Juice WRLD's 'Lucid Dreams' Is The Subject Of A $15 Million Lawsuit

Juice WRLD's been hit with an enormous lawsuit by pop-punk musical group Yellowcard, who claim that "Lucid Dreams," Juice WRLD's breakout 2018 single, copies melodic elements of their 2006 song "Holly Wood Died." The case is set to the tune of a whopping $15 million. And also financial compensation, the musical group is looking for co-ownership of the song and royalties as well.


Yellowcard isn't just suing Juice WRLD; they're going immediately after nearly each person regarding the record, like producer Nicholas Mira, co-writer Taz Taylor, Interscope Records, and more. Since the song was instrumental in breaking Juice WRLD to mainstream America, they're also looking for income from his concert tours and public appearances. To set up the song's similarities, they point to a "melodic idiosyncrasy" called a melisma, which, according to the musical group, appears in a "parallel position" in both songs.


There's also the fact that Juice WRLD is quoted in an interview saying that he "listened to and wise himself in emo pop-rock music" to impress a girl that he had a crush on in fifth grade in 2006. It's the same year that "Holly Wood Dies" came out on Yellowcard's Lights and Sounds album.


According to Yellowcard's attorney, the lawsuit isn't new. "They put all the parties on notice a long while ago and gave them every possibility to try and resolve it," he mentioned in a statement to Billboard. "That notice was pretty much didn't think about leaving them without real choice."