This one was easy.
Pachelbel’s Canon in D
Nickelback – How You Remind Me of Someday
Pachelbel and Nickelback
Tag: comparisons
Dvorak and Cake
Once I started looking for clip comparisons I couldn’t really stop. I spent a long time with Madonna and Puccini, but couldn’t get it just right. I’m pretty happy with my Dvorak-Cake ones though, especially the first pair.
Dvorak “American” String Quartet
Cake – Short Skirt Long Jacket
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Cake – The Distance
Shostakovich, Radiohead, Vivaldi, and Britney Spears
Here are some clips to demonstrate why I think Radiohead sounds like Shostakovich and Britney Spears sounds like Vivaldi.
Shostakovich String Quartet #8
Radiohead – Paranoid Android
Shostakovich Cello Concerto 1 in E Flat
Radiohead – Creep
Vivaldi Concerto in G Minor for two cellos
Britney Spears – Baby One More Time
Vivaldi A Minor Violin Concerto
Britney Spears – Crazy
Classical composers and their modern day equivalents
It all started when I was playing some Basshunter on the radio in the car, and Shawn commented that it sounded like Sibelius. We decided to think of with as many pairs as possible, and these are what we came up with:
| Sibelius | Basshunter |
| Shostakovich | Radiohead |
| Mozart | Eminem |
| Puccini | Madonna |
| Johann Strauss | Backstreet Boys |
| Richard Strauss | Pink Floyd |
| Berlioz | Marilyn Manson |
| Schumann | Nirvana |
| Mendelssohn | Weezer |
| Debussy | Postal Service |
| Ravel | Death Cab for Cutie |
| Pachelbel | Nickelback |
| Dvorak | Cake |
| Lizst | Michael Jackson |
| Wagner | Kanye West |
| Beethoven | The Beatles |
| Brahms | U2 |
| Vivaldi | Britney Spears |
| Bach | Christina Aguilera |
| Paginini | Liberacci |
If you can think of any other ones, add them in the comments!
Update: I added a few clips to demonstrate why I think some of these pairs are similar.
Which Flower Fairy does Hofit Golan look most like?
Dr. Manhattan looks like Triclops from Phantasy Star III (and what the circle on his forehead is)
except Manhattan has the circle thing (hydrogen atom) on his forehead instead of Triclops’s eye on a block on top of his head.
In case anyone’s wondering what the hydrogen atom means, this is what the internet tells me:
Jon gradually becomes a pawn of the United States government, though the means by which his loyalty is secured are never revealed; he is given the code name ‘Doctor Manhattan’, a reference to the Manhattan Project that, it is hoped, will defeat America’s enemies. He is also provided with a costume which he grudgingly accepts, though he refuses to accept the icon design which is provided for him (this being a stylized orbital model of the atom). Instead, Jon chooses as his emblem a representation of a hydrogen atom, whose simplicity he declares to be something that kindles his respect; accordingly, he painlessly burns the mark into his forehead. This preference for material mechanisms marks the beginning of Jon’s declining humanity, which is progressively mirrored by his gradual shedding of the uniform – by the end of the 1970s, he refuses to wear anything at all except for mandatory public appearances.
Blair Waldorf the American Girl
But which one? Lately I’ve seen shades of both Samantha Parkington and Molly McIntire.
