To think that the new Abba song...

[YouJustFoldItIn]

Sounds exactly like A Wombling Merry Christmas?

Abba:

Wombles:

See. Told you. IANBU.

😂😂😂 it actually does

OMG you are right

Yes! Although The Wombles one is better.

Ha ha! Yes!

That's an incredibly old school Abba song isn't it?

Oh this has cheered up my morning

A bit (and I remember Wombling Christmas from the first time round - fuuuuuck, I’m so old) - but I really like the Abba one!

From what I read yesterday, this is an old song that wasn't used at the time it was recorded, but has been released to generate interest in advance of the new stuff.

thegcatsmother Yes there is a video on youtube comparing the 1970s version of the song to the current one. I didn't know that and have never heard it before now. Maybe Mike Batt plagiarised the original Abba song then, rather than the other way around.

@StCharlotte

Ha ha! Yes!

That's an incredibly old school Abba song isn't it?

Ooh I was right then!

takes a bow

Hmmm I'm not really hearing it sorry. I mean, it has a similar beat to it, but it doesn't sound like 'Wombling Merry Christmas' to me.

Sorry @YouJustFoldItIn

Also, I didn't think Blurred Lines sounded anything like 'got to give it up' by Marvin Gaye.

But the judge did and ordered Robin Thicke to pay 7 million dollars to the Gaye family for plagiarism!

It's all subjective.

Little I imagine there is some sort of technical test they run looking at the sheet music side by side, the chords and key changes etc, and running the tracks one over the other so the overlap in different places to see how technically similar the music is.

The more songs that are written I guess the easier it is to do it unwittingly - either subconsciously or completely genuinely unwittingly. It's not beyond possibility that two people can come up with an almost identical creative idea.

Right, I'm sueing.

'All Sit Down' by James sounds like Mike Batt's 'Summertime City' in parts but Batt definitely came first that time!

It does😂

I just want to say thank you for posting the Wimbledon

Wombles

It does a bit - the Wombles would approve - they were all about recycling.

Just listened to the Marvin Gaye song compared to Blurred Lines. His vocal is nothing like it but the intro and the general background beat is almost identical.