Am I the only person who hears the similarities?

powellmacaque · #1 12-25-2009, 11:12 PM

Ok. Call out my manliness if you may, but my (now ex) girlfriend played this Taylor Swift song for me called "That's the Way I Loved You" and it sounded familiar to me.

I picked my brain for a few hours, then realized the main verse melody sounds quite similar to "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne. I told her, and she said she didn't hear it. It sounds the same to me, just the rhythm on the first two notes is different. Am I nuts and just hearing things????

here are youtube clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMfllFDF6hI&NR=1
^Taylor Swift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGXYAJoDWCk
^Avril Lavigne

For what it's worth: I know many songs have similar melodies, I just thought it was weird that my ex didn't hear that she was listening to regurgitated melodies. She's even a musical person! (sings and plays violin, but mostly does ballet) I am not trying to bash either artist, they're obviously doing better than I am!

rollcall · #2 12-25-2009, 11:16 PM

thank god she is your ex. I had trouble deciding which pitch corrected "song" was better. The similarity is there. And they both were bad.

powellmacaque · #3 12-25-2009, 11:21 PM

Haha. Her taste in music was far from one of her finer qualities.

Captain Scrummy · #4 12-25-2009, 11:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by powellmacaque

Haha. Her taste in music was far from one of her finer qualities.

Just one, or did those qualities come in a pair... and yes, I do find those two songs to be quite similar.

uglymutt · #5 12-25-2009, 11:33 PM

I hear similarities and i'm not very musical.

powellmacaque · #6 12-25-2009, 11:33 PM

Haha. She was a dancer, so there were no pairs. So one quality. Well, if hips and backside count as two, then two.

Needless to say, I tolerated mindless pop music from her mp3 player for nearly two years. She ended our relationship the other day after the biggest gig in my life

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But then I fixed it by treating myself to a new chorus pedal.

Bass playing - 1, Relationships - 0

Bring on the groupies

MikeBass · #7 12-25-2009, 11:40 PM

That's nothing...
Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4_f6pfabQk

powellmacaque · #8 12-25-2009, 11:46 PM

You made me dig it up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

Edit: I play pop-punk, and I love the good ol' I V VI IV and all the variants. But with the same chord progression, there are infinite melodies. I just can't stand repeated melodies going unnoticed.

Luke19Boarder · #9 12-25-2009, 11:56 PM

taylor swift's got another song that sounds eerily identical to a different song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n44I3UG7jo

check that out and give yourself a nice facepalm.

MikeBass · #10 12-26-2009, 12:08 AM

Listen to 4 Non Blonds "What's Up" and sing Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry- Be Happy" over the changes............
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwCt0YQPn7g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bNE-5TVAmg

powellmacaque · #11 12-26-2009, 12:16 AM

Here I was thinking "well Taylor Swift actually writes her own stuff AND she's popular AND she's a country artist?!" There goes that celebrity crush.

Munjibunga · #12 12-26-2009, 12:32 AM

Similar, but not close enough to get anybody sued.