Hear No Evil

If there's one thing I know in this world, it's music.

For those of you who may not know, I was/am a pretty big music dork. From elementary school through high school, I was HEAVILY involved in the instrumental music scene. While some people might have the Pavlovian response of "pshh, loooooser!" I could not disagree more. I attribute my math SAT scores solely to the fact that my parents let me take music lessons as a kid. Otherwise, I think the concept of fractions would still confound me to this day.

Aside from my awesome ability to determine was meter a song is written in within 2 bars or make snotty comments when some American Idol wannabe is completely out of tune and "pitchy, dawg," I have this bizarre ability to listen to music and commit their hooks to memory.

(For those of you who don't know what a hook is, I refer to you Wikipedia)

So after I downloaded the new Maroon 5 album and listened to it on my way up to my sister's place in western Maryland this Memorial Day weekend, I realized... damn you Adam Levine. You've yoinked a hook from one of John Mayer's songs.

As an experiment, listen to "Nothing Lasts Forever" on Maroon 5's new release.

Then, listen to "Stop This Train" on John Mayer's album Continuum.

Now, not only are the song structures strikingly similar, it seems as though the progressions are the same as well.

Maybe it's just the conspiracy theorist in me running amok again. But as I said in the beginning....

If there's one thing in this world I know, it's music!