'But it doesn't make sense to restrain the kinds copying that we saw in Blurred Lines, and that we are seeing in all these other cases, where it is not a straight-up copying of the entire work, it's taking elements of that work to create something new.' So, is somebody going to sue Olivia Rodrigo?Īnything's possible! But there have been no threats yet. 'It makes sense to restrain people from coming along and copying the song exactly as it is, and sticking it up for people to download for free or whatever.

It made barely anyone but a small coterie of entertainment lawyers happy.Īs Dr Kylie Pappalardo, a senior lecturer in intellectual property at QUT, told in the ABC in 2018:

The single comes from the band’s forthcoming LP, 3, that will be released on August 4th via Nadine Records.'Blurred Lines' became shorthand for a fiercely litigious era of the music business that saw Radiohead sue Lana Del Rey and a Christian rapper sue Katy Perry. Coupling this with the insane unknowing day to day activities that the pandemic presented us, it was easy to let loose a barrage of lyrics and hammering riffs. Jam your whole fist down your venom spitting throat so you can vomit up all those demons you’ve been forced to swallow. Often shielded and in a false sense of security, our area in the Northwest wasn’t without its own problems. Expressively charged by all the things happening at the time but none more hard to swallow than the prevailing racial injustice happening around the nation. One of the first songs we co-wrote with the addition of Hozoji in Lupe’s cave of a basement in Ballard. This is by far one of the hardest hitting songs, out of the gate on this record. Today is a great day to share the new single from Seattle-based metal/punk trio, Tacos!, called “Kick Rocks.” Band members Lupe Flores, Donovan Stewart, and Hozoji Matheson-Margullis catch lightning in a bottle on this politically-charged song that transcends genre lines.

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