Rina Sawayama has revealed that her recent song ‘This Hell’ almost sounded very different, after she realised that its guitar riff sounded similar to Abba’s ‘Gimme!
Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)’. As this dawned on her, she says, she “freaked out”.What do you do in these situations though?
Of course, you turn to someone who can offer a reassuring voice. And so, she explains to the BBC: “I contacted my publishers, and they freaked out too.
They were like, ‘Abba are absolutely going to say no to this, and you have to change it’”.So that’s what she did. A version of the song exists somewhere with an entirely different guitar riff.
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