In less than a week, the song “Levitating” has become the subject of a second copyright strike.

Dua Lipa is facing a second copyright lawsuit over her song “levitating”. less than a week ago Florida reggae band charged, dua lipa alleging her plagiarism.
The beginning melody to Dua’s popular track is allegedly a duplication of a melody to its 1979 song “Wiggle and Giggle All Night” and another 1980 song titled “Don Diablo,” according to songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer. Dua Lipa’s song “Levitating” holds the record for being the longest-running Top 10 hit by a female artist that also charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.
In a sardonic complaint, Brown and Linzer’s lawyers stated, “Defendants have floated away plaintiff’ intellectual property.” “Plaintiffs file suit to prevent defendants from escaping their willful violation.”
The composers cited some of their conversations with Lipa in which she admitted to consciously imitating previous eras and drawing inspiration from history music for the vintage vibe of her 2020 album, Future Nostalgia.
“The distinctive melody from the introduction of “Levitating” duplicated a comparable element of their songs,” they claimed in their case, citing the popularity of that segment of Gliding on TikTok as a key towards its success. Because video creators on TikTok routinely compress the already short snatches of music, the trademark tune sometimes makes up half or more of these viral videos.”
Lipa, her company Warner Music Group, rapper DaBaby, who participated in such a mix of the song, as well as other songwriting and production companies, were named as defendants in the action. “Defendants replicated plaintiffs’ creation beyond attribution in their search for nostalgic inspiration,” Brown and Linzer claimed.
Lipa was sued last week by Florida band Artikal Sound System, who claimed “Levitating” was strikingly similar to their 2017 song “Live Your Life.” It was also noted that the song “Levitating” was unlikely to have been written independently.