Soundalike songs- Lauren Daigle-Artists that sound similar to other acts.

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Musical artists sometimes through no fault of their own sound like other singers.  The recent hit, "You Say"  is a perfect example of the phenomena.  When your hear this song for the first time-right away you think,  "Is that a new song from Adele?"  Well no, it is the   Christian crossover artist, Lauren Daigle. The piano on the record just makes it sound  even more  like Adele-it because it sounds a  bit like the piano on Adele's "Someone Like You".

Recent  COPYCATS

A playlist of ripoffsongs...

Other copycats
When you first hear a song-you don't always know who the artist is-which makes for an interesting guessing game. The 1971 America  hit -"A Horse with No Name"  sounds a little  like Neil Young's "Heart of Gold". But it's Dewey Bunnell  of America doing the lead vocal.   The song was America's  first single-so it wasn't like  people would say, " Oh that sounds like America." Oddly enough, these two songs both hit #1 on the American charts in March 1972 one after the other.

Sometimes an artist just tries to copy an arrangement style. The most notorious  example of this is "Blurred Lines" which was a 2013 song written mostly by Pharrell Williams and performed primarily by Robin Thicke. The song is clearly inspired by Marvin Gaye's 1976 party record, "Got to Give It Up". Though to be fair, it's only the bass line and the percussion arrangement that seem to match up. But it was close  enough match that a judge awarded Gaye's estate a significant share of the profits from the song.

Here is  a TV theme inspired by the sound of  Outkast it is sung by Chaka Blackmon.
A more subtle example of the "inspired by" phenomena is Lenny Kravitz's "It Ain't Over Till It' Over". which beautifully recaptures the laid back soul  vibe of 1970's artists like Earth, Wind and Fire.

David Crosby, is a fan of Steely Dan, and his son wrote and helped him perform this perfect Steely Dan, style backing track on his 2017 song, "She's Got to Be Somewhere".

Then there is copying yourself. Using vocal devices, Lionel Ritchie recaptured his own mid 1970's Commodores  vibe  on his  1996 solo song "Don't Want To Lose You ".  John Fogarty managed  to recapture   the CCR sound with his solo record, "The Old Man Lives Down The Road". So much so that he got sued by his own (nefarious) song publisher.

During the 1960's British invasion many artists try to duplicate the Beatles vocal sound. A notable example of this is  the Dave Clark Five's "Because".

Two  final examples of the copy cat phenomena come from the 1980's.

John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown's "On the Darkside"  sounds a lot like Bruce Springsteen and the East Street Band- almost  more for the imitation of Roy Bittan's bright staccato keyboard sound then for the full throated vocals. The song was released in 1983 but didn't become a hit till 1984.

Finally comes the  George Michael soundalike record, "Don't Forget Me When I Am Gone".   It was a 1986 record by the Canadian act, Glass Tiger which features the lead vocals of Alan Frew . To further confuse matters Bryan Adams also sings on the song -and apparently the song  was actually inspired by Tears for Fears, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World". 

Why Lauren Daigle was inspired by Adele (People magazine).


originally posted February 2019 by J.C.Bernhardt