♪ Ooh woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks, now ♪
♪ Oh yes, wait a minute, Mr. Postman ♪
- Okay so the melody lines are exactly the same.
Welcome back to another daily video.
Today we're gonna be looking at songs that the
internet has decided sound exactly the same.
By the way if you really like this video
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without the sound, which is a great idea.
Anyway in this video we go a little bit deeper.
We compare the songs in my music program.
And sometimes I play 'em on the piano.
We do a bunch of cool musici bits.
Make sure to watch this video 'til the end.
Or your pipi will shrink.
Okay let's get started.
Ed Sheeran "Shape of You" versus TLC's "No Scrubs".
Let's go.
♪ Girl you know I want your love. ♪
♪ Your love was handmade for somebody like me. ♪
♪ Come on now, follow my lead. ♪
♪ I may be crazy, don't mind me. ♪
♪ Say, ♪
♪ No, I don't want no scrub. ♪
♪ A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me. ♪
♪ hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride ♪
♪ trying to holla at me. ♪
- Hmmm
I don't know how I feel about this one.
I don't think it's that close.
I think I know what they're talking about.
Let's get it into the music program
and check for ourselves,
if it's similar at all.
Pitch 'em into the same key.
Et cetera.
Let's see if the melodies or anything
is similar.
And I play 'em on top of each other.
I usually play them in one ear and the other ear.
But a lot of people wanted to hear them
just on top of each other.
So let's do that for this video.
Let's see.
(songs play at the same time)
- I honestly don't think that's very close at all.
I can see an inspiration in the Ed Sheeran thing.
He probably did use it as an inspiration.
But even when pitched to the same key
they don't start in the same notes.
(songs play at the same time)
It kinda sounds like they're harmonizing on each other.
So right now we have both songs in this key.
It's whatever.
D flat minor.
The TLC song starts here.
(piano playing)
And the Ed Sheeran song is like
(piano playing)
I don't really see it.
Yes, the rhythm is kinda there.
But the rhythm is also very different.
Okay I'm gonna say this one is not similar.
I actually do know the details to this
and Ed Sheeran is paying royalties to TLC
for this song.
Because he referenced it while writing.
I don't think he should have.
I think this is just clear inspiration but not Stalin.
Am I right?
Shoutout to my Tommy Craze fans out there.
Let's check the Wikipedia page.
Shape of You bla bla bla bla bla
"Due to its interpolation of "No Scrubs" the writers
of that song are also credited as songwriters."
I think that's crazy, honestly.
I can see why Ed Sheeran is careful nowadays tho.
Because he has actually done some things
that have been more on the line with other songs.
I guess he just like whenever.
He even has a hint of another song in his head
while he's recording.
Like "Yeah we gotta pay these guys."
(laughs)
He's been featured a lot in these videos.
By the way this is the forth installment.
We have other videos similar to this one.
So check those out later.
We'll link to them at the end of the video.
"Sheeran said he wanted an RB feel to the song.
Therefore he adjusted the original tune
adding an interpolation of "No Scrubs"
onto part of the melody."
Interpolation what does that even mean?
"The insertion of something of a different nature
into something else."
I guess Ed has enough money to just
give it away.
Even tho it's not that similar.
It might be that it's the lyrics that does it.
Okay I guess sometimes I get to technical
with the musical stuff and kind of overlook
the lyrical content.
Okay, so let's pair up lines.
"Girl you know I want your love.
No I don't want no scrub."
Yeah.
The first line is kinda close.
(sings)
Maybe there is something to this actually.
Okay.
(sings)
The more I look at this the more similar they feel.
What did I miss?
And then you have two lines that
don't really match up at all.
"Hanging out the passenger side
of his best friend's ride trying to holler at me."
And "Come on now, follow my lead.
I may be crazy, don't mind me."
They don't really match up that well.
Apart from maybe "me".
I don't know if you guys know this
but the word "me" is pretty commonly used
in language.
Maybe I'm slow.
I'm very sorry.
I feel like I'm calling myself out of it.
But yeah it's a little bit of a rollercoaster.
I'm starting to lean towards that it was probably
good that he did it.
But I think that Ed would not have been in trouble
for a lawsuit around this.
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I make a lot of this stuff.
Next copy, or whatever you wanna call it.
Maybe not a copy.
We see what the next one is.
Okay, so here we have Meghan Trainor
"All about That Bass".
What a bop.
What happened to that?
Well I haven't heard about Meghan Trainor in two years.
Versus Koyote "Happy Mode".
Let's have a listen.
I've never heard of Koyote "Happy Mode".
♪ Yeah, my mama she told me, "Don't worry about your size" ♪
♪ She says, "Boys like a little more booty to hold at night" ♪
♪ And, no, I won't ♪
Okay, so before we even move on I feel like
that Meghan Trainor song is very much like
"Oh, it's this like classic 50s song.
This sounds like a prestige almost of
songs from like the 50s through 60s.
I don't know exactly what that kid
I'm talking about.
You know what I'm talking about if you listen
to old music.
There's a lot of stuff that sounds very similar
to that.
Both in melody and arrangement.
♪ So if that's what what's you're into ♪
♪ Then go ahead and move along. ♪
(korean song playing)
Okay, so the melody lines are exactly the same.
They really are.
But it's also a typical melody.
It's just the scaled down.
(humming)
(piano playing)
It's pretty much wanting to corporate the scale
at that point.
Let's actually get it into the music program tho.
Just to check stuff like the rhythm and everything.
Okay, so as always I have timestrechted them.
However I didn't have to pitch it at all.
They are already in the same key.
Which made it a little bit weird I gotta say.
That made me feel a little bit weirder about it.
But yeah, listen to this.
This was interesting actually.
♪ Yeah, my mama she told me, "Don't worry about your size" ♪
(korean song playing)
The way it continues is kinda like
the natural way to continue the melody on those chords.
Which are not uncommon chords by the stretch
of the imagination.
But, it might sound if you haven't heard a lot of
music using this type of chord structures.
Like "Oh my God, yeah it's copied."
But it's melody lines that follow the chords basically.
(songs play at the same time)
There's a few too many similarities for it
to totally just be like "Yeah, no, it's nothin'."
I don't know.
(laughs)
It's very difficult.
In the chaos of the world they both came up
with pretty much the exact same melody there.
Totally different markets.
Totally different everythings.
One's in japanese intended for what I think
is just the japanese market.
It kinda blows my mind but I guess
it's just not as genius as she might think that it is.
It's pretty basic.
Okay, so there is a mention of "Happy Mode"
on the Wikipedia page.
It says ""All about That Bass" has also been
described as melodically similar to the 2006 song
"Happy Mode" by South Korean group Koyote."
It was South Korean.
I'm Sorry.
I don't know the difference of different languages.
I'm an idiot, okay?
Just leave it at that.
I'm an idiot.
Don't listen to me.
"And both songs have been noted for their similarity
to the 1989 song "Contact" by American rock band Phish."
So that song was even before the other one.
So let's have a look at that then.
♪ The tires are the things on your car ♪
♪ That make contact with the road ♪
(laughs)
♪ The tires are the things on your car ♪
♪ That make contact with the road ♪
This makes it even more obvious, when you get
kinda like the bassinova jazzy beat in the background.
It's a super basic jazzy melody
on that type of harmony.
It just kind of plays itself, rights itself.
Let's move on to the next one.
Jennifer Lopez "On the Floor" versus Kaoma "Lambada".
Okay, Kaoma from "Lambada".
You haven't heard Kaoma from "Lambada"?
♪ Dance the night away ♪
♪ Live your life and stay young on the floor ♪
♪ Dance the night away ♪
♪ Grab somebody, drink a little more ♪
This is a sample, right?
I'm sure I've heard both of these songs.
(music playing)
Yeah.
(music playing)
This is a hundred percent the sample.
They would never have gotten away
with just stealing that.
Let's check it to be sure.
But yeah, that's just the sample.
Oh my God the original is so much better.
I've got nothing against J-LO
but also she's got Pitbull on the track, right?
Pitbull, I love Pitbull.
I just never wanna hear his music.
Anyone else share that mentality of like...
I wan't Pitbull to exist and be famous but
I just don't wanna hear anything he makes.
Oh it gets even more complicated actually.
There's an original song from 1982
called "Llorando se fue" that the Kaoma song sampled.
And then Jennifer Lopez sampled not Kaoma
but "Llorando se fue".
I'm butchering these names.
I know it.
(music playing)
Sounds like "The Curse of Monkey Island" soundtrack.
Not enough people use pan flutes anymore.
Bring back the pan flute.
2020 year of the pan flute.
Come on guys.
Portugal. The Man "Feel it still"
versus The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman".
Okay, I don't think I've ever heard
any of these songs before.
Let's have a gander.
♪ Ooh woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks, now ♪
I have heard this song.
I apologize.
♪ I been feeling it since 1966, now ♪
♪ Might be over now, but I feel it still ♪
♪ Oh yes, wait a minute Mr. Postman ♪
♪ Wait Mr. Postman ♪
Okay, it's only that phrase that's supposed to be similar?
I agree that the first phrases are similar.
Portugal. The Man seems like the type of artist
that might listen to a lot of old music
and get inspired by it.
So maybe.
Hard to know for sure.
Not really lots to talk about with this.
♪ Ooh woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks, now ♪
♪ Oh yes, wait a minute Mr. Postman ♪
(humming)
Again it's pop music.
It's not rocket science.
They could definitely have come up
with that exact melody both of 'em.
And what I think really makes Portugal. The Man's
song work is the second phrase
♪ I been feeling it since 1966, now ♪
That's what makes it like "Oh this is a bop."
So yeah, I don't know.
Here we have Lana Del Rey "Get Free" versus
Radiohead "Creep" versus The Hollies
"The Air That I Breathe".
That's a lot of versuses.
I'm not sure if I can keep track of all these versuses.
♪ Finally, ♪
♪ I'm crossing the threshold ♪
♪ From the ordinary world ♪
Man I'm feeling so emo right now.
♪ When you were here before ♪
♪ Couldn't look you in the eye ♪
♪ You're just like an angel ♪
♪ Your skin makes me cry ♪
Wait, what are we listening after?
This songs are so slow and boring.
I just zoned out.
(laughs)
Is that an edgy statement?
♪ If I could make a wish ♪
♪ I think I'd pass ♪
I'm so confused.
What are we listening to?
Are they similar in the way they're super boring?
So, they're unlistenable?
All of these songs sound like when you're
buy a new synth and it's got like
one of those inbuilt orchestras so you can play.
(instrument playing)
(beat boxing sounds)
♪ This is my commitment ♪
♪ My modern manifesto ♪
♪ I'm doing it for all of us ♪
♪ Who never got the chance ♪
♪ But I'm a creep ♪
♪ I'm a weirdo ♪
Okay I could hear it there.
♪ What the hell am I doing here? ♪
♪ I don't belong here ♪
There's something in here.
I hear that the chords are about the same.
However, it's 9 P.M. in the evening.
These songs are making me really sleepy, really bored.
I'm just going to say this.
I know "Creep" is an iconic song.
It's too slow.
It's boring.
Fine me.
Fine me in the comments.
Tell me that I'm an idiot but I can't even listen to them.
Whatever, let them copy eachother.
I don't care.
Let's just have a look at if there is any lawsuits
and move on.
"In January 2018, Del Rey confirmed speculation
that Radiohead had filed a copyright lawsuit
against her and her team for alleged similarities
between "Get Free" and their hit song "Creep".
Interesting.
So there is actually...
Oh my God.
The bulk of this Wikipedia page
is only about the Lawsuit.
"Radiohead asked for one hundred percent royalties
instead of her offer of forty percent.
She denied that "Creep" had inspired "Get Free"."
Okay.
"In March, Del Rey told an audience that
"my lawsuit's over, I guess I can sing
that song any time I want."
Prior to the suit, Radiohead themselves
were sued over "Creep"" from the song we watched as well.
"The Air That I Breathe"
They actually gave songwriting credit to that old song.
Oh my God.
I can't do it, whatever.
I'll get it into the music program.
I'm intrigued now it's so boring tho.
These songs are boring.
I sound like a toddler.
Okay so I got them in the music program finally.
Synced up, pitched, whatever.
First off, the old song I don't see why
did Radiohead have to pay them royalties?
It's just the same chords.
These are pretty basic chords.
I was playing these on the regular in songs
when I was like 14,15 years old and I'm sure
people have done that way earlier than I have.
Because I was by no means some kind of
seventh when it came to chords.
In C will be C, E major, F minor.
It's the most basic kind of like low in chords
if you go outside of the key.
I'm getting to technical.
However, there's no black magic going on with that.
So I'm just totally gonna cut the old song out.
Let's just delete it.
I deleted it.
The Lana Del Rey slash Radiohead thing
is more interesting to me.
After pitching them I can definitely hear it.
You gotta acknowledge that there's
just a little bit of similarities.
Then should Radiohead get money for it?
I don't know.
Like, it's still not that close.
But, I think just waving it away like that
make her seam a little bit unlikeable.
It get that it's a little bit weird
by Radiohead to also go after someone
for copying their song that they already
lost a lawsuit about copying parts of it
from someone else.
Does that make sense?
And I put 'em the right an left speaker
because that's how you hear it the easiest.
Lana to the left, Radiohead to the right.
(songs play at the same time)
(humming)
That's a little bit of a weird melody to me
and that makes me think that they were inspired by it.
Either on purpose or just in the back of their heads
when they were writing the Lana song.
But it seems to close for comfort to me.
(songs play at the same time)
That's different for sure.
(songs play at the same time)
Those are pretty similar.
I think Lana's in hot water with this one
to be honest.
I assume she paid them off.
Let's just say that.
Be happy, be smiley.
We need that in life right now.
We need a bit more smiles.
Let's be happy Radiohead got some money
that they probably should have had.
That's hopefully what happened.
I'm just guessing anyway.
Maybe she just punched the lead singer
in the face.
Just like "You not getting my money!"
And he was like "Oh okay I'm sorry.
Just don't punch me anymore."
That's probably what happened.
Let's be real.
I'm also scared of Lana punching me, so yeah.
Actually would you look at the time?
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