Pride = Crucified?
 

So I was showing my boyfriend the video for Pride and, like many others, he said the song sounded so familiar. It took him a while, but he got the song. It was a one-hit-wonder from the 90s called Army of Lovers, and the song was called "Crucified." The chords and notes of the chorus are almost identical.

Listen:
http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...I04M4NPTKBN25A

Well, damn o.o the chorus is nearly identical. What the heck :(

I'm pissed at Ayu, she's not high on my list right now...

Many songs sound like other songs. I don't really mind myself.

Yes a lot of songs sound alike others. But this one is surprisingly so. I guess now we know how the composer came up with the tune

At least I can still say I prefer Pride

To be fair, don't be pissed at Ayu; she didn;t compose the song. GEO of SWEETBOX composed the song.

For real :x and people are taking things way too serious. I think people here should be prescribed medication for high blood pressure.

edit: That is the most awful song I've ever heard. I don't hear the part were it sounds like Pride. "It's raining cats and dogs."

Exactly what I was about to say. And you can't expect Ayu to know EVERY SINGLE SONG ever released before actually singing a song written for her by someone else.

Haha I can just see how this will get blown out of proportions...maybe used by S.H.E. fans to retort what happened before. :P

Thanks for bringing this up though, 'cause I too thought "Pride" sounded familiar...although I've never heard of this song either. O_o

I agree!

Pride did sound familiar to me when I first heard it, but I know I've never even heard of the song "Crucified".

Well, you know, the world's going to run out of original tunes one day. :shrug

I'm a fan of Army of Lovers... Crucified is a good song, but it is on almost all of their albums... with the exception of like... 2.

No big deal with the compostion, it doesn't sound TOO similar to me.

When I first heard the chorus of Pride, I had this weird feeling that I had heard it before. I'm not familiar with this Crucified song, but the chorus sure sounds similar.

No wonder Pride sounded familiar. Anyway....I don't think there's a need to be pissed at Ayu...for reals.

Pride = crucify thats what I first thought about it as well when I heard it
but I couldnt find any file of it.
but I dont think this is any ripoff its just a weird coincidence and I never liked crucify unlike Pride

Daaang similar indeed :O

Well, we know we can't hold Ayu herself accountable... however, what will happen if Army of Lovers found out about this? Do you guys think they'd try and press charges or something?

From what I can recall, artists have done those sort of things in the past ((and have run rampant with them in like the early 90s or something @_@ ))

mmm...its a chorus its probably going to sound familiar, i bet if you searched the entire world ou'd probably find like twenty other songs that all sound the same...i mean how many poassible combinations of notes can there be after 2000 years of music...

and of course like said above ayu didnt compose the song, and probably never even heard of that other band, i never had...and it seems...niether has anyone else except a few...as said, stop blowing things out of proportion and stop being so fickle...please...why are there some people that just turn on ayu...not to name anyone...there are going to be at least a dozen other people who will read this and put ayu on their crap list...

i think...nothing to worry about, let alone think about.

blame the composer!!Not AYU!!!hehe..but i don't mind..I even bet that song was released before i was born..So no biggie..and it doesnt actually sound so closely similar to PRIDE because PRIDE is SLOWER and Full of Emotion..
BTW..does anybody hav the full version of Crucified??

Exactly. These comparisons happen all the time, and I don't understand why.

Who honestly cares?

It wouldn't be Ayu's fault - it's GEO of Sweetbox since he is the one that composed it.

Edit: Sorry to repeat what has already been stated.