Green Day's 21 guns sounds like this earlier song.

Proof Green days new single copies off of the song "Telephone Line" by ELO.

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[ubernerd35]

Whatever. The progression Green Day used in 21 guns is extremely common in modern music. You could say this sounds like literally one of a thousand songs. This is not plagiarism. Enjoy your ignorance.

[joelibermann]

oh really, the progression used is extremely common modern music? O.K then, give me a song besides 21 guns that sounds like this. then say "enjoy your ignorance"

[ubernerd35]

@joelibermann A few songs that share this progression are Sum 41's Pieces, The Offspring's "The Kids aren't all right", Green day's "Holiday," Cake's "Jolene," Red Hot Chili Pepper's "Otherside," etc, etc. Saying these two songs sound alike would be like saying Bush stole Glycerine from Journey's Don't Stop Believing, who actually stole it from the Beatles Let it Be. Learn music theory and chord progressions before you post uninformed video opinions.

[joelibermann]

@ubernerd35

right but ELO was the first to perfect the chord progression, and 21 guns sounds exactly like it. So your saying because everybody does it it's okay? Songs should have some degree of originality in chord progressions, artists are supposed to improvise, not copy.

[ubernerd35]

@joelibermann ELO was not the first to use this progression by a longshot. Lots of rock music sounds the same. Get over it.

[joelibermann]

@ubernerd35

get over it? Give me an example of a progression that sounds exactly like this song, that was before ELO did it.

then I will shut up.

[BigRussNovak]

@joelibermann Mott the Hoople used this chord progression back in '72, for "All the Young Dudes." That was four years before "Telephone Line" came out.

[TBod108]

@joelibermann uhh david bowie's space oddity lol

[fatriff]

@rduquett I was happy to write it off as a coincidence until right at the end of 21 guns, billy joe just had to change the pitch on the last 21 guns line giving the game away, you can almost hear him laughing when he does it.

[rduquett]

@ubernerd35 So, even though the chord progressions are the same, does that mean that the melody has to be EXACTLY the same? You could literally sing the lyrics to 21 guns to this song and sound like there's no difference. I did it in my car without realizing it, then i realized i was listening to a 70's station and was completely confused.

[FuelledByHamish]

Lawwwwwwl, >implying an incredibly simple progression, actually perhaps THE simplest—created by simply playing the root chord and then descending—can be traced to ANYONE.

I have no particular interest in Green Day (I do in ELO!), but that’s irrelevant: this chord progression is so simple (and inevitably stumbled across) that it just makes you look like a jackass for trying to ascribe any ‘original’ source to it. You’d be as well making a video on how someone plagiarised I-IV-V off someone else.

[TheJohnny990]

@ubernerd35 and 50 other songz hav the same progression as dnt stop believing: Blink 182's dammit, bruce springsteen's im goin down, green day's when i come around, lady gaga's poker face and the edge of glory, red hot chili peppers' under the bridge i could go on and on and on and on

[Joeweeeeeeee]

21 guns sounds like "all the young dudes"

[gotribe1997]

when i first heard 21 guns I thought immediately of telephone line

[BigRussNovak]

@ThatMeatalGuy123 No, Bowie wrote the song for them, but they recorded it first. And later (I believe it was the next year, in 1973) he did it. So technically, he covered their song, which is actually his.