another You"]].
388* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFNzGN9h20Y "A Little Bit of Ecstasy"]] by Jocelyn Enriquez is very similar to Planet Soul's [[OneHitWonder lone hit]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxacRNgWUh0 "Set U Free"]], down to the slowdown during the break.
389* Music/MeghanTrainor's "Dear Future Husband" has a hook which has been accused of being very similar to Olly Murs' "Dance With Me Tonight." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKQRHlq0F08 Just listen to a mash-up of the two songs and try not to notice how lyrics from either song played over the other works.]] In return you can then argue that "Dance With Me Tonight" has a similar beat to Dion's "Run Around Sue", which just makes this a circle of suspiciously similar music.
390* Music/CalvinHarris' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ACl8s_tBzE "Blame"]] suspiciously resembles Corona's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr9R7hN1YSs "Rhythm of the Night"]], enough that there is at least one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aCiicxUiXo mashup]] of the two songs.
391* Music/DavidGuetta:
392** The piano intro, synth hook, chords, and refrain of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsfrsLxt0l8 "Dangerous"]] are suspiciously similar to Music/GrooveCoverage's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO7qiY6KI6w "Million Tears"]]. The similarity is even more apparent in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO98ik86bY8 the latter's Nightcore remix]].
393** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zudbz4hOcbc "When Love Takes Over"]] is a not-so-subtle ripoff of Music/{{Coldplay}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d020hcWA_Wg "Clocks"]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YozJ_uCWz1c Mashup here]]. Parts of "Without You", his collaboration with Music/{{Usher}}, also resemble the Coldplay song.
394*** The piano throughout Music/SelenaGomez's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8uPvX2te0I "A Year Without Rain"]] is a ripoff of the intro to "Clocks".
395** The synths in the intro to and throughout "Titanium" rip off the guitar riff in Music/ThePolice's "Every Breath You Take".
396* The chorus of Music/SelenaGomez's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h30Bx4Klxg "Same Old Love"]] sounds like a slower take on Inna's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNfFTuIk-dQ "Sun is Up"]].
397** and the intro / base beat sounds like a slightly slower and deeper take on Lenka's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-lxNf4hqc4 "Trouble is a Friend"]].
398** Also similar to "Same Old Love" is Music/CamilaCabello's "Havana" featuring Young Thug, which in turn is similar to Music/{{Santana}}'s "Smooth" featuring Music/RobThomas.
399* The respective guitar riffs of Music/ZZTop's "Cheap Sunglasses" and the Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein" sound similar to each other.
400* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOf4w4QJyPk "Theme to the Midnight Veil"]] by Prom Queen sounds suspiciously similar to Music/DickDale's arrangement of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3h9p_c5-M "Misirlou"]].
401* Music/{{Lights}}' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGE7n-aexSw "Running With the Boys"]] sounds rather like Madi Diaz's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23hWTGQBYRw "Stay Together"]], although the songs were released just two months apart.
402* The main riff to Music/TheDandyWarhols' song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovUGFmF0MF4 Bohemian Like You]]" sounds awfully a lot like a riff from Music/TedNugent's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZnpdomkKAg Snakeskin Cowboys.]]"
403** The song also sounds like Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59K2kF6o9Tk Brown Sugar.]]"
404* Music/ClanOfXymox's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PidMoUL6yMQ "She is Falling in Love"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94VKKWUQaP4 "Kiss and Tell"]], both from ''Matters of Mind, Body, and Soul'', are similar to Music/NewOrder's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftJZomwDhxQ "Blue Monday"]] and Music/{{Blondie|Band}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g "Rapture"]], respectively.
405* Toshiki Kadomatsu's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhE38tnTsmA "Secret Lover"]] is a dead ringer for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHMVkqCKknc "Hey DJ"]] by World's Famous Supreme Team.
406* Music/{{Deadmau5}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ArUgxtlJs "Ghost's n Stuff"]] rips most of its melody from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtfHk2hSlqA "Wicked Game"]] by Chris Isaak.
407* The opening Riff of "After Midnight"- By Fastway- off the "Trick or Treat" Movie soundtrack album sounds just like the opening one of "Marseilles"- by The Angels.
408* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWaQ4ltXBHY "Ari Oh"]] by Jenny Kee very obviously riffs on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk "Let it Go"]] from ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'', and one Eurobeat fan named Vincent Nguyen [[https://soundcloud.com/vincent-nguyen-25/demi-lovato-let-it-go-ari-oh-eurobeat-remix mashed up]] the former with Music/DemiLovato's version of the latter. Ironically, there is also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJYgRpuRDyk an official Eurobeat remix]] of Creator/IdinaMenzel's version.
409** The chorus of [[https://youtu.be/teZN1y1UpcU "Inside My Soul"]] by SCP Eurobeat labelmates Ace and Pamsy also resembles that of "Let It Go", albeit more subtly.
410* Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge's song "Sick Sick Sick" has some parts of it sound an awful lot like Music/FooFighters "All My Life." Though, considering Josh Homme and Dave Grohl have worked together in the past and the guitars used in both music videos are clear glass guitars, this may have been intentional on Josh's end.
411* Music/{{Periphery}}'s song [[https://youtu.be/G8nM0LTxTOo "Luck As A Constant"]] has a [[https://youtu.be/G8nM0LTxTOo?t=5m11s part toward the outro]] that closely resembles the introductory melody of [[https://youtu.be/UkK2Dg8kB1I "Alice in Wonderland"]] from the fifth ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' game, ''VideoGame/TouhouKaikidanMysticSquare'', both in the c minor key.
412* Oddly (and humorously), Music/JanetJackson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltN6qJmTxCA&t=34s "That's the Way Love Goes"]] sounds like the GangstaRap song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFktf-Jtgn8 "Guerillas in tha Mist"]] by Da Lench Mob.
413* Music/PDQBach's music is full of this trope, even not counting themes directly lifted from other composers (which Peter Schickele attributes to the composer's penchant for MediaNotes/{{plagiarism}}):
414** "1712 Overture" is obviously a takeoff on Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture," with the patriotic {{Standard Snippet}}s facetiously replaced with ones more familiar to American audiences: "God Preserve Thy People" becomes "Yankee Doodle" (with one chord repeated an excessive number of times), "La Marseillaise" becomes "Pop Goes the Weasel," and "God Save the Tsar" becomes the finale theme from Music/AntoninDvorak's "New World" Symphony.
415** Papa Geno's IAmSong from ''The Abduction of Figaro'', unsurprisingly, sounds a lot like Papageno's IAmSong from ''Theatre/TheMagicFlute''.
416** "Tarragon of virtue is full," the opening chorus of ''The Seasonings'', is quite similar to the opening chorus of Music/JohannSebastianBach's Magnificat in D.
417** "Dying" from "Iphegenia in Brooklyn" is a ground similar to "When I am laid in earth" from Henry Purcell's ''Dido and Aeneas''.
418* Mauro Picotto's "Lizard" and "Like This, Like That" are suspiciously similar songs to Binary Finary's "1998" and Armin van Buuren's "Blue Fear", respectively.
419* The bridge and chorus of ASTR's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp8iQtZP6RA Bleeding Love]] are basically stolen from Katy Perry's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Sd5c4o9UM E.T.]].
420** Thanks to one of E.T.'s writers, Dr. Luke, E.T.'s chorus is basically stolen from Music/{{TATU}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mGBaXPlri8 All The Things She Said]].
421* The guitar riffs in the parts of Imperial Circus Dead Decadence's "Jashin no Konrei, Gi wa Ai to Shiru." sounds closely similar to those of Music/MachineHead's "This Is the End".
422* [[https://youtu.be/-T65ZFmfJU8 Decisive Battle]] from the soundtrack of Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion shows extreme similarities to [[https://youtu.be/BKCEiNk198E 007 Takes the Lektor]] from Film/FromRussiaWithLove, composed by Music/JohnBarry.
423* "You're So Cool" by Music/NicoleDollanganger closely resembles "Robbers" by Music/The1975. One could dismiss it as a coincidence (since both songs fall under the IndiePop genre) if the final line of "Robbers" wasn't "'''you look so cool'''".
424* Music/GloriaEstefan's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFjjF9tg5U4 Rhythm Is Gonna Get You]] quite obviously rips off Music/MichaelJackson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uj3zitETs4 Wanna be Startin Somethin']].
425* Music/{{Prince}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pymb-PJzFAo Little Red Corvette]], and Music/CyndiLauper's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdQY7BusJNU Time After Time]].
426* "What's It Gonna Be" by Shura sounds an awful lot like "Flesh Without Blood" by Music/{{Grimes}}.
427* OGRE & Dallas Campbell's ''All Hallows'' horror {{concept album}} has several:
428** [[https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/track/beginnings-of-decay-prologue "Beginnings of Decay (Prologue)"]] is suspciously similar to Creator/JohnCarpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982'' theme music.
429** [[https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/track/last-rays-of-daylight "Last Rays of Daylight"]] sounds much like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1JYDmo19to the theme]] to ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'', also by John Carpenter.
430** [[https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/track/followed "Followed"]] resembles Faunts' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMH36PuN-1w "Das Malefitz"]].
431** [[https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/track/carve "Carve"]] sounds suspiciously similar to Music/{{Kraftwerk}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYR5p6qSAik "Mitternacht"]], from ''Music/{{Autobahn}}'', while [[https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/track/todays-headlines "Today's Headlines"]] is similar to the last part of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-G28iyPtz0 the title track]] of said album.
432* The Labrynth's [[https://thelabrynth.bandcamp.com/track/blood-moon "Blood Moon"]] and [[https://thelabrynth.bandcamp.com/track/decay "Decay"]] are suspiciously similar to Music/{{Front 242}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doxPd-fcZw0 "Until Death (Do Us Part)"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1cRGVaJF7Y "Headhunter"]], respectively, while [[https://thelabrynth.bandcamp.com/track/evil-spells "Evil Spells"]] is similar to ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}'''s aforementioned "Lemming 2" BGM.
433* The chorus of Music/ThousandFootKrutch song "Lifeline" sounds a lot "Fallen Angel" like Music/ThreeDaysGrace.
434* The drum patterns and main riff of Music/TheSweet's big 1970s hit "Ballroom Blitz" are suspiciously similar to those of Bobby Comstock's early-'60s song "Let's Stomp". And in between those two songs, Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} used a similar riff and drum beats in the song "Surprise, Surprise."
435* Salt Ashes' 2016 single [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPo1ehHrrQE "Save It"]] sounds suspiciously like Shakedown's 2001 house hit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgO3r1U8ub0 "At Night"]].
436* Kate Project - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2fvzTQSeT8 "A Better World"]], to Music/{{Jewel}} - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNoouLa7uxA "Foolish Games"]].
437* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_AQmXSRrTg "You Can Fly"]] by Estrella, from the Blast! Eurobeat label, sounds suspiciously like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elqEh2BAVuo "Defying Gravity"]] from ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}''.
438* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxUCeqAIZdI "Lightning Strikes"]], by Steve Aoki & Tony Junior feat. NERVO, is suspiciously similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTh0Ul2zZQ "The Dragon Flies"(Disco Fries Remix)]] by David Vendetta & Sylvia Tosun ([=VenSun=]).
439* Kristine's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUYkwtfXQew "The Deepest Blue"]] is similar to Don Henley's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6z_NfTe6SI "The Boys of Summer"]].
440* The main riff in Future Perfect's [[https://futureperfect1.bandcamp.com/track/spaces "Spaces"]] sounds like that of Music/DepecheMode's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P6aDXYKRpI "Everything Counts"]].
441* Assemblage 23:
442** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azr7c5a_x9c "Otherness"]] is suspiciously similar to Depeche Mode's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxUpJSGpCWM "It's No Good"]].
443** The instrumental backing to the verses in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_jQSp2vkM8 "Afterglow"]] is similar to the [[Platform/{{MOD}} S3M]] song [[http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=168003 "Forbidden Night"]] by Mysterium.
444** The intro chords of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ovbeecQhk "Bravery"]] resemble Music/DepecheMode's [[https://youtu.be/2sd7MQVofYc?si=Tw9hURFPL5X6PpFQ "Enjoy The Silence"]].
445* And speaking of songs named "Afterglow", Genesis has admitted that they based ''their'' song of that name on the chords of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
446* The riff to Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" is a simplified version of the main riff to Tool's "Schism".
447* MC Miker G & DJ Sven's "Holiday Rap" was originally intended to be a SampledUp version of Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Holiday". However, rather than actually use the samples, the producer decided to use nearly-identical instrumentation to get around it instead.
448* Kevorkian Death Cycle's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN4ghw_fkgA "The Promise"]] (no relation to the When In Rome song, incidentally) is suspiciously similar to Music/SkinnyPuppy's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDEhCm0pxCo "Worlock"]].
449* Decoded FeedBack's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYaxLfaEb_8 "Slaughter"]] sounds like a DarkerAndEdgier rendition of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3N_Lkgftc4 "Keep Hope Alive"]] by The Crystal Method.
450* Unknown Source's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLqWUZbLC0M "Nadjanema"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaBuPrarDpc "Cruentus"]] sound quite similar to Rank 1's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT6b6BcNWTc "Symsonic"]] (itself a suspiciously similar song to the ''Film/{{Speed}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8tlYs_j-DM theme]]) and Gouryella's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTHrIPHCBK4 "Ligaya"]], respectively.
451* According to Music/{{REM}} in interviews, they only realised the extreme musical similarity of "Hope" from ''Up'' to Music/LeonardCohen's "Suzanne" after completing recording. Rather than lose all the work, they decided to release the song anyway and give Cohen a co-writing credit.
452** Cohen was hit with this again with the song "When I Need You", by Leo Sayer, the chorus of which resembles his "Famous Blue Raincoat". Sayer was sued on Cohen's behalf, with an out of court settlement reached, even though a musicologist was brought in to argue that the motif was in the public domain and dated as far back as Schubert.
453* Music/{{REM}}'s "Strange Currencies" sounds a lot like "Everybody Hurts".
454* Wham!'s "Last Christmas" sounds like a mashup of Music/BarryManilow's "Can't Smile Without You" and Music/KoolAndTheGang's "Joanna". In fact, the writers of the Manilow song sued Music/GeorgeMichael and settled out of court.
455* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6okxuiiHx2w Breakbot's "Baby I'm Yours feat. Irfane"]] has the vocal melody sound near exactly like the vocal melody to Midnight Star's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkp9f_CjEL4 "Midas Touch."]]
456* iChill Music's [[http://www.ichillmusic.com/natural_beauty_uk.html "Radiant Sun"]] is suspiciously similar to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUyqvUG0ypA Zora's Domain]] theme from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''.
457* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O39EZm3Gl-k "The Human People"]] by {{retraux}} Eurodance artist Alex sounds suspiciously much like The Shamen's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfQ98A-6mG8 "Move Any Mountain"]].
458* Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself" and Beyonce's "All the Single Ladies" [[https://soundcloud.com/tonights_mashup/dancing-without-my-single-ladies fit together almost perfectly]].
459* Devo's "Speed Racer" and Michael Jackson's "Speed Demon" sound alike if you pitch the latter down. "Speed Racer" was released in 1982, while "Speed Demon" was released in 1989.
460* Compare/Contrast Crash Kings' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OvqpNP7dTI Mountain Man]]" with White Stripes' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlcMRq3gb1s My Doorbell]]".
461* The familiar guitar riff from Michael Jackson's "Beat It" is quite similar to the riff from REO Speedwagon's 1979 song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQG3vdBcN6g Back On The Road Again]]"
462* The APM stock music track "Lollipop" by Otto Sieben is incredibly similar to the Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass instrumental "A Taste of Honey".
463* Yo Gotti's "Down in the DM" sounds similar to the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' dungeon theme.
464** Better yet, Horse The Band's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8z7JPO08_o "The Immense Defecation of the Buntaluffigus"]] directly interpolates it.
465*** It's worth noting that the dungeon theme borrowed heavily from "April" by Deep Purple. Koji Kondo not only admitted to it, but had played in a Deep Purple cover band prior.
466* [[Music/FleetwoodMac Lindsey Buckingham's]] "Holiday Road" sounds like the theme song to ''Series/HappyDays''.
467* The hymn tunes "[[http://hymnary.org/media/fetch/136630 Lyons]]" (attributed to Music/JosephHaydn and most often used for "O Worship the King") and "[[http://hymnary.org/media/fetch/136973 Hanover]]" (composed by William Croft, most often used for "Ye Servants of God") are very similar. Their first stanzas are almost note for note the same, and they have an almost entirely identical rhythm. Some hymnals even swap these tunes.
468* In More's 2000 Italo-dance hit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4252l9GtPAI "Around the World"]] (not to be confused with OneHitWonder ATC's song that came out the same year), the main riff is is similar to Music/Eiffel65's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc "Blue"]], while the verse melody directly quotes that of Music/{{Europe}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw "The Final Countdown"]]. Likewise, the synth hook and {{scatting}} melody [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetNVcHV-W4_UA "I'm Ready for the Glory"]] are all but identical to the saxophone hook from [[Music/TheEagles Glenn Frey]]'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA_r1xEA_2M "The Heat is On"]].
469* Mono Inc.'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2pTKrUwna0 "Forever and a Day"]] resembles [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku5kUAUEn1Y the Chicago theme]] from ''VideoGame/PerfectDark''.
470* Twelve Tone's [[https://www.beatport.com/track/spirit-of-man-main-club-mix/439809 "Spirit of Man"]] is suspiciously similar to N-Trance's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18W9WYw9HaA "Set You Free"]], complete with the [[ShoutOut lyrical reference]] "Only you can set me free".
471* Music/WhitneyHouston's "If I Told You That" is very similar to Music/{{Brandy}} and Monica's "The Boy is Mine", which is also an example of SelfPlagiarism, since both were produced by Rodney Jerkins.
472* A part of Lindsey Stirling's "Crystalize" sounds an awful lot like "Point of No Return" from Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera.
473* Lasgo's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgkrrrH2MlQ "Feeling Alive"]] is yet another "Wicked Game" soundalike.
474* In an example of a song that closely imitates another artist's ''style'' as opposed to any specific song, Music/{{Ultravox}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StpPgV7GAYw Mr. X]]" has often been pointed out as sounding very much like Music/{{Kraftwerk}}.
475** Music/{{U2}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwEcxMRhxGY Sleep Like A Baby Tonight]]" is, the band said, a deliberate tribute to Kraftwerk.
476** Similarly, you couldn't be blamed for thinking, on first listen, that Music/BillySquier's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2YLev30oGo Lonely Is The Night]]", and Music/{{Whitesnake}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swPt9HBRXuE Still of the Night]]" were by Music/LedZeppelin.
477* Lisa Loeb's "Stay", from ''Film/RealityBites'', sounds an awful lot like Mae Moore's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwzuEuhBXF0 Coat of Shame]]", which had come out a year or so earlier.
478* The ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' theme music is strongly evocative of Music/AaronCopland's "Fanfare for the Common Man", and at one point even discreetly quotes it.
479* Ashley Tisdale's [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4sTHw7HEfHo He Said She Said song]] organ riff intro sounds a bit similar to Saberwulf's [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xTdyGSDuixQ Killer Instinct SNES theme.]]
480* The chorus of Music/EllieGoulding's "Burn" sounds a lot like the chorus to Music/BruceSpringsteen's "I'm Goin' Down".
481* Parts of Music/VanessaHudgens' song "Come Back to Me" sound a lot like Music/AvrilLavigne's "Complicated" at times.
482* My Chemical Romance's iconic song "Welcome to the Black Parade" clearly takes a lot of influence from both Pachelbel's Canon in D Major (the chord progression is similar aside from being in the key of G major) and the first act finale from Les Miserables (with which it shares not only the chord progression - which is also based on Pachelbel's - but also the lyrical themes of oppression, uprising, death/sacrifice, and perseverance/defiance, AND the style and call-response dynamic set up during the conclusion). MCR were obviously at least fans of musical theater, and very likely were also inspired by some of the more influential classical pieces.
483* Kelly Clarkson's "Heartbeat Song" is nearly isomorphic to Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle", which has led to some epic mashups. Clarkson admits listening to "The Middle" a lot on the bus on the way to school.
484* The verse section of Music/{{Tiesto}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFF0mV24WCY "Red Lights"]] is a carbon copy of Music/KatyPerry's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98WtmW-lfeE "Teenage Dream"]].
485* Music/KatyPerry's song "Dark Horse" was successfully sued [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gHiXqMNZiQY for being too similar]] to Christian rapper Flame's track "Joyful Noise". Perry has [[https://www.nme.com/news/music/katy-perry-appeals-ruling-dark-horse-plagiarism-christian-rap-joyful-noise-2557160 appealed the ruling]].
486* Music/TheFlamingLips' "Fight Test" was [[https://www.whosampled.com/sample/70025/The-Flaming-Lips-Fight-Test-Cat-Stevens-Father-and-Son/ similar enough]] to Cat Stevens' "Father and Son".[[https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/70380/lips-nailed-for-cat-stevens-song-similarity that Stevens was added as a co-writer]].
487* The song "Body" by the Jacksons sounds an awful lot like their brother Michael's song "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'".
488* There's more than a passing similarity between [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op9ApJJyhD4 "Dance With Me"]] by Orleans and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVyLzmC2mFI "Love's Theme"]] by [[Music/BarryWhite The Love Unlimited Orchestra]], which was a #1 hit a year earlier. And yes, [[https://amsterdom.bandcamp.com/track/dance-with-me-single someone has done a mashup]]. Mike Post's theme song for ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' also borrows a bit from "Love's Theme".
489* The synthwave song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWeu_8lEMkg "Future Cops"]] by Midnight Driver copies the synth hook of Music/NewOrder's aforementioned "Blue Monday" verbatim.
490* Music/TheCruxshadows:
491** The first verse of "Sleepless" interpolates the verse melody of "Lay All Your Love on Me" by Music/{{ABBA}}, whereas the chorus is similar to that of Music/DuranDuran's "Hungry Like the Wolf".
492** The chorus of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSF2uhE4qos "Helios"]] is suspiciously similar to that of Music/{{Ayria}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYzYkXgly9U "Feed Her to the Wolves"]]. Both songs also have similarities with Music/VNVNation's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwZzPc-MBFg "Legion"]].
493** The chorus of [[https://youtu.be/dwggI7WNHgw Singularities]] sounds like Pride and Fall's [[https://youtu.be/zqQdSKaysr4 Dissent]].
494* The riff in the first part of Betamaxx's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93zqSdkQ078 "Restless"]] is blatantly ripped from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=355Fk8drgZE "Gloria"]] by Umberto Tozzi/Laura Branigan.
495* Maxine Nightingale's "Right Back Where We Started From" is pretty obviously based on the British hit "Goodbye Nothin' to Say" by [[PunnyName Nosmo King]] and The Javells, which came out a year earlier. The writers of "Goodbye Nothin' to Say" sued and got an out-of-court settlement. But "Goodbye" itself is pretty close to the 1966 hit "Black is Black" by Los Bravos.
496* Sash!'s ''Life is a Beach'' album has two particularly flagrant examples:
497** The synth riff of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj0oqZ_aNBo "Get Ready"]] is suspiciously similar to PPK's 2001 trance hit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS2mfeo-Ues "ResuRection"]] (itself a remake of the theme from the Russian film ''Siberiade''), while the chorus is a more obvious ripoff of Music/JenniferLopez's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_66jPJVS4JE "Waiting For Tonight"]].
498** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1mGqhJl0ME "Back in My Life"]], in addition to referencing the Alice Deejay hit of the same name, steals most of its melody from Cutting Crew's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrJky8YuTr4 "Died In Your Arms"]], whose intro is also interpolated in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj9SHj5I2GY "Tell Me Why"]].
499* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxQT3o_nw9Q Sidewalk Surfin']]" by Jan and Dean is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLgWbH-qhVo Catch a Wave]]" by the Beach Boys except with the lyrics altered to be about skateboarding.
500* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dYTgjQV_0w "Rise and Shine"]], the instrumental theme song for ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' for its first two seasons has musical passages that are very similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-t8PngHgWY "This is It"]], the vocal theme for ''WesternAnimation/TheBugsBunnyRoadRunnerShow''. The similarity is most likely a coincidence given the two programs debuted only two weeks apart in 1960. Whether the similarity had anything to do with ''The Flintstones'' later dropping "Rise and Shine" in favor of the song "Meet the Flintstones" - and the decision to remove "Rise and Shine" from syndicated versions of the first two seasons for more than 30 years - is unknown.
501* Cappella's "U Got 2 Know" has a more-or-less identical melody to "Happy House" by Music/SiouxsieAndTheBanshees, a similarity that led to a lawsuit.
502* Music/TheIsleyBrothers famously sued Music/MichaelBolton and won over accusations that his "Love is a Wonderful Thing" plagiarized their earlier song of the same title. But there's another soft rock hit that's much more similar to an Isley song than Bolton's was: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur8ftRFb2Ac "Ride Like the Wind"]] by Christopher Cross (1980) resembles 1974's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7hOqGEEBMc "Live it Up"]]. The EpicRiff for both songs is almost identical, and the choruses are close as well.
503* The piano riff in the beat of [=MC=] Jin's song "Money" sounds almost exactly like the Sacred Grove theme from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', just played in a higher key.
504* Anders Enger Jensen:
505** The main melody of [[https://youtu.be/Ibwb-nn9dmQ "The Shores of Alqualonde"]] is all but identical to the [[https://youtu.be/oL5fbozc3kU Flower Garden theme]] from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'', just slower and in a different key.
506** [[https://youtu.be/A7uD5tR1MLQ "Crystal Starlight"]] sounds like [[https://youtu.be/mZLKlHwffnk "Generosity"]] from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
507** [[https://youtu.be/pDiu7zYaT7c "Wave Journey"]] sounds like a slower version of [[https://youtu.be/9wN8uLf_B-Q "Toca Me"]] by Fragma.
508** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDsVMd5HUtI "Cassiopeia's Dance"]] sounds suspiciously like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7HmzwI67ec "Good Time"]] by Music/OwlCity feat. Music/CarlyRaeJepsen.
509** The bridge of [[https://youtu.be/MNvwwVcbL4Y?t=2m8s "64 Dreams"]] interpolates a slightly altered version of the [[https://youtu.be/Q9Pga-y7F8k hang glider theme]] from ''VideoGame/{{Pilotwings}} 64''.
510** The bass riff in [[https://youtu.be/H6UTjj1news "FM Love"]] sounds like the intro of the [[https://youtu.be/JyIIEBMh_2k main theme]] from ''VideoGame/{{Afterburner}}'', {{in the style of}} the ''Film/BladeRunner'' ending theme.
511* Void Vision's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHS_PB7Uyyw "The Source"]] is suspiciously similar to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjG2ZjPqzzE Stage 1 theme]] from ''VideoGame/JourneyToSilius''.
512* Music/{{Nickelback}}:
513** Compare [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZRzi-xr_1M "Burn It To The Ground"]] to Black Sabbath's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49IOXAQDDiY "Children of the Grave"]]
514** The chorus of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p6Dfb0HWgM "Skinny Little Missy"]], one of their more recent songs, is quite similar to their earlier hit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZAFecn77ao "She Keeps Me Up"]].
515* Music/{{Theocracy}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF5x2XzLSzk On Eagles wings]] sounds similar to Music/{{Helloween}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjV8SHjHvHk I Want Out]]
516* Music/{{Rise Against}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOV3X0dxed0 Hero of War]] Bears some resemblance to Music/{{Chicago}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqq3tW3iACw Hard to Say I'm Sorry.]]
517* The song "Tusk" by Music/FleetwoodMac sounds very similar musically (complete with very similar horn riffs) with "Beetles in the Bog" by War. Both are also [[LimitedLyricsSong Limited Lyrics Songs]].
518* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jbEr0EG78U She Don't Love Nobody]]" by the Desert Rose Band, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJMk94LOgE8 Love Like This]]" by Carlene Carter, and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKAh3qsEaQA Every Time She Passes By]]" by George Ducas all have nearly identical verses.
519* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnTaiiOxU6c Livin' Our Love Song]]" by Jason Michael Carroll and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBW5IU9btP0 Do We Still]]" by Rockie Lynne have nearly identical choruses.
520* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCC_b5WHLX0 Listen To Your Heart]]" by Roxette sounds very similar to Heart's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE5GGMhmo-M What About Love]]".
521* The chorus of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3wJ1_1Zsg "Lost On You"]] by LP is suspiciously similar to that of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT3CniYDf0c "Feel This Moment"]] by Music/{{Pitbull}} feat. Music/ChristinaAguilera, which itself interpolated Music/AHa's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914 "Take on Me"]].
522* Music/JoanJett's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeYn_W14zTU "Bad Reputation"]] is a deliberate one to Music/TheWho's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN5zw04WxCc "My Generation"]]. Jett is a big fan of The Who and used to open for them back in the day.
523* The original mix of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkkbPFsfXBc "Shake"]] by Chris Walsh & Dave Beran (not the Revolt remix used in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'') is similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWaZhnwdTio "Don't Laugh"]] by Winx AKA Josh Wink.
524* "It's Tricky" by Music/RunDMC is, even up to the title, blatantly similar to "Hey Mickey" by Toni Basil. Justice goes strange ways: The Knack sued them for sampling "My Sharona".
525* The bridges of Music/RichardMarx's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cp7hJ7Jdn8&t=37s "Now and Forever"]] and Music/RascalFlatts' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fDZcQKahTw&t=47s "Winner at a Losing Game"]] are almost identical.
526* The Script's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIm1GgfRz6M "Superheroes"]] and Coldplay's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G4isv_Fylg "Paradise"]].
527** The intro to Music/KatyPerry's "Wide Awake" is a rip-off of that of "Paradise". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWOOlY7jTq8 Here]]'s a mashup.
528** The verse pianos in Music/{{Shakira}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QapfTGTXbxc "Empire"]] and Coldplay's "Paradise" are somewhat similar. Mashup [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXDEQrmRtDQ here]].
529* The instrumental parts to Avicii's "Wake Me Up" sounds pretty similar to the instrumental parts of Albert Hammond's "It Never Rains in California." It also sounds similar to the pre-chorus to Demi Lovato’s song "Heart Attack", which was released only a few months before "Wake Me Up".
530* [[Music/RobertJohnson "They're Red Hot"]], "Music/AlicesRestaurant", and [[Music/AbbeyRoad "Her Majesty"]] are interchangeable.
531* For some reason, the chorus of Macedonia's 2017 Eurovision entry [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddo8n_8pKrQ "Dance Alone"]] by Jana Burčeska sounds remarkably similar to that of Music/BadLipReading's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQTW7Pd1vqc "Everybody Poops"]] not just in melody/harmony, but down to the instrumentation and vocal pitch.
532* Music/AvrilLavigne's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGR65RWwzg8 "I'm With You"]] is suspiciously similar to Music/GooGooDolls' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdYWuo9OFAw "Iris"]].
533* Tobias Bernstrup manages to create, of all things, an italo disco version of Music/{{Manowar}}'s ''Warriors of the World'' except it's about [[AIIsACrapshoot robots taking over]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWpW6QRtRQ Really.]]
534* In the category of "Artists You Would Never Otherwise Mention in the Same Sentence", the chorus of Music/RebaMcEntire's "Little Rock" is nearly identical to the chorus of Music/{{ABBA}}'s "Waterloo".
535* Music/{{Machine Head}}'s latest album ''Catharsis'' was heavily criticized for having a lot of these.
536** "Volatile"'s main riff is strangely similar to the main riff of Music/{{Chimaira}}'s "Cleansation".
537** "Beyond the Pale" more or less has the same riff as "Love?" by Music/{{Strapping Young Lad}}. A lot of fans suggested it was actually plagiarism.
538** "Bastards" basically sounds like a downtuned cover of Music/{{Dropkick Murphys}}.
539** Heck, it's very difficult to find a song that is ''not'' suspiciously similar to another one on this album !
540* Music/AlexanderJamesAdams' song "Faerie Queen" is intentionally styled after "The Devil Went Down To Georgia". In it, a woman wins back her soon-to-be-husband from a fairy queen by besting her at fiddling.
541* In rhythm, feel, and story, Music/JohnMichaelMontgomery's "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" is nearly indistinguishable from Music/TimMcGraw's "Something Like That."
542* Music/KeithWhitley's hit from 1988, "Don't Close Your Eyes," and Music/JohnDenver's "Don't Close Your Eyes Tonight" from 1985. Besides having almost identical titles, both songs are about a man asking his wife to make love to ''him'' tonight rather than to some fantasy man, and both choruses repeat some of the same phrases.
543* "Return of the Necrowizard" by Impaled Northern Moonforest has more or less the same introduction riff as "Freezing Moon" by Music/{{Mayhem}}. It is however possible that this was done deliberately, since Impaled Northern Moonforest were actually two members of Music/AnalCunt.
544* Music/ThreeDaysGrace’s hit song "Painkiller" (their debut without Adam Gontier), is somewhat similar to Music/AdelitasWay’s "The Collapse".
545* Alex Clare’s 2012 OneHitWonder "Too Close" has an opening nearly identical to that of the Music/GooGooDolls’ 2006 hit "Let Love In".
546* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JcEq1Ev-QY Any Love]]" by Music/LutherVandross sounds a lot like a slower version of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ir0fratuG0 You Are]]" by Music/LionelRichie, especially the choruses.
547* "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" borrows heavily from Irving Berlin's "Puttin' on the Ritz."
548* Three Dog Night's "Words" and Richard Harris' "[=MacArthur=] Park" sound strikingly similar.
549* The introductory vocal hook of Music/{{CHVRCHES}}'s "Playing Dead" resembles the refrain of Music/{{Falco}}'s "Rock Me Amadeus".
550* Music/{{KISS}}' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HshQidqYxjg Reason to Live]] sounds extremely similar to Music/{{Foreigner|Band}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNGeq3_DtM I Want to Know What Love Is]].
551* The synth strings hook in X-Cabs'[[https://youtu.be/w_J-mIiP60g Neuro '99]] is suspiciously similar to Robert Miles' [[https://youtu.be/6QEPrDBMqJ0 Children]], albeit starting on a different note, while the intro is similar to that of [[Music/FerryCorsten System F]]'s [[https://youtu.be/Qgx_V0So0qk Out of the Blue]].
552* Everdune:
553** The intro and main riff of [[https://youtu.be/lO-UtBsBphw "Phenomenon"]] sound alot like [[https://youtu.be/WG9_bHw_ORQ the title song]] from ''VideoGame/{{Ys}} IV: The Dawn of Ys''.
554** The main melody in [[https://youtu.be/G6iU0z23Wkw "Dune Run"]] is an amalgam of [[https://youtu.be/WzItEE4Q8WU "Star Field"]] and [[https://youtu.be/L_oA7ZD3I6Y "Burn the Wind"]] from Creator/{{Konami}}'s ''[[VideoGame/{{Gradius}} Salamander (Life Force)]]''.
555** The B-section of [[https://youtu.be/YEXFCC_lZjY?t=46s "Thunderstrike"]] sounds just like the verses of the early {{Eurobeat}} song [[https://youtu.be/9aQw_QG_9jo?t=1m "Divine"]] by Mike Hammer.
556** [[https://youtu.be/7xlNPqE9o7M "Way of the Warrior"]] resembles Anders Lundqvist's [[https://youtu.be/dFeIqQhgdzs "Star Dust"]], which itself is very similar to [=MyVoice=]'s [[https://youtu.be/t8c8lp6jKPw "Nosmo King"]].
557** The A-section of [[https://youtu.be/cWJqD43TgU8 "Technopolis"]] (no relation to the Music/YellowMagicOrchestra song) resembles part of [[https://youtu.be/VUDqOIBY9FA "UFO Romance in the Night Sky"]] from ''VideoGame/TouhouSeirensenUndefinedFantasticObject''.
558** The opening riff of [[https://youtu.be/kJKRUwb0Fls "Race of Aces"]] is similar to [[https://youtu.be/qFIOGnp0DdU "Cafe del Mar"]] by Energy 52.
559** The main melody of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sibPMc1evFQ&t=1m13s Light Route]]" by his synthwave side project Lightracer sounds like the A-section of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26MopY4DTZU&t=25s Flash Man]]'s theme from ''VideoGame/MegaMan2''.
560* The chorus to Music/LizPhair's "Why Can't I" has a rather similar melody to "These Dreams" by Music/{{Heart|Band}}.
561* The intro of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gndAoPzSWvM "Matrix" (AKA "Grid")]] by The Cynic Project is similar to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u_mxWy2af0 main theme]] of ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject''.
562* The starting verse in Spice Girl's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JD6ejmlpa8&t=22s "Stop"]] is VERY similar to the starting verse in Picketywitch's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdWh-V3Gwx8&t=50s "That Same Old Feeling"]]
563* [[Music/BloodOnTheDanceFloor Blood On The Dance Floor's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaswDI7tFtk Sexting]] has an intro music that sounds very similar to {{Videogame/Pacman}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnf0q1zOTXs intro music]].
564* [[https://youtu.be/DF_mfHQZwY4 "Dakota"]] by Juno Reactor & Undercover interpolates a OneWomanWail variation of the aforementioned ''Film/BladeRunner'' credits theme.
565** For some video game examples, VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1991's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoVY7nvcel0 Scrap Brain Zone]] borrows the arpeggios and distinctive thumping, and VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1BKsUTIBdE Heavenly Doorway]] uses the chugging bassline from Vangelis's iconic "End Titles (Blade Runner)".
566* When Music/RedHotChiliPeppers released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb5aq5HcS1A Dani California]] in 2006, many thought it extremely similar to Music/TomPettyAndTheHeartBreakers' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8 Mary Jane's Last Dance]]. Of course ''both'' are suspciciously similar to Music/TheLovinSpoonful's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5bUmx-hk-c Summer in the City...]]
567* The post-chorus of Music/{{U2}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6WMzDOh1o "Beautiful Day"]] is similar to the chorus of Music/AHa's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ir9HC9vYg "The Sun Always Shines on TV"]], which itself resembles that of Music/{{Eurythmics}}' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC9OhK2Ovw0 "Here Comes The Rain Again"]].
568** Speaking of "The Sun Always Shines on TV", the intro verse of Alexia's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtZ2vUJ1Ldg "Me and You"]] is suspiciously similar to the former's verse section, while the second verse melody of "Me and You" is copied almost verbatim from the verses of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGIraUHg-5Q "He's So Shy"]] by The Pointer Sisters.
569** Also similar to "Here Comes The Rain Again" is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU8B4XDI3Uw "Love Somebody"]] by Music/MaroonFive.
570** The choruses of Amy Holland's "[[https://youtu.be/doS6rwyIkfA She's On Fire]]" and Music/{{Bananarama}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-DZQ80vEVI I Heard A Rumor]]" are likewise similar to that of "He's So Shy".
571*** The introductory riff of "She's On Fire" is nearly identical to that of Creator/IreneCara's "[[https://youtu.be/ynZCDm0IEVM Fame]]" from the [[Film/{{Fame}} film of the same name]]. Better yet, the chorus of The Weather Girls' "It's Raining Men" is copied just about verbatim from that of "Fame".
572* "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" sounds like a country music version of "Yakety Sax."
573* Toni Braxton's [[https://youtu.be/p2Rch6WvPJE "Unbreak My Heart"]] quite obviously rips off the chorus of Music/NoDoubt's [[https://youtu.be/TR3Vdo5etCQ "Don't Speak"]].
574* The chorus of Music/GwenStefani's [[https://youtu.be/TGwZ7MNtBFU "Cool"]] sounds just like that of Music/{{Yazoo}}'s [[https://youtu.be/LIiyT67Sjbg "Only You"]]. Also, the verses resemble the coda of Music/{{Queen|Band}}'s [[https://youtu.be/a01QQZyl-_I?t=3m5s "Under Pressure"]].
575** And the chorus of Music/OneDirection's "Night Changes" is also similar to that of "Cool," which is also [[http://www.thatsongsoundslike.com/2014/12/29/one-directions-night-changes-sounds-like-a-lot-of-songs/ similar to a lot of other songs]].
576* The verses of Oscillator X's [[https://youtu.be/M-UzKy2B0Bc?t=45s "Dynamo"]] are suspiciously similar to those of Music/NewOrder's [[https://youtu.be/tkOr12AQpnU "Bizarre Love Triangle"]].
577** Krystal Klear's "[[https://youtu.be/oRVeF5KPngE Neutron Dance]]" is another "Bizarre Love Triangle" sound-alike.
578* OneHitWonder Filly's [[https://youtu.be/2GTzvJkzz6s "Sweat (The Drip Drop Song)"]] sounds like the [[https://youtu.be/cQe9eK_4U0U title track]] of Music/{{Kraftwerk}}'s ''Music/TheManMachine''.
579* [[https://youtu.be/eaY1F5-Sy0g "Hammer to the Heart"]] by The Tamperer feat. Maya uses a slightly modified version of the riff from Music/{{ABBA}}'s [[https://youtu.be/ZL93BV9uTAM "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)"]]. The remix used in the official video, however, lacks this riff, possibly for [[ClumsyCopyrightCensorship copyright reasons]].
580* The production/arrangement of Ashlee Simpson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5h4Rm2syIM "Eyes Wide Open"]] obviously rips off that of Music/{{Coldplay}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRralTaPR9I "Square One"]].
581* For a totally silly example compare the eerie intros from "Autobahn" by German punk band Abwärts...and "View from a Bridge" by Music/KimWilde. (Songs couldn't be more different otherwise...)
582* The synthesizer hook in Victoria Celestine's [[https://youtu.be/8y-CAw3l9zg "Carrying On"]] is similar to the beginning of [[https://youtu.be/cqGsi9k6ra0 "Europe Endless"]] from Music/{{Kraftwerk}}'s ''Music/TransEuropeExpress''.
583* Ollie Wride:
584** [[https://youtu.be/T6cemDuAAao "I'm A Believer"]] sounds suspiciously like Lisa Lougheed's [[https://youtu.be/WY6MuvRY6g0 "Run With Us"]], from ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons''.
585** [[https://youtu.be/T3zEMQ12Ya0 "Back to Life"]] is quite similar to Music/SteveWinwood's [[https://youtu.be/k9olaIio3l8 "Higher Love"]].
586* "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma" by David Frizzell and Shelly West had a chorus so similar to "Rocky Top" that the writers of the former had to credit "Rocky Top" writers Felice and Boudleaux Bryant as co-writers.
587* Music/DireStraits' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyF1FwiYcoQ "Sultans of Swing"]] sounds a lot like Music/FleetwoodMac's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPBcoIlGp-8 "Go Your Own Way"]]. Here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxGZgs08YU a mashup]] of the former's tune with the latter's vocals.
588* Chromeo's [[https://youtu.be/RhmUnk454MA "Jealous"]] is suspiciously similar to [[https://youtu.be/eimgRedLkkU "Walking on a Dream"]] by Music/EmpireOfTheSun.
589* Music/GunsNRoses' "Sweet Child O' Mine" (released in 1987) sounds eerily like "Unpublished Critics", a 1981 album cut from Australian Crawl.
590* The synth breakdown of Interface's "[[https://youtu.be/z5tpR_gQNhg?t=2m20s All Roads]]" sounds very much like the B-section of "[[https://youtu.be/88iaE98h8a8?t=4m37s Vit-Symty]]" from ''VideoGame/RayCrisis''. The main riff is also quite similar to the climax of Faderhead's "[[https://youtu.be/cnW0fDG3Fk0?t=2m38s Darker Please]]". On the same album, the chorus of "Fire In The Sky" is similar to that of Music/InformationSociety's "How Long", as well as Music/MelissaManchester's "Thief of Hearts", and the strings melody of "We Will Never Be Together" is lifted nearly note-for-note from Music/JeanMichelJarre's ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' Part 3.
591* Music/MileyCyrus's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8&t=41s "Wrecking Ball"]] copies near-verbatim the chorus of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJUZXzovjs0&t=51s "Dreaming"]] by Music/OrchestralManoeuvresInTheDark. It's also often compared with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0gg4zY0oZ0 "Always Gonna Love You"]] by [[Music/ThinLizzy Gary Moore]].
592* Music/BeastInBlack song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJAeUGQeTuc 'Eternal Fire']] might as well be {{Music/Europe}}'s 'The Final Countdown'.
593* Zhi-Vago's [[https://youtu.be/U-M4MwdRStQ "Celebrate the Love"]] and Ayla's [[https://youtu.be/6rbRD-b91Ys "Angelfalls"]] both appear to be inspired by Robert Miles' [[https://youtu.be/_-mk2XCrqbg "Fable"]]. In turn, the piano hook in Missing Heart's [[https://youtu.be/eioyNkb68lY "Charlene"]] is similar to that of "Celebrate the Love" with a touch of Miles' "Children".
594* The pre-choruses of Music/{{Zedd}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Q7GISatW0 "Clarity"]] featuring Music/{{Foxes}}, I Prevail's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W8X90OThs0 "Alone"]], and Red's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcsr1R3nLKw "Let it Burn"]] are interchangeable.
595* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI6aOFI7hms "Lovefool"]] by [[Music/TheCardigans The Cardigans]] features a guitar riff throughout the verses that sounds nearly identical to that of the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAdRgg9K-Jw "Elevation"]] by New York post-punk band Television.
596* The climactic synth riff in the album version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z45hp2Qly8E&t=4m48s "Just Be"]] by [[Music/{{Tiesto}} DJ Tiësto]] and Kirsty Hawkshaw is highly similar to that of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwQ6jFNzz2w&t=4m0s "Domino Runner"]] by fellow Dutch trance master Vincent de Moor.
597* The verses of Music/ChristinaMilian's [[https://youtu.be/tCRwjtz4g9k "AM to PM"]] sound blatantly like the chorus of Music/TheBeeGees' "[[https://youtu.be/fNFzfwLM72c?si=vCaARpdxc3e03bP2?t=34s Stayin' Alive]]", with hints of Music/{{Mya}}'s "[[https://youtu.be/w6Mcf970q6M?si=Pq3u2HdOsNjW_pok Free]]". In turn, the verse section of Music/DuaLipa's "[[https://youtu.be/TUVcZfQe-Kw?si=mp-zrY2isYXHtOpS Levitating]]" is nearly identical to that of "AM to PM"; ironically, she got sued for plagiarizing Music/CoryDaye's "[[https://youtu.be/8ocwlmoS2xM?si=FlBMXZEPE7oWRau5 Wiggle and Giggle All Night]]".
598* The chorus of Missing Heart's [[https://youtu.be/ar2EujMm9CU "In Aeternum"]] is just a few notes off from the ''Film/Titanic1997'' [[https://youtu.be/GyN_bPRBI4c theme]]. More strangely, the main riff of [[https://youtu.be/P1Wzd8-nbLE "Hearts of Ice"]] sounds like the [[https://youtu.be/9wNqBcAP6_A Area 2]] BGM from ''VideoGame/{{Zanac}}''.
599* The refrain of Jose Feliciano's [[https://youtu.be/PM70hBp2Fjk "Feliz Navidad"]] sounds just like [[https://youtu.be/lDnDVlTtP6Y "Don't Let The Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)"]] by The Serendipity Singers.
600* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkm3LJTSCWU "That's All"]] by Genesis is very similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuCAFqu0-aU "Dirty Laundry"]] by Don Henley.
601* The music of Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" are very similar.
602* Good that hardly anyone knows the German metal band Chalice and their "Digital Boulevard", or people might remember another main street: Music/BillyIdol "Blue Highway". (To be fair, only the refrain falls under this trope.)
603* The chorus of [=Go2=]'s [[https://youtu.be/FGtn58nd-B0 "Hot Hot Racing Car"]] sounds like the [[https://youtu.be/ZT9DST_M_g8?t=42s title theme]] of ''VideoGame/MegaMan2''.
604* Rank 1's [[https://youtu.be/bKy24FcDCMM "Black Snow"]] is blatantly similar to Cygnus X's [[https://youtu.be/mVlwVg56zBk "The Orange Theme"]], which Bervoets & de Goejj, the producers of Rank 1, also [[https://youtu.be/KwMc7-FUaBU officially remixed]]. Ironically, the BSide of "Black Snow" is titled [[https://youtu.be/c1TkSPWKc6M "The Citrus Juicer"]], but is a completely different song. It does, however, resemble BBE's [[https://youtu.be/5XUBYqtTLDM "7 Days & One Week"]].
605* Music/KimWilde's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBj0TkarL1U "Time"]] has an eerie resemblance to Mariya Takeuchi's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjDzgZ2SNY0 "Plastic Love"]], though the former came out well before most Westerners knew of the latter's existence.[[note]]Even so, "Plastic Love" was released in 1984, "Time" released in 1990[[/note]]
606** An example of a post-MemeticMutation soundalike of "Plastic Love" is the refrain of Electric Youth's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBMPsxoi6HU "ARAWA (As Restless As We Are)"]].
607* Bjorn Lynne's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhGBjvEfLvI&t=2m39s "Himalayan Summit (Hightop)"]] has a guitar lick at one point that sounds just like the main hook of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3dkLr1yFps "Am I The Same Girl"]] by Swing Out Sister.
608* The intro riff of Boytronic's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR5bm8qHns4 "Time After Midnight"]] is similar to that of the Music/VNVNation song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOApdAhC3Tw "Rubicon"]].
609* The synth riff and chorus of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=954NkxU6Sgg "Nothing Prevails"]] by Music/InformationSociety are LighterAndSofter soundalikes of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNfRE5wHAXU "Morpheus"]] by In Strict Confidence.
610* The intro bassline of Zanias' [[https://youtu.be/ntQE49VP6rQ "Endling"]] sounds like [[https://youtu.be/ALBKFB28E0M "Descent Into Cerberon"]] from ''VideoGame/QuakeII''.
611* The chorus of [[https://youtu.be/ug31PKs4dgY "Vicious"]] by The New Division bears more than a passing resemblance to the pre-chorus of [[https://youtu.be/n6fUPELcgGU?t=56s "Something About You"]] by Music/Level42, with a touch of "Land of the Blind" by Music/InformationSociety.
612* Color Theory has described [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EDWcbdGcWE "In Space, No One Can Hear You Cry"]] as ''Film/BladeRunner'' meets Music/{{Morrissey}}. In addition to the synth bass ostinato throughout the song, the bridge section interpolates the first phrase of the film's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgz6jFxMpyk end credits theme]]. The chorus has also been compared to Music/DepecheMode's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSKrC7dGcY "Enjoy The Silence"]] and Music/TalkTalk's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFH5JgyZK1I "It's My Life"]].
613* "Dash Wata" by Raging Fyah sounds like a reggae version of "La Bamba" by Music/RitchieValens.
614* Roxi Drive:
615** "Stay With Me" has drawn many comparisons with "A Real Hero" by College and Electric Youth, from ''Film/Drive2011''.
616** Among the many suspiciously similar songs to Chris Isaak's "[[https://youtu.be/4vKsSGyQf-M Wicked Game]]" is [[https://youtu.be/tlKvi7x2sLc "All My Dreams"]], featuring Kidburn. The chorus melody is also similar to that of Music/PhilCollins' "Another Day in Paradise".
617** The verses of "Dangerous" sound just like those of Dana Jean Phoenix's "Iron Fist".
618** "Electricity" (no relation to the Music/OrchestralManoeuvresInTheDark song) is similar to Music/{{CHVRCHES}}'s "Forever".
619** [[https://youtu.be/8IHF5SwclWE "Breakdown"]] has a suspicious resemblance to Music/BonnieTyler's [[https://youtu.be/bWcASV2sey0 "Holding Out For a Hero"]] from ''Film/{{Footloose}}''
620** "[[https://youtu.be/bAnSGen9FCI Night Waves]]" strongly resembles "[[https://youtu.be/x0QfwXC6HX8 T-Maxx]]" by Peter Wagner, better known to '90s Macintosh users as the ''[[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} Tetris Max]]'' theme.
621* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UuV2BmJ1p_I ''Any Song'']] by Zico resembles [[https://youtu.be/RjizCnqeJTY Pursuing My True Self]] from ''VideoGame/Persona4'', particularly the first few notes.
622* NINA:
623** The finale of [[https://youtu.be/1hYSRVfQz44?t=2m14s "Empire of Love"]] is incredibly similar to the refrain of [[https://youtu.be/04_T1CkMZMA?t=36sA "Love You More"]] by the Dutch band Racoon.
624** "[[https://youtu.be/1td1hqWEfxQ One of Us]]"(not to be confused with the Joan Osborne song) is another soundalike to Music/KateBush's aforementioned "[[https://youtu.be/wp43OdtAAkM Running Up That Hill]]", with a touch of "[[https://youtu.be/pllRW9wETzw Cloudbusting]]" as well.
625** The verse and prechorus of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yh5w9wfviM Runaway]]" are similar to the chorus of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMxeHGwwKtY?t=1m54s Solstice]]" by Music/KimWilde, and with good reason; "Runaway" was co-produced by Kim's brother Ricky. Likewise, the chorus of "Runaway" sounds suspiciously like that of the ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Pokemon]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuYeHPFR3f0?t=32s theme]].
626* "[[https://youtu.be/5sQzEib6hOA Eros]]" by Music/LittleBoots and Planningtorock, in particular the chorus, suspiciously resembles "[[https://youtu.be/YPwtJ89jes4 Can't Get You Out of My Head]]" by Music/KylieMinogue.
627* Music/JeanMichelJarre's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-har2hecFs Zoolookologie]]", from ''Music/{{Zoolook}}'', is quite similar to Music/HerbieHancock's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecw8vaKMiC4 Rockit]]", released a year earlier.
628** The chorus of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqilin4Cv08&t=1m2s "Chronologie Part 4"]] is suspiciously similar to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHytjEj7B9g title song]] of ''Film/TheNeverEndingStory'' by Limahl.
629** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DDEl7JnWvo "Oxygène IV"]] from ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' sounds a bit like a slowed-down version of Gershon Kingsley's "Popcorn" (later covered by a number of other artists, including Hot Butter and Music/CrazyFrog), which was released seven years before. Jarre himself covered the song a few years earlier.
630* Burl Ives:
631** The refrain of [[https://youtu.be/zdfVZoRARQ8 "The Lollipop Tree"]] is very similar to [[https://youtu.be/ur7GnxTkS-M "The Merry Old Land of Oz"]] from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
632** The recurring "Look down, look down..." lyric in "[[https://youtu.be/zItcE_50vWo Two Little Trains]]" is an obvious nod to the blues standard "[[https://youtu.be/A5AM8xtl-uU The Lonesome Road]]" by Nathaniel Shilkret & Gene Austin.
633* The main riff from Psy's "Gangnam Style" sounds quite similar to the opening riff from Rammstein's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLc8xj7yGyU "Eifersucht"]]
634* ABBA's "Honey, Honey" and Elton John's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" have similar beats and music.
635* The introductory bass line of Jupiter's "[[https://youtu.be/hbQLfl2O7pY Starlighter]]" sounds like that of "[[https://youtu.be/pkcJEvMcnEg Lithium]]" from Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Nevermind|Album}}'', whilst the chorus of "[[https://youtu.be/BrJwDopaXic?t=48s One O Six]]" is strongly similar to Music/MichaelJackson's "[[https://youtu.be/Zi_XLOBDo_Y?t=1m27s Billie Jean]]".
636* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VRuWhfOQbQ Stunning]]" by LAU (Laura Fares, NINA's former co-songwriter/production partner)sounds eerily similar to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NRXx6U8ABQ Blinding Lights]]" by Music/TheWeeknd, which sounds eerily similar to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk Young Turks]]" by Music/RodStewart.
637* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l24ewkUlaPE The Name of the Game Was Love]]", one of Hank Snow's more obscure songs from 1969, has a first verse sounding amusingly like the children's nursery rhyme "Five Little Speckled Frogs".
638* The main chorus of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEBsO5RpAjI Seek You Out]]" by Poets of the Fall has the same tune as the chorus of "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley. Possibly done on purpose as the song also features repeated use of the word "never" and has a theme that runs opposite of the infamous rickroll tune.
639** The chorus of Sally Shapiro's "[[https://youtu.be/8jC_CSgOlVc If You Ever Wanna Change Your Mind]]" is also a near-verbatim copy of "Never Gonna Give You Up".
640* It's been noted that the main guitar riff in Music/TheCult's hit "Wild Flower" is pretty much identical to the one in Music/{{ACDC}}'s "Rock and Roll Singer". The riff is fairly basic and not necessarily original to AC/DC either.
641* Mattie Maguire:
642** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0iaQsLphpI Racing Hearts]]" sounds like an instrumental rendition of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTidn2dBYbY True Survivor]]" from ''Film/KungFury''(itself having similarities to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olgn9sXNdl0 Push It To the Limit]]" from ''Film/Scarface1983''), in G minor instead of B minor.
643** The introductory synth riff of "[[https://youtu.be/d7fo73TuQ94 Promise]]" is very similar to the bassline of Music/{{Styx}}'s "[[https://youtu.be/5XcKBmdfpWs Too Much Time on My Hands"]], while the chorus sounds much like that of Music/ThePointerSisters' "[[https://youtu.be/uyTVyCp7xrw Jump (For My Love)]]".
644* The Music/PetShopBoys' "Domino Dancing" sounds suspiciously similar to Exposé's "Point of No Return". This is because it was produced by Exposé founder and producer Lewis A. Martineé.
645* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqjVZWuXm-I All Around the World]]" by [=TajMo=] (Taj Mahal and Keb'Mo') is an unabashed revision of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBIxScJ5rlY Waiting on The World to Change]]" by John Mayer. Oddly, [=TajMo=] did in fact release a CoverVersion of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElnoBrKFPFA Waiting on The World to Change]]" on the same album, and the cover sounds less like the original song than "All Around the World" does.
646* Carpenter Brut's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOwSrPzT8qg Sexkiller On The Loose]] is quite similar to ZZ Top's Music/ZZTop's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRHBLwpASw Sharp Dressed Man]].
647* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rX39vW0Dss This Christmas stock music track]] from the KPM library (notable for being heard in the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' ChristmasEpisode) sounds suspiciously similar to "Shake Your Booty" by KC and the Sunshine Band.
648** Music/LilNasX's "SUN GOES DOWN" bears enough similarity to Music/IannDior's "Holding On" that he recieved a writing credit - though the similarity is probably more likely to do with the songs sharing two producers in Omer Fedi and Blake Slatkin.
649* The Cover Girls' [[https://youtu.be/Vnuf6uAEWzo "Inside Outside"]] is this to [[Music/GloriaEstefan Miami Sound Machine]]'s [[https://youtu.be/54ItEmCnP80 "Conga"]].
650* Canadian indie pop band Was It The Walrus released their first EP in 2016 - it wasn't until a few years later that a {{Music/Weezer}} fan listened to it and discovered [[https://youtu.be/KU-630AAb2A all five songs on the EP have similarities to specific Weezer songs]]. "Whatever After" takes it further by literally being an uncredited cover of Weezer outtake "367" with a new title and barely changed lyrics.
651* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_YlZ1JdcVk "Something From Nothing"]] by Foo Fighters deliberately invokes this with a riff borrowed from Dio's "Holy Diver"
652* The trance track "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQgi8nGsZ5k Landmark]]" by Solarstone & Lostly sounds like the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68483tVx0eA title theme]] of Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Theatre/{{Alegria}}'' crossed with Alexander Nakarada's "[[https://youtu.be/mcXoDwkbEyo?si=U0g_UZsQX-9-KlQG The Lone Wolf]]", which itself sounds like a slow version of the A-section of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAy3nlATLkk&t=23s Gensokyo Millennium ~ History of the Moon]]" from ''VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight''.
653* The finale melody of The Kyoto Connection's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqfUE-wxYu8&t=3m51s Best Days of My Life]]" is copied wholesale from the chorus of Music/LadyGaga's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo&t=57s Poker Face]]". It's a wonder they haven't been sued by her yet.
654* It's been noted that the synthesiser top line and vocal melody of Music/NewOrder's "Blue Monday" appears to owe quite a bit to the self-titled 1979 single by Gerry And The Holograms. Although to the wider world the single was quite obscure, it's likely that New Order were aware of it as John Scott, alias "Gerry", was a well-known figure on the same Manchester music scene that New Order/Joy Division were part of.
655* The main guitar riff of "I Want It That Way" by the Music/BackstreetBoys bears a resemblance to the riff of "Nothing Else Matters" by Music/{{Metallica}}. According to WordOfGod from co-writer Andreas Carlsson, the riff for "Nothing Else Matters" provided inspiration for the riff of "I Want It That Way".
656** The riff for "I Want It That Way" is also incredibly similar to the riff for "No Scrubs" by Music/{{TLC}}.
657* The Speakeasies' Swing Band's "[[https://youtu.be/Hc5_S7z5RJk Black Swamp Village]]" sounds quite similar to "[[https://youtu.be/ZDLwrP0D0LE Macavity: The Mystery Cat]]" from ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'', both being mysterious, jazzy tunes in C Minor with a repetitive, descending melody.
658* "She Hates Me" by Music/PuddleOfMudd has a melody similar to "Summer Nights" from the musical ''Film/{{Grease}}''. Comparisons have also been made between "She Hates Me" and "I Saw Your Mommy" by Music/SuicidalTendencies, complete with some very similar guitar leads.
659* The guitar riff of "Am I Wrong" by Nico & Vinz sounds a lot like the one in "Message In A Bottle" by Music/ThePolice.
660* September's hit "[[https://youtu.be/deYCFCAK-RE Cry For You]]" uses the chord progression of and a tune similar to Chris Isaak's "[[https://youtu.be/4vKsSGyQf-M Wicked Game]]", plus a slightly modified version of the synth riff from Bronski Beat's "[[https://youtu.be/88sARuFu-tc Small-town Boy]]". Then Project Acoustic Brothers performed a [[https://youtu.be/wT4K8Nv0v4A medley]] of all three songs.
661* Done deliberately by Music/{{Blur}} with "Song 2", which the band made as a parody of Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
662* Secret Shine's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMDWuj_fsU0 Liquid Indigo]]" is very, ''very'' similar to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyYMzEplnfU Only Shallow]]" by fellow shoegazers Music/MyBloodyValentine.
663* The main melody in Bryce Miller's "[[https://spunoutofcontrol.bandcamp.com/track/spectral-drift Spectral Drift]]" is blatantly similar to [[https://youtu.be/9VT_085CCtk Willy's leitmotif]] from ''Film/FreeWilly''.
664* Islandrocks' [[https://youtu.be/nygulcKFo0c "Back To the '80s"]] resembles the [[https://youtu.be/AFnjA0VraDQ main theme]] of the Commodore 64 game ''VideoGame/{{Lightforce}}''.
665* Gerard Joling's [[https://youtu.be/s7CgAbebgFc "Ticket to the Tropics"]] is basically a carbon copy of Music/GeorgeMichael's [[https://youtu.be/izGwDsrQ1eQ "Careless Whisper"]].
666* Meanwhile, "Careless Whisper" sounds a lot like Music/GerryRafferty's "Baker Street" (especially the saxophone's EpicRiff).
667* Stephanie Mills' "[[https://youtu.be/dbY9eAv6qXc Winner]]" suspiciously sounds like Kool & The Gang's "[[https://youtu.be/3GwjfUFyY6M Celebration]]" from a year earlier.
668* The synthesizer hook and chorus of Mindtrust's "[[https://youtu.be/R3cZE0zbMnE Raver's Groove]]" are essentially ripped straight from Michael Sembello's "[[https://youtu.be/6GCNUeTFSbA Maniac]]".
669* Michael Oakley:
670** The backing synth in the chorus of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6C9Yt4a7mQ&t=1m29s Left Behind]]" sounds like the main riff of Den Harrow's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3oVCnL2sfw&t=1m24s Future Brain]]".
671** The chorus of "[[https://youtu.be/uBmuC7jeNko Now I'm Alive]]"(feat. Dana Jean Phoenix) is similar to that of Music/{{Roxette}}'s "[[https://youtu.be/yCC_b5WHLX0 Listen To Your Heart]]", and by extension, Music/{{Heart|Band}}'s "[[https://youtu.be/KE5GGMhmo-M What About Love]]". In addition, the electric piano intro is nearly identical to Don Dellpiero's "[[https://youtu.be/m0vBRXbvKN0 Intense Moments]]".
672* Japanese Idol Group [=YURiMental=]'s song refrain of ''[[https://youtu.be/tvv_PUkZato Kinou Ni Kanaderu Ashita No Uta]]'' (released in 2021) is almost identical to Xi's BMS song ''[[https://youtu.be/OI3C9qQlb1U Freedom Dive]]'' (released in 2010). It's so infamous among the rhythm game community that some rhythm game fans called it "Freedom Dive with vocals". The music composer of ''Kinou Ni Kanaderu Ashita No Uta'' SC Kanata [[https://twitter.com/pyahant/status/1395649670236364800?s=21 says]] that it's a homage to ''Freedom Dive'' and [[https://twitter.com/toyplanet_yamap/status/1395608890792841217?s=21 the producer of [=YURiMental=] is aware of this]].
673* ''Symphony of Destruction'' by Music/{{Megadeth}} has some resemblance to the similarly titled "Instruments of Destruction" by N.R.G. from the ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'' soundtrack.
674* Music/LinkinPark member Mike Shinoda's 2021 solo single, "Happy Endings", featuring UPSAHL and Music/IannDior, has a hook that sounds similar to Gigi D'Agostino's 90's hit, "L'amour toujours (I'll Fly With You)".
675* The chorus of UEFA Euro 2020 competition's official song, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGT73GcwhCU We Are The People]]" by Martin Garrix featuring [[Music/{{U2}} Bono & The Edge]], is very reminiscent of the recurring riff in Music/PinguiniTatticiNucleari's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE104GqPhfc Ringo Starr]]".
676* Music/{{Genesis|Band}}'s "[[https://youtu.be/jpmiZ7zsHXY Invisible Touch]]" was deliberately based on Music/SheilaE's "[[https://youtu.be/6Zqtl8azCs8 The Glamorous Life]]".
677* Music/TheRomantics's "[[https://youtu.be/JmGMzyajA2U Talking in Your Sleep]]" shamelessly rips off Music/RickJames' "[[https://youtu.be/QYHxGBH6o4M Super Freak]]". Unlike Music/McHammer, they didn't get sued over it.
678* Salt Ashes' "[[https://youtu.be/PvLuH7rWbUc Too Many Times]]" sounds suspiciously similar to Music/TheKnife's "[[https://youtu.be/pPD8Ja64mRU Heartbeats]]".
679* Thunder Porpoise:
680** The A-section of "[[https://youtu.be/3BdZloneS0Y Oppenheimer's Gambit]]" is a slower sound-alike of the [[https://youtu.be/M7F5_CrPaq0 title theme]] from ''.[[VideoGame/TestDrive The Duel: Test Drive II]]''.
681** "[[https://youtu.be/xAZR6mPfUF8 Tempus Fugit]]" sounds suspiciously like "[[https://youtu.be/2R-1r2OcH7M Let Me Fall]]" from Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's Theatre/{{Quidam}}''.
682** "[[https://youtu.be/NkpyglvTJn4 Until The End of Time]]" bears a more than subtle resemblance to the ''VideoGame/SpaceHarrier'' theme.
683** The lead guitar hook in "[[https://youtu.be/EBLimVD2HyU?t=36s Never That Young]]" is shamelessly ripped from the chorus of "[[https://youtu.be/dN44xpHjNxE?t=55s Love Someone]]" by Music/LukasGraham.
684** The B-section of "[[https://youtu.be/0zWSbNPUHEs?t=53s Bit By Bit]]" is suspiciously similar to Music/LittleMix's "[[https://youtu.be/HHCC4ndeJyE No More Sad Songs]]".
685* Sheryl Crow's "All I Wanna Do" is very similar to Stealers Wheel's "Stuck In The Middle With You". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHbOGR-lxqk Crow's performance of the latter is at least an acknowledgement of the similarity.]]
686* The B-section synth lead of Reptile & Sky's "[[https://youtu.be/wXGhBLb5pHM?t=1m24s The 7th Star"]] sounds suspiciously like the chorus synth of My Mine's "[[https://youtu.be/1TPEvAJCOrs?t=1m51s Hypnotic Tango]]". The A-section hook is also similar to the intro of Freestyle's "[[https://youtu.be/B3BQbVPL9Fo Don't Stop The Rock]]".
687* The refrain of She Moves' lone hit "[[https://youtu.be/4gms1fjqmak Breaking All The Rules]]" is very similar to that of Music/NikKershaw's "[[https://youtu.be/mLF1FgyRLkk Wouldn't It Be Good]]". Ironically, She Moves also covered said song.
688* Robbie Dupree's 1980 single "Steal Away" features a similar rhythm and keyboard hook to "What A Fool Believes" by Music/TheDoobieBrothers, released just a year earlier - this didn't go unnoticed by critics of the time, and the publishers of "What A Fool Believes" were at one point considering legal action, though the song's cowriter, Michael [=McDonald=], declined to sue.
689* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LZ9TGOGt04 The Pushbike Song]]" by Australian band The Mixtures sounds almost exactly like Mungo Jerry's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM In The Summertime]]"... which The Mixtures had just released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T95XpTOPXIo a cover of]]. Hilariously, two decades later, Mungo Jerry themselves [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te6xAeEu0ps covered The Pushbike Song]].
690* [[https://youtu.be/iwzfR7-33Wc Nihilist Blues]] by Bring Me the Horizon ft. Grimes is extremely similar to [[https://youtu.be/peKGMdhJN2k Never Go Back]] by Evanescence.
691* The Rain Within's "[[https://youtu.be/7cusfEF5dgo Forward in Reverse]]" sounds suspiciously like a composite of Danger's "[[https://youtu.be/8QpUGCXwOks 6:24]]" and "[[https://youtu.be/nk1UqObbpLo 7:53]]" from ''VideoGame/{{Furi}}'', WithLyrics.
692* The refrain of Music/RickyMartin's "Shake Your Bon Bon" was intentionally based on Peaches & Herb's "Shake Your Groove Thing", though Mike Doughty of Music/SoulCoughing accused him of ripping off their "Super Bon Bon".
693* The chorus of Music/{{Versailles}}' "Rosen Schwert" sounds ''a lot'' like the oft-covered standard "Fly Me to the Moon".
694* Coo Coo's "[[https://youtu.be/Mui4MDT7Jx4 You Can Set Me Free]]" sounds blatantly like Music/{{Bananarama}}'s "[[https://youtu.be/prGhk_Gvzwo Love In The First Degree]]".
695* Music/TheloniousMonk's "Blue Monk" has an opening that's almost identical to the open of "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town". Some enterprising {{Jazz}} musicians have even mashed-up the two songs. Given that he was known for his quirky sense of humor, Monk may well have done this on purpose.
696* The refrain of GAYLE's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaFd8ucHLuo abcdefu]]" is bizarrely similar to the refrain from the old cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangface}}'''s Italian opening song, known as "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCcZiEOGRlk Luni, il lupo col dentone]]". It's also been compared to "Where is My Mind?" by Music/{{Pixies}}.
697* The chorus melody of Music/LilNasX's "Panini" sounds so suspiciously similar to Nirvana's "In Bloom" that Kurt Cobain is posthumously credited as a songwriter.
698* In the 1984 single version of Laserdance's "Goody's Return", the synthesizer hooks are dangerously close to those of "Breakout Theme" by The Breakout Crew. Consequently, "Return" was rearranged on LD's 1987 album ''Future Generation'' so as to be less blatantly similar. Ironically, in 1995, they did a straight cover of "Breakout Theme", retitled "Break Through", for ''The Guardian of Forever''.
699* The former Trope Namer Wrestling/JimmyHart was doing this even back when he was still in the band The Gentrys. Their minor 1970 hit "Why Should I Cry?" (which Hart wrote) is an ersatz version of "Midnight Confessions" (a hit for The Grass Roots, [[CoveredUp Covering Up]] the original by The Ever-Green Blues).
700* My Mine's "[[https://youtu.be/q5wybR3h6Zw Can Delight]]" is a slightly faster soundalike of Music/{{Toto}}'s "[[https://youtu.be/FTQbiNvZqaY Africa]]".
701* Tin Machine's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUt0Zi3UovI Crack City]]" starts off as Music/BlackSabbath's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s7_WbiR79E Iron Man]]", then turns into Music/JimiHendrix's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4I-7qfWZPE version]] of "Wild Thing" by The Troggs.
702* Blue Pearl's "(Can You) Feel The Passion" originated as a remix of Bizarre Inc.'s rave anthem "Playing With Knives"; after the latter group rejected it, BP retooled it into a Suspiciously Similar Song WithLyrics.
703* Music/{{Steps}}' song "One For Sorrow" has a lot of similarities to ABBA's "The Winner Takes It All", from the melody, the meaning of the lyrics, the fact that both songs are mostly solo pieces by one member of the respective bands with the other members serving as backing vocals, and how both songs were released not long before the bands broke up.
704* Music/TheOakRidgeBoys' SignatureSong "Elvira" bears more than a passing resemblance to the Fiestas' doo-wop tune "So Fine" - which the Oaks would cover the following year.
705* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izsjRpcgfmk&list=RDK6438QUVbyA&index=3 Empire of Angels]] from ''Music/TwoStepsFromHell'' sounds very similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2nksqvmSRI the main theme]] from ''Manga/FairyTail''.
706* The piano riff in Jimmy Somerville's solo version of "[[https://youtu.be/j94mjMGXrvot=31s Run From Love]]" has a striking resemblance to that of Music/DepecheMode's "[[https://youtu.be/JIrm0dHbCDU Strangelove]]".
707* The main hook of Menno de Jong's "[[https://youtu.be/asZGSGD5A48 Turtle Paradise]]" is basically identical to that of The Future Sound of London's "[[https://youtu.be/wfWMv8Y1V5E Papua New Guinea]]".
708* Portugal. The Man openly accused the Jonas Brothers of copying their single "Sucker" from his own "Feel It Still" though many others had noted the similarities before. The latter itself borrows the refrain of The Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman".
709* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyhJ69mD7xI "Bad to the Bone"]] by George Thorogood and the Destroyers sounds ''very'' similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKlAiuaYdoI "I'm a Man"]] by Music/BoDiddley.
710* Music/{{Sia}}
711** "Chandelier" is very similar to Music/{{Rihanna}}'s "Diamonds", right down to Sia sounding just like Rihanna. Incidentally, "Diamonds" was also written by Sia.
712** "Chandelier" also has a suspiciously similar beat to "Unstoppable".
713** "Cheap Thrills", "The Greatest" and "Never Give Up" all sound like variations of each other in that they have similar chords.
714* Compare the chorus of Sandra's "[[https://youtu.be/4jjzu1Z2RZc?t=1m8s (I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena]]" to that of RAF/Laura Branigan's "[[https://youtu.be/RP0_8J7uxhs?t=1m44s Self Control]]", released a year earlier. Surely not a coincidence, is it? The former's male backing vocals even lyrically reference the latter with the lines "You're a creature of the night, you're a victim of the fight". [[https://youtu.be/ktXW8TQhQps Here's a mashup.]]
715* A recurring riff in Music/CheapTrick's "I Want You To Want Me", "''Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?''", sounds similar to the refrain in Music/JohnDenver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy".
716* When Brazilian musician Music/JorgeBenJor heard Music/RodStewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy", he instantly recognized his own [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8AuG1W59ig "Taj Mahal"]] and sued for plagiarism. Stewart would eventually admit the inspiration, having heard the other song attending Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, and tried to compensate donating royalties to UNICEF.
717* "[[https://youtu.be/92136ptzkuE Ahjia]]" by ItaloDisco band Kano sounds like a blend of Music/EarthWindAndFire's "[[https://youtu.be/god7hAPv8f0 Boogie Wonderland]]" and "[[https://youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk September]]".
718* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZXofwkePE "Hail to the King"]] by Avenged Sevenfold lifts musical cues from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut8MTBIZrC8 "King of Kings"]] by Motorhead. Both were also used by the WWE.
719* In Minuit Machine's "Follower", the stanza "Come on, talk to me/Tell me what is wrong with me/Come on, don't lie to me/Everyone is better than me" sounds suspiciously similar to the "Come on, dance with me/Move your body along to the beat" hook from Age of Love's "The Age of Love".
720* "All I Need Is Love", a Christmas song recorded by Music/CeeLoGreen and Franchise/TheMuppets, sounds like an ersatz version of Lou Bega's "Mambo No. 5", definitely helped by the fact that the former song interpolates "Mahna Mahna" in its chorus.
721* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54hnt0EHQRk "Times Like These"]] by Five Finger Death Punch has several lines that are sung to the tune of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1PrUU2S_iw "Ohio"]] by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
722* 0:30 of Ariana Grande's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS1g8G_njx8 Problem]] sounds like the climax of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glGtklFzZ2k Complete Darkness]] from ''Franchise/TouhouProject''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m8PQ7Xf4SM Comparisons have been made.]]
723* {{Music/Ween}}'s "Japanese Cowboy" is essentially an uptempo, countrified, WithLyrics version of Vangelis' "Title" from ''Film/ChariotsOfFire'' - acknowledged by the band themselves during several live performances, where the song actually segues into a full on CoverVersion at the end.
724* Porn Kings originally directly sampled the 303 riff of Josh Wink's aforementioned "Higher State of Consciousness" in their white label single "Pumpin' The Junk", then utilized a Suspiciously Similar version of the riff in its commercial follow-up "[[https://youtu.be/vITZ9COqfvI Up To No Good]]", which in turn was SampledUp by Voodoo & Serrano in "Blood Is Pumpin'".
725* Music/IndioSolari's "Pedía Siempre Temas en la Radio", from ''Porco Rex'', has a similar ambience to Music/{{Audioslave}}'s "Your Time Has Come".
726* The [[https://youtu.be/G3FU-463mt4 self-titled single]] of Dutch trance duo Magica is basically a MusicalPastiche of Agnelli & Nelson's "[[https://youtu.be/KkdcBAE5m-I El Niño]]" and the [[Music/FerryCorsten Veracocha]] [[https://youtu.be/3vdWh9Swz9o remix of Ayla's self-titled song]]. Not to mention both "El Niño" and "Magica" SampledUp Sueño Latino's "La Puerta del Sol".
727* Music/{{Sweet}}'s "Block Buster!" features a strikingly similar riff to that of Creator/RCARecords labelmate Music/DavidBowie's [[Music/AladdinSane "The Jean Genie"]], which was released just barely sooner. Both artists maintained that the similarities were purely coincidental. According to Nicky Chinn, who co-wrote "Block Buster!", Bowie responded to the song out-charting "The Jean Genie" by calling him a cunt, then immediately hugging and congratulating him.
728* SZA's vocals in the chorus of "Low" have a rhythm, melody and tempo immediately reminiscent of blackbear's "hot girl bummer", namely the pre-chorus.
729* The guitar in Dax's "She Cheated Again" is incredibly similar to the guitar in Niwel's "Bad Love (Vocal Edit)", in regards to melody, tone, rhythm, and the amount of reverb applied and resulting note length.
730* Both Gershwin's "Sweet And Low-Down" and the theme to ''Inspector Gadget'' borrow their main riff from Grieg’s Theatre/PeerGynt's “In The Hall Of The Mountain King"
731* Music/{{Nazareth}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hspKRItt8x4 Hair of the Dog]]" has a similar riff and chord progression to Music/TheBeatles' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IbPn5j2YKk Day Tripper]]".
732* The refrain of Magic Affair's "[[https://youtu.be/45ZKGoHL3_o Hear The Voices]]" sounds blatantly similar to Snap!'s "[[https://youtu.be/Io_B1svrSUw (Do You) See The Light]]". Both also heavily resemble the chorus of Music/{{Ultravox}}'s "[[https://youtu.be/RXLkpwFs8Fs Hymn]]", [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff which was a top 10 hit in Germany]].
733* The main riff of "Pussy" by Rammstein sound a bit like a faster version of the riff from "More" by The Sisters of Mercy.
734* The song "[[https://youtu.be/DeuejYoRbps Be Mine]]" by the Korean pop band Infinite sounds a lot like a sped up version of "[[https://youtu.be/BRx58DgOxeg Even the Nights Are Better]]" by Air Supply
735* The chord progression on "[[https://youtu.be/ygzSXn3oxKU Never Went To Church]]" by British rapper Music/TheStreets is identical to "[[https://youtu.be/_kvPZvX5J6c Let It Be]]" by Music/TheBeatles. Enough that Music/PaulMcCartney demanded to be credited as a songwriter.
736* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymPOXBqPb28 "Vertigo"]] by Mexican children's group [=LemonGrass=] is essentially a cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMqL1iWfku4 "Bar Bar Bar"]] by K-pop group Music/CrayonPop, which would be perfectly fine if this was actually admitted anywhere.
737* The Art of Trance's "[[https://youtu.be/6pA5r8sVY-Q Emerald Eyes]]" is suspiciously similar to The Age of Love's [[https://youtu.be/ZRi8B4Rx3ns self-titled song]] (minus the lyrics) for its first half.
738* The bassline at the start of Tom Cardy's "Big Breakfast" is very reminiscent of the repeating bassline in Madonna's first verse of "Into The Groove". The notes are fairly similar, and the rhythm feels like it was plucked straight out of the song.
739* Sheryl Crow's "Soak Up The Sun" sounds incredibly similar to "Shiny Happy People" by REM. It also shares similarities with "All I Wanna Do", an earlier Sheryl Crow song.
740* Sheb Wooley's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jV-E09efRE The Purple People eater]] sounds an awful lot like the finale for Saint-Saëns's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b43tnmCxFMY Carnival of the Animals]], specifically the verses of "One-eyed one horned flying purple people eater!"
741** It also sounds the same as the children's song "Michael Finnegan".
742* Ondina's "[[https://youtu.be/H_tvpfCredU Into The Night]]" is an obvious copycat of Corona's "[[https://youtu.be/OnT58cIJSpw The Rhythm of the Night]]". The former's vocalist, Jenny Brusk, even has a similar name and voice to Giovanna "Jenny B." Bersola of the latter.
743* Some Music/CrazyFrog merchandise uses a track called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tnRJrlXYMU Crazy Toy Song]]" that is identical to the character's hit cover of "Axel F" besides featuring a different synth riff, likely for licensing reasons.
744* "[[https://youtu.be/8YzabSdk7ZA?si=5xawIen8VYTsnpIX Everytime]]" by Music/BritneySpears sounds like a slowed-down version of "[[https://youtu.be/vzerbXFwGCE?si=HnH6xU20J98G8rPv Breathless]]" by Music/TheCorrs.
745* [[Music/GaryNuman Tubeway Army]]'s "[[https://youtu.be/7BpYFt66A9E?si=PC5x4digCfmLtkvj Praying To The Aliens]]" sounds like a slightly slower and less abrasive take on Music/ThrobbingGristle's "[[https://youtu.be/YFjH5UrSLTY?si=o69W2wp3nfvBn1LV United]]".
746* Music/{{CHVRCHES}}' "Clearest Blue" is clearly (no pun intended) inspired by Music/DepecheMode's "Just Can't Get Enough". After hearing of the passing of Andy Fletcher, CHVRCHES performed an InMemoriam medley of the two songs at The Fillmore in San Francisco on May 26, 2022.
747* The arpeggiated piano riff that plays twice at 1:53 of "Dream" by Shawn Mendes is an ''exact'' copy of the arpeggio from the Stranger Things opening theme.
748* Music/{{Afrojack}}'s "[[https://youtu.be/UkSZDWkRob0 Bangduck]]", especially the drop, sounds uncannily similar to Boris Dlugosch's "[[https://youtu.be/fd6hdpEgmpI Bangkok]]", right down to the title.
749* While it's not too similar musically, the lyrics of Music/GeneAutry's song "Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey" are basically a RecycledScript of his earlier hit "Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer". The title character is an animal [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer mocked by all the other animals]] for a freakish feature of his body (Rudolph's shiny red nose, Nestor's enormous ears); but then he's called upon to help an iconic Christmas figure on their important journey (Rudolph helps to pull SantaClaus's sleigh, Nestor carries UsefulNotes/TheVirginMary to Bethlehem), and when winter clouds threaten to halt the journey by hiding their way, he uses his special feature to guide them (Rudolph's nose lights Santa's way, Nestor's ears hear angels' voices calling); thus he becomes a hero and the other animals all love him and praise him. Both songs were also adapted by Creator/RankinBassProductions into stop-motion Christmas specials, [[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer1964 ''Rudolph'' in 1964]] and [[WesternAnimation/NestorTheLongEaredChristmasDonkey ''Nestor'' in 1977]].
750* The chorus of Music/{{Nelly}}'s "Ride Wit Me" sounds similar to the ending of Music/{{Eurythmics}}'s 1986 cover of "Winter Wonderland".
751* The synth hook of the [[MissingEpisode lost-and-found]] Brazilian freestyle song "[[https://youtu.be/hHRGGdxvrbY?si=KWIP0z1iS8ayfOVU?t=2m3s Feels Like A Wish]]" (formerly nicknamed "Fond My Mind") by Station K sounds very similar to the bridge section of Taylor Dayne's "[[https://youtu.be/Ud6sU3AclT4?si=Sknm-fO5CQECWAy4?t=1m56s Tell It To My Heart]]".
752* The A-section of Jeroen Tel's demoscene tune "[[https://youtu.be/jB4tD9uvKhc That's the Way It Is]]" sounds almost exactly like the chorus of "A Brand New Day (Everybody Rejoice)" from ''Theatre/TheWiz''.
753* The ''Manga/{{Beastars}}''-inspired song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82GCcUbJNRs Predator & Prey]]" by two of the anime's English dub voice actors Griffin Puatu and Jonah Scott has a guitar riff that sounds like that of Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89dGC8de0CA Dream On]]." Also similar to the guitar riff in "Dream On" is that of Music/NoDoubt's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3Vdo5etCQ Don't Speak]]." Music/{{Eminem}} [[SampledUp sampled]] "Dream On" in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4hAVemuQXY Sing For The Moment]]."
754* The Modern English song "I Melt with You" contains passages that sound just like the Creator/{{NBC}} chimes.
755* Much like the theme song to ''WesternAnimation/YoYogi'', "Hellraiser" by Ozzy Osbourne (also performed by Music/{{Motorhead}}) appears to have lifted elements from "Unskinny Bop" by Music/{{Poison}}.
756* Part of the vocal melody from "What a Wonderful World" by Creator/LouisArmstrong sounds identical to the opening line of the nursery rhyme "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".
757* Siamese Youth's "Take On Me Too", in addition to the obvious nods to Music/{{aha}}'s "Take On Me" and perhaps Music/TheWeeknd's "Blinding Lights", has a [[https://youtu.be/limpxRb_OMY?si=Wo-hSIidM9SFIAlA?t=1m41s bridge passage]] that suspiciously resembles the [[https://youtu.be/zPGf4liO-KQ?si=tzIO9ROiUZX8BrUu?t=2m10s chorus/coda]] of "Music/TheMostMysteriousSongOnTheInternet". The pre-chorus also sounds like the chorus of Gerard Joling's 1988 Series/EurovisionSongContest entry [[https://youtu.be/n2hh6obKm2s?si=mqjCt6UKSd4K1Oke?t=57s "Shangri La"]].
758* The "Theme from New York, New York" borrows from the opening sequence of Chicago's "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"

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