It's a coincidence, but a funny one...

The day after news broke of Coldplay ripping off a Joe Satriani song, it looks like Crucial Element has been ripped off. The Coldplay issue is with their latest single. It is a Joe Satriani song. Youtube, motherfucka!
Crucial Element hasn't really been plagiarized. There is just a really funny coincidence, that is a result of Crucial Element being an almost too accurate satire. I should note that this isn't the first time a something related to Crucial Element has shown up in the mainstream, well after we created them. Initially, we had some songs, written in 2001-02, which ended up being eerily similar to popular songs that came out years later. We weren't plagiarized. We just predicted a trend. The same has happened with the Crucial Element podcast. Diddy has now done a podcast that is so similar to a CE podcast that he should never be allowed to work again. Not because of a lack of integrity, but because he's doing Crucial Element, and he's serious.

The intros are obviously the same. Other than the general phrasing, other similarities include over-use of "It's official," and "Yo" being said for no reason at all. If you watch any of the Crucial Element Podcasts, they're all like this.

Here is ours:



And here is the Diddy-Cast:


Look for a new podcast on Monday from Crucial Element, addressing this concern.

Thanks to Andy Kline for bringing this to our attention. Why was Andy watching the Diddy-cast? No one knows.