Teen sensation Olivia Rodrigo has added two members of Paramore as official songwriters on her smash hit track Good 4 U.
Hayley Williams, the band’s singer, and Josh Farro, former guitarist, are now credited as being writers on the track, which spent five weeks at the top of the US charts.
It comes after fans immediately noticed similarities to the track and Paramore’s pop-punk tune Misery Business.
You can listen to both tracks below to hear for yourself:
The choruses on both songs, which have similar vocal melodies and guitar rhythms, have prompted people to mash-up the tracks on the likes of YouTube and TikTok.
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Paramore were not given the recognition upon the song’s release in May, but had reportedly been in touch with Rodrigo before the song’s release, with a source telling Variety the credit is actually an interpolation – which is where the element of a song is re-recorded and incorporated into a new one.
Williams posted the announcement of her new song-writing credit on Instagram, sharing a post from her published Warner Chappell Music which congratulated her and Farro on the track going to number one in the US. “Our publisher is wildin rn,” she added.
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It is not the first time Rodrigo has been called out for using elements of other tracks – she was accused of stealing a riff from Elvis Costello’s track Pump It Up earlier in the year
And Courtney Love has hit out at the singer, claiming she copied the cover art of her band’s album Live Through This for her Sour Prom pictures.
Rodrigo’s album Sour is the biggest-selling record of the year so far, and she has performed tracks at the Brit Awards as well as on a coveted slot on US show Saturday Night Live.
The singer is best known for being the lead in the Disney+ reboot of High School Musical, which has been turned into a series.
Ed Sheeran has apologised to Manchester United’s new manager for interrupting him during a live Sky Sports interview.
Ruben Amorim was speaking after United’s 1-1 draw with Ipswich on Sunday when the singer walked up to hug analyst Jamie Redknapp.
His intervention brought the interview to a halt before Redknapp told Sheeran to “come and say hello in a minute”.
Some people on social media said Sheeran had been “rude” and called for him to apologise.
“Apologies if I offended Amorim yesterday, didn’t actually realise he was being interviewed at the time, was popping to say hi and bye to Jamie,” Sheeran wrote on Instagram.
“Obvz feel a bit of a bellend but life goes on. Great game though, congrats on all involved.”
The game at Portman Road was Amorim’s first since he left Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon to take over at United.
Marcus Rashford scored after two minutes before Omari Hutchinson equalised for the home side.
Sheeran, a lifelong Ipswich fan, holds a minority stake in the club.
He was pictured celebrating after Hutchinson’s goal.
Last week Ipswich CEO Mark Ashton said Sheeran helped the club sign a new player in the off-season by taking a Zoom call with him just before he went on stage with Taylor Swift.
Kate Nash says selling photos of her bottom on the X-rated site OnlyFans has allowed her to add an extra crew member to her tour staff.
The 37-year-old singer says the fact she is having to subsidise her shows in this way shows that the music industry is “completely broken”.
She announced she was launching her OnlyFans account last week as she began the UK leg of her tour, and has previously said on Instagram that, “touring makes losses not profits”.
Speaking about her new venture to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme she said it was “very funny” and “fun to do,” adding, “My industry is completely broken, I don’t think it’s sustainable, and I think it’s a complete failure, I think it will collapse as well”.
Going on to talk about “people finding solutions to fund their art,” she said: “I think it’s quite empowering, and I’m also creating jobs with my bum now.
“For example, I couldn’t bring a crew member that’s on tour with me in the UK to Europe, but now I can, because of my OnlyFans website.”
She has previously described the career move as a “punk protest,” containing “lots of comedy”.
Speaking to LBC last week, she said: “The cost of touring has gone up. Just like the cost of living crisis, there’s a cost-of-touring crisis – where the cost of travel, accommodation, crew wages, bus rental, all the things that you need to pay for when you go on tour, everything’s gone up.
“But a lot of bands’ and artists’ fees for gigs have not gone up, whereas ticket prices have gone up.”
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Nash also said music was an “exploitative industry,” adding, “I have had lots of experience of being exploited”.
She said it could “learn a lot from the sex industry”.
Beginning her career in 2005, Nash has had one UK top 10 single – 2007’s Foundations – and two UK top 10 albums.
She has just finished a three-week US tour and is now touring the UK before moving on to Europe. Her London gig later this week is sold out.
And Nash isn’t the only one branching out to bring in cash. Lily Allen said earlier this year that she had joined OnlyFans to sell photographs of her feet.
The 39-year-old Smile singer, who moved to the US in 2020, says she has “very strict guidelines” and is charging subscribers $10 (£8) a month to view images of her feet on the platform.
Davina McCall has said her short-term memory is “a bit remiss” as she recovers from brain tumour surgery.
Speaking from her bed, the visibly emotional TV presenterposted a short video updating her Instagram followers on her condition, saying it had been a “mad” time.
She expressed an “enormous heartfelt thank you” to people who had messaged her after she revealed this month she had a benign brain tumour, a colloid cyst, which she described as “very rare”.
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Looking bright, but with a visibly bruised left eye, McCall said: “My short-term memory is a bit remiss.
“But that is something I can work on, so I’m really happy about that. I’m writing everything down, to keep myself feeling safe.”
She added: “It’s been mad, and it’s just really nice to be back home, I’m on the other side.”
In a message posted with the video, she reiterated her thanks for all the support she has received, adding: “Had a great night’s sleep in my own bed. Have a couple of sleeps during the day which keeps my brain clear… Slowly, slowly…”
When she first shared her diagnosis, she said chances of having it were “three in a million” and that she had discovered it several months previously after a company offered her a health scan in return for giving a menopause talk.
The 57-year-old star said support from her fans had “meant the world”.
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She said she was being “brilliantly looked after” by her partner, hairdresser Michael Douglas, and her stepmother, Gabby, who she calls mum.
Becoming tearful, the presenter said: “I’d quickly like to say big up the stepmums. I don’t really say thank you to Gabby enough. She’s been an amazing rock my whole life.”
McCall was estranged from her birth mother, Florence McCall, who died in 2008.
With a catch in her voice, McCall went on: “I’ve got a massive dose of vitamin G – I’m just really grateful. I’ve always been really lucky in my life, but I feel unbelievably grateful right now. So, thanks for everything, all of you.
“I’m on the mend, I’m resting and sleeping loads and I feel really good. I’m just very lucky.”
Stars including presenter Alison Hammond, singer Craig David and radio host Zoe Ball quickly shared their delight at the positive update.
McCall rose to fame presenting on MTV in the mid-1990s, and later on Channel 4’s Streetmate, before becoming a household name as the host of Big Brother from 2000 to 2010.
She’s gone on to present programmes across the networks, the most recent being ITV dating show My Mum, Your Dad.
Last year, McCall was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting.
Married twice, McCall has three children, two daughters and a son, with her second husband, presenter Matthew Robertson.
She has lived with Douglas since 2022, and they present a weekly lifestyle podcast together, Making The Cut.