Dua Lipa Houdini vs Talk Talk It’s My Life

The song Houdini by Dua Lipa is a pretty blatant rip off of It’s My Life by Talk Talk. Unfortunately, the younger generation will know this song as a No Doubt jam because of their lackluster cover, but the cool kids know what’s up. Most of the violation is in ...

Ed Sheeran Photograph VS Matt Cardle Amazing Lawsuit

Ed Sheeran, the lovable Ginger Pixie, is being sued for 20 million dollars (Yikes!) by songwriters Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard claiming that their song Amazing By Matt Cardle was plagiarized by Ed's bombastic pop single Photograph, which has sold more than 3.5 million copies around the world as well ...

Adele Hello vs Tom Waits Martha

We've been waiting for a new album from Adele for four years. She makes it easy for us to figure this out since she uses her age as the album title. There appears to be some similarities between the first single title Hello, and the song Martha by Tom Waits ...

Beck Dreams vs MGMT Electric Feel

Beck is coming off of his Grammy winning album Morning Phase with a very danceable single Dreams from his upcoming record. This genre change is pretty typical for him, and it's refreshing to see it still happens after such a giant album that found many new fans. Dreams sounds a ...

Ed Sheeran Thinking Out Loud vs John Hiatt Have a Little Faith in Me

Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud sounds a lot like John Hiatt's Have a Little Faith in Me from his 1987 album Bring the Family. We can't blame the young British singer-songwriter with the messy ginger hobbit hairstyle too much, because it's a very basic melody and chord structure that ...

Last Christmas Wham vs Nobody Sylvia

Last Christmas (1984) by the pop duo Wham! has become a bonafide holiday classic tune which spins heavily on your FM dial every December and brings in some nice royalties for songwriter George Michael, not to be confused with the character George Michael from Arrested Development played by Michael Cera. ...