@The_T this happens a lot more than you think it would. listening to those notes in the context of the whole song it seems like it's just a funny coincidence

@holly look, if there are people on the Nintendo Switch 2 development team who haven't played Sonic the Hedgehog, then they aren't even qualified to work at Nintendo

@The_T the more you make music the more you realize it's inevitable you're using the same musical elements as other songs and most listeners just don't notice most of them lol

@The_T like you just go "huh oops this sounds like [x song] but well if i stopped writing music whenever that happened there would be no music"

@holly and I'm saying there's a difference between "just music" and Sonic the Hedgehog

@The_T yeah and i'm just saying it's not really a case of plaigarization because in the context of the rest of the song it sounds pretty different from green hill zone.

@holly the rest of the song is just kinda ambient noise. It's just the GHZ notes and then ambient noise

@The_T yeah but like... if a sequence of two chords was grounds for plaigirization we would have a lot more accusations of plaigirization across music. things like harmonic and rhythmic function, instrumentation, and tempo also matter a ton

@holly you seem to be hyperfocusing on my flippant usage of the word plagiarism.

It is well established that I know copyright is bullshit, I am more upset that this is actively noticeable and distracting and should be to most people.

@The_T @holly Do you think maybe this sticks out to you because of your extensive history with Sonic games

@amy @holly I think anyone on the planet who was born before 1993 and would buy a Switch 2 has seen the first level of Sonic the Hedgehog.

@The_T Okay but do you think maybe you have such a visceral reaction to hearing four familiar notes because of your extensive history with Sonic games