Taylor Swift Shake It Off

A lawsuit filed against Taylor Swift alleging that she stole lyrics for her hit 2014 song 'Shake It Off' has been dismissed by a US judge.

Teddy Coward [are still fuming over the recent Ticketmaster debacle](https://whynow.co.uk/read/taylor-swift-tickets-what-can-be-done-to-help-fans), which has left many unable to see her touring [her latest, record-breaking](https://whynow.co.uk/read/taylor-swifts-midnights-best-selling-record-of-2022) [Midnights album](https://whynow.co.uk/read/midnights-taylor-swift-review). Now though, a judge has dismissed the case “in its entirety”, just over a month out from when the case was due to go on trial, on 17 January.

Lawyers from both sides dismissed the case on Monday (12 December), just a few weeks before the proceedings were set to begin in court.

In 2018, the writers claimed that the chorus to “Shake If Off”, in which Swift sings “players gonna play, play, play, play, play” and “haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate”, infringed the “I recall hearing phrases about players play and haters hate stated together by other children while attending school in Wyomissing Hills, and in high school in Hendersonville,” Swift said in the declaration, using childhood stories to evidence her point. Back in August, the singer issued a statement in defence of the song saying “the lyrics to ‘Shake It Off’ were written entirely by me”. The lawsuit claimed that “Shake It Off” included “substantial similarities” to “Playas Gon’ Play”, written for band 3LW in 2001 by Hall and Butler. The case was originally filed in 2017, dropped and then appealed,and a judge ruled that it would go to trial, meaning the verdict would be decided by a jury. Lawyers from both sides filed the papers that dismissed the case on Monday (12 December), just a few weeks before the proceedings were set to begin in court.

Taylor Swift claimed the song's lyrics were composed solely by her, denying ever hearing the 3LW song Playas Gon' Play.

[Hall and Butler](/topic/hall-and-butler)'s poem Playas Gon' Play. [Nathan Butler](/topic/nathan-butler)and [Sean Hall](/topic/sean-hall)told a national judge in [Los Angeles](/topic/los-angeles)how they could forgive their case of 2017 with discrimination, which controls a filing again. [Taylor Swift](/topic/taylor-swift)with robbing the lyrics for her number one 1 hit of the year 2012 have neglected their objection.

Hall and Butler sued Swift and producers Max Martin and Shellback in September 2017, seeking statutory damages, compensatory damages and injunctive relief, ...

"...I recall hearing phrases about players play and haters hate stated together by other children while attending school in Wyomissing Hills, and in high school in Hendersonville. ABC News also reached out to Hall and Butler's representatives for comment. The case was dismissed in 2018 by Fitzgerald, but the U.S. The suit claimed that Swift's song "copies and includes Plaintiffs' lyrical phrase ... "Indeed, the combination had not been used in popular culture prior to Plaintiffs' original use." The case was originally set for trial next month.

The matter was due to go to trial in January, but songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler have told a judge they will dismiss their case with prejudice, ...

In Shake It Off, Swift sings: "The players gonna play, play, play, play, play, and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate." She said she had heard the phrases "players gonna play" and "haters gonna hate" used commonly to "express the idea that one can or should shrug off negativity". Playas Gon' Play, written by Hall and Butler, included the phrases "playas, they gonna play, and haters, they gonna hate".

Pop superstar Taylor Swift has shaken off the latest lawsuit. Swift had been sued by the songwriters 3LW for her song “Shake It Off” but now that lawsuit ...

Added the outlet, “Sean Hall and Nathan Butler [the songwriters for the 3LW song] told a Los Angeles federal judge they will dismiss their 2017 case with prejudice, which means it cannot be refiled.” But in 2021, the case was brought back via an appeal. 3LW had previously claimed that Swift copied their lyrics for her 2014 single.