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Made in the am album cost12/31/2022 As New Kids on the Block proved back in the early ’90s, grown-up boy bands going psych-era Beatles in their later work is always a good call. Songs Swiped? The climactic orchestral saunter of the Beatles’ “Penny Lane,” and the vocal cadence of the a capella parts of the verses to HAIM’s “The Wire” (again).ĭo They Work? Undoubtedly. Lawsuit Pending? Muse would probably have the best case, if one two-word exhortation is enough to get a copyright on. Songs Swiped? The casual strut of HAIM’s “The Wire” and the “ COME ON!!” shrieks of Muse’s “Uprising.” Probably some more Graceland-era Paul Simon in there too. Lawsuit Pending? No, but it would be a fascinatingly lame trial. The combined MOR wattage might just be too overwhelming to resist. Songs Swiped? The verse melody of Train’s “Drops of Jupiter,” and the general sway of Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away.”ĭo They Work? It’s a surprisingly potent combination, actually. It’s a classic-sounding-enough melody that they both probably ripped if it off from somewhere else anyway. Song Swiped? The beginning of the chorus to Phillip Phillips’ “Gone, Gone, Gone”ĭoes It Work? Yeah, it certainly sells the refrain. could necessarily claim to be the inventors of fast-slow-epic - or if you can trademark a song structure - but if they could, 1D would be in trouble. Though to be fair, it’s kinda shocking that it even worked as well as it did for fun. Song Swiped? The tone and tempo switch-ups of fun.’s “We Are Young.”ĭoes It Work? Nah, it’s mostly awkward and disruptive. Not a world removed from Miguel and the Smashing Pumpkins, however. Lawsuit Pending? It’s probably just different enough that direct legal action would be ill-advised. Song Swiped? The verse melody and cadence to Neon Trees’ “Animal.”ĭoes It Work? Not especially - the song’s verses are among the album’s weakest. Lawsuit Pending? Could be, though you can almost picture Taylor picking up the phone to call her lawyer, but stopping herself before the first ring. Song Swiped? The chorus melody and cadence to “Style,” by none other than noted Harry Styles ex, Taylor Swift.ĭoes It Work? At being one of the year’s best pop subliminals (“If you’re looking for someone to write your breakup songs about / Baby, I’m perfect”), sure. Liam Payne really does sound like he’s auditioning to be Levine’s Voice-season replacement as Maroon 5 frontman on that chorus, though. Song Swiped? Chorus elements to Robert DeLong’s “Long Way Down,” the nasal vocal pinch of any number of Adam Levine-sung compositions.ĭoes It Work? Kinda, though this is clearly one of the group’s lighter lifts. Any funds they’d recoup by taking such measures would probably have to be funneled straight to the Rolling Stones, though. Lawsuit Pending? Well, the Verve know as well as anyone you can’t be too careful with these things. Song Swiped? The drums and general sweep of The Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony.”ĭoes It Work? Uncannily so - the heart grows three sizes upon hearing the beat kick in for the first time. Read on if you don’t believe us, but don’t judge the boys too harshly for their semi-thievery: One Direction simply treat pop history like the playground it is, and you’d have to be a pretty unapologetic grump to scowl at them for swinging gleefully from the monkey bars. (13 tracks on the standard edition, 17 on the deluxe) has a hook, a melody, a rhythm or a tone that evokes some radio hit of years past - though sometimes just one or two years past. While 1D dipped their toes - all right, maybe a whole foot - into pop’s past on their fourth album, with their fifth, they dive in headfirst. Last year’s Four was led by “Steal My Girl,” whose thunderous piano riff was a deadringer for that of Journey’s classic ’80s power ballad “Faithfully.” The rest of the album ran through pastiches of Paul Simon ( “Girl Almighty”), Fleetwood Mac ( “Fireproof”), and Tears for Fears ( “Stockholm Syndrome”), among subtler lifts that could drive music nerds crazy trying to identify.Įven so, Four was little preparation for Made in the A.M., the group’s fifth album, out today. It was a fun way for the group to build their own sort of pop canon - one that goes as far back as Elvis and as contemporary as Drake - while implicitly making their own bid for inclusion therein.Īpparently, the group had such a good time reliving Top 40’s best moments that they’ve decided to do it with almost their entire catalog since. The third album by British pop superpowers One Direction, 2013’s Midnight Memories, closed with “Better Than Words” - a tribute to about 15 of the greatest love songs ever, with verses that consisted only of those classics’ titles (“How deep is your love? / God only knows, baby”).
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