The document concludes that the “plaintiffs respectfully demand a jury trial on all issues raised in this complaint”.Īs noted by the lawsuit, Lucid Dreams peaked at No.2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was on the chart for 46 weeks.Īs of October 21, 2019, the music video for Lucid Dreams has attracted more than 381 million views on YouTube (see below) and more than 939m streams on Spotify. This is especially important qualitatively as the melody shared between the two works constitutes each song’s distinctive recognizable ‘hook’.” “The vocal melodies in question constitute essential identifying features of ‘Holly Wood Died’ in both qualitative and quantitative ways. Legal complaint filed by Richard Busch (pictured inset)

“The vocal melody found in the first verse of ‘Holly Wood Died’ and the vocal melody found in the first chorus of ‘Lucid Dreams’ go beyond substantial similarity.” States the complaint: “The vocal melody found in the first verse of ‘Holly Wood Died’ and the vocal melody found in the first chorus of ‘Lucid Dreams’ go beyond substantial similarity. The filing (read it in full here), submitted by Busch yesterday (October 21), alleges that the vocals sound not “only substantially similar, but actually go beyond striking similarity in places, and are virtually identical” to a melody used in Holly Wood Died. provide a lengthy analysis of what they deem to be similarities between the vocal melodies in the two songs. The new lawsuit claims that Lucid Dream’s authors – Juice Wrld (aka Jarad Higgins), Taz Taylor and Nick Mira – created their song by copying two other songs, Sting’s Shape of my Heart, and Yellowcard’s Holly Wood Died.Īccording to the filing from Yellowcard members Peter Mosley, Ryan Key, Sean Wellman-Mackin and Longineu Parson (the plaintiffs), the defendants – which include Juice Wrld, Taz Taylor, Interscope, Kobalt and others – licensed Sting’s work for Lucid Dreams, but “decided to willfully infringe” Yellowcard’s song.Īt the centre of the complaint is the claim that melodic elements in Lucid Dreams were ripped off from Holly Wood Died.

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