First Offense: Both 'Roar' and 'Brave' have the exact same back beat.

A copycat track might just signal doom for Perry's newest album, and as devoted fans, we simply have to know those sorts of things.

Let's have a look at both, though, and see what we can discern. Perry is trying to reinvent her sound on her new album, so releasing a dead-ringer track for Bareilles's track is a worrying start to what will be another three months of build up to Prism's official release. Now, it should come as no surprise that pop songs can sound generic and therefore similar, but critics the Internet over have been crowing about the unusual similarities between these two songs, and given that Perry tweeted about Bareilles's song months before releasing her own, she can't exactly pretend she hadn't heard it before. However, the latest criticism/attention directed Katy Perry's way has to do with 'Roar's' similarity to Sara Bareilles's 'Brave.' (Listen to both below.)

First of all, it contains Perry's newest single 'Roar', which was leaked online, and second of all, the album will be released within weeks of both Lady Gaga and Rihanna's newest albums. Katy Perry's new album Prism has been receiving all kinds of attention.

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