Come on RADIOHEAD, lay off LANA DEL REY. Yes, the verses of her "GET FREE" sound strikingly like "CREEP," with a similar (but not the same) melody winding its way over the same quirky cycle of four chords, transposed up a minor third. Not unlike the way the entirety of "Creep" sounds strikingly like the verses of the HOLLIES' '70s pop classic "THE AIR THAT I BREATHE," transposed down a major third. ALBERT HAMMOND and MIKE HAZLEWOOD, who wrote that one (Hammond recorded it first), sued Radiohead all those years ago and walked away with songwriting credits and a cut of the royalties. And now—well, to be fair, we're not quite sure what's going on now, except that according to reporting that's based entirely on a Del Rey tweet from Sunday and some comments she made onstage that night, Radiohead is either suing her, threatening to sue her, talking about suing her, or something. We do know this, from Del Rey: Radiohead "want 100% of the publishing—I offered up to 40 over the last few months but they will only accept 100. Their lawyers have been relentless, so we will deal with it in court." Radiohead hasn't said a word in public. It's not clear exactly who is, or would be, doing the suing. But do you need to do this, guys (or guys' lawyers)? One hundred percent? Of a song that borrows some chords that you borrowed from someone else for a couple verses? And which then morphs into a girl-group heaven of a chorus that has nothing to do with the air that any rock creep has ever breathed, at least not these particular rock creeps (OK, disclaimer: I love Radiohead and the Hollies and Albert Hammond)? But which maybe cribs notes here, there and everywhere from some other pop group that's either too unaware or too smart or too generous to sue for its share? Because to some extent, obviously, that's how all pop songs work. And this particular pop song (written, at least for now, by Del Rey, RICK NOWELS and KIERON MENZIES) is a particularly good example of making something new out of something old. A worthwhile contribution to pop literature. Get on the phone, get your 25 percent or whatever, 40 percent, sure, and move on and let Lana Del Rey move on, too, and let more pop songs with more minor fourth chords be written and recorded and celebrated for what they are rather than for what they sound like... What the legal experts say... KANYE WEST at the DEF POETRY JAM in 2003... Nothing to hear here, just four full-length demo tapes KURT COBAIN gave his friend JOHN PURKEY starting in 1988... No gimmicks, no shoutout to the president who was watching the game (but who apparently left at halftime), no props except for his knee-length winter coat and some upstage flash pots, and seemingly mixing live rap with lip-syncing, KENDRICK LAMAR simply did Kendrick Lamar for 8 or 9 minutes at halftime of college football's championship game Monday night. While also appearing to chew gum the entire time.