Taylor Swift‘s remaining effort to keep away from going to trial in a copyright lawsuit about her music “Shake It Off” has been rejected, Rolling Stone reported on Sept. 13. In December 2021, US District Choose Michael W. Fitzgerald rejected Swift’s request for a abstract judgment in her favor, and the choose rejected her movement to rethink on Sept. 12, which means Swift must go to trial in January 2023.
“The movement for reconsideration is denied,” Choose Fitzgerald mentioned throughout a Los Angeles listening to, per Rolling Stone. “I do not assume it meets the usual for reconsideration, and even when it did, and I used to be approaching it once more on the deserves, I nonetheless assume there is a real concern of fabric reality partially due to the professional opinion.” A rep for Swift didn’t instantly reply to POPSUGAR’s request for remark.
Swift is being sued by songwriters Sean Corridor and Nathan Butler, who wrote the 2001 music “Playas Gon’ Play” for the group 3LW. They additionally sued Swift again in 2017 for a similar motive, although a choose dismissed the case at the moment.
Swift beforehand denied plagiarizing any a part of her hit music “Shake It Off,” submitting a movement on Aug. 8 asserting that she had by no means heard of 3LW earlier than their lawsuit. “The lyrics to ‘Shake It Off’ have been written totally by me,” Swift wrote within the declaration, first shared by Billboard. “Till studying about Plaintiffs’ declare in 2017, I had by no means heard the music ‘Playas Gon’ Play’ and had by no means heard of that music or the group 3LW.”
She went on to elaborate on the inspiration behind her music, writing that “previous to writing ‘Shake It Off,'” she had “heard the phrases ‘gamers gonna play’ and ‘haters gonna hate’ uttered numerous instances to specific the concept that one can or ought to shrug off negativity. I recall listening to phrases about gamers play and haters hate acknowledged collectively by different youngsters whereas attending faculty in Wyomissing Hills, and in highschool in Hendersonville,” she added, noting that “I don’t personal and have by no means listened to the albums ‘Now That is What I Name Music! 6’ or ‘Now That is What I Name Name Music! 7.'”
The “Folklore” singer, who got here below fireplace earlier in July for a special motive — topping an inventory of movie star private-jet customers — has additionally been steadily rerecording and rereleasing her music over the previous few years. Most just lately, “Dangerous Blood (Taylor’s Model)” appeared in “DC: League of Tremendous-Pets,” out on July 28. To this point this summer time, Swift has additionally appeared on stage with Haim and launched a new music referred to as “Carolina” for the film “The place the Crawdads Sing.” On Aug. 28, whereas accepting the award for video of the 12 months on the 2022 MTV VMAs, Swift introduced that her subsequent album, “Midnights” — which tells the story of “13 sleepless nights,” per her Instagram announcement — is coming in October.
