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Did Lady Gaga Steal 'Born This Way' From Girl Group SNSD?

By Sarah Crow Posted Mar 18th 2011 06:00PM

Did Lady Gaga Steal 'Born This Way' From Japan's SNSD?

Lady Gaga's style is certainly one-of-a-kind, but her songs may not be.

Gaga's most recent single, 'Born This Way,' drew criticism when it was first released for sounding strikingly similar to Madonna's 'Express Yourself.' Now the pop star is coming under fire again for her sound-alike song.

Sources allege that Gaga's song sounds so much like a song by nine-member South Korean girl group SNSD that it may have been plagiarized. Fans of the Seoul-based band are claiming that Gaga ripped off major sections of 'Be Happy,' a song from SNSD's 2010 album 'Oh!'

Check out the tracks side-by-side. (Note: the pitch on SNSD's song has been lowered for comparison purposes.)

What do you think? Is 'Born This Way' too much like 'Be Happy'?

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Friday 18 March

By wb

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Much ado about nothing.

Friday 18 March

By Jennifer

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the only thing that sounds the same to me is the music. definitely NOT THE LYRICS!!!

Sunday 20 March

By Zack

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English lyrics don't sound like Korean lyrics?! No freaking way!

Saturday 02 April

By dot

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not every one listen for the lyrics only. if u only care for the words and not the song it self. just read why bother listen? the word "music" does not stand for "lyrics" aka words only.

Friday 18 March

By Mr. Kidd II

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So Born this Way seems to copy both Madonna AND this Koren group? I would think harmless similarity if it was one or the other, but I have to admit, I'm thinking plagiarism.

It may be rash, but honestly, think on it. The rhythm/melodies are taken from one artist, the words are taken from another artist, and the video is taken from the mind of Charlie Sheen when he banged 7-gram rocks.

Is there really anything original in this song?

Sunday 20 March

By Tonya

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oh that just made me laugh so frickin hard LMAO

Friday 18 March

By kim

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eeek! SNSD! SONE here in the house! woot! korean music on an popeater! anyways, done spazzing lol.

with that said and done- the songs really do sound alike.

Friday 18 March

By kim

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oops. *on popeater*

Friday 18 March

By Ms.Cousins

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Lady GAGA isn't orginal at all, but who is? wearing costumes, or being weird, or sexual, or an artist has been done, she may be fun to watch, but cetainly not orginal in none of her music or costumes...she quite lame cause that's not her real personality and just does it as an act or for attention...I seen her interviews and when she was on MTv prank show, she didn't dress weird, nor does she say outlandish shxt so what makes her ACT so great, Madonna did it, and countless other pop stars, it's like saying M.Jackson is the greatest dancer and singer, that was given to him too much in my opinion, he had four brothers and sisters that could do that, and many of black kids can dance like him, and some whites as well, so just because we like a persons music dont make me orginal...it's been done believe me.

Friday 18 March

By froggyanearl

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Nah it's not a rip off. That ridiculous. There are literally millions of songs that have bee written there are bound to be songs that are similar particularly when you manipulate one song to match another, then of course they are going to sound alike. What ever similarities there are, and they are small, they are inconsequential. I would say the Nk band is just blowing smoke to get the notoriety.

Sunday 20 March

By Nikki

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the NK band dont have to blow smoke for populatiry there one of the main stars in the koreans wave and have more dedicated fans then any amrican fan could ever dream of having, there are simmalar though its i major issue to NK becuse they get there music ripped off of them alot

Sunday 03 April

By dots

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do you know a thing about music? have u taken any actual music lessons? are you like deaf that u find millions songs literally sounds alike? music that have sounded a like aren't a coincidence. a measure might sound alike not like half the song. and for your information the song isnt manipulated its called pitch. it did not change the tune of the song it just made it lower octave. because for none educated music people they think a different octave changes the tune.

Friday 18 March

By jerry

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I thought she stole it from Santa Claus. Who cares!!

Sunday 27 March

By shi

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well i am not a fan of gaga ..
but it doesn't mean she was the one that made
all the choices in the production of this song or others
it is her producer if any thing
and in the music industry nowadays
no one wants to admit that something was" sampled "
and its that simple
i mean personally i never seen her as original, something fresh and new in a sense cause to me gaga is the modern day Madonna
but hey that's just my opinion...and truth be told this was plagiarism.

Friday 18 March

By Larylee209

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Songs do sound the same. You cannot know if lyrics are rip off cause Korean group is not singing in American.

Friday 18 March

By Savyna

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Speaking in American?
English I'm sure you meant.

Friday 18 March

By JBaer

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At the rate things are going, they'll say "Born This Way" was ripped off from Led Zeppelin.