When Olivia Rodrigo's breakout album, SOUR, dropped in 2021, many music aficionados noticed the close similarity between Rodrigo's track Brutal, and Elvis Costello's 1978 hit, Pump It Up.
Both tracks are built around a punk-inspired chromatic guitar riff with a stomping groove – with the similarity being so uncanny that many netizens called Rodrigo and her team out for not properly crediting Costello.
