Stella Lefty Faces Third Plagiarism Accusation as Debut Album Draws Comparisons
The billionaire's daughter's latest track mirrors Blake Shelton's hit, following similar allegations over her #2 song 'Boston.'
What to know
- Stella Lefty's debut album contains at least three songs with striking similarities to existing hit songs: "Boston" mirrors Noah Kahan's "Stick Season," "Summer You Were Mine" echoes the Chicks' "There's Your Trouble," and "Why Wouldn't We" mirrors Blake Shelton's "I'll Name The Dogs."
- Lefty claimed she wasn't thinking of Noah Kahan while writing "Boston," but evidence shows she has posted numerous covers of "Stick Season" online, sometimes with personal dedications.
- As daughter of Groupon billionaire Eric Lefkofsky, Lefty has access to top-tier songwriting and production teams, making the pattern of apparent copying particularly jarring to observers.
The dispute Whether Stella Lefty herself is culpable for deliberately plagiarizing or whether ghostwriters and producers are primarily responsible. · positions read across 195 posts and comments
Stella Lefty is engaging in deliberate plagiarism and should be held accountable like any artist would be.
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“Frankly he should've taken her to the cleaners - 100 percent of the royalties/publishing. So sick of these elevated nepo babies with connections who are failing upwards.”
buizel123 · Reddit ↗
Her lack of originality and songwriting talent reveals the absurdity of her fame given her wealth and access.
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“She's a fine singer and guitar player all things considered. Unfortunately for her, being an actual songwriter takes talent and you can't buy that.”
Bovine_Joni_Himself · Reddit ↗
Her claim of not thinking about anything while writing is implausible, especially given how obvious the similarities are.
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“When I was writing the song, I wasn't thinking about Noah Kahan. I was literally thinking about nothing at all. Now what in the world does that mean”
LorenzoApophis · Reddit ↗
Ghost writers or producers may be responsible for the plagiarism, not Lefty herself.
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“She didn't write the song, a ghost writer plagiarized it and gave it to her.”
IllustriousAnt485 · Reddit ↗
Stella Lefty Country-pop artist
Noah Kahan Songwriter of "Stick Season"
Blake Shelton Artist of "I'll Name The Dogs"
Eric Lefkofsky Stella Lefty's father, Groupon co-founderAtlantic Records Stella Lefty's record label
The record 1 articles and posts · last 30 days
What people are saying 24 voices from 1 site · best of 195 · verbatim
- Will Blake Shelton, the Chicks, and their songwriters pursue legal action like they might for other artists?
- How were these songs approved for release without flagging the similarities?
- Will her record label face consequences for releasing multiple allegedly copied songs?
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She's a fine singer and guitar player all things considered. Unfortunately for her, being an actual songwriter takes talent and you can't buy that.
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These people legitimately believe they have *earned* their success. The delusion of wealth is a hell of a thing.
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She has more than enough money to do whatever the hell she wants for the rest of her life and is wasting her time on a "career" in an art where she clearly has no desire to actually create that art. I don't care about nepo babies that put in the work and just have connections and advantages (as long as they don't pretend like they don't have those…
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I've been playing guitar, noodling around, and come up with a fantastic song - then played it for my friend and they were like, "Cool, you just wrote Tangerine by Led Zeppelin". No wonder it sounded so good to me.
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idk i think gracie is actually talented.
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She had plenty of access to music lessons, just not to original ideas or genuine creativity
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She didn’t write the song, a ghost writer plagiarized it and gave it to her.
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We need Celebrity deathmatch to come back. Battle of the nepo pop “stars” where they just copy each other’s moves the whole time.
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Strike three and you’re out. Bring out Stella Righty
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She has more than enough money to afford a team of songwriters and still chose lazy plagiarism...
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I'm reminded of an editor saying that a real writer and an AI writer are easy to tell apart because a real writer will babble on for hours about their book, the characters, things they cut or what they think it means, and they'd have to just cut them off at some point because they'll talk about it all day if you let them. Meanwhile an AI writer…
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After she posted multiple Noah Kahan covers of the song she is accused of copying
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Don’t tell me the billionaire’s daughter didn’t have access to music lessons!!! 😱
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The funny thing is she came out and said that she wasnt even thinking about Noah/Stick Season when writing the song, but then she has numerous covers of her playing Stick Season on her TikTok. Like come on...
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It means she paid someone else to write it lol
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The song emerged fully formed from her skull, Athena-style
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"Billionaire's daughter who has limited real-world/lived experience creates hits by way of musical interpolation."
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If you fill out the whole punch card you get to make the theme for a new Trolls movie
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I'm sorry, I don't want to be a hater, but I'm gonna be a hater. I was drinking my morning coffee reading an article about how Stelly Lefty's song Boston was inspired by Noah Kahan... and listened to both songs... Frankly he should've taken her to the cleaners - 100 percent of the royalties/publishing. So sick of these elevated nepo babies with…
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Is there a groupon deal if you get to five songs?
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And you thought Gracie Abrams was the most obvious nepo baby industry plant pop girl…
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I greatly appreciate this from stereogum because I’ve been confounded by the meteoric love for her when there isn’t an ounce of it that feels original at all
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"When I was writing the song, I wasn’t thinking about Noah Kahan. I was literally thinking about nothing at all." Now what in the world does that mean
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Who would of thought the daughter of *checks notes ... really? ...* would be caught co-opting other people's work.