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Have the writers actually been explicit about getting the show back to its roots?

Vagueness isn't clever or deep.

It's especially annoying because it's intentional. Like… there's clearly somebody waiting for the Adventure Time article to go up just so they can put their Stephen Universe comment on it first - guaranteeing that everyone else with have to scroll through a giant thread to find the proper comments. Come on guys, you…

He was buried in an unmarked grave. He was destitute at the end. It was pretty sad. "Requiem" was playing in the background.

Is that a joke or do you live in some kind of parallel aesthetic universe?

Oh hold on, you're talking about the bridge in Queen Bitch? It first plays about halfway through the song. In that case I totally hear what you're saying. The thing in common is the rhythm of the vocal. That in itself is a bit too musically basic to claim plagiarism, but I wouldn't be surprised if it inspired the…

Yeah, the riff is the repeating non-vocal melody. Are you sure that's not part of it? Because the riffs do share a very general similarity in form. And that classification is itself a similarity: they are both riff-driven songs, which means you've got a repeating non-vocal melody with a vocal melody over the top.
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I don't hear it. Which part? The final line of the chorus?

They said they noticed the similarity during recording, but then changed some notes around to make it sufficiently different.

That's just dumb. The only similarity is that the chorus involves sounding the same note twice. That's not imitation, that's just a ubiquitous feature of music. Nothing else is the same or even reminiscent.
I get the feeling that all of these Blurred Lines ripoff claims are people seeing what they want to see after the…

Stairway to Heaven rips off Taurus by Spirit.

I'm a Brit and I nothing about the Animals beyond covering "Rising Sun", and nothing at all about the Yardbirds. Know dozens of Kinks songs though.

I thought maybe the Who came first (it's a close thing) and you were wrong about who invented that sound. So I looked it up and learned that the Who got started by explicitly trying to sound like the Kinks.

Also interesting to note is that each successive ripoff creates a far superior song. Hooray for ripoffs.

Someone else said that just after you. Which part are you referring to? If you're referring to the riff, the similarities are way too general to claim a rip off - you could find a thousand melodies that were just as similar.

Do you mean they plagiarised a lot or were plagiarised a lot?

You mean Mozart.

Totally agree, that was the one I found most ridiculous. The editor seems to be some kind of musical ignoramus. You can't lay claim to a simple four chord progression like that, and the melodies are totally unrelated.

Seconded.