one of the hooks, riffs, or melodies was the same as a song you wrote before?

I just realized the chorus for a song I wrote in 1998 became the chorus melody for a song I wrote in 2001!

I don't even have the recordings anymore but that same melody just popped into my head again!

I must figure out if it was ever original in the first place.

it can all be so confusing sometimes

Use to happen to me alot when i first started recording songs...
might've used a similar harmony to invoke the same melody.

Ouch! While this has to suck when it happens, it is also a reminder that we are always informed by other music that we hear, and I would venture to say that this includes even our own. maybe the song you found yourself repeating was more important to you than you realized when you wrote it.

Cinnie said:

TANKAEFC said:

I think that was the case.

Oh yes, but worse than that, realising its someone else's song. Especially if the original artist is a little lame. I wrote an awesome ballad once only to realise it had the same chords and melody as a Spice Girls song.

Cinnie said:

That's a good thing. For me, when I go back through and edit a poem's syntax/semantics heavily, that's when I know it means a lot to me.

cloud9mission said:

Goodbyyyyye my friennnnnd

Cinnie said:

Yup it was the same as the intro of that song. Obviously, I destroyed all trace of the song once I realised lol

Cinnie said:

Yeah. A song that I made when I was little comes in portions in my songs often. I thought I was most creative back then...lawd I was crazy