In a new interview with Rolling Stone , Eric Church says he was once roped into a Taylor Swift copyright lawsuit after the superstar mentioned his song during a deposition.

Back in 2017, Swift was sued by the songwriters behind 3LW’s “Playas Gon’ Play” for using the lyrics “players gonna play, haters gonna hate” in her hit “Shake It Off.” The lawsuit sparked a years-long legal battle that was ultimately voluntarily dismissed in late 2022. But during her deposition months earlier, Swift claimed she first knew of the lyric from Church’s song “The Outsiders.”

“In her deposition, when [talking about the line] ‘players gonna play, haters gonna hate,’ she says, ‘The first time I heard that phrase was in Eric Church’s song ‘The Outsiders,”” Church said in the Rolling Stone Interview

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