Although similarities between artists' own songs have been mainstays in music circles for ages, it was in 2003 when Nickelback released their guitar-heavy "Someday" that fans began to pay closer attention to the presumed "self-plagiarism." In fact, As reported by NPR, then-college student Mikey Smith pointed out to WBUR in Boston that "Someday" sounded eerily too familiar to one of the band's previous hits, 2001's "How You Remind Me".
"I heard them both on the radio, and I kinda noticed that you can hum the melody of the other one over this one and I wonder why that is. So I tried to put them together, one on the left speaker, one on the right speaker. And it was actually ridiculous how similar they were." For all intents and purposes, the audiophile calls the two "exactly the same song".
Yet, in a press conference with the Cleveland Free Times, bassist Mike Kroeger defended the legitimacy of the two tunes. As reported by Ultimate Guitar:
"I think that's remarkable for someone to notice that there is a hit quality," Kroeger said. "If all hits sound the same, then sorry. When you are a band that has a distinct style such as us or AC/DC, that happens. When you have a distinct style, you run the risk of sounding similar."
To Smith, who said that he and his girlfriend were previous fans of the band, the distinct similarities are grounds for fraud. "It's ripping people off, some of them may not even realize it ... I mean, it's the same thing over and over."
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