I read this article and have to admit that I instantly sided with Radiohead because I have a natural bias toward them and against Lana. I'm just not a fan of he

I read this article and have to admit that I instantly sided with Radiohead because I have a natural bias toward them and against Lana. I'm just not a fan of her music. Then I listened to her track. I'm very familiar with the Radiohead track. Radiohead is just plain wrong on this one. Here's the problem - your average jury/judge/lawyer does not have the required music theory knowledge to understand how asinine Radiohead's case is. There is a short list of 3-, 4- and 5-chord harmonic progressions that literally 90% of popular music is based on. What makes these songs different is the overlying melody and (to a lesser degree) the rhythm. Because these progressions are so commonly used, your mind doesn't automatically go "this song sounds like that song" because they all somewhat sound like each other (in a harmonic sense) and none really sticks out. We focus instead on the melody and rhythm. Now in the case of this Lana Del Rey song, she is using a far more rare chord progression in the verse where the last chord in the progression moves from a major chord to the minor of the same chord instead of resolving to the tonic. It creates the sense of dark tension in the song. Radiohead also uses this technique in Creep. Lana has really done nothing different from all the other pop musicians who use the same harmonic progressions as each other, but in this case there are very few songs to compare it to since it's a very non-standard progression. So when you hear this next to Creep, your brain goes "wow they do sound very similar". The melody of the vocals in the verse seems to carry some similarity to Creep as well, but it's really a pretty natural melodic line to sing over that progression due to how strong the color of the harmonic sequence is. Most importantly, the chorus shares nothing in common with the chorus of Creep. In court, Radiohead will likely win because the general population just does not understand this in-depth. They haven't written music and therefore don't get how easily one song can sound like another with absolutely no plagiarism intended. The sad thing, to me, is that Radiohead DOES understand this and they are still choosing to go ahead with the lawsuit against another creative artist. I guess that's what happens when you still need to make money and your career effectively ended decades ago.