I think 'Please Please Please' sounds like 'I Just Called To Say I Love You'.

[CatchMyHorse]

Does anyone else agree?

No I can’t hear it all, I have been listening to SC song on repeat and just listened to Stevie… literally can’t hear any similarities

It's the backing where I hear it.

Who sings Please Please Please?

Hmm i don't hear that. Will listen again!

But surely the lyrics should be, "please, please, please don't prove THEM right" (sorry, it just bugs me!)

@twojumps Sabrina Carpenter

Dont mind the song but the little sucker bit annoys me so bad..sounds shit.
Now I know they can't play the original on thr radio but still! Don't put crap in tour song if it has to be edited Like that to be played.
No can't hear stevie

Not a clue who that is

@twojumps It's young people's music.

@MadMaxHasSandInHisCrack both fit I think! 'Don't prove them right' and 'don't prove I'm right' but I think them works better

And no, I can't hear the similarities at all (I just had a listen but honestly can't!)

I don't hear it, no.
I do substitute all sorts of words and sing it in that wheedling voice to my teens all the time though. Highly satisfying when I manage a rhyme. Please please please get out of bed now.....etc.

Yes, I guessed that. Im getting worse

I thought this was going to be about the Smiths 👵🏻

Bassline is totally different, rhythm is totally different, melody is totally different, chord progressions are totally different. In short - nothing like it whatsoever.

Nobody writes songs like Stevie Wonder. Nobody.

I misread your title as "Please Please Me" and was about to post a wtf response

It's enough of a wtf as it is!

A little bit at the beginning I think but I wouldn't have noticed it until you mentioned it OP

I cannot hear it either

Exactly what I thought, very glad I'm not alone 😁

Nope.

I thought the same and was about to post I can sort of hear what you mean.

Isn’t it ‘mother fucker’ rather than ‘little sucker’? Obviously the radio version has that blanked out though (I haven’t heard a version where they’ve replaced it.

There's a sort of rhythmic kinship, I suppose…

@twojumps SC - she's mainstream pop rather than 'young people music' so it's not an age thing and you're not getting worse!

About half her audience are 18-25, about 20-30% 25-35. Appeals to a particular target demographic. She signed to Hollywood Records (Disney), starred in Disney Channel output. Niece of megastar Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson's voice and and decorated scientologist - as she donated millions). Opening act for Taylor Swift.

It's not, not cool, if you haven't heard of her before or not into her music. Not related to Karen Carpenter although SC has sung covers of KC songs.

Similarity to other songs - music often sounds alike because there are only 7 notes in each key, and the same underlying sequence of chords is used, and different keys, arrangements and instruments, and styles but the same chord progression.

Can’t hear Stevie Wonder but I think the chorus is really similar to Pink Floyd’s ‘Brick in the Wall’. Same guitar riff.