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Hayley Williams Responds To The Rampant Plagiarism Claims · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Derived from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest paramors. Haley Williams recently
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Speaker 1: unleashed her first batch of solo songs and accompanying videos
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Speaker 1: off her upcoming on Pedals for Armor, to the delight
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Speaker 1: of her fans, but not everybody's thrilled. A Swedish musician
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Speaker 1: known as ion A Lee and her fans accused Haley
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Speaker 1: a blatant plagiarism, with several of the visuals in her
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Speaker 1: videos bearing a striking resemblance to imagery I on only
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Speaker 1: had used in hers cocoons, flower pedals, white body suits,
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Speaker 1: and more. Iona even tweeted, plagiarism is never flattery. Use
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Speaker 1: your own brainom body rather than sit back and let
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Speaker 1: rumors faster. Haley posted on Instagram. I'm shocked, even more
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Speaker 1: so because I didn't know who this artist was, and
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Speaker 1: that's no slight because now that I do, they seem
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Speaker 1: pretty brilliant. This happens a lot in creative spaces, where
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Speaker 1: all humans feeding off the same raw human emotion, so
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Speaker 1: this just happens. I've been vocal about all my influences
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Speaker 1: because I'm proud of them, and I can say with
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Speaker 1: confidence this artist was definitely not one of them. If
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Speaker 1: you want to see some of the videos in question
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Speaker 1: by both artists, side by side up on air with
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Speaker 1: Ryan dot Com that's direct from Hollywood,