Here’s Your Proof That Lana Del Rey Totally Ripped Off Radiohead
Lana, we're sorry, but your song sounds exactly like 'Creep'.
By now you might have heard today’s Big Music News: Lana Del Rey and Radiohead are set to battle it out in court over claims that Del Rey copied elements of the band’s 1993 anthem ‘Creep’ in her 2017 song ‘Get Free’.
Del Rey confirmed the lawsuit on Twitter last night, denying that ‘Get Free’ was inspired by ‘Creep’, but admitting that Radiohead’s “lawyers have been relentless” and that the artists are set to meet in court.
It’s true about the lawsuit. Although I know my song wasn’t inspired by Creep, Radiohead feel it was and want 100% of the publishing – I offered up to 40 over the last few months but they will only accept 100. Their lawyers have been relentless, so we will deal with it in court.
— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 7, 2018
It’s a pretty safe bet that Lana will have to cough up — ‘Get Free’ and ‘Creep’ do sound remarkably similar. We layered the two tracks to compare just how alike they are and while the choruses are decidedly different, the melody in both verses sound almost note-for-note the same, although Del Rey’s is a beat slower.
Behold:
Funnily enough, Radiohead themselves were sued after the release of ‘Creep’ back in the early ’90s, over claims that the songwriting copied parts of The Hollies’ 1974 track ‘The Air That I Breathe‘. They settled the case out of court, with the band giving a percentage of publishing royalties to Hollies’ songwriters Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood.
Because time is a flat circle, or something.