She got away with it because of the change of the rhythm and the arrangement of the words. She didn’t “copy” it per se, It’s similar. There are millions of songs that are similar. It’s just how music works.

All of these party/club/dance songs sound the same to me anyway.

Fucking horribleness begets fucking horribleness.

I never heard “California Gurls” until I saw this post and who the fuck is Cascada? There is way better music to care about than these lame radio disney pop songs.

Or you could listen to good music.

1. hippies don’t drink champagne.
2. Frisco? Really!? She is obviously not from here.

Vanilla Ice doesn’t hear any similarities

Vocals sound just like Katy, lyric content identical, verses sound the same. Choruses are different

Who?

God, that’s terrible. Really awful. Horrendously bad. Even if it weren’t a rip-off, it would still be all of these things.

Best song ever!

Everyone getting so butt hurt at this has clearly been living under a rock all year. Either that or you have selective memory. California Gurls was anything other than original. There were like 3 songs out all at the same time that were musically identical.

Maybe it’s just the looming summer season mixed with the disco homo in me but…is anyone else hoping for a slick mashup between Katy and Cascada?

Lady Gaga basically made this ok.

So, a song that sucks ripped off another song that sucks?

She looks like Khloe Kardashian with a blonde wig

Her parents should be water boarded for naming her Cascada. But all is forgiven if she marries Jon Secada.

its a shame a song about my city is so awful…

this song is worse than rebecca black’s friday.