Carrie Underwood Hit With Lawsuit Over 'Sunday Night Football' Theme Song

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CarrieUnderwood hit with lawsuit over 'Sunday Night Football' theme song

Carrie Underwood performs during 2019 CMT Music Awards at The Parthenon in Centennial Park on June 5, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn.

claims she wrote and recorded an identically-titled track in 2016. She says she pitched her song to Underwood and her producer,, at a Nashville conference the following year with the idea that Underwood might use it as her nextNow, Merrill argues that Underwood's own "Game On" is "substantially -- even strikingly -- similar, if not identical," to her song, in title as well as tempo, meter, time signature, hooks, chord progression and other specifics.

 

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HoarseWisperer

the songs do sound eerily alike....umm

Plagiarism Sucks!

I can understand a lesser known artist wanting some extra money, but this is not the way to get it. Different lyrics (except for “game on”), different beat, different chord progression, different song lengths. I personally don’t see the problem here. 🤷‍♀️

If she stole this song, well I got news for them, both songs suck.

I thought the song was just a remade version of Joan Jett's 'I hate myself for loving you' with different lyrics.

Not even close, and Underwood's song is so much better

The only thing similar is the title...

that lady needs to get a day job. Heidi will never succeed in music.

Both these songs are

BarstoolBigCat

I hope she made her Mamma proud. 🤣 These two songs lyrically are examples of the songs you make up to with kid or possibly a bad freestyle joke.🤔 I can assure everybody no sleep will be lost and the discovery file for this case is a discarded power bill envelope. Stay woke.🧐

Honestly I didn’t even know Sunday night football had a song.

Blame the lawyer who took on the lawsuit. They are the scum of the earth.

Holy COW they sound very simular...GOOD maybe they will get rid of that AWFUL SONG and bring back Joan Jett and Faith Hill..This is SO MUCH BETTER

RedWhite__Blue Why is the woman suing the NFL and NBC about the authorship of the song? They have nothing to do with writing it?

They’re not that much alike

Carrie wrote her version and this lady's is a liar.

YIKES! It definitely sounds exactly the same ☕️

I can’t handle this scandal. Bring back Faith Hill!

Someone's obviously bored and has nothing better to do. Let's sue and make money off a football intro! Idiots. 🤣

I blame this on that new show. Songwriters gonna be coming for everyone now! 😂

Happens a lot. Remember when steviewonder stole ‘I Just Called To Say I Love You’. Lloyd Chiate wrote the song people. Not Stevie. He’s one of my bass player’s best friends, can’t hide the truth. Google the case around 1985!

You’d have to spell check lyrics because it doesn’t even sound like the same Key. Especially in “Game on”

After listening to both songs even though you could make the arguement (albeit a stretch at most) both songs are different rhythmically, not to mention the chorus’s are different enough so while there could be similar ideas, I doubt they copied these people’s song

wait....do people still think that country 'artists' write their own music/lyrics?! 🤔🥴

With the NFL being statistically 80% Black, why in the world do they have a CW theme song representing it anyway? I don’t hear Tory Lanez being played before NHL games. I don’t hear Beyoncé being played before NASCAR races. But we’ve had to listen to that music for over 35yrs.

Ok everyone listen to thinking problem by David ball and then listen to drinking problem by midland... they have similar sounds but still different

Circumstantial evidence will cause her to lose this suit.Heidi’s song was submitted than rejected by Carrie ...They copied it and did it poorly the progression, tempo and I believe key are identical , not to mention the cadence of lyrics and wait for it SONG NAME..how dumb

BarstoolBigCat talk about a hot seat candidate

The other one is better anyway

literally no one cares

That song sucked anyway. SNFonNBC bring back Faith Hill

Kind of similar…but still different in a lot of ways. Especially production. I don’t think Carrie copies anyone lol.

This lady version is nothing compared to Carrie who wrote her version.

RedWhite__Blue This does not sound similar at all 😂 the reach

So, two people are actually claiming that awful song?

They sound very similar to see. I think the plaintiff has a case.

It’s just the angry football fans that want faith hill back

Is it over how terrible her dancing is?

Good. Maybe it will stop

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