The court case that pit Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud against Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On brings up questions around inspiration and theft in songwriting, says this University of Sydney academic.
, agreeing that his song Thinking Out Loud did not breach musical copyright.
Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars altered the credits to Uptown Funk to acknowledge the similarity to The Gap Band’s Oops Upside Your Head. One of the oldest chord progressions in pop is the 12-bar blues - a looping pattern of three chords that is very identifiable. You can hear it in 1950s hits such as the Penguins’ Earth Angel and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers’ Why Do Fools Fall in Love?.
They’re usually the first three chords you learn on an instrument and open up thousands of songs to play - from the rock and roll of Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran, the garage rock of Wild Thing by the Troggs, the bubblegum of Hanson’s Mmmbop and the indie rock of Coldplay’s Yellow, to the modern pop of bad guy by Billie Eilish and good 4 u by Olivia Rodrigo.Rock, pop, blues, doo wop and other musical genres can often be defined by their use of repeated chord progressions.
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