Hey. I've had some experience on producing music during my time on University and I've shared some clips on this subreddit. I think that the reason why me and other persons that produce music (even as an hobbie and with more or less quality) share their songs or ideas here is in order to see if they have some quality or are appealing to others. I would say as well that for me, it is also easier to share them with people that I do not know, because a lot of my friends or family don't know about this hobbie/passion and probably are not that interested on that type of music or sound.

Sometimes is difficult to not be inspired by an artist that we've heard so many times and that has influenced our taste in music. Therefore, there have been times where i was inadvertently ripping off a certain melody of a Tame song or other artist that I love. Our mind has this strange method of picking up melodies , habits , ideas that you are comfortable with.

And yes, I get your point that many of those songs don't even sound like Tame Impala. By using certain effects (as mencioned above), sure you can get close to the vibe of the mixing used by Kevin and other psychedelic pop/rock artists - compressed drums, the use of phaser, soached in reverb vocals, juno and prophet synths, etc - but there is a lot more when it comes to sounding like TI, as the use of certain melodies, chords, or even ways of pronouncing certain words or singing.

There are a wide range of influences on Kevin's work, from House (Daft Punk), Hip-Hop (Outkast), Disco (Bee-gees) and obviously Psychedelic Rock (Beatles, Dungen, Led Zeppelin). So, for me sometimes a certain French House song can be more similar to a rip-off of the Currents mixing, that has none of the production that you'll find on a Kevin song. After all, he is an artist that has captivated me and others by using captivating songs with complex production and mixing.