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♪ Hey hey you you ♪
♪ I could be your girlfriend ♪
♪ Hey hey you you ♪
♪ I wanna be your boyfriend ♪
- [Joel] They must have been credited for that,
otherwise I'm, become angry Joel.
Welcome back to the channel, BFFs. It's me, Joel
from Roomie Official, the biggest music expert in the world,
as you can see from the piano I have behind me.
Someone pointed it out the other day I said piano,
but what I really should have said was keyboard.
I don't care. It's a piano. It's got piano keys.
That's how much of a music expert I am.
Anyway, today we're gonna be looking at more songs
that sound exactly the same and try to figure out:
do they really sound exactly the same?
What are the differences and similarities?
I'm gonna put 'em into like, Pro Tools or whatever
or play them on the piano. We'll see how similar they are.
Please watch this video to the end. There's a lot
of interesting examples. Let's get started fellas.
Okay, so first off we have a Maroon 5 song, What Lovers Do
versus Sexual by NEIKED.
(upbeat pop music)
♪ Say say say hey hey now baby ♪
♪ Oh my my don't play now baby ♪
(upbeat pop music)
♪ You got that thing ♪
♪ That I been looking for ♪
♪ Been running around for so long ♪
♪ Now I got you I won't let you go ♪
- [Joel] I mean, so far that's pretty similar actually.
There's different keys and everything, but there's
definitely something going on with it that feels kind of,
very inspired. Let's get that into Pro Tools.
Okay, so I matched the songs up in tempo in my music
program. Needed a little bit of tempo adjustment,
but there's definitely some similarities. I think
especially in the arrangements. So for example.
(upbeat pop music)
- [Joel] And then.
♪ Say say say hey hey now baby ♪
- [Joel] Compared to this.
(upbeat pop music)
♪ You got that thing that I been looking for ♪
- [Joel] It's more of a sound and arrangement thing
than exact, because the chords ar a little bit different.
It seems to close for comfort I would say.
What happens if I pitch it at the same key?
(upbeat pop music)
- [Joel] Compared to.
(upbeat pop music)
- [Joel] Then suddenly it starts feeling a lot more similar.
♪ Say say say hey hey now baby ♪
♪ You got that thing that I been looking for ♪
- [Joel] There's also something about the vocal melody
as well. It's kind like, you know, they're repetitive
that way. If any of these things were just alone,
I wouldn't think that, oh yeah this is a copy.
But when it's like all of them together, it seems
very, very heavily inspired. Let's keep watching.
♪ Gotta tell me if you love me or not ♪
♪ Love me or not ♪
♪ You are you are ♪
- [Joel] Okay again, that's very similar I arrangement, like
the long path in the back, and it's just too similar.
It's definitely inspired. It's copied, okay?
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, been wishin' for you ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Tryna do what lovers do ooh ♪
♪ Just say you feel the way that I feel ♪
♪ I'm feelin' sexual ♪
♪ So we should be sexual ♪
- [Joel] Yeah, it's definitely, definitely inspired
and copied. Big ole' copy on that. Let's see if they
actually credited that. Okay, so it says
in the Wikipedia page that it contains an interpolation
and that they are credited as songwriters on it.
So that's cool. Rip offs that are being credited.
I wonder if that happened before or after people pointed
it out though. It seems like a really weird add-on here
on the end so it feels like maybe it happened later.
Therefore they're credited as songwriters, but
I don't know. It's interesting. Funny if they ripped it off
and then just got put in place. That's funny.
The might be liable for a law suit but I'm also like,
the base line (imitates melody) I very similar to many,
many songs, including stuff like Teenage Dream
by Katy Perry. Those chords are like--
(piano chords)
- [Joel] Oh no! I just realized they do use the same chords.
Oh my God, I'm an idiot! In the verse,
the chords are exactly the same! That puts it in a whole
other ballpark of rip off. Oh, that's hilarious. Okay.
There's only one tiny difference in the chords so,
basically the Maroon 5 song does this--
(plays upbeat pop music)
- [Joel] And the only difference is one base note
in the sexual song. It's like, they go here.
That's the only difference, oh my God. Okay.
It's totally ripped off now. I can see it.
Sorry for being so slow. The whole arrangement, the chords,
the little flutters of vocal samples, even kind of
the concept of the melody in the verses. Oh my God.
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♪ I'm losing my self control ♪
♪ Yeah you're starting to trickle back in ♪
♪ You hate that I usually don't open up ♪
♪ I know when I say it doesn't say enough ♪
- [Joel] Okay so chords are similar, vibes are similar.
But it's not close enough for me yet to say
that it's a rip off. It might be that the songwriters
of Katy Perry's song dd work with it as a reference,
and they were just like, "Yeah, well let's keep it in the
ballpark of this, but be far away enough so that
it's not gonna be incriminating."
♪ Just because it's over doesn't mean it's really over ♪
♪ And if I think it over maybe I'll be comin' over again ♪
♪ And I'll have to get over you all over again ♪
♪ You know how they say you got the real thing ♪
♪ When nothing else matters I love you like that ♪
♪ I love you like that ♪
♪ I love ya, I love ya, I love ya like that ♪
- [Joel] Okay, there we have it. It's very similar.
Come on! That's pretty much stolen. Of course, like
if you went note by notes, no it's not the same.
But it's the same key. It's the same beat.
And almost the same melodies. Definitely the same melodic
concept. Come on.
♪ Just because it's over doesn't mean it's really over ♪
- [Joel] This is the one note thing here.
♪ You know how they say you got the real thing ♪
♪ When nothing else matters I love you like that ♪
- [Joel] They did end on another note there,
so you gotta point that out. It's so close.
Definitely inspired, I would say.
People get inspired by stuff, and the pop music industry
is like, "Yeah, that works. Let's do a version of that."
You can discuss to what extent that's cool or good,
but it works. Like, I haven't heard this Dagny song
that much, but when I heard the Katy Perry song, I was like,
"Oh, this is good!" It's sad that it's like that.
People hear something that sounds good, and then
they're like, "Okay I'll just change it up a little bit."
I'll probably end up doing this in the future as well.
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with the video. Okay so, Coldplay's Vida La Vida
versus Joe Satriani's If I Could Fly.
♪ I used to roll the dice ♪
♪ Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes ♪
(guitar riff)
- [Joel] That is close! That is close.
It's also like kind of the natural thing you play on top
of those chords, and it's not the most uncommon chord
progression ever, but yeah, I kind of want
to put them together in the recording program,
because that will sound funny on top of each other.
I was like, yeah this is just gonna be a few notes
that line sup, but it lined up pretty well throughout.
That's crazy! Okay, so I've overlapped 'em,
put them in the same tempo, and pitched the Satriani song
so it's in the same key. And it's, it's petty similar.
I'll put them in the right and left speaker for ya.
It's a bit ridiculous how close it is.
♪ Roll the dice ♪
♪ Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes ♪
♪ Listen as the choir sings ♪
- [Joel] Yeah, it's, it seems too close for comfort.
It really does. God.
Okay so apparently this one went to court,
but it was dismissed by the judge, okay.
They both had to pay their own legal fees, and it seems like
they settled out of court. Most likely that Coldplay
paid Satriani off. Makes sense to me. Next.
Okay so next up is Ed Sheeran's Shape Of You
versus Sia's Cheap Thrills. Let's have a listen.
♪ The club isn't the best place to find a lover ♪
♪ So the bar is where I go mmmm ♪
♪ Me and my friends at the table doing shots ♪
♪ Drink it fast and then we talk slow ♪
♪ C'mon c'mon turn the radio on ♪
♪ It's Friday night and I won't be long ♪
♪ Gotta do my hair put my make up on ♪
♪ It's Friday night and I won't be long ♪
- [Joel] Okay, this one I just don't hear at all.
Potentially, maybe there was a little bit of inspiration,
but like, nah, I just, I don't see it. It's not the same
chords. The melodies aren't similar. Even if it was inspired
It's such light inspiration. Come on. Who I thinking this?
The only thing is like, there's a certain rhythm
in the chords. Imagine if every rock song that had eighths
on the guitar, like (imitates beat)
would be like, oh yeah, that's a copy. Come on.
Okay, let's move on before I get angry.
Okay here we have Fun Some Nights, versus Simon
and Garfunkle Cecilia. Interesting.
♪ Some nights I wish that lips could build a castle ♪
♪ Some nights I wish they'd just fall off ♪
♪ Oh Cecilia I'm down on my knees ♪
♪ I'm beggin' you please to come home ♪
♪ Anymore oooooh oooooh ooh ♪
♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪
- [Joel] Hmm that's interesting. Like it sounds
very inspired, but not the same still. I could see Fun
having used Cecilia as the reference for that song,
writing of course. Rather, I'm certain they must have
had it in their back of their heads that they liked
that song and they wanted to do something similar.
Especially the chords seem a little bit too close,
because it's kind of like a weird "rhythmisation"
with the (imitates beat)
And also the "oh oh oh" thing is probably one of the things
you can pick up if you're like, oh yeah they had that,
so I'm gonna do the "whoa whoa whoa" thing.
Sounds pretty similar. It's more inspiration
than something else.
♪ Cecilia you're breakin' my heart ♪
(overlapping singing)
- [Joel] Yeah, totally pretty close.
Okay, so Avril Lavigne Girlfriend versus The Rubinoos
I Want To Be Your Boyfriend.
If this is similar, then it's pretty incriminating
with the titles. Let's have a listen.
♪ Hey hey you you I don't like your girlfriend ♪
♪ No way no way I think you need a new one ♪
- [Joel] Ugh, I hate this song.
♪ Hey hey you you I could be your girlfriend ♪
♪ Hey hey you you I wanna be your boyfriend ♪
♪ I'm tryna say I wanna be your number one ♪
♪ Hey hey you you I wanna be your boyfriend ♪
- [Joel] Okay, that's just a straight rip of the first
half of that chorus, I mean, come on.
They must have been credited for that.
Otherwise, I'm become angry Joel. That's crazy!
Okay, it's written by Lavigne and Dr. Luke.
The songwriters of I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend sued Lavigne
and Dr. Luke for copyright infringement. The suit was later
settled. Yeah, they paid 'em off. Of course they did.
That would've been an easy win. Come on! Oh my God.
They did not, like reach out to them before they released
that? That's insane! Did they think they could get away
with that?
♪ Hey hey you you I don't like your girlfriend ♪
♪ Hey hey you you I wanna be your boyfriend ♪
- Now that I'm listening to it again, the melodies
are different. The boyfriend version isn't as like--
(imitates annoying melody)
It's kinda like, if you would harmonize
on the I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend song, you would
get that, pretty much. Yeah, still super close. Bruh!
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Jason Derulo Cheyenne versus Taylor Swift Style, okay.
♪ I'm a little unsure how we got so complicated ♪
- [Joel] That's such a good voice.
♪ If I let go I know I'll regret it. ♪
(elevator music)
- [Joel] Wait, what was similar here? The synth wave beat?
♪ If I let go I know I'll regret it ♪
- [Joel] Okay, so for a few years there in the pop scene,
these synth wave beats with the pumping basses were like
on every song. It's very hard to say the two songs that
used it are like, the same. And the chords are too basic
to say anything. It's whatever. It's fashion, right?
It's like Gucci using something and then like,
other fashion brands are like, "Yeah we'll do something
similar because that looks cool and people will like it,
because Gucci did it." Not saying that like, Jason Derulo
is a rip off and Taylor Swift is the original. I think
both of them are really big and awesome artists.
It's just fashion. You look at each other.
That's how trends persist. Taylor Swift's Look What You Made
Me Do versus Right Side Fred I'm Too Sexy.
♪ Oh look what you made me do ♪
♪ Look what you made me do ♪
♪ Look what you just made me do ♪
♪ Look what you just made me ♪
♪ I'm too sexy for Milan ♪
(Laughing)
- [Joel] No, not at all. It's just talking.
Like, it's not close! It's not even close to close.
It's far from close. They're just talking.
Oh look what you made me do.
I'm too sexy for my shirt.
It's one of the very natural rhythms you can get
when you're talking. It's whatever.
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