Taylor Swift punches back in copyright lawsuit, claims she wrote hit 'Shake It Off' herself
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Taylor Swift pushed back against a claim alleging that she stole lyrics for her 2014 hit "Shake It Off" from the 2000 song "Playas Gon' Play," by the group 3LW.
"The lyrics to Shake It Off were written entirely by me," Swift said in a declaration, as reported by The Guardian. "Until learning about Plaintiffs’ claim in 2017, I had never heard the song Playas Gon’ Play and had never heard of that song or the group 3LW."
Swift claimed that she was just 11 when "Playas Gon' Play," was released, and that she was not allowed to watch MTV's "Total Request Live" music video countdown show until she was "about 13 years old." Backing this up, Swift's mother Andrea Swift filed an accompanying statement in which she said that she kept a close watch over the media her daughter was exposed to at home.