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David Guetta: When Love Takes Over
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Coldplay: Clocks

David Guetta : When Love Takes Over

Recorded in 2009
Coldplay : Clocks

Recorded in 2002

Checked the SoundsJustLike email today and found piles & piles of awesome suggestions from all of you. Thanks! I chased down most of the leads & have a long list of posts to push out this summer.

Here’s the first one pointed out by a reader: An odd similarity between a French DJ and a British pop singer. I say odd because my gut says that the Coldplay track “Clocks” is the newer of these two songs. My gut is wrong. “When Love Takes Over” was recorded in 2008-2009 in Paris, six years after the Coldplay tune.

The intros are the most obviously similar part of these two songs. Have a listen.

coldplay, dance, disco, intro, Melody, piano, pop, synth, trance, tune

What song sounds like Coldplay?

When Love Takes Over sounds like Coldplay Clocks

Kari

selena gomez song a year without rain has a similar beat to these songs
cele

A year without rain by selena gomez has a similar beat
Leah

I think parts of the piano in David Guetta’s “Without you” sounds a lot like Coldplay’s “Clocks” myself. Especially in the end. That’s what I was searching and then I found this. Maybe David Guetta really likes that style. lol
Katie

Same as Leahs situation. The piano solo at the end of without you is fairly similar to a piano solo in clocks
Everquint

Is he inspired by Coldplay Music? I was only attracted to this French from watching an American program (The Voice) because he sounded like the Brits
Ryan

Listen towards the end of his song ‘Without you’ featuring Usher, sounds like clocks in the background!!!
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someone :)

that just cant be random
Guysaac

Guetta is such a ripoff.

http://www.facebook.com/bhavya.singh2 Bhavya Singh

You guys are idiots. Guetta is a DJ. They’re SUPPOSED to mix beats together. Its what they do. And has it crossed your minds that it might just be a coincidence?
Stop the hate. He’s #1 for a reason

RockMaster

Is it because people have bad taste in music?

TakumaDemonReborn

most “number 1″ songs right now are shitty songs lol

Aklu

I know, right? Not that many people nowadays listen to REAL music. What they listen to is all the same, really.
Cooper

Has it ever occured to you that the music you consider to be REAL music was, at one point in time, considered to be “all teh same, really”? Musical taste changes with the times. I’m not overly keen on newer music, but I’m far from accusing it of being unimaginative. You need to realise that “real” music is a very, very subjective term.
Aklu

Ok, Ok, jeez. It’s just that “I” think that “I” don’t like modern, hip/rap crap that is just a beat and some guy/girl swearing.
RG likes

I bet you have spent SO MUCH time looking into that “hip/rap crap”. If you don’t like some genre like hip-hop or rap, you can actually tell constructively why and what is the biggest actually relevant thing that bothers you with the genre. Swearing is not relevant as long as the genre has much more to give.

Saying it’s stupid makes you ignorant. Even if you don’t like the genre itself. Even science has proved that complex rap lyrics are not stupid. I think you should check some rap/hip-hop like

Apollo Brown & OC, Blu & Exile (or just blu), Freepoint Crew
Oddisee, The Roots, Soul Square, The Megaphone State, Gracias (& Gracias x JTT) and so on. Some of the most popular songs may have pretty meaningless, dull and boring words, but if the only thing you hear from all rap/hip-hop is the swearing, you seriously haven’t even tried to listen it which means that your opinion is invalid. Also remember, the music what you hear on radio and think is rap, most likely is not. It’s pop.
Jason Goldstein

The difference is that real music is made with real interments. rap is usually made with computers
Jason Goldstein

Instruments*
Leo Cornelio

hence, Pop Danthology 40+ song mashup

Alexa Powell

He’s only #1 because he sampled an awesome song by an awesome band who he will never ever be able to compare to. Coldplay is genius,older stuff better than the new but he just butchered something that was so good.

Avorin

People said the exact same shit you just did about Coldplay one day. And about the Beatles. And whatever band you find great. Stop the bullshit.

Alexa Powell

I’m not the only person who finds Coldplay or The Beatles or Radiohead or Led Zeppelin or My Chemical Romance or whoever YOU like. It’s just an opinion, just because you feel a certain way about something doesn’t mean its bull and some Coldplay songs suck, everyone has bad songs.

outboardgold127

i don’t think that he butchered the song at all, the song might not be as good as Coldplays but i don’t think that he has made it into something horrible. To me the song is one of the least computerized of songs out these days. Its a good song.

alexa powell

I don’t exactly agree but i understand where you’re coming from.

killswitch423

Because Coldplay never steals music from better musicians. Oh wait…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvB9Pj9Znsw

Alexa Powell

First off, I never said Coldplay is completely original, but what artist hasn’t at least sampled or as you say “stole” another tune. I’m just saying if you try to do the tune of a song–David Guetta–don’t make it completely…I don’t know people can do what they want I guess I was just stating my opinion like everyone here.
TheJoblessBuffon

I’ve heard so many songs that have progressions similar, if not exactly
the same as others. Its not copying, it’s that many people use the same
chords and great minds think alike. They’re similar, but Satriani’s
being a cry baby over this one.

Mic

A lame DJ if you ask me. there are better ones than this idiot.
BOB

GO TO HELL, HE AINT #1 IN WHAT CHEATING?
Tim Collins

Or maybe pay a visit to the Vsauce video?

Alexa Powell

Vsauce is awesome isn’t it.

KylarBlack

Guetta isn’t a DJ.
No self respecting DJ would ever consider him to be part of the group.
He is a musical producer, he cannot DJ live for crap.
DJAdieJulian

But this is an original song that sounds like another song. This isn’t a DJ mix that is using that song.

EMily

If you look when the songs were recorded, Guetta actually brought out his song before Coldplay sooo ..

SN

Coldplay 2002, Guetta 2009. Are you sure you checked them properly?

André Mesquita

What about Coldplay? you kiding me? They pretend they are serious alternative artists when they’re songs all sound the same and most especially copied from somewhere else!! guetta is more interesting and original than these lame Coldplay, some examples of Coldplay’s lack of originality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuNBnA4X-Z8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6m9mMCxr6w&feature=related

http://twitter.com/Soy_LeMorphee Jose Guadalupe Anaya

First example is correct, however, they sampled it from another artist (It think his name is Peter Allan and the song is “I Go to Rio”). “To Sample” means giving credit to the actual artists, unlike this mediocre dj. The second example is not similar. Just because it has a fucking violin doesn’t mean is plagiarism.

People should listen to benassi, tiesto, van dyke, those are real dj’s
Alexa Powell

Coldplay is a group that just wants to express themselves, they never said they wanted to be serious alternative artist, maybe there stuff that got popular all sounds the same. But have you ever listened to Bigger Stronger, Only Superstition, or Easy to Please? No, then you have no idea how original Coldplay can really be. They just want to make people happy while doing what they love.

http://karltatom.brandyourself.com/ Karl Tatom

First time I heard this song, I actually thought it was a remix of Clocks.

Charbs

+1…

http://twitter.com/BGobbles Brian Gold

Guetta isn’t an original guy. He does remixes. I think this was intentionally supposed to be like Coldplay
http://www.facebook.com/louise.b.nordin Louise Pinkie Pie Nordin

WOW! xD
http://www.facebook.com/irategenius Keith Allen Milne

Fuck me that sounds exactly the same, well done whoever found that.
nakina

coldplay is better
http://www.facebook.com/bhavya.singh2 Bhavya Singh

You guys are idiots. Guetta is a DJ. They’re SUPPOSED to mix beats together. Its what they do. And has it crossed your minds that it might just be a coincidence?
Stop the hate. He’s #1 for a reason.

anon

trust me hes not #1

Halevyt

My biology teacher has Clocks as his ringtone and I was sure it what When Love Takes Over…
kidbizliz

The song “Chicago” Sufjan Stevens also sounds like “Clocks”
Mike

The melody in each is very different. I am not too knowledgeable in music theory but I think it is called an Arpeggio and is a very common pattern. However, if you were to hold those notes longer and compare you would find their melody is very different. If you were to imagine the notes on a graph, the Clocks notes would start high and continually progress downward, while When Love Takes Over would appear to go up and down up and down.
Samuel Marks

you guys claiming this is “such a ripoff” are obviously music snobs who know nothing about music, this 123,123,12 rhythm has been around in pop music since the 60s and has been used by loads of people loads of times, the actual building blocks of the songs besides that similarity are completely different. not going to lie, when i first heard and learned to play the guetta tune for a friend of mine, i thought “oh, it uses that same rhythm as clocks”, but it’s such a small component of what is actually a really cool song that it is not a ripoff. guetta doesn’t make my kind of music at all, but i can respect that he’s obviously a very capable, talented, interesting artist doing creative and exciting things with a genre that is usually so samey and appalling.
Ricky

I have to say, a lot of songs from Coldplay sound similar to each other.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001906759615 Sadie Haddox

It’s suppose to sound like it, that’s the point of a remix.
poopdump

you know how I know you’re gay?… you listen to coldplay
p.s. f guetta
http://www.facebook.com/ExcisionFTW Trent Moore

As a coldplay fan I thought they were the same at the beginning. lol
Chimichanga

I think david guetta’s older works are way better than today’s and i think he gets lazy a bit like coldplay in my opinion
Roman

If guetta put the same lyrics as clocks then it would be a remix but this he just in a way plagerized in his own way! And the intro is not a beat. Beat keeps time and rhythm what he copied was the introduction of a Coldplay piece! And clocks is a super popular song! Every musician knows that song! There is no way it’s a coincidence
datgoat

I played in a youth orchestra that played clocks. It almost sounded awesome!
Oswald325 On PS3

Coldplay is much better ^.^
whocares

It’s a similar motif but the chords are different. He didn’t sample Coldplay, just probably got the idea from them.
outboardgold127

Both musical geniuses. That’s awesome, i love both songs and never found the connection. THAT’S AWESOME!!!!!!!!
Fart Poop Pee

First off, David Guetta is #4 ranked by DJ Mag. Armin van Buuren is #1. Second, David Guetta doesn’t “just do remixes.” He does a lot of original work and collaborates like crazy. Third, have you ever been whistling a song that you thought you made up but then like 2 days later realize its an actual song that you just forgot at the time? yes, it happens all the time. Not even just in music. In every art form people get inspired by each other and lose track of where that inspiration came from because there is just SO much art. If you don’t like David Guetta, fine, but that doesn’t give you grounds to bash him for what he does. Who gives a shit he doesn’t use traditional instruments or anything, we are in a new age. Face it, computers are taking over. That is not to say people should stop playing instruments though… Ok thats all. I love both Coldplay and David Guetta
Lit

The Coldplay riff uses a common rhythm, a common instrument, arpeggiation, which is common, and a common enough chord progression. Who cares if some other band comes up with a similar combination of common things?
dantheleafsfan

He’s just using the Clocks sample!! that shouldn’t make it on this site… it sounds like clocks because it is clocks. Next thats gonna pop up is Marky Mark’s Wildside and their gonna say it sounds like Lou Reed’s orriginal song… Ridiculous!?!?!?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=700903794 Askil Mauseth Fangel

THANK YOU, finally someone made the official comparison.
Make your own riffs, David.
ODDkward

sounds like adele’s set fire to the rain only a tad bit faster.
Doug

They should do one that says:
SPEED OF SOUND by Coldplay sounds just like CLOCKS by Coldplay
Kellie

Oh wow. Guetta. That’s obvious. I wouldve noticed that anyway. But I want to know which song came out first. Just to see who stole from who. I have my money on Guetta though.
Giulli

I will say that the piano parts in both songs are similar, if not the same, but I would not say David Guetta is plagiarizing Coldplay. The piano part isn’t that complex; it sounds like a progression of triad chords played arpeggio-style, so I don’t think Coldplay, David Guetta, or anyone has the rights to that. It’s a building block of music. Now, you can have rights to melodies, but that’s on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Jawns

The fun thing is that coldplay ripped that melody too
there

Guetta stole the tune
PinkStarSR11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mojd-YZWSHE&list=FLqZDrAGi5Ztl9kbxvdTgwOQ&index=25&feature=plpp_video Coldplay stole this song go to the link
Batman

BIG BOOTY SWAG YOLO!!!! That’s all i hear in rap.
HannahLynn.

Kinda sounds like No Air by Jordin Sparks, too.

Debra

and I tiny bit like either born this way or express yourself. (only the first one though)

silvia

Love both of them and had not realize it.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004160654289 風氷

dark cave from pokemon gold silver & crystal
rnodern

Guetta is a no talent hack
Jake

guetta copied that shit yet coldplay is still better!
hello

i thought these 2 were the same song for long tme XD
Josh

This is just straight up stealing…
Right in yo pants

Totally similar
new

This isn’t a BTIM thing either. “When Love Takes Over” sounds like Coldplay: “Clocks” and Jordin Sparks: “No Air ft. Chris Brown”.
WhoGivesAFlyingFuck

3 notes in a descending arpeggio does not mean the song is the same. The root notes in each chord aren’t even the same.
Joshua Markh

Of course this sounds like Coldplay. David Guetta always takes songs from other bands, proclaims at as “his” and makes them sound TERRIBLE.
bob

That’s where I’ve already heard!!! damn guetta
http://www.facebook.com/ryan.lavery.xo Ryan Lavery

Oh my, I always assumed this was a sample!
heeyitsjackie

hands down coldplay plays it better. just saying
Yep

I actually thought Guetta was sampling Coldplay…

Too bad it made me hate Guetta more.
mixalhs98myself

I read co-cks
DavidFocker

David Guetta copied Coldplay! But no matter, Clocks sounds much more beautiful! ! ! ! ! !
J

Yup, that is one lazy rip by Guetta, who is a true talentless hack non-artist anyway. And who didn’t love that song by Coldplay?
Sarah

Same chord progression as Born This Way
TomasVolley

Do you not know that Guetta made the song with the consent from Coldplay? Or the fact that Guetta is a DJ and DJs always sample and make remixes of old songs. Just listen to DJ Tiesto and the piece he borrowed from Mozart. There are ripoffs and stealing other songs, and there are legitimite remixes just like any other remix for another version. Most obvious is a ballad that someone makes into a dance song with higher RPM. Tons of songs goes into this class.
sxas

pop can always imitate bit greater songs
wow

dat ripoff
Patricia

I remember hearing that David Guetta song and thinking how similar it sounded to Clocks.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000559443895 Missy Menawonu

What DJ doesn’t do this. It’s called “Sampling”.
GolfWang

most of all these songs sound the same because they payed to have the right to use the beat or lyrics
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Chris H

don’t get me started on dance tunes, I could suggest millions!!
Elizabeth

Yep I definitely noticed that as well!

David Guetta: When Love Takes Over sounds like Coldplay: Clocks

David Guetta : When Love Takes Over

Coldplay : Clocks

David Guetta: When Love Takes Over
sounds like
Coldplay: Clocks