Monday, December 7, 2015

Adele is accused of stealing a Turkish Song! Or is it a coincidence?

I've been reading lots of tweets regarding the resemblance of the Adele's "Millions Years Ago" with Turkish Singer Ahmet Kaya's "Acilara Tutunmak" (translation: holding on the pains). When you listen one after another, they definitely sound similar. Be your own judge:


By the way, as of 12/07/2015, YouTube has started blocking the song videos because of copyright issues. That makes the accusations found valid ground on YouTube end, or they are scared to be a platform that hosts this conflict. Anyways, here is the Ahmet Kaya version (you may want to skip first 50 seconds):


Honestly, I am curious what Adele has to say about this conflict. Here is a custom video that compares tune by tune: