18 Replies to “UPDATE: Young The Giant vs. Aztec Camera vs. Gwen Stefani vs. Weezer vs. Lita Ford”

1. Eric December 30, 2011 at 10:24 pm

   I think What’s Up by 4 Non Blondes also follows this pattern: http://youtu.be/chysEoANK7c?t=59s

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2. erdinç yavuz February 24, 2012 at 7:36 pm

   I very strangely find this song similar to “Man on the moon from REM” and “Can’t help falling in love from Elvis Presley or cover from UB40”

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3. Kris May 8, 2012 at 10:57 am

   That Young the Giant song is a total rip off of ‘The River is Wild’ by The Killers; exact same verse melody and even some of the same lyrics.

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   1. Keith Post authorMay 8, 2012 at 3:49 pm

      Yes, totally! I need to add that!

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4. doodeedoo June 1, 2012 at 2:28 am

   Minor typo correction: the Lita Ford track is from 1988.

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   1. Keith Post authorJune 1, 2012 at 2:41 am

      Thanks!

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5. Morgan June 16, 2012 at 4:39 am

   “Hold It In” by Jukebox the Ghost also follows this pattern, I noticed, though I don’t hear the vocal pattern nearly as easily in Young the Giant as in the other songs. Listen to the Jukebox the Ghost song though–the pattern is uncannily similar to the other songs, specifically the Lita Ford and Aztec Camera ones mentioned in the post.

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6. temiroso July 14, 2012 at 1:19 am

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKlMq2WSwk another on.. ghetto latin song from the 90’s

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7. Xavier April 4, 2013 at 8:51 am

   Hi! This melody also reminds me to Pearl Jam’s “Given to fly”, from 1997…

   Good work, man!

   🙂

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   1. Keith Post authorApril 4, 2013 at 4:00 pm

      Great addition!

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   2. Mark Adams August 9, 2014 at 12:57 pm

      Which was said to be taken from Going to California by Led Zeppelin (1971). I consider these to have a ‘church bell’ melody while the Gwen Stefani one uses the Andalusian Cadence, starting off from an octave jump.

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      1. Kraig June 22, 2016 at 7:01 am

         I think the vocal melody of those two songs is also in “Meant To Live” by Switchfoot

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8. Katti May 21, 2013 at 9:08 am

   My first thought was “Jingle bell rock”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itcMLwMEeMQ&feature=youtu.be&t=8s

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   1. Keith Post authorMay 22, 2013 at 2:25 pm

      Ha! Good one! I never even thought of that.

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9. Ismael August 23, 2013 at 7:07 pm

   0:16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i64yXSPqxJw sounds similar.

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   1. Keith Post authorAugust 23, 2013 at 7:27 pm

      I can’t see this video in the US. What is it?

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10. Tin Ears November 19, 2013 at 4:51 pm

    I was also reminded of Tori Amos’s “Silent All These Years”:

    Which in turn reminds me of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Mama I’m Coming Home”:

    (According to Wikipedia, both of these songs and their respective albums came out around the same time, so there’s no way they were directly copying each other.)

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11. Josh April 5, 2018 at 2:18 am

    This descending scale is super easy to come up with. I don’t think any of these ripped each other off on the scale bit alone. If the overall structure of the song is the exact same though, like same scale plus exact same chorus and verse structure and matching rhythms then yeah. Like how Radiohead’s “Creep” has less similarities with The Hollies’ “The Air That I Breathe” than Lana Del Rey’s “Get Free” has with “Creep”. They all have the same chord change, but “Get Free” and “Creep” have the exact same notes in their initial sections.

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