Taylor Swift slams ‘Shake It Off’ copyright lawsuit
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and her legal team have responded to a copyright lawsuit which accuses her of stealing lyrics for her hit song, ‘Shake It Off’.
According to Fox News, Swift has been accused by Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, who wrote ‘3LW’s 2000’ song ‘Playas Gon’ Play’, of plagiarising its lyrics.
Now, a recent court filing insisted that Swift wrote 2014’s ‘Shake It Off’ by herself, while her attorney accused Hall and Butler of trying to cash in on the song’s astronomical success.
Swift claimed that she was just 11 when ‘Playas Gon’ Play’, was released and that she was not allowed to watch MTV’s ‘Total Request Live’ music video countdown show until she was “about 13 years old.
In a motion filed in federal court, Swift’s attorney claimed that Hall and Butler were merely trying to cash in on the success of Swift’s song.
Swift has said that she wrote the song using “experiences in my life and, in particular, unrelenting public scrutiny of my personal life.
Backing this up, Swift’s mother Andrea Swift filed an accompanying statement in which she said that she kept a close watch over the media her daughter was exposed to at home.