A stretch that the one is a shameless, brazen ripoff of the other, yes. But a stretch that at least that one section is a dead ringer for the other? Not at all.

I love playing Words With Friends and have for years, and if they started charging even a dime tomorrow I'd stop immediately.

What's the "addictive" property of a mindless game that you can't win or gain anything from playing and know is bleeding you dry?

For what it's worth, his new single is a pretty enjoyable little Justin Timber-lite soul-pop song, and the girl in the video (a/k/a his girlfriend, Miss Fucking Universe Olivia Culpo), is about the hottest thing I've ever seen.

Big innocent brown eyes and blonde hair is my biggest weakness, and it's not a combo you see often. I'm the exact opposite the leagues of people who swoon over dark hair ad light eyes, which generally does nothing for me. They made her up to look like a Latina California girl, though I don't think she's actually…

I'm not getting your point here.

The vocal melodies and cadences of "Won't you..staaaay wiith mee/'cause you're..aaaall Iii neeed.." and "Well I..woooon't baack doown/no I..wooon't baack dooown" are pretty much identical.

Never got this band. Read things about them being catchy along the lines of great alt-power-pop like The Cars; don't hear that at all.

Interesting piece on a really bizarre record that features a lot of bravura rapping in the context of offensively bad songs. But it fails to mention the two best tracks, which are, to me, two of the most stunning things he ever released—"Mosh" and "Yellow Brick Road."

"LIKE Toy Soldiers." Toy Soldiers was the original.

The only similarity between these two is the vocal melody of "Won't you stay with me/'cause you're all I need" parallel to "Well I won't back down/no I won't back down." The rest of the songs have the same basic progression, but so do 10,000 other songs.

Yeah< I've read those..the girl from the "Legs" video was so adorable and gave an interesting interview, and I never realized until reading this series that the girl from the "Your Love" video was the one who was later on "Just The Ten Of Us" (who I also had a crush on and whose interview suggested she's a real down…

Dude fucked up, but this piece smacks of agenda.

Tell Kenan.

That girl in the video, with the big doll eyes and the flared 50s dress..sigh.

"Final Rug-cutting Alongside Cannabis"

These things are often unconscious and not really "ripping someone off" as much as using one of the myriad permutations and transpositions of 12 notes that have been rearranged as music, pop or otherwise, since time immemorial. Waiting for the Rob Thomas suit against Rixton next.

LAME!

Huh?

My thoughts as well. The Shawshank thing never even crossed my mind until the postscript.