Dua Lipa

2022 - 3 - 2

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Dua Lipa sued for alleged copyright infringement over hit single ... (Music Business Worldwide)

British pop star Dua Lipa has been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly ripping off a track by a band called Artikal Sound System to create her hit single ...

In June 2020, Travis Scott was accused of copyright infringement in a lawsuit filed by Blurred Lines lawyer Richard Busch over his US No.1 single, Highest in the Room. In August 2020 Kendrick Lamar was sued for copyright infringement by a musician called Terrance Hayes, over Lamar’s hit single Loyalty, released in 2017 and taken from his fourth album, Damn. They add: “Levitating is substantially similar to Live Your Life. Given the degree of similarity, it is highly unlikely that Levitating was created independently from Live Your Life.” The band have also provided what they say in the filing is a copy of the Certificate from the US Copyright Office for their track Live Your Life. In June 2021, American rap star NLE Choppa (real name Bryson Potts) was sued for copyright infringement over his track Make Em Say, released in August 2020 and taken from his album Top Shotta. “Given the degree of similarity, it is highly unlikely that Levitating was created independently from Live Your Life.”

Dua Lipa Is Latest Artist Sued For Copyright Over "Levitating" (NYLON)

Reggae band Artikal Sound System is suing the pop star over similarities with their 2017 song “Live Your Life.”

Alas, TMZ states that the band has yet to provide sufficient evidence — at least for now. That “Levitating” rips off their own hit, “ Live Your Life,” which they released three years before Dua’s single, way back in 2017. A standout from the singer’s Grammy-winning 2020 album Future Nostalgia, the single became the record’s biggest hit, finishing 2021 as the year’s most-streamed song (a full year after its release). Even after weathering controversy (thanks to its DaBaby-assisted remix), “Levitating” still holds the title for being the Hot 100’s longest-running, female-recorded top-10 hit.

Dua Lipa Sued for Copyright Infringement by Reggae Band Who ... (PEOPLE.com)

Artikal Sound System said in a complaint filed Tuesday that "Levitating" is a rip-off of their 2017 track "Live Your Life"

"Given the degree of similarity, it is highly unlikely that 'Levitating' was created independently from 'Live Your Life.'" It was also the No. 1 song on Billboard's Hot 100 Year-End chart. Lipa, 26, was hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit on Tuesday filed by members of the band Artikal Sound System, who claim that "Levitating" sounds an awful lot like their 2017 song "Live Your Life."

Dua Lipa Delivers the 'Future Nostalgia' Show New York Has Been ... (Variety)

New York has been waiting two years for Dua Lipa's 'Future Nostalgia' tour, and at Madison Square Garden Tuesday, she and her team delivered.

However, that wasn’t from a lack of effort on her part: Her willoooowwy, floowwwwing arms gestures got a bit overbearing, although that may have been because one of the audience members inspired enough to emulate them was seated next to us. Make no mistake, it was a moment: every major concert at Madison Square Garden feels like the center of the universe, and the crowd, an equal mix of teens and adults basically channeling their teens, was dressed to the nines — the boots alone would have made a killer photo spread in Footwear News — and ready to party. It’s a real pop-diva arena concert, with flashes of past Madonna, Beyonce, Katy Perry and especially Lady Gaga tours — there’s a giant video screen, lasers, a catwalk into the crowd, a confetti cannon, Dua levitating over the audience in a platform suspended from the ceiling (you’ll never guess for which song), and most importantly of all, a gang of incredible dancers who are both scenery and frontline, architecture and crowd-motivators, an infectious and effusive supporting cast who work every corner of the stage.

Dua Lipa Brings Her Lockdown Anthems to the Arena (The New York Times)

The pop star's second album, “Future Nostalgia,” is ambitious and impressive. Onstage, the production didn't match the LP's ecstasy.

A meager arrangement of balloons dropped from the rafters during “One Kiss.” Lipa and her dancers oozed through a pro forma umbrella routine during “New Rules.” Later, a handful of orbs and stars limply dangled from the ceiling. (The accompanying animation on the big screen at the back of the stage recalled Perry’s cheekiness, which is not generally part of Lipa’s arsenal.) At times, Lipa sounds like she’s doing devoted analysis of the club-pop of the early 1990s, not a nostalgist so much as a historical re-enactor. It is — especially on songs like the buoyant “New Rules” and “Electricity” (made with Mark Ronson and Diplo, working under the Chicago house music-evoking name Silk City) — perhaps overly studious, though in the best way. They are philosophers of the body and aesthetics as much as sound. Her music is fleet, stomping and appealingly icy: industrial-grade club-pop that’s mindful of history while flaunting the latest in polish and panache.

Dua Lipa: Florida reggae band sues singer for alleged plagiarism (The Guardian)

Artikal Sound System claim that the British pop star copied their song Live Your Life for her 2020 global hit Levitating.

It has been streamed 446m times on Spotify. Artikal Sound System formed in 2012 and released the song Live Your Life on their 2017 EP Smoke and Mirrors. In a short complaint filed in the Los Angeles federal court, the band Artikal Sound System claimed that Lipa’s 2020 hit Levitating was so similar to their 2017 song Live Your Life that it was “highly unlikely that Levitating was created independently”.