Does Shape Of You's prechorus sound like No Scrubs' chorus?
So everyone's talking about how Ed ripped off Sia when making Shape of You, but when listening to it I noticed that its prechorus sounded awfully familiar. I realized I was thinking of No Scrubs. I looked for a mashup of the two and a few already exist, so clearly I wasn't the only one to notice the similarity.
Definitely not. If he gets sued, I'll prob lose faith in the music industry. Anyone who's listened to a lot of music and has ever tried writing songs knows that it's understandable just how similar a lot of melodies can be. It's pop music, after all. Not like alternative, where the rules are bent.
Oh for god's sake. So one and a half lines of the melody have a similar shape. It's literally not a big deal at all, you realise there are a limited number of melodies mathematically possible before some start to sound like others. This could not be less at risk of copyright infringement.
It sounds a bit the same, it clearly took inspiration from that but nothing major !!!
MJ team would have way more reasons to sue JT or Bruno Mars for similar things