Ariana Grande sued by hip hop artist who says she stole hit single '7 Rings'

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Ariana Grande sued by hip hop artist who says she stole hit single '7 Rings'
Photo: REUTERSAriana Grande and more than a half-dozen songwriters were sued for copyright infringement on Thursday by a hip hop artist who
says the pop star 2019 Grammy-nominated single 7 Ringswas plagiarized from a song he recorded two years earlier.Josh Stone, who performs
under the moniker DOT, says in his lawsuit, filed in US District Court in New York, that &highly regarded musicology experts& have concluded
that Grande hit copied his song You Need It, I Got It.&Indeed any comparative analysis of the beat, lyrics, hook, rhythmic structure,
metrical placement and narrative context, by musicology experts or everyday listeners alike, demonstrates clearly and convincingly that 7
Rings copied I Got It, Stone attorneys said in the court papers.Representatives for Grande, who is nominated for five Grammys at the awards
show on January 26, including two for 7 Rings, did not immediately respond to a request by Reuters for comment.The 26-year-old superstar
record label, Republic Records, also could not be reached for comment on Thursday afternoon.7 Rings,which gives songwriting credit to
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein because it borrows from their classic My Favourite Things, from the 1959 film The Sound of Music, and
spent eight weeks at No1 on the Billboard charts after it was released in February of last year.The song has been nominated for two Grammy
Awards, including record of the year
In addition to Grande, Rogers and Hammerstein, songwriting credits are listed for seven other people on the track, including three
producers.Stone says in his lawsuit that he recorded I Got It in New York in January 2017 and that summer pitched the song to executives
with Universal Music Group, including Thomas Brown, who has worked with Grande on all five of her albums.According to the lawsuit Brown
showed interest in the song and told Stone he was &exploring opportunities& for the two men to work together.Universal Music Group did not
immediately respond to a request for comment.In addition to monetary damages, Stone seeks to bar Grande from performing 7 Rings in the
future and deliver up all copies of the song for destruction.Grande, who appeared on Broadway and in the Nickelodeon television series
Victorious as a teenager before becoming a top-selling pop star, was expected to perform at the upcoming Grammy Awards.TheIndianSubcontinent
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