So like it or not, it's _almost_ the same.

it IS the same, because (to quote robert smith) "it's always the same" in case you haven't noticed, it's HOW THE BIZ WORKS when something sells, the labels rush to put out something similar knowing that it will probably also sell sometimes the copycats are inferior, sometimes they improve upon the "original" "original" in quotes because the point is that in music this happens over and over and over, long before the modern biz and to be honest I'm not sure who the "original" guitar band was (the kinks are good, even though I know they weren't the "original") to quote my still missing copy of "will pop eat itself?": "ripe and ripe, then rot and rot"