"Too similar to a top charting dance pop song"?

[leadsynth]

Wow, thanks so much for all the nice replies! You guys are a lot more encouraging than the TAXI screeners I usually get.

It occurred to me that the chords are a lot like U2's "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" ... But yeah, that's not a top-charting dance pop tune either. It's an unsolved mystery!

In other news...
I'm headed to my first Road Rally next month. Going alone, a bit nervous, but excited to learn a thing or two!

[Russell Landwehr]

Well... the verse does kinda sound like We Just Disagree by Dave Mason. But that's not Dance Pop. And are there any screeners old enough to know that song?

Russell

[leadsynth]

Russell,
As a kid growing up in Iowa in the '90s I knew Billy Dean's country cover of "We Just Disagree" ... and I love that song! Although I didn't have it in mind when I wrote "Carried Away."

[Piewackit1]

I'm a bit late to this but there should be more explanation from the screener. I didn't think your melody was a copy of anything I've heard before.