Song-A-Like — Lady Antebellum and Alan Parsons Project
I’m titling this post “song-a-like” instead of “music rip-off,” because unlike Lady Gaga’s recent Madonna rip-off, I think this one is up for debate. A kind musician pointed out the similar choruses between Lady Antebellum’s Need You Now and Alan Parsons’ Eye in the Sky, but even he wasn’t convinced that it was intentional. I guess there’s only so many ways to write music, and overlaps are bound to happen. Listen below and judge for yourself.
Oddly enough I had not heard this song (Need You Now) until the Grammy sweep, and everytime they played it, I was singing Eye in the Sky. I did not even realize there was a debate going on about this. It came very naturally. I doubt that it was consciously done – Lady Antellbellum look like they would have been too young to remember when Eye in the Sky was popular (1982?)
Yeah, you might be right. There’s only so many ways to write a song I
suppose. But my musician friend tells me that the comparison is blatantly
obvious.
Well, the fact that I very naturally started singing the lyrics of “Eye in the Sky” is enough to convince me that there may have been some borrowing, but I doubt it was done consciously or intentionally. But you are right – and so is your friend- it’s pretty blatantly obvious.
Yeah. I’m still slightly on the fence. Perhaps it was unconscious.