Taylor Swift is being sued over Shake It Off lyrics
Taylor is being sued by an R&B singer who claims she's stolen the lyrics from his song for Shake It Off
It's been reported that Taylor Swift is facing a $42million lawsuit over the claims that she stole the lyrics to Shake It Off from R&B singer Jesse Graham.
Jesse Graham has claimed that Taylor took the chorus' lyrics "haters gonna hate" and "players gonna play" from a song named Haters Gone Hate, which he wrote in 2013.
Graham admits that his song and Shake It Off do not sound the same melodically, but that "her hook is the same hook as his". He told the New York Daily News: “If I didn’t write the song Haters Gone Hate, there wouldn’t be a song called Shake It Off.”
The lyrics to Jesse Graham's track, which features on his album Sexy Ladies, are "Haters gonna hate / Players gonna play / Watch out for them fakers / They’ll fake you every day.”
Apparently, Graham initially asked for a writing credit on the chart-topping hit (along with Swift, Max Martin and Shellback) and a selfie with Taylor. However Taylor's management declined this request (on the basis that his argument had no grounds) and now Graham says: "At first I was going to let it go, but this song is my song all the way."
Check out Jesse Graham's song Haters Gone Hate and Taylor's Shake It Off below. We doubt she's even heard Graham's song, to be honest...