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More than two years since Mariah Carey was hit with legal action for allegedly stealing her perennial holiday hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You”, a California judge has said she feels “inclined” to grant Carey’s request for the motion to be dismissed.
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The legal saga dates back to the summer of 2022, when Mississippi artist Vince Vance (real name Andy Stone) filed a copyright lawsuit, claiming that Carey’s seasonal blockbuster infringed upon his 1989 song of the same name. Vance sought $20m from the lawsuit but ultimately dropped the case that November.
One year later, in November 2023, the lawsuit was refiled with the same basic accusations, though with greater detail added, and the addition of co-plaintiff Troy Powers, who claims to have co-written the earlier song.
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“Carey has without licensing, palmed off these works with her incredulous origin story, as if those works were her own,” Vance’s lawyers wrote in the complaint. “Her hubris knowing no bounds, even her co-credited songwriter doesn’t believe the story she has spun. This is simply a case of actionable infringement.”
The new lawsuit went into further details about the similarities, noting “unique linguistic structure” and specific musical elements, and claiming it’s a “greater than 50% clone of Vance’s original work”.
This past August, Carey’s legal team requested the lawsuit be dropped, noting that Vance’s claims fail the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s “extrinsic test for substantial similarity in protectable expression” — essentially arguing that any similarities between the two songs are coincidental.
Now, as Rolling Stone reports, U.S. District Court Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani says she’s “inclined” to grant that request. Furthermore, Almadani has stated she is “seriously considering” granting a related motion filed by Carey’s team requesting sanctions against the plaintiffs for what is alleged to be a “frivolous” filing.
In his argument, Gerald P. Fox, the lawyer for the plaintiffs, noted it is “not required” they show the song is “identical” or “virtual plagiarism”, but rather that only “a certain arrangement of notes has to be unique, or the melody, or any aspect of the composition that’s copied or similar”.
Carey’s lawyer, Peter Anderson, argued that the similarities that have been identified by musicologists hired by the plaintiffs amount to phrases such as “Santa Claus” and “mistletoe” – lyrics which Carey’s team have claimed are public domain.
“These are random similarities. Five or so Christmas tropes that make these Christmas songs,” Anderson claimed. “Importantly, there are eight or nine other Christmas tropes in their work that don’t appear in ours. And eight or nine in ours that don’t appear in theirs.”
Judge Almadani has not yet issued a ruling on the case, and has not indicated when a ruling is expected.First released in October 1994 as the first single from Carey’s Merry Christmas album, “All I Want for Christmas is You” is one of the most popular holiday songs in history. For the past four years, it has re-charted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 during the holiday season.
Veteran glam-metal outfit Poison are set to take to the stage once again in the near future, drummer Rikki Rockett has confirmed.
The group, who formed in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania in 1983, have been largely sporadic in their existence over the past 15 years, with their most recent run of shows occurring in 2022 alongside Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe.
However, speaking to Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation, Rockett—who has played with the group since their inception—has said a 2026 comeback is in the works.
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Trunk approached the topic when he told the drummer that frontman Bret Michaels had been in contact and urged him to ask about the band’s future.
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“When I announced on socials about a week ago when I knew you were going to come on today,” Trunk explained. “Bret sent me a text – Bret Michaels – a day or two ago, and he said, ‘Hey, I hear you’re gonna have Rockett on. Send him my love and tell him Poison 2026.’”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. ’26 is for sure gonna happen,” Rockett confirmed. “I mean, unless some unforeseen thing happens, but all band members have stuck their hand in and said, ‘Yeah, we’re definitely doing it – without a doubt.’”
Poison released their first album, Look What the Cat Dragged In, in 1986, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard 200 that same year. Their follow-up, 1988’s Open Up and Say… Ahh!, would chart one spot higher, with 1990’s Flesh & Blood repeating that feat.
Despite singles such as “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” topping the Hot 100, and other hits like “Talk Dirty to Me”, “Nothin’ But a Good Time”, and “Unskinny Bop” all reaching the top ten, Poison didn’t score another charting hit past 1993, with their final album—a covers record titled Poison’d!—arriving in 2007.
Since then, Michaels has embarked upon a solo career in addition to becoming a reality TV star thanks to the likes of Rock of Love with Bret Michaels and The Celebrity Apprentice.
Earlier this year, Michaels confirmed he would be taking “most, if not all, of 2025 off” due to “physical adversity” he explained to be “diabetes, a brain hemorrhage, skin cancer and [his] self-titled ‘headbanger’s neck’.”
Michaels, who had previously experienced a raft of health issues, told fans earlier this year that he would be “taking most, if not all, of 2025 off” due to some encounters with “physical adversity”, which he clarified to be “diabetes, a brain hemorrhage, skin cancer and Bret’s self-titled ‘headbanger’s neck’.”
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Colombia has a new reggaeton anthem at the helm of genre giants Karol G, J Balvin, Maluma, Feid, Blessd, and Ryan Castro titled “+57” out Thursday (Nov. 7).
Named after the area code in Colombia, the sensual, mid-tempo futuristic perreo finds the Colombian powerhouses singing about a girl from Medellín who’s all-that, fierce, unstoppable, and the center of attention—even though she’s in a relationship. “They ask her if she has a boyfriend, it depends,” says part of the lyrics.
Helmed by Latin Grammy-winning hitmaker and Karol’s longtime producer, Ovy on the Drums, “+57” was co-written by all of the artists alongside Keityn and newcomer DFZM, who’s signed to Keityn’s management hub, La Creme. It was recorded in one session in Los Angeles after Ovy presented the song to Karol and she ultimately gathered her colleagues for the statement-making collab—none of them aware of the song until they met at the recording studio.
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“It’s a dream that I assure you that neither I, nor my team, nor my family could have imagined. We always saw ourselves as super big but we never imagined it would happen so quickly,” singer-songwriter DFZM, who originally penned the track with Keityn before presenting it to Ovy, tells Billboard exclusively. “For me it’s very important to be representing the Valle del Cauca, Buenaventura, those young people with dreams and talent. Representing black people, the culture, it’s very nice for me to be able to be part of history.”
Ovy was the first to tease the track, posting a short video on Instagram where fans can hear Balvin shouting out all the collaborators. Meanwhile, Ovy and Karol are dancing along to the reggaetón beat.
A couple of days later, a group photo in the recording studio was shared by each of the artists on social media, hinting that something major was dropping on November 7. The title was also revealed in the description.
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After releasing his recent song, “The World’s a Giant,” Zach Bryan gave fans an update on Instagram, telling them about a recent return to his home in Oklahoma, sharing that he is halting touring to pursue an advanced degree.
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Bryan took to Instagram, sharing a photo of himself with his late mother, Annette, as well as other photos, including snapshots of Bryan with his bandmates.
“After not being home for a year and a half I drove out to my mother’s gravestone in the dead of night a few days back on familiar Oklahoma roads and I came to realize just like in the past, that she never would call me again,” he wrote on Instagram.
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He continued, “Told her I quit touring because I got accepted to get my masters in Paris next year, I told her I was back in Oklahoma, told her about all my best friends in New York and all the nights we howled with the moon, told her about the immeasurable laughter my band and me have shared these last five years, all the calluses on my finger tips, every tear shed, told her about making it on The Rolling Stone and most importantly told her about porch swinging with my beautiful sister.
“I wrote the chorus for this song a month or two back and finished it when I realized I was blessed with all these things. I figured it was about time I released it. Thank you guys for listening to ‘This Worlds a Giant’ last night and thank you to all the people who love me; who have truly carried the weight with me. Seems that all these Quiet Dreams have gotten much too heavy but I’m home now and I’ll hold you through the pain. ‘High Road’ is out today and I appreciate all of you.”
Bryan has headlining tour dates on the books through December, on his 2024 Quittin’ Time Tour. The “I Remember Everything” hitmaker earned a two-week No. 1 Billboard 200 hit with his self-titled album, and his 2024 album The Great American Bar Scene reached No. 2 on that chart.
His new music comes shortly after Bryan in October confirmed his split from his former girlfriend, Barstool Sports personality Brianna LaPaglia (also known as Brianna Chickenfry).
“Brianna and me have broken up with each other and I respect and love her with every ounce of my heart,” he wrote on his Instagram Stories. “She has loved me unconditionally for a very long time and for that I’ll always thank her. I have had an incredibly hard year personally and struggled through some pretty severe things. I thought it would be beneficial for both of us to go our different ways. I am not perfect and I never will be.”
LaPaglia posted her own statement soon after, saying, “Hey guys, I’m really feeling blindsided right now. Gonna hop off social media for awhile and attempt to heal privately, when I’m ready I’ll be back and ready to talk. I love you guys so much thank you for all of your kind words. Remember you are so loved and everything’s gonna be okay.”
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