Submitted by John
I didn’t have to listen for very long to hear the similarity. Enjoy.
Sam Smith - "Stay With Me" (2014)
Tom Petty - "I Won't Back Down" (1989)
UPDATE 1/26/2015: Sam Smith Settles Copyright With Tom Petty
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Stay With Me and I Won’t Back Down remind me of Garden Party. “Cause it’s all right now, I’ve learnt my lesson well, you can’t please everyone, so you’ve got to please yourself.” But if you are to post one post based on my comments, I’d like it to be about the cliché love songs, except Drift Away isn’t really a love song, a don’t suppose. It seems Denmark’s entry in Eurovision was just using an artistic reference to other songs, but while that is perfectly ethical and maybe legal, in a songwriting competition, is it original enough to count?
If you haven’t posted about the cliché love songs because it’s difficult to keep up with all my comments, I haven’t made any as good as this, so you might as well post this first. I don’t mean to be the 8th dwarf pushy, I just thought you might have forgotten. You’re probably busy and you said you have a lot of drafts.
Sam just slowed it down is bout all.
This is one of those songs which I recognised instantly as eing another song. In fact it’s so blatant that it’s impossible that no one at the record company, or publisher/ manager/ agent didn’t suggest this!!! They probably thought ”well put it out and we won’t seek clearance and if we’re sued, we’ll settle”. This seems to be the attitude these days.
I picked up on the similarities between these two songs. Maybe we should be working in the music industry.
and it WAS settled! ha..
did u travel into the future knowing this would happen Lynsey 😛
“Stay with me” also reminds me a lot of John Legends “Stay with you”.
A lot of similarities!
Woah, good one!
Which in turn sounds kind of like Days Like This by Van Morrison (1995) in parts.
Which sounds like his own Crazy Love (1970).
It also sounds like another late 70s disco era Tina Turner type song I don’t remember.