This is a fairly long list of One Direction (1D) songs that sound like other songs. They seem to do this a lot. Well, the songwriters behind the curtain do. The most interesting thing about this is that most of these One Direction songs came out 1 year after the song they sound like. That doesn’t seem coincidental here. This is a pattern.
“Live While We’re Young” sounds like The Clash “Should I Stay or Should I Go”
If you look really closely at the cover of The Clash‘s Combat Rock (1982) you will see the boy band One Direction in the background. This explains it all.
Submitted by Alex
“Heart Attack” sounds like Big Time Rush “Song For You”
“Last First Kiss” sounds like “Wish You Were Here”
“They Don’t Know About Us” sounds like Chris Medina “What Are Words”
After listening to these Taylor Dayne‘s 1987 hit “Tell It to My Heart” also comes to mind:
“What Makes You Beautiful” sounds like Grease “Summer Nights”
submitted by Sam and Ilan
“Best Song Ever” sounds like The Who “Baba O’Riley (aka Teenage Wasteland)”
“Rock Me” sounds like Queen “We Will Rock You”
submitted by James C.
A homage? Perhaps. But take note, this track is produced by our old friend Dr. Luke
“More Than This” vs Red (R3D) “Never Be the Same”
submitted by “Secret Secret”
“Stole My Heart” sounds like Taio Cruz “Dynamite”
submitted by La La La
Might as well compare the intros too…
And don’t forget these from this post.
“Strong” sounds like Kelly Clarkson “Stronger”
The least you can do is change the name of the song.
submitted by La La La
SEE ALSO:
Harry Style “As It Was” sounds a lot like a-ha “Take on Me”
One Direction “Night Changes” Sounds Like a Lot of Songs
One Direction vs. Rick Springfield
Some more if you want to keep digging:
“Crazy Cakes” submitted:
One Direction “Save You Tonight” vs. Erasure “Always”
La La La also submitted:
One Direction “I Want” vs. Feist “My Moon, My Man”
One Direction – “Na Na Na” vs. High School Musical 2: ‘All for One’
One Direction – “Gotta Be You” vs. The Verve “BitterSweet Symphony”
Hardly.
The chorus of their song Where do broken hearts go staring with the lyrics “now I’m searching every lonely place” definitely sounds like another song yet I cannot figure it out. Any ideas?
Hm. Well the name of this song is the same of a Whitney Houston song from 1987. The chorus of the One Direction song kind of reminds me of “Heaven is a Place on Earth” by Belinda Carlisle:
The title line reminds me of Lonely Nights (1981), This Time (1983) and Thought I’d Died and Gone to Heaven (1991), all by Bryan Adams. It also reminds me of the chorus of This’ll Be My Year by Train (2012), the verse of which is clearly based on We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel (1989), in fact, YouTube evens recommends We Didn’t Start the Fire from This’ll Be My Year.
https://www.thatsongsoundslike.com/2012/01/30/the-most-used-melody-in-pop-music/comment-page-1/#comment-1351
I can’t believe no one has said this yet but One Direction’s “Alive” sounds SO much like Free’s “All Right Now”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny7vW6dgnUY
Their new song “history” reminds me of a song from the late 80s/ early 90s but I can’t place it and it’s driving me insane…
Totally. Is this it?
Huey Lewis and The News – If This Is It
That’s not the one I was thinking of.
It’s driving me insane, but I could swear it was sung by two or three middle aged men in the early 90s, part of me thinks it was Bruce Willis or something weird.
The Who rip off makes it obvious that competing in X Factor karaoke means you’re trash