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Apparently the smash hit song "Stay With Me" by Sam Smith was deemed to be so much like Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" that Petty has been listed as a writer on the song and will receive a 12.5% writing credit and royalties for the song. This was actually settled out of court - it sounds like Smith gave it up voluntarily as soon as people started noting the similarities.
http://www.nme.com/news/sam-smith/82462?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=kanyewest
Except...for me....what similarities? I am not very musically inclined - I don't play anything and never have...can't sing for shit either. But I listen to music like anyone else does and really can't hear anything alike in these songs. Certainly not enough to think it was some sort of blatant rip off of the Tom Petty song. Especially since I had always believed it was very hard to prove this kind of thing and artists rarely have success trying to prove someone stole their songwriting ideas.
What do you think Mayberry?
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http://www.nme.com/news/sam-smith/82462?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=kanyewest
Except...for me....what similarities? I am not very musically inclined - I don't play anything and never have...can't sing for shit either. But I listen to music like anyone else does and really can't hear anything alike in these songs. Certainly not enough to think it was some sort of blatant rip off of the Tom Petty song. Especially since I had always believed it was very hard to prove this kind of thing and artists rarely have success trying to prove someone stole their songwriting ideas.
What do you think Mayberry?
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