Originally Posted by Craig Allen
Just read it. Pretty short article. Kinda picks on Taylor Swift. Not a new thing to borrow, as we know. A favorite composer of mine, Rimsky-Korsakov was a master at it:

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Rimsky-Korsakov was open about the influences in his music, telling Vasily Yastrebtsev, "Study Liszt and Balakirev more closely, and you'll see that a great deal in me is not mine".[135] He followed Balakirev in his use of the whole tone scale, treatment of folk songs and musical orientalism and Liszt for harmonic adventurousness. (The violin melody used to portray Scheherazade is very closely related to its counterpart in Balakirev's symphonic poem Tamara, while the Russian Easter Overtures follows the design and plan of Balakirev's Second Overture on Russian Themes.)[4][133]

Ya gotta love it.

Angus Young...
“I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.”

lol you can also steal from yourself, especially, when you have a hit formula