Taylor Swift is an expert at ignoring the hate, but it’s been alleged that she stole lyrics from her 2014 single. “Shake It Off”These are particularly difficult to overcome. The original copyright case was dismissed by a judge in 2018. However, an appeals panel reinstated it in 2021. They felt there was enough evidence to justify a trial before a jury. On August 8, Swift filed a motion in hopes of proving that she had not heard 3LW’s 2001 song “Playas Gon’ Play”Before writing the lyrics to her hit.
The lyrics to 3LW’s song do include the lines, “Playas, they gonna play / And haters, they gonna hate,”Taylor Swift, however, made the argument in her recent filed motion (per). Billboard) that those phrases were commonly used by people around her growing up, including in other songs and movies. According to her declaration
I also used common phrases and comments throughout my life to create Shake it Off lyrics. I knew the phrases before I started writing Shake It Off. ‘players gonna play’ ‘haters gonna hate’Many times, it was used to convey the idea that one should not be negative. While attending Wyomissing Hills school and Hendersonville high school, I remember hearing the phrases “haters hate” and “players play” repeated by classmates. These phrases are similar to commonly used sayings such “haters hate” and “players play”. ‘don’t hate the playa, hate the game,’ ‘take a chill pill,’ ‘say it, don’t spray it.’
She stated that she was inspired by her own life experiences and the scrutiny she had to face as a public figure. Kim Kardashian’s feudsKaty Perry, etc. She said she wanted to put a comedic take on helping people deal with negative criticism — which she further did with the hilarious “Shake It Off”Video music.
T-Swift stated that she had never heard of the song. “Playas Gon’ Play”or 3LW, prior to the 2017 lawsuit brought by Nathan Butler & Sean Hall. Her statement also held the claim that she was not allowed to watch MTV’s Total Request Live when the song would have been on it, and that she never listened to the compilation albums that included the girl group’s music. It read:
3LW was not the label that I listened to in my youth, nor after, and none of the CDs I have listened to since then. I have never heard the song Playas Gon’ Play on the radio, on television, or in any film. After this claim, the first time I heard the song was in 2007. I do not own and have never listened to the albums Now That’s What I Call Music! 6 or Now That’s What I Call Call [sic] Music! 7.
Andrea Swift, her mother, supported her sentiments and provided her own statement confirming that she “carefully monitored both the television [Taylor Swift] watched and the music she heard.” Mama Swift also said Taylor’s computer use was monitored, and her daughter didn’t attend sleepovers at her friends’ homes.
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