What people are saying
Entertainment Weekly
“American Idol: On the Scene for Top 4 performance night”
…And is Lee [DeWyze] really going to perform Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose” only three weeks after Big Mike sang Chad Kroeger’s rip-off “Hero”? (Listen to the two superhero songs and convince me they aren’t identical twins separated at birth)…
REVIEWniverse at Examiner.com
Examiner.com’s REVIEWniverse disects Blue Moon’s “Creation” TV ad and shouts out That Song Sounds Like.
CollegeHumor.com
“Originality in music is over-rated. I’d be happy if every song was a rip off of the Charles in Charge theme.”
http://www.collegehumor.com/hotlink:224414
The Banded
“There’s a little site out there slowly gaining word-of-mouth steam called That Song Sounds Like, which brings classic copyright-infringement cases like the Huey Lewis/Ray Parker Jr. “Ghostbusters” theme/”I Want A New Drug” fiasco into the court of public, streamable opinion, and also raises newer inquiries around the striking parallels between, say, a Dr. Dre production and Phoenix . . .”
More at The Banded
The Inside Window
It’s amazing how many there are already, with more likely to come. The similarities are sometimes a little too similar (and admitted by certain artists).
“Some of these similarities border on the issues of electro producers, who make their music by using actual samples of existing music. For many of these artists, licenses save them from getting sued by the original content owners, and it ensures the artists responsible for the original music get their due payments from the use.”
More at The Inside Window
