{"id":44255,"date":"2025-06-14T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=44255"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:05:11","slug":"eric-church-inadvertently-drawn-into-taylor-swift-legal-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/06\/eric-church-inadvertently-drawn-into-taylor-swift-legal-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Church Inadvertently Drawn Into Taylor Swift Legal Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/eric-church-taylor-swift-shake-it-off-lawsuit-1235357667\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Church revealed in a Rolling Stone interview<\/a> that he was inadvertently dragged into Taylor Swift&#8217;s lengthy legal battle over a lyric from her 2014 hit, &#8220;Shake It Off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn her deposition, when [talking about the line] \u2018players gonna play, haters gonna hate,\u2019 she says, \u2018The first time I heard that phrase was in Eric Church\u2019s song &#8216;The Outsiders.'&#8221; She was saying she never heard it on the [original song], which is what they were suing her for. And two weeks later, I got served by the people that were suing her!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Church recalls that he exchanged texts with Swift about the experience,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was like, \u2018Hey, thanks. Next time, let\u2019s just skip that part?\u2019 And she sent me a text: \u2018I\u2019m sorry. It\u2019s the truth, though. That\u2019s when I first heard that phrase.&#8217;\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I_P-YNJIdNc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Swift\u2019s lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed in late 2022, while Church went on to share that his own case has \u201csince been settled. But I was like, \u2018How did this even happen?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nfWlot6h_JM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Church Was Inadvertently Drawn Into Taylor Swift&#8217;s \u201cShake It Off\u201d Legal Dispute Over A Song Lyric","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":40745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[59,6349,4145,6348,250,6350],"class_list":["post-44255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-eric-church","tag-legal-battle","tag-lyrics","tag-shake-it-off","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the-outsiders"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 03:34:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/06\/eric-church-inadvertently-drawn-into-taylor-swift-legal-dispute\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44257,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44255\/revisions\/44257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}