Billy Corgan is a co-writer on one of Miguel’s new songs and he didn’t even have to do anything

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Thanks to the tricky world of song writing credits (see Blurred Lines, Up Town Funk and Sam Smith’s Stay With Me) Billy Corgan is a co-writer on Miguel’s new album Wildheart. The song in question is called Leaves which Miguel says was slightly inspired by The Smashing Pumpkin’s 1979. He spoke to News.com.AU:

“The guitar riff just came to me in such a subconscious way, the song literally wrote itself in minutes,” Miguel says.

One slight problem: shortly Miguel realised the self-propelled riff was familiar — he’d “subconsciously” recycled the guitar riff from Smashing Pumpkins’ 1996 hit 1979.

“It was kind of reminiscent of 1979,” Miguel admits. “I was a fan of them growing up, but I never bought their albums or saw them live. It’s weird how some things just sink in.”

Luckily for Miguel a costly Blurred Lines legal moment was avoided as the realisation came before Leaves was released. Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan was contacted and he approved the use of his song and gets a co-writing credit.

These songwriting credit issues are getting trickier and trickier. See if you can pickup on the 1979 inspiration in the song in question:

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