Was listening to a bunch of random WCW themes, and I just realized this guy's entrance theme sounds like the song 'The Way You Make Me Feel' by Michael Jackson
I googled and apparently nobody else has ever connected these two songs....did I just discover a previously-unknown WCW ripoff theme, or is this a reach?
Listen:
https://youtu.be/PzKRvu8ZdRo?t=8
https://youtu.be/0neY33G1emQ?t=20

That's Castlevania SOTN not MJ brother

>>18154923 (OP)
kek it's just the same drums and similar bass but that goofy ahh synth makes it sound very different to MJ

>>18154923 (OP)
>UMM IM THE ONE TO NOTICE TEE-HEE
there’s literally a comment in the youtube video saying the same thing dated a year ago. Don’t be a self mark

>>18154923 (OP)
I hear some similarities, not enough to call it a direct rip-off though
The bpm, drums and synths are similar for sure but the overall melody is fairly different, probably why no one ever noticed it before
Now Jericho's Even Flow rip-off theme, THAT shit was blatant

>>18154953
I actually read through that video's comments earlier to see if anyone else noticed the similarity, but I guess that one didn't show since I had the comments sorted by Top Comments and not Newest
Glad to see it's not just me who made the connection though

>>18154923 (OP)
So why they give him Steve Austin’s wcw theme after?

>>18154923 (OP)
Listen to Jericho's WCW music and then Evenflow by Pearl Jam.
Then listen to Raven's WCW music and check out Come As You Are by Nirvana

>>18156193
Also DDP's music was Smells Like Teen Spirit knockoff

You know what? I'm about to say it:
WCW's Real American ripoff theme for Hogan was better than the original
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi51kkMepn0

>>18156803
Smells Like Teen Spirit is just a knockoff More Than Feeling by Boston

>>18154972
WCW got into deep shit when they played DDP's theme during an interview with The Foo Fighters.

I never understood why he got a theme with (what many have called) “Oriental-style” synths

>>18157478
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1U1Ue_5kq8

>>18158718
WCW themes sometimes just flat-out didn't make sense
They gave the Hollywood Blonds a heavy metal theme, and gave Johnny B. Badd a Chuck Berry-style song and ring name even though he was supposed to be a Little Richard lookalike

>>18154923 (OP)
It's not a full rip off but whoever made that Psychosis song was clearly trying to do a knockoff version of the MJ song, kek
Reminds me of that Blurred Lines song by Robin Thicke. That wasn't technically a rip off of Marvin Gaye's Got To Give It Up because the melody was completely different, but the beat and instrument choice made it clear that whoever produced the Robin Thicke song was trying to do another version of the Marvin Gaye song

Million Dollar Man's theme is Loverboy - Lucky Ones
Razor Ramon's theme is Eagles - Those Shoes

>>18154923 (OP)
Wow

>>18155044
I swear at least 10% of the entire damn WCW roster had that track as an entrance theme at some point in their career there, lel

>>18154923 (OP)
Amazing

>>18154923 (OP)
They definitely stole Mike's swag with this one
WCW was the king of changing popular songs just enough to avoid a lawsuit

>>18154923 (OP)
Same beat, similar drums, similar bassline, similar use of synths but the melody is different/reversed from the original, yep it's a ripoff
95% of WCW themes were either in-house-produced ripoffs or stock music. Even well-known themes like Goldberg and Harlem Heat's themes were just re-used stock music

>>18157206
You're not wrong

>>18161483
That and Goldberg's theme

>>18154923 (OP)
One time I was working at an airport Ben & Jerry's and I saw Psicosis walking around without his mask and I gave him a free strawberry smoothie, I also saw Vito in a dress and he signed my hat. I didn't ask him to sign.

Same with the Outsiders theme being a ripoff of Crazy by Seal (even the theme was called "Crazed")
https://youtu.be/Oj3gIqTsOXc?si=5DHfjnzDS5n3aRLQ
https://youtu.be/OnHxQ04m2gI?si=3LFCb3k9IW1kn9D6

>>18159115
Little Richard had a song called Johnny B Good, anon.....

>>18162695
He covered the song during live performances but he never recorded the song, it's a Chuck Berry song
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Richard_discography

>>18159198
>Reminds me of that Blurred Lines song by Robin Thicke. That wasn't technically a rip off of Marvin Gaye's Got To Give It Up
The results of the lawsuit over that song is complete bullshit
Marvin Gaye's family should have lost that
All Pharrell did while producing that song was recreate the beat from Gaye's song using similar percussion and background sound effects like the "Wooo!" and he used similar instruments for the bass and melody
But the notes/chords of the melody and bass were completely different from the original song
You can't copyright a beat (other than maybe the original recording of one)
People should be allowed to take a percussion beat, recreate it with similar percussion instruments and come up with whatever new melody that they want to, even if it's done with the exact same instruments used in the original
OP's comparison between the Psicosis theme and the Michael Jackson song is a good example. Rip-off? Maybe. But the melody's not the same. As long as the melody is different then it's not the same song, period

>>18162695
Imagine going "oh now Johnny B Good" when you can go "A-WAM BAM BALOO BAM A WAM BAM BOOM TOOTY FRUITY, O ROODY, TOOTY FRUITY, WOOOOOOOO"

>>18157206
I always preferred this over Real American
The guitar work over the mini-bridges and the background voices singing "American" during the hook were the best parts

>>18162437
Even the nWo theme was just stock music of a song consisting of Jimi Hendrix guitar-playing

>>18159115
At least they got it right with The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Iaukea
His theme was a Purple Rain ripoff

WCW very rarely had original wrestler themes that were specifically produced for a wrestler
95% of their themes fit one of 3 categories:
-a theme specifically produced for a wrestler by the company, but as a blatant rip-off of some other well-known wrestling/mainstream song, usually produced by Jimmy Hart e.g. the themes for Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Johnny B. Badd
-licensed production/stock music, e.g. Goldberg's Invasion theme, the nWo theme
-an actual original track that they paid the license to use, e.g. Hogan's Voodoo Child theme by Jimi Hendrix, Goldberg's Universal Soldier theme by Megadeth