Yellowcard is suing Juice WRLD for $15 million over copyright infringement. They claim he ripped them off for 'Lucid Dreams'
“Lucid Dreams” was released in May 2018 and became a massive hit for Juice WRLD, anchoring his debut studio album,. The song is centered around a sample of Sting’s “Shape of My Heart,” but in their new lawsuit Yellowcard allege that while Juice WRLD and his collaborators licensed that song, “they decided to willfully infringe [‘Holly Wood Died’].”, Yellowcard’s lawyer, Richard Busch, said, “This was not a lawsuit the guys wanted to file.
The suit claims that the melisma in “Holly Wood Died” appears at the end of the phrase “like razors they cut through the heart,” with the pitch on “heart” shifting from C to A; in “Lucid Dreams,” the suit claims, the melisma falls at the end of the line, “I know that you want me dead,” with the word “dead” also sung in the same two pitches, C to A.
Along with listing the similarities between the two tracks, the suit seeks to prove that Juice WRLD would have been familiar with Yellowcard’s work, specifically “Holly Wood Died” and the album it appeared on,While the suit does not include any direct quotes from Juice WRLD where he mentions either the song or album, it does claim that Juice WRLD would have likely been familiar with Yellowcard because he’s cited their emo and pop-punk peers, such as Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters and the Devil...
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