Dua Lipa is facing another copyright infringement lawsuit involving her hit song, "Levitating."
The legal battle over Dua Lipa's hit song, "Levitating," continues. This time, two songwriters claimed that it I a copy of their 1979 disco hit, "Wiggle and Giggle All Night.
In a new document filed in New York on Friday, L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer accused the 26-year-old of copying Cory Daye's song. As quoted by PEOPLE, Brown and Linzer's lawyers alleged that Dua Lipa's signature melody is a duplicate of the opening melody of their disco hit.
"Levitating" also has the sound of Miguel Bose's 1980 song, Don Diablo, which also led to another copyright.
"The notes move in the same direction with evenly matched intervals or 'steps,' and almost identical rhythms," the lawsuit said.
It explained that the opening melody is repeated six times in "Levitating" and thrice in the version featuring DaBaby. The songwriters then noted how Dua Lipa admitted multiple times in her interviews that she always finds inspiration from disco-era songs.
As for the reason why they served the lawsuit, Brown and Linzer said that they aim to prevent the singer from "wiggling out of their willful infringement."
Per the complaint, Dua Lipa's desire to have a nostalgic inspiration led her to create without attribution.
Dua Lipa or her representative has yet to comment on the matter yet.
Dua Lipa Faces Another Lawsuit
The second complaint came days after Florida reggae band, Artikal Sound System, filed their own lawsuit saying that "Levitating" is a rip-off of their 2017 song, "Live Your Life."
The document state that Dua Lipa and her team heard their earworm before 2020. At that time, the "Don't Start Now" hitmaker's team and made a copy out of it. The group also sued Warner Records in the document, and they are now demanding profits that "Levitating" earned so far, as well as other damages fees.
Both lawsuits immediately caused fans to defend the singer, with some even saying that the reggae group or the songwriters also copied each other's songs if Dua Lipa indeed used one of their music.
One said, "Which one is original? They can't all 3 be the original song. If dua lipa copied the songs because Levitating sounds like them, then 2 of the other ones copied the earliest of the 3. And I guarantee you we can go even farther with this and find an earlier song."
Amid the issues, "Levitating" recently reached a new milestone after becoming the 6th longest-charting Billboard Hot 100 song of all time.
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