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Eric Church Says He Was Once Pulled into Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ Legal Case Over a Lyric

Eric Church says he was once dragged into a lawsuit involving Taylor Swift after she cited his song as the source of her 'Shake It Off' lyric.

Swift and the two songwriters who accused her of copyright infringement on “Shake It Off” agreed to dismiss the lawsuit a month before it was set to head to trial in December 2022. The filings did not include any reason for the agreement to dismiss the case, but it started in 2017 after Sean Hall and Nathan Butleer sued Swift in 2017 for allegedly taking the line from “Playas Gon’ Play.” On Thursday, he made a surprise appearance at Spotify House, performing hits like “Springsteen” and supporting his latest album, Evangeline vs. the Machine.

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