In 2017, singer Taylor Swift, 33, found herself embroiled in a lawsuit filed against her by songwriters who claimed copyright for the song “Shake It Off”. At the time, Sean Hall and Nathan Butler claimed that the song’s lyrics were stolen from the 2014 song “Playas Gon’ Play” by R&B girl group 3LW.
However, the most recent decision of the Court closes the case definitively, as reported by Page Six. Four months ago, Swift broke her silence on the matter by saying that she had “never heard” the song she was accused of plagiarizing. “The lyrics to ‘Shake It Off’ were written entirely by me,” the singer said in court documents, according to Billboard.
In 2017, Taylor’s representatives called the songwriters’ claim of copyright infringement “ridiculous” and “nothing more than a theft of money”.
In “Shake It Off”, Swift sings: “the players gonna play, play, play, play, play, and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.”
The song “Playas Gon’ Play”, written by Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, includes the lines “players, they gonna play, and haters, they gonna hate.” The case was rejected in 2018, but the duo appealed and the process was reopened at the time.
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