- Tom Grennan has been forced to suspend live performances due to controversy over the lyrics.
- He plagiarised the lyrics to his 2016 song “Something In The Water.”
- “He can no longer perform the song live and is having to try and fight it off.”
An unidentified plaintiff is suing the 27-year-old singer on the grounds that the “Lionheart” hitmaker plagiarised the lyrics to his 2016 song “Something In The Water.” The plaintiff is finding the legal battle “very difficult” and has hired an attorney.
A source told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: “Tom has been going through hell behind the scenes after someone claimed they wrote ‘Something In The Water’.
“It is his first track and means so much to Tom, so to have someone saying this is really painful for him.
“He can no longer perform the song live and is having to try and fight it off.”
Tom recently made a reference to the controversy on his “Phone In” podcast, admitting that he is desperate to find video of him singing the song while a student at St Mary’s University in Twickenham because he never used to write down his lyrics and thus lacks concrete evidence that he wrote “Something In The Water” himself.
He said: “I never used to write lyrics down, I used to remember them.
“But there was no proof that I wrote the songs.
“There was this one thing that happened to me that I showed a guy this song before I was signed and that, and when it came out, he said that he had written the song.
“There’s this thing where I can’t access anything of that song, it’s one of my biggest songs as well.
“I can’t say what song it is, it’s an ongoing thing.
“There’s videos of me doing it at uni but everybody’s got new phones now, everybody’s thrown phones out, so there’s no proof. Done me.”
“I’m still waiting for someone to be like, ‘Ah, I’ve found one!’ but nobody has, unfortunately.”
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