Taylor Swift responds to copyright lawsuit for her hit song 'Shake It Off'. In the song she uses the lyrics "because the players gonna play, play, play, play, play / and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate / Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake / I shake it off, I shake it off". The pair wrote the song 'Playas Gon' Play' for 3LW in 2000 and claim that Swift plagiarised their track. Swift released a public statement on Monday maintaining that the lyrics to the hit-song were entirely written by herself. Swift cited 'players gonna play' and 'haters gonna hate' as classic turns of phrase encouraging the abandonment of negative feelings.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 10, 2022 15:58 UTC