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Pop star Taylor Swift sued for $42m (£27m) for allegedly stealing the lyrics to her 2014 hit song “Shake It Off”.

 

The musician Jess Graham are now suing Taylor Swift. He claims that she has stolen lines from him at put them in her song “Shake it off”. He claims that she stole some of the lines from a song he wrote back in 2013.

 

The song Jess Graham claims that she stole had the lines “The haters gonna hate” and “The players gonna play” in it. It is a big deal if she really stole these lines, because its mentioned nearly throughout the whole song.

"Her hook is the same hook as mine. If I didn't write the song ‘Haters Gone Hate’, there wouldn't be a song called ‘Shake It Off’," he said to BBC News
He added that he had spoken to Swift's record label, Big Machine, four or five times about the issue.

He originally asked to be named as a writer and requested a selfie with the pop star, but was repeatedly dismissed and told his claim had no merit.

"At first I was going to let it go, but this song is mine song all the way," he told BBC News.

It is the second recent legal case involving Swift. Earlier this week, the singer filed a counterclaim against an American radio DJ who is suing her for allegations he groped her backstage at a concert in June 2013.

David Mueller said he was fired from his job at KYGO in Denver two days later - but claims one of his superiors committed the alleged assault.

Lawyers for the singer said: "Mrs. Swift knows exactly who committed the assault - it was Mueller."