Lizzo has settled a songwriting lawsuit against her hit 'Truth Hurts.'
accused Lizzo of cutting them out after they had made key contributions to “Truth Hurts” – Lizzo’s 2017 viral hit that eventually spent seven weeks atop the Hot 100 in 2019.A federal judge dismissed much of the case last year, but left open the possibility that the Raisens and Rothman could still win a cut of revenue from “Truth Hurts.” Those claims had been scheduled to go to trial early next year.that the case was “settled on terms that are confidential” and declined to comment further.
Among other things, the trio zoned in on Lizzo’s lyric “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that bitch” – a famous line from the song that’s derived from a popular internet meme. They said the same line had also been included on an unreleased demo called “Healthy” that they had helped Lizzo create – a song they claimed then evolved into the final version of “Truth Hurts.”on “Truth Hurts,” but she said that the Raisens and Rothman were entitle to no such thing.
“The Raisens … embarked on an escalating campaign of harassment against Lizzo and others involved in ‘Truth Hurts,’ threatening to ‘go public’ unless they receive an unwarranted share of this work,” Lizzo wrote at the time.dismissed the lawsuit’s core claims. While the Raisens and Rothman wanted to claim co-ownership of “Truth Hurts,” the judge said their lawsuit had only really shown a claim to co-ownership of “Healthy,” the earlier demo.
The ruling left open the possibility that the trio could seek an accounting of the revenues Lizzo had earned from the use of “Healthy” in the creation of “Truth Hurts” with a trial scheduled on those remaining issues for February 2023.
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