

The Act 2 boss theme resembles the first half of Stage 7's music from Raiden II.The No Way! screen is like a 16-bit instrumental version of "Honk Around the Clock" from Sesame Street.The IceCap Zone theme is like a 16-bit instrumental version of "Hard Times" by The Jetzons, a band for which composer Brad Buxer was the keyboardist.This was taken a step further with Sonic Mania's miniboss track, aptly titled "Danger on the Dance Floor".The latter is also believed to be an inversion, though, as the original Dangerous demo lacked the distinctive four-beat drum hit heard in the final 1997 version. The percussion track for Knuckles's theme and the miniboss theme in the Sonic 3 half sound like they came straight from Michael Jackson's "In the Closet" or "Blood on the Dance Floor".In Carnival Night Zone, the beat from Michael Jackson's "Jam" is used, along with the trumpet riff and stock glass-breaking sound, and the main melody is based on Julius Fucik's "Entry of the Gladiators", which was also interpolated in Mystic Cave Zone from Sonic 2."Alarm Call" by Björk also bears some similarities to the Marble Garden Zone's theme.but, strangely enough, it was eventually confirmed to have nothing to do with Michael Jackson or his team, as Sega composer Miyoko Takaoka confirmed in 2014 that she composed the piece. The Marble Garden theme and " Thriller" are quite similar.The Hydro City Zone music is very reminiscent of the unreleased Michael Jackson song "Work That Body" as well as the Mike Mareen song "Heavy Water".Of course, this includes one inversion: The backbeat for the Sonic 3 closing credits ended up being used in the Michael Jackson song "Stranger in Moscow".

The game used to have Michael Jackson composing its score, and most of the zone themes can still be traced into being Suspiciously Similar Songs to MJ songs.The character select theme from Sonic Chaos is extremely similar to the song "Lift" by 808 State.
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It is also similar to the opening theme for the TV show Full House (debuted September 1987) and Janet Jackson's hit single " Together Again " (released 1997). The earliest is the " Maia Worzen " theme from the video game Legacy of the Wizard ( Dragon Slayer IV), composed by Koshiro himself and released in July 1987. The "Bridge Zone" theme from the 8-bit version of the game, composed by Yuzo Koshiro, sounds similar to several other songs.The entire tune of Chemical Plant Zone sounds like a small portion of Prince's Glam Slam.

