Taylor Swift
R&B Singer, Jesse Graham, 50, claims that Taylor Swift‘s 2014 smash hit “Shake It Off” ripped off the chorus of his song “Haters Gone Hate” and is suing her to the tune of $24 million.
“Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play / And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate,” Swift, 25, sings in the song that dominated airwaves all last year, but Graham says there’s no way Swift could have written the lyrics without hearing his 2013 slow-jam, which contains the phrase “Haters gonna hate, players gonna play.”
Graham says he first recognized the similarity when he caught Swift performing the song on an episode of The Ellen Degeneres Show and reached out to her reps, offering to forgo taking legal action if Swift, who wrote “Shake It Off” with super-producers Max Martin and Shellback, agreed to credit him as a co-writer and appear in a selfie with him. When Swift’s team rebuffed his offer, however, he made the decision to dramatically increase his demands.
“Her hook is the same hook as mine,” he told the Daily News on Saturday. “If I didn’t write the song ‘Haters Gone Hate,’ there wouldn’t be a song called ‘Shake It Off.'”
Check out the two tracks below and judge for yourself.
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