LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Pop superstar Taylor Swift ought to facial area a lawsuit from songwriters who claim the Grammy-winning singer copied their lyrics in her 2014 hit single “Shake It Off,” a California judge has ruled.

In a choice issued on Thursday, U.S. District Decide Michael W. Fitzgerald rejected Swift’s bid to toss out a fit that said she took wording from 2014 song “Playas Gon’ Play” by R&B woman team 3LW.

Fitzgerald claimed there had been “some recognizable dissimilarities” concerning the tracks but also “more than enough goal similarities” that the situation should really go to a jury demo.

“Whilst Defendants have made a robust closing argument for a jury, they have not shown that there are no genuine problems of triable reality,” the decide wrote.

A spokeswoman for Swift experienced no comment on Friday. In 2017, her associates had referred to as the songwriters’ declare of copyright infringement “ridiculous” and “almost nothing extra than a cash seize.”

In “Shake It Off,” Swift sings: “the players gonna enjoy, enjoy, participate in, perform, participate in, and the haters gonna hate, despise, detest, despise, dislike.”

“Playas Gon’ Participate in,” penned by Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, incorporated the phrases “gamers, they gonna play, and haters, they gonna hate.”

Hall and Butler claimed the mixture of playas or players with hatas or haters was one of a kind to its use in their song. The pair are seeking unspecified damages.

Their case had been thrown out in 2018 but the pair appealed and suit was revived.