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The Guardian - UK
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Laura Snapes

Taylor Swift files in Shake It Off copyright lawsuit: ‘The lyrics were written entirely by me’

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Taylor Swift pictured in 2014.
‘I wanted to provide a comedic, empowering approach to helping people feel better about negative criticism’ … Taylor Swift pictured in 2014. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

Taylor Swift has defended herself as the sole writer of her 2014 hit Shake It Off in response to a lawsuit claiming that she plagiarised lyrics from the 2000 song Playas Gon’ Play by girl group 3LW.

“The lyrics to Shake It Off were written entirely by me,” Swift stated in a sworn declaration filed on Monday. “Until learning about Plaintiffs’ claim in 2017, I had never heard the song Playas Gon’ Play and had never heard of that song or the group 3LW.”

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