Plagiarism in Music.

The lawyer thing works both ways, though. When a person who worked closely with Canadian singer/songwriter Feist noted the comparisons between one of her songs and Hozier's Take Me To Church, Hozier did a DOB and threatened legal action. Guy realised he would never be able (or possibly willing) to take on Hozier, so backed down and issued an apology.

The similarity was allegedly in the verse parts of both songs:

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/hozier-and-feist-compare-the-two-1.2380870

It's a slightly different melody and time that you would normally hear in pop music, and Hozier has previously mentioned how much he rates Feist.

And a related post from Broadsheet:
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2015/10/15/aayymen/

melissak wrote: »

Harsh.

Well the lyrics of the song and his voice etc are great but the thing that made it a hit, apart from an iconic video, was a Jagger/Richards hook
If you borrow someone else's gift you can't really complain when they take most of the credit

loyatemu wrote: »

the irritating thing about that one (from the Verve's point of view) is that the orchestral bit they sampled isn't even in the Stones version - its from an orchestral cover. So Jagger and Richards are getting 100% of the profits for a riff that they didn't write either.

But Jagger/Richards wrote the music that the Orchestra covered.

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Beat this:

http://m.mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=27501

That's some madness right there though. Rock on CCR.