Artikal Sound System, a Florida-based reggae band, is suing Dua Lipa for copyright infringement for allegedly stealing her hit song “Levitating” from their 2017 track “Live Your Life.”
The band alleges in a complaint filed in a Los Angeles court that the English singer’s famous song, which spent 68 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 list, was lifted from a lesser-known composition.
According to Billboard, the complaint was “very short” and didn’t contain details as to exactly how Lipa had stolen the South Florida band’s song. The lawsuit alleged that “Levitating” and “Live Your Life” were so similar that it was “highly unlikely” for Lipa’s song to be “created independently”.
The lawsuit also claims that the singer had “access” to Artikal Sound System’s song before she created “Levitating”.
The suit does not explain why and how the Future Nostalgia artist heard their song.