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Taylor Swift: Haunted
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Taylor Swift : Haunted

Recorded in 2011
Coldplay : Scientist

Recorded in 2002

Here’s a cool sound-a-like sent in by a reader. Honestly, I don’t really listen to Taylor Swift, so I had no instinct about whether “Haunted” sounded like “Scientist”. But in the first couple chord changes of Swift’s song, there was instant recognition. The progression is really similar.

I wouldn’t really label this a rip-off, but the similarities are interesting. Have any of you noticed this while scrubbing your radio dial?

coldplay, country, haunted, Melody, pop, scientitst, sound-a-like, taylor swift

What song sounds like Coldplay?

Haunted sounds like Coldplay Scientist

Jeremy

Haunted sounds more like Zombie by the Cranberries

http://www.soundsjustlike.com Adam Wagner

Awesome, I’ll look that one up. Thanks dude

http://www.soundsjustlike.com Adam Wagner

Jeremy, you’re totally right. It bears a stronger similarity to Zombie, I think.
Matt

If you slowed down the intro to Haunted it would be very similar to parts of John Murphy’s “In The House In A Heartbeat”…
Book

sounds like undertaker’s ministry theme which released before them both lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPjqAADShE4
Mark S

nope, more like Shakira whenever, whereever
LPM

Actually it sounds more like the chorus from Coldplay’s “Fix You” to me, but either way it’s Coldplay
Luca

Recorded in 202? O.o Prehistoric music :O

soundsjustlike

Hah, Nice. Fixed.
Dan

For a second there I thought YOU had made the typo!

http://www.facebook.com/austin.birge Austin Birge

And they both sounds like Zombie by the Cranberries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts

Kate

You are completely right. I always wondered what song Scientist reminded me of. Now I know.

http://twitter.com/WilliamTheMa William Ma

That’s actually the first thought I had when I heard swift’s track. Not coldplay.

Elliott

That’s because each of them use the “4 chords” that most pop songs do these days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ

Keith

Those are actually four chords in a major key, these are four chords in a minor key. These are i-VI-III-VII, or something like a-F-C-G. Other songs that use the minor progression are “The Kids Aren’t Alright” by Offspring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrZ4sMRYimw and “Rods and Cones” by Blue Man Group http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGiX9qTrfnE
Music Theory

That is retrograde,vi can’t go backwards to iii, but a iii can only go to a vi and sometimes a IV in rare situations
Big Pops

The progression here is a VI-IV-I-V if thought of in a major key. It’s really the easiest way to think of it. It’s a very common progression though, so finding two songs that use it isn’t at all surprising. Macklemore’s “And We Danced” also uses the same progression.
http://www.facebook.com/trenton.dunstan Trenton Dunstan

Actually, they only use three songs, or I know The Scientist uses three. But it doesn’t use that progression because the first chord is minor, not major.
Todd

Scientist, Haunted and Zombie all have similar but DIFFERENT chord progressions. Transposed into A natural minor: Scientist is Am, F, C, Csus2. Haunted is Am, F, C, G. Zombie is Am, Fmaj7, C6, Gadd13/B.
http://www.facebook.com/ecoblahblah Jericho Bilang

VSAUCE

Jake

It reminds me of the end song for the first zombie map on CoD:WaW.

BOB

NOT EVEN CLOSE. GOD YOUR DUMB, THEY SOUND NOTHING LIKE THE CRANBERRIES!!! AND THAT BITCH TAYLOR SWIFT COPIED COLDPLAY, IM SUEING!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=670735069 Tan Truong

Good ear!

Reuben

this sounds like love the way you lie
jamiro

Wow this and some other millions songs sound similiar you mean.
Joe D

Also sounds like Sum 41′s “Pieces”
http://twitter.com/jamie_lynn_03 Jamie

I was seriously singing the melody of Scientist to Haunted. It also sort of sounds just a little like never say never by the fray.
http://www.facebook.com/joshua.cook.3192 Joshua Cook

I know have one additional reason to hate Taylor Swift! Ugh! Who gave her a record deal?
http://www.facebook.com/john.trapp.1297 John Trapp

They sound similar the only difference is Taylor Swift still has of yet to write a single solitary good song

BOB

NOT SIMILAR!!! ITS THE SAME F@*#ING SHIT … INSTEAD OF A PIANO, SHE CHANGES IT TO A GROUP OF VIOLINS. wtf! SHE IS gonna get sued!!! IM CALLING MY LAWYER!!!

http://www.facebook.com/david.kotlikoff David Kotlikoff

THEY ARE BOTH 4 CHORD SONGS DUH

Alexa Powell

i see what u did there8)

http://twitter.com/Nik_Aurora16 Nikola Mijic

There’s not much musicians can do about it…but to write different lyrics,melodies and textures.If you take a more deeper look into the music theoretically, you can not find to much combinations that a simple listener would like to “consume”, often followed by a comment like…aaaaa this is such a lame s**t!!! So the musicians stick to some well known patters and that is why we have such a unoriginal music today Everybody wants to be listened to and they do the same thing that previously has been done,in therms of production and music style,tempo,key,rhythm just to have a HIT – something that people would absorb instantly.

Now….the opposite to all this is jazz and classic music…so if you’re bored, just put on your headphones and play the AIR by JSB and you will see what we all have forgotten and you’ll hear how beautiful the music can be….

Pinkerton

also kinda sounds like pink floyds the great gig in the sky
Magicf

It’s the chord progression that makes it sound similar. You can say that about almost any pop song that has that progression. They all sound the same!!
Clayton

vi – IV – I – V Chord Progression, it’s everywhere.
Johnny

Coldplay’s the Scientist sounds like George Harrison’s Isn’t it a pity.
Timmyl8

cranberries indeed Austin. i think you can win every lawsuid with the information on the internet about copyrights and this website if you make a song that sounds like an other song (sorry for bad english, i’m dutch).
http://www.facebook.com/matt.schellenberg.1 Matt Schellenberg

Also I think this might be closer than the ones above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiBu6NyR1FQ
kizza

sounds like imagine by john lennon
Ben

You can sing Nelly’s ‘Just a Dream’ in with these songs, too.
Mike K.

There is a track in latest Halo 4 game that sounds just like that too
Fatngreasy

Also, ‘The Other Side’ by David Gray?

Does anyone else hear that with the Coldplay song?

Sam

actually, i hear that too :/

pajo

sum 41 pieces
coldplay scientist
thank me later
Midniteferret

LLLLLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000105951500 Troels Korreman Nielsen

Nah, this is just the most typical chord progression of all time.
Guest

This girl has made a medley with haunted, xombie and other songs using the same chords, and she even included her own song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zht1qUc6Vfo

Everything is a remix!
Virotti

This girl has made a medley with haunted, zombie and other songs using the same chords, and she even included her own song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

Everything is a remix!
Taylor

This is such a stretch. You can’t copy write a chord progression. The rest sounds totally different.
somewhereonEarth

Pop music producers steal good stuff all the time.
Dave

There are a ton of songs that use this progression… personally I think of John Lennon’s “Imagine” first.
Jacopo Barberis

That bitch
rnodern

it’s a very common chord progression
Steve

This is a very common chord progression. Perhaps if the melodies were similar there would be more ground for the comparison.
Rick

common taylor…
http://www.facebook.com/BartekWrobel96 Bartoż Wróbel

I was thinking about Zombie too
Jimmy18

they always copy melodies from better artist…in this case,COLDPLAY
Zach

This is the second most common chord progression in western music, right after the I’m Yours/Let It Be progression.
Jim

What a surprise…. two songs that use a basic four chord progression sound similar.
Lavasd

One begins to wonder something about Taylor Swifts songs, if shes constantly talking about how her x-boyfriends do all this bad stuff to her, how is it possible that its just their fault? Obviously its her, I mean come on, every man you meet is always going to do horrible things to you then kick you to the curb? Highly unlikely.
MusicIsLife

haunted also sounds a little like bittersweet symphony at the beginning.
Fluffy

Well actually another song that sounds like “The Scientist” is “Pieces” by Sum 41
Da Thug

Coldplay : Scientist sounds a bit like, Imagine : John Lennon
J

That’s so bad on Swift’s part, she should be ashamed of such lazy songwriting. I hope she at least thanked Coldplay for “inspiring” her
That guy

It actually wouldn’t surprise me if Taylor did rip his one off.
Spaceman Jones

Everyone should check out the Willie Nelson cover of the Scientist
Spinelicker5

I do love those chords.
ty

Thanks Vsauce!!!
Kakeru

Hate Taylor swift
hey ;)

Taylor Swift’s a fraud. She ‘writes’ her own songs…
BOB

ARE YOU HIGH!!! SOUNDS NOTHING LIKE IT!!

Taylor Swift: Haunted sounds like Coldplay: Scientist

Taylor Swift : Haunted

Coldplay : Scientist

Taylor Swift: Haunted
sounds like
Coldplay: Scientist