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Lizzo Facing Copyright Lawsuit Over Sydney Sweeney Song

Lizzo is being sued in California by the GRC Trust, which claims she unlawfully sampled the 1970s song Win or Lose (We Tried), originally performed by soul singer Sam Dees, for a track that went viral online in August.

The 13-second clip, which fans have nicknamed “Good Jeans or I’m Goin’ In Till October,” has since been scrubbed from Lizzo’s social media. It showed the Grammy-winning artist washing a Porsche in a denim outfit, saying: “I got good jeans like I’m Sydney.” The line was widely interpreted as a nod to Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad campaign, which some commentators accused of promoting “white beauty standards.”

Read more at Yahoo! Entertainment

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