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  • Chorus Vocal Melody
  • Chord Progression

The choruses to One Direction's "You & I" (released April 15, 2014) and Canadian rocker Bryan Adams' '80s ballad Heaven (released April 9, 1985) contain similar vocal melodies and chord progressions. Both songs start with the same relative chord structure: IV-V-vi-I-IV or 4-5-minor6-1-4, keys are only a half-step apart (Heaven: C, You & I: C#), and both have diatonic melodies that ascend with the first three chords (Heaven: 1-1-1-2-2-3-3-3-4-5-5-5-4-3-1; You & I: 1-2-3-3-3-3-3-5-1-1-6). Compare the lines, Heaven: "Baby you're all that I want/When you're lying here in my arms", and You & I: "You and I/We don't wanna be like them"., You & I (:56) VS Heaven (:51)

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What Makes You Beautiful lyrics

One Direction

You're insecure, don't know what for You're turning heads when you walk through the door Don't need makeup to cover up Being the way that you are is enough Everyone else in the room can see it Everyone else but you Baby, you light up my world like nobody else The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell You don't know, oh, oh, you don't know you're beautiful If only you saw what I can see You'll understand why I want you so desperately Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe You don't know, you don't know you're beautiful That's what makes you beautiful So c-come on, you got it wrong To prove I'm right, I put it in a song I don't know why you're being shy And turn away when I look into your eyes Everyone else in the room can see it Everyone else but you Baby, you light up my world like nobody else (Nobody else) The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell You don't know, oh, oh, you don't know you're beautiful (Oh) If only you saw what I can see You'll understand why I want you so desperately Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe You don't know, you don't know you're beautiful That's what makes you beautiful Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na Baby, you light up my world like nobody else The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell You don't know, oh-oh, you don't know you're beautiful Baby, you light up my world like nobody else The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed But when you smile at the ground (ground), it ain't hard to tell You don't know, oh-oh, you don't know you're beautiful (Beautiful) If only you saw what I can see You'll understand why I want you so desperately (Desperately) Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe You don't know, oh-oh, you don't know you're beautiful Oh-oh-oh, you don't know you're beautiful, oh-oh That's what makes you beautiful