OK, well as a kid, I did NOT know I "could be everything." And I still don't.

Short, overweight, broke women have more opportunities than I do.

Yet I can't be everything.

Isn't it just, like, a name?

"Your"

You were right.

No one really gives a fuck about any men's or boys' issues. There are no initiaves for boys telling them they can be "anything." Our (non-alpha/'typical' males) worlds are far, far more oppressively narrow than those of girls.

Um, oh, I guess..I wasn't even focusing on you confusing "chance" and "dance" so much as just the whole title being wrong.

How did he do that? I don't see it.

"its"

"Mary Jane's Last Dance."

Simpsons did it!

The entirety of both songs is 3 or 4 chords, and the "identical" section in Smith's song is 2 lines.

Like Woody Woodpecker?

"Mary Jane's Last Dance."

Colonel Flanders, I have Freddie Jackson for you on Line 2?

A.V. Club clearly has a hard-on for Sam Smith and delights in insulting him. I'm a musician/songwriter, as is, obviously, Tom Petty, and we both recognize that this shit happens fairly often and that it's not always plagiarism. And the songs, as a whole, do not sound "remarkably similar." It's a key sequence that…

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Come at me, Brony!

No, I actually agree that he SHOULDN'T be given songwriting credit. I don't think the melody/passage in question is original or unique enough to warrant ownership, nor do I think the borrowing in this case was intentional theft. All I'm saying is that from a purely musicological standpoint, the two compositional…