Lizzo has quickly settled a copyright lawsuit over her song “I’m Going Til October,” an unreleased track she teased on social media to poke fun at Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad controversy.
Filed in federal court last fall, the case against Lizzo claimed that her provocative song (also known as “Good Jeans” in reference to the Sweeney debacle) had stolen material from an earlier track called “Win or Lose (We Tried).” But less than three months later, the battle is already over.
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In court filings obtained by Billboard, the two sides told a judge Friday that a “settlement in principle to resolve all claims at issue in the action has been reached.” Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and neither side immediately commented on the settlement or shared specifics.
The case, filed by a group called GRC Trust, was notable because Lizzo never formally released the song in question. Though she teased a snippet on TikTok, the star has not included it on any formal release, including her June mixtape titled My Face Hurts From Smiling.
Posting a song featuring an uncleared sample on social media would still count as copyright infringement, but the stakes are lower, because it’s harder to prove an artist made big profits without actually selling an allegedly infringing song. Such pre-release disputes are more often handled with private negotiations rather than full-blown lawsuits.
When the case was filed, Lizzo’s reps said they were “surprised” that a case was filed over an unreleased track. GRC’s attorneys fired back that they had been “dismayed” to learn she had teased it publicly amid ongoing license negotiations. “It is antiquated to claim that a song is not ‘released’ when it is streamed through TikTok – one of the largest musical platforms in the world – to the public,” they said at the time.
Lizzo’s song was a reference to viral American Eagle ads, which launched in July under the tagline “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.” The ads sparked criticism that they were an allusion to eugenics and white supremacist ideals, which then prompted a right-wing backlash defending them and mocking the critiques.
In her August video on TikTok, Lizzo can be seen washing a Porsche while wearing a denim top. The clip features a snippet from “Going Til October,” in which the star raps: “No kizzy, he ain’t got no business being with me. Fat ass pretty face with the titties. Bitch, I got good jeans like I’m Sydney.”
According to GRC, Lizzo’s track borrowed material from “Win or Lose,” seemingly a reference to a 1995 track of that name recorded by the soul singer Sam Dees. Though the lawsuit did not specify the artist of the allegedly infringed track, GRC has previously brought lawsuits over samples of another Dees song.
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