{"id":630352,"date":"2026-09-20T09:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T09:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630352\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T09:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T09:26:17","slug":"lizzy-mcalpine-got-stella-leftyd-over-nick-drake-soundalike-on-her-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630352\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzy McAlpine Got Stella Lefty\u2019d Over Nick Drake Soundalike On Her New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plagiarism in music is always a hot topic, and especially so since Stella Lefty’s four ripoff allegations<\/a>. Fellow young singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine just released her new album Angel, and she’s opening up about accidentally copying a Nick Drake song.<\/p>\n

On the Switched On Pop<\/a> podcast, the 26-year-old explained, “I wrote [‘A Car Wash And A New Pair Of Pants’], I showed it to my friend, and he was like, ‘Oh, this sounds like a Nick Drake song.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, God, which one?’ I was listening to a lot of Pink Moon by Nick Drake, but I hadn’t really listened to Bryter Layter yet.”<\/p>\n

“It’s called ‘One Of These Things First,'” she continued. “And I was like, oh, so it’s the same key. And the intro chord progression is the same.” She stated that she “never heard that song before I wrote it. And so it felt like I channeled something.”<\/p>\n

“We reached out to his estate and my label was like, ‘It’s a little too close,'” she said. “So I wrote them a letter, and I was just like, ‘I am so inspired by Nick Drake\u2026 I think he was one of the greats.’ And they allowed us to credit him on that song. So now his name is next to mine, which is so crazy.”<\/p>\n

That’s a nice ending. Hear both songs below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plagiarism in music is always a hot topic, and especially so since Stella Lefty’s four ripoff allegations. Fellow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-630352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}