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Originally Posted by Chazban  One day i'm listening to some Dibia$e and i'll think 'man i want to write a song'
Surprise surprise it sounds like one of his tracks. 
The next day it's Tokimonsta. My track sounds exactly like one of hers. The list goes on.
Even when i don't listen to music and i don't have any songs in my head i always seem to somehow end up subconsciously ripping off a chord sequence or melody or drum pattern.
I think it's because i know what sounds dope and i try to translate it into my own musical language but this just always happens.
How do i escape this vicious circle of accidental rip offs and how did you come to realise your own musical identity? |
When we're starting out, it's natural, and, for many, very instructive to mimic others, consciously, or unconsciously. Keeping your influences varied will clearly help.
If you're at the stage where you're also doing full productions of your songs -- but you're concerned because they're coming out sounding 'too much' like their (conscious or unconscious) models, consider doing a switch-up before recording. Take your song that you feel sounds too much like artist X but, when your perform and record it, do it in the style of artist Y. That will not only quite likely result in an interesting, hybrid sound (and might even sound
good 
) but will likely be good for your analytical skills and get you thinking 'above' any single style or approach.
In prose writing, they call the stage you sound like you're at
finding your own voice. It's something most creatively successful writers go through.