So there is a sort of mini Australian-Canadian scandal involving the first single (after a 4-year break) of Australian chanteuse Delta Goodrem and the famous Canadian band Arcade Fire. As a matter of fact, Delta Goodrem’s ‘Sitting On The Top Of The World’ allegedly shares some musical familiarities with Arcade Fire’s ‘Rebellion (Lies)’.
The Arcade Fire fans pointed out the similarities, and Darren Cross, a former member of the band ‘Gerling’, wrote on his blog that she ‘totally rips off Arcade Fire’, and that Arcade Fire should sue her. No comment from the Butler camp so far.
Goodrem, who apparently co-wrote the song with producer John Shanks, declared to Confidential:
‘I hadn't heard of (Rebellion (Lies)) until that moment and then I checked it out and was blown away. They're incredible. I think the whole thing was a bit of a storm in a teacup.’
There is an undeniable similarity indeed, that crescendo with the piano, but her voice is auto-tuned-commercial-style, and for me, her song sounds so much like a bad remix ready for dance clubs, that it is difficult to hear the Arcade Fire song. But the most surprising in this story is that Goodrem had never heard of Arcade Fire… wow, Australia is really the last frontier.