Coming after Nigerian singer and songwriter, Lyta, released his first music video after being signed to Naira Marley’s Marlian Record, has been accused of plagiarizing a music video by GOT7, a South Korean pop band, with his recently released visuals ‘Hold Me Down’.
Kemi Filani News earlier reported that the 22-year-old has been signed to Naira Marley’s Marlian Music.
On Friday, heput out the video for his track ‘Hold Me Down’, which quickly racked up over 500,000 views on YouTube.
Shortly after Lyta released the video, some K-pop (South Korean music) fans took to social media platforms to draw the attention of the public to the striking similarities between ‘Hold Me Down’ visuals and the music video for ‘Just Right’, GOT7’s 2015 hit song.
Watch ‘Just Right’ below:
The intro of both videos, as seen by TheCable Lifestyle, showed a lady sitting in front of a table within her room as a drawer, inside of which miniature version of her admirer was enclosed, begins to vibrate.
Watch “Hold Me Down’ below:
Other similar scenes also include the subjects of both videos dancing on the table in front of foods and their miniature selves riding on top of zebra figurines, albeit, with slight differences in position.
Plagiarism is considered a form of intellectual theft and fraud. It involves using someone else’s words or ideas and passing them off as your own by not providing credit, either deliberately or accidentally.
Reacting to the accusation, Naira Marley took to his Twitter page, where he asked Lyta to apologise.
“Lyta they’re dragging ur hair in Asia right now. Lyta’s not the video director mf. #ApologiseLyta,” he wrote.
Lyta had made headlines after he left Olamide‘s record label in 2019. He had complained that he was given a music release calendar which was inconsistent with how often he intended dropping new songs.
“When we want to drop new songs, we do so in a group of five. I was dropping my songs and they were talking about a calendar of some sort that I knew nothing about,” the singer had said.
“I couldn’t always have to wait that long before dropping songs for my fans. That was why I made the move to leave the label. Olamide treats me well.
“He takes me like a son and taught me lots of stuff, told me I had to hustle. While I’ve been there, I’ve been okay with the family. But for the good of my music career, I decided to move.”
