BACK WITH A VENGEANCE
This isn’t Marasco’s first rodeo. In April 2024, she filed an earlier suit against Swift, which was ultimately dismissed by Judge Aileen Cannon for failure to properly serve the complaint. That case also named Swift’s production company, Taylor Swift Productions, Inc., which is not included in the newly filed action.
In her new lawsuit, Marasco escalates her claims—now implicating additional songs like Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? and I Can Do It With a Broken Heart from Swift’s latest album The Tortured Poets Department. She also revives allegations related to The Man (from Lover) and Midnight Rain (from Midnights).
THE CO-WRITERS IN THE CROSSFIRE
Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, two of Swift’s most prolific collaborators, are directly implicated. According to the complaint, their songwriting contributions helped shape songs that allegedly mirror Marasco’s original poems and themes. Antonoff co-wrote Illicit Affairs and Down Bad, while Dessner’s credits include Hoax and Death by a Thousand Cuts.
Marasco alleges a “pattern of unauthorized use” and claims that the songs contain “identifiable lines and motifs”derived from her unpublished and self-published poetry. Exhibits attached to the complaint reportedly attempt to draw lyrical comparisons between her work and the chart-toppers.
Although choreographic similarities are also alleged, those elements remain harder to litigate without video evidence or expert analysis, which may be pivotal should the case proceed to discovery or trial.
