what came first katy perry roar or brave sara bareilles

Roar opened at the number 2 spot on Billboard‘s Hot 100, and Yahoo’s Chart Watch notes that Brave got swept up in the song’s mad dash toward the top. When Roar dropped earlier this month, pop obsessives were quick to note the song’s similarity to Brave and this resulted in a swift climb up the charts for Miss Bareilles. The controversy has failed to hurt either artist though all is not lost for Sara Bareilles. Rihanna’s I Love The Way You Lie and Every Breath You Take by the Police are just a few examples of this. Jessie J’s Price tag, Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi. A large percentage of the songs on the charts for the last forty years have shared the same chord progression of G, C, Em and D. Now let’s cut her a little slack, it is extremely hard to find a distinctive Pop song these days. Perry started to receive complaints from fans that not only did her new tune Roar sound like Brave it also had a striking resemblance to the Annie classic Hard Knock Life in the beginning of the track, poor Katy. Perry has always been a fan of Bareilles and back in May of this year the Pop star tweeted There is no hiding the similarity, is this a bad move for Katy? The choruses are almost identical and the lyrical theme in both of the songs is empowerment.

The astounding similarities I have recognized between the two songs are as follows, Roar has a 92 BPM tempo, Brave is only slightly slower with a BPM of 90, they are both in the key of Bb and the chord progression in both songs move from a Bb to a G Minor. There is no denying that the tunes are the same. However, there has been a controversy in the media that states that Katy Perry’s new chart topper Roar is a rip off of Bareilles recent tune Brave. I admire both Katy Perry and Sara Bareilles, they are both credible artists in the industry and have had worldwide success. People claim that most Pop songs sound the same and I agree a lot of the time they do but what happens when one artist releases a song and then four months later another song surfaces that is an exact replica?

What came first katy perry roar or brave sara bareilles