Bothers me not one bit--I wrote a "Stay" after Jackson Browne (who wasn't the first) and a decade before Lisa Loeb and Dave Matthews. They're all different songs, you can't copyright a title, and listeners are intelligent enough to discern.
I remember one TAXI Road Rally where, at the A&R listening panel (several A&R execs and publishers draw members' demos at random and evaluate and have the audience vote on them), there was a "perfect storm" of a country song--great arrangement, terrific imagery, vocalist a dead ringer for Alan Jackson--called "Jesus, George Jones, & Me." We all gave it a 5 out of 5. But the Warner-Chappell guy said he had already been shopping a song with EXACTLY that title for the past two months!
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