Shadow and Flame with Magik

When Katy Perry released (with Kayne West) her song E.T., her first song I didn’t care for :

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I thought the music sounded super similar to :

t.A.T.u’s All The Things She Said

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I gave my wife like a thirty minute back massage while forcing her to listen to the two songs back to back.  She thought it only sort of sounded similar but I can’t hear one without thinking of the other.

Do other people’s radio stations do this?  When an artist releases a new song, the radio decides, instead of playing the new song, to play the previous released song or sometimes the song before that.  It would make sense if it was followed by the new song but it never is.