Billie Eilish

Exploring the similarities between the Billie Eilish song 'Bury A Friend' and The Doors classic 'People Are Strange', which share the same melody.

However, if the surviving members of The Doors wanted to lodge a plagiarism case, there’d likely be grounds for a significant payout. In Eilish’s case, the melody in ‘Bury A Friend’ is almost identical to ‘People Are Strange’. I probably wouldn’t have made that song the way it is if I hadn’t had sleep paralysis and nightmares.” However, they are also authentic artists to their core, and surely, they wouldn’t deliberately try to reinterpret the classic track without crediting The Doors. After the case rumbled on for years, eventually, Harrison was found guilty of committing “subconscious plagiarism” in 1976 and ordered to pay around $1.6 million in damages. Interestingly, it doesn’t even matter whether an artist has consciously decided to take inspiration from another track or not – they can still be successfully sued if it happened accidentally.