One Step Up by Bruce Springsteen and Cowboy Romance by Natalie Merchant: how alike are they?
Sonalize compared the two recordings: 36%, some shared material.
| Harmony | 89% |
|---|---|
| Melody | 26% |
| Sound | 4% |
| Rhythm | 23% |
More in common than almost all unrelated pairs. Listen to the matching passages: this can be a shared style or stock chord progression, or a borrowed section.
| One Step Up | Cowboy Romance | |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | Bruce Springsteen | Natalie Merchant |
| Key | F Major | A Major |
| Tempo | 150 BPM | 112 BPM |
| Most alike passage | 4:07–4:16 | 1:58–2:08 |
Track B moved down 4 semitones (A Major to F Major)
On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is alike in style, as songs of the same genre often are, though not the closeness of another version (distance 1.33; other versions of a song in these comparisons have a median of 0.31, different songs that sound alike 1.27, random pairs 2.95).
How this was measured
Compared from the full recordings; Sonalize's fingerprint lookup confirmed both songs. The same engine runs in the Sonalize app on your own device. A score measures how alike two recordings are; it isn't a finding about copying, legal advice, or a rights clearance.
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