Here are a couple of musical terms you may have heard of…

I propose we need a third term…it’s that opinion that overcomes us when we believe one song sounds almost exactly like another…

I know you know what i mean…you hear a new song and a brief sense of déjà vu fills your head as your brain tries to correlate its musical database with what you’re hearing…and when all the processing is completely, you might think (a) “hey! Someone ripped off [artist x]!”…or (b) “someone’s gonna get sued!”…

But you know something?...it’s not that simple…far, far from it…welcome to the murky world of unfortunate sonic coincidences…

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