Two writers identified as Troy Powers and Andy Stone have both dragged popular American singer Mariah Carey to court for allegedly ripping off their song.
The writers in recent court documents cited by TMZ claimed that Mariah Carey’s 1994 classic titled ‘All I want For Christmas is You’ is a ripoff of their 1989 song of the same name.
Stone sued Carey by himself last year for $20 million on the grounds her song was ‘derivative’ of his but then he filed to dismiss the suit that November.
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Now, however, he has teamed up with Powers and came roaring back, with the pair of them jointly suing Carey for $20 million.
They allege that there are meaningful commonalities between the melody and lyrical hook of the two songs, as well as the general sentiment conveyed by both of them.
In their court documents, they accuse Carey of having ‘palmed off these works with her incredulous origin story, as if those works were her own.’
Source: TMZ
