Back in my home country I was playing with a band that had this modern/symphonic/Gothic/metal-with-female-vocals style. The band was funded by the keyboard player long before Evanescence was popular, yet the styles were similar. The thing is, when I first heard Forsaken, I was astonished as to how similar the bridge to one of our songs was. This song was written by the keyboard player several years before he first heard Evanescence, and he's no Dream Theater fan at all, yet the coincidence is there. I used to joke with my friends telling them that we became so popular that even Dream Theater copied us
My point is, Dream Theater made back then a song trying to recreate the Evanescence style. Evanescence wasn't inventing anything either, and certainly so wasn't my old band, but all in all there was A STYLE, a VIBE, and when you write music in a certain style and with a certain vibe, coincidences do happen.
Dream Theater had been widely known by recreating styles and vibes they feel influenced from at the moment, being metal, prog, nu metal or whatever, and that is something Portnoy was widely responsible for. So what I see here now is that DT have a song, BMUBMD, that goes in the same style and vibe of a Red song, but also of countless nu metal songs!!! Whether that is good or bad is up to everyone to judge, but it's certainly not a new thing for DT to do, and that's why I think Portnoy is acting totally immature and just points finger to discredit his former band.