We need a moratorium on these types of complaints! If there are people who dig music comparisons, there's no use in complaining about it. Whether it's people complaining about songs sounding nothing alike
(meanwhile, I posted a very valid example of a certain Nintendo song being based on a famous children's song a while back), or the inevitable music snobs that swoop in to whine about "common chord progressions" or whatnot, it's getting very, very annoying. I keep saying someone should start a thread just for video game songs that sound like other songs, but maybe I'll have to be the one to do it. Rule #1 would be: "if it sounds like a coincidence to you, don't cry about it".
This is a thread about astounding facts about videogames that people never knew. Quite frankly, 95% of the "this song sounds like this song" are completely ill-founded.
It's the spreading of this misinformation that's sort of irritating to me. I think it's cool that people find small similarities in songs, but there's zero evidence that one composer "copied" another just because someone found a coincidence. The fact is, songs are formulaic, and when you go for a specific genre/style/region in composing, it can sound like something else that was also written under similar influences.
Your example that you provided is one of the worst offenders, in my opinion. But here's the worst part - you refer to people who are knowledgeable in music as "music snobs", scoffing at their proclamations of "chord progressions or whatnot".
Except their claims are based around fact, while yours are based around speculation. You end up sounding stupid by dismissing this.
Again, I don't care that people find similarities between songs - they exist
EVERYWHERE. But 95% of the time, it's nothing but a coincidence because of the way that music is composed. I wish people understood this, but it's really hard to "teach" someone about music through a few paragraphs of text.
