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01 Jul 2010, 12:51 am

Every time I listen to We Didn't Start the Fire, I think the tune honestly sounds so incredibly familiar to Dancing in the Dark.

Don' get me wrong: We Didn't Start the Fire is one of my all time favorite songs, but the tunes just sounds so similar; am I missing something?



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01 Jul 2010, 2:48 am

The tune is certainly similar, and given the similarity between "can't start a fire" and "we didn't start the fire" it's likely a deliberate reference, yeah.


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01 Jul 2010, 2:51 am

Ambivalence wrote:
The tune is certainly similar, and given the similarity between "can't start a fire" and "we didn't start the fire" it's likely a deliberate reference, yeah.



I never even thought of that before; good call!



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01 Jul 2010, 7:36 am

and Dancing in the Dark sounds like Young Turks by Rod Stewart



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01 Jul 2010, 8:00 pm

probably. They are all horrible anyways.



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02 Jul 2010, 1:43 pm

Hmm.

I don't really hear anything similar but the beat. Similarities in beats are just too common. Other than that, the melodies are totally different. Same with Young Turks by my ear.

Now THIS, is similarity:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjIXUuk7FF8[/youtube]


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