Lizzo has been accused of plagiarizing the opening line to"Truth Hurts" for a second time. On Tuesday, songwriter Justin Raisen alleged that Lizzo lifted the line"I just took a DNA test, turns out I'm 100 percent that bitch" from a song, titled"Healthy," written during a session with him and multiple other collaborators.
In a post titled"The Truth about 'Truth Hurts'" on Instagram, Raisen shared a video from April 11, 2017, when he was in the studio with Lizzo, Jesse St. John, and Yves Rothman. The lyric, he said in the caption,"was taken from 'Healthy' and used in 'Truth Hurts.'" The video features the opening line to"Truth Hurts" and"Healthy," as well as the two songs layered, to presumably display similarities.
Raisen then tagged musician Mina Lioness, the first person to make the plagiarism claim. In 2018, Lionness alleged that Lizzo took the lyric from her 2017 viral tweet; Lizzo responded at the time saying she had never seen the tweet. Raisen seems to deny this in his post, giving Lioness a"shout out" for the tweet."A meme of that came up in our writing session and inspired the lyric and melody we wrote together," he wrote.
Lizzo's lawyer Cynthia S. Arato has since made a statement to The New York Times."The Raisens are not writers of 'Truth Hurts,'" she said."They did not collaborate with Lizzo or anyone else to create this song, and they did not help write any of the material that they now seek to profit from, which is why they expressly renounced any claim to the work, in writing, months ago.
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