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Levitating
, one of Dua Lipa's most successful songs, has once again been the subject of an official accusation of plagiarism, this time from the 1979 song
Wiggle And Giggle All Night
, the same song that the Spanish
Miguel Bosé
adapted in 1980 to create his famous
Don Diablo
.
As reported by Billboard, the lawsuit has been registered in a federal court in Manhattan and in it
the composers L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer denounce
that their original melody has been "duplicated" in the aforementioned song by the European artist.
This accusation comes just a week after another similar one launched by a
reggae
band from Florida, called
Artikal Sound System
, who in their complaint filed in the courts of Los Angeles (USA) allege that
Levitating
is too similar to their song
Live Your Life
, which they published in 2017.
In the case of Linzer and Brown, they allege that
Dua Lipa herself acknowledged in interviews
that for the preparation of her latest album,
Future Nostalgia
(2020), which includes the controversial song,
"she had been inspired by past times"
to achieve a retro sound.
They believe that the plagiarism is evident in the "characteristic melody" with which
Levitating
begins , a section that is repeated several times and that, in their opinion, contributed to its becoming
a success on the TikTok platform
.
The song reached
number two on the US Billboard
Hot 100 chart, where it became the song performed by a female singer that spent the longest time in the top 10, and on
Spotify alone it has been streamed more than 450 million times
.
Linzer and Brown's lawsuit
also cites Warner Music record company and rapper DaBaby as defendants
, who 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 herself. of him
with a new recording.
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