No Reason

[shakermaker]

Oh, lawsuits are fought over this: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/13/from-ed-sheeran-to-katy-perry-plagiarism-claims-are-an-occupational-hazard-for-musicians.
I think if it were up to the Music Industry, they would would put a copyright on individual frequencies if they could.

Not that I want to take us off even further on this tangent, but the following video has a really informative breakdown of one of these cases.

[elcomplicado]

Just to note doesn't that PiL tune sound more like Moloko's the Time is Now?

Music is familiar, so many of these "x stole y" thoughts are probably just people going "Oh that sounds nice" because doing things that feel familiar is nice. 

[Csar]

Interesting: No Reason was apparently mixed in Dolby Atmos
https://twitter.com/AbbeyRoad/status/1640648740183654401

Does anyone own Atmos equipment and can tell us if this is noticeable?