Unfortunate Sonic Coincidences
b'Here are a couple of musical terms you may have heard of\\u2026\\n\\n\\n\\nEarworm: that\\u2019s when a clip of a song keeps running through your head on a loop over and over and over again.\\n\\n\\nMondegreen: a misheard lyric\\u2026a great example is in Jimi Hendrix\\u2019s \\u201cPurple Haze\\u201d\\u2026he sings \\u201c\\u2019scuse me while i kiss the sky\\u201d\\u2026some people hear that as \\u201c\\u2019scuse me while i kiss this guy\\u201d\\u2026there are lots of mondegreens in popular music\\u2026\\n\\n\\nI propose we need a third term\\u2026it\\u2019s that opinion that overcomes us when we believe one song sounds almost exactly like another\\u2026\\n\\nI know you know what i mean\\u2026you hear a new song and a brief sense of d\\xe9j\\xe0 vu fills your head as your brain tries to correlate its musical database with what you\\u2019re hearing\\u2026and when all the processing is completely, you might think (a) \\u201chey! Someone ripped off [artist x]!\\u201d\\u2026or (b) \\u201csomeone\\u2019s gonna get sued!\\u201d\\u2026\\n\\nBut you know something?...it\\u2019s not that simple\\u2026far, far from it\\u2026welcome to the murky world of unfortunate sonic coincidences\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'