Boygenius are about as big as a rock band can be in 2023: They’ve landed an album in Billboard’s Top 10, received second-line billing at Coachella (“I’ve never played a festival when the sun was down,” Baker quipped), and, earlier this month, sold out Madison Square Garden. Six months later, they’re following it with The Rest, a four-song companion EP aglow with the sense of triumph that has haloed the group’s recent history. Over the pandemic, seeking companionship and a creative outlet, the band got back together to write and record a proper debut- The Record, released this March. (When a prominent contemporary embodiment of that idea recently used Boygenius as the setup for a cheap joke, Dacus minced no words.) Initially, it felt like wish fulfillment for those eager to pass off women playing rock as a newsworthy event ultimately, it settled into an extended counterpoint to heteropatriarchal ideas about feminine friendship and cooperation, and to the notion of genius as an attribute of erratic (male) individualists. Almost immediately, their union accumulated extramusical significance. Kindred spirits who first met while making the rounds with their respective solo projects, Baker, Bridgers, and Dacus were eventually booked on a joint tour, precipitating their first EP together. So, the question remains, did they rip-off a britney song to produce a lead single.Friendship, famously, is Boygenius’ raison d’être and a key part of its value proposition. Now, im not gonna find out when Muse were in the studio recording that album, but the britney single was released in the UK on Feb28, 2005, and the Muse song came out on June19, 2006, which seems to tie-in with regard to them being in the studio, working on the Black Holes album during the time they would've first heard Do Somethin' on UK radio / MTV etc. a repeated title phrase with the same number of syllables and very similar phrasing.Īnd the Muse song, which as ive already stated is not like their usual work, productionwise/soundwise, is released a long time after britney's track was released on her greatest hits. with a bass sound which is atypical of Muse. with a very similar beat which is atypical of Muse. Now we have the britney song identical to the muse song by having a v8/c16 pattern. but i'll now try to simplify it and align them by saying that the pc (prechorus) is just part of the chorus. The britney song is, from a technical point of view, much more interesting structurally. Structurally they are very similar, both have a 4bar figure for the chorus which repeats, although the Muse track is far more commercial in the way it has the first chorus figure (im calling the 'ooooh ooooh' bit the Muse chorus) repeat to produce a chorus that is double the amount of bars the britney one has first time around.Įven the guitar solos have distinct similarities in style and content- to compare them, they start at 3:04 of Do Somethin' and 2:24 of Supermassive. It's the same number of syllables, the phrasing is similar, and it is the song title / main lyric of importance. Replace the repeated phrase 'supermassive blackhole' with 'why don't you do somethin''. The song is in the same key (another factor which leads to its uncanny similarity) so has some melodic similarities by virtue of them having the same notes to play around with.
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