Approach: how the review works

The method (pipeline)

1. Define the decision context. Release, ad, commission, pitch, or internal risk check. Use-case changes what “risk” means operationally.
2. Lock the materials. Your track version(s) + reference(s). Out-of-scope items are stated explicitly.
3. Identify what’s driving the “too close” feeling. Hook-level, structural, and production/arrangement cues—only where they materially drive perception.
4. Separate generic/stock devices from distinctive features. Genre conventions are treated differently from distinctive combinations.
5. Compare at the right level. Surface resemblance vs. structural overlap; isolated moments vs. recurring features; uniqueness vs. idiom.
6. Consider alternative explanations. Shared influences, constraints, independent creation plausibility, common stylistic vocabulary.
7. State conclusions with explicit limits. What is present, what it suggests, what it does not establish, and revision levers if revision is desired.

Deliverable format