Dua Lipa

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Dua Lipa sued in latest song theft case | Complete Music Update (Complete Music Update)

Because, yes, another slightly dubious song-theft lawsuit has been filed in the US courts. Florida-based band Artikal Sound System reckon that Dua Lipa's 2020 ...

“In 2020, on information and belief, defendants listened to and copied ‘Live Your Life’ before and during the time when they were writing ‘Levitating’”, it then adds. “Artikal Sound System has been performing and touring together since 2010 and their album upon which the song ‘Live Your Life’ appears charted on the Billboard charts at number two in the reggae section in 2017”, their lawsuits states. Nor do they provide an extensive theory as to how exactly Dua Lipa got to hear their track before writing ‘Levitating’.

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Review: Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia Live Show Proves She's Pop's ... (NYLON)

If pressure can turn coal into diamonds, then pressure turned Lipa into a veritable star — one who can dance and gyrate it out with the best of them.

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Dua Lipa Teaches Jimmy Fallon Her 'Don't Start Now' TikTok Dance (Vulture)

Dua Lipa is reclaiming the viral tik tok dance she accidentally created. On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, she talked about her dance evolution and ...

However, he could not keep up with her as the Roots began to play “Don’t Start Now.” Dua Lipa can check in on Fallon in a year or two to see if he’s been practicing his moves. I can look at it from a different perspective,” she said, “I look back on it with such fondness because it helped me grow into the artist I wanted to become.” Fallon asked if she could show him the dance and an audience member enthusiastically yelled, “Yes!” as Fallon got up to learn a thing or two. “‘She looks like she’s trying to put a shoe on in a rush or something’,” said Lipa about the comments online.

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Delray Beach-based band sues Dua Lipa, claims copyright ... (wflx)

A Delray Beach-based reggae band is suing Dua Lipa, claiming copyright infringement.

Artikal Sound System is claiming the band is owed profits from "Levitating" and seeks a jury trial. In addition to Lipa, Warner Records and the song's producers and writers are named in the lawsuit. A Delray Beach-based reggae band is suing Dua Lipa, claiming copyright infringement.

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Dua Lipa sued by Florida reggae band for copyright infringement ... (hotpress.com)

A lawsuit filed by the band Artikal Sound System in a Los Angeles Federal court claims that 'Levitating' is “substantially similar” to their 2017 single ...

The song reached number five on the UK Top Singles chart, but now reggae band Artikal Sound System are claiming they should be sharing in her success in a lawsuit filed against the 26-year-old singer. Tickets for the event are available here. The Grammy winner is also finally launching the world tour of Future Nostalgia after several COVID related postponements.

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Dua Lipa Talks Elton John, Performs Her 'Lazy' Dance for 'Tonight ... (Billboard)

The pop singer has reclaimed an early-career dance move, one that was described at the time as “lazy” (and worse).

With “Levitating”, Lipa had one of the biggest hits on the planet in 2021. If the place was bouncing, a throw-back dance move had a part to play. So far, so brilliant, she tells Jimmy Fallon. Performing New York’s Madison Square Garden “was surreal.

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Oops! Dua Lipa Drops Mic into Crowd at D.C. Concert — See How ... (PEOPLE.com)

During Dua Lipa's stop in Washington D.C. for her Future Nostalgia tour on Wednesday night, the British singer had a small mishap — and managed to dance it ...

It has a name, I think — for now. "I've made peace with the fact that people can think what they want to think, but no one really, truly knows what's happening behind closed doors." During Dua Lipa's stop in Washington D.C. for her Future Nostalgia tour on Wednesday night, the British singer had a small mishap — and managed to dance it off.

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Dua Lipa Brings Her Lockdown Anthems to the Arena (The New York Times)

The pop star's second album, “Future Nostalgia,” is ambitious and impressive. Onstage, the production didn't match the LP's ecstasy.

A meager arrangement of balloons dropped from the rafters during “One Kiss.” Lipa and her dancers oozed through a pro forma umbrella routine during “New Rules.” Later, a handful of orbs and stars limply dangled from the ceiling. (The accompanying animation on the big screen at the back of the stage recalled Perry’s cheekiness, which is not generally part of Lipa’s arsenal.) At times, Lipa sounds like she’s doing devoted analysis of the club-pop of the early 1990s, not a nostalgist so much as a historical re-enactor. It is — especially on songs like the buoyant “New Rules” and “Electricity” (made with Mark Ronson and Diplo, working under the Chicago house music-evoking name Silk City) — perhaps overly studious, though in the best way. They are philosophers of the body and aesthetics as much as sound. Her music is fleet, stomping and appealingly icy: industrial-grade club-pop that’s mindful of history while flaunting the latest in polish and panache.

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Dua Lipa transforms Capital One Arena into a vibrant, disco-fueled ... (The Washington Post)

The Grammy-winning singer's Future Nostalgia tour brought iridescent vocals, shimmering pop sounds and lots of sequins and spandex to D.C. · Dua Lipa's dynamic ...

And as the show closed out on the full-bodied commitment that “Don’t Start Now” required, the music became transportive. With Lipa’s iridescent, live vocals, the slinky “Love Again” felt like a locking-eyes-across-the-dance-floor moment. Though it missed the velveteen, heavenly heights of the album, Lipa’s performance landed nimbly on verdant earth, not soaring to starry skies but unlocking an experience that celebrated the corporeal and fleeting.

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Dua Lipa: Florida reggae band sues singer for alleged plagiarism (The Guardian)

Artikal Sound System claim that the British pop star copied their song Live Your Life for her 2020 global hit Levitating.

It has been streamed 446m times on Spotify. Artikal Sound System formed in 2012 and released the song Live Your Life on their 2017 EP Smoke and Mirrors. In a short complaint filed in the Los Angeles federal court, the band Artikal Sound System claimed that Lipa’s 2020 hit Levitating was so similar to their 2017 song Live Your Life that it was “highly unlikely that Levitating was created independently”.

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