Ed Sheeran defended himself in London’s High Court on Tuesday in an try and prove he didn’t plagiarize his 2017 wreck hit “Shape of You.” He is being sued through singer Sami Chokri, who claims Ed sampled his 2015 music “Oh Why” in his “Oh I, oh I” hook.

The BBC reviews the Grammy winner attempted to expose how common the 2-be aware melody is via making a song “No Diggity” by Blackstreet and “Feeling Good” with the aid of Nina Simone all through his cross-exam. “If you placed all of them inside the identical key, they’ll sound the identical,” he defined. When pressed if his tune changed into similar to Chokri’s, Ed remarked, “Fundamentally, sure, they are based totally across the pentatonic scale [and] they each have vowels in them.”

Andrew Sutcliffe QC, who is representing Chokri and his co-creator, Ross O’Donoghue, grilled Ed at the similarities of “Oh Why” and the “Oh, I” hook. The attorney asked, “It sounds as although you had been making a song, ‘Oh Why,’ doesn’t it?”

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“The lyric is, ‘Oh, I’m in love together with your frame,’” Ed countered, “‘Oh why I’m in love together with your body’ doesn’t make feel.”

He also fended off being referred to as an “obsessive song squirrel” by means of Sutcliffe and spoke back, “I’m a music fan, I like music, I concentrate to tune.”

The outlet reports Ed became visibly agitated whilst the attorney played an unreleased tune to the court and the singer demanded, “That’s a tune I wrote closing January. How did you get that? I want to realize how to procure that.” It become later explained the song changed into on “Shape of You” co-author Steve Mac‘s personal pc and the attorney accessed the incorrect document to play the tune.

The case is ongoing.

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