Well, I think I can retire now that a guy on YouTube (Carl E. Martin) covered the most used melody far better than I ever have. A lot of the songs Carl shows have been documented on this site over the years. It seems like he put a lot of work into this video. Have a watch!
I’ve documented a similar melody I’ve called “CatrianiPlay”:
Rick Beato takes a look at some lifted..uhh interpolated pop melodies. Have a look at his video!
See also:
Did Justin Bieber “Anyone” Rip from Toto?
Dua Lipa Getting Sued TWICE for “Levitating”
9/17/2024 Update:
Looks like Miley is getting sued by Bruno Mars’ camp.
Miley Cyrus has been hit with a lawsuit that claims her chart-topping “Flowers” infringed the copyright to the Bruno Mars hit “When I Was Your Man,” setting the stage for a legal battle over two tracks that many fans already saw as connected.
Filed Monday in Los Angeles federal court, the case claims that Cyrus’ track – which spent eight weeks atop the Hot 100 after it was released in January 2023 – “duplicates numerous melodic, harmonic, and lyrical elements” of the earlier track.
The complaint was filed not by Mars himself but by an entity called Tempo Music Investments that bought a share of the copyright to his song from one of its co-writers. In it, lawyers for that group claim the two songs have “striking similarities.”
If anything … uhh, listen to the Ace of Base song below everyone! (or at least watch the video!)
Original Post:
Miley Cyrus won a Grammy for her 2023 track “Flowers“. But first have a listen to this….
My brother just sent me this for the website. Have a listen to Ace of Base’s 1995 track “Beautiful Life” (also the music video is amazing):
Here’s Miley’s song (you’ve probably heard it a few times already):
I took a look at the “Flowers” wikipedia page and a few other things jumped out at me. I definitely already heard the Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive” (1978) references when I first heard the song. I believe this was intentional (sorry, I don’t have a source for that. I think I saw it on the internet, or heard it from someone, might’ve been a podcast, a news headline, or maybe a TikTok video):
And finally here is what the wikipedia entry says about Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man” (2012):
The song’s chorus is a paraphrase of Bruno Mars’s “When I Was Your Man” (2012).[Editors of Billboard noted that the songs only feature similar lyrical elements and ideas, meaning that the writers of “When I Was Your Man” are not required to be credited as co-writers of “Flowers”.
It seems more like it’s the verse, here ya go:
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