Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Judge again refuses to dismiss Shake It Off song-theft lawsuit against Taylor Swift
completemusicupdate.comA US judge has again declined to dismiss the long-running ‘Shake It Off’ song theft lawsuit, meaning that the songwriters who allege that Taylor Swift’s 2014 hit rips off a song they wrote in 2001 should now be able to have their case presented to a jury.This particular song-theft dispute has already been on quite the journey.
Sean Hall and Nathan Butler first went legal in 2017, claiming that ‘Shake It Off’ rips off their 2001 song ‘Playas Gon Play’.
That track contained the lyric: “The playas gon play/them haters gonna hate”. And in her hit, Swift famously sings: “the players gonna play, play, play, play, play/And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate”.The following year judge Michael Fitzgerald dismissed Hall and Butler’s.
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