(via NPR)
by Sean Cole
Can a band plagiarize itself? One listener in Canada has implied as much by taking two songs by the band Nickelback and superimposing them over one another to emphasize the similarity.
Mikey Smith, a 21-year-old college student and musician in Alberta, Canada, heard two of the bands songs on the radio and immediately noticed something was strange.
I kind of noticed, well, you can hum the melody of the other one over this one, and I wondered why this is, Smith says. So I tried to put them together, one on the left speaker, one on the right speaker. And it was actually ridiculous how similar they were.
What Smith noticed was that Nickelbacks earlier hit song, How You Remind Me, sounded very similar to one of the bands newest songs, Someday. Once the similarity was discovered, the songs started piggybacking around the Internet with the moniker How You Remind Me of Someday...
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