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This is Australian singer Kate Miller-Heidke's song "The Last Day on Earth"
https://youtu.be/KhQ5seprs6s?si=RWaw7ntcHxPcK9ta

This is Australian singer Billie Eilish's "The Barbie Song"
https://youtu.be/ML0zd8UAuq8?si=rnqZV69RRN-3yDmd

Hmmm...


Kate Miller-Heidke - The Last Day on Earth

Kate Miller-Heidke's official music video for 'The Last Day On Earth'. Click to listen to Kate Miller-Heidke on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/KateMHSpotify?IQi...
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Michael Keukert
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Strong similarities indeed. However, in music theory, it's not always that simple. Great video by Adam Neely, about one of the recent controversis:
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Muse
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@Michael Keukert I'm not saying it's plagiarism. BUT Miller-Heidke would have been on the radio regularly when Billie was growing up. I think she did take inspiration from "The Last Day on Earth". By being quite so close Eilish doesn't come off as terribly original.

If Eilish writes in ways that seem more like copying than hommage, I'm likely to become less interested in her. The fact that she uses the same vocal quality as Miller-Heidke is the icing on this cake. She needed to find ways to make her song more her own.

BTW cool link!

@Michael Keukert
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Michael Keukert
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I never came across Miller-Heidke before, but will certainly check out more songs. Thanks for bringing her up.
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Karl Auerbach
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By-the-way, Bill Monroe had a tune he titled "My Last Days On Earth".

Somewhere I have a video I shot of David Grisman playing it, but right now this is all I can find...

https://youtu.be/yLQ8XAjKAes


Bill Monroe - My Last Days On Earth

Bill Monroe - My Last Days On EarthGet a FREE Mandolin Traditional Songbook at www.OobaMandolinTabs.com
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Andreas Geisler
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Eilish has always sounded like that, though.

Incidentally, I found Kate's vocal quality hard to stomach, before comparing, so I apparently did not notice a similarity.

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clarice overhere
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but Billie is USian, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Eilish, unless this is another Billie? still n all, she maybe might have heard our Kate on the radio - i dunno if Kate was all that popular in the US in the early days, maybe..in 2019 one of her song speaked at #59 in US charts https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/55651/kate-miller-heidke/ so maybe maybe?

KATE MILLER-HEIDKE

KATE MILLER-HEIDKE songs and albums, peak chart positions, career stats, week-by-week chart runs and latest news.
Official Charts
#59
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Kenny Chaffin
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That Barbie song was somewhat unique in the Eilish catalogue from what I know. (which may not be much)
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Kenny Chaffin
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Maybe not... 😀

https://youtu.be/viimfQi_pUw?si=cq4uYn9YZI6NBgCT


Billie Eilish - Ocean Eyes (Official Music Video)

follow me @https://www.facebook.com/billieeilish/https://twitter.com/Billie_eilishhttps://www.instagram.com/billieeilishhttp://soundcloud.com/billieeilishiTu...
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Andreas Geisler
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Oh, playing around with the stereo like Pink Floyd... that Bond song is set to slowly rotate from left to right and back again.
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clarice overhere
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about the Bond number ("Hans Zimmer, 62, the iconic soundtrack composer (Thelma & Louise, Inception, the Dark Knight trilogy) who wrote the film’s score and added string orchestration to “No Time to Die.” You may be correct about his influences, @Andreas Geisler)
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Andreas Geisler
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Zimmer also did the Dune OST. Oh, gotta listen to that again. I love that primal energy he got in it.
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Michael Keukert
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Bond songs need to adhere to rather strict rules. They want to prevent a Live and let die Desaster again
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Andreas Geisler
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I went and listened to it and it sounded OK, and then it got past the first "bond trombone bit" and oh no.
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Muse
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@clarice overhere For some strange reason I thought she was Australian. She has toured here quite a lot, and found inspiration for her big Grammy Award winning album in Sydney's pedestrian lights.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/28/billie-eilishs-grammy-award-winning-bad-guy-samples-australian-pedestrian-crossing


The familiar Sydney sound spliced into Billie Eilish's Bad Guy

Artist revealed last year that the chorus of her Grammy award winning song, which also topped the Triple J listener poll, used a sample of Sydney traffic light sounds
Luke Henriques-Gomes (The Guardian)
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clarice overhere
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meh, an easy enough confusion, Muse, esp considering her popularity over here. Still n all it doesnt disqualify the ponder that Kate's music may have entered her childhood ears - her folks were (are?) into all kinds of music, it seems, so why not Kate?

Haha! i ❤ the crossing-lights story xD

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Kenny Chaffin
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And what about that 'I'm just Ken' number at the Oscars last night? Wow!
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clarice overhere
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in my confusion i thought there may have been two Billies xD
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Kenny Chaffin
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https://youtu.be/wmG0983hPUs?si=zV-yN-XYgbS8HW0J

"I'm Just Ken" Performed by Ryan Gosling, Mark Ronson, Slash & The Kens | 96th Oscars Performance

"I'm Just Ken" from BarbiePerformed by Ryan Gosling and Mark RonsonMusic and Lyric by Mark Ronson and Andrew WyattThe 96th Oscars was held on Sunday, March 1...
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clarice overhere
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Mattel must be chuffed that their ad went so far, even if it didnt get Best Piccy.
Margot in black ultra-expense looked gorgeous and the Godzilla Minis winning Visual Effects was a hoot!
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clarice overhere
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and very sensible of Margot to change into her swim wear with gold towel for the after-party (drink spills). Practical.
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Muse
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@Kenny Chaffin I haven't seen much of the Academy Awards ceremony. BUT the Ken bit is up on YouTube and a REAL HOOT!

@clarice overhere I tracked down the mini-godzillas. HILARIOUS!

@Kenny Chaffin @clarice overhere
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clarice overhere
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i forget which telly show (Comedy Company?) had running skits of Skeletor and Ken with his little plastic mound (which always got a mention). Skelly always got the girl (Babs) - mostly due to Skelly's physique and charm, and Ken's little plastic mound.
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Muse
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I would so watch the movie: Adventures of Weird Barbie!
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Adam Blewett
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@clarice overhere that’s strange. Not haha strange that Billie Eilish has broken in on the popular American scene, with her brother close by. Strange. She also was mistaken by myself as being heard Australian. 😀
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clarice overhere
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@Adam Blewett i think she was riding on "strange" in the early days - a slightly tamer version of Grimes, perhaps (or maybe i was just listening to the two at the time, so they merged) - noice, differen, unusual ;))
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