‘Levitating’, one of the most successful songs of Dua Lipafrom his 2020 album ‘Future Nostalgia’, has once again been the subject of an official accusation of plagiarism, this time of the 1979 song ‘Wiggle And Giggle All Night’the same as Miguel Bose adapted in 1980 to create his famous ‘Don diablo’. Last week the 26-year-old London artist was already accused of plagiarism by the band called Artikal Sound System, which maintains that the British singer of Kosovar Albanian origin copied the melody of the theme and ‘Live Your Life’, a reggae song that the group published in 2017. The formation has registered the complaint before a court in Los Angeles.
As reported Billboardthe lawsuit for the new case of alleged plagiarism has been registered in a federal court in Manhattan and in it the composers L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer denounce that its original melody has been “duplicate” in the aforementioned song of the artist.
retro sound
Brown and Linzer allege that the Dua Lipa herself recognized in interviews that for the preparation of his latest album, ‘Future Nostalgia’ (2020), which includes the controversial song, “he had inspired by times gone by” to get a “retro” sound.
They consider that the plagiarism is evident in the “characteristic melody” with which ‘Levitating’ starts, a section that is repeated several times and that, according to their opinion, contributed to its becoming a success on the TikTok platform, that would have helped the song climb to the top of the charts of musical successes worldwide.
The topic came to number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 chartwhere it became the song performed by a female singer that spent the longest time in the top 10, and only on Spotify has it been streamed over 450 million times.
Lawsuit against Warner Music
The Linzer and Brown lawsuit also cites as Warner Music label and rapper DaBaby suedwho participated in the first version of the cut, before he made homophobic comments at a concert that led Dua Lipa to publicly and artistically dissociate himself from him with a new recording.
The theme has already been adapted by Miguel Bose in 1980, to create his famous ‘Don diablo’. The difference is that the Spanish musician paid at the time for the copyright of the song to be able to cover it, which apparently Dua Lipa would not have done.
At the moment, there is no judicial resolution and The British artist has not yet made any statements in this regard.
What is considered plagiarism?
Although in reality there is no specific law that establishes the minimum to define a musical work as “plagiarized”, if in a melody there are more than seven bars in a row that are repeated, the work begins to be under suspicion.
The name of one of the most influential women in international pop today seems unable to escape controversy. just a year ago he had to publicly and artistically disassociate himself from the rapper dababywith whom he collaborated precisely on the song ‘Levitating’after he shared during a concert in Miami a series of homophobic and sexist comments. “To those who have presented themselves here today without AIDS or other of those sexually transmitted diseases that make you die in two or three weeks, put your phone up with the flashlight on & rdquor ;, he said. In addition, she asked to turn on the mobile light for “the girls whose pussy smells like water & rdquor; and” the boys who do not suck dicks in parking lots “.
DaBaby this is weird to say?? Wth. pic.twitter.com/MDBQEZ2NsA
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Totally out of place statements to which Dua Lipa, like other musicians, responded emphatically: “I am shocked and horrified by DaBaby’s comments. Honestly, I don’t recognize the person I’ve been working with. I know that my fans know that my heart goes out to them and that I support the LGBTQI+ community 100%. We need to come together to fight the stigma and ignorance related to HIV/AIDS.”
At the moment, the artist has not removed the song with the rapper, and ‘Levitating’ is still making a lot of noise.