♪ I'm still all alone ♪
♪ I see me and you at the prom ♪
(laughing)
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It's all terrible.
It's all awful.
That's why I'm wearing the hat.
It's the worst.
Anyway, today I have a very interesting video.
There's a bunch of compilation videos
out there on the Interwebs talking about
how pop songs, or at least specific pop songs,
sound exactly the same.
And today I thought that we would dive into
that a little bit
and see what's actually similar.
And I find that often these compilations
also have a bunch of duds
that are not actually similar at all.
So I'm gonna kind of import it into the music program
or play it on the keyboard or whatever.
So yeah, let's get started.
Pop songs that sound exactly the same.
Let's go.
♪ She loves control ♪
♪ She wants it her way ♪
♪ And there's no way she'll ever stay unless you give it up ♪
♪ I've lost control ♪
♪ I paddle, but you're strong ♪
♪ But I gotta trust your flow ♪
Hmm. What do you guys think?
Was that similar?
It was definitely the world control
and they were kind of like on the same note.
But that's the most basic note is the root's of the key.
But yeah, let's see if there's anything else that's similar.
Let's import it into the music program
and match it up and see how it sounds.
So now I'm gonna match these up perfectly
and get them in the same key and everything.
And we're gonna see what are the chords,
what are the melodies.
What's different?
I mean, you can kind of hear that
if you listen to it over and over.
But I wanna make it perfectly clear by doing it this way.
Okay, so here we have 'em
and there's a couple things that stand out immediately.
I've synced these up to the same tempo and everything.
So these start at totally different pieces.
They start at totally different times on the beat.
So we got Ariana's song,
starts quite a bit earlier in the bar.
(rhythmical beat)
♪ She loves control ♪
♪ She wants it her way ♪
Then you have Sia's version,
and that starts like exactly before the beat.
(rhythmical beat)
♪ I've lost control ♪
Three, four.
(singing) I've lost control
versus three, I lost control.
I mean, there's a similarity
but I don't think that they knew.
Or if they knew, it was like subconsciously, right?
Because it is the same key and that's the spooky part.
They're saying like, she loves control.
♪ She loves control ♪
♪ She wants it her way ♪
♪ I've lost control ♪
♪ I paddle, but you're too strong ♪
But yeah, the following phrases
are totally different and everything.
The worst thing that could of happened here
was that the songwriters for the Camila Cabello song
were like, oh, we like how this sounds in this Sia song.
We'll take that but we'll switch it up a little bit.
What usually happens with these things though
is like, oh maybe they heard what key it was in.
And subconsciously remembered the other song by Sia.
So therefore they just did it without it even realizing
that they were quotation marks stealing.
It's not even close at the end.
The lyrics are different, their rhythm is different.
Everything's different.
But I can get why people think it's a little bit similar.
Next.
Oh, baby
♪ Oh, baby ♪
♪ My baby ♪
♪ Oh, baby ♪
♪ Baby I ♪
♪ Oh, baby ♪
♪ Come give it to me my baby ♪
♪ But keep it ♪
I mean (laughs) this compilation seems
to be going a lot on lyrics which is interesting.
(singing) Oh, baby, oh.
So she starts on
(voice changer effect) the root note of a minor key.
And yes, the rhythm is the same on this actually.
And you know that Ariana Grande
was very inspired by Mariah Carey.
Like she sings that one whistle note song
that Mariah Care does.
(singing whistle note)
Just like a show off number and everything.
My guess will be that some songwriter was again like,
oh yeah, we're using Mariah Carey as a reference
but it's not very close.
It's not a copy.
They don't sound exactly the same as the title says.
But I can see the similarities and it might be on purpose.
It's not that close, really.
Its just how pop song writing works.
♪ Oh, baby ♪
Okay, so in a minor,
which is a very easy key for me to play on piano,
the Ariana Grande song is
(singing) oh, baby, oh, baby.
In comparison, Mariah Carey's melody is
(singing) oh, baby, oh, baby.
Which yes, it's similar.
But it's definitely not exactly the same.
Next.
♪ You got that nine to five ♪
♪ But baby so do I ♪
♪ So don't be thinking I'll be home and making apple pies ♪
♪ I never learned to cook ♪
♪ But I can ♪
♪ My name is Olly, nice to meet you, can I tell you baby ♪
♪ Look around there's a whole lot of pretty ladies ♪
♪ But none like you, you shine so bright ♪
Okay, this one I think misses the point
which is that both these songs just basically copy
old like rock and roll music, right?
It's not Olly Murs' song was the first to do that either.
I don't know enough about the old rockabilly style of music
to find one that sounds exactly the same.
But it seems like one of those typical
duh dit duh dit duh dit duh dit duh dit duh dit duh dit duh.
So basic, so many people have done it.
Next.
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♪ Shout out to my ex ♪
♪ You're really quite the man ♪
♪ You made my heartbreak and that made me who I am ♪
♪ Okay, you're pretty ♪
♪ Your face is a work of heart ♪
♪ Your smile could light up New York City after dark ♪
Okay, so basically they're just hammering
on the fifth, right?
(singing) shout out to my ex, you're really quite the mess.
Duh dit duh dit duh.
So we're in another key now, we're in A instead of F.
But let's see if it's the same.
♪ Your smile could light up New York City after dark ♪
If there's anything copyrightable about that first song
it's a little thing that would go down in the end.
♪ You made my heartbreak and that ♪
Because it's a little bit distinctive
and it's not stolen.
But yeah, they sound very similar.
But it's also basic.
But it's similar.
But it's basic.
But it's similar. Ah!
One of the sounds that always bothered me
with how similar it was
was Icona Pop had a song a while back.
Like it's a really old one.
But yeah, it's called "I Love It."
♪ I got this feeling on a summer day when you were gone ♪
♪ I crashed my car into the bridge, I watched, I let it burn ♪
So that's the verse there.
And then this.
♪ I don't care, I love it ♪
And then they sing I don't care, right?
And then you have Demi Lovato releases a song
called "I Really Don't Care."
♪ You wanna play, you wanna stay, you wanna have it all ♪
♪ You started messin' with my head until I hit a wall ♪
I know it's pretty much the same thing
I was talking about earlier.
- Exactly.
- But this is so blatant to me.
And it's called "I Really Don't Care"
and the other song starts with I don't care.
It bothered me, okay, when it came out.
And the worst part is it's a really good song.
The Demi Lovato song, the copy, is a really good song.
And I still like it.
And I still like the original too.
So it's working on me as well.
Dang it.
♪ Love me now, now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now or never ♪
♪ Hey, hey ♪
♪ You needed me ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ You ♪
I don't see what's similar here at all.
They go down the pentatonic scale, both of 'em.
Come on. Come on, that's not the same lyric.
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♪ Flex, time to impress ♪
♪ Come and climb in my bed ♪
♪ Don't be shy, do your thing ♪
♪ It's all in my head ♪
♪ Flex, time to have sex ♪
♪ Long time you have the rude boy a sweat girl ♪
♪ Flex, time to have sex ♪
Huh, that one was kind of interesting.
♪ Flex, time to impress ♪
♪ Flex, time to have sex ♪
I mean, that's a little bit too close for comfort there
with both lyric and melody.
I'm gonna say that actually sounds the same.
To be fair, I do like the Fifth Harmony, the copy, better.
And they kind of fleshed out the melody a lot more.
Like, it's a lot catchier and everything.
But I hope the other guy got some of the money for that.
Just gotta see if there was anything about this.
Mad cobra.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it's credited that.
It contains an interpolation of the 1995 song "Flex"
by Mad Cobra.
So they knew it, that's good.
If he would not have gotten any money for that,
I would have been a mad, mad boy.
♪ Hey ♪
("Same Old Love" playing)
It's just a basic piano thing.
Nah.
Ah. No.
I don't care.
It's not even the same chords, come on.
My eyes roll up into my head, ugh.
♪ Another one ♪
- We the best music!
- Debatable.
- DJ Khaled!
♪ I don't know if you could take it ♪
♪ Ladies and gents ♪
Yeah that's definitely, totally just ripped.
But that also has to be with permission.
Yeah, it's sampled.
But yeah, that makes sense.
When someone samples something,
it has a tendency to sound the same.
♪ Bop ♪
♪ Light my body up ♪
Yep, definitely sounds like
they were inspired by each other.
Even though it's pretty basic,
the way it was like bop and then the beat started with
the same boom, boom, boom.
Definitely similar, probably not enough for a lawsuit.
But I would say that they sound pretty much
exactly the same.
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♪ 'Cause I'm real ♪
♪ The way you walk, the way you move, the way you talk ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm real ♪
♪ Who would've thought baby ♪ ♪ Would be ♪
♪ Missing you baby ♪ ♪ Would you ♪
♪ I need you baby ♪ ♪ Why me? ♪
♪ Why me? ♪
Pretty similar, probably inspired by each other.
There's a lot of technical differences with it
but yeah, when you got something like,
(voice changer effect) a really low voice guy
and then the like, nana thing.
It's hard to deny it though.
It's easy to mix up those two because they're so similar.
I would pretty much say that they sound
exactly the same, parenthesis mind blowing.
(laughing)
♪ Has gone ♪
♪ I'm still all alone ♪
♪ How could this be? ♪
♪ Once I close my eyes ♪
♪ I see me and you at the prom ♪
(laughing)
♪ We've both been waiting so long ♪
It's easy to forget how lame Bieber's music was
when he started.
"I see you and me at the prom." Amazing.
That is very similar though, how it starts.
I don't think they would have to
credit Michael Jackson for that.
But let's see.
Most music critics were skeptical
of the lyrical content presented in the song.
And according to Jon Caramanica of The New York Times,
the songs melody is similar to that
of Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone."
Apparently, it's not credited.
Yeah, it's just really similar.
I need to hear a little bit more of that song,
that's so funny.
Oh, my God. (laughs)
♪ The DJ's playing my favorite song ♪
♪ Ain't no chaperones ♪
♪ This could be the night of your dreams ♪
Ain't no chaperones.
What does that mean?
This could be the night of our dreams?
Is that implying what I think it's implying?
Not okay, Justin.
You were like 14, come on.
Come on, man.
♪ Only if you give ♪
♪ Give the first dance to me ♪
Wait, what?
Oh, my God.
I promise I'll be gentle
but we gotta do it slowly if you give.
What?
What adults were involved in this?
Don't write this with like a 15-year-old dude.
♪ Let's make this a night the two of us remember, ♪
♪ no teachers around to see us dancing close. ♪
(laughing)
This is suggestive.
God, okay.
(laughing)
Oh, my god.
I hope Justin Bieber does that at a concert now though,
that would be hilarious.
♪ Don't stop make it pop ♪
♪ DJ blow my speakers up ♪
♪ Tonight I'ma fight 'til we see the sunlight ♪
Another very minimalistic song.
♪ Tik tok on the clock ♪
♪ California girls, we're unforgettable ♪
♪ Daisy dukes, bikinis on top ♪
♪ Sun kissed ♪
So yeah, I mean those two are very similar.
They're by kind of the same songwriting group as well.
I think for a while there during that era,
a lot of people were like, oh yeah,
we'll just like make a beat that's kind of groovy.
And they would be like,
dun dun duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh.
Like minimalism on one note was super in right then.
(playing piano)
It's like whatever. (wheezing)
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- Super fun.
There was some really interesting ones in here.
A bunch of sounds that sound kind of exactly the same
and some that were not very close.
But they're similar for sure, a lot of them.
I will see you tomorrow in another video. Bye.