A federal judge in Manhattan said the British pop star Dua Lipa must face a lawsuit accusing her of copying her 2021 megahit "Levitating" from a 1979 disco song. U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla on Tuesday said songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer could try to prove "substantial similarity" between "Levitating" and their song "Wiggle and Giggle All Night." The lawsuit, filed in March 2022, claimed that "Levitating" shared "compositional elements" with "Wiggle," most significantly by duplicating its opening melody. "Levitating," from Lipa's album "Future Nostalgia," spent 77 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100 U.S. singles chart, and was the No. 1 song on Billboard's 2021 year-end chart. (Reuters)
Judge says Dua Lipa must face lawsuit claiming she copied 'Levitating'
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