Romania Vs. Romania - Alexandra Stan Vs. Inna

First let me say that I love both these songs and artists. Sorry America, but Romania has the best music. This song came on the radio, and I fell in love with it. So here it is:
(Note - I'm posting the instrumental because it's easier to spot the sample that way)
Artist: Alexandra Stan
Name: Mr. Saxobeat
Release Date : January 28, 2011



The moment I heard this I thought something in it sounded familiar. Hear the electronic sort of water drop sound in the background? It's not confirmed, but I'm pretty sure it's from this:
Artist: Inna
Name: Hot
Release date: November 12, 2008 These 2 songs sound a lot alike in the background music. (or at least I think they do) Opinions?

Flying off the earth....

Not sample related post: OH MY GOD PAULA ABDUL JUST TWEETED ME.

That is all. You may now return to your life.

Sampleing samplers...Fergie vs. JJ fad vs. Afrocan vs. Krafwerk vs. Katy Perry

This promises to be an interesting post. As I'm sure the title shows. The main thief here is Fergie. As much as I love her, the song I'm about to post is one of the most sample filled disasters ever. Not to say that it's not addicting, it is. And catchy. Dangerously. We're gonna work from the ground up. First, the key sound effects (The "elephant-ish" noise at the begging):



Now, the beginning dance section (note that this song samples the above song at 0:28) :



And then the main rap pattern from :36 in this:



And throw it all together in a surprisingly good sounding combination and you get this:



Most of you probably already guessed this one :-) but most probably don't know where this is going next:



Does anyone else think that this video is TOTALLY ripping Fergie off?