American pop star Lizzo is being sued in a California court over a snippet of an unreleased song that went viral because of a reference to Sydney Sweeney.

The post blew up in August after a reference to the US actress whose appearance in a jeans advertisement had already set the internet ablaze.

The social media post in question for the track "I'm goin' in till October" has the four-time Grammy winner wearing not very much as she washes a car and says "I got good jeans like I'm Sydney."

But lawyers for a firm called GRC Trust say the clip of the track -- which has never been sold -- uses a sample of "Win or Lose (We Tried)," a '70s soul ballad by American band Windy City, without permission.

The firm, which owns the copyright for the track, wants Lizzo to compensate them because she "o

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