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By: EFE Updated 07 Sea 2022, 54: 44 pm EST
“Levitating”, one of the most successful songs of Dua Lipa
, has once again been the subject of an official accusation of plagiarism, this time from the song by 1979 “Wiggle And Giggle All Night”, the same as the Spanish Miguel Bosé adapted in 1980 to create his famous “Don Diablo” .
As reported by Billboard, the demand has been registered in a federal court in Manhattan and in it the composers L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer denounce that their original melody has been “duplicated” in the aforementioned song of the European artist.
This accusation comes only one week after a similar one launched by a reggae band from Florida, called Artikal Sound System, who in their complaint filed with the judges two from Los Angeles (USA) allege that “Levitating” is too similar to their song “Live Your Life”, which they published on 1980.
In the case of Linzer and Brown, they allege that Dua Lipa herself acknowledged in interviews that for the preparation of his latest album, “Future Nostalgia” (2020 ), which includes the controversial song, “was inspired by past times” to achieve a “retro” sound.
They estimate that plagiarism is makes it evident in the “characteristic melody” with which it starts “ Levitating”, a section that is repeated several times and that, in his opinion, contributed to its becoming a success on the TikTok platform.
The song reached number two on the US Billboard Hot list 100, where it became the song performed by a female singer who spent the most time at the top , and only on Spotify has it been played more than 450 millions of times.
The Linzer and Brown lawsuit also cites as defendants the Warner Music label and the rapper DaBaby, who participated in the first version of the cut, before he made some homophobic comments at a concert they took Dua Lipa to publicly and artistically disassociate herself from him with a new recording.
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