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Demi Lovato “Neon Lights” Sounds Like These 3 Other Songs

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Demi Lovato Neon Lights Sounds like 3 other SongsDemi Lovato’s 2013 “Neon Lights” contains a distinct motif that you know you’ve heard before. I’ve traced this motif back to 2002 with DJ Sammy’s version of Bryan Adams “Heaven”. From there we take a journey 7 years later to Calvin Harris’ “I’m Not Alone”. Only 1 year later we hear Chris Brown’s “Yeah 3X” (2010) when apparently Calvin Harris nearly “choked on [his] cornflakes” when Brown’s new single, Yeah 3x, came on the radio while he was eating breakfast.

“Stealing is still stealing, doesn’t matter who you are,” Harris wrote on Twitter. “[Just] because Chris Brown is an international celebrity doesn’t make it OK to rip off a guy from UK not many people have heard of.” Harris is being modest. I’m Not Alone debuted in April 2009 at the top of the UK charts, knocking Lady Gaga’s Poker Face from the peak position. It also reached No 5 on the European Hot 100. The LP it’s taken from, Ready for the Weekend, later crowned the album charts. – The Guardian

I thought this was the end. But only 3 years later Demi Lovato needed to chime in with “Neon Lights”. The other player in the game here is OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder who produced and co-wrote “Neon Lights”. There’s a really interesting post on the site about Kelly Clarkson’s “Already Gone” and Beyoncé’s “Halo” with Tedder in the middle.

Anyway have a listen to all 4!




22 Songs That Sound Like Green Day

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For more than 30 years Green Day has been churning out three chord pop-punk gems that make you feel like you’re fifteen years old again (and if you’re 15 and reading this you’ll understand one day). They do it really well. Sometimes TOO well. There’s a good reason why some of those catchy riffs cut right into your brain – you’ve heard them before.

I’m not here to accuse Green Day of intentionally stealing musical ideas but it just so happens that Green Day comes up quite a lot when looking at these comparisons. This might be the biggest compilation on this site to date! There are even some cases where the scenario is reversed. Let’s have a listen!

One Eyed Bastard (2024)



I also couldn’t help hear something else in the Green Day song. The Offspring “Self Esteem” maybe? I dunno, there’s probably a hundred pop punk songs that this part could be compared to. Have a listen!


Oh Love (2012)


21 Guns (2009)

Chorus:



Verse:



What about the guitar solo? I found something interesting 🙂 


Jesus of Suburbia (2004)



She’s a Rebel (2004)


American Idiot (2004)

 

I have no idea what this is!! Start at :45
“Korean Idiot”

What is this????

Pokemon Game Music (2006?)

Pokemon D/P Music - Route 209 (midday)

Hold On (2000)


Warning (2000)


Brain Stew (1995)


Basket Case (1994)


 


When I Come Around (1994)


At the Library (1990)


6 Songs That Sound Like Michael Jackson Songs

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He’s the King of Pop so of course he’s gonna appear on this site at least twice, maybe three or four times. There are some good ones here. Enjoy!

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Back in 2009 a previously unreleased MJ song called “A Place With No Name” surfaced.  According to one reader, “The album booklet for Xscape states that ‘A Place With No Name’ was recorded during an early Invincible session in 1998.”. According to TMZ, “[They were] told several years ago [that] America’s manager gave his group’s permission for Jackson to record the song, ‘A Place with No Name’ — despite the similarity.” I mean, even the song titles are similar. Listen up:


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One day I was in a French restaurant and heard a beat and bass line that really sounded like “Billie Jean”.  Even the synth string part was similar. It was in French and sounded disco-era. I pulled out Shazam on my iPhone and bingo –  “Elle danse Marie” by François Valéry.


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Have a listen to The Jackson 5’s 1978 “Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)” then have a listen to the intro to Huey Lewis & The News – “I Want a New Drug” (1984). There’s also this whole Huey Lewis vs. Ghostbusters thing you can look at after this.


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