ROSÉ & Bruno Mars “APT.” Sounds Like 4 Other Songs

ROSÉ & Bruno Mars “APT.” Sounds Like 4 Other Songs

While listening to my favorite music podcast OneSong, Luxxury brought up an interpolation of Rosé & Bruno Mars’ 2024 Grammy nominated collaboration “APT.” You might recognize that infectious hook from the 1982 Toni Basil hit “Mickey”. It turns out “Mickey” songwriters Mike Chapman Nicky Chinn did receive credit for “APT.” Have a listen below!


Mark has quickly pointed out in the comments that there are 3 other songs in the mix here that sound like the chorus. Check this out!




You might’ve seen that Creaky Boards song around before. It is featured in the compilation of all compilations “CatrianiPlay: The Most Used Melody in Pop Music”

Miley Cyrus “Flowers” Sounds Like Ace of Base and Bruno Mars

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.”

Source: Billboard

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):

Ace of Base - Beautiful Life (Official Music Video)

Here’s Miley’s song (you’ve probably heard it a few times already):

Miley Cyrus - Flowers (Official Video)

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):

Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive

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:

Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man (Official Music Video)

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Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars Sued by Funk Band Collage Over “Uptown Funk”

Bruno Mars vs. Breakbot vs. Snoop Dogg vs. George Duke

 

Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars Sued by Funk Band Collage Over ‘Uptown Funk’

Bruno Mars on ThatsSongSoundsLike.com

“Uptown Funk” collaborators Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars are being sued for alleged copyright infringement, according to TMZ. Collage, a funk band that released music in the early 1980s, filed the complaint.

The group claims “Uptown Funk” and its own 1983 song “Young Girls” are “almost indistinguishable” and states that Ronson and Mars have previously mentioned being influenced by early ‘80s Minneapolis electro-funk and soul music.

The complaint, obtained by Pitchfork, specifies the following: “Upon information and belief, many of the main instrumental attributes and themes of ‘Uptown Funk’ are deliberately and clearly copied from ‘Young Girls,’ including, but not limited to, the distinct funky specifically noted and timed consistent guitar riffs present throughout the compositions, virtually if not identical bass notes and sequence, rhythm, structure, crescendo of horns and synthesizers rendering the compositions almost indistinguishable if played over each other and strikingly similar if played in consecutively.”

Billboard has reached out to RCA, the record label that released “Uptown Funk,” for comment.

source: Billboard.com

Collage – “Young Girls” (1983)

Collage - Young Girls

 

Mark Ronson – Uptown Funk ft. Bruno Mars (2014)

Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk (Official Video) ft. Bruno Mars

 

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