Sam Smith and Normani hit back against Dancing With A Stranger song-theft lawsuit
The lawsuit that accused Sam Smith and Normani of ripping off their 2019 hit ‘Dancing With A Stranger’ from an earlier song called ‘Dancing With Strangers’ is “rambling”, “repetitive” and contradicts itself. Or so say lawyers representing Smith and Normani.They were both sued earlier this year over the allegations they’d ripped off that earlier work, which was written in 2015 by artist Jordan Vincent and producer Christopher Miranda.On top of having nearly the same title and a very similar accompanying promo video to the earlier song, the lawsuit claimed, Smith and Normani’s ‘Dancing With A Stranger’ had the same “hook, chorus, lyrics, and musical composition” to that written by Vincent and Miranda.“It is beyond any real doubt that Smith, Normani and the other defendants copied plaintiff’s work”, the lawsuit claimed.