

Sam then goes to Bella's café to get his sandwiches, but Bella can't give him any because she has no bread, and she can't order more because her phone is dead too.


Meanwhile, at Fireman Sam's house, Sam tries to ring Sarah and James, his niece and nephew, to invite them to the park, but his phone is dead. The wind knocks down a telegraph pole as he passes it. For me, that’s cheating.The first episode begins with Trevor Evans, driving his bus down a road on a windy day. It turns out that the main premise of the two works is the same, even down to the beginning of sentences and verses. “A few hours after the message, I textually examined the lyrics of ‘Birdy’ in comparison to ‘The Bluebird’. “Cholil knows that I’ve been working with Bukowski since 2020,” Muhammad told NME. The following morning, Efek Rumah Kaca vocalist Cholil Mahmud texted Muhammad to ask his opinion on the matter, which inspired him to create the thread. In a statement to NME, Muhammad said that a friend alerted him to the similarities between the Pamungkas song and Bukowski poem on the night of February 1. Earlier this week, he released its second single, ‘Please, Baby, Please’, and is planning to release a third track, ‘Trust Me With This (Mama)’ on March 3. ‘Birdy’ is the title track of Pamungkas’ fourth studio album, which will be out sometime this year.

I’m just glad loads of people remind me of that.” It’s a learning curve for me to really understand the bigger picture. In an interview with NME about ‘Solipsism 0.2’, Pamungkas reflected on the episode: “Sometimes we tend to look at things in a very micro perspective. Pamungkas managed to resolve the issue with Virot, whose art was ultimately featured on the album cover, and shared a two-minute video apologising for the oversight, calling it “a reality check for me and the whole team of Maspam Records family”. The illustrator, Baptiste Virot, said he hadn’t allowed Pamungkas and his team to use his work. In 2021, the singer-songwriter – real name Rizky Rahmahadian Pamungkas – was called out for plagiarising artwork by a French illustrator for the cover art of his latest album ‘Solipsism 0.2’. In his thread, Hamzah Muhammad noted Pamungkas had previously faced accusations of plagiarism over album cover art. NME has reached out to Pamungkas’ management for comment on the new version of ‘Birdy’ and the Bukowski accusations. For example, the aforementioned verse has been changed to: “Birdy in my heart / The walls flock about / Maybe it’s still noble / As your body double”. Though its chorus remains unchanged, most of the song has been reworked to distance it from the Bukowski poem. On February 9, Pamungkas released a new version of ‘Birdy’ that replaced the original track on digital platforms.
