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Plagiarism Not Involving Coldplay?

By Evil Beet Gossip • on July 8, 2009

Normally, when I hear ”plagiarism,” I immediately think “Chris Martin,” but there’s a new “Gee, this song sounds familiar” case out there, and it doesn’t involve Coldplay.

There’s a musician Adam Freeland who composed an interlude track for his 2008 album ”Cope”, titled “Mancry.” He claims that Black Eyed Peas heavily borrowed from his piece of work and applied it to their new song, “Party All The Time.” Too heavily borrowed — their lawyers are involved.

What do you think? I listened to them both and can’t really tell if they sound all that similar, but I also just figured out that “ABC” and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” are the exact same tune.