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Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie and Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 93%, near-identical or shared recording.

93%Near-identical or shared recording
Harmony43%
Melody36%
Sound63%
Rhythm73%

Consistent with the same recording being reused (a sample) or a faithful cover or re-recording.

Under PressureIce Ice Baby
ArtistQueen & David BowieVanilla Ice
KeyD MajorG Minor
Tempo114 BPM116 BPM
Most alike passage0:00–0:170:00–0:17

Same key

Shared recording: the audio of Under Pressure at 0:00–0:17 appears in Ice Ice Baby at 0:00–0:16.

On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is no closer than chance (distance 2.06; 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: bassline (sample, per Wikipedia); Settled out of court (year not given); Bowie and Queen credited, paid. 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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