Taylor Swift Says She Couldn’t Plagiarize a Song She Never Heard

Taylor Swift says she couldn’t have ripped off the lyrics to her hit “Shake It Off” from a song she’d never heard before.

Swift defended herself as the sole songwriter of the 2014 song in a sworn declaration filed Monday, saying “the lyrics to Shake It Off were written entirely by me.” It’s the latest response to a copyright infringement suit two songwriters from the band 3LW filed against Swift in 2017.

Read the full filing here.

The Swift lyric in question is the line “players gonna play,” which 3LW songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler claim is too similar ...