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** Here's another one: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QBwtHzdSFM "On Melancholy Hill"] vs. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJb1ssF7040 "I Just Called to Say I Love You"].
** Here's another one: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QBwtHzdSFM "On Melancholy Hill"] vs. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJb1ssF7040 "I Just Called to Say I Love You"].
* Barclay James Harvest's song "Poor man's moody blue" sounds very much like "Nights in white satin" by [[The Moody Blues]] (not totally unexpectedly given the song title!)
* Barclay James Harvest's song "Poor man's moody blue" sounds very much like "Nights in white satin" by [[The Moody Blues]] (not totally unexpectedly given the song title!)
* [[Kesha|Ke$ha's]] "Tik Tok" and [[Katy Perry]]'s "California Gurls."
* [[Ke$ha|Ke$ha's]] "Tik Tok" and [[Katy Perry]]'s "California Gurls."
** And before those, [[Lady Gaga]]'s "Just Dance"
** And before those, [[Lady Gaga]]'s "Just Dance"
** Ke$ha also has "Your Love Is My Drug" to Gaga's "Poker Face".
** Ke$ha also has "Your Love Is My Drug" to Gaga's "Poker Face".
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* The song to celebrate the release of OpenBSD 5.1 is a parody of the "Ghostbusters" theme with the melody slightly altered. It even switches in briefly at the end to "I Want a New Drug," which pokes fun at the controversy that "Ghostbusters" was a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] of the former.
* The song to celebrate the release of OpenBSD 5.1 is a parody of the "Ghostbusters" theme with the melody slightly altered. It even switches in briefly at the end to "I Want a New Drug," which pokes fun at the controversy that "Ghostbusters" was a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] of the former.
* [[Miranda Lambert]] said that she unintentionally made her 2005 single "Kerosene" very similar to Steve Earle's "I Feel Alright" and willingly credited him as a co-writer.
* [[Miranda Lambert]] said that she unintentionally made her 2005 single "Kerosene" very similar to Steve Earle's "I Feel Alright" and willingly credited him as a co-writer.
* [[Alan Jackson]]'s "I'll Go On Loving You" has an intro very similar to the ''[[M*A*S*H]]'' theme. A few notes are downright identical, just in a lower key.
* [[Alan Jackson]]'s "I'll Go On Loving You" has an intro very similar to the ''[[M*A*S*H (television)]]'' theme. A few notes are downright identical, just in a lower key.
* The verse in [[Gwen Stefani]]'s "What You Waiting For?" is sung in an almost identical melody to the one in [[Weezer]]'s "Hash Pipe".
* The verse in [[Gwen Stefani]]'s "What You Waiting For?" is sung in an almost identical melody to the one in [[Weezer]]'s "Hash Pipe".