British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran sang in court on Tuesday (8), as a way to provide evidence in the copyright judgment on his 2017 mega hit “Shape Of You”.
The chart-topping artist is in a legal dispute with Grime artist Sami Chokri, who introduces himself as Sami Switch, and music producer Ross O’Donoghue, who allege “Shape of You” would have “specific lines and phrases.” ” from their 2015 song “Oh Why.”
Chokri and O’Donoghue say that the “Oh I” hook of “Shape Of You” is “surprisingly similar” to the “Oh Why” hook of their song and that it was “extremely likely” that Sheeran had heard the song. Sheeran and his co-writers denied that this ever happened.
On the second day of cross-examination by Chokri and O’Donoghue’s attorney Andrew Sutcliffe, Sheeran sang the “Oh I” hook several times. He also sang snippets of songs that included Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good” in the same key to show how similar melodies can sound.
Asked several times about the similarities between “Oh Why” and “Oh I”, Sheeran told the High Court in London: “They are two pentatonic scales and both use vowels.”
The court heard recordings of Sheeran singing the hook in different keys.
Sheeran was briefly annoyed when a short snippet of one of his yet to be released songs was played. The court was told that the wrong folder on the laptop of Steven McCutcheon, one of the co-authors of “Shape of You” was accidentally opened.
Source: CNN Brasil
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