In 2017, Gwen Stefani and Pharrell have been sued by musician and one-time Stefani hairdresser Richard Morrill, who alleged that the 2 had ripped off the refrain of their collaboration “Spark the Fire” from his personal observe “Who’s Got My Lightah” from 1996. Morrill claimed that he had proven Stefani the tune again within the ’90s, and pointed to similarities reminiscent of the truth that each songs rhyme “lighter” with “fire” and pronounce fireplace as “fi-ya.”
Now, Billboard experiences that presiding Judge Dolly M. Gee dominated in favor of Stefani and Pharrell on October 2, writing that the same pronunciation of the phrases don’t “demonstrate similarity” and that “ rhyming the words ‘light-ah’ and ‘fi-ah’ on beat four of both songs cannot be protected because the last word in the line of a song often rhymes.”
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