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Misery Business by Paramore and good 4 u by Olivia Rodrigo: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 83%, very strong similarity.

83%Very strong similarity
Harmony100%
Melody41%
Sound93%
Rhythm36%

Most of the music lines up, about as much as between a song and a cover of it.

Misery Businessgood 4 u
ArtistParamoreOlivia Rodrigo
KeyG# MajorF# Minor
Tempo172 BPM167 BPM
Most alike passage2:41–3:030:28–0:51

Track B moved down 1 semitones (F# Minor to G# 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 1.15; 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).

Why this pair

This is a pair from a copyright dispute that was decided or settled. Public background: chorus melody (interpolation); Credit change Aug 2021: Hayley Williams & Josh Farro added. Sonalize's scores are measurements, not a view on any dispute.

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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