we have all stumbled on a melody that has been written," he added. "They wrote that song, realized it was so much like mine that they gave me credit on it.I had nothing to do with writing it," Rob tweeted in response to a fan who'd accused Rixton of ripping him off. They didn't just give Rob a tip of the hat, though: they listed him a co-writer on the song, so he'd get royalty payments. "We've been a huge fan of his, so we took a lot of inspiration from him and wanted to give him a tip of the hat," Rixton member Jake Roche told Billboard. You may have noticed that "Me and My Broken Heart," by rising British band Rixton, sounds very much like Rob's solo hit "Lonely No More," and that's no accident: the band deliberately used part of Rob's song's melody. Lindsey Byrnes Randall Slavin/Atlantic Records Rob Thomas has written songs for other artists before - "Smooth" by Santana comes to mind, for example - but his latest songwriting credit is for a tune he really had nothing to do with.
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