It's happened to me countless times! It almost feels like there is no such thing as new music; perhaps every "new" song is just a remake of something older.
There is no way this song is really new.
On YouTube, one of my favorite channels - Vsauce - made an interesting case for this theory. Perhaps we sometime long ago reached the maximum number of melody combinations and are going through the loop again!
Unlikely. But you must admit that it is a curious phenomenon.
Most interestingly, the video mentions a cool website called Sounds Just Like, that points out similarities in popular songs. At first, it was interesting to see so many songs that sound alike, but it quickly became sad.
Why are there sooo many songs that sound like other songs? Sure, artists are often inspired by art, but why does California Gurls sound like Tik Tok?
Granted, they are both California Gurls...
There is a fine line between being inspired by an older song & remaking it and shamelessly stealing a melody to make a new song off of it.
However, is it such a bad thing to sample music to make new songs? After all, it takes an artist to rework a song about weed into a song about breaking up, right?
What do you think? Is a number of similarities in songs a sign of the musical apocalypse or is it simply a different expression of creativity?
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